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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 246 147
Rank change year-on-year +77 -99 +272
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 135 64 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.43% 0.51% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.64% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 92 32 68
10th Percentile £35,250 £35,125 £23,850
25th Percentile £40,375 £42,188 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +12.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,125 £60,281
90th Percentile £67,500 £83,250 £65,600
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -4.17%

All Process and 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 8,085 10,030 7,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 85.60% 80.44% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,358 4,777 5,744
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 +46 86 £48,979 -14.07% 61
Yorkshire +30 37 £45,000 -5.90% 21
North East +24 12 £53,000 +16.48% 11
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 2 (1.48%) CMS
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (37.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.48%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.48%) Sketch
5 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.74%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.81%) Power Platform
2 21 (15.56%) Azure
3 11 (8.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (6.67%) AWS
6 7 (5.19%) Google Ads
7 6 (4.44%) Figma
7 6 (4.44%) GCP
7 6 (4.44%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.70%) SaaS
8 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.22%) MailChimp
9 3 (2.22%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.22%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.74%) Canva
11 1 (0.74%) dbt
11 1 (0.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (34.81%) Power BI
2 22 (16.30%) Tableau
3 13 (9.63%) Looker
4 12 (8.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (8.15%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.44%) OLAP
6 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.96%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.96%) Mixpanel
9 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.48%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.74%) GIS
10 1 (0.74%) Metadata
10 1 (0.74%) Power Query
10 1 (0.74%) QlikView
10 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.22%) WaveMaker
3 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.74%) Gatling
4 1 (0.74%) JMeter
4 1 (0.74%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 83 (61.48%) Social Skills
2 71 (52.59%) Finance
3 70 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.33%) Marketing
5 13 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (9.63%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (8.89%) Retail
7 9 (6.67%) Advertising
7 9 (6.67%) Billing
8 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.96%) Arabic Language
10 4 (2.96%) German Language
10 4 (2.96%) Italian Language
10 4 (2.96%) Law
11 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.48%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 71 (52.59%) Analyst
2 17 (12.59%) Financial Analyst
3 16 (11.85%) Data Analyst
4 15 (11.11%) Commercial Analyst
5 14 (10.37%) Senior
6 9 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (6.67%) User Researcher
7 8 (5.93%) Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.19%) Lead
9 6 (4.44%) Insight Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) SQL Developer
10 5 (3.70%) Business Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Insight Manager
10 5 (3.70%) Quality Analyst
10 5 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.96%) Performance Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Data Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.22%) CSS
1 3 (2.22%) Pandas
1 3 (2.22%) pytest
1 3 (2.22%) React
1 3 (2.22%) scikit-learn
1 3 (2.22%) TensorFlow
1 3 (2.22%) XGBoost
2 2 (1.48%) Framer.js
2 2 (1.48%) HTML
2 2 (1.48%) Jest
2 2 (1.48%) Next.js
3 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.74%) Kafka
3 1 (0.74%) PySpark
3 1 (0.74%) Spring
3 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (11.11%) Social Media
3 11 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.70%) NHS
6 4 (2.96%) CMDB
6 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.22%) Blog
7 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.22%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.48%) Animation
8 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.48%) FMCG
8 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.74%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.74%) New Media
9 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.74%) SCADA
9 1 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (53.33%) Decision-Making
2 60 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (26.67%) Analytics
4 36 (26.67%) Data Analysis
5 34 (25.19%) Agile
6 31 (22.96%) Visualisation
7 26 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (12.59%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 17 (12.59%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.59%) Process Improvement
9 15 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
9 15 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
9 15 (11.11%) E-Commerce
9 15 (11.11%) Financial Modelling
10 14 (10.37%) Data Science
10 14 (10.37%) ERP
11 13 (9.63%) Business Development
11 13 (9.63%) DevOps
12 12 (8.89%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.52%) SQL
2 13 (9.63%) Python
3 10 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.44%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.96%) VBA
6 2 (1.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.74%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (25.93%) Degree
2 17 (12.59%) DBS Check
3 14 (10.37%) ACCA
3 14 (10.37%) CIMA
4 12 (8.89%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.70%) HNC
5 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 4 (2.96%) NVQ Level 4
6 4 (2.96%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) HND
8 1 (0.74%) MBA
8 1 (0.74%) PhD
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.85%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.89%) QA
3 11 (8.15%) Accessibility
4 9 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.74%) Grafana
1 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.59%) Google
3 9 (6.67%) HubSpot
4 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.96%) Databricks
5 4 (2.96%) EXASOL
5 4 (2.96%) Hotjar
5 4 (2.96%) SAP
5 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.96%) TikTok
5 4 (2.96%) YouTube
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle
6 2 (1.48%) Qualtrics
6 2 (1.48%) Zoho
7 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.74%) Ariba
7 1 (0.74%) Civica
7 1 (0.74%) Northgate
7 1 (0.74%) Orchard
7 1 (0.74%) TOWER Software