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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 107 130
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 +44
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 30 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.80% 0.69% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 0.82% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 1
10th Percentile £389 £343 -
25th Percentile £408 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -16.92% +44.44%
75th Percentile £500 £557 -
90th Percentile £633 £563 -
South East median daily rate £430 £497 £450
% change year-on-year -13.48% +10.44% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £13.21
25th Percentile £15.25 £56.25 £13.27
Median hourly rate £15.50 £57.50 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +330.07% -
75th Percentile £15.75 £59.41 £13.47
90th Percentile - £59.80 £13.53
South East median hourly rate £16.65 £57.50 £13.37
% change year-on-year -71.05% +330.07% -

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 1,536 1,959 2,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.98% 84.62% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,113 1,712
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 115 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.90
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.01 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £56.89 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.81% +13.77% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +100.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +12 18 £500 -7.41% 19
Buckinghamshire +13 9 £419 - 15
Oxfordshire -6 3 £400 - 17
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 4 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (16.67%) ChatGPT
4 5 (16.67%) Serverless
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (13.33%) dbt
6 2 (6.67%) Textract
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Power BI
2 7 (23.33%) Tableau
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (13.33%) Big Data
4 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (6.67%) QA Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Audit Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Marketing Coordinator
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Transformation
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (3.33%) SOC Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 5 (16.67%) NumPy
1 5 (16.67%) Pandas
1 5 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 5 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 3 (10.00%) Prophet
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
1 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 8 (26.67%) Analytics
3 8 (26.67%) Data Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Data Science
4 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 5 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 5 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Scrum
5 5 (16.67%) Time Series Forecasting
5 5 (16.67%) Use Case
5 5 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) CISA
4 1 (3.33%) CISM
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
4 1 (3.33%) GCIA
4 1 (3.33%) GCIH
4 1 (3.33%) GIAC
4 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.33%) PhD
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Data Quality
1 7 (23.33%) GDPR
2 6 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (10.00%) GRC
3 3 (10.00%) QA
4 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.67%) NIST
5 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
5 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) HP ALM
1 2 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
1 3 (10.00%) Sage
2 2 (6.67%) HP
2 2 (6.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) Xamarin