Actionable Insight Contracts

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Actionable Insight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 520 502
Rank change year-on-year +222 -18 -50
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 327 184 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 130 260
10th Percentile £325 £280 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +1.44%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £628
90th Percentile £693 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £546 £523
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.55% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £22.55 £78.50 £23.90
25th Percentile £26.50 £80.00 £35.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £85.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +126.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £88.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £51.00 £89.50 £69.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.87 - £24.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Actionable Insight is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
England +246 276 £513 -1.44% 433
UK excluding London +143 151 £525 -3.89% 203
London +140 138 £500 +5.26% 238
Work from Home +143 103 £475 -12.84% 227
South East +47 41 £525 -14.29% 42
Midlands +64 38 £593 +23.44% 36
North of England +46 36 £413 -23.61% 58
West Midlands +57 35 £615 +28.13% 21
North West +27 20 £400 -24.88% 34
Scotland +36 18 £538 -0.92% 16
Yorkshire +25 13 £464 -14.91% 18
South West +27 11 £550 -38.89% 21
East of England +20 6 £550 +15.79% 24
East Midlands - 3 £375 - 15
North East - 2 £513 - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 3
Wales +18 1 £380 +1.33% 11

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (1.83%) Confluence
1 6 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.22%) SAS
3 2 (0.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
Applications
1 30 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.92%) Sketch
5 2 (0.61%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.61%) SPSS
5 2 (0.61%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.31%) InVision
6 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.31%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 76 (23.24%) Power Platform
2 32 (9.79%) Snowflake
3 31 (9.48%) Azure
4 21 (6.42%) AWS
5 18 (5.50%) Google Analytics
6 16 (4.89%) GCP
7 5 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.53%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.53%) SaaS
8 4 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.22%) dbt
8 4 (1.22%) Figma
8 4 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.92%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.92%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.92%) Slack
9 3 (0.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.73%) Network Security
2 15 (4.59%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (2.75%) Wireless
4 3 (0.92%) Intranet
5 1 (0.31%) Broadband
5 1 (0.31%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (23.24%) Power BI
2 72 (22.02%) Tableau
3 29 (8.87%) Big Data
4 17 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.67%) Data Mining
6 10 (3.06%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.06%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.14%) Looker
8 7 (2.14%) Metadata
8 7 (2.14%) PostHog
9 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.83%) Power Query
10 5 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.92%) GIS
11 3 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.28%) JIRA
2 7 (2.14%) Git
3 3 (0.92%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 181 (55.35%) Analytical Skills
2 138 (42.20%) Social Skills
3 68 (20.80%) Finance
4 40 (12.23%) Marketing
5 33 (10.09%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.79%) Legal
7 24 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (5.20%) Retail
9 11 (3.36%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.75%) Banking
10 9 (2.75%) Military
11 6 (1.83%) Advertising
12 5 (1.53%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.22%) Games
13 4 (1.22%) German Language
13 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.92%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.92%) Police
14 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (38.53%) Analyst
2 59 (18.04%) Data Analyst
3 37 (11.31%) Lead
4 31 (9.48%) Senior
5 30 (9.17%) User Researcher
6 23 (7.03%) Business Analyst
7 20 (6.12%) Data Scientist
8 15 (4.59%) Developer
9 14 (4.28%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (3.67%) Lead Data Analyst
12 11 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 11 (3.36%) Consultant
13 10 (3.06%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (3.06%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 9 (2.75%) Senior User Researcher
14 9 (2.75%) SQL Data Analyst
15 7 (2.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 6 (1.83%) Marketing Analyst
16 6 (1.83%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.59%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (2.75%) Pandas
3 6 (1.83%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.53%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.22%) PySpark
6 3 (0.92%) ADO
6 3 (0.92%) CSS
6 3 (0.92%) Flask
6 3 (0.92%) HTML
6 3 (0.92%) PostGIS
7 2 (0.61%) CSS3
7 2 (0.61%) RESTful
7 2 (0.61%) SOAP
8 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.31%) D3.js
8 1 (0.31%) Middleware
8 1 (0.31%) Plotly
8 1 (0.31%) REST
8 1 (0.31%) Shiny
8 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.95%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.03%) Credit Risk
3 19 (5.81%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (5.20%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (4.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.98%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.98%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (3.36%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.75%) NHS
8 9 (2.75%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.22%) Social Media
13 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.92%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.20%) Windows
2 14 (4.28%) Linux
2 14 (4.28%) Unix
3 13 (3.98%) Android
3 13 (3.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (46.79%) Analytics
2 115 (35.17%) Decision-Making
3 106 (32.42%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (26.30%) Visualisation
5 85 (25.99%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (25.08%) Data Analysis
7 61 (18.65%) Agile
8 60 (18.35%) Data Visualisation
9 55 (16.82%) Data Modelling
10 54 (16.51%) Data Science
11 38 (11.62%) Dashboard Development
12 35 (10.70%) Computer Science
13 34 (10.40%) User Experience
13 34 (10.40%) User Research
14 32 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (9.79%) Project Management
15 30 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (8.87%) CRM
16 29 (8.87%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (26.30%) SQL
2 59 (18.04%) Python
3 16 (4.89%) R
4 14 (4.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.61%) Java
5 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.61%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.61%) Scala
5 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.31%) C#
6 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.31%) VB
6 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (24.16%) Degree
2 37 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.03%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.42%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.59%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.45%) CISSP
8 5 (1.53%) PhD
9 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.92%) CBAP
10 3 (0.92%) CISM
10 3 (0.92%) PMP
11 2 (0.61%) CEH
11 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (19.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 36 (11.01%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.28%) QA
4 9 (2.75%) GDPR
5 8 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.83%) PMO
7 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.92%) SLA
8 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1 (0.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.87%) Alteryx
3 27 (8.26%) Google
4 12 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.06%) Databricks
5 10 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.14%) Splunk
7 6 (1.83%) Adobe
8 5 (1.53%) Marketo
8 5 (1.53%) SAP
9 4 (1.22%) Oracle
10 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.92%) Pardot
10 3 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.61%) Brio
11 2 (0.61%) ESRI
11 2 (0.61%) Informatica
11 2 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.61%) Qualys
12 1 (0.31%) F5