Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Actionable Insight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 32 425 516
Rank change year-on-year +393 +91 +57
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 3,855 923 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.22% 0.74% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.68% 0.77% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 250 250 481
10th Percentile £32,375 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,625 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,522 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,625 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,950 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +7.26% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Actionable Insight is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight.

Salary trend for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Actionable Insight in the UK

Actionable Insight
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +378 3,203 £50,000 -1.86% 194
England +358 2,536 £57,500 - 383
Work from Home +328 2,332 £59,556 -1.56% 168
North of England +323 790 £50,000 - 65
South West +248 552 £59,556 +16.21% 18
North West +262 505 £50,000 +8.38% 41
South East +246 493 £50,000 -16.67% 40
Scotland +193 470 £53,556 -36.99% 7
London +250 386 £65,000 +4.00% 192
Wales +121 362 - - 5
Yorkshire +216 283 £52,000 +4.00% 20
Midlands +239 277 £57,500 +12.86% 44
Northern Ireland +103 241 - - 3
East Midlands +136 230 £50,000 -37.50% 11
West Midlands +111 47 £57,500 +12.86% 33
East of England +89 20 £42,500 -22.37% 16
North East +27 2 £53,750 +43.33% 5

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 91 (2.36%) WebLogic
2 86 (2.23%) JBoss
2 86 (2.23%) Red Hat Fuse
3 26 (0.67%) IIS
4 14 (0.36%) WebSphere
4 14 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
5 13 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.34%) Confluence
6 12 (0.31%) Anypoint
7 8 (0.21%) CMS
7 8 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
8 7 (0.18%) Apache
8 7 (0.18%) SAS
9 5 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.10%) WordPress
11 3 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.078%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.052%) Luigi
Applications
1 61 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.16%) SPSS
5 5 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.10%) EViews
7 2 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.052%) Sketch
7 2 (0.052%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.026%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 280 (7.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 105 (2.72%) Hyperion Planning
3 20 (0.52%) Siebel CRM
4 8 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.026%) FastStats
6 1 (0.026%) HFM
6 1 (0.026%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 1,165 (30.22%) Azure
2 612 (15.88%) AWS
3 601 (15.59%) Power Platform
4 544 (14.11%) Serverless
5 470 (12.19%) Dynamics 365
6 420 (10.89%) SaaS
7 336 (8.72%) IaaS
8 332 (8.61%) PaaS
9 318 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
10 233 (6.04%) GCP
11 225 (5.84%) Azure Functions
12 134 (3.48%) OpenShift
13 56 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (0.93%) Google Analytics
15 21 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (0.44%) GitHub
18 15 (0.39%) Snowflake
19 14 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 14 (0.36%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 121 (3.14%) TCP/IP
2 107 (2.78%) HTTP
3 81 (2.10%) SAN
4 78 (2.02%) DNS
5 73 (1.89%) DHCP
5 73 (1.89%) Network Security
5 73 (1.89%) VPN
6 72 (1.87%) Firewall
7 66 (1.71%) Internet
8 59 (1.53%) WAN
9 54 (1.40%) LAN
10 48 (1.25%) VSAT
11 33 (0.86%) FTP
11 33 (0.86%) SMTP
11 33 (0.86%) Sourcefire
12 29 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
13 26 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 23 (0.60%) IPsec
14 23 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.13%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (5.14%) Power BI
2 172 (4.46%) Oracle Database
3 143 (3.71%) SQL Server
4 128 (3.32%) Relational Database
5 119 (3.09%) RDBMS
6 113 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
7 84 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 82 (2.13%) Oracle Database 11g
9 75 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (1.58%) Tableau
11 52 (1.35%) Big Data
12 39 (1.01%) MySQL
13 29 (0.75%) MongoDB
14 28 (0.73%) Data Hub
15 26 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 26 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
16 24 (0.62%) JasperReports
17 22 (0.57%) Hadoop
18 16 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
19 15 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 272 (7.06%) Git
2 93 (2.41%) JIRA
3 86 (2.23%) IntelliJ
4 58 (1.50%) Selenium
5 57 (1.48%) Jenkins
6 51 (1.32%) GitLab
7 36 (0.93%) JDeveloper
8 32 (0.83%) Robot Framework
9 27 (0.70%) Maven
10 26 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
11 17 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
14 7 (0.18%) MSBuild
14 7 (0.18%) TestRail
14 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.16%) Ant
16 3 (0.078%) CMake
16 3 (0.078%) RStudio
16 3 (0.078%) Trac
General
1 1,366 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 966 (25.06%) Finance
3 396 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
5 255 (6.61%) Banking
6 252 (6.54%) Games
7 199 (5.16%) Public Sector
8 196 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 171 (4.44%) Police
10 112 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 105 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
12 102 (2.65%) Aerospace
13 83 (2.15%) Retail
14 53 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.09%) Marketing
16 24 (0.62%) Legal
17 21 (0.54%) Military
18 12 (0.31%) Law
19 7 (0.18%) Advertising
20 6 (0.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,467 (38.05%) Architect
2 706 (18.31%) Solutions Architect
3 602 (15.62%) Senior
4 483 (12.53%) Software Engineer
5 403 (10.45%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 371 (9.62%) Developer
7 349 (9.05%) Analyst
8 240 (6.23%) Presales Solution Architect
9 236 (6.12%) Java Engineer
9 236 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
10 220 (5.71%) CRM Architect
10 220 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM Architect
11 206 (5.34%) Security Architect
12 205 (5.32%) Consultant
13 174 (4.51%) Business Manager
14 173 (4.49%) Development Manager
15 171 (4.44%) Business Development Manager
16 151 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 143 (3.71%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
18 140 (3.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (9.78%) Spring
2 292 (7.57%) React
3 229 (5.94%) J2EE
4 166 (4.31%) .NET
5 164 (4.25%) Node.js
6 163 (4.23%) AngularJS
7 160 (4.15%) Java EE
8 146 (3.79%) Ruby on Rails
9 127 (3.29%) XML
10 99 (2.57%) JSON
11 97 (2.52%) Hibernate
12 95 (2.46%) REST
13 89 (2.31%) XSD
14 87 (2.26%) Web Services
15 86 (2.23%) JPA
15 86 (2.23%) SOAP
16 71 (1.84%) CSS
16 71 (1.84%) HTML
17 66 (1.71%) RESTful
18 61 (1.58%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 161 (4.18%) Public Cloud
2 110 (2.85%) Private Cloud
3 103 (2.67%) Virtual Team
4 93 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 80 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 73 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 61 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 60 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 54 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 45 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 43 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 43 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
12 42 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
13 41 (1.06%) PKI
14 38 (0.99%) Product Ownership
15 28 (0.73%) Onboarding
16 23 (0.60%) Client/Server
17 15 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
17 15 (0.39%) Virtual Reality
18 14 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 420 (10.89%) Linux
2 405 (10.51%) Windows
3 147 (3.81%) Unix
4 114 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 68 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.73%) CentOS
7 26 (0.67%) Android
8 24 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 22 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 22 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.44%) VMS
12 16 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (0.21%) Solaris
14 6 (0.16%) Debian
15 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,562 (40.52%) Agile
2 1,292 (33.51%) Problem-Solving
3 786 (20.39%) DevOps
4 765 (19.84%) Presales
5 692 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 636 (16.50%) Software Engineering
7 605 (15.69%) Mentoring
8 496 (12.87%) Analytics
9 454 (11.78%) Design Patterns
10 420 (10.89%) Project Management
11 410 (10.64%) TOGAF
12 388 (10.06%) Coaching
13 366 (9.49%) IT Strategy
14 365 (9.47%) Microservices
15 360 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
16 354 (9.18%) Unit Testing
17 353 (9.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 343 (8.90%) Thought Leadership
19 339 (8.79%) Business Case
20 331 (8.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 797 (20.67%) Java
2 709 (18.39%) Python
3 534 (13.85%) SQL
4 341 (8.85%) C#
5 278 (7.21%) Bash
6 257 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 245 (6.36%) Ruby
8 225 (5.84%) PowerShell
9 104 (2.70%) Go
10 99 (2.57%) Perl
11 93 (2.41%) PL/SQL
12 61 (1.58%) Shell Script
13 31 (0.80%) C++
14 29 (0.75%) R
15 28 (0.73%) C
16 26 (0.67%) VBScript
17 24 (0.62%) VB.NET
18 18 (0.47%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.42%) Delphi
20 14 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,880 (48.77%) Security Cleared
2 1,238 (32.11%) SC Cleared
3 457 (11.85%) Degree
4 219 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 183 (4.75%) TOGAF Certification
6 125 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 69 (1.79%) CISSP
8 62 (1.61%) CISA
8 62 (1.61%) CISM
9 61 (1.58%) CRISC
10 38 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 29 (0.75%) CCNA
11 29 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (0.60%) CCNP
13 14 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.31%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.18%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.16%) GIAC
16 6 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (4.70%) QA
2 106 (2.75%) SLA
3 84 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 69 (1.79%) NIST
6 61 (1.58%) GRC
6 61 (1.58%) ISO 22301
7 35 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 20 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
9 16 (0.42%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.29%) GDPR
11 6 (0.16%) COBIT
12 5 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.078%) HAZOP
13 3 (0.078%) PMO
14 2 (0.052%) WCAG
15 1 (0.026%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.026%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 231 (5.99%) Virtual Machines
2 195 (5.06%) Docker
3 127 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (3.19%) Active Directory
5 73 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 25 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
7 18 (0.47%) Firmware
8 8 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.16%) HDFS
9 6 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 270 (7.00%) Ansible
2 190 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 160 (4.15%) Terraform
4 87 (2.26%) Puppet
5 83 (2.15%) OpenSSO
5 83 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
6 56 (1.45%) FortiGate
7 29 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 26 (0.67%) AirWatch
9 25 (0.65%) VxRail
10 12 (0.31%) Grafana
10 12 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.21%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.13%) Oozie
13 4 (0.10%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.10%) WSUS
14 2 (0.052%) SCCM
15 1 (0.026%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.026%) SELinux
Vendors
1 610 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 579 (15.02%) Oracle
3 173 (4.49%) VMware
4 111 (2.88%) Remedy
5 105 (2.72%) Hyperion
5 105 (2.72%) Red Hat
6 69 (1.79%) Cisco
7 61 (1.58%) CA
7 61 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 56 (1.45%) CheckPoint
8 56 (1.45%) Juniper
9 54 (1.40%) Google
10 50 (1.30%) Splunk
11 41 (1.06%) IBM
12 37 (0.96%) F5
13 36 (0.93%) ArcSight
14 33 (0.86%) TippingPoint
14 33 (0.86%) Trend Micro
15 30 (0.78%) Databricks
16 28 (0.73%) Salesforce