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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 516 662
Rank change year-on-year +60 +146 +171
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 74 76 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.049%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.51% 1.27% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 48 17
10th Percentile £310 £325 £374
25th Percentile £410 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £501 £641 £600
90th Percentile £645 £765 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 4,911 5,969 7,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 13.70% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,136 3,720 5,171
10th Percentile £275 £280 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.68%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 430 257
10th Percentile £15.11 £11.06 £13.88
25th Percentile £18.53 £13.27 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.64 £23.65 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.78% -33.38% +29.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.78 £70.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £19.18 £35.25
% change year-on-year +64.96% -45.59% +56.67%

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

Actionable Recommendations
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 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

Actionable Recommendations
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 25 June 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 58 £450 -14.29% 140
London +49 33 £472 -7.09% 97
Work from Home +61 28 £486 -4.19% 84
UK excluding London +36 28 £450 -18.18% 46
North of England +16 10 £400 +14.29% 12
South East - 8 £483 - 10
Yorkshire +13 7 £313 -26.47% 5
Scotland - 4 £501 - 4
North West -4 3 £450 +28.57% 7
Midlands -11 3 £454 -30.23% 7
West Midlands -18 2 £460 -29.23% 7
South West - 2 £463 - 7
East Midlands - 1 £447 -
Wales - 1 £450 - 1

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 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) MS Visio
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.35%) SPSS
4 1 (1.35%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Actimize
1 1 (1.35%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) Azure
2 6 (8.11%) AWS
3 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.05%) GCP
4 3 (4.05%) GitHub
4 3 (4.05%) Google Sheets
4 3 (4.05%) Lucidchart
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (2.70%) AWS KMS
5 2 (2.70%) Serverless
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.70%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.70%) Internet
2 2 (2.70%) MQTT
2 2 (2.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.70%) SSL
2 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.70%) VPN
3 1 (1.35%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) Data Mining
1 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (6.76%) Tableau
2 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.41%) Power BI
3 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Looker
5 1 (1.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.35%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.35%) Pa11y
General
1 41 (55.41%) Social Skills
2 26 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 14 (18.92%) Finance
5 6 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.41%) Local Government
7 4 (5.41%) Marketing
8 3 (4.05%) Banking
8 3 (4.05%) Retail
9 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.70%) Legal
10 1 (1.35%) Advertising
10 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.35%) Games
10 1 (1.35%) Law
10 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.35%) Social Science
10 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.16%) Consultant
3 9 (12.16%) Data Analyst
4 7 (9.46%) Senior
4 7 (9.46%) User Researcher
5 5 (6.76%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.41%) Lead
7 3 (4.05%) Change Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.05%) Tester
7 3 (4.05%) Transformation Analyst
7 3 (4.05%) User Experience Researcher
8 2 (2.70%) Architect
8 2 (2.70%) Database Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Penetration Tester
8 2 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (2.70%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) XML
2 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.35%) CSS
3 1 (1.35%) HTML
3 1 (1.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.35%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) NHS
2 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.05%) Life Science
4 3 (4.05%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.05%) SCADA
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.70%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.70%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.70%) IoT
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.35%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Kali Linux
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 24 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.97%) Data Analysis
3 17 (22.97%) Visualisation
4 13 (17.57%) Decision-Making
5 12 (16.22%) Analytics
5 12 (16.22%) Data Visualisation
6 11 (14.86%) Agile
6 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (13.51%) Data Science
7 10 (13.51%) Process Improvement
7 10 (13.51%) Roadmaps
7 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (12.16%) User Research
9 8 (10.81%) Business Analysis
9 8 (10.81%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.46%) Data Governance
10 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
10 7 (9.46%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) SQL
2 10 (13.51%) Python
3 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.41%) R
4 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) CBAP
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.70%) CISM
4 2 (2.70%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) CCA
5 1 (1.35%) CISA
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) GCIA
5 1 (1.35%) GCIH
5 1 (1.35%) GIAC
5 1 (1.35%) IIBA
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.35%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) GDPR
2 6 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.76%) NIST
4 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.70%) NCSC
5 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.70%) WCAG
6 1 (1.35%) COPPA
6 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.35%) GRC
6 1 (1.35%) GxP
6 1 (1.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Ansible
1 4 (5.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.70%) Grafana
2 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Kustomize
2 2 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.70%) Puppet
3 1 (1.35%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.35%) QRadar
3 1 (1.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Google
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.05%) Splunk
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
3 2 (2.70%) Zoho
4 1 (1.35%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (1.35%) Databricks
4 1 (1.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow