Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in England

Actionable Recommendations
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 448 473
Rank change year-on-year -50 +25 +99
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 131 61 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.59% 1.28% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 41 29
10th Percentile £375 £300 £320
25th Percentile £421 £404 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -20.00% +9.52%
75th Percentile £583 £525 £725
90th Percentile £706 £588 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £575
% change year-on-year +9.89% -20.87% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile - - £23.88
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.92% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £50.98 - £36.63
90th Percentile £61.18 - £40.90
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.92% -10.71% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

Actionable Recommendations falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,227 4,784 4,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.73% 17.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,184 3,121 2,609
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 226 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.13
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.82 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% +9.72% -17.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.11 £63.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -22.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Recommendations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Recommendations

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Actionable Recommendations

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Recommendations within the England region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -31 72 £525 +16.67% 113
South East -47 19 £475 +2.15% 34
North of England -63 18 £488 +2.63% 25
Midlands -44 11 £475 -7.32% 10
Yorkshire -38 9 £500 -4.76% 7
North West -34 8 £479 +6.39% 18
West Midlands -44 8 £475 -8.21% 10
East of England -29 6 £500 -2.44% 5
South West -45 4 - - 12
East Midlands -12 3 £400 -21.95%
North East -46 1 £388 -13.89%
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Actionable Recommendations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.58%) CMS
2 4 (3.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.05%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.05%) CPLEX
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.53%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.76%) SPSS
4 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (3.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.74%) Azure
2 14 (10.69%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.16%) AWS
4 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Copilot
5 8 (6.11%) GitHub
6 7 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.82%) Adobe Analytics
8 5 (3.82%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.82%) GCP
8 5 (3.82%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.82%) SaaS
9 4 (3.05%) ChatGPT
9 4 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.05%) Siteimprove
10 3 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.29%) Google Gemini
10 3 (2.29%) OCI
10 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) Broadband
2 3 (2.29%) Network Security
3 2 (1.53%) Firewall
4 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.76%) LAN
4 1 (0.76%) MQTT
4 1 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) Power BI
1 10 (7.63%) Tableau
2 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.53%) Big Data
3 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.53%) Looker
3 2 (1.53%) Metadata
4 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) JMeter
2 5 (3.82%) LoadRunner
3 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.05%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 3 (2.29%) Gatling
5 2 (1.53%) eggPlant
5 2 (1.53%) JIRA
5 2 (1.53%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.76%) MLflow
General
1 53 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 39 (29.77%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.27%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.45%) Marketing
6 14 (10.69%) Finance
7 7 (5.34%) Legal
7 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Police
8 5 (3.82%) Retail
9 4 (3.05%) Aviation
9 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.05%) Publishing
10 3 (2.29%) Automotive
10 3 (2.29%) Banking
10 3 (2.29%) Law
10 3 (2.29%) Military
10 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) Analyst
2 19 (14.50%) Senior
3 18 (13.74%) Consultant
3 18 (13.74%) Lead
4 11 (8.40%) User Researcher
5 8 (6.11%) Architect
5 8 (6.11%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.34%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.58%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.58%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (3.82%) Coordinator
8 5 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.05%) Configuration Analyst
10 3 (2.29%) Performance Engineer
10 3 (2.29%) Performance Test Engineer
10 3 (2.29%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.29%) Research Scientist
10 3 (2.29%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (2.29%) Test Engineer
10 3 (2.29%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.63%) ATL
2 5 (3.82%) CSS
2 5 (3.82%) HTML
2 5 (3.82%) Kafka
2 5 (3.82%) Middleware
2 5 (3.82%) Terraform
3 4 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.29%) REST
5 2 (1.53%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.53%) OLE
5 2 (1.53%) Pandas
6 1 (0.76%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.76%) PySpark
6 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.76%) React
6 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.76%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (0.76%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Social Media
2 12 (9.16%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.29%) NHS
6 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.76%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.76%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Android
2 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 43 (32.82%) Decision-Making
3 31 (23.66%) Roadmaps
4 30 (22.90%) Analytics
5 28 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (20.61%) Agile
7 26 (19.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.74%) AI
10 17 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (12.21%) User Research
12 15 (11.45%) Business Strategy
12 15 (11.45%) GAP Analysis
12 15 (11.45%) Service Design
12 15 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (10.69%) Business Analysis
13 14 (10.69%) Statistical Analysis
14 13 (9.92%) Qualitative Research
14 13 (9.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.19%) Python
2 28 (21.37%) SQL
3 11 (8.40%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.05%) R
5 3 (2.29%) Java
6 2 (1.53%) Bicep
6 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) Degree
4 2 (1.53%) APMG
4 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.53%) CISSP
4 2 (1.53%) IIBA
5 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.76%) CCA
5 1 (0.76%) CCSP
5 1 (0.76%) CISA
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.76%) PhD
5 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PMP
5 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.63%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.11%) GDPR
3 8 (6.11%) QA
4 4 (3.05%) WCAG
5 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.29%) PMO
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.53%) GRC
6 2 (1.53%) NIST
6 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.76%) NCSC
7 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.76%) PERC
7 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.58%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.82%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Oracle
3 8 (6.11%) Google
4 6 (4.58%) Databricks
5 5 (3.82%) Adobe
5 5 (3.82%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.82%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.82%) Splunk
6 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 4 (3.05%) New Relic
6 4 (3.05%) Optimizely
6 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.05%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.05%) Tealium
7 2 (1.53%) Intel
7 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.53%) Planon
7 2 (1.53%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.53%) SAP
7 2 (1.53%) YouTube