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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 499 498
Rank change year-on-year +205 -1 -40
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 340 190 382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 130 247
10th Percentile £325 £323 £378
25th Percentile £385 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +4.95%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £638
90th Percentile £688 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £546 £525
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.05% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 10
10th Percentile £26.50 £24.24 £24.20
25th Percentile £36.63 £40.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £80.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +81.82% +31.34%
75th Percentile £52.50 £87.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £89.00 £67.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £13.57 £24.00
% change year-on-year +323.73% -43.46% +20.00%

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 37,078 50,015 79,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 89.70% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,703 34,589 56,207
10th Percentile £300 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £646
90th Percentile £750 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 1,687 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +217 294 £500 -4.76% 412
UK excluding London +147 162 £513 -6.18% 190
London +136 143 £500 - 223
Work from Home +133 101 £475 -12.04% 196
South East +46 46 £506 -11.96% 43
Midlands +54 38 £550 +14.58% 24
North of England +35 36 £425 -22.73% 69
West Midlands +46 35 £567 +18.02% 18
North West +27 20 £413 -22.54% 40
Scotland +36 18 £538 -0.92% 11
Yorkshire +20 13 £464 -15.68% 20
South West +22 11 £550 -38.89% 20
East of England - 11 £550 - 21
East Midlands +11 3 £375 - 6
North East - 2 £513 - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 2
Wales +17 1 £380 +1.33% 4

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 (2.35%) SAS
2 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.47%) Confluence
4 4 (1.18%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) CMS
5 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) EPiServer
Applications
1 31 (9.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.18%) SPSS
3 2 (0.59%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.59%) Sketch
3 2 (0.59%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.29%) InVision
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Endur
3 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 88 (25.88%) Power Platform
2 42 (12.35%) Azure
3 32 (9.41%) Snowflake
4 23 (6.76%) AWS
5 17 (5.00%) Google Analytics
6 13 (3.82%) GCP
7 6 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.76%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.47%) SaaS
9 4 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.18%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.88%) dbt
10 3 (0.88%) Figma
10 3 (0.88%) GitHub
10 3 (0.88%) Serverless
10 3 (0.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.35%) Network Security
2 18 (5.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (2.06%) Wireless
4 3 (0.88%) Intranet
5 2 (0.59%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (25.88%) Power BI
2 82 (24.12%) Tableau
3 30 (8.82%) Big Data
4 21 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 9 (2.65%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.65%) Metadata
7 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.06%) PostHog
9 6 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.76%) Looker
9 6 (1.76%) Power Query
10 5 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.18%) GIS
11 4 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.53%) JIRA
2 10 (2.94%) Git
3 3 (0.88%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (0.59%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) GitLab
5 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 191 (56.18%) Analytical Skills
2 146 (42.94%) Social Skills
3 70 (20.59%) Finance
4 41 (12.06%) Marketing
5 31 (9.12%) Legal
6 26 (7.65%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (6.18%) Retail
9 12 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.94%) Banking
11 9 (2.65%) Military
12 8 (2.35%) Advertising
13 5 (1.47%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.18%) Games
14 4 (1.18%) German Language
14 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 139 (40.88%) Analyst
2 66 (19.41%) Data Analyst
3 36 (10.59%) Lead
3 36 (10.59%) Senior
4 23 (6.76%) Business Analyst
5 22 (6.47%) User Researcher
6 19 (5.59%) Data Scientist
7 17 (5.00%) Consultant
8 16 (4.71%) Developer
9 14 (4.12%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 12 (3.53%) Lead Data Analyst
10 12 (3.53%) SQL Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) SQL Data Analyst
12 10 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (2.94%) Senior Data Scientist
13 8 (2.35%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (2.06%) Marketing Analyst
14 7 (2.06%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.29%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (2.65%) Pandas
3 7 (2.06%) scikit-learn
4 4 (1.18%) PySpark
4 4 (1.18%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.88%) CSS
5 3 (0.88%) HTML
5 3 (0.88%) Matplotlib
5 3 (0.88%) Plotly
5 3 (0.88%) PostGIS
5 3 (0.88%) pytest
5 3 (0.88%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.59%) ADO
6 2 (0.59%) CSS3
6 2 (0.59%) Flask
6 2 (0.59%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.59%) RESTful
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.76%) Credit Risk
3 22 (6.47%) Cyber Defence
4 20 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
5 17 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (4.41%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.94%) NHS
8 10 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.35%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.06%) Social Media
11 6 (1.76%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.18%) FMCG
14 3 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.88%) Educational Technology
14 3 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.88%) Windows
2 19 (5.59%) Linux
3 17 (5.00%) Unix
4 16 (4.71%) Android
4 16 (4.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (47.06%) Analytics
2 125 (36.76%) Decision-Making
3 104 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (28.53%) Business Intelligence
5 90 (26.47%) Data Analysis
6 86 (25.29%) Visualisation
7 61 (17.94%) Data Science
8 59 (17.35%) Data Modelling
8 59 (17.35%) Data Visualisation
9 58 (17.06%) Agile
10 41 (12.06%) Computer Science
11 39 (11.47%) Dashboard Development
11 39 (11.47%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (11.18%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (10.29%) Data Management
14 35 (10.29%) Project Management
15 32 (9.41%) Data Analytics
16 30 (8.82%) Statistics
17 28 (8.24%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (29.41%) SQL
2 71 (20.88%) Python
3 20 (5.88%) R
4 16 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.88%) Bash
5 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (0.59%) Java
6 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.59%) Scala
6 2 (0.59%) VBA
7 1 (0.29%) C#
7 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.29%) LookML
7 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (23.82%) Degree
2 31 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.35%) DV Cleared
4 23 (6.76%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.76%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (1.47%) CISSP
7 5 (1.47%) PhD
7 5 (1.47%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.18%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.88%) CBAP
9 3 (0.88%) CEH
9 3 (0.88%) CISM
9 3 (0.88%) PMP
10 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) ACCA
11 1 (0.29%) CCA
11 1 (0.29%) CCSP
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (21.18%) Actionable Recommendations
2 33 (9.71%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.12%) QA
4 8 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.76%) GDPR
6 5 (1.47%) PMO
7 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.88%) SLA
8 2 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.59%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.29%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.29%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 4 (1.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Nessus
2 1 (0.29%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 38 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.29%) Alteryx
3 26 (7.65%) Google
4 16 (4.71%) Red Hat
5 14 (4.12%) Databricks
6 10 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.76%) SAP
7 6 (1.76%) Splunk
8 5 (1.47%) Adobe
8 5 (1.47%) Oracle
9 4 (1.18%) Marketo
10 3 (0.88%) Brandwatch
10 3 (0.88%) Facebook
10 3 (0.88%) Instagram
10 3 (0.88%) Pardot
10 3 (0.88%) Qualys
10 3 (0.88%) Twitter
11 2 (0.59%) Darktrace
11 2 (0.59%) Hootsuite
11 2 (0.59%) YouTube