Actionable Insight Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 246 388
Rank change year-on-year +98 +142 +7
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 165 102 88
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 0.67% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.77% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 69 57
10th Percentile £323 £338 £400
25th Percentile £400 £363 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +0.93%
75th Percentile £623 £550 £588
90th Percentile £784 £640 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £18.25 - £78.75
25th Percentile £22.75 - £80.63
Median hourly rate £30.25 £22.87 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% -73.09% +61.90%
75th Percentile £35.34 - £88.13
90th Percentile £35.96 - £89.25
UK median hourly rate £30.36 £42.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -28.58% -50.00% +126.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,943 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,147 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 575 527
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Actionable Insight
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Actionable Insight trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Actionable Insight.

Actionable Insight daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Actionable Insight daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Actionable Insight.

Actionable Insight hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Actionable Insight hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (4.24%) Apache Spark
1 7 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.64%) Confluence
3 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.61%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.61%) Actimize
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Magento
2 1 (0.61%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) SessionCam
2 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.15%) Power Platform
2 24 (14.55%) Azure
3 20 (12.12%) AWS
4 14 (8.48%) GCP
5 8 (4.85%) SaaS
6 6 (3.64%) dbt
7 5 (3.03%) Google Analytics
7 5 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.03%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.42%) Cloudflare
8 4 (2.42%) GitHub
8 4 (2.42%) OCI
8 4 (2.42%) Serverless
9 3 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.82%) Figma
9 3 (1.82%) Miro
9 3 (1.82%) Slack
9 3 (1.82%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Firewall
2 3 (1.82%) MQTT
3 2 (1.21%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.21%) Internet
4 1 (0.61%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.15%) Tableau
2 24 (14.55%) Power BI
3 12 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.85%) Looker
5 7 (4.24%) Data Mining
5 7 (4.24%) MySQL
6 6 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.64%) MS Access
7 5 (3.03%) Big Data
7 5 (3.03%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.42%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.82%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.82%) Metadata
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.21%) Power Query
10 2 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.85%) JIRA
2 6 (3.64%) Git
3 4 (2.42%) QARun
3 4 (2.42%) WinRunner
4 2 (1.21%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.61%) ERwin
5 1 (0.61%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.61%) MLflow
5 1 (0.61%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.61%) Postman
General
1 80 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 50 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (24.24%) Finance
4 21 (12.73%) Marketing
5 17 (10.30%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.88%) Retail
7 11 (6.67%) Telecoms
8 9 (5.45%) Banking
9 7 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.64%) Electronics
10 6 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.03%) Billing
11 5 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.03%) Local Government
12 4 (2.42%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.82%) Advertising
13 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.21%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 43 (26.06%) Analyst
2 21 (12.73%) Consultant
2 21 (12.73%) Senior
3 20 (12.12%) Data Analyst
3 20 (12.12%) Developer
4 16 (9.70%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.88%) Data Scientist
6 11 (6.67%) Architect
7 7 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.64%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.64%) Endur Architect
8 6 (3.64%) Endur Consultant
8 6 (3.64%) ETRM Consultant
8 6 (3.64%) OpenLink Architect
8 6 (3.64%) OpenLink Consultant
9 5 (3.03%) .NET Developer
9 5 (3.03%) Data Manager
9 5 (3.03%) IT Operations Manager
9 5 (3.03%) Operations Manager
9 5 (3.03%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.45%) TensorFlow
2 7 (4.24%) Web Services
2 7 (4.24%) XML
3 6 (3.64%) RESTful
4 5 (3.03%) .NET
4 5 (3.03%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.03%) Entity Framework
4 5 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (2.42%) Middleware
5 4 (2.42%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.82%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.21%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.21%) Node.js
7 2 (1.21%) Pandas
7 2 (1.21%) PySpark
7 2 (1.21%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.21%) SpaCy
7 2 (1.21%) SPFx
8 1 (0.61%) Next.js
8 1 (0.61%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.88%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.24%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.03%) NHS
4 4 (2.42%) Life Science
4 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.82%) Equities
5 3 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.82%) IoT
5 3 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.82%) SCADA
5 3 (1.82%) Social Media
6 2 (1.21%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.21%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 2 (1.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.24%) Windows
2 4 (2.42%) Unix
3 3 (1.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.61%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (27.27%) Analytics
2 45 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (24.85%) Agile
4 39 (23.64%) Data Analysis
5 38 (23.03%) Decision-Making
6 36 (21.82%) Visualisation
7 25 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 25 (15.15%) Data Science
7 25 (15.15%) Machine Learning
8 24 (14.55%) Data Visualisation
9 21 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (12.12%) Data Governance
11 17 (10.30%) ETL
11 17 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (7.88%) Computer Science
13 13 (7.88%) Project Management
13 13 (7.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (35.15%) SQL
2 37 (22.42%) Python
3 7 (4.24%) R
4 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.42%) PL/SQL
4 4 (2.42%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.82%) Bash
5 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.21%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (13.94%) Degree
2 18 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.82%) CISSP
6 2 (1.21%) CFA
6 2 (1.21%) CISA
6 2 (1.21%) CISM
6 2 (1.21%) MBA
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CBAP
7 1 (0.61%) CSPO
7 1 (0.61%) GCIA
7 1 (0.61%) GCIH
7 1 (0.61%) GIAC
7 1 (0.61%) IIBA
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.61%) PhD
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.36%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (5.45%) QA
3 8 (4.85%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.24%) GDPR
5 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.82%) NIST
6 2 (1.21%) GxP
6 2 (1.21%) NCSC
6 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.61%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.61%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.03%) Docker
2 3 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.85%) Terraform
2 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
3 1 (0.61%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.61%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (9.09%) Google
1 15 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.67%) SAP
2 11 (6.67%) Splunk
3 7 (4.24%) Oracle
4 6 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.42%) Adobe
5 4 (2.42%) Citrix
5 4 (2.42%) Databricks
5 4 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.21%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.21%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.21%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.21%) TikTok
7 1 (0.61%) Cerner
7 1 (0.61%) Charles River
7 1 (0.61%) Glassbox
7 1 (0.61%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) Kronos
7 1 (0.61%) NEC