Actionable Insight Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 102 111 144
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 -7
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 14 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 0.81% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.92% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £318 £268 £485
25th Percentile £397 £394 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -0.92% +8.50%
75th Percentile £538 £566 £573
90th Percentile £620 £592 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.87 -
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £42.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -31.60% -50.00% +61.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Edinburgh +5 7 £501 +17.76% 16
Glasgow +1 6 £438 -19.54% 7
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Apigee
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
1 1 (7.14%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Credit Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) User Researcher
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) NumPy
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
1 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
2 1 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
3 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
3 3 (21.43%) Scorecard
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (14.29%) Service Design
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Usability Testing
4 2 (14.29%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) VBA
4 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Alteryx
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft