Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.97% 1.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £450 £720
% change year-on-year +16.67% -37.46% +19.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 133 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 68.60% 81.10% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 84 98
10th Percentile £181 £208 £143
25th Percentile £263 £364 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% +2.11% -16.81%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £584
90th Percentile £600 £722 £657
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 23
10th Percentile £34.03 - £37.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £47.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +361.54% -74.95% +15.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £15.00 £63.96
90th Percentile £63.90 £15.90 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in Somerset

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Somerset over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in Somerset

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Bath - 1 £550 - 14
Actionable Insight
South West

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Security Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft