Actionable Insight Contracts in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Actionable Insight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 388 392
Rank change year-on-year +149 +4 -47
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 149 58 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 39 78
10th Percentile £323 £443 £372
25th Percentile £369 £506 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.26% +1.55%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £575
90th Percentile £680 £703 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.80
25th Percentile - - £22.25
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - £25.40
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £82.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.39% +120.00% +38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Actionable Insight is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the UK excluding London

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
South East +50 42 £533 -11.25% 48
Midlands +62 36 £550 +14.58% 39
North of England +41 34 £425 -22.02% 54
West Midlands +55 33 £584 +21.67% 24
North West +24 19 £400 -24.88% 35
Scotland +43 18 £538 -0.92% 7
Yorkshire +17 12 £490 -10.91% 15
South West +10 11 £550 -38.89% 17
East of England - 6 £550 - 24
East Midlands +15 3 £375 - 15
North East - 2 £513 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 5
Wales +19 1 £380 +1.33% 10
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.68%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.67%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.46%) Power Platform
2 28 (18.79%) Snowflake
3 12 (8.05%) Azure
4 4 (2.68%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.01%) AWS
5 3 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.01%) dbt
5 3 (2.01%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.34%) GCP
6 2 (1.34%) OCI
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.67%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.09%) Network Security
2 15 (10.07%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (6.04%) Wireless
4 1 (0.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (34.90%) Tableau
2 29 (19.46%) Power BI
3 15 (10.07%) Big Data
4 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.36%) Data Mining
5 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.01%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.01%) Looker
7 2 (1.34%) Metadata
7 2 (1.34%) Power Query
7 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.67%) GIS
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.36%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Git
3 1 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 85 (57.05%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (28.19%) Social Skills
3 38 (25.50%) Finance
4 25 (16.78%) Legal
5 17 (11.41%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.38%) Marketing
7 9 (6.04%) Military
7 9 (6.04%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.70%) Retail
9 4 (2.68%) Banking
10 3 (2.01%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Automotive
12 1 (0.67%) Games
12 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.67%) Publishing
12 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (52.35%) Analyst
2 36 (24.16%) Data Analyst
3 26 (17.45%) Lead
4 15 (10.07%) User Researcher
5 12 (8.05%) Lead Data Analyst
6 10 (6.71%) Senior
6 10 (6.71%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (5.37%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.70%) SQL Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) SQL Data Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.68%) Consultant
11 4 (2.68%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.68%) Database Analyst
11 4 (2.68%) Database Marketing Analyst
11 4 (2.68%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.07%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (2.01%) ADO
2 3 (2.01%) Flask
2 3 (2.01%) Pandas
3 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.67%) CSS
3 1 (0.67%) HTML
3 1 (0.67%) Middleware
3 1 (0.67%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.67%) PySpark
3 1 (0.67%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.44%) Credit Risk
2 19 (12.75%) Cyber Defence
2 19 (12.75%) Management Information System
3 17 (11.41%) Distributed Applications
4 15 (10.07%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (5.37%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.36%) NHS
7 3 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.01%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.01%) Social Media
8 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) FMCG
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.40%) Windows
2 13 (8.72%) Android
2 13 (8.72%) Apple iOS
2 13 (8.72%) Linux
2 13 (8.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (53.69%) Analytics
2 54 (36.24%) Decision-Making
3 51 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (24.83%) Visualisation
5 36 (24.16%) Data Analysis
6 35 (23.49%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (18.12%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (17.45%) Data Visualisation
9 25 (16.78%) Dashboard Development
10 20 (13.42%) Agile
11 19 (12.75%) Data Management
11 19 (12.75%) Data Science
11 19 (12.75%) Information Security
12 18 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (11.41%) Data Engineering
13 17 (11.41%) Security Operations
13 17 (11.41%) SIEM
14 15 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (10.07%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.07%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.19%) SQL
2 17 (11.41%) Python
3 5 (3.36%) R
4 3 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (2.01%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 27 (18.12%) Degree
2 23 (15.44%) Security Cleared
3 22 (14.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.01%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.34%) CISSP
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.67%) ACCA
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CEH
6 1 (0.67%) CIMA
6 1 (0.67%) CISA
6 1 (0.67%) CISM
6 1 (0.67%) CSPO
6 1 (0.67%) GIAC
6 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.67%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.67%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 28 (18.79%) Alteryx
2 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.05%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.36%) Google
5 4 (2.68%) Splunk
6 3 (2.01%) Databricks
6 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.01%) SAP
7 2 (1.34%) Anaplan
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe
8 1 (0.67%) Ariba
8 1 (0.67%) Brandwatch
8 1 (0.67%) Brio
8 1 (0.67%) Facebook
8 1 (0.67%) Hootsuite
8 1 (0.67%) Informatica
8 1 (0.67%) Progress
8 1 (0.67%) Symantec
8 1 (0.67%) Twitter