Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Actionable Recommendations
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 72 87
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.66% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.27% 1.80% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £305 £426 -
25th Percentile £313 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -
75th Percentile £525 £522 -
90th Percentile £630 £539 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £550 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 117 111 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.35% 13.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 73 129
10th Percentile £235 £278 £275
25th Percentile £378 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £604 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £455 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -11.99% +3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £13.59
25th Percentile - - £14.24
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.27 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% +13.41% -13.85%
75th Percentile - - £19.58
90th Percentile £23.28 - £21.18
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £11.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +86.36% -43.43% +12.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Actionable Recommendations

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Leeds +2 3 £525 +7.69% 3
Bradford - 2 £313 -
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Yorkshire

Actionable Recommendations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Local Government
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Change Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Journey Map
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CBAP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk