Actionable Insight Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 134 164
Rank change year-on-year -15 +30 -93
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 95 30 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.96% 0.86% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.06% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 42 28 20
10th Percentile £36,450 £28,393 £34,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% - -41.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,746 £62,500
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,022 2,833 5,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.99% 81.60% 75.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,773 1,817 3,529
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the South West

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the South West over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in the South West

Actionable Insight
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Bristol -31 25 £85,000 +100.00% 15
Wiltshire 0 23 £57,500 -8.00% 4
Somerset -17 17 £40,000 -15.79% 4
Gloucestershire - 13 £37,500 - 8
Devon -17 7 £90,000 +145.73% 6
Dorset 0 5 £45,000 +76.47%
Cornwall - 3 £36,000 - 2
Avon - 1 - - 13
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (7.37%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
4 1 (1.05%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.84%) Power Platform
2 13 (13.68%) AWS
3 7 (7.37%) Azure
4 5 (5.26%) GCP
4 5 (5.26%) Power Automate
4 5 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 4 (4.21%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.16%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.11%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.05%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Serverless
8 1 (1.05%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Broadband
2 1 (1.05%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) Power BI
2 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.53%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.37%) Big Data
4 7 (7.37%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.26%) Power Query
5 5 (5.26%) Star Schema
5 5 (5.26%) Tableau
6 4 (4.21%) Looker
7 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
General
1 51 (53.68%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (36.84%) Retail
3 21 (22.11%) Finance
3 21 (22.11%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 14 (14.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.32%) Marketing
7 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Electronics
9 1 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Delivery Manager
1 21 (22.11%) Service Delivery Manager
1 21 (22.11%) Service Manager
2 19 (20.00%) Analyst
3 14 (14.74%) Auditor
4 10 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 10 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Security Auditor
6 6 (6.32%) Lead
7 5 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Power BI Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Engineering Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Junior
8 4 (4.21%) Marketing Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Operations Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) Middleware
1 4 (4.21%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) REST
3 2 (2.11%) .NET
3 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.11%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (2.11%) Backbone.js
3 2 (2.11%) Next.js
3 2 (2.11%) Node.js
3 2 (2.11%) React
3 2 (2.11%) Spring
3 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.05%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.05%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.11%) Virtual Team
2 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.05%) FMCG
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Lidar
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (32.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (30.53%) Project Management
4 26 (27.37%) Customer Experience
4 26 (27.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (26.32%) Agile
6 23 (24.21%) Service Delivery
6 23 (24.21%) Strategic Thinking
7 21 (22.11%) Data Protection
7 21 (22.11%) Six Sigma
7 21 (22.11%) WFM
8 20 (21.05%) Data Analysis
9 19 (20.00%) Analytics
9 19 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (20.00%) ETL
10 18 (18.95%) AI
11 14 (14.74%) Cyber Assurance
11 14 (14.74%) Cyber Resilience
11 14 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (14.74%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) SQL
2 19 (20.00%) Python
3 7 (7.37%) Java
4 5 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.26%) Scala
5 2 (2.11%) C#
5 2 (2.11%) C++
5 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 16 (16.84%) SC Cleared
4 14 (14.74%) Degree
4 14 (14.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.26%) NVQ Level 3
6 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.11%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (16.84%) Data Quality
3 14 (14.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 14 (14.74%) NCSC
4 11 (11.58%) Accessibility
4 11 (11.58%) GDPR
5 6 (6.32%) ISO 9001
6 4 (4.21%) Automotive SPICE
6 4 (4.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (4.21%) ISO 26262
7 2 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (9.47%) Oracle
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.26%) Google
4 4 (4.21%) Epicor
4 4 (4.21%) HubSpot
4 4 (4.21%) IFS
4 4 (4.21%) Infor
4 4 (4.21%) SAP
5 1 (1.05%) Databricks
5 1 (1.05%) Pinterest
5 1 (1.05%) Workday