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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 437 457
Rank change year-on-year -72 +20 +117
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 117 61 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.47% 1.28% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 40 33
10th Percentile £375 £358 £305
25th Percentile £415 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -18.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £587 £528 £725
90th Percentile £770 £603 £850
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +2.15% -15.45% +6.02%
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 7,978 4,758 4,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.24% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,097 3,106 2,717
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 229 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.44 £18.50 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £25.77
% change year-on-year +28.00% +9.37% -26.39%

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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 August 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 August 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 August 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 61 £500 +5.26% 78
North of England -50 20 £488 +2.63% 27
South East -49 17 £475 +2.15% 39
Yorkshire -39 12 £500 -4.76% 10
Midlands -50 11 £463 -1.07% 13
West Midlands -49 8 £475 +3.26% 8
North West -31 7 £420 -6.67% 14
South West -35 4 - - 4
East Midlands -17 3 £400 -15.79% 5
East of England -18 3 £500 -2.44% 6
North East -38 1 £388 -13.89% 3
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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 5 (4.27%) CMS
2 4 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.42%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.56%) CPLEX
2 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.85%) SPSS
3 1 (0.85%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Shopify
2 3 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.53%) Azure
2 12 (10.26%) AWS
3 10 (8.55%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (5.98%) GitHub
5 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.27%) Adobe Analytics
7 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.27%) GCP
7 5 (4.27%) Google Analytics
8 4 (3.42%) SaaS
8 4 (3.42%) Siteimprove
9 3 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.56%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.56%) Collibra
9 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.56%) Google Gemini
9 3 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) Broadband
2 3 (2.56%) Network Security
3 2 (1.71%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.85%) LAN
4 1 (0.85%) MQTT
4 1 (0.85%) SMS
4 1 (0.85%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Power BI
1 7 (5.98%) Tableau
2 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.71%) Big Data
4 2 (1.71%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.85%) Looker
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) JMeter
2 6 (5.13%) LoadRunner
3 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.42%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 3 (2.56%) Gatling
5 2 (1.71%) eggPlant
5 2 (1.71%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.85%) MLflow
General
1 49 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 40 (34.19%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (11.11%) Finance
6 9 (7.69%) Marketing
7 6 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.27%) Aviation
8 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Police
9 4 (3.42%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.42%) Legal
9 4 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Publishing
10 3 (2.56%) Banking
10 3 (2.56%) Military
10 3 (2.56%) Retail
10 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.80%) Analyst
2 17 (14.53%) Consultant
2 17 (14.53%) Senior
3 11 (9.40%) Lead
4 10 (8.55%) User Researcher
5 8 (6.84%) Architect
6 7 (5.98%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.98%) Data Scientist
6 7 (5.98%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (4.27%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) Configuration Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (2.56%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.56%) Performance Engineer
9 3 (2.56%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (2.56%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.56%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 3 (2.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.27%) ATL
1 5 (4.27%) CSS
1 5 (4.27%) HTML
1 5 (4.27%) Kafka
1 5 (4.27%) Middleware
1 5 (4.27%) REST
1 5 (4.27%) Terraform
2 4 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.56%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.56%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.71%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.71%) OLE
4 2 (1.71%) Pandas
5 1 (0.85%) Django
5 1 (0.85%) LDAP
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth
5 1 (0.85%) OpenID
5 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.84%) Social Media
3 6 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.56%) NHS
6 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Android
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 31 (26.50%) Decision-Making
3 28 (23.93%) Roadmaps
4 27 (23.08%) Agile
5 26 (22.22%) Analytics
6 24 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.38%) AI
10 15 (12.82%) GAP Analysis
10 15 (12.82%) User Research
11 14 (11.97%) Service Design
12 13 (11.11%) Business Analysis
12 13 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (11.11%) User Experience
13 12 (10.26%) Migration
14 11 (9.40%) Qualitative Research
14 11 (9.40%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (9.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.79%) Python
2 19 (16.24%) SQL
3 11 (9.40%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.56%) Java
4 3 (2.56%) R
5 2 (1.71%) Bicep
5 2 (1.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (17.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.71%) APMG
5 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.71%) CISSP
5 2 (1.71%) IIBA
6 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.85%) CCA
6 1 (0.85%) CCSP
6 1 (0.85%) CISA
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) PhD
6 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.85%) PMP
6 1 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.84%) GDPR
2 8 (6.84%) QA
3 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.42%) WCAG
5 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.56%) PMO
6 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.71%) NIST
6 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.85%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.85%) NCSC
7 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.85%) PERC
7 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.13%) Grafana
1 6 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) Oracle
3 7 (5.98%) Google
4 5 (4.27%) Adobe
4 5 (4.27%) Amplitude
4 5 (4.27%) Databricks
4 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.27%) New Relic
4 5 (4.27%) Splunk
5 4 (3.42%) IBM
5 4 (3.42%) Optimizely
5 4 (3.42%) Sitecore
5 4 (3.42%) Tealium
6 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.71%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.71%) Planon
7 2 (1.71%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.71%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Wrike
146 Actionable Recommendations jobs in England