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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 142 162
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +46
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 96 78 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.95% 1.54% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.68% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 66 57 88
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,550
25th Percentile £41,794 £38,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,375 £64,250 £66,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -6.25%

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 7,790 4,652 8,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.94% 91.70% 84.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,444 2,564 6,583
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,662 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,690 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 19 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 19 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 +5 61 £44,772 -0.51% 42
East Midlands -33 35 £51,058 +20.85% 20
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 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 21 (21.88%) Azure
3 9 (9.38%) AWS
4 7 (7.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.17%) Google Analytics
7 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.08%) GCP
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.08%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.04%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.04%) Contentsquare
9 1 (1.04%) GitHub
9 1 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (37.50%) Power BI
2 12 (12.50%) Power Query
3 7 (7.29%) Looker
4 6 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (6.25%) Tableau
5 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.13%) Metadata
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.04%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) JIRA
2 7 (7.29%) Burp Suite
2 7 (7.29%) Metasploit
3 5 (5.21%) Subversion
4 2 (2.08%) Git
4 2 (2.08%) JMeter
4 2 (2.08%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.04%) GitLab
5 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) Postman
5 1 (1.04%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.04%) Selenium
5 1 (1.04%) SoapUI
General
1 51 (53.13%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (48.96%) Social Skills
3 25 (26.04%) Finance
4 16 (16.67%) Retail
5 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.21%) Electronics
7 4 (4.17%) Banking
7 4 (4.17%) Marketing
8 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.08%) Games
9 2 (2.08%) Law
9 2 (2.08%) Legal
9 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Billing
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Analyst
2 15 (15.63%) Senior
3 12 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 10 (10.42%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 8 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Security Specialist
7 7 (7.29%) Senior Data Analyst
7 7 (7.29%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Head of QA
9 5 (5.21%) Lead
9 5 (5.21%) Software Test Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Systems Test Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Senior User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.08%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.04%) .NET
2 1 (1.04%) JSON
2 1 (1.04%) Playwright
2 1 (1.04%) PySpark
2 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (7.29%) Insider Threat
2 7 (7.29%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.21%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.08%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.04%) 3D Printing
6 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) CMDB
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.58%) Analytics
1 38 (39.58%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (38.54%) Decision-Making
3 32 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (20.83%) Data Modelling
6 17 (17.71%) Agile
7 15 (15.63%) Data Analysis
8 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (13.54%) Visualisation
10 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.46%) AI
11 11 (11.46%) ETL
11 11 (11.46%) Information Security
12 10 (10.42%) CRM
12 10 (10.42%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (10.42%) Validation
13 9 (9.38%) Customer-Centricity
13 9 (9.38%) Data Governance
14 8 (8.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.92%) SQL
2 14 (14.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.13%) VBA
5 2 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.04%) R
6 1 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.38%) CISSP
5 8 (8.33%) CEH
6 7 (7.29%) CCNA
6 7 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (7.29%) CISMP
6 7 (7.29%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (7.29%) CREST Certified
6 7 (7.29%) GIAC
6 7 (7.29%) GPEN
6 7 (7.29%) MCSE
6 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 7 (7.29%) OSCP
7 5 (5.21%) IRCA
8 3 (3.13%) ACCA
8 3 (3.13%) CIMA
8 3 (3.13%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.75%) Actionable Recommendations
2 17 (17.71%) Data Quality
3 12 (12.50%) GDPR
4 7 (7.29%) QA
5 5 (5.21%) ISO 9001
6 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.08%) PMO
8 1 (1.04%) COBIT
8 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.04%) ITGC
8 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Nmap
2 1 (1.04%) SCCM
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Cisco
3 4 (4.17%) Google
4 3 (3.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Epicor
6 1 (1.04%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.04%) Infor
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Sage
6 1 (1.04%) SAP