Actionable Insight Contracts in the Midlands

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 95 164
Rank change year-on-year +6 +69 +29
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 22 38 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 1.38% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.68% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 1
10th Percentile £300 £319 -
25th Percentile £351 £497 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £593 £480
Median % change year-on-year -34.60% +23.44% -11.93%
75th Percentile £410 £646 £505
90th Percentile £458 £850 -
England median daily rate £475 £514 £510
% change year-on-year -7.63% +0.83% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £28.29 £46.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year -38.84% -45.59% +61.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the Midlands

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the Midlands

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the Midlands

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the Midlands

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands -7 14 £388 -36.99% 59
East Midlands +15 8 £409 +9.07% 23
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (13.64%) R Markdown
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.55%) SAS
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Actimize
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (9.09%) Power Query
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Looker
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
3 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Pa11y
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.64%) Retail
6 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Advertising
7 1 (4.55%) Automotive
7 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.55%) Law
7 1 (4.55%) Local Government
7 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Retail Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Data Visualisation Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Looker Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) PMO Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Power BI Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Shiny
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) Data Analysis
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management
7 3 (13.64%) Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Data Collection
7 3 (13.64%) Data Sharing
7 3 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
7 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) R
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) CBAP
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) IIBA
1 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.55%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (18.18%) GDPR
2 4 (18.18%) WCAG
3 2 (9.09%) PMO
3 2 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Meraki
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle