Actionable Insight Contracts

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 507 500
Rank change year-on-year +218 -7 -51
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 328 187 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.36% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 131 257
10th Percentile £325 £280 £362
25th Percentile £400 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% +3.90%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £546 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £25.45 £78.50 £23.90
25th Percentile £32.00 £80.00 £35.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £85.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +126.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £59.75 £89.50 £69.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +210 278 £513 +0.49% 444
UK excluding London +159 153 £525 -3.89% 202
London +146 138 £500 +5.26% 258
Work from Home +133 101 £475 -12.04% 222
South East +42 42 £533 -13.06% 47
Midlands +66 39 £593 +23.44% 37
West Midlands +58 36 £615 +28.13% 20
North of England +44 36 £413 -23.61% 47
North West +32 20 £400 -24.88% 32
Scotland +41 18 £538 -0.92% 15
Yorkshire +31 13 £464 -14.91% 13
South West +27 11 £550 -38.89% 22
East of England +9 6 £550 +15.79% 23
East Midlands +21 3 £375 - 17
North East - 2 £513 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 5
Wales +17 1 £380 +1.33% 12

Actionable Insight
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 6 (1.83%) Confluence
1 6 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.22%) SAS
3 2 (0.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) EPiServer
Applications
1 32 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.91%) Sketch
5 2 (0.61%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.61%) SPSS
5 2 (0.61%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.30%) InVision
6 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 81 (24.70%) Power Platform
2 31 (9.45%) Snowflake
3 30 (9.15%) Azure
4 21 (6.40%) AWS
5 18 (5.49%) GCP
6 17 (5.18%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.52%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.52%) SaaS
8 4 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.22%) dbt
8 4 (1.22%) Figma
8 4 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.91%) GitHub
9 3 (0.91%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (0.91%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.91%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.71%) Network Security
2 15 (4.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (2.74%) Wireless
4 3 (0.91%) Intranet
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (24.70%) Power BI
2 75 (22.87%) Tableau
3 30 (9.15%) Big Data
4 19 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.27%) Data Mining
6 13 (3.96%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.44%) Metadata
8 8 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.13%) Looker
9 7 (2.13%) PostHog
10 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.83%) Power Query
11 5 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.91%) GIS
12 3 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.27%) JIRA
2 6 (1.83%) Git
3 3 (0.91%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 184 (56.10%) Analytical Skills
2 138 (42.07%) Social Skills
3 68 (20.73%) Finance
4 40 (12.20%) Marketing
5 32 (9.76%) Legal
6 31 (9.45%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (5.18%) Retail
9 11 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.74%) Banking
10 9 (2.74%) Military
11 6 (1.83%) Advertising
12 5 (1.52%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.22%) Games
13 4 (1.22%) German Language
13 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.91%) Police
14 3 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (39.02%) Analyst
2 60 (18.29%) Data Analyst
3 35 (10.67%) Lead
4 31 (9.45%) Senior
5 28 (8.54%) User Researcher
6 22 (6.71%) Business Analyst
7 19 (5.79%) Data Scientist
8 16 (4.88%) Developer
9 14 (4.27%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (3.66%) Lead Data Analyst
12 11 (3.35%) Consultant
13 10 (3.05%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (3.05%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 9 (2.74%) SQL Data Analyst
15 8 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 8 (2.44%) Senior User Researcher
16 6 (1.83%) Marketing Analyst
16 6 (1.83%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.57%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (2.44%) Pandas
3 5 (1.52%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.52%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.22%) PySpark
5 3 (0.91%) ADO
5 3 (0.91%) CSS
5 3 (0.91%) Flask
5 3 (0.91%) HTML
5 3 (0.91%) PostGIS
6 2 (0.61%) CSS3
6 2 (0.61%) RESTful
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
7 1 (0.30%) D3.js
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) Middleware
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.30%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.30%) REST
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.23%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.01%) Credit Risk
3 19 (5.79%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (5.18%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (4.57%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (3.66%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.05%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.74%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.74%) NHS
9 9 (2.74%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (2.13%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.52%) Social Media
12 4 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.91%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.18%) Windows
2 14 (4.27%) Linux
2 14 (4.27%) Unix
3 13 (3.96%) Android
3 13 (3.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (47.87%) Analytics
2 117 (35.67%) Decision-Making
3 105 (32.01%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
4 88 (26.83%) Visualisation
5 84 (25.61%) Data Analysis
6 62 (18.90%) Data Visualisation
7 61 (18.60%) Agile
8 56 (17.07%) Data Modelling
9 54 (16.46%) Data Science
10 38 (11.59%) Dashboard Development
11 37 (11.28%) Computer Science
12 34 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (10.06%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (10.06%) Project Management
13 33 (10.06%) User Experience
14 32 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (9.76%) User Research
15 30 (9.15%) Data Management
16 28 (8.54%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 89 (27.13%) SQL
2 64 (19.51%) Python
3 16 (4.88%) R
4 15 (4.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.61%) Java
5 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.61%) MATLAB
5 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.61%) Scala
5 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (0.61%) VBA
6 1 (0.30%) C#
6 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (23.78%) Degree
2 36 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.40%) Master's Degree
5 19 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.27%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.44%) CISSP
8 5 (1.52%) PhD
9 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.91%) CBAP
10 3 (0.91%) CISM
10 3 (0.91%) PMP
11 2 (0.61%) CEH
11 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CCSK
12 1 (0.30%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (18.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 36 (10.98%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.57%) QA
4 10 (3.05%) GDPR
5 8 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.83%) PMO
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.91%) SLA
8 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.30%) GRC
9 1 (0.30%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.45%) Alteryx
3 28 (8.54%) Google
4 12 (3.66%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.05%) Databricks
5 10 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.13%) Splunk
7 6 (1.83%) Adobe
7 6 (1.83%) SAP
8 5 (1.52%) Marketo
8 5 (1.52%) Oracle
9 3 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.91%) Pardot
10 2 (0.61%) ESRI
10 2 (0.61%) Facebook
10 2 (0.61%) Informatica
10 2 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.61%) Qualys
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) Twitter