Actionable Insight Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 146 164
Rank change year-on-year +45 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 10 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 0.34% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.41% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £310 £498 -
25th Percentile £350 £543 £850
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £900
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -38.89% +50.00%
75th Percentile £519 £616 £963
90th Percentile £648 £661 £970
England median daily rate £475 £514 £510
% change year-on-year -7.63% +0.83% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the South West

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the South West

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the South West

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +22 4 £513 -18.00% 25
Wiltshire +26 2 £463 -15.91% 7
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 1
Devon - 1 £325 - 6
Somerset - 1 £450 - 7
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) dbt
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Italian Language
4 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Business Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Palantir