Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in London

Actionable Recommendations
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 344 360
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 +98
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 63 31 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.68% 1.33% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 17
10th Percentile £320 £397 £269
25th Percentile £431 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £819 £615 -
England median daily rate £500 £463 £588
% change year-on-year +8.11% -21.28% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £57.36 - £22.30
25th Percentile £58.27 - £23.88
Median hourly rate £61.95 - £28.00
75th Percentile £66.05 - £36.63
90th Percentile £67.21 - £40.90
England median hourly rate £58.50 £25.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +134.00% -10.71% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,753 2,332 2,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.68% 16.99% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,528 1,569 1,534
10th Percentile £350 £324 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
England median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 37 43
10th Percentile £19.00 £22.75 £16.99
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.48 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +29.24% -23.77%
75th Percentile £47.59 £44.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £55.70 £59.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.07% +9.09% -35.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in London over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Actionable Recommendations

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 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
West London -12 7 £450 -10.00% 4
Central London -14 3 £465 -7.00% 15
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (4.76%) CMS
1 3 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.59%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Shopify
2 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) AWS
2 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 3 (4.76%) GitHub
3 3 (4.76%) Google Analytics
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (4.76%) SaaS
3 3 (4.76%) Siteimprove
4 2 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (3.17%) ChatGPT
4 2 (3.17%) Collibra
4 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) Broadband
2 2 (3.17%) Firewall
3 1 (1.59%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.17%) Tableau
4 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 29 (46.03%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.11%) Marketing
5 5 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Aviation
7 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.76%) Publishing
7 3 (4.76%) Retail
8 2 (3.17%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Billing
9 1 (1.59%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Police
9 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (17.46%) Analyst
1 11 (17.46%) Consultant
2 8 (12.70%) Data Scientist
3 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) User Researcher
5 4 (6.35%) Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.76%) SEO Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Senior User Researcher
7 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.59%) Research Scientist
8 1 (1.59%) Tableau Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) CSS
1 3 (4.76%) HTML
1 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
1 3 (4.76%) REST
1 3 (4.76%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.17%) ATL
2 2 (3.17%) Middleware
2 2 (3.17%) Pandas
3 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.59%) Django
3 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.59%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.76%) NHS
3 3 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Social Media
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) PMI
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 21 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 18 (28.57%) Analytics
4 17 (26.98%) AI
4 17 (26.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (25.40%) Agile
5 16 (25.40%) Roadmaps
6 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (14.29%) Data Science
10 8 (12.70%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (12.70%) User Research
11 7 (11.11%) Risk Management
12 6 (9.52%) A/B Testing
12 6 (9.52%) Data Protection
12 6 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
12 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) R
5 2 (3.17%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) Bicep
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.17%) PMP
4 1 (1.59%) CISA
4 1 (1.59%) CISSP
4 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) PhD
4 1 (1.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.94%) GDPR
3 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.17%) PMO
6 1 (1.59%) GRC
6 1 (1.59%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.59%) NCSC
6 1 (1.59%) NIST
6 1 (1.59%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
1 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Amplitude
4 3 (4.76%) Adobe
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) Optimizely
4 3 (4.76%) Sitecore
4 3 (4.76%) Tealium
5 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.59%) Avid
6 1 (1.59%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) Foundry
6 1 (1.59%) Pardot
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Wrike