Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Actionable Recommendations
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 163 178
Rank change year-on-year -27 +15 +60
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 13 2 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.056% 0.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.76% 0.41% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £364 £551 -
25th Percentile £429 £553 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £563 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +50.00% -30.49%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £466
90th Percentile £621 £584 £509
England median daily rate £500 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -17.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 737 488 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.59% 13.72% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 295 410
10th Percentile £306 £253 £265
25th Percentile £364 £359 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £637 £680 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 29
10th Percentile £16.59 - £15.46
25th Percentile £30.00 £15.50 £17.14
Median hourly rate £52.78 £20.19 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year +161.39% -28.66% +15.51%
75th Percentile £61.25 £24.76 £61.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £29.50 £75.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £35.63
% change year-on-year -16.46% -15.51% +58.41%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Recommendations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in the North of England

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Actionable Recommendations

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the North of England

Actionable Recommendations
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 Recommendations within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Yorkshire -39 7 £575 +2.22% 5
North East - 3 £364 - 1
North West - 3 - - 3
Actionable Recommendations
England

Actionable Recommendations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Akamai
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) User Researcher
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Playwright
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (30.77%) User Research
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Usability Testing
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Ergonomics
4 2 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (15.38%) Human Factors
4 2 (15.38%) Market Research
4 2 (15.38%) Psychology
4 2 (15.38%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (15.38%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) UX Design
4 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) F5
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Veracode