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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 516 496
Rank change year-on-year +227 -20 -44
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 317 185 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 130 257
10th Percentile £325 £280 £363
25th Percentile £385 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +3.37%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £543 £520
% change year-on-year -4.15% +4.33% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 11
10th Percentile £25.45 £78.50 £24.50
25th Percentile £32.00 £80.00 £32.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £85.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +126.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £57.25
90th Percentile £59.75 £89.50 £64.75
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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +211 267 £510 - 441
UK excluding London +133 146 £520 -4.15% 200
London +143 133 £500 +5.26% 248
Work from Home +133 96 £475 -12.84% 207
South East +53 41 £533 -11.25% 45
Midlands +63 35 £567 +18.02% 37
North of England +34 34 £425 -21.30% 54
West Midlands +48 32 £585 +21.88% 22
North West +26 19 £400 -24.88% 40
Scotland +46 18 £538 -0.92% 11
Yorkshire +23 12 £490 -10.09% 12
South West +25 10 £550 -38.89% 20
East of England +16 6 £550 +15.79% 26
East Midlands +17 3 £375 - 15
North East - 2 £513 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 5
Wales +21 1 £380 +1.33% 10

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 (1.89%) Confluence
1 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.26%) SAS
3 2 (0.63%) Apache
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.63%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) EPiServer
Applications
1 32 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.63%) Sketch
4 2 (0.63%) SPSS
4 2 (0.63%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.32%) InVision
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 79 (24.92%) Power Platform
2 30 (9.46%) Azure
3 29 (9.15%) Snowflake
4 21 (6.62%) AWS
5 16 (5.05%) GCP
6 15 (4.73%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.58%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.58%) SaaS
8 4 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.26%) dbt
8 4 (1.26%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.95%) GitHub
9 3 (0.95%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (0.95%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.95%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.94%) Network Security
2 15 (4.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (2.84%) Wireless
4 3 (0.95%) Intranet
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (24.92%) Power BI
2 71 (22.40%) Tableau
3 30 (9.46%) Big Data
4 19 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.42%) Data Mining
6 11 (3.47%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.15%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.52%) Metadata
8 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.21%) PostHog
10 6 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.89%) Power Query
11 5 (1.58%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.58%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.58%) Looker
12 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.95%) GIS
12 3 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.42%) JIRA
2 6 (1.89%) Git
3 3 (0.95%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 184 (58.04%) Analytical Skills
2 134 (42.27%) Social Skills
3 66 (20.82%) Finance
4 38 (11.99%) Marketing
5 32 (10.09%) Legal
6 29 (9.15%) Public Sector
7 23 (7.26%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (5.36%) Retail
9 11 (3.47%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.84%) Banking
10 9 (2.84%) Military
11 6 (1.89%) Advertising
12 5 (1.58%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.26%) Games
13 4 (1.26%) German Language
13 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.95%) Police
14 3 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (40.06%) Analyst
2 59 (18.61%) Data Analyst
3 35 (11.04%) Lead
4 30 (9.46%) Senior
5 25 (7.89%) User Researcher
6 22 (6.94%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.36%) Data Scientist
8 14 (4.42%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.42%) Developer
9 13 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (3.79%) Consultant
10 12 (3.79%) Lead Data Analyst
11 11 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (3.15%) SQL Analyst
12 10 (3.15%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
13 9 (2.84%) SQL Data Analyst
14 8 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 7 (2.21%) Senior User Researcher
16 6 (1.89%) Digital Analyst
16 6 (1.89%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.73%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (2.52%) Pandas
3 5 (1.58%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.58%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.26%) PySpark
5 3 (0.95%) ADO
5 3 (0.95%) CSS
5 3 (0.95%) Flask
5 3 (0.95%) HTML
5 3 (0.95%) PostGIS
6 2 (0.63%) CSS3
6 2 (0.63%) RESTful
6 2 (0.63%) SOAP
6 2 (0.63%) Web Services
7 1 (0.32%) .NET
7 1 (0.32%) D3.js
7 1 (0.32%) Middleware
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.32%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.52%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.26%) Credit Risk
3 19 (5.99%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (5.36%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (4.73%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (3.79%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.84%) NHS
9 9 (2.84%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.58%) Social Media
11 4 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.95%) Educational Technology
12 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.36%) Windows
2 14 (4.42%) Linux
2 14 (4.42%) Unix
3 13 (4.10%) Android
3 13 (4.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (47.63%) Analytics
2 115 (36.28%) Decision-Making
3 99 (31.23%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (27.44%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (26.50%) Data Analysis
5 84 (26.50%) Visualisation
6 58 (18.30%) Agile
6 58 (18.30%) Data Visualisation
7 54 (17.03%) Data Modelling
8 51 (16.09%) Data Science
9 38 (11.99%) Dashboard Development
10 34 (10.73%) Project Management
11 33 (10.41%) Computer Science
11 33 (10.41%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (9.78%) User Experience
14 30 (9.46%) Data Management
15 28 (8.83%) User Research
16 26 (8.20%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 87 (27.44%) SQL
2 62 (19.56%) Python
3 15 (4.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.42%) R
5 2 (0.63%) Java
5 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.63%) Scala
5 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (0.63%) VBA
6 1 (0.32%) C#
6 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (23.03%) Degree
2 31 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.26%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.62%) Master's Degree
5 15 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.84%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.58%) PhD
8 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.26%) CISSP
8 4 (1.26%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.95%) CBAP
9 3 (0.95%) CISM
9 3 (0.95%) PMP
10 2 (0.63%) CEH
10 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) ACCA
11 1 (0.32%) CCA
11 1 (0.32%) CCNP
11 1 (0.32%) CCSP
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (19.24%) Actionable Recommendations
2 36 (11.36%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.42%) QA
4 10 (3.15%) GDPR
5 8 (2.52%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.89%) PMO
7 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.95%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.63%) NIST
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.32%) GRC
9 1 (0.32%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1 (0.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.78%) Alteryx
3 26 (8.20%) Google
4 12 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.15%) Databricks
6 8 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.21%) SAP
8 5 (1.58%) Adobe
8 5 (1.58%) Marketo
8 5 (1.58%) Oracle
9 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.95%) Pardot
9 3 (0.95%) Splunk
10 2 (0.63%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.63%) Brio
10 2 (0.63%) ESRI
10 2 (0.63%) Facebook
10 2 (0.63%) Informatica
10 2 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.63%) Twitter