Actionable Recommendations Contracts in the West Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 93 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 3 18 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.92% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.27% 5.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - £296 -
25th Percentile £455 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £642 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% - -
75th Percentile £465 £850 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £466 £513 £563
% change year-on-year -9.07% -8.89% -2.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 236 301 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.55% 15.46% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 209 259
10th Percentile £209 £260 £263
25th Percentile £350 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £595
90th Percentile £638 £793 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 10
10th Percentile - £11.91 £10.99
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £12.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
Median % change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%
75th Percentile £30.38 £45.78 £23.02
90th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £27.92
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Actionable Recommendations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in the West Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in the West Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +17 3 £460 +53.33% 2
Actionable Recommendations
England

Actionable Recommendations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Pa11y
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft