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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 146 180
Rank change year-on-year +30 +34 +11
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 156 75 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.21% 1.43% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.64% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 73 58 88
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,925 £33,550
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £48,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -16.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £66,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -10.71%

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 8,946 4,568 10,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.57% 87.26% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,314 2,669 7,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,438 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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
East Midlands +39 84 £60,000 +50.30% 34
West Midlands -18 72 £50,000 -1.96% 31
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 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.15%) Power Platform
2 19 (12.18%) Azure
3 5 (3.21%) AWS
3 5 (3.21%) GCP
3 5 (3.21%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (2.56%) Google Sheets
4 4 (2.56%) SaaS
5 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.92%) Google Analytics
5 3 (1.92%) iPaaS
5 3 (1.92%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.28%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.64%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.64%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.64%) Miro
7 1 (0.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) Broadband
2 1 (0.64%) DNS
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.15%) Power BI
2 14 (8.97%) Power Query
3 5 (3.21%) Looker
3 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.21%) Tableau
4 3 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.92%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.92%) QlikView
4 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.28%) Metadata
5 2 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 5 (3.21%) JIRA
2 3 (1.92%) JMeter
2 3 (1.92%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.28%) Git
4 1 (0.64%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.64%) Postman
4 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.64%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
General
1 92 (58.97%) Finance
2 82 (52.56%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (22.44%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.54%) Banking
5 15 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 10 (6.41%) Marketing
8 6 (3.85%) Retail
9 5 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.64%) Advertising
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (32.05%) Analyst
2 39 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 35 (22.44%) Lead
4 33 (21.15%) Data Analyst
5 29 (18.59%) Developer
6 28 (17.95%) Senior
7 27 (17.31%) Senior Analyst
8 22 (14.10%) Lead Data Scientist
8 22 (14.10%) Senior Data Scientist
9 20 (12.82%) Senior Data Analyst
10 16 (10.26%) Accountant
10 16 (10.26%) Systems Accountant
11 14 (8.97%) Lead Developer
11 14 (8.97%) Statistician
12 8 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 6 (3.85%) Head of QA
14 5 (3.21%) Data Manager
14 5 (3.21%) Lead Data Analyst
14 5 (3.21%) Power BI Analyst
15 4 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.38%) PyTorch
1 24 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 22 (14.10%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.64%) LightGBM
3 1 (0.64%) NumPy
3 1 (0.64%) Pandas
3 1 (0.64%) Playwright
3 1 (0.64%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.64%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.28%) CMDB
3 2 (1.28%) CSOC
3 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.64%) FMCG
4 1 (0.64%) Insider Threat
4 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.95%) Analytics
2 61 (39.10%) Roadmaps
3 57 (36.54%) Decision-Making
4 45 (28.85%) Data Science
5 44 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (27.56%) Statistics
7 42 (26.92%) AI
8 40 (25.64%) Machine Learning
9 38 (24.36%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (23.08%) Deep Learning
10 36 (23.08%) Mentoring
11 32 (20.51%) Data Analysis
12 29 (18.59%) Data Analytics
13 28 (17.95%) Data Management
13 28 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (16.03%) Data Extraction
16 24 (15.38%) Project Management
16 24 (15.38%) Validation
17 23 (14.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.31%) Python
2 60 (38.46%) SQL
3 9 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.21%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.92%) VBA
6 2 (1.28%) Java
6 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.28%) R
7 1 (0.64%) Bash
7 1 (0.64%) Bicep
7 1 (0.64%) Groovy
7 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (10.26%) ACCA
1 16 (10.26%) CIMA
2 15 (9.62%) Degree
3 11 (7.05%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.41%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.85%) IRCA
6 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.92%) CITP
8 2 (1.28%) CISSP
8 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.28%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.28%) PMP
8 2 (1.28%) SANS
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.64%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.64%) GPEN
9 1 (0.64%) IIBA
9 1 (0.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.10%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.62%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (7.69%) QA
4 10 (6.41%) GDPR
5 6 (3.85%) ISO 9001
6 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.56%) PMO
8 1 (0.64%) COBIT
8 1 (0.64%) ITGC
8 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) Ansible
1 1 (0.64%) Grafana
1 1 (0.64%) Nmap
1 1 (0.64%) SCCM
1 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.13%) Google
3 6 (3.85%) Databricks
4 4 (2.56%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.56%) SYSPRO
5 3 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe
7 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco
7 1 (0.64%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.64%) New Relic
7 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.64%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.64%) WooCommerce