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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 148 138
Rank change year-on-year +40 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 18 19 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.83% 0.68% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.73% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 28
10th Percentile £268 £485 £354
25th Percentile £394 £513 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +8.50% -
75th Percentile £566 £573 £575
90th Percentile £592 £588 £615
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £85.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +126.67% +7.14%

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 1,924 2,599 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.52% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,869 2,319
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 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 5 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 +6 8 £544 -5.43% 4
Edinburgh +32 7 £425 -21.66% 7
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%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Tableau
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Legal
3 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Lead
2 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Data Analyst
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.56%) PostGIS
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.56%) FMCG
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Analytics
1 11 (61.11%) Decision-Making
2 7 (38.89%) Dashboard Development
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Qualitative Research
3 4 (22.22%) Quantitative Research
3 4 (22.22%) Storytelling
3 4 (22.22%) User Research
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (16.67%) Service Design
5 2 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.56%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Scrum
6 1 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) Microsoft