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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 496 495
Rank change year-on-year +213 -1 -30
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 335 188 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.37% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 130 253
10th Percentile £325 £323 £363
25th Percentile £385 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +5.05%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £546 £525
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £25.98 £24.24 £24.50
25th Percentile £34.31 £40.25 £32.25
Median hourly rate £48.75 £80.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.06% +113.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £50.00 £87.50 £57.25
90th Percentile £57.38 £89.00 £64.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.57 £24.00
% change year-on-year - -43.46% +60.00%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England +222 289 £500 -4.76% 463
UK excluding London +137 162 £513 -6.18% 198
London +141 139 £500 - 268
Work from Home +119 99 £475 -12.04% 198
South East +45 45 £506 -11.96% 50
Midlands +58 39 £550 +14.58% 27
West Midlands +47 36 £567 +18.02% 18
North of England +40 36 £425 -22.73% 60
North West +29 20 £413 -22.54% 40
Scotland +33 18 £538 -0.92% 12
Yorkshire +24 13 £464 -16.29% 14
South West +14 11 £550 -38.89% 25
East of England - 11 £550 - 22
East Midlands +14 3 £375 - 9
North East - 2 £513 - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 3
Wales +17 1 £380 +1.33% 6

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 8 (2.39%) SAS
2 6 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.49%) Confluence
4 4 (1.19%) Apache
5 3 (0.90%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) EPiServer
Applications
1 32 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.19%) SPSS
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.60%) Sketch
5 2 (0.60%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.30%) InVision
6 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 86 (25.67%) Power Platform
2 40 (11.94%) Azure
3 31 (9.25%) Snowflake
4 22 (6.57%) AWS
5 16 (4.78%) Google Analytics
6 15 (4.48%) GCP
7 7 (2.09%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.49%) SaaS
9 4 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.19%) dbt
9 4 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.90%) Figma
10 3 (0.90%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (0.90%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.16%) Network Security
2 18 (5.37%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (2.09%) Wireless
4 3 (0.90%) Intranet
5 2 (0.60%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (25.67%) Power BI
2 80 (23.88%) Tableau
3 32 (9.55%) Big Data
4 21 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.07%) Data Mining
6 11 (3.28%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.69%) Metadata
8 8 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.39%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.09%) Looker
9 7 (2.09%) PostHog
10 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.79%) Power Query
11 5 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.49%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.19%) GIS
13 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (3.88%) JIRA
2 10 (2.99%) Git
3 3 (0.90%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 193 (57.61%) Analytical Skills
2 142 (42.39%) Social Skills
3 71 (21.19%) Finance
4 40 (11.94%) Marketing
5 29 (8.66%) Legal
6 27 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (6.27%) Retail
9 12 (3.58%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.99%) Banking
11 9 (2.69%) Military
12 8 (2.39%) Advertising
13 5 (1.49%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.19%) Games
14 4 (1.19%) German Language
14 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.90%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 137 (40.90%) Analyst
2 66 (19.70%) Data Analyst
3 36 (10.75%) Lead
4 33 (9.85%) Senior
5 23 (6.87%) Business Analyst
5 23 (6.87%) User Researcher
6 17 (5.07%) Data Scientist
7 16 (4.78%) Developer
8 15 (4.48%) Consultant
8 15 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (3.58%) Lead Data Analyst
11 11 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 11 (3.28%) SQL Analyst
12 10 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (2.99%) SQL Data Analyst
13 8 (2.39%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (2.09%) Marketing Analyst
14 7 (2.09%) Power BI Developer
14 7 (2.09%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.37%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (2.99%) Pandas
3 7 (2.09%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.49%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.19%) PySpark
6 3 (0.90%) ADO
6 3 (0.90%) CSS
6 3 (0.90%) Flask
6 3 (0.90%) HTML
6 3 (0.90%) PostGIS
7 2 (0.60%) CSS3
7 2 (0.60%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.60%) Plotly
7 2 (0.60%) pytest
7 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.60%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.60%) RESTful
7 2 (0.60%) SOAP
7 2 (0.60%) Web Services
8 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.96%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.87%) Credit Risk
3 22 (6.57%) Cyber Defence
4 20 (5.97%) Distributed Applications
5 15 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (4.18%) Algorithms
6 14 (4.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.69%) NHS
9 8 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.39%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.09%) Social Media
11 6 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.19%) FMCG
14 3 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.90%) Educational Technology
14 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.97%) Windows
2 19 (5.67%) Linux
3 17 (5.07%) Unix
4 16 (4.78%) Android
4 16 (4.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (46.87%) Analytics
2 125 (37.31%) Decision-Making
3 105 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (28.36%) Business Intelligence
5 90 (26.87%) Data Analysis
6 87 (25.97%) Visualisation
7 59 (17.61%) Agile
8 58 (17.31%) Data Modelling
8 58 (17.31%) Data Science
8 58 (17.31%) Data Visualisation
9 39 (11.64%) Computer Science
9 39 (11.64%) Dashboard Development
10 37 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (10.75%) Project Management
12 35 (10.45%) Data Management
13 34 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (8.96%) Data Analytics
15 28 (8.36%) Statistics
15 28 (8.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (29.55%) SQL
2 71 (21.19%) Python
3 19 (5.67%) R
4 16 (4.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (0.60%) Bash
6 2 (0.60%) Java
6 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.60%) Scala
6 2 (0.60%) VBA
7 1 (0.30%) C#
7 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.30%) LookML
7 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (24.18%) Degree
2 32 (9.55%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 23 (6.87%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.49%) CISSP
7 5 (1.49%) PhD
8 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.19%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.90%) CBAP
9 3 (0.90%) CEH
9 3 (0.90%) CISM
9 3 (0.90%) PMP
10 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CCA
11 1 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.30%) CCSP
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (20.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 34 (10.15%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.18%) QA
4 8 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.09%) GDPR
6 6 (1.79%) PMO
7 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.90%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.60%) 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 3 (0.90%) Docker
1 3 (0.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (0.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Nessus
2 1 (0.30%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 37 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.45%) Alteryx
3 26 (7.76%) Google
4 16 (4.78%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.88%) Databricks
6 10 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.79%) SAP
7 6 (1.79%) Splunk
8 5 (1.49%) Adobe
8 5 (1.49%) Oracle
9 4 (1.19%) Marketo
10 3 (0.90%) Brandwatch
10 3 (0.90%) Facebook
10 3 (0.90%) Instagram
10 3 (0.90%) Pardot
10 3 (0.90%) Qualys
10 3 (0.90%) Twitter
11 2 (0.60%) Darktrace
11 2 (0.60%) Hootsuite
11 2 (0.60%) YouTube