Actionable Recommendations Contracts in the South East

Actionable Recommendations
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Recommendations over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £450 £533 £555
% change year-on-year -15.57% -3.96% +0.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

Actionable Recommendations falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 518 744 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.92% 13.05% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 377 529
10th Percentile £200 £256 £200
25th Percentile £355 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £647 £665 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 71 49
10th Percentile £15.12 £10.82 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.91 £27.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% -42.11% +137.50%
75th Percentile £61.68 £60.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.29 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £39.51
% change year-on-year +35.42% -39.26% +46.33%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in the South East over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the South East

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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 Recommendations within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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 - 6 £500 - 3
Berkshire - 4 £500 - 1
Hampshire - 2 £443 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 2
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England

Actionable Recommendations
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 1 (12.50%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 1 (12.50%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Science
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (12.50%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (12.50%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Kali Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) User Research
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) GCIA
2 1 (12.50%) GCIH
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CSIRT
1 1 (12.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk