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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 337 356
Rank change year-on-year -39 +19 +62
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 84 31 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.14% 1.33% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 16
10th Percentile £375 £290 £242
25th Percentile £438 £408 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £604
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -20.08% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £562 £675
90th Percentile £710 £636 £806
England median daily rate £500 £475 £604
% change year-on-year +5.26% -21.33% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.82 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.40 - £42.50
75th Percentile £67.98 - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.69 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +98.76% -41.18% -

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 3,924 2,339 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.38% 17.57% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,657 1,547 1,362
10th Percentile £350 £325 £318
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £515 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.47% -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 54 39
10th Percentile £15.55 £23.47 £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +7.53% +9.98%
75th Percentile £40.36 £44.37 £50.88
90th Percentile £58.58 £62.60 £78.47
England median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
% change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%

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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 6 October 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 6 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
West London - 15 £725 - 5
Central London -13 7 £465 +14.11% 19
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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 6 (7.14%) CMS
2 4 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) CPLEX
1 4 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.19%) Trello
4 1 (1.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Shopify
2 1 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) Azure
2 7 (8.33%) AWS
3 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (4.76%) Google Analytics
4 4 (4.76%) SaaS
4 4 (4.76%) Siteimprove
5 3 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.57%) ChatGPT
5 3 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.57%) GCP
5 3 (3.57%) Lucidchart
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (3.57%) Miro
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.38%) Google Gemini
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.57%) Metadata
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) Tableau
3 1 (1.19%) Big Data
3 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.19%) Looker
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Git
2 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 4 (4.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (2.38%) Gatling
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) JMeter
3 2 (2.38%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.38%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (1.19%) eggPlant
General
1 34 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (16.67%) Marketing
5 12 (14.29%) Finance
6 11 (13.10%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.14%) Retail
8 5 (5.95%) Legal
8 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
9 4 (4.76%) Aviation
9 4 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.76%) Publishing
9 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Law
10 2 (2.38%) Legal Technology
11 1 (1.19%) Electronics
11 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.19%) Local Government
11 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Analyst
2 16 (19.05%) Lead
3 7 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 7 (8.33%) Senior
3 7 (8.33%) User Researcher
4 6 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 5 (5.95%) Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Designer
7 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Research Scientist
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (3.57%) Service Designer
8 2 (2.38%) Marketing Manager
8 2 (2.38%) Performance Engineer
8 2 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) ATL
2 4 (4.76%) CSS
2 4 (4.76%) HTML
3 3 (3.57%) Terraform
4 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.38%) Kafka
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) Pandas
4 2 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (1.19%) Django
5 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Social Media
2 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.57%) NHS
4 2 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) FMCG
5 1 (1.19%) Life Science
5 1 (1.19%) PMI
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 33 (39.29%) Decision-Making
3 23 (27.38%) Analytics
4 22 (26.19%) Roadmaps
4 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (23.81%) Agile
6 19 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (20.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (16.67%) Business Strategy
8 14 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
8 14 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (15.48%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (13.10%) Digital Marketing
10 11 (13.10%) Econometric Modelling
10 11 (13.10%) Econometrics
10 11 (13.10%) Experimental Design
10 11 (13.10%) Service Design
10 11 (13.10%) User Research
11 10 (11.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) Python
2 21 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.38%) Bicep
4 2 (2.38%) Java
4 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.38%) R
5 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) CISA
5 1 (1.19%) CISSP
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) PhD
5 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.19%) PMP
5 1 (1.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.14%) QA
3 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.57%) GDPR
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.38%) GRC
6 1 (1.19%) GxP
6 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.19%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.19%) NCSC
6 1 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.19%) PERC
6 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) Google
3 5 (5.95%) Amplitude
4 4 (4.76%) Adobe
4 4 (4.76%) Optimizely
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.76%) Tealium
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
5 2 (2.38%) New Relic
5 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.19%) Pardot
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) Wrike