Actionable Insight Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 93 117 147
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 +7
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 27 20 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.37% 0.73% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.84% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 6
10th Percentile £295 - £459
25th Percentile £400 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £504
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -20.60% -28.04%
75th Percentile £520 £450 £598
90th Percentile £599 £474 £659
England median daily rate £475 £514 £510
% change year-on-year -7.63% +0.83% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the North West

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the North West

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the North West

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the North West

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +11 12 £500 - 8
Manchester +13 11 £455 +13.75% 55
Merseyside +4 1 £400 -11.11% 6
Lancashire - 1 £523 - 32
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) SAP CO
1 4 (14.81%) SAP FI
1 4 (14.81%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (14.81%) SAP HR
1 4 (14.81%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) GitHub
2 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.70%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Data Lake
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
1 5 (18.52%) Tableau
2 3 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.70%) DB2
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) Mixpanel
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Data Scientist
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Integration Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) SAP Developer
3 4 (14.81%) SAP HR Developer
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Change Manager
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.41%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) Matplotlib
3 1 (3.70%) Pandas
3 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.70%) Life Science
2 1 (3.70%) LIMS
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 8 (29.63%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (25.93%) Process Improvement
5 6 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 6 (22.22%) Data Science
5 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 6 (22.22%) DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 6 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
6 5 (18.52%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (18.52%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (18.52%) Customer Acquisition
6 5 (18.52%) High Availability
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 8 (29.63%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) ABAP
4 3 (11.11%) R
5 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) CBAP
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) GxP
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.70%) PSD2
2 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Google
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 4 (14.81%) Workday
3 2 (7.41%) IBM
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Adobe
4 1 (3.70%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Hotjar
4 1 (3.70%) Imperva
4 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk