Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in the South East

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 134 171
Rank change year-on-year +31 +37 +56
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 87 39 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.00% 1.04% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.18% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 18 21
10th Percentile £337 £270 £384
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -2.95% -
75th Percentile £650 £549 £550
90th Percentile £700 £620 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £30.80 £56.29 £13.70
25th Percentile £33.50 £56.36 £14.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £57.94 £16.09
Median % change year-on-year -36.14% +260.20% -
75th Percentile £39.00 £59.73 £17.92
90th Percentile - £59.93 £18.87
England median hourly rate £33.46 £26.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% +36.84% -69.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,725 3,304 4,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.55% 87.83% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,434 2,050 2,922
10th Percentile £223 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 129 234
10th Percentile £14.67 £19.19 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
Median % change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.73 £65.96
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the South East

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the South East over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the South East

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley +5 38 £435 -20.18% 12
Berkshire -4 30 £465 -10.58% 7
Surrey +13 20 £675 +68.75% 9
Hampshire 0 17 £465 -6.44% 6
Buckinghamshire +10 7 £419 -23.86% 2
West Sussex -4 5 £175 -50.00% 1
Kent - 4 £550 - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
East Sussex - 1 £600 - 2
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.60%) Confluence
1 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.15%) SAP GRC
3 1 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.29%) AWS
2 20 (22.99%) Azure
2 20 (22.99%) GCP
3 17 (19.54%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.75%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.75%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.75%) ChatGPT
4 5 (5.75%) Serverless
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.60%) dbt
5 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.45%) SaaS
7 2 (2.30%) Textract
8 1 (1.15%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.15%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.54%) Power BI
2 10 (11.49%) Tableau
3 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.75%) Big Data
4 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.45%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 3 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.15%) Looker
7 1 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (40.23%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Finance
4 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.75%) Marketing
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Law
7 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Electronics
8 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
9 1 (1.15%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Consultant
3 9 (10.34%) Lead
4 8 (9.20%) Data Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Data Scientist
6 5 (5.75%) User Researcher
7 4 (4.60%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Insight Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Customer Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Senior
8 3 (3.45%) Telecoms Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) Data Migration Lead
9 2 (2.30%) Power BI Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) SAP Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) Pandas
1 7 (8.05%) scikit-learn
2 6 (6.90%) NumPy
2 6 (6.90%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.75%) Hugging Face
4 3 (3.45%) Prophet
5 1 (1.15%) .NET
5 1 (1.15%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.15%) Plotly
5 1 (1.15%) PySpark
5 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.60%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.30%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) CMDB
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Android
2 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.15%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) Decision-Making
2 21 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (19.54%) Agile
4 15 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (17.24%) Visualisation
5 14 (16.09%) Data Protection
5 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (14.94%) Validation
7 12 (13.79%) Analytics
8 11 (12.64%) AI
8 11 (12.64%) Data Science
8 11 (12.64%) Regulatory Compliance
9 10 (11.49%) Data Engineering
9 10 (11.49%) Data Modelling
9 10 (11.49%) Machine Learning
10 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.20%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (9.20%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) SQL
2 22 (25.29%) Python
3 1 (1.15%) C
3 1 (1.15%) C#
3 1 (1.15%) C++
3 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (17.24%) Degree
2 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.20%) CISSP
5 7 (8.05%) Master's Degree
6 6 (6.90%) CISM
7 5 (5.75%) PMI Certification
7 5 (5.75%) PMP
8 4 (4.60%) CEH
9 3 (3.45%) CIPD
9 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.45%) Postgraduate
10 2 (2.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (1.15%) CFA
11 1 (1.15%) CIMA
11 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.15%) GIAC
11 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.84%) Actionable Recommendations
2 16 (18.39%) GDPR
3 11 (12.64%) Data Quality
4 10 (11.49%) NIST
5 9 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (5.75%) PMO
6 5 (5.75%) QA
7 3 (3.45%) GRC
8 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.15%) Kibana
1 1 (1.15%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Google
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) SAP
4 4 (4.60%) Databricks
5 3 (3.45%) Sage
6 2 (2.30%) Intel
6 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Adobe
7 1 (1.15%) FireEye
7 1 (1.15%) Foundry
7 1 (1.15%) HP
7 1 (1.15%) IBM
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle
7 1 (1.15%) Palantir
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) Snow
7 1 (1.15%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.15%) webMethods
7 1 (1.15%) Xamarin