Actionable Insight Job Trends in the South East

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 120 93
Rank change year-on-year -58 -27 +72
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 160 198 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.89% 2.21% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.52% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 75 59 36
10th Percentile £34,450 £32,000 £30,697
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -21.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £55,625
90th Percentile £72,250 £67,500 £71,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,772 7,855 10,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.30% 87.58% 80.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 4,165 6,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the South East

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Actionable Insight.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in the South East

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Thames Valley -42 71 £53,750 +19.44% 50
Kent +5 29 £43,750 +6.71% 8
Buckinghamshire +2 24 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Oxfordshire -16 24 £61,250 +44.12% 17
Berkshire -53 23 £43,000 -38.79% 23
Hampshire -59 15 £60,000 +17.07% 24
Surrey -44 12 £61,250 +36.11% 27
West Sussex -12 11 £62,750 -3.46% 8
East Sussex -6 10 £35,500 -49.29% 8
Middlesex - 6 - - 8
Sussex - 2 £35,500 - 1
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (1.88%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.25%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Shopify
2 3 (1.88%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 25 (15.63%) Google Analytics
3 11 (6.88%) SaaS
4 9 (5.63%) Azure
5 8 (5.00%) Google Tag Manager
6 4 (2.50%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.50%) Meta Ads
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.50%) Smartsheet
7 3 (1.88%) AWS
7 3 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.88%) Figma
7 3 (1.88%) GCP
7 3 (1.88%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.25%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.25%) dbt
8 2 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.25%) Google Data Studio
8 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.75%) SMS
2 2 (1.25%) Broadband
3 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.00%) Power BI
2 11 (6.88%) Metadata
3 8 (5.00%) Tableau
4 7 (4.38%) Looker
5 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.88%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.63%) Power Query
8 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.63%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.63%) Gatling
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) JMeter
2 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.63%) MLflow
2 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 72 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (33.75%) Social Skills
3 46 (28.75%) Finance
4 31 (19.38%) Marketing
5 21 (13.13%) Retail
6 20 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (8.75%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 8 (5.00%) Law
10 8 (5.00%) Telecoms
11 5 (3.13%) Advertising
11 5 (3.13%) Legal
11 5 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.50%) Billing
13 3 (1.88%) Banking
13 3 (1.88%) Publishing
14 2 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
15 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 35 (21.88%) Analyst
2 28 (17.50%) Senior
3 21 (13.13%) Lead
4 17 (10.63%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Data Analyst
6 9 (5.63%) IT Manager
6 9 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (4.38%) Performance Manager
7 7 (4.38%) Senior Manager
8 6 (3.75%) Analytics Manager
8 6 (3.75%) E-Commerce Executive
8 6 (3.75%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.13%) Business Developer
9 5 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.13%) E-Commerce Manager
9 5 (3.13%) IT Services Manager
9 5 (3.13%) Performance Analyst
9 5 (3.13%) Senior Programme Manager
9 5 (3.13%) Service Manager
9 5 (3.13%) Service Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.13%) HTML
2 4 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.88%) CSS
3 3 (1.88%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.25%) Django
4 2 (1.25%) Flask
4 2 (1.25%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.25%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.63%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.63%) Playwright
5 1 (0.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.63%) Renewable Energy
2 9 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.50%) Blog
5 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.88%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.25%) Smart Home
7 2 (1.25%) SystemC
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) IoT
8 1 (0.63%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (46.88%) Analytics
2 64 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 54 (33.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (15.00%) CRM
6 24 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (14.38%) AI
7 23 (14.38%) Logistics
8 22 (13.75%) Agile
8 22 (13.75%) Data Engineering
9 21 (13.13%) Data Modelling
9 21 (13.13%) E-Commerce
10 18 (11.25%) Data Analysis
11 17 (10.63%) Budgeting
12 16 (10.00%) Data Governance
12 16 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
13 14 (8.75%) Financial Modelling
13 14 (8.75%) SEO
14 13 (8.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.63%) SQL
2 16 (10.00%) Python
3 11 (6.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.63%) C++
5 1 (0.63%) Java
5 1 (0.63%) R
5 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (12.50%) Degree
2 17 (10.63%) NVQ Level 3
3 14 (8.75%) ACCA
3 14 (8.75%) CIMA
4 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.63%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.38%) PMP
7 4 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.88%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.88%) PMO
3 9 (5.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.13%) QA
5 4 (2.50%) GDPR
6 3 (1.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.88%) GLP
6 3 (1.88%) GMP
6 3 (1.88%) Good Clinical Practice
6 3 (1.88%) GxP
6 3 (1.88%) WCAG
7 2 (1.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.63%) GRC
8 1 (0.63%) IFRS
8 1 (0.63%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (18.13%) Google
1 29 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.75%) SAP
3 4 (2.50%) Ahrefs
3 4 (2.50%) Databricks
3 4 (2.50%) Oracle
3 4 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.50%) Screaming Frog
4 2 (1.25%) Brandwatch
4 2 (1.25%) Braze
4 2 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.25%) Foundry
4 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.25%) Pinterest
4 2 (1.25%) TikTok
5 1 (0.63%) Adobe
5 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.63%) YouTube