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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 359 424
Rank change year-on-year +25 +65 +158
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 28 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.15% 0.074%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.20% 1.12% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 12
10th Percentile £290 £230 £451
25th Percentile £385 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -9.48%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £611
90th Percentile £595 £825 £675
England median daily rate £465 £588 £519
% change year-on-year -20.85% +13.25% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 2,331 2,227 3,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.33% 13.67% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 1,435 2,300
10th Percentile £325 £333 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 42 33
10th Percentile - £18.13 £16.66
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +8.40% +11.29%
75th Percentile £42.75 £49.69 £50.75
90th Percentile £54.35 £71.88 £63.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Central London -4 2 £408 -29.13% 14
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) SPSS
2 1 (3.57%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) AWS
1 2 (7.14%) Lucidchart
1 2 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) dbt
2 1 (3.57%) GCP
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.57%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
1 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.57%) Looker
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (21.43%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Games
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) User Experience Researcher
4 2 (7.14%) Analytics Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.57%) Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Information Management Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Payroll Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Payroll Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Streamlit
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (3.57%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (28.57%) Analytics
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Process Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
5 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.86%) User Research
5 5 (17.86%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.29%) User Experience
7 3 (10.71%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (10.71%) Data Architecture
7 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.71%) Qualitative Research
7 3 (10.71%) Statistics
7 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) R
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) CAPM
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle
1 2 (7.14%) Zoho
2 1 (3.57%) SAP