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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 139 168
Rank change year-on-year -10 +29 +19
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 114 80 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.90% 1.60% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.80% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 70 54 93
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,529 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £63,875 £64,625 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £54,750
% change year-on-year -8.00% +14.16% -0.45%

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 9,279 4,450 9,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.88% 89.05% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,517 2,601 7,118
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 May 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 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
West Midlands -19 71 £48,000 +1.05% 23
East Midlands -20 43 £51,058 +34.36% 22
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 (0.88%) Confluence
1 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.51%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.70%) Power Platform
2 20 (17.54%) Azure
3 7 (6.14%) AWS
4 6 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (4.39%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.39%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.63%) GCP
7 3 (2.63%) iPaaS
7 3 (2.63%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.88%) Contentsquare
9 1 (0.88%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.88%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.70%) Power BI
2 15 (13.16%) Power Query
3 7 (6.14%) Looker
4 5 (4.39%) Tableau
5 4 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.63%) Metadata
6 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.88%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.77%) JIRA
2 5 (4.39%) Subversion
3 4 (3.51%) Burp Suite
3 4 (3.51%) Metasploit
4 3 (2.63%) JMeter
4 3 (2.63%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.88%) Git
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.88%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 57 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (38.60%) Finance
3 38 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.65%) Retail
5 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.02%) Banking
6 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.26%) Marketing
8 5 (4.39%) Electronics
9 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.63%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.75%) Games
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (28.95%) Analyst
2 19 (16.67%) Senior
3 16 (14.04%) Data Analyst
4 14 (12.28%) Lead
4 14 (12.28%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (9.65%) Accountant
5 11 (9.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 11 (9.65%) Systems Accountant
6 10 (8.77%) Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Data Scientist
7 8 (7.02%) Power BI Developer
7 8 (7.02%) Senior Data Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Head of QA
8 6 (5.26%) Lead Data Scientist
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
8 6 (5.26%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Software Test Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) PyTorch
1 8 (7.02%) TensorFlow
2 6 (5.26%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) Playwright
3 1 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.39%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (3.51%) Insider Threat
3 4 (3.51%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.75%) CSOC
4 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) FMCG
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.84%) Analytics
2 37 (32.46%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (32.46%) Decision-Making
3 31 (27.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (19.30%) Data Modelling
5 22 (19.30%) Roadmaps
6 21 (18.42%) AI
7 19 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 15 (13.16%) Agile
8 15 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (12.28%) Data Science
10 13 (11.40%) Business Strategy
10 13 (11.40%) Mentoring
10 13 (11.40%) Statistics
11 12 (10.53%) ERP
11 12 (10.53%) ETL
11 12 (10.53%) Validation
12 10 (8.77%) Data Management
12 10 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.05%) SQL
2 21 (18.42%) Python
3 14 (12.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.39%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.63%) VBA
6 2 (1.75%) Java
6 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.88%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
7 1 (0.88%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.88%) R
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.53%) Degree
2 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.65%) ACCA
3 11 (9.65%) CIMA
4 6 (5.26%) IRCA
4 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.39%) CISSP
6 4 (3.51%) CCNA
6 4 (3.51%) CEH
6 4 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.51%) CISMP
6 4 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (3.51%) CREST Certified
6 4 (3.51%) GIAC
6 4 (3.51%) GPEN
6 4 (3.51%) MCSE
6 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (3.51%) OSCP
7 2 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 17 (14.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (9.65%) GDPR
3 11 (9.65%) QA
4 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 6 (5.26%) ISO 9001
5 4 (3.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) ITGC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Nmap
2 2 (1.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) Google
3 5 (4.39%) Databricks
4 4 (3.51%) Cisco
5 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.88%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.88%) New Relic
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) WooCommerce