Actionable Recommendations Contracts

Actionable Recommendations
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 449 537 697
Rank change year-on-year +88 +160 +116
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 70 63 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.027%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.54% 1.01% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 13
10th Percentile £310 £304 £273
25th Percentile £400 £338 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -11.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £581 £596 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -14.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £25.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.87 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

Actionable Recommendations
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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 +60 54 £466 -9.07% 125
Work from Home +68 29 £483 -4.93% 67
London +41 29 £472 -11.44% 85
UK excluding London +46 25 £460 -1.87% 47
South East - 7 £500 - 7
Scotland +13 5 £500 - 5
Midlands +11 5 £447 -30.36% 9
North of England +19 4 £350 - 8
Yorkshire +17 3 £300 -25.00% 5
West Midlands +1 3 £460 -28.33% 7
South West - 3 £625 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £374 - 2
North West +2 1 £400 +14.29% 2
Wales - 1 £450 -

Actionable Recommendations
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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) WordPress
3 1 (1.43%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Actimize
1 1 (1.43%) SAP GTS
1 1 (1.43%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.71%) AWS
3 4 (5.71%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.29%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.43%) Collibra
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) IaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Lucidchart
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.43%) PaaS
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Wireless
2 2 (2.86%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Internet
2 2 (2.86%) MQTT
2 2 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (1.43%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) Data Mining
1 6 (8.57%) Tableau
2 5 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.71%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.71%) Power BI
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.86%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.86%) Looker
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.43%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.43%) Pa11y
General
1 42 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Finance
4 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.57%) Marketing
5 6 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.29%) Banking
8 3 (4.29%) Retail
9 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.86%) Legal
9 2 (2.86%) Local Government
10 1 (1.43%) Advertising
10 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Electronics
10 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.43%) Military
10 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Analyst
2 11 (15.71%) Data Analyst
3 9 (12.86%) Consultant
4 7 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) Senior
5 6 (8.57%) User Researcher
6 5 (7.14%) Data Scientist
7 4 (5.71%) SEO Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Lead
9 2 (2.86%) Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Automation Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Database Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) HR Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
9 2 (2.86%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 2 (2.86%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Tester
9 2 (2.86%) User Experience Researcher
10 1 (1.43%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) CSS
1 3 (4.29%) HTML
1 3 (4.29%) XML
2 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.86%) Next.js
2 2 (2.86%) Node.js
2 2 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.57%) NHS
3 5 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.29%) Life Science
4 3 (4.29%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.29%) SCADA
5 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.86%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.86%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.86%) IoT
5 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.86%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.43%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
6 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Kali Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 20 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (25.71%) Visualisation
4 16 (22.86%) Analytics
5 15 (21.43%) Data Analysis
6 13 (18.57%) Data Visualisation
6 13 (18.57%) Decision-Making
7 12 (17.14%) Agile
8 10 (14.29%) Data Science
8 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (11.43%) Machine Learning
11 7 (10.00%) Business Analysis
11 7 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (10.00%) Qualitative Research
11 7 (10.00%) Quantitative Research
11 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (10.00%) Statistical Modelling
11 7 (10.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) SQL
2 9 (12.86%) Python
3 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.71%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) CBAP
4 4 (5.71%) CISSP
5 3 (4.29%) CISA
6 2 (2.86%) CISM
6 2 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) CCA
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) GCIA
7 1 (1.43%) GCIH
7 1 (1.43%) GIAC
7 1 (1.43%) IIBA
7 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.43%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Accessibility
1 6 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
2 5 (7.14%) NIST
3 3 (4.29%) NCSC
4 2 (2.86%) GRC
4 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.86%) WCAG
5 1 (1.43%) COPPA
5 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.43%) GxP
5 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.43%) PMO
5 1 (1.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Ansible
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.43%) QRadar
2 1 (1.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Google
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) Ahrefs
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) SAP
3 2 (2.86%) Screaming Frog
4 1 (1.43%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (1.43%) Ceridian
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Glassbox
4 1 (1.43%) Meraki
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk