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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 176 224
Rank change year-on-year +34 +48 -26
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 188 64 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.19% 1.01% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.07% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 84 51 84
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £27,025
25th Percentile £40,827 £40,625 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +10.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -10.16% +16.89% -1.35%

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 11,686 5,991 13,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 74.12% 94.26% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 3,677 10,654
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £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 £70,000 £70,834 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 4 April 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 April 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 +23 87 £46,819 +7.63% 59
Yorkshire -26 55 £65,000 +7.01% 27
North East +21 46 £52,500 +5.00% 10
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 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.06%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 38 (20.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.06%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.06%) Sketch
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.66%) SAP PM
3 3 (1.60%) Magento
4 2 (1.06%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.72%) Power Platform
2 20 (10.64%) Azure
3 13 (6.91%) SaaS
4 12 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.66%) Google Analytics
6 5 (2.66%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.66%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.13%) AWS
8 3 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.60%) GCP
8 3 (1.60%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.06%) Figma
9 2 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.06%) IaaS
9 2 (1.06%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Firewall
1 2 (1.06%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (28.72%) Power BI
2 15 (7.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (7.45%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.38%) Tableau
5 10 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (3.72%) Power Query
7 5 (2.66%) Looker
8 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.53%) GIS
9 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.53%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) JMeter
3 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
General
1 103 (54.79%) Analytical Skills
2 91 (48.40%) Finance
3 89 (47.34%) Social Skills
4 27 (14.36%) Manufacturing
5 17 (9.04%) Marketing
6 10 (5.32%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.26%) Billing
8 7 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.72%) Law
9 6 (3.19%) Legal
9 6 (3.19%) Retail
9 6 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.66%) Advertising
10 5 (2.66%) Military
10 5 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.13%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.60%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (22.87%) Analyst
2 30 (15.96%) Head of QA
3 20 (10.64%) Development Manager
4 17 (9.04%) Data Analyst
4 17 (9.04%) Senior
5 10 (5.32%) Change Manager
5 10 (5.32%) Project Change Manager
5 10 (5.32%) Project Manager
6 9 (4.79%) Commercial Analyst
7 7 (3.72%) CRM Executive
7 7 (3.72%) Data Manager
7 7 (3.72%) Insight Manager
7 7 (3.72%) Lead
7 7 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (3.72%) User Researcher
8 6 (3.19%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.19%) Insight Analyst
8 6 (3.19%) Salesforce Executive
9 5 (2.66%) Analytics Manager
9 5 (2.66%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.06%) CSS
1 2 (1.06%) Framer.js
1 2 (1.06%) Jest
1 2 (1.06%) Next.js
1 2 (1.06%) React
2 1 (0.53%) .NET
2 1 (0.53%) FHIR
2 1 (0.53%) LangChain
2 1 (0.53%) LangGraph
2 1 (0.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (10.64%) Learning Management System
3 16 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.60%) Social Media
6 2 (1.06%) Animation
6 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.06%) Housing Association
6 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.06%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (47.87%) Decision-Making
2 87 (46.28%) Analytics
3 69 (36.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (30.85%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (25.53%) Change Management
6 45 (23.94%) PRINCE2
6 45 (23.94%) Process Improvement
7 44 (23.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 35 (18.62%) Customer Experience
9 34 (18.09%) Visualisation
10 33 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (17.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 32 (17.02%) Agile
11 32 (17.02%) Service Delivery
12 30 (15.96%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 30 (15.96%) Data Analysis
12 30 (15.96%) Quality Management
13 29 (15.43%) Data Governance
14 23 (12.23%) Project Management
14 23 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.28%) SQL
2 13 (6.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (4.26%) Python
4 3 (1.60%) VBA
5 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.53%) Bash
6 1 (0.53%) Go
6 1 (0.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 30 (15.96%) IRCA
2 22 (11.70%) Degree
3 20 (10.64%) CIPD
4 11 (5.85%) PMI Certification
5 10 (5.32%) PMP
6 7 (3.72%) ACCA
6 7 (3.72%) CIMA
7 5 (2.66%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 4 (2.13%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.60%) CISM
9 3 (1.60%) CISSP
9 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.06%) CCNP
10 2 (1.06%) CEH
10 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.06%) HNC
10 2 (1.06%) HND
10 2 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.40%) GDPR
2 39 (20.74%) QA
3 33 (17.55%) Data Quality
4 30 (15.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 30 (15.96%) ISO 9001
5 15 (7.98%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.60%) PMO
7 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.06%) NIST
7 2 (1.06%) SLA
8 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.53%) GRC
8 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.32%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.26%) Google
4 6 (3.19%) SAP
5 5 (2.66%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.13%) Databricks
7 3 (1.60%) Adobe
7 3 (1.60%) Xero
8 2 (1.06%) Cognos
8 2 (1.06%) EXASOL
8 2 (1.06%) IBM
8 2 (1.06%) Planon
9 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.53%) Civica
9 1 (0.53%) Foundry
9 1 (0.53%) Northgate
9 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.53%) Orchard
9 1 (0.53%) Palantir