Actionable Insight Contracts in Manchester

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Actionable Insight skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 80 107
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +36
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 15 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.57% 0.84% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 0.97% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £283 £325 £360
25th Percentile £323 £338 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £433 £513 £531
90th Percentile £470 £575 £633
North West median daily rate £440 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +3.53% -17.07% -19.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Actionable Insight falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 844 1,239 1,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.10% 86.28% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 811 1,213
10th Percentile £305 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 53
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.80 £14.15 £16.85
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.76 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.79% +18.93% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.45 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year - -1.77% +29.71%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in Manchester

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in Manchester

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in Manchester

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Stockport - 1 - - 3
Oldham - 1 - -
Bolton - 1 - - 9
Actionable Insight
North West

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (26.67%) IBM Domino
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Mixpanel
3 3 (20.00%) Tableau
4 2 (13.33%) Power Query
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) User Experience Researcher
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.67%) Data Quality Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.67%) Matplotlib
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
2 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Qualitative Research
3 5 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 5 (33.33%) User Experience
3 5 (33.33%) UX Research
4 4 (26.67%) Behavioural Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Insight
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Product Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Quantitative Research
4 4 (26.67%) UX Design
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Data Science
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.67%) R
3 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
1 4 (26.67%) Hotjar
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) IBM