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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 152 190
Rank change year-on-year +11 +38 -26
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 149 76 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.95% 1.37% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.58% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 64 65 31
10th Percentile £35,900 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £42,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,052 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

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 11,104 4,806 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.83% 86.84% 80.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,833 2,802 3,425
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,031 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,353 £45,390 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.93% -9.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +41 98 £60,000 +45.45% 21
West Midlands -48 52 £45,000 -5.26% 60
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 (1.34%) SAS
2 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.81%) Power Platform
2 7 (4.70%) Azure
3 4 (2.68%) Google Ads
3 4 (2.68%) Google Sheets
3 4 (2.68%) SaaS
4 3 (2.01%) AWS
4 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.01%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.34%) GCP
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.67%) Meta Ads
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Advertising
6 1 (0.67%) Miro
6 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.67%) Serverless
6 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.81%) Power BI
2 16 (10.74%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.38%) Power Query
4 7 (4.70%) Tableau
5 6 (4.03%) QlikView
6 5 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.36%) GIS
7 4 (2.68%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.34%) Base SAS
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.67%) Big Data
9 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.67%) Looker
9 1 (0.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Git
2 2 (1.34%) JIRA
General
1 83 (55.70%) Analytical Skills
2 81 (54.36%) Finance
3 36 (24.16%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.75%) Marketing
5 18 (12.08%) Banking
6 11 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (6.71%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.03%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.36%) Retail
10 5 (3.36%) Social Housing
11 4 (2.68%) Advertising
11 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.67%) Automotive
13 1 (0.67%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.67%) Law
13 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (30.20%) Analyst
2 41 (27.52%) Data Scientist
3 34 (22.82%) Data Analyst
4 31 (20.81%) Developer
5 29 (19.46%) Lead
6 24 (16.11%) Senior
7 22 (14.77%) Lead Data Scientist
7 22 (14.77%) Senior Data Scientist
8 19 (12.75%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (11.41%) Senior Data Analyst
10 14 (9.40%) Data Manager
10 14 (9.40%) Statistician
11 13 (8.72%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Accountant
12 7 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 7 (4.70%) Business Manager
12 7 (4.70%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Systems Accountant
13 6 (4.03%) Lead Data Analyst
14 5 (3.36%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.77%) Hugging Face
1 22 (14.77%) PyTorch
1 22 (14.77%) TensorFlow
2 4 (2.68%) EDI
3 2 (1.34%) NumPy
3 2 (1.34%) Pandas
3 2 (1.34%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.67%) LightGBM
4 1 (0.67%) React
4 1 (0.67%) SciPy
4 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.34%) FMCG
4 2 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.67%) CMDB
5 1 (0.67%) CSOC
5 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.67%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.67%) Social Media
5 1 (0.67%) Social Network
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Linux
1 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.31%) Decision-Making
2 63 (42.28%) Analytics
3 60 (40.27%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (39.60%) Roadmaps
5 48 (32.21%) Data Science
6 44 (29.53%) Statistics
7 43 (28.86%) Machine Learning
8 37 (24.83%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (24.16%) Deep Learning
10 33 (22.15%) Data Analytics
11 32 (21.48%) AI
11 32 (21.48%) Mentoring
12 31 (20.81%) Data Analysis
12 31 (20.81%) Data Transformation
13 26 (17.45%) Data Management
14 25 (16.78%) Data Modelling
15 24 (16.11%) Software Engineering
15 24 (16.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (14.77%) Data Extraction
16 22 (14.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (52.35%) SQL
2 69 (46.31%) Python
3 9 (6.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.03%) R
5 1 (0.67%) PHP
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Degree
2 8 (5.37%) ACCA
2 8 (5.37%) CIMA
3 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.67%) CITP
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (20.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.05%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (4.70%) QA
4 6 (4.03%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.36%) GDPR
6 2 (1.34%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (6.71%) Google
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.37%) SYSPRO
3 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.68%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.67%) Databricks
5 1 (0.67%) Facebook
5 1 (0.67%) Instagram
5 1 (0.67%) Qualtrics
5 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow