Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Actionable Recommendations
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.22% 1.22% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.12% 7.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +15.79%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 89 26 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 19.14% 15.85% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 13 2
10th Percentile £113 £172 £172
25th Percentile £400 £250 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £450 £218
Median % change year-on-year +21.72% +106.90% -50.85%
75th Percentile £587 £530 £246
90th Percentile £600 £575 £264
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.37% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 4
10th Percentile £13.13 £47.58 £24.69
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.05 £32.96
Median hourly rate £64.09 £70.16 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +73.99% -42.05%
75th Percentile - £70.81 £43.10
90th Percentile - £71.19 -
North West median hourly rate £60.50 £63.40 £23.14
% change year-on-year -4.57% +174.04% -20.63%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Recommendations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Actionable Recommendations

Actionable Recommendations
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Preston - 1 £538 -
Actionable Recommendations
North West

Actionable Recommendations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture