Actionable Recommendations Jobs

Actionable Recommendations
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Recommendations over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 773 903
Rank change year-on-year +142 +130 +186
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 74 124 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.074%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.81% 0.91% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 52 71 36
10th Percentile £40,500 £31,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -8.90% -18.69%
75th Percentile £86,438 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £70,000 £85,710
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.00% - -0.99%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,186 13,612 18,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.65% 13.74% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,701 9,245 8,785
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.39%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Actionable Recommendations.

Salary trend for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

Actionable Recommendations
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the UK

Actionable Recommendations
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Recommendations within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +122 59 £65,000 +30.00% 182
UK excluding London +119 38 £64,500 +29.00% 79
Work from Home +120 33 £60,743 +29.16% 79
London +103 24 £82,500 +37.50% 122
Midlands +63 12 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Yorkshire +70 8 £62,372 +30.32% 10
North of England +52 8 £62,372 +24.74% 17
East Midlands +43 8 £27,000 -40.00% 2
South West +113 7 £83,738 +71.77% 12
Scotland +84 5 £83,738 +37.86% 9
West Midlands +48 4 £45,000 -10.00% 4
South East +82 3 £80,000 +74.86% 25
East of England +41 3 £83,738 +161.68% 9

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 4 (5.41%) CMS
2 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.70%) SAS
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.35%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) Power Platform
2 10 (13.51%) Google Analytics
3 5 (6.76%) SaaS
3 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.41%) AWS
4 4 (5.41%) Azure
5 2 (2.70%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.70%) MailChimp
6 1 (1.35%) Asana
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.35%) Canva
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.35%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Firewall
1 2 (2.70%) Internet
1 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.35%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.35%) Intranet
2 1 (1.35%) Network Security
2 1 (1.35%) Wireless
2 1 (1.35%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.97%) Tableau
2 15 (20.27%) Power BI
3 3 (4.05%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.70%) Looker
5 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.35%) KNIME
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.70%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 40 (54.05%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (45.95%) Finance
3 29 (39.19%) Social Skills
4 15 (20.27%) Marketing
5 8 (10.81%) Billing
6 7 (9.46%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (6.76%) Retail
9 4 (5.41%) Banking
10 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.35%) Legal
11 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Analyst
2 17 (22.97%) Senior
3 13 (17.57%) Lead
4 8 (10.81%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) Derivatives Business Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) OTC Derivatives Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) OTC Derivatives Business Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Credit Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Data Scientist
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Strategy Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Strategy Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Web Manager
8 4 (5.41%) Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Scientist
8 4 (5.41%) SEO Specialist
8 4 (5.41%) Tester
9 3 (4.05%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) CSS
1 6 (8.11%) HTML
2 3 (4.05%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.05%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.05%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Derivative
1 7 (9.46%) OTC Derivatives
2 5 (6.76%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.76%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.41%) Social Media
4 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.70%) Life Science
5 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.35%) PropTech
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 46 (62.16%) Analytics
3 29 (39.19%) Visualisation
4 26 (35.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (31.08%) Data Visualisation
5 23 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (29.73%) Data Analytics
6 22 (29.73%) Decision-Making
7 21 (28.38%) Data Science
8 18 (24.32%) Data Analysis
9 16 (21.62%) Machine Learning
10 14 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (16.22%) SEO
12 11 (14.86%) Agile
12 11 (14.86%) Strategic Thinking
13 10 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (13.51%) Predictive Analytics
13 10 (13.51%) Project Management
13 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (12.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) Python
1 20 (27.03%) SQL
2 4 (5.41%) R
3 2 (2.70%) Bash
3 2 (2.70%) C#
4 1 (1.35%) Bicep
4 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Degree
2 8 (10.81%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.41%) ACCA
3 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.05%) CHECK Team Member
4 3 (4.05%) CREST Certified
4 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) CISA
5 2 (2.70%) CISSP
5 2 (2.70%) CRISC
5 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.35%) OSCP
6 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.41%) GDPR
3 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.70%) NIST
4 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) WCAG
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.35%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Nmap
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) Google
3 3 (4.05%) Ahrefs
4 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.70%) TikTok
5 1 (1.35%) Adobe
5 1 (1.35%) Instagram
5 1 (1.35%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.35%) YouTube