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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 137 171
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 +22
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 115 79 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 1.61% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.82% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 73 54 92
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £46,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -19.57% +27.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,406 £66,250
90th Percentile £63,610 £64,625 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -

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 9,072 4,352 9,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.35% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,337 2,621 7,104
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -2 74 £48,250 +1.58% 22
East Midlands -36 41 £51,058 +34.36% 15
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 (0.87%) Confluence
1 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.91%) Power Platform
2 24 (20.87%) Azure
3 8 (6.96%) AWS
3 8 (6.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.35%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.61%) GCP
6 3 (2.61%) iPaaS
6 3 (2.61%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.74%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.87%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.87%) MailChimp
8 1 (0.87%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Broadband
2 1 (0.87%) DNS
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.91%) Power BI
2 15 (13.04%) Power Query
3 7 (6.09%) Looker
4 6 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.22%) Tableau
5 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.61%) Metadata
6 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.87%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) JIRA
2 5 (4.35%) Burp Suite
2 5 (4.35%) Metasploit
2 5 (4.35%) Subversion
3 3 (2.61%) JMeter
3 3 (2.61%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.87%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) GitLab
4 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) Postman
4 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
General
1 60 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (38.26%) Social Skills
3 42 (36.52%) Finance
4 12 (10.43%) Retail
5 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (6.96%) Banking
7 8 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.22%) Marketing
9 5 (4.35%) Electronics
10 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.74%) Games
11 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Billing
12 1 (0.87%) Local Government
12 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Analyst
2 18 (15.65%) Senior
3 16 (13.91%) Data Analyst
4 13 (11.30%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (9.57%) Accountant
5 11 (9.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 11 (9.57%) Lead
5 11 (9.57%) Systems Accountant
6 10 (8.70%) Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Power BI Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Senior Data Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Head of QA
8 6 (5.22%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.35%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Security Specialist
9 5 (4.35%) Software Test Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) PyTorch
1 5 (4.35%) TensorFlow
2 3 (2.61%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.87%) .NET
3 1 (0.87%) Playwright
3 1 (0.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (4.35%) Insider Threat
2 5 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.74%) CSOC
4 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.87%) 3D Printing
5 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.87%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (0.87%) IoT
5 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.13%) Analytics
2 41 (35.65%) Business Intelligence
3 40 (34.78%) Decision-Making
4 34 (29.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 22 (19.13%) AI
8 20 (17.39%) Data Analysis
9 18 (15.65%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.91%) Agile
11 14 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (12.17%) Visualisation
12 13 (11.30%) Business Strategy
12 13 (11.30%) ERP
13 12 (10.43%) ETL
13 12 (10.43%) Validation
14 11 (9.57%) Budgeting
14 11 (9.57%) Data Science
14 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.74%) SQL
2 17 (14.78%) Python
3 16 (13.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.61%) VBA
6 2 (1.74%) Java
6 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.87%) Bash
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) Groovy
7 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.87%) R
7 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Degree
2 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.57%) ACCA
4 11 (9.57%) CIMA
5 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.09%) CISSP
7 6 (5.22%) CEH
7 6 (5.22%) IRCA
8 5 (4.35%) CCNA
8 5 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.35%) CISMP
8 5 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (4.35%) CREST Certified
8 5 (4.35%) GIAC
8 5 (4.35%) GPEN
8 5 (4.35%) MCSE
8 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (4.35%) OSCP
9 2 (1.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.13%) Data Quality
2 19 (16.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (9.57%) GDPR
3 11 (9.57%) QA
4 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 6 (5.22%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.61%) PMO
6 1 (0.87%) COBIT
6 1 (0.87%) ITGC
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Nmap
2 2 (1.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Ansible
3 1 (0.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.22%) Google
3 5 (4.35%) Cisco
3 5 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.87%) Adobe
5 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.87%) Epicor
5 1 (0.87%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.87%) Infor
5 1 (0.87%) New Relic
5 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.87%) Sage
5 1 (0.87%) SAP
5 1 (0.87%) WooCommerce