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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 118 149
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -63
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 22 18 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.68% 0.89% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.95% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 16
10th Percentile £33,575 £36,550 £44,375
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +1.94% +7.95%
75th Percentile £89,688 £83,738 £63,785
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,114 £69,057
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -10.71%

All Process & 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 2,296 1,896 5,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.13% 93.54% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 815 2,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,300
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,829 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%

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 27 May 2026.

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 27 May 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
Glasgow +2 10 £66,250 +89.29% 4
Edinburgh +5 6 £87,500 +52.17% 2
Highlands - 2 £39,500 -
Aberdeen - 1 £39,500 -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 2
West Lothian - 1 - -
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 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (4.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Asana
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (95.45%) Social Skills
2 16 (72.73%) Finance
3 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Advertising
4 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (18.18%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Games
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Head of QA
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Business Sales Executive
2 4 (18.18%) New Business Sales Executive
2 4 (18.18%) Sales Executive
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Forecast Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Change Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Project Change Manager
5 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Junior
5 1 (4.55%) Problem Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Problem Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 3 (13.64%) Social Media
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Analytics
2 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (45.45%) Customer Experience
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) Change Management
4 8 (36.36%) PRINCE2
5 7 (31.82%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (27.27%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 6 (27.27%) Quality Management
6 6 (27.27%) Service Delivery
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 4 (18.18%) Customer-Centricity
8 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
8 4 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (18.18%) User Experience
9 3 (13.64%) Business Development
9 3 (13.64%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Python
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) IRCA
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
1 6 (27.27%) ISO 9001
1 6 (27.27%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Anaplan
2 3 (13.64%) Hyperion
2 3 (13.64%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) FIS
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow