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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 102 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 +40 +9
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 11 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% 0.69% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.79% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 13
10th Percentile £388 £369 £453
25th Percentile £496 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +14.25%
75th Percentile £581 £556 £600
90th Percentile £595 £565 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.78%

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 1,596 1,650 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.83% 87.03% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 1,016 1,619
10th Percentile £263 £208 £250
25th Percentile £370 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 56
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -31.75%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Glasgow -11 8 £550 +9.89% 11
Edinburgh +6 3 £391 +2.42% 16
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 1 (9.09%) SAS
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Power Query
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
2 2 (18.18%) HR Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) HR Data Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analysis
2 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Validation
5 2 (18.18%) Budget Management
5 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
5 2 (18.18%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (9.09%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) R
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (9.09%) PromQL
3 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Alteryx
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk