Actionable Recommendations Contracts in England

Actionable Recommendations
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Recommendations over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 488 613
Rank change year-on-year +50 +125 +149
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 60 68 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.18% 0.055%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.40% 1.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 15
10th Percentile £303 £325 £341
25th Percentile £400 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £513 £669 £638
90th Percentile £630 £795 £750
UK median daily rate £455 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -17.27% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.00 -

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 4,296 5,037 6,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.46% 13.48% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 3,164 4,347
10th Percentile £270 £300 £312
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £761
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 378 231
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £20.69 £13.27 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £24.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.66% -42.81% +63.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.96 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Actionable Recommendations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 2025. 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 +52 32 £472 -8.53% 286
North of England +5 10 £400 +14.29% 66
South East - 9 £465 - 46
Yorkshire +11 7 £313 -26.47% 25
Midlands -7 4 £460 -29.23% 33
North West +1 3 £450 +28.57% 37
West Midlands -15 2 £460 -29.23% 21
South West - 2 £463 - 31
East Midlands - 2 £499 - 12
East of England +23 1 £500 +17.65% 28
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UK

Actionable Recommendations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.67%) SPSS
3 1 (1.67%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.00%) AWS
2 4 (6.67%) Azure
3 3 (5.00%) GitHub
3 3 (5.00%) Google Sheets
3 3 (5.00%) Lucidchart
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (3.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (3.33%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) SSL
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (1.67%) Modbus
3 1 (1.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.00%) Tableau
3 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.67%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.67%) Pa11y
General
1 32 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (38.33%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.00%) Finance
4 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Local Government
6 4 (6.67%) Marketing
7 3 (5.00%) Banking
7 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Games
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.67%) Social Science
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Analyst
2 8 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Data Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Consultant
5 5 (8.33%) User Researcher
6 3 (5.00%) Change Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Transformation Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) User Experience Researcher
7 2 (3.33%) Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Lead
7 2 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.67%) CSS
2 1 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (1.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (1.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.00%) NHS
3 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.33%) Digital Media
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.33%) Life Science
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.33%) SCADA
3 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Kali Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (20.00%) Agile
4 11 (18.33%) Data Analysis
5 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (15.00%) Visualisation
6 8 (13.33%) Analytics
6 8 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (13.33%) Business Analysis
6 8 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 8 (13.33%) Process Improvement
7 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (11.67%) User Research
7 7 (11.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (10.00%) Data Science
8 6 (10.00%) Journey Map
9 5 (8.33%) Data Strategy
9 5 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) SQL
2 9 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) R
4 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
1 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) CBAP
3 3 (5.00%) CISM
3 3 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) CISA
4 2 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.67%) CCA
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) GCIA
5 1 (1.67%) GCIH
5 1 (1.67%) GIAC
5 1 (1.67%) IIBA
5 1 (1.67%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.00%) NIST
3 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.33%) NIST 800
4 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.33%) WCAG
5 1 (1.67%) COBIT
5 1 (1.67%) COPPA
5 1 (1.67%) GRC
5 1 (1.67%) NCSC
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Ansible
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) Grafana
2 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Kustomize
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.33%) Puppet
3 1 (1.67%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.67%) QRadar
3 1 (1.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Google
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Splunk
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) Zoho
4 1 (1.67%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow