Actionable Insight Contracts in the Thames Valley

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 73 116 143
Rank change year-on-year +43 +27 +16
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 29 29 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.92% 1.08% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £400 - £519
25th Percentile £446 £538 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -10.20% +35.36%
75th Percentile £619 £563 £653
90th Percentile £670 - £666
South East median daily rate £500 £506 £613
% change year-on-year -1.23% -17.35% +15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £16.65 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the Thames Valley

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the Thames Valley

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the Thames Valley

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the Thames Valley

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +28 22 £573 +4.09% 41
Buckinghamshire +18 6 £475 - 38
Oxfordshire - 1 £400 - 21
Actionable Insight
South East

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
1 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
2 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Wireless
2 1 (3.45%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Tableau
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) MS Access
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.45%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (65.52%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (48.28%) Telecoms
3 12 (41.38%) Retail
4 8 (27.59%) Billing
5 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
6 4 (13.79%) Finance
7 3 (10.34%) Marketing
8 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.45%) Automotive
9 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Analyst
2 8 (27.59%) IT Manager
3 7 (24.14%) IT Operations Manager
3 7 (24.14%) Operations Manager
4 6 (20.69%) Data Analyst
4 6 (20.69%) Performance Manager
5 5 (17.24%) Telecoms Manager
6 4 (13.79%) Data Manager
7 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Consultant
7 3 (10.34%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (10.34%) Senior
7 3 (10.34%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (6.90%) Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Data Consultant
8 2 (6.90%) HR Manager
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Operations Analyst
9 1 (3.45%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 1 (3.45%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.45%) SCADA
2 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Kali Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Data Analysis
2 11 (37.93%) Analytics
3 10 (34.48%) DataOps
4 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
7 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
7 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
8 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics
9 2 (6.90%) Data Architecture
9 2 (6.90%) Data Cleansing
9 2 (6.90%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.90%) Kalman Filter
9 2 (6.90%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) ABAP
3 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) CISM
2 2 (6.90%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISA
3 1 (3.45%) GCIA
3 1 (3.45%) GCIH
3 1 (3.45%) GIAC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) PhD
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
1 1 (3.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Splunk
2 7 (24.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.45%) Capita
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) SAP