Actionable Insight Job Trends in London

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 173 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 -64 +281
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 304 242 655
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.49% 1.92% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.99% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 217 110 179
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,063 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £101,000 £115,500 £95,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,723 12,131 21,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.07% 96.11% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,130 7,358 15,996
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in London

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in London

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
Central London +14 61 £70,000 -6.67% 61
West London -18 11 £30,000 -52.00% 6
East London -10 7 £30,000 - 10
South London +21 5 £44,900 -26.69%
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (2.63%) Palantir Foundry
2 6 (1.97%) SAS
3 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.66%) Moodle
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.96%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Notion
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.29%) NetSuite
2 8 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.99%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.99%) Misys Opics
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.66%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.33%) Power Platform
2 34 (11.18%) Azure
3 22 (7.24%) AWS
4 20 (6.58%) Google Analytics
4 20 (6.58%) SaaS
5 18 (5.92%) GCP
6 13 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.62%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.62%) Figma
8 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.99%) dbt
10 3 (0.99%) GitHub
10 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (0.99%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.99%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.66%) Contentsquare
11 2 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.66%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.66%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.58%) Broadband
2 7 (2.30%) WinSCP
3 5 (1.64%) 5G
4 3 (0.99%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (25.33%) Power BI
2 46 (15.13%) Tableau
3 12 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 12 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.96%) Looker
4 9 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.63%) Metadata
5 8 (2.63%) SAP BW
6 7 (2.30%) Power Query
6 7 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.32%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.99%) Big Data
9 3 (0.99%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.99%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.99%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 9 (2.96%) Axure RP
1 9 (2.96%) Balsamiq
2 8 (2.63%) Git
3 6 (1.97%) JIRA
4 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.33%) GitLab
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
5 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 151 (49.67%) Analytical Skills
1 151 (49.67%) Social Skills
2 104 (34.21%) Finance
3 55 (18.09%) Marketing
4 32 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 28 (9.21%) Law
6 25 (8.22%) Retail
7 22 (7.24%) Legal
8 17 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (4.93%) Banking
10 14 (4.61%) Publishing
11 10 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.63%) Advertising
14 5 (1.64%) German Language
14 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.32%) Aviation
15 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (28.95%) Analyst
2 43 (14.14%) Data Analyst
3 40 (13.16%) Senior
4 36 (11.84%) Consultant
5 29 (9.54%) Data Scientist
6 26 (8.55%) Lead
7 14 (4.61%) Architect
7 14 (4.61%) Senior Consultant
8 13 (4.28%) Business Consultant
8 13 (4.28%) User Researcher
9 12 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.95%) Business Architect
9 12 (3.95%) Designer
9 12 (3.95%) Senior Architect
9 12 (3.95%) Senior Business Consultant
9 12 (3.95%) UX Designer
10 11 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 11 (3.62%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.29%) Commercial Data Analyst
11 10 (3.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (2.96%) CSS
2 9 (2.96%) HTML
3 8 (2.63%) TensorFlow
4 7 (2.30%) .NET
4 7 (2.30%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.64%) Streamlit
6 4 (1.32%) Kafka
6 4 (1.32%) PySpark
7 3 (0.99%) Pandas
8 2 (0.66%) Flash
9 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.33%) JSON
9 1 (0.33%) Node.js
9 1 (0.33%) NumPy
9 1 (0.33%) OpenCV
9 1 (0.33%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.33%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (0.33%) VML
9 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.87%) Data Structures
2 19 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.28%) FMCG
4 13 (4.28%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.28%) Social Media
5 10 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.29%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.96%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (2.30%) Blog
8 7 (2.30%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.64%) Clustering
11 4 (1.32%) Derivative
11 4 (1.32%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.89%) Windows
2 18 (5.92%) Linux
3 9 (2.96%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.66%) Android
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (46.05%) Analytics
2 99 (32.57%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (27.63%) Decision-Making
4 61 (20.07%) AI
5 60 (19.74%) Data Modelling
5 60 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (17.76%) Agile
7 52 (17.11%) Mentoring
7 52 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (15.13%) Machine Learning
10 44 (14.47%) Data Analysis
10 44 (14.47%) Data Science
11 36 (11.84%) Visualisation
12 35 (11.51%) Data Analytics
13 33 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
15 31 (10.20%) User Research
16 29 (9.54%) User Experience
17 28 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 101 (33.22%) SQL
2 91 (29.93%) Python
3 23 (7.57%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.97%) VB.NET
7 4 (1.32%) C
7 4 (1.32%) C#
7 4 (1.32%) C++
7 4 (1.32%) Go
7 4 (1.32%) Java
7 4 (1.32%) Rust
8 3 (0.99%) Bash
8 3 (0.99%) Objective-C
8 3 (0.99%) Perl
8 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.99%) R
8 3 (0.99%) Ruby
9 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 59 (19.41%) Degree
2 30 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.93%) CISSP
5 13 (4.28%) ACCA
5 13 (4.28%) CIMA
5 13 (4.28%) CISA
6 9 (2.96%) CompTIA CySA+
7 7 (2.30%) CREST Certified
7 7 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.64%) CISM
8 5 (1.64%) GIAC
9 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.99%) CBAP
10 3 (0.99%) CCSAM
10 3 (0.99%) GPEN
10 3 (0.99%) GXPN
10 3 (0.99%) OSCE
10 3 (0.99%) OSCP
10 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 28 (9.21%) Accessibility
4 20 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (6.25%) NIST
6 10 (3.29%) QA
7 9 (2.96%) GDPR
7 9 (2.96%) WCAG
8 6 (1.97%) MiFID
9 5 (1.64%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.32%) IFRS
10 4 (1.32%) IFRS 17
10 4 (1.32%) PMO
11 3 (0.99%) GRC
11 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.66%) COBIT
12 2 (0.66%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.33%) P3O
13 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.99%) Terraform
3 2 (0.66%) Grafana
3 2 (0.66%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.33%) Ansible
4 1 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.53%) Google
3 19 (6.25%) Oracle
4 18 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.26%) SAP
6 11 (3.62%) Adobe
7 10 (3.29%) Databricks
8 8 (2.63%) Foundry
8 8 (2.63%) Palantir
9 5 (1.64%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.64%) Splunk
10 4 (1.32%) Ariba
11 3 (0.99%) Sage
12 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.66%) Freshdesk
12 2 (0.66%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.66%) Progress
12 2 (0.66%) Workday
12 2 (0.66%) Xero