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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 149 174
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 +23
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 154 77 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.20% 1.54% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.72% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 71 59 93
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,200 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £66,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.67%

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 9,175 4,466 10,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 71.32% 89.46% 79.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,867 2,454 7,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,891 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £49,300 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +36 82 £55,000 +37.78% 31
West Midlands -20 72 £50,000 -4.76% 36
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%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 22 (14.29%) Azure
3 8 (5.19%) AWS
4 6 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (3.25%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.60%) GCP
6 4 (2.60%) Google Sheets
6 4 (2.60%) SaaS
7 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.95%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.95%) iPaaS
7 3 (1.95%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.65%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.65%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.18%) Power BI
2 12 (7.79%) Power Query
3 5 (3.25%) Looker
3 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.95%) Metadata
5 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.95%) Tableau
6 2 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.65%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 7 (4.55%) JIRA
2 4 (2.60%) Burp Suite
2 4 (2.60%) Metasploit
3 3 (1.95%) JMeter
3 3 (1.95%) LoadRunner
3 3 (1.95%) Subversion
4 2 (1.30%) Git
5 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.65%) Postman
5 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
5 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (57.14%) Finance
2 79 (51.30%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.39%) Banking
5 14 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.84%) Retail
8 8 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (5.19%) Marketing
9 4 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Electronics
11 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (31.17%) Analyst
2 35 (22.73%) Data Scientist
3 33 (21.43%) Lead
4 32 (20.78%) Data Analyst
5 29 (18.83%) Developer
6 28 (18.18%) Senior
7 27 (17.53%) Senior Analyst
8 20 (12.99%) Lead Data Scientist
8 20 (12.99%) Senior Data Analyst
8 20 (12.99%) Senior Data Scientist
9 16 (10.39%) Accountant
9 16 (10.39%) Systems Accountant
10 14 (9.09%) Statistician
11 12 (7.79%) Lead Developer
12 9 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 6 (3.90%) Head of QA
14 5 (3.25%) Lead Data Analyst
14 5 (3.25%) Power BI Analyst
15 4 (2.60%) Senior PMO Analyst
15 4 (2.60%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 22 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 20 (12.99%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.65%) .NET
3 1 (0.65%) LightGBM
3 1 (0.65%) NumPy
3 1 (0.65%) Pandas
3 1 (0.65%) Playwright
3 1 (0.65%) PySpark
3 1 (0.65%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.65%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (2.60%) Insider Threat
2 4 (2.60%) Security Posture
3 3 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.30%) CMDB
4 2 (1.30%) CSOC
4 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.65%) FMCG
5 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.61%) Analytics
2 58 (37.66%) Roadmaps
3 54 (35.06%) Decision-Making
4 45 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (26.62%) Data Science
6 40 (25.97%) Statistics
7 39 (25.32%) AI
8 37 (24.03%) Machine Learning
9 34 (22.08%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (22.08%) Deep Learning
10 33 (21.43%) Data Analysis
11 32 (20.78%) Mentoring
12 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (16.88%) Data Analytics
15 24 (15.58%) Data Extraction
15 24 (15.58%) Data Management
15 24 (15.58%) Validation
16 23 (14.94%) Data Transformation
17 22 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.56%) Python
2 52 (33.77%) SQL
3 10 (6.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.25%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.95%) VBA
6 2 (1.30%) Java
6 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.30%) R
7 1 (0.65%) Bash
7 1 (0.65%) Bicep
7 1 (0.65%) Groovy
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (10.39%) ACCA
1 16 (10.39%) CIMA
2 14 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) Degree
3 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.90%) IRCA
6 5 (3.25%) CISSP
7 4 (2.60%) CCNA
7 4 (2.60%) CEH
7 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.60%) CISMP
7 4 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.60%) CREST Certified
7 4 (2.60%) GIAC
7 4 (2.60%) GPEN
7 4 (2.60%) MCSE
7 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (2.60%) OSCP
8 3 (1.95%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.34%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 11 (7.14%) GDPR
3 11 (7.14%) QA
4 6 (3.90%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.60%) 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 4 (2.60%) Nmap
2 2 (1.30%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.19%) Google
3 5 (3.25%) Databricks
4 4 (2.60%) Cisco
4 4 (2.60%) HubSpot
5 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.65%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.65%) New Relic
7 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.65%) WooCommerce