Actionable Insight Job Trends in the North of England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 198 260
Rank change year-on-year +38 +62 -101
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 216 103 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.94% 1.11% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.26% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 145 74 38
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,075 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £44,308
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -23.08% +17.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £76,125
90th Percentile £86,500 £69,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,157 8,159 11,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.43% 87.65% 77.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,118 4,089 6,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the North of England

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in the North of England

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
North West +39 130 £47,500 - 96
Yorkshire -1 67 £52,500 +26.51% 60
North East -52 19 £52,500 +0.96% 13
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.93%) CMS
2 2 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.31%) Magento
1 5 (2.31%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.26%) Power Platform
2 22 (10.19%) Google Analytics
3 15 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.56%) Azure
4 12 (5.56%) SaaS
5 11 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (5.09%) Power Automate
5 11 (5.09%) PowerApps
6 10 (4.63%) GCP
6 10 (4.63%) OneDrive
7 7 (3.24%) Google Sheets
8 5 (2.31%) iPaaS
8 5 (2.31%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.85%) AWS
9 4 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.85%) Meta Ads
10 3 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.39%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) Network Security
2 3 (1.39%) Firewall
2 3 (1.39%) Internet
3 2 (0.93%) WPA
4 1 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.46%) SNMP
4 1 (0.46%) WAN
4 1 (0.46%) Wireless
4 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (34.26%) Power BI
2 18 (8.33%) Looker
3 14 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 8 (3.70%) Tableau
6 6 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (1.85%) Power Query
8 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.93%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.46%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.46%) GIS
9 1 (0.46%) Metabase
9 1 (0.46%) OLAP
9 1 (0.46%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (0.46%) OLTP
9 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (3.24%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.46%) JMeter
3 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
General
1 114 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 103 (47.69%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (38.43%) Finance
4 33 (15.28%) Public Sector
5 28 (12.96%) Marketing
6 21 (9.72%) Legal
7 20 (9.26%) Retail
8 19 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (6.94%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (5.56%) Law
11 10 (4.63%) Manufacturing
12 9 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (3.70%) Advertising
14 6 (2.78%) Telecoms
15 5 (2.31%) Banking
15 5 (2.31%) Local Government
15 5 (2.31%) Military
16 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
17 3 (1.39%) Billing
17 3 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (32.87%) Analyst
2 27 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 24 (11.11%) Lead
4 17 (7.87%) Senior
5 15 (6.94%) Head of QA
6 11 (5.09%) Analytics Manager
7 9 (4.17%) Architect
7 9 (4.17%) Business Manager
7 9 (4.17%) Performance Analyst
7 9 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (3.70%) Data Scientist
8 8 (3.70%) Digital Analyst
8 8 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Applications Support
9 7 (3.24%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Data Manager
9 7 (3.24%) Product Manager
9 7 (3.24%) Support Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.46%) FHIR
1 1 (0.46%) NumPy
1 1 (0.46%) Pandas
1 1 (0.46%) pgvector
1 1 (0.46%) PostGIS
1 1 (0.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (6.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.39%) Cybercrime
5 3 (1.39%) FMCG
5 3 (1.39%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.39%) Social Media
6 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.93%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.93%) PropTech
6 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.46%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.93%) Windows
1 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (50.00%) Analytics
2 102 (47.22%) Decision-Making
3 80 (37.04%) Business Intelligence
4 67 (31.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (20.83%) Visualisation
7 43 (19.91%) Mentoring
8 41 (18.98%) AI
9 40 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 33 (15.28%) Coaching
11 32 (14.81%) Dashboard Development
12 31 (14.35%) Data Analysis
13 29 (13.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 29 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (12.96%) Customer Experience
14 28 (12.96%) Performance Analysis
15 26 (12.04%) Data Modelling
16 25 (11.57%) Agile
17 23 (10.65%) CRM
17 23 (10.65%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.46%) SQL
2 31 (14.35%) Python
3 10 (4.63%) R
4 6 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.93%) VBA
8 1 (0.46%) Go
8 1 (0.46%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (8.33%) Degree
2 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) IRCA
4 10 (4.63%) ACCA
4 10 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.17%) CIMA
6 6 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.78%) CISSP
6 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.31%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.85%) CCSP
8 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.93%) CCNP
9 2 (0.93%) CEH
9 2 (0.93%) CISM
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.28%) Actionable Recommendations
2 28 (12.96%) Data Quality
3 26 (12.04%) QA
4 22 (10.19%) Accessibility
5 16 (7.41%) GDPR
5 16 (7.41%) ISO 9001
6 7 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (3.24%) NIST
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.93%) PMO
7 2 (0.93%) WCAG
8 1 (0.46%) AQAP
8 1 (0.46%) IFRS
8 1 (0.46%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.43%) Google
3 9 (4.17%) YouTube
4 8 (3.70%) HubSpot
5 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.78%) SAP
7 5 (2.31%) Adobe
8 4 (1.85%) Pinterest
8 4 (1.85%) Snapchat
8 4 (1.85%) TikTok
9 3 (1.39%) Databricks
9 3 (1.39%) Intel
9 3 (1.39%) Xero
10 2 (0.93%) Foundry
11 1 (0.46%) Adaptive Insights
11 1 (0.46%) Cisco
11 1 (0.46%) IBM
11 1 (0.46%) NetScout
11 1 (0.46%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.46%) VMware