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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 453 473
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 +81
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 170 70 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.01% 1.41% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 45 32
10th Percentile £376 £325 £452
25th Percentile £430 £420 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £616
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -22.92% +17.38%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £725
90th Percentile £725 £588 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £458 £600
% change year-on-year +9.29% -23.75% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £36.86 - -
25th Percentile £41.19 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £49.69 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.76% -41.18% -
75th Percentile £59.48 - £43.75
90th Percentile £64.58 - -
UK median hourly rate £49.69 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +98.76% -41.18% -

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 8,443 4,971 4,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.03% 17.67% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,269 3,241 2,421
10th Percentile £325 £300 £295
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £720 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 244 195
10th Percentile £13.93 £15.13 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.32
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.49 £68.13
90th Percentile £74.32 £82.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £30.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year +4.87% +8.42% -23.14%

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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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -41 92 £525 +10.53% 146
North of England -62 23 £500 +5.26% 29
South East -52 22 £525 +15.13% 37
Midlands -43 15 £475 -7.32% 13
Yorkshire -30 12 £500 -4.76% 11
West Midlands -38 12 £475 -17.39% 12
East of England -22 9 £363 -29.10% 10
North West -45 9 £538 +19.44% 14
South West -30 5 £750 +66.67% 10
North East -38 4 £725 +61.11% 4
East Midlands -17 3 £400 -15.79% 1
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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 (3.53%) CMS
2 4 (2.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (2.35%) Confluence
2 4 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.35%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (2.35%) Shopify
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.53%) Power Platform
2 21 (12.35%) Azure
3 16 (9.41%) AWS
4 11 (6.47%) SaaS
5 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.71%) GitHub
6 8 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.53%) GCP
9 5 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
9 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.94%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.35%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.35%) Miro
10 4 (2.35%) Siteimprove
11 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.76%) OCI
11 3 (1.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.65%) Broadband
2 2 (1.18%) Multicast
2 2 (1.18%) VLAN
3 1 (0.59%) Firewall
3 1 (0.59%) LAN
3 1 (0.59%) MQTT
3 1 (0.59%) Network Security
3 1 (0.59%) WAN
3 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) Power BI
2 12 (7.06%) Tableau
3 5 (2.94%) Metadata
4 3 (1.76%) Big Data
4 3 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.59%) Looker
5 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) JIRA
2 6 (3.53%) JMeter
2 6 (3.53%) LoadRunner
3 5 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.35%) Gatling
4 4 (2.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 3 (1.76%) eggPlant
6 2 (1.18%) PowerBuilder
General
1 63 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 52 (30.59%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (15.88%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.71%) Finance
5 23 (13.53%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (10.00%) Marketing
7 13 (7.65%) Legal
8 6 (3.53%) Banking
8 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.53%) Retail
8 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.94%) Police
9 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Aviation
10 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Publishing
11 3 (1.76%) Law
12 2 (1.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (20.00%) Analyst
2 28 (16.47%) Lead
3 22 (12.94%) User Researcher
4 17 (10.00%) Senior
5 16 (9.41%) Consultant
6 13 (7.65%) Data Analyst
7 12 (7.06%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.71%) Architect
9 6 (3.53%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.53%) Data Scientist
10 5 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (2.35%) Configuration Analyst
11 4 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.35%) Insight Manager
11 4 (2.35%) Technical Architect
12 3 (1.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 3 (1.76%) Principal Advisor
12 3 (1.76%) Senior Data Scientist
12 3 (1.76%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.47%) ATL
2 6 (3.53%) Kafka
3 5 (2.94%) CSS
3 5 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.94%) HTML
3 5 (2.94%) Middleware
3 5 (2.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.18%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.18%) OLE
4 2 (1.18%) Pandas
4 2 (1.18%) REST
5 1 (0.59%) Django
5 1 (0.59%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.59%) PySpark
5 1 (0.59%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.59%) React
5 1 (0.59%) Semantic HTML
5 1 (0.59%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.82%) Social Media
2 14 (8.24%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.94%) NHS
5 4 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Android
1 1 (0.59%) Linux
1 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 56 (32.94%) Decision-Making
3 47 (27.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (27.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 42 (24.71%) Analytics
6 41 (24.12%) Roadmaps
7 38 (22.35%) Agile
8 31 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (17.65%) Service Design
10 28 (16.47%) AI
10 28 (16.47%) User Research
11 26 (15.29%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (13.53%) Qualitative Research
12 23 (13.53%) Workshop Facilitation
13 22 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (12.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 21 (12.35%) Business Analysis
15 20 (11.76%) User Experience
16 19 (11.18%) Usability Testing
17 18 (10.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (21.76%) Python
2 31 (18.24%) SQL
3 12 (7.06%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.94%) R
5 3 (1.76%) Java
6 2 (1.18%) Bicep
6 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 31 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.06%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.06%) Degree
4 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.18%) APMG
5 2 (1.18%) CISM
5 2 (1.18%) CISSP
5 2 (1.18%) IIBA
6 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.59%) CCA
6 1 (0.59%) CCSP
6 1 (0.59%) CISA
6 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.59%) PhD
6 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.59%) PMP
6 1 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.18%) Accessibility
2 17 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.29%) PMO
4 8 (4.71%) QA
5 7 (4.12%) GDPR
5 7 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.53%) WCAG
7 5 (2.94%) NCSC
8 3 (1.76%) NIST
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.18%) GRC
9 2 (1.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.59%) GxP
10 1 (0.59%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.59%) PERC
10 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (4.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.53%) Grafana
1 6 (3.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.88%) Oracle
3 8 (4.71%) Google
4 6 (3.53%) Databricks
4 6 (3.53%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.53%) Splunk
5 5 (2.94%) Adobe
5 5 (2.94%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.94%) IBM
5 5 (2.94%) New Relic
6 4 (2.35%) Optimizely
6 4 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.35%) Sitecore
6 4 (2.35%) Tealium
7 3 (1.76%) YouTube
8 2 (1.18%) Intel
8 2 (1.18%) Planon
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.59%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.59%) Informatica