Actionable Insight Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 154 200
Rank change year-on-year +46 +46 +51
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 45 44 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.46% 0.77% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.93% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 15 2
10th Percentile £238 £428 £466
25th Percentile £369 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +3.61%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £497
90th Percentile £625 £638 £499
England median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £15.46 - -
25th Percentile £15.79 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £16.65 £57.50 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -71.05% +323.73% -
75th Percentile £19.54 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £21.08 - -
England median hourly rate £31.82 £50.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% -37.50% +113.33%

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 2,810 4,708 5,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.26% 82.76% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,721 3,499
10th Percentile £250 £262 £250
25th Percentile £391 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 461 232
10th Percentile £13.33 £13.00 £15.55
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.20 £22.11
Median hourly rate £24.66 £47.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% -6.95% +126.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.02 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the South East

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the South East

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 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the South East

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the South East

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 27 June 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 +18 20 £500 -7.41% 62
Berkshire +12 14 £500 -7.41% 37
Surrey +28 10 £300 -42.86% 18
Hampshire +38 7 £495 +4.21% 17
Buckinghamshire +12 4 £313 - 17
West Sussex - 3 £170 - 5
Oxfordshire +4 2 £400 - 8
East Sussex - 2 - - 5
Kent 0 1 - - 11
Home Counties - 1 - -
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (17.78%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.44%) dbt
6 2 (4.44%) Google Ads
6 2 (4.44%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (2.22%) Asana
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.22%) Contentsquare
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub
7 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) Power BI
2 7 (15.56%) Tableau
3 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.44%) Looker
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.22%) MS Access
6 1 (2.22%) QlikView
6 1 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.22%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.22%) Git
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
1 1 (2.22%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (42.22%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Marketing
4 5 (11.11%) Finance
5 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Electronics
7 2 (4.44%) Retail
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Automotive
8 1 (2.22%) Billing
8 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (2.22%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Analyst
2 11 (24.44%) Data Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Consultant
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Digital Marketing Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) E-Commerce Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Head of Analytics
5 2 (4.44%) Marketing Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) QA Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) ODBC
1 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (4.44%) IoT
1 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.22%) SCADA
2 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (2.22%) Smart Meter
2 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Kali Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (44.44%) Analytics
3 13 (28.89%) Visualisation
4 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
5 10 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) Data Governance
8 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (13.33%) Agile
9 6 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.33%) CRM
9 6 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
9 6 (13.33%) ETL
9 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
10 5 (11.11%) Data Analytics
10 5 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) SQL
2 10 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) R
4 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) CISM
4 2 (4.44%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CISA
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.22%) GCIA
5 1 (2.22%) GCIH
5 1 (2.22%) GIAC
5 1 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.22%) PhD
5 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.22%) PMP
5 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Actionable Recommendations
2 7 (15.56%) QA
3 6 (13.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (8.89%) GDPR
5 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (4.44%) NIST
6 2 (4.44%) PMO
7 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) HP ALM
1 2 (4.44%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.22%) CSIRT
2 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Adobe
2 3 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) HP
3 2 (4.44%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.44%) TikTok
4 1 (2.22%) Capita
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Foundry
4 1 (2.22%) Marketo
4 1 (2.22%) Palantir
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk