Actionable Insight Contracts

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 301 534
Rank change year-on-year +125 +233 -37
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 470 333 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 0.76% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.89% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 209 129
10th Percentile £300 £325 £280
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £523 £543
% change year-on-year -19.14% -3.69% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 3
10th Percentile £17.47 £22.55 £78.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £80.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £42.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.60% -50.00% +61.90%
75th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £46.28 £51.00 £89.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.32 £22.87 -
% change year-on-year +19.46% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +124 404 £475 -7.63% 1,158
London +109 238 £500 - 713
Work from Home +101 172 £475 - 548
UK excluding London +61 163 £423 -19.14% 478
South East +51 50 £500 -1.23% 106
North of England +36 45 £413 - 135
North West +18 27 £455 +13.75% 74
Midlands +8 22 £388 -34.60% 78
East of England +41 14 £488 -11.36% 59
Scotland +5 14 £500 -6.98% 29
West Midlands -5 14 £388 -36.99% 55
Yorkshire +14 13 £425 -8.36% 50
South West +44 10 £450 -18.18% 60
East Midlands +15 8 £409 +9.07% 21
Northern Ireland -4 6 £331 - 10
North East +3 5 £200 -60.98% 12
Wales +7 3 £400 +5.26% 8

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 16 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.19%) Confluence
3 13 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.55%) SAS
5 9 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.64%) Apache
7 3 (0.64%) R Markdown
7 3 (0.64%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.43%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.43%) WordPress
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 45 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.13%) Oracle Smart View
5 8 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.85%) Trello
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) Sketch
8 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Endur
2 5 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.85%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.85%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.85%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.64%) Sprinklr
4 3 (0.64%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.43%) Magento
5 2 (0.43%) Shopify
6 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.21%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 114 (24.26%) Power Platform
2 67 (14.26%) Azure
3 63 (13.40%) AWS
4 37 (7.87%) GCP
5 23 (4.89%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.19%) OCI
7 14 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (2.77%) GitHub
9 12 (2.55%) dbt
9 12 (2.55%) Google Analytics
9 12 (2.55%) SaaS
10 11 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
12 9 (1.91%) Serverless
13 8 (1.70%) Miro
14 7 (1.49%) Figma
14 7 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.06%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.49%) Firewall
2 6 (1.28%) Network Security
3 3 (0.64%) MQTT
3 3 (0.64%) Wireless
4 2 (0.43%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Modbus
5 1 (0.21%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (23.40%) Power BI
2 83 (17.66%) Tableau
3 54 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (4.47%) Oracle Reports
5 18 (3.83%) Data Mining
5 18 (3.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 17 (3.62%) BigQuery
7 14 (2.98%) MySQL
8 12 (2.55%) Looker
8 12 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.34%) Big Data
9 11 (2.34%) Metadata
9 11 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.34%) Oracle ODI
9 11 (2.34%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.91%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (1.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (5.53%) JIRA
2 13 (2.77%) Git
3 9 (1.91%) GitLab
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.06%) ERwin
6 4 (0.85%) QARun
6 4 (0.85%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.85%) WinRunner
7 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.43%) MagicDraw
8 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.21%) JMeter
8 1 (0.21%) JUnit
8 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.21%) MLflow
8 1 (0.21%) Postman
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 232 (49.36%) Social Skills
2 178 (37.87%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (26.81%) Finance
4 56 (11.91%) Marketing
5 55 (11.70%) Public Sector
6 37 (7.87%) Retail
7 31 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.96%) Banking
9 22 (4.68%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.55%) Local Government
12 11 (2.34%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.91%) Billing
13 9 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.70%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.49%) Electronics
15 7 (1.49%) Legal
15 7 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (28.72%) Analyst
2 58 (12.34%) Data Analyst
3 51 (10.85%) Business Analyst
4 46 (9.79%) Senior
5 42 (8.94%) Developer
6 41 (8.72%) Consultant
7 29 (6.17%) Architect
7 29 (6.17%) Data Scientist
8 28 (5.96%) Data Engineer
9 18 (3.83%) Lead
9 18 (3.83%) User Researcher
10 17 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (2.13%) Data Consultant
11 10 (2.13%) IT Manager
12 9 (1.91%) Report Writer
12 9 (1.91%) User Experience Researcher
13 8 (1.70%) Data Architect
13 8 (1.70%) Data Business Analyst
13 8 (1.70%) Operations Manager
13 8 (1.70%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (3.19%) TensorFlow
3 14 (2.98%) XML
4 10 (2.13%) HTML
4 10 (2.13%) RESTful
5 8 (1.70%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.49%) CSS
6 7 (1.49%) Web Services
7 6 (1.28%) .NET
7 6 (1.28%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.28%) Swagger
8 5 (1.06%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.06%) Entity Framework
8 5 (1.06%) JSON
8 5 (1.06%) Kafka
8 5 (1.06%) Node.js
9 4 (0.85%) Middleware
9 4 (0.85%) RAML
9 4 (0.85%) React
9 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.89%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.40%) Data Structures
3 12 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.34%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.91%) NHS
7 8 (1.70%) Life Science
7 8 (1.70%) LIMS
7 8 (1.70%) Social Media
8 7 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.49%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.06%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.06%) Equities
10 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.06%) IoT
10 5 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.13%) Windows
2 4 (0.85%) Linux
2 4 (0.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (35.11%) Analytics
2 161 (34.26%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (31.06%) Business Intelligence
4 133 (28.30%) Data Analysis
4 133 (28.30%) Visualisation
5 123 (26.17%) Decision-Making
6 101 (21.49%) Data Modelling
7 99 (21.06%) Agile
8 88 (18.72%) Data Visualisation
9 77 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 64 (13.62%) Data Governance
11 57 (12.13%) Data Science
12 56 (11.91%) Machine Learning
13 50 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
14 49 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
14 49 (10.43%) ETL
15 48 (10.21%) Project Management
16 43 (9.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 41 (8.72%) Validation
18 40 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 182 (38.72%) SQL
2 122 (25.96%) Python
3 31 (6.60%) R
4 13 (2.77%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.77%) PL/SQL
5 10 (2.13%) Java
6 9 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.06%) ABAP
8 5 (1.06%) Ruby
8 5 (1.06%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (1.06%) VBA
9 4 (0.85%) Bash
10 3 (0.64%) Go
10 3 (0.64%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (15.74%) Degree
2 62 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 48 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.70%) CBAP
6 8 (1.70%) CISSP
6 8 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.85%) CISA
8 4 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 3 (0.64%) CFA
9 3 (0.64%) CISM
9 3 (0.64%) CSPO
9 3 (0.64%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) IIBA
10 2 (0.43%) MBA
10 2 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (14.89%) Actionable Recommendations
2 50 (10.64%) Data Quality
3 29 (6.17%) GDPR
4 28 (5.96%) Accessibility
5 24 (5.11%) QA
6 11 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.91%) NIST
8 6 (1.28%) GxP
8 6 (1.28%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.28%) WCAG
9 4 (0.85%) NCSC
9 4 (0.85%) PMO
10 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.43%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.43%) GRC
11 2 (0.43%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 12 (2.55%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (3.19%) Terraform
2 8 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.85%) Ansible
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.21%) Nessus
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) QRadar
6 1 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 47 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.36%) Google
3 35 (7.45%) Oracle
4 30 (6.38%) SAP
5 20 (4.26%) Splunk
6 19 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.62%) Databricks
8 14 (2.98%) Adobe
9 9 (1.91%) Alteryx
9 9 (1.91%) Palantir
10 8 (1.70%) Workday
11 7 (1.49%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.28%) Foundry
13 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.85%) Citrix
14 4 (0.85%) Facebook
14 4 (0.85%) LabVantage
14 4 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.85%) OpenAI