Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 216 285
Rank change year-on-year +73 +69 +129
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 315 143 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.73% 0.95% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.10% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 87 72
10th Percentile £318 £313 £325
25th Percentile £388 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -11.53% +1.19%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £591
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 3
10th Percentile £20.50 £19.88 £14.24
25th Percentile £22.26 £23.49 £15.84
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.73 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +72.26% -
75th Percentile £35.06 £53.16 £21.19
90th Percentile £39.00 £59.41 £22.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.11 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.74% +40.53% -67.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
North of England +17 99 £400 -1.78% 244
South East +19 84 £463 -7.50% 267
North West +2 50 £383 +6.25% 121
Midlands -26 47 £475 -5.00% 182
Yorkshire -11 38 £465 -2.11% 104
West Midlands -23 31 £500 - 99
East of England -4 27 £550 +10.00% 133
South West +6 25 £500 +8.70% 123
Scotland +12 24 £488 +11.43% 45
East Midlands -12 16 £440 +13.55% 71
North East +4 11 £395 +14.49% 23
Wales +14 9 £400 +45.45% 38
Northern Ireland -1 6 £488 - 17
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.54%) Confluence
4 5 (1.59%) Apache
5 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 41 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.32%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.32%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (33.65%) Power Platform
2 55 (17.46%) Azure
3 52 (16.51%) AWS
4 45 (14.29%) GCP
5 14 (4.44%) Google Analytics
6 12 (3.81%) Google Tag Manager
7 10 (3.17%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.17%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.86%) GitHub
9 7 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.22%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.22%) Serverless
10 6 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.59%) Amazon Bedrock
11 5 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.49%) Firewall
2 3 (0.95%) Network Security
3 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.32%) Internet
4 1 (0.32%) MQTT
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (33.65%) Power BI
2 39 (12.38%) Tableau
3 23 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.71%) BigQuery
4 18 (5.71%) Power Query
5 16 (5.08%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.76%) Looker
7 13 (4.13%) Big Data
8 12 (3.81%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.22%) PowerPivot
10 5 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.59%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.27%) Spotfire
12 3 (0.95%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 3 (0.95%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.95%) Impala
12 3 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.63%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 14 (4.44%) GitLab
1 14 (4.44%) JIRA
2 6 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.59%) Git
4 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.32%) Gatling
5 1 (0.32%) JMeter
5 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.32%) MLflow
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 156 (49.52%) Social Skills
2 101 (32.06%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (25.08%) Finance
4 43 (13.65%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.35%) Banking
6 12 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.86%) Marketing
9 8 (2.54%) Law
9 8 (2.54%) Retail
10 7 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Front Office
13 3 (0.95%) Legal
13 3 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 102 (32.38%) Analyst
2 44 (13.97%) Data Analyst
3 29 (9.21%) Senior
4 28 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 25 (7.94%) Consultant
5 25 (7.94%) Data Scientist
6 17 (5.40%) Lead
7 15 (4.76%) Performance Analyst
8 14 (4.44%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.44%) Developer
9 13 (4.13%) User Researcher
10 10 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (2.54%) Architect
12 8 (2.54%) Senior Manager
13 6 (1.90%) Customer Analyst
13 6 (1.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (1.90%) Security Engineer
13 6 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (1.90%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.44%) Pandas
2 12 (3.81%) scikit-learn
3 7 (2.22%) NumPy
3 7 (2.22%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.59%) Hugging Face
4 5 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (1.59%) PySpark
4 5 (1.59%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.95%) Prophet
5 3 (0.95%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.63%) Middleware
6 2 (0.63%) pytest
6 2 (0.63%) XGBoost
7 1 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.32%) NLTK
7 1 (0.32%) Playwright
7 1 (0.32%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (3.81%) Algorithms
2 12 (3.81%) Security Posture
3 10 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.59%) CMDB
8 4 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.27%) NHS
9 3 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.63%) IoT
10 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.54%) Linux
2 3 (0.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) AIX
3 1 (0.32%) Android
3 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.32%) Solaris
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
2 99 (31.43%) Analytics
3 84 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 70 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (19.05%) Visualisation
6 56 (17.78%) Agile
7 54 (17.14%) Data Analysis
8 53 (16.83%) Data Modelling
9 51 (16.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 51 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (13.97%) Data Visualisation
11 43 (13.65%) Data Science
12 41 (13.02%) Dashboard Development
13 35 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
14 34 (10.79%) AI
14 34 (10.79%) Validation
15 30 (9.52%) Machine Learning
16 28 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
17 26 (8.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 114 (36.19%) SQL
2 80 (25.40%) Python
3 16 (5.08%) R
4 12 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (3.17%) VBA
6 6 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.59%) Java
7 5 (1.59%) Scala
8 3 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.95%) PromQL
8 3 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.63%) C++
9 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.32%) C
10 1 (0.32%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (12.06%) Degree
2 35 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.17%) CISSP
6 7 (2.22%) CISM
6 7 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.22%) PMP
7 6 (1.90%) CIMA
8 5 (1.59%) ACCA
8 5 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.59%) Postgraduate
9 4 (1.27%) CEH
10 3 (0.95%) CIPD
11 2 (0.63%) GIAC
11 2 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 45 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 25 (7.94%) GDPR
4 19 (6.03%) Accessibility
4 19 (6.03%) QA
5 17 (5.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (5.40%) NIST
6 10 (3.17%) PMO
7 5 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.27%) GAAP
8 4 (1.27%) GRC
8 4 (1.27%) IFRS
9 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.63%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.63%) P3O
9 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.95%) Docker
3 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.17%) Grafana
2 9 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 6 (1.90%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.59%) Terraform
5 3 (0.95%) Kibana
6 2 (0.63%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.63%) VxRail
7 1 (0.32%) logstash
7 1 (0.32%) Nmap
7 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 63 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.06%) Google
3 17 (5.40%) Databricks
4 15 (4.76%) SAP
5 14 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.81%) Splunk
7 5 (1.59%) Oracle
7 5 (1.59%) TIBCO
8 4 (1.27%) Ariba
8 4 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.27%) Sage
9 3 (0.95%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.63%) Adobe
10 2 (0.63%) F5
10 2 (0.63%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.63%) IBM
10 2 (0.63%) Intel
10 2 (0.63%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.63%) NetIQ