Actionable Recommendations Contracts in the Thames Valley

Actionable Recommendations
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £478 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
South East median daily rate £500 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 303 466 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.05% 17.35% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 246 261
10th Percentile £300 £180 £252
25th Percentile £412 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 15
10th Percentile £29.62 £18.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.30 £22.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.62% +19.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66.56 £65.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £66.50 £65.66
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £27.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +68.36% -11.29% +47.44%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in the Thames Valley

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the Thames Valley

Actionable Recommendations
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 Recommendations 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 - 6 £500 - 19
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 17
Actionable Recommendations
South East

Actionable Recommendations
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 (14.29%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) HR Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Kali Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) GCIA
2 1 (14.29%) GCIH
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CSIRT
1 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk