Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Actionable Recommendations
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 63 83
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.50% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.09% 2.47% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £505 £426 -
25th Percentile £513 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £613 £522 -
90th Percentile £665 £539 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 -
% change year-on-year +2.56% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 97 81 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 16.09% 11.28% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 55 97
10th Percentile £235 £359 £289
25th Percentile £375 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £509
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +1.67% +1.70%
75th Percentile £525 £581 £588
90th Percentile £600 £638 £606
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.27 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -15.02% -43.42%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £16.11
% change year-on-year +21.18% +13.41% -13.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in Leeds over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk