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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 173 165
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 +101
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 80 70 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.02% 1.06% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.18% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 65 44 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,512 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -26.07% +10.58%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,875 £66,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.14% +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 6,368 5,908 4,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.55% 89.75% 88.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,512 2,599 3,742
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,695
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 January 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 +33 48 £47,500 +5.56% 55
East Midlands -1 32 £49,279 +15.95% 35
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 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.25%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Power Platform
2 13 (16.25%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) AWS
4 5 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.00%) Google Analytics
5 4 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (38.75%) Power BI
2 9 (11.25%) Tableau
3 6 (7.50%) Data Mining
4 5 (6.25%) Power Query
5 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.00%) Looker
6 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.25%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.25%) Metadata
8 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) JIRA
2 6 (7.50%) Burp Suite
2 6 (7.50%) Metasploit
3 5 (6.25%) Subversion
4 2 (2.50%) Git
General
1 44 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (47.50%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Finance
4 12 (15.00%) Retail
5 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.75%) Marketing
7 5 (6.25%) Banking
7 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.25%) Electronics
7 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Law
8 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.75%) Social Housing
8 3 (3.75%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.50%) Games
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Legal
9 2 (2.50%) Local Government
9 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Analyst
2 15 (18.75%) Data Analyst
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Data Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Power BI Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Security Specialist
6 6 (7.50%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 5 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Systems Test Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
8 4 (5.00%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (3.75%) Insight Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) PySpark
2 1 (1.25%) .NET
2 1 (1.25%) Ember.js
2 1 (1.25%) JSON
2 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 6 (7.50%) Insider Threat
1 6 (7.50%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.50%) Mashup
6 1 (1.25%) 3D Printing
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Decision-Making
2 32 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (33.75%) Analytics
4 22 (27.50%) Data Analysis
5 18 (22.50%) Data Modelling
5 18 (22.50%) Visualisation
6 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (16.25%) Agile
7 13 (16.25%) CRM
7 13 (16.25%) Data Visualisation
8 11 (13.75%) Data Analytics
9 10 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
10 9 (11.25%) Data Governance
10 9 (11.25%) Data Management
10 9 (11.25%) ETL
10 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (8.75%) Dashboard Development
11 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (8.75%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) SQL
2 13 (16.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 13 (16.25%) Python
3 4 (5.00%) R
4 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Degree
2 7 (8.75%) CEH
2 7 (8.75%) CISSP
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) CCNA
3 6 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.50%) CISMP
3 6 (7.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (7.50%) CREST Certified
3 6 (7.50%) GIAC
3 6 (7.50%) GPEN
3 6 (7.50%) MCP
3 6 (7.50%) MCSE
3 6 (7.50%) OSCP
4 4 (5.00%) CIPD
5 3 (3.75%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 11 (13.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Nmap
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Cisco
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) Civica
5 2 (2.50%) Northgate
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Epicor
6 1 (1.25%) Infor
6 1 (1.25%) Intel
6 1 (1.25%) Pegasus
6 1 (1.25%) Sage
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Snow