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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 133 158
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 +60
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 99 76 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.94% 1.57% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.72% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 68 55 90
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £33,850
25th Percentile £41,981 £37,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,529 £45,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,125 £64,500 £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 8,037 4,408 8,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.39% 91.09% 83.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,610 2,575 6,751
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 26 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 26 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 +7 66 £46,499 +0.54% 42
East Midlands -32 33 £51,058 +21.57% 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 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.04%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 24 (24.24%) Azure
3 9 (9.09%) AWS
4 7 (7.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.05%) Google Analytics
7 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.03%) GCP
7 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.02%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.01%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.01%) Contentsquare
9 1 (1.01%) GitHub
9 1 (1.01%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.01%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.01%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) Broadband
2 1 (1.01%) DNS
2 1 (1.01%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (36.36%) Power BI
2 12 (12.12%) Power Query
3 8 (8.08%) Looker
4 6 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.05%) Tableau
6 4 (4.04%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.03%) Metadata
8 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) JIRA
2 7 (7.07%) Burp Suite
2 7 (7.07%) Metasploit
3 5 (5.05%) Subversion
4 2 (2.02%) Git
4 2 (2.02%) JMeter
4 2 (2.02%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.01%) GitLab
5 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.01%) Postman
5 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (53.54%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (48.48%) Social Skills
3 27 (27.27%) Finance
4 15 (15.15%) Retail
5 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (5.05%) Electronics
9 4 (4.04%) Banking
9 4 (4.04%) Marketing
10 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.03%) Spanish Language
11 2 (2.02%) Games
11 2 (2.02%) Legal
11 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Billing
12 1 (1.01%) Law
12 1 (1.01%) Local Government
12 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.23%) Analyst
2 14 (14.14%) Senior
3 12 (12.12%) Data Analyst
4 9 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 9 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (8.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (8.08%) Developer
5 8 (8.08%) Power BI Developer
6 7 (7.07%) Security Specialist
6 7 (7.07%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 6 (6.06%) Head of QA
7 6 (6.06%) Lead
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Data Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Accountant
8 5 (5.05%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Systems Accountant
8 5 (5.05%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.02%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.02%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.01%) .NET
2 1 (1.01%) JSON
2 1 (1.01%) Playwright
2 1 (1.01%) PySpark
2 1 (1.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (7.07%) Insider Threat
2 7 (7.07%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.05%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.01%) 3D Printing
6 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.01%) CMDB
6 1 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.01%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.01%) IoT
6 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.41%) Analytics
2 38 (38.38%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (37.37%) Decision-Making
4 33 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (30.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (20.20%) Data Modelling
7 17 (17.17%) Agile
8 14 (14.14%) Data Analysis
9 13 (13.13%) AI
9 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.13%) Visualisation
10 11 (11.11%) ETL
10 11 (11.11%) Information Security
10 11 (11.11%) Validation
11 10 (10.10%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (9.09%) Data Governance
12 9 (9.09%) Data Science
12 9 (9.09%) PRINCE2
12 9 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) SQL
2 14 (14.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (12.12%) Python
4 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.03%) VBA
5 2 (2.02%) Java
5 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.01%) Bash
6 1 (1.01%) Bicep
6 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.01%) R
6 1 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (19.19%) Degree
2 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.09%) CISSP
6 8 (8.08%) CEH
7 7 (7.07%) CCNA
7 7 (7.07%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (7.07%) CISMP
7 7 (7.07%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (7.07%) CREST Certified
7 7 (7.07%) GIAC
7 7 (7.07%) GPEN
7 7 (7.07%) MCSE
7 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (7.07%) OSCP
8 6 (6.06%) IRCA
9 5 (5.05%) ACCA
9 5 (5.05%) CIMA
10 3 (3.03%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 18 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (12.12%) GDPR
4 9 (9.09%) QA
5 6 (6.06%) Accessibility
5 6 (6.06%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.01%) COBIT
6 1 (1.01%) ITGC
6 1 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.07%) Nmap
2 2 (2.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Cisco
3 5 (5.05%) Google
4 4 (4.04%) Databricks
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.01%) Adobe
6 1 (1.01%) Epicor
6 1 (1.01%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.01%) Infor
6 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.01%) Sage
6 1 (1.01%) SAP