Actionable Insight Contracts in the North of England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 121 148 202
Rank change year-on-year +27 +54 +2
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 45 37 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 0.78% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.90% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 12
10th Percentile £200 - £271
25th Percentile £313 £325 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £536
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £500 £485 £581
90th Percentile £573 £528 £617
England median daily rate £475 £514 £510
% change year-on-year -7.63% +0.83% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the North of England

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the North of England

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the North of England

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the North of England

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +24 27 £455 +13.75% 90
Yorkshire +7 13 £425 -8.36% 54
North East +3 5 £200 -60.98% 12
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) SAP CO
1 4 (8.89%) SAP FI
1 4 (8.89%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (8.89%) SAP HR
1 4 (8.89%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) GitHub
4 3 (6.67%) Azure
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.44%) Google Analytics
5 2 (4.44%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.22%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Tableau
3 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.22%) Big Data
6 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.22%) DB2
6 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.22%) Mixpanel
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Local Government
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Analyst
2 7 (15.56%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Data Scientist
4 5 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) SAP Developer
5 4 (8.89%) SAP HR Developer
5 4 (8.89%) User Experience Researcher
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.44%) User Researcher
8 1 (2.22%) Consultant
8 1 (2.22%) Problem Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) Matplotlib
3 1 (2.22%) Pandas
3 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) NHS
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.22%) Life Science
3 1 (2.22%) LIMS
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.11%) Analytics
2 14 (31.11%) Data Analysis
3 13 (28.89%) Visualisation
4 11 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (17.78%) Agile
6 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (15.56%) Data Science
7 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
7 7 (15.56%) Performance Metrics
7 7 (15.56%) Process Improvement
7 7 (15.56%) User Research
8 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.33%) DevOps
8 6 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) SQL
2 12 (26.67%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) ABAP
3 4 (8.89%) R
4 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) CBAP
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.22%) PMP
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) GxP
4 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.22%) PSD2
4 1 (2.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Google
2 5 (11.11%) SAP
3 4 (8.89%) Workday
4 2 (4.44%) IBM
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.22%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.22%) Imperva
5 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk