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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 134 173
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +34
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 106 76 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.97% 1.58% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.75% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 73 52 90
10th Percentile £36,250 - £33,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,813 £65,625
90th Percentile £65,000 £64,875 £66,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +15.74% -3.57%

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 8,266 4,353 8,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 75.32% 90.26% 82.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 2,574 6,881
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,392 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +10.30% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -1 72 £48,000 +1.05% 42
East Midlands -30 34 £51,058 +34.36% 23
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 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.77%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) Power Platform
2 24 (22.64%) Azure
3 9 (8.49%) AWS
4 7 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.72%) Google Analytics
7 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.83%) GCP
8 3 (2.83%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.89%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.89%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.94%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.94%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) Broadband
2 1 (0.94%) DNS
2 1 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (34.91%) Power BI
2 14 (13.21%) Power Query
3 7 (6.60%) Looker
4 6 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.66%) Tableau
5 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.83%) Metadata
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.89%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.94%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.43%) JIRA
2 7 (6.60%) Burp Suite
2 7 (6.60%) Metasploit
3 5 (4.72%) Subversion
4 3 (2.83%) JMeter
4 3 (2.83%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) Git
5 1 (0.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.94%) Postman
5 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.94%) Selenium
5 1 (0.94%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (52.83%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (45.28%) Social Skills
3 30 (28.30%) Finance
4 14 (13.21%) Retail
5 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.72%) Electronics
9 5 (4.72%) Marketing
10 4 (3.77%) Banking
11 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.83%) Spanish Language
12 2 (1.89%) Games
12 2 (1.89%) Legal
12 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.94%) Billing
13 1 (0.94%) Law
13 1 (0.94%) Local Government
13 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (24.53%) Analyst
2 15 (14.15%) Senior
3 13 (12.26%) Data Analyst
4 10 (9.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 10 (9.43%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (7.55%) Developer
5 8 (7.55%) Power BI Developer
6 7 (6.60%) Accountant
6 7 (6.60%) Lead
6 7 (6.60%) Security Specialist
6 7 (6.60%) Systems Accountant
6 7 (6.60%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 6 (5.66%) Head of QA
7 6 (5.66%) Senior Data Analyst
7 6 (5.66%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.89%) PyTorch
1 2 (1.89%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.94%) .NET
2 1 (0.94%) Playwright
2 1 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (6.60%) Insider Threat
2 7 (6.60%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.72%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.94%) 3D Printing
6 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.94%) CMDB
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.94%) IoT
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) Analytics
2 40 (37.74%) Decision-Making
3 39 (36.79%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (19.81%) Data Modelling
7 17 (16.04%) Agile
8 16 (15.09%) AI
8 16 (15.09%) Data Analysis
9 14 (13.21%) Visualisation
10 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (10.38%) Business Strategy
11 11 (10.38%) ETL
11 11 (10.38%) Information Security
12 10 (9.43%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (9.43%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.43%) Validation
13 9 (8.49%) Data Governance
13 9 (8.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) SQL
2 15 (14.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (11.32%) Python
4 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.83%) VBA
6 2 (1.89%) Java
6 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.94%) Bash
7 1 (0.94%) Bicep
7 1 (0.94%) Groovy
7 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.94%) R
7 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (16.98%) Degree
2 14 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (8.49%) CISSP
6 8 (7.55%) CEH
7 7 (6.60%) ACCA
7 7 (6.60%) CCNA
7 7 (6.60%) CIMA
7 7 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (6.60%) CISMP
7 7 (6.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (6.60%) CREST Certified
7 7 (6.60%) GIAC
7 7 (6.60%) GPEN
7 7 (6.60%) MCSE
7 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (6.60%) OSCP
8 6 (5.66%) IRCA
9 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.75%) Data Quality
2 20 (18.87%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (11.32%) GDPR
4 10 (9.43%) QA
5 7 (6.60%) Accessibility
6 6 (5.66%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.89%) PMO
8 1 (0.94%) COBIT
8 1 (0.94%) ITGC
8 1 (0.94%) NIST
Systems Management
1 7 (6.60%) Nmap
2 2 (1.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.94%) Ansible
3 1 (0.94%) Grafana
3 1 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.60%) Cisco
3 5 (4.72%) Google
4 4 (3.77%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.94%) Adobe
6 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.94%) Epicor
6 1 (0.94%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.94%) Infor
6 1 (0.94%) New Relic
6 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.94%) Sage
6 1 (0.94%) SAP