Actionable Insight Job Trends in Scotland

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 123 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 -21 +110
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 18 31 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.65% 0.98% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.12% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile - £38,500 £42,164
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,556
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.64% -36.99%
75th Percentile £57,500 £110,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £61,000 - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,312 2,774 2,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.77% 87.40% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,274 1,768
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,850
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,675 £82,858
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in Scotland

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in Scotland

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Glasgow +6 7 £45,000 -59.09% 1
Highlands - 4 £52,500 -
Edinburgh -9 3 £62,500 - 4
West Lothian - 2 - -
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) Tableau
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.56%) Power Query
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Report Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Insight Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Report Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Financial Controller
7 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation
7 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Specialist
7 1 (5.56%) HR Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Information Specialist
7 1 (5.56%) Insight Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Risk Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Process Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) Data Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
5 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) ETL
7 3 (16.67%) AI
7 3 (16.67%) Budgeting
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) Data Extraction
7 3 (16.67%) Data Management
7 3 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Project Management
7 3 (16.67%) Quantitative Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) ACCA
2 2 (11.11%) CIMA
3 1 (5.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) GRC
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Alteryx
2 3 (16.67%) Teradata
3 2 (11.11%) Xero
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow