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 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 90 117 135
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 +41
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 33 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.64% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.81% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 7
10th Percentile £313 - £463
25th Percentile £401 £325 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £533
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -22.54% -16.47%
75th Percentile £498 £452 £577
90th Percentile £533 £575 £633
England median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -2.78%

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 1,789 2,337 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.09% 84.22% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,429 1,891
10th Percentile £306 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £673 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 260 144
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £14.13 £20.17
Median hourly rate £31.76 £27.25 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -10.77% +29.71%
75th Percentile £63.20 £46.18 £44.64
90th Percentile £81.96 £66.61 £58.73
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 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 27 June 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 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
Manchester +10 12 £415 +3.75% 71
Cheshire +1 12 £492 - 8
Lancashire - 6 £475 - 21
Merseyside +3 1 £400 -11.11% 4
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 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.12%) IBM Domino
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP CO
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (6.06%) SAP HR
1 2 (6.06%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub
4 4 (12.12%) Google Analytics
5 3 (9.09%) Azure
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.03%) dbt
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Power BI
2 7 (21.21%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (12.12%) Mixpanel
3 4 (12.12%) Tableau
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.03%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.03%) DB2
4 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) Looker
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Power Query
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Local Government
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
2 10 (30.30%) Business Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) User Experience Researcher
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Developer
6 2 (6.06%) SAP HR Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) Matplotlib
2 1 (3.03%) Pandas
2 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.03%) Life Science
2 1 (3.03%) LIMS
2 1 (3.03%) NHS
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) Analytics
3 9 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (24.24%) Process Improvement
4 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.21%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (21.21%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
6 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
6 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.15%) Customer Acquisition
7 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
7 5 (15.15%) Resource Allocation
7 5 (15.15%) User Experience
7 5 (15.15%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) ABAP
3 2 (6.06%) R
4 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.03%) CBAP
2 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) GxP
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) PSD2
3 1 (3.03%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Ansible
1 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Hotjar
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) IBM
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Workday
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) Imperva
4 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk