Actionable Insight Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 158 168
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +57
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 87 73 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 1.31% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.42% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 63 51 84
10th Percentile £30,650 £37,500 £32,950
25th Percentile £40,375 £38,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,512 £63,750 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +15.74% -1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,255 5,156 7,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.86% 92.73% 85.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,099 2,471 6,075
10th Percentile £28,232 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.43% -6.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in the Midlands

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 March 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
West Midlands +7 52 £44,272 -1.62% 54
East Midlands -16 35 £51,058 +20.14% 23
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (2.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) Power Platform
2 20 (22.99%) Azure
3 9 (10.34%) AWS
4 8 (9.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.60%) Google Analytics
7 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.15%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.15%) Contentsquare
9 1 (1.15%) GCP
9 1 (1.15%) GitHub
9 1 (1.15%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (44.83%) Power BI
2 12 (13.79%) Power Query
3 8 (9.20%) Tableau
4 7 (8.05%) Looker
5 6 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (6.90%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.45%) Metadata
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.15%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) JIRA
2 7 (8.05%) Burp Suite
2 7 (8.05%) Metasploit
3 5 (5.75%) Subversion
4 2 (2.30%) Git
General
1 45 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (50.57%) Social Skills
3 19 (21.84%) Finance
4 15 (17.24%) Retail
5 8 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.90%) Marketing
7 5 (5.75%) Banking
7 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.75%) Electronics
8 3 (3.45%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.30%) Games
9 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Law
9 2 (2.30%) Legal
9 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Billing
10 1 (1.15%) Local Government
10 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (26.44%) Analyst
2 15 (17.24%) Senior
3 12 (13.79%) Data Analyst
4 10 (11.49%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (10.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 8 (9.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Power BI Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Security Specialist
7 7 (8.05%) Senior Data Analyst
7 7 (8.05%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
8 5 (5.75%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 5 (5.75%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Systems Test Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 4 (4.60%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) PySpark
1 2 (2.30%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.30%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.15%) .NET
2 1 (1.15%) Ember.js
2 1 (1.15%) JSON
2 1 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (8.05%) Insider Threat
1 7 (8.05%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.75%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.30%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.15%) 3D Printing
5 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.15%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.15%) IoT
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.15%) NHS
5 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (43.68%) Decision-Making
3 34 (39.08%) Analytics
4 33 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (24.14%) Data Modelling
6 17 (19.54%) Data Analysis
6 17 (19.54%) Visualisation
7 16 (18.39%) Agile
8 14 (16.09%) CRM
9 13 (14.94%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (12.64%) ETL
10 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (11.49%) Data Governance
11 10 (11.49%) Data Management
11 10 (11.49%) Information Security
11 10 (11.49%) Validation
12 9 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
12 9 (10.34%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.74%) SQL
2 14 (16.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (12.64%) Python
4 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.45%) VBA
5 2 (2.30%) R
6 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Degree
2 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) CEH
3 8 (9.20%) CISSP
4 7 (8.05%) CCNA
4 7 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.05%) CISMP
4 7 (8.05%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (8.05%) CREST Certified
4 7 (8.05%) GIAC
4 7 (8.05%) GPEN
4 7 (8.05%) MCSE
4 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 7 (8.05%) OSCP
5 3 (3.45%) CIPD
6 2 (2.30%) CITP
6 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) Actionable Recommendations
2 14 (16.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (10.34%) GDPR
4 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.45%) QA
5 2 (2.30%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.30%) PMO
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.05%) Nmap
2 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Cisco
3 4 (4.60%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) Databricks
4 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Epicor
6 1 (1.15%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.15%) Infor
6 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.15%) Sage
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow