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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 146 175
Rank change year-on-year +33 +29 +55
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 61 34 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.73% 0.70% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 0.84% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 12
10th Percentile £228 - £468
25th Percentile £300 £325 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £491 £505 £578
90th Percentile £533 £575 £599
England median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -2.78%

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 3,172 4,050 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.81% 83.94% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 2,415 3,352
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £649 £666 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 376 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -16.00% +30.96%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.18 £43.39
90th Percentile £78.25 £63.75 £56.08
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +27 33 £450 +9.09% 93
Yorkshire +8 23 £328 -33.16% 63
North East +5 5 £200 -60.98% 16
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 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (8.20%) Confluence
2 4 (6.56%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.64%) Maple
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP CO
1 2 (3.28%) SAP FI
1 2 (3.28%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (3.28%) SAP HR
1 2 (3.28%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Power Platform
2 10 (16.39%) AWS
3 7 (11.48%) GitHub
4 6 (9.84%) Google Analytics
5 4 (6.56%) Azure
5 4 (6.56%) GCP
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.28%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.28%) Serverless
7 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
1 2 (3.28%) Network Security
1 2 (3.28%) SSL
1 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.28%) VPN
2 1 (1.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Power BI
2 10 (16.39%) Tableau
3 7 (11.48%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.56%) BigQuery
4 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.56%) Looker
4 4 (6.56%) Mixpanel
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.64%) Big Data
6 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.64%) DB2
6 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.64%) Power Query
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) GitLab
2 3 (4.92%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (24.59%) Finance
4 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.56%) Local Government
6 3 (4.92%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
7 2 (3.28%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (40.98%) Analyst
2 17 (27.87%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) User Experience Researcher
4 7 (11.48%) Data Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Change Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Data Centre Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Data Centre Business Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.92%) Transformation Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) User Researcher
9 2 (3.28%) Data Visualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.28%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
2 1 (1.64%) Matplotlib
2 1 (1.64%) Pandas
2 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (4.92%) NHS
2 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.64%) Life Science
3 1 (1.64%) LIMS
3 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Analytics
2 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (29.51%) Data Analysis
4 16 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (26.23%) Visualisation
5 14 (22.95%) Decision-Making
5 14 (22.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (21.31%) Agile
7 12 (19.67%) Performance Metrics
7 12 (19.67%) User Experience
8 11 (18.03%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (16.39%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (14.75%) Process Improvement
11 8 (13.11%) Cloud Security
11 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.11%) DevOps
11 8 (13.11%) User Research
11 8 (13.11%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.15%) SQL
2 13 (21.31%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) R
4 2 (3.28%) ABAP
4 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) CBAP
3 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 2 (3.28%) QA
4 2 (3.28%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.64%) GxP
5 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Grafana
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Kustomize
2 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.28%) Puppet
2 2 (3.28%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Google
2 5 (8.20%) Hotjar
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.92%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) IBM
4 2 (3.28%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Workday
5 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.64%) Imperva
5 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.64%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle