Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Actionable Recommendations
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.14% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.21% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £374 - -
25th Percentile £391 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% - -
75th Percentile £453 - -
90th Percentile £466 - -
South East median daily rate £456 £520 -
% change year-on-year -12.22% - -

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 331 269 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.09% 12.40% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 113 234
10th Percentile £308 £293 £148
25th Percentile £408 £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £604
90th Percentile £653 £671 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 28
10th Percentile £14.93 £20.21 £16.95
25th Percentile £15.13 £54.46 £24.46
Median hourly rate £17.06 £61.75 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -72.37% +22.21% +140.61%
75th Percentile £84.06 £64.73 £72.40
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.22 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £17.00 £56.27 £51.06
% change year-on-year -69.79% +10.21% +143.12%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Recommendations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Actionable Recommendations

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 15 October 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
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 3
Berkshire +11 1 £475 -8.65% 5
Buckinghamshire - 1 £375 -
Actionable Recommendations
South East

Actionable Recommendations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Science
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Xamarin