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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 4 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.66% 1.13% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.37% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £468 £256 -
25th Percentile £475 £331 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -32.69% +9.24%
75th Percentile £500 £491 -
90th Percentile £507 £606 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% +14.54%

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 552 585 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.79% 82.98% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 380 452
10th Percentile £203 £200 £275
25th Percentile £370 £379 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £602
90th Percentile £663 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 9 25
10th Percentile - £21.10 £12.98
25th Percentile £12.62 £25.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +66.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +56.16%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) OLTP
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Linear Algebra
2 1 (25.00%) Naive Bayes
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Support Vector Machines
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CBAP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk