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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 504 486
Rank change year-on-year +224 -18 -20
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 322 185 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 130 260
10th Percentile £325 £280 £363
25th Percentile £385 £414 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +4.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £546 £525
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 11
10th Percentile £25.45 £51.43 £24.50
25th Percentile £32.00 £68.19 £32.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £82.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +120.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £88.13 £57.25
90th Percentile £59.75 £89.25 £64.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - +74.55%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
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% -4.99%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +226 272 £510 -2.39% 521
UK excluding London +147 149 £520 -4.81% 250
London +140 135 £500 +2.56% 312
Work from Home +120 99 £475 -12.04% 229
South East +68 42 £533 -7.39% 90
Midlands +55 36 £550 +14.58% 44
North of England +47 34 £425 -22.02% 58
West Midlands +53 33 £584 +21.67% 29
North West +28 19 £400 -24.88% 37
Scotland +39 18 £538 -0.92% 7
Yorkshire +19 12 £490 -10.91% 17
South West +15 11 £550 -38.89% 20
East of England - 6 £550 - 24
East Midlands +16 3 £375 - 15
North East - 2 £513 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £331 - 3
Wales +16 1 £380 +1.33% 11

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 (1.86%) Confluence
1 6 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.24%) SAS
3 2 (0.62%) Apache
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.62%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 32 (9.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.62%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.62%) Sketch
4 2 (0.62%) SPSS
4 2 (0.62%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.31%) InVision
5 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 81 (25.16%) Power Platform
2 31 (9.63%) Azure
3 30 (9.32%) Snowflake
4 22 (6.83%) AWS
5 16 (4.97%) GCP
5 16 (4.97%) Google Analytics
6 5 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.55%) PowerApps
6 5 (1.55%) SaaS
7 4 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.24%) dbt
7 4 (1.24%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (0.93%) GitHub
8 3 (0.93%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (0.93%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.83%) Network Security
2 15 (4.66%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (2.80%) Wireless
4 3 (0.93%) Intranet
5 1 (0.31%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (25.16%) Power BI
2 73 (22.67%) Tableau
3 30 (9.32%) Big Data
4 20 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.66%) Data Mining
6 11 (3.42%) BigQuery
7 10 (3.11%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.80%) Metadata
9 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.17%) PostHog
11 6 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.86%) Looker
11 6 (1.86%) Power Query
12 5 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.93%) GIS
13 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (4.35%) JIRA
2 7 (2.17%) Git
3 3 (0.93%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 186 (57.76%) Analytical Skills
2 136 (42.24%) Social Skills
3 67 (20.81%) Finance
4 40 (12.42%) Marketing
5 30 (9.32%) Legal
6 29 (9.01%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (5.59%) Retail
9 11 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.11%) Banking
11 9 (2.80%) Military
12 7 (2.17%) Advertising
13 5 (1.55%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.24%) Games
14 4 (1.24%) German Language
14 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 131 (40.68%) Analyst
2 62 (19.25%) Data Analyst
3 34 (10.56%) Lead
4 31 (9.63%) Senior
5 25 (7.76%) User Researcher
6 23 (7.14%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.28%) Data Scientist
8 15 (4.66%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.35%) Developer
10 13 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (3.73%) Consultant
11 12 (3.73%) Lead Data Analyst
12 11 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (3.11%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (3.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
14 9 (2.80%) SQL Data Analyst
15 8 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 7 (2.17%) Marketing Analyst
16 7 (2.17%) Senior User Researcher
17 6 (1.86%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.66%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (2.80%) Pandas
3 6 (1.86%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.55%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.24%) PySpark
6 3 (0.93%) ADO
6 3 (0.93%) CSS
6 3 (0.93%) Flask
6 3 (0.93%) HTML
6 3 (0.93%) PostGIS
7 2 (0.62%) CSS3
7 2 (0.62%) RESTful
7 2 (0.62%) SOAP
7 2 (0.62%) Web Services
8 1 (0.31%) D3.js
8 1 (0.31%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.31%) pytest
8 1 (0.31%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.31%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.39%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 19 (5.90%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (5.28%) Distributed Applications
5 16 (4.97%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.42%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.11%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.80%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.80%) NHS
9 9 (2.80%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.86%) Social Media
11 5 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.93%) Educational Technology
13 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.28%) Windows
2 14 (4.35%) Linux
2 14 (4.35%) Unix
3 13 (4.04%) Android
3 13 (4.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (47.83%) Analytics
2 116 (36.02%) Decision-Making
3 100 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (27.95%) Business Intelligence
5 85 (26.40%) Data Analysis
6 84 (26.09%) Visualisation
7 59 (18.32%) Agile
8 57 (17.70%) Data Visualisation
9 54 (16.77%) Data Modelling
10 52 (16.15%) Data Science
11 38 (11.80%) Dashboard Development
12 36 (11.18%) Computer Science
13 34 (10.56%) Project Management
14 33 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (9.63%) User Experience
17 30 (9.32%) Data Management
18 29 (9.01%) User Research
19 27 (8.39%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.95%) SQL
2 64 (19.88%) Python
3 16 (4.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.35%) R
5 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.93%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (0.62%) Java
6 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.62%) Scala
6 2 (0.62%) VBA
7 1 (0.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.31%) C#
7 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (23.29%) Degree
2 31 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.83%) Master's Degree
5 16 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.80%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.55%) PhD
8 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.24%) CISSP
8 4 (1.24%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.93%) CBAP
9 3 (0.93%) CISM
9 3 (0.93%) PMP
10 2 (0.62%) CEH
10 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ACCA
11 1 (0.31%) CIMA
11 1 (0.31%) CISA
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (19.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 36 (11.18%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.35%) QA
4 10 (3.11%) GDPR
5 8 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.86%) PMO
7 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.93%) SLA
8 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.62%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 2 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.62%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.63%) Alteryx
3 27 (8.39%) Google
4 12 (3.73%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.42%) Databricks
6 8 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.86%) Adobe
7 6 (1.86%) SAP
8 5 (1.55%) Marketo
8 5 (1.55%) Oracle
9 4 (1.24%) Splunk
10 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.93%) Pardot
11 2 (0.62%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.62%) Brio
11 2 (0.62%) ESRI
11 2 (0.62%) Facebook
11 2 (0.62%) Informatica
11 2 (0.62%) Qualys
11 2 (0.62%) Twitter