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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 153 181
Rank change year-on-year +31 +28 -3
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 155 82 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.07% 1.41% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.66% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 72 65 34
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,100 £34,150
25th Percentile £44,604 £41,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -24.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £100,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

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 10,105 4,945 8,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.83% 85.16% 77.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7,200 2,999 4,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +47 88 £60,000 +50.15% 14
West Midlands -26 67 £50,000 -1.96% 28
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 (0.65%) ArcGIS
1 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.35%) Power Platform
2 15 (9.68%) Azure
3 5 (3.23%) GCP
4 4 (2.58%) AWS
4 4 (2.58%) Google Sheets
4 4 (2.58%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.58%) SaaS
5 3 (1.94%) Google Analytics
5 3 (1.94%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.29%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.29%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.65%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.65%) MailChimp
7 1 (0.65%) Miro
7 1 (0.65%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) DNS
1 1 (0.65%) Firewall
1 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (19.35%) Power BI
2 13 (8.39%) Power Query
3 7 (4.52%) Tableau
4 6 (3.87%) QlikView
5 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.58%) GIS
7 3 (1.94%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.94%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (1.94%) Looker
7 3 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.58%) JIRA
2 3 (1.94%) JMeter
2 3 (1.94%) LoadRunner
3 2 (1.29%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Postman
4 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 89 (57.42%) Finance
2 83 (53.55%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (26.45%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.61%) Banking
5 12 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (7.74%) Marketing
6 11 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.58%) Retail
11 3 (1.94%) Advertising
11 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.65%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 45 (29.03%) Analyst
2 40 (25.81%) Data Scientist
3 34 (21.94%) Lead
4 31 (20.00%) Data Analyst
5 27 (17.42%) Developer
6 23 (14.84%) Senior
7 22 (14.19%) Lead Data Scientist
7 22 (14.19%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (14.19%) Senior Data Scientist
8 18 (11.61%) Senior Data Analyst
9 16 (10.32%) Accountant
9 16 (10.32%) Systems Accountant
10 14 (9.03%) Statistician
11 13 (8.39%) Data Manager
11 13 (8.39%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 6 (3.87%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 6 (3.87%) Business Manager
12 6 (3.87%) Head of QA
12 6 (3.87%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.84%) PyTorch
1 23 (14.84%) TensorFlow
2 22 (14.19%) Hugging Face
3 3 (1.94%) EDI
4 1 (0.65%) LightGBM
4 1 (0.65%) NumPy
4 1 (0.65%) Pandas
4 1 (0.65%) Playwright
4 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.65%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.29%) CMDB
4 2 (1.29%) CSOC
4 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.65%) FMCG
5 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.65%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.23%) Analytics
2 59 (38.06%) Roadmaps
3 58 (37.42%) Decision-Making
4 46 (29.68%) Data Science
4 46 (29.68%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (28.39%) Statistics
6 42 (27.10%) AI
6 42 (27.10%) Machine Learning
7 36 (23.23%) Deep Learning
8 35 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (22.58%) Mentoring
9 31 (20.00%) Data Analysis
10 30 (19.35%) Data Analytics
11 28 (18.06%) Data Management
11 28 (18.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (15.48%) Data Extraction
13 24 (15.48%) Validation
14 23 (14.84%) ERP
14 23 (14.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (43.23%) Python
2 63 (40.65%) SQL
3 6 (3.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.29%) Java
5 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.65%) Bash
6 1 (0.65%) Bicep
6 1 (0.65%) Groovy
6 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.65%) R
6 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) Degree
2 16 (10.32%) ACCA
2 16 (10.32%) CIMA
3 10 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.87%) IRCA
6 2 (1.29%) CITP
6 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.29%) SANS
7 1 (0.65%) CISA
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.42%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (7.74%) QA
4 10 (6.45%) GDPR
5 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.87%) ISO 9001
6 4 (2.58%) PMO
7 1 (0.65%) COBIT
7 1 (0.65%) ITGC
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Ansible
1 1 (0.65%) Grafana
1 1 (0.65%) SCCM
1 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.16%) Google
2 8 (5.16%) SYSPRO
3 4 (2.58%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.94%) Databricks
4 3 (1.94%) Oracle
4 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.65%) New Relic
5 1 (0.65%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.65%) WooCommerce