Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in England

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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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 414 489
Rank change year-on-year -64 +75 +155
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 115 58 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.71% 1.51% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 37 40
10th Percentile £300 £300 £283
25th Percentile £387 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -2.56% -13.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £589
90th Percentile £744 £680 £733
UK median daily rate £450 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -4.96% -0.32% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.78
25th Percentile £33.98 - £22.56
Median hourly rate £46.24 - £25.25
75th Percentile £60.30 - £28.06
90th Percentile £60.40 - £28.93
UK median hourly rate £46.24 - £22.87

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 6,721 3,849 5,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.99% 15.71% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,373 2,476 3,378
10th Percentile £340 £269 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £605 £627 £638
90th Percentile £702 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 155 342
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £12.88
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.50 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +65.85% -51.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £32.96 £20.49
% change year-on-year -5.19% +60.90% -46.09%

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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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -20 63 £475 -1.55% 26
North of England -51 16 £500 +42.86% 6
South East -45 15 £397 -20.60% 9
Yorkshire -49 11 £500 +66.67% 2
Midlands -66 7 £463 +3.47% 7
West Midlands -60 6 £500 +8.70% 6
South West -28 3 £438 -30.00% 2
North East - 3 £364 -
North West -44 2 - - 4
East of England - 2 £460 - 1
East Midlands -31 1 £400 +7.10% 1
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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 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) SPSS
3 1 (0.87%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.70%) Power Platform
2 7 (6.09%) SaaS
3 6 (5.22%) Google Workspace
3 6 (5.22%) Slack
4 5 (4.35%) Azure
5 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.61%) Figma
6 3 (2.61%) GitHub
6 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.61%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.74%) Collibra
7 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.87%) AWS
8 1 (0.87%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.87%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) Network Security
2 6 (5.22%) Firewall
3 3 (2.61%) NGFW
4 1 (0.87%) BGP
4 1 (0.87%) DHCP
4 1 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.87%) MPLS
4 1 (0.87%) OSPF
4 1 (0.87%) SMS
4 1 (0.87%) SSL
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) Power BI
1 10 (8.70%) Tableau
2 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.74%) Big Data
3 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.87%) Looker
4 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.87%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (6.09%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) JMeter
2 2 (1.74%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.87%) Gatling
3 1 (0.87%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) MLflow
General
1 54 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (38.26%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 17 (14.78%) Finance
5 8 (6.96%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Legal
7 4 (3.48%) Local Government
7 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Banking
8 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Military
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Automotive
9 2 (1.74%) Aviation
9 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.74%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 32 (27.83%) Analyst
2 19 (16.52%) User Researcher
3 18 (15.65%) Senior
4 17 (14.78%) Consultant
5 7 (6.09%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Data Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.35%) Lead
7 5 (4.35%) Salesforce Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Senior User Researcher
7 5 (4.35%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.48%) Incident Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Operational Support Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Operations Support Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Salesforce Support
9 3 (2.61%) Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Information Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) REST
2 2 (1.74%) Middleware
2 2 (1.74%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.74%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.87%) CSS
3 1 (0.87%) GeoJSON
3 1 (0.87%) HTML
3 1 (0.87%) LDAP
3 1 (0.87%) OAuth
3 1 (0.87%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.87%) OpenID
3 1 (0.87%) SAML
3 1 (0.87%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.61%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.87%) PMI
6 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 33 (28.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (24.35%) User Research
4 27 (23.48%) Agile
5 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (20.00%) AI
6 23 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (18.26%) User Experience
8 20 (17.39%) Analytics
9 19 (16.52%) Qualitative Research
10 17 (14.78%) Roadmaps
10 17 (14.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (14.78%) Usability Testing
11 16 (13.91%) Risk Management
12 15 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 14 (12.17%) Service Design
14 13 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (11.30%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.17%) SQL
2 13 (11.30%) Python
3 7 (6.09%) R
4 1 (0.87%) Groovy
4 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.43%) Degree
2 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.74%) CISSP
4 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) GIAC
4 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.74%) PMP
4 2 (1.74%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.87%) CCA
5 1 (0.87%) CCIE
5 1 (0.87%) CCNP
5 1 (0.87%) CEH
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CISM
5 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.96%) QA
3 7 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 6 (5.22%) GRC
5 5 (4.35%) GDPR
5 5 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 4 (3.48%) NCSC
7 3 (2.61%) NIST
7 3 (2.61%) WCAG
8 2 (1.74%) PMO
9 1 (0.87%) RMADS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.74%) Grafana
1 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.87%) Ansible
2 1 (0.87%) Kibana
2 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.09%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.22%) Google
4 4 (3.48%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.74%) New Relic
6 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.74%) Qualtrics
6 2 (1.74%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.87%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco
7 1 (0.87%) Foundry
7 1 (0.87%) Juniper
7 1 (0.87%) Murex
7 1 (0.87%) NEC
7 1 (0.87%) Northgate
7 1 (0.87%) Wrike