Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Actionable Insight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 62 418
Rank change year-on-year +5 +356 +99
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 4,080 4,870 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.98% 5.00% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.24% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 556 262 314
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £31,625
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,435 £87,419 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +5.26%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight.

Salary trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +15 3,045 £52,500 -6.25% 475
UK excluding London -21 3,020 £48,750 -7.14% 212
Work from Home +19 2,192 £50,000 -9.20% 198
London +168 873 £61,250 +2.08% 263
South East +18 742 £45,000 -14.29% 56
North of England -12 596 £55,000 +5.77% 58
South West -20 467 £57,500 -23.33% 22
Scotland -32 446 £51,500 +7.95% 12
North West -10 403 £60,000 -14.29% 40
Midlands -36 304 £57,500 +31.43% 36
Wales -4 260 £42,500 -29.17% 6
East Midlands -35 199 £35,000 +2.94% 13
Yorkshire -7 187 £42,500 - 14
Northern Ireland +7 167 £35,000 - 2
West Midlands -12 105 £57,500 +17.95% 23
East of England -52 42 £43,000 - 28
North East -20 6 £38,362 -19.24% 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
1 330 (8.09%) ArcGIS
1 330 (8.09%) GeoServer
2 115 (2.82%) WebLogic
3 81 (1.99%) Apache
4 52 (1.27%) Confluence
5 47 (1.15%) SAS
6 43 (1.05%) Oracle Service Bus
7 37 (0.91%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.27%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.098%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.098%) TWiki
12 1 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 665 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 76 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (1.27%) Sketch
5 40 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 31 (0.76%) UserZoom
7 7 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
8 6 (0.15%) InVision
9 5 (0.12%) SPSS
10 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.025%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 58 (1.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 36 (0.88%) Siebel CRM
4 8 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.17%) HFM
5 7 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
6 5 (0.12%) Shopify
7 4 (0.098%) BASE24
8 2 (0.049%) Primavera
9 1 (0.025%) Magento
9 1 (0.025%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 983 (24.09%) AWS
2 837 (20.51%) Azure
3 251 (6.15%) Power Platform
4 180 (4.41%) SaaS
5 147 (3.60%) GCP
6 109 (2.67%) Figma
7 91 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
9 72 (1.76%) Miro
10 69 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 69 (1.69%) SurveyMonkey
11 63 (1.54%) Serverless
12 57 (1.40%) OpenShift
13 56 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 56 (1.37%) PowerApps
14 50 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
15 46 (1.13%) Heroku
16 31 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 453 (11.10%) Broadband
2 339 (8.31%) VSAT
3 189 (4.63%) Firewall
4 105 (2.57%) VPN
5 103 (2.52%) DNS
6 102 (2.50%) TCP/IP
7 90 (2.21%) Internet
8 54 (1.32%) IPsec
8 54 (1.32%) SNMP
8 54 (1.32%) WAN
9 47 (1.15%) LAN
10 46 (1.13%) BGP
10 46 (1.13%) SSL
11 42 (1.03%) DHCP
12 35 (0.86%) HTTP
13 23 (0.56%) AMQP
13 23 (0.56%) Network Security
14 22 (0.54%) Wireless
15 18 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (0.39%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 354 (8.68%) GIS
3 330 (8.09%) QGIS
4 314 (7.70%) Tableau
5 249 (6.10%) Power BI
6 207 (5.07%) Oracle Database
7 134 (3.28%) Oracle Database 11g
8 101 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 99 (2.43%) Relational Database
10 88 (2.16%) RDBMS
11 86 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 85 (2.08%) MongoDB
13 62 (1.52%) SQL Server
14 51 (1.25%) Big Data
15 48 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
16 43 (1.05%) Oracle Database 10g
16 43 (1.05%) VLDB
17 42 (1.03%) Data Lake
18 32 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
19 30 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 267 (6.54%) Git
2 160 (3.92%) JIRA
3 93 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.59%) JDeveloper
5 23 (0.56%) Ant
6 21 (0.51%) Selenium
7 18 (0.44%) Subversion
8 13 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 12 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.25%) GitLab
10 10 (0.25%) Trac
11 8 (0.20%) TestRail
11 8 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.098%) eggPlant
13 3 (0.074%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.074%) ERwin
14 2 (0.049%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.025%) Maven
General
1 1,529 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 955 (23.41%) Finance
3 925 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 478 (11.72%) Influencing Skills
5 326 (7.99%) Presentation Skills
6 282 (6.91%) Aerospace
7 235 (5.76%) Marketing
8 210 (5.15%) Retail
9 108 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 98 (2.40%) Law
11 91 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 62 (1.52%) Games
13 49 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 40 (0.98%) Social Science
15 38 (0.93%) Local Government
16 34 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
17 30 (0.74%) Manufacturing
18 28 (0.69%) Police
19 27 (0.66%) Banking
20 25 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,225 (30.02%) Senior
2 1,017 (24.93%) Analyst
3 788 (19.31%) Architect
4 476 (11.67%) Software Engineer
5 462 (11.32%) Senior Analyst
6 347 (8.50%) Software Architect
7 305 (7.48%) Developer
8 252 (6.18%) Lead
9 236 (5.78%) Data Analyst
10 233 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 208 (5.10%) Project Manager
12 188 (4.61%) Senior Developer
13 186 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
14 180 (4.41%) Consultant
15 159 (3.90%) Presales Manager
16 132 (3.24%) Financial Analyst
17 131 (3.21%) Senior Data Analyst
18 128 (3.14%) Commercial Analyst
19 96 (2.35%) Data Scientist
20 91 (2.23%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (9.93%) React
2 345 (8.46%) .NET
3 331 (8.11%) Leaflet
3 331 (8.11%) OpenLayers
4 330 (8.09%) PostGIS
5 316 (7.75%) CSS
6 304 (7.45%) .NET Core
7 123 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
8 114 (2.79%) AngularJS
9 103 (2.52%) Node.js
10 100 (2.45%) HTML
11 75 (1.84%) Spring
12 69 (1.69%) Spring Boot
13 66 (1.62%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.32%) YAML
15 52 (1.27%) scikit-learn
16 51 (1.25%) Pandas
17 49 (1.20%) Django
18 47 (1.15%) PySpark
19 40 (0.98%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 127 (3.11%) Public Cloud
2 102 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 100 (2.45%) Algorithms
4 97 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 95 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 94 (2.30%) PKI
7 79 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 77 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 45 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 39 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 30 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (0.66%) Market Risk
14 22 (0.54%) CMDB
15 20 (0.49%) Satnav
16 18 (0.44%) NHS
17 17 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
18 14 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
18 14 (0.34%) FMCG
18 14 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 475 (11.64%) Linux
2 245 (6.00%) Windows
3 121 (2.97%) Unix
4 106 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 103 (2.52%) Ubuntu
6 55 (1.35%) CentOS
7 54 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
8 51 (1.25%) Solaris
9 46 (1.13%) VMS
10 27 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
10 27 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (0.61%) Windows Server
12 24 (0.59%) Debian
13 14 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.20%) AIX
15 4 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.098%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,851 (45.37%) Agile
2 848 (20.78%) Decision-Making
3 831 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
4 739 (18.11%) DevOps
5 662 (16.23%) Mentoring
6 621 (15.22%) Business Case
7 618 (15.15%) Project Management
8 552 (13.53%) Analytics
9 545 (13.36%) TOGAF
10 506 (12.40%) Software Engineering
11 469 (11.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 462 (11.32%) Visualisation
13 456 (11.18%) Validation
14 454 (11.13%) Budgeting
15 425 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
16 411 (10.07%) Presales
17 374 (9.17%) Model Validation
18 372 (9.12%) Technical Architecture
19 360 (8.82%) Requirements Management
20 357 (8.75%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 880 (21.57%) Python
2 689 (16.89%) SQL
3 445 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 252 (6.18%) C#
5 194 (4.75%) Java
6 141 (3.46%) PL/SQL
7 98 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.30%) Bash
9 74 (1.81%) R
10 54 (1.32%) C++
11 39 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 30 (0.74%) Go
13 28 (0.69%) C
14 27 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 26 (0.64%) Ruby
16 24 (0.59%) MATLAB
16 24 (0.59%) Perl
17 16 (0.39%) Bicep
18 15 (0.37%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,648 (40.39%) Security Cleared
2 1,305 (31.99%) SC Cleared
3 649 (15.91%) Degree
4 456 (11.18%) ACCA
4 456 (11.18%) CIMA
5 251 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 208 (5.10%) DBS Check
7 141 (3.46%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 71 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 49 (1.20%) PhD
12 46 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 32 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.44%) CISSP
15 17 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.37%) CISM
16 15 (0.37%) GCIA
16 15 (0.37%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.68%) Accessibility
2 113 (2.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 105 (2.57%) QA
4 70 (1.72%) SLA
5 62 (1.52%) PMO
6 60 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 58 (1.42%) WCAG
8 32 (0.78%) COBIT
9 20 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
10 17 (0.42%) NIST
11 14 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 11 (0.27%) GDPR
13 8 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.15%) GRC
14 6 (0.15%) IFRS
15 4 (0.098%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.049%) HAZOP
17 1 (0.025%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 1 (0.025%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 166 (4.07%) Docker
2 116 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 48 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
6 35 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.39%) pfSense
8 15 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.25%) NFS
10 8 (0.20%) Firmware
10 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.20%) vSphere
11 3 (0.074%) KVM
12 1 (0.025%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 257 (6.30%) Ansible
2 179 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 104 (2.55%) Terraform
4 55 (1.35%) Puppet
5 54 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 54 (1.32%) vCenter Server
6 43 (1.05%) Data Guard
6 43 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
7 32 (0.78%) OpenView
8 26 (0.64%) OpenSSO
8 26 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.39%) Grafana
9 16 (0.39%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.29%) SCCM
10 12 (0.29%) WSUS
11 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.25%) SCDPM
12 1 (0.025%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.025%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 758 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 376 (9.22%) Oracle
3 333 (8.16%) ESRI
4 201 (4.93%) Databricks
5 159 (3.90%) VMware
6 158 (3.87%) Google
7 148 (3.63%) Red Hat
8 101 (2.48%) Remedy
9 69 (1.69%) Qualtrics
10 65 (1.59%) Palo Alto
11 63 (1.54%) ServiceNow
12 58 (1.42%) Sparx
13 54 (1.32%) NetApp
13 54 (1.32%) SolidFire
14 43 (1.05%) Sun
15 40 (0.98%) Cisco
16 37 (0.91%) HP
17 36 (0.88%) Siebel
18 32 (0.78%) BMC
19 27 (0.66%) Fortinet