Actionable Recommendations Job Trends in the Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 229 221
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 +110
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 12 11 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.17% 0.95% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 7
10th Percentile £46,974 - £39,750
25th Percentile £48,165 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,951 - £50,625
90th Percentile £65,826 - £56,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £59,749 £59,556
% change year-on-year +5.57% +0.32% +3.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

Actionable Recommendations falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,025 1,159 806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.17% 18.20% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 562 486 676
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,726 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £63,850
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,375 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Actionable Recommendations relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Actionable Recommendations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Actionable Recommendations

Actionable Recommendations
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
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 Recommendations within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
East Midlands -7 7 £51,058 -
West Midlands +24 5 £63,076 - 3
Actionable Recommendations
England

Actionable Recommendations
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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Burp Suite
1 7 (58.33%) Metasploit
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Security Specialist
1 7 (58.33%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) User Researcher
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Auditor
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Insight Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Insider Threat
1 7 (58.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 9 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 7 (58.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 7 (58.33%) Information Security
3 7 (58.33%) Offensive Security
3 7 (58.33%) Open Source
3 7 (58.33%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Red Team
3 7 (58.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Qualitative Research
5 2 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
5 2 (16.67%) Service Design
5 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) CCNA
1 7 (58.33%) CEH
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (58.33%) CISMP
1 7 (58.33%) CISSP
1 7 (58.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 7 (58.33%) CREST Certified
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
1 7 (58.33%) GIAC
1 7 (58.33%) GPEN
1 7 (58.33%) MCP
1 7 (58.33%) MCSE
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (58.33%) OSCP
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco