Actionable Insight Contracts in the West Midlands

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 128 160
Rank change year-on-year +48 +32 -56
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 36 3 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.85% 0.13% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.15% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 11
10th Percentile £284 - £540
25th Percentile £422 £455 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £480 £595
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -19.33% +15.65%
75th Percentile £725 £505 £653
90th Percentile £850 - £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,976 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.88% 87.86% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,343 2,346
10th Percentile £263 £263 £280
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £586
90th Percentile £746 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 61
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the West Midlands

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the West Midlands

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the West Midlands

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Herefordshire - 18 £675 - 1
Birmingham +20 8 £363 -24.48% 9
Warwickshire - 5 £575 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (8.33%) dbt
4 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (52.78%) Network Security
2 18 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (2.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (50.00%) Big Data
2 11 (30.56%) Power BI
3 5 (13.89%) Data Mining
4 3 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (5.56%) GIS
5 2 (5.56%) Power Query
5 2 (5.56%) Tableau
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
General
1 29 (80.56%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (2.78%) Automotive
5 1 (2.78%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) GIS Specialist
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Internal Communications Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform Consultant
5 1 (2.78%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (8.33%) ADO
2 3 (8.33%) Flask
2 3 (8.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (52.78%) Cyber Defence
1 19 (52.78%) Distributed Applications
2 14 (38.89%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Android
1 16 (44.44%) Apple iOS
1 16 (44.44%) Linux
1 16 (44.44%) Unix
1 16 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Data Analysis
2 20 (55.56%) Analytics
2 20 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (55.56%) Data Management
3 19 (52.78%) Information Security
3 19 (52.78%) SIEM
4 18 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 18 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 18 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 18 (50.00%) Security Operations
5 16 (44.44%) Kalman Filter
6 10 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 7 (19.44%) User Experience
9 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
10 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Python
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) DV Cleared
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) ACCA
2 1 (2.78%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (58.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Progress