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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 401 495
Rank change year-on-year -58 +94 +159
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 115 63 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.75% 1.67% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 40 38
10th Percentile £300 £300 -
25th Percentile £387 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +2.56% -9.64%
75th Percentile £544 £641 £585
90th Percentile £686 £713 £665
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £56.81 - -
25th Percentile £56.90 - £26.50
Median hourly rate £58.70 - £28.00
75th Percentile £60.41 - £29.50
90th Percentile £60.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £58.70 - £25.44

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 6,555 3,767 5,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.55% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,241 2,445 3,411
10th Percentile £340 £264 £305
25th Percentile £413 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 160 335
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.28 £32.25 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +44.36% -47.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.43 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £21.38
% change year-on-year -4.44% +49.69% -46.56%

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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 27 March 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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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 27 March 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 -38 63 £488 -11.36% 31
South East -42 17 £430 -14.00% 10
North of England -57 15 £483 +37.86% 24
Yorkshire -47 10 £500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -66 5 £463 +1.98% 12
West Midlands -57 4 £500 -5.66% 7
South West -22 3 £438 -30.00% 2
East of England -29 3 £450 -47.06%
North East - 3 £364 - 3
North West -32 2 - - 13
East Midlands -32 1 £400 +7.10% 5
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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 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 6 (5.22%) Google Workspace
2 6 (5.22%) SaaS
2 6 (5.22%) Slack
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.48%) Azure
5 3 (2.61%) Figma
5 3 (2.61%) GitHub
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.74%) Collibra
6 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.74%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.87%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) Network Security
2 7 (6.09%) 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%) 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%) Essbase
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%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.87%) Gatling
3 1 (0.87%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 51 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 43 (37.39%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.52%) Public Sector
4 18 (15.65%) Finance
5 7 (6.09%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Local Government
6 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Banking
8 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.74%) Aviation
9 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Law
9 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 2 (1.74%) Military
9 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Social Science
10 1 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (31.30%) Analyst
2 20 (17.39%) User Researcher
3 16 (13.91%) Consultant
4 15 (13.04%) Senior
5 7 (6.09%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.09%) Data Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Lead
6 6 (5.22%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Salesforce Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Senior User Researcher
8 4 (3.48%) Designer
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%) IT Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.74%) Middleware
1 2 (1.74%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.74%) REST
1 2 (1.74%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.87%) GeoJSON
2 1 (0.87%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.35%) AI Agents
2 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.61%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
6 1 (0.87%) CESG
6 1 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Life Science
6 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
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 34 (29.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (23.48%) Agile
3 27 (23.48%) User Research
4 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (20.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 22 (19.13%) AI
7 20 (17.39%) Analytics
7 20 (17.39%) Qualitative Research
8 18 (15.65%) User Experience
9 17 (14.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (13.04%) Usability Testing
11 14 (12.17%) Risk Management
11 14 (12.17%) Service Design
11 14 (12.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 13 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (11.30%) Quantitative Research
12 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.91%) SQL
2 14 (12.17%) Python
3 7 (6.09%) R
4 1 (0.87%) Groovy
4 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.57%) Degree
4 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.61%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.74%) CISSP
5 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) GIAC
5 2 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.87%) CCIE
6 1 (0.87%) CCNP
6 1 (0.87%) CEH
6 1 (0.87%) CFA
6 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.87%) CISM
6 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.87%) MBA
6 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.09%) QA
4 6 (5.22%) GRC
5 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 5 (4.35%) GDPR
5 5 (4.35%) NIST
5 5 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 4 (3.48%) NCSC
7 2 (1.74%) COBIT
7 2 (1.74%) ITGC
7 2 (1.74%) PMO
7 2 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.74%) SOX 404
7 2 (1.74%) WCAG
8 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%) Oracle
4 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
6 2 (1.74%) Databricks
6 2 (1.74%) New Relic
6 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.87%) Arista
7 1 (0.87%) Avid
7 1 (0.87%) FireEye
7 1 (0.87%) Juniper
7 1 (0.87%) Murex
7 1 (0.87%) Tanium
7 1 (0.87%) Veracode
7 1 (0.87%) Workday