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 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 105 144 158
Rank change year-on-year +39 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 9 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.51% 0.43% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.52% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 3
10th Percentile £294 £520 -
25th Percentile £350 £545 £850
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £900
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -38.89% +44.00%
75th Percentile £519 £611 £963
90th Percentile £566 £638 £970
England median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -2.78%

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 1,591 2,713 3,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.81% 82.49% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,699 2,221
10th Percentile £217 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +9.51%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 379 297
10th Percentile £17.40 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.46 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.35
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 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 27 June 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 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
Bristol +22 4 £475 -24.00% 28
Wiltshire +25 2 £463 -15.91% 6
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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) dbt
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Italian Language
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (11.11%) Consultant
1 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
1 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI Specialist
1 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Consultant
1 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) User Research
3 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Munging
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) R
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Foundry
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Palantir
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) VMware