Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 7 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.96% 1.38% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.61% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile - £308 -
25th Percentile £463 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.82% -34.62% +44.44%
75th Percentile £511 £525 -
90th Percentile £523 £615 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £643
% change year-on-year -4.76% -18.29% +42.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Actionable Insight falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 652 620 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.19% 85.64% 84.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 415 427
10th Percentile £249 £198 £281
25th Percentile £380 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £21.44 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.06 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) OLTP
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Legal Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Data Collection
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Munging
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) R
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk