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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 340 351
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 +96
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 1.67% 1.34% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 17
10th Percentile £331 £397 £269
25th Percentile £431 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -18.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £675
90th Percentile £821 £635 £685
England median daily rate £475 £465 £588
% change year-on-year +2.15% -20.85% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile £62.82 - £23.88
Median hourly rate £65.40 - £28.00
75th Percentile £67.98 - £36.63
90th Percentile - - £40.90
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.92% -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 3,778 2,307 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.75% 16.97% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,553 1,557 1,516
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £794
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 42 43
10th Percentile £18.07 - £16.99
25th Percentile £24.38 £25.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £29.04 £34.49 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% +29.27% -23.77%
75th Percentile £41.68 £44.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £65.44 £54.88 £59.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -30.40%

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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 12 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 12 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 -9 9 £700 +40.00% 6
Central London -22 3 £465 -7.00% 14
Actionable Recommendations
England

Actionable Recommendations
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 4 (6.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (6.35%) CMS
1 4 (6.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.59%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Shopify
2 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 7 (11.11%) AWS
3 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.35%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (6.35%) GitHub
4 4 (6.35%) Google Analytics
4 4 (6.35%) Siteimprove
5 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (4.76%) SaaS
6 2 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.17%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.17%) Collibra
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Broadband
1 3 (4.76%) Network Security
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 3 (4.76%) Tableau
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Big Data
5 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Git
1 4 (6.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (3.17%) Gatling
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) JMeter
2 2 (3.17%) LoadRunner
2 2 (3.17%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (1.59%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 30 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.70%) Marketing
5 6 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Aviation
6 5 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.35%) Publishing
7 4 (6.35%) Retail
8 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) Billing
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Legal
9 1 (1.59%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Police
9 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Analyst
1 10 (15.87%) Consultant
2 7 (11.11%) Data Scientist
2 7 (11.11%) Senior
3 5 (7.94%) Lead
3 5 (7.94%) User Researcher
4 4 (6.35%) Architect
5 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.76%) SEO Consultant
6 2 (3.17%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) Research Scientist
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (3.17%) Senior User Researcher
6 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) CSS
1 4 (6.35%) HTML
1 4 (6.35%) Middleware
2 3 (4.76%) ATL
2 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.76%) REST
2 3 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) Pandas
4 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.59%) Django
4 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
4 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
3 3 (4.76%) Social Media
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
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 22 (34.92%) Decision-Making
3 18 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 17 (26.98%) Analytics
5 16 (25.40%) Agile
5 16 (25.40%) AI
5 16 (25.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.70%) Data Science
11 7 (11.11%) User Research
12 6 (9.52%) Analytical Thinking
12 6 (9.52%) Data Analysis
12 6 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
12 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (9.52%) Risk Management
12 6 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (9.52%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 13 (20.63%) SQL
3 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.17%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) Bicep
5 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.59%) R
5 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 7 (11.11%) 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 7 (11.11%) QA
2 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.94%) GDPR
4 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
6 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.17%) PMO
7 1 (1.59%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.59%) NCSC
7 1 (1.59%) NIST
7 1 (1.59%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Grafana
2 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Amplitude
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Adobe
3 4 (6.35%) Google
3 4 (6.35%) Optimizely
3 4 (6.35%) Sitecore
3 4 (6.35%) Tealium
4 3 (4.76%) Databricks
5 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.17%) IBM
5 2 (3.17%) New Relic
5 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Cognizant
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