Actionable Recommendations Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Actionable Recommendations
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 276 337 435
Rank change year-on-year +61 +98 +165
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 28 14 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.095% 0.071%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.75% 0.69% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 10
10th Percentile £390 £378 £443
25th Percentile £439 £409 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £508 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -10.57% +3.18%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £656
90th Percentile £688 £649 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -15.49% -3.18% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,604 2,019 3,010
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.35% 13.72% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,418 2,191
10th Percentile £306 £300 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 72 76
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £14.00 £20.78
Median hourly rate £34.48 £23.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.18% -32.14% -20.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £49.06 £58.88
90th Percentile £70.16 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £23.65 £35.50
% change year-on-year +33.78% -33.38% +29.09%

Actionable Recommendations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Actionable Recommendations
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 Recommendations.

Actionable Recommendations daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Actionable Recommendations over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Actionable Recommendations daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Actionable Recommendations
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 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SAS
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Actimize
1 1 (3.57%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) Ethernet
2 2 (7.14%) Internet
2 2 (7.14%) MQTT
3 1 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) Modbus
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Mining
2 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.71%) Tableau
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Burp Suite
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Metasploit
1 1 (3.57%) Pa11y
General
1 19 (67.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Marketing
5 3 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Advertising
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Local Government
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Data Scientist
3 4 (14.29%) Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) SEO Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Finance Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) SOC Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Transformation Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
1 5 (17.86%) NHS
2 3 (10.71%) Life Science
2 3 (10.71%) Operational Technology
2 3 (10.71%) SCADA
3 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 2 (7.14%) Digital Media
3 2 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 2 (7.14%) IoT
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Kali Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 9 (32.14%) Visualisation
3 8 (28.57%) Analytics
3 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (21.43%) Data Science
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) Statistical Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 4 (14.29%) Mathematics
7 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) R
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) CBAP
3 2 (7.14%) CISM
3 2 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) CISA
4 1 (3.57%) GCIA
4 1 (3.57%) GCIH
4 1 (3.57%) GIAC
4 1 (3.57%) IIBA
4 1 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.57%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
1 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.71%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) GxP
3 1 (3.57%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) CSIRT
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Kustomize
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) Puppet
1 1 (3.57%) QRadar
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) SAP