Actionable Insight Contracts in Scotland

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Actionable Insight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 151 136
Rank change year-on-year +42 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 18 19 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.83% 0.69% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.75% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 30
10th Percentile £268 £485 £360
25th Percentile £394 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £543 £497
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.15% -0.60%
75th Percentile £566 £573 £575
90th Percentile £592 £588 £605
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% +1.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Actionable Insight is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,542 3,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.54% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,810 2,261
10th Percentile £225 £262 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year - +0.64% +11.06%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £46.24 £44.55 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in Scotland

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in Scotland

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in Scotland

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +18 8 £544 -5.43% 3
Edinburgh +26 7 £425 -21.66% 4
Fife - 1 - -
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (5.56%) Google Sheets
2 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) Tableau
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Legal
3 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Lead
2 6 (33.33%) Lead Data Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Tableau Specialist
3 4 (22.22%) User Researcher
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Senior User Researcher
5 1 (5.56%) Account Executive
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Social Media Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.56%) PostGIS
1 1 (5.56%) Regular Expression
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Analytics
2 11 (61.11%) Decision-Making
3 7 (38.89%) Dashboard Development
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Qualitative Research
4 4 (22.22%) Quantitative Research
4 4 (22.22%) Storytelling
4 4 (22.22%) User Research
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (16.67%) Service Design
6 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
7 1 (5.56%) Agile
7 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.56%) Migration
7 1 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.56%) HAZOP
2 1 (5.56%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (5.56%) Brandwatch
2 1 (5.56%) Facebook
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Hootsuite
2 1 (5.56%) Instagram
2 1 (5.56%) Twitter
2 1 (5.56%) YouTube