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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 192 208
Rank change year-on-year +42 +16 +3
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 164 64 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 0.96% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.01% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 69 52 81
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,534 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £61,123
90th Percentile £85,500 £79,875 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -6.25%

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 10,976 6,316 12,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.50% 94.99% 85.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,393 3,624 10,169
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,848
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 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 20 March 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 20 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
North West +22 74 £47,500 +10.47% 62
Yorkshire -25 48 £63,076 +3.84% 27
North East +14 42 £52,500 +9.95% 8
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 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 35 (21.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.22%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.22%) Sketch
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.88%) Power Platform
2 20 (12.20%) Azure
3 11 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (6.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (5.49%) SaaS
6 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.05%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.05%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.83%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.22%) AWS
8 2 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.22%) Figma
8 2 (1.22%) GCP
8 2 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.61%) Datadog
9 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Broadband
1 1 (0.61%) Firewall
1 1 (0.61%) Internet
1 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.88%) Power BI
2 16 (9.76%) Tableau
3 14 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 14 (8.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.66%) Power Query
6 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.44%) Looker
7 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.61%) GIS
8 1 (0.61%) OLAP
8 1 (0.61%) QlikView
8 1 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (1.22%) JIRA
2 1 (0.61%) Git
2 1 (0.61%) GitLab
2 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
General
1 86 (52.44%) Analytical Skills
1 86 (52.44%) Finance
2 77 (46.95%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.24%) Manufacturing
4 15 (9.15%) Marketing
5 9 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.66%) Retail
8 5 (3.05%) Billing
8 5 (3.05%) Legal
9 4 (2.44%) Advertising
9 4 (2.44%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.83%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.22%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.61%) Automotive
12 1 (0.61%) Law
12 1 (0.61%) Local Government
12 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (26.83%) Analyst
2 25 (15.24%) Head of QA
3 20 (12.20%) Development Manager
4 19 (11.59%) Senior
5 18 (10.98%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.10%) Change Manager
6 10 (6.10%) Project Change Manager
6 10 (6.10%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (5.49%) Commercial Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) CRM Executive
8 7 (4.27%) Insight Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Insight Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) Salesforce Executive
9 6 (3.66%) User Researcher
10 5 (3.05%) Business Manager
10 5 (3.05%) HR Analyst
10 5 (3.05%) HR Data Analyst
11 4 (2.44%) Lead
11 4 (2.44%) Senior User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.22%) CSS
1 2 (1.22%) Framer.js
1 2 (1.22%) Jest
1 2 (1.22%) Next.js
1 2 (1.22%) React
2 1 (0.61%) .NET
2 1 (0.61%) LangChain
2 1 (0.61%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 41 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (12.20%) Learning Management System
3 16 (9.76%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.44%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.83%) Social Media
7 2 (1.22%) Animation
7 2 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.22%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.22%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.61%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.61%) Life Science
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (51.22%) Decision-Making
2 72 (43.90%) Analytics
3 57 (34.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (31.71%) Business Intelligence
5 43 (26.22%) Change Management
6 40 (24.39%) Process Improvement
7 39 (23.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 35 (21.34%) PRINCE2
9 32 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (17.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 29 (17.68%) Visualisation
11 28 (17.07%) Customer Experience
12 27 (16.46%) Agile
12 27 (16.46%) Service Delivery
13 26 (15.85%) Quality Management
14 25 (15.24%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 25 (15.24%) Data Analysis
15 23 (14.02%) Data Governance
16 20 (12.20%) Budgeting
16 20 (12.20%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 42 (25.61%) SQL
2 13 (7.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (4.27%) Python
4 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.22%) VBA
6 1 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (15.24%) IRCA
2 22 (13.41%) Degree
3 20 (12.20%) CIPD
4 10 (6.10%) PMI Certification
4 10 (6.10%) PMP
5 6 (3.66%) ACCA
5 6 (3.66%) CIMA
6 5 (3.05%) DBS Check
6 5 (3.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 4 (2.44%) HNC
7 4 (2.44%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.22%) CISM
8 2 (1.22%) CISSP
8 2 (1.22%) HND
8 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.22%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (23.78%) GDPR
2 30 (18.29%) Data Quality
3 28 (17.07%) QA
4 25 (15.24%) ISO 9001
5 23 (14.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (7.93%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.83%) PMO
8 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.61%) GRC
9 1 (0.61%) NCSC
9 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.22%) Terraform
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.71%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.05%) Databricks
3 5 (3.05%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.44%) EXASOL
5 3 (1.83%) Google
6 2 (1.22%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.22%) Cognos
6 2 (1.22%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) Adobe
7 1 (0.61%) Civica
7 1 (0.61%) Northgate
7 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.61%) Orchard
7 1 (0.61%) Planon
7 1 (0.61%) Qualtrics