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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 70 438
Rank change year-on-year +14 +368 +86
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 4,162 4,486 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.19% 4.43% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.63% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 551 255 315
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £33,068
25th Percentile £41,500 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,065 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +0.12% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.00% +5.26%

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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 -7 3,109 £48,750 -6.25% 200
England +28 3,085 £53,250 -3.18% 454
Work from Home +27 2,209 £50,000 -9.20% 223
London +187 851 £60,000 - 265
South East +26 752 £45,000 -12.20% 46
North of England +8 624 £55,000 +5.77% 53
South West -16 480 £60,000 +9.33% 22
Scotland -33 461 £51,500 +7.95% 10
North West +7 422 £60,000 -14.29% 38
Midlands -27 313 £57,500 +31.43% 39
Wales -2 268 £42,500 - 9
East Midlands -26 205 £35,000 -7.89% 17
Yorkshire +7 196 £40,000 -11.11% 12
Northern Ireland +10 173 £35,000 - 6
West Midlands +7 108 £57,500 +27.78% 22
East of England -29 42 £43,000 - 21
North East -20 6 £38,362 -9.74% 3

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
1 330 (7.93%) ArcGIS
1 330 (7.93%) GeoServer
2 115 (2.76%) WebLogic
3 81 (1.95%) Apache
4 63 (1.51%) Confluence
5 48 (1.15%) SAS
6 43 (1.03%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.86%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 12 (0.29%) JBoss
9 12 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
10 11 (0.26%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.096%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.096%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.096%) TWiki
12 2 (0.048%) MS Project Server
13 1 (0.024%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 665 (15.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 53 (1.27%) Sketch
5 38 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 32 (0.77%) UserZoom
7 7 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
7 7 (0.17%) SPSS
8 6 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.048%) EViews
11 1 (0.024%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.024%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 58 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 37 (0.89%) Siebel CRM
4 8 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.17%) HFM
5 7 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
6 5 (0.12%) Shopify
7 4 (0.096%) BASE24
8 2 (0.048%) Primavera
9 1 (0.024%) Magento
9 1 (0.024%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 982 (23.59%) AWS
2 854 (20.52%) Azure
3 245 (5.89%) Power Platform
4 185 (4.44%) SaaS
5 146 (3.51%) GCP
6 111 (2.67%) Figma
7 91 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (1.78%) Serverless
9 73 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
10 72 (1.73%) Miro
11 70 (1.68%) SurveyMonkey
12 67 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 58 (1.39%) OpenShift
14 56 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 56 (1.35%) PowerApps
15 50 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
16 46 (1.11%) Heroku
17 30 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 453 (10.88%) Broadband
2 363 (8.72%) VSAT
3 189 (4.54%) Firewall
4 105 (2.52%) VPN
5 104 (2.50%) DNS
6 103 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 90 (2.16%) Internet
8 54 (1.30%) IPsec
8 54 (1.30%) SNMP
8 54 (1.30%) WAN
9 47 (1.13%) LAN
10 46 (1.11%) BGP
10 46 (1.11%) SSL
11 42 (1.01%) DHCP
12 35 (0.84%) HTTP
13 25 (0.60%) Network Security
14 23 (0.55%) AMQP
15 21 (0.50%) Wireless
16 18 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 354 (8.51%) GIS
3 330 (7.93%) QGIS
4 288 (6.92%) Tableau
5 243 (5.84%) Power BI
6 219 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 134 (3.22%) Oracle Database 11g
8 112 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 101 (2.43%) RDBMS
10 99 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 87 (2.09%) MongoDB
12 86 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
13 75 (1.80%) SQL Server
14 51 (1.23%) Big Data
15 47 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
16 43 (1.03%) Oracle Database 10g
16 43 (1.03%) VLDB
17 40 (0.96%) Data Lake
18 35 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
19 30 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 274 (6.58%) Git
2 172 (4.13%) JIRA
3 107 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 36 (0.86%) JDeveloper
5 24 (0.58%) Ant
6 21 (0.50%) Selenium
7 18 (0.43%) Subversion
8 14 (0.34%) Robot Framework
9 12 (0.29%) IntelliJ
9 12 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.24%) GitLab
10 10 (0.24%) Trac
11 8 (0.19%) TestRail
11 8 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.096%) eggPlant
13 3 (0.072%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.072%) ERwin
14 2 (0.048%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.024%) Axure RP
15 1 (0.024%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,527 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 978 (23.50%) Finance
3 906 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 478 (11.48%) Influencing Skills
5 307 (7.38%) Presentation Skills
6 282 (6.78%) Aerospace
7 234 (5.62%) Marketing
8 194 (4.66%) Retail
9 120 (2.88%) Public Sector
10 107 (2.57%) Law
11 99 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 70 (1.68%) Games
13 48 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 40 (0.96%) Police
14 40 (0.96%) Social Science
15 37 (0.89%) Local Government
16 35 (0.84%) Banking
17 34 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
18 30 (0.72%) Manufacturing
19 27 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,227 (29.48%) Senior
2 1,013 (24.34%) Analyst
3 830 (19.94%) Architect
4 504 (12.11%) Software Engineer
5 444 (10.67%) Senior Analyst
6 374 (8.99%) Software Architect
7 319 (7.66%) Developer
8 252 (6.05%) Lead
9 246 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
10 217 (5.21%) Data Analyst
11 209 (5.02%) Project Manager
12 201 (4.83%) Senior Developer
13 190 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
14 181 (4.35%) Consultant
15 159 (3.82%) Presales Manager
16 132 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
17 128 (3.08%) Commercial Analyst
18 113 (2.72%) Senior Data Analyst
19 98 (2.35%) Support Analyst
20 91 (2.19%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (10.04%) React
2 348 (8.36%) .NET
3 331 (7.95%) Leaflet
3 331 (7.95%) OpenLayers
4 330 (7.93%) PostGIS
5 316 (7.59%) CSS
6 305 (7.33%) .NET Core
7 127 (3.05%) AngularJS
8 123 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
9 116 (2.79%) Node.js
10 100 (2.40%) HTML
10 100 (2.40%) Spring
11 69 (1.66%) Spring Boot
12 59 (1.42%) TensorFlow
13 54 (1.30%) YAML
14 49 (1.18%) Django
15 46 (1.11%) scikit-learn
16 45 (1.08%) Hibernate
16 45 (1.08%) Pandas
17 43 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 127 (3.05%) Public Cloud
2 103 (2.47%) Management Information System
3 97 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 97 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 94 (2.26%) PKI
5 93 (2.23%) Algorithms
6 77 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 55 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 46 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 37 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 33 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (0.65%) Market Risk
12 22 (0.53%) CMDB
13 21 (0.50%) Satnav
14 20 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
15 18 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (0.43%) NHS
16 15 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (0.34%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 479 (11.51%) Linux
2 249 (5.98%) Windows
3 121 (2.91%) Unix
4 108 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 103 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 55 (1.32%) CentOS
7 54 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
8 51 (1.23%) Solaris
9 46 (1.11%) VMS
10 27 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
10 27 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (0.60%) Windows Server
12 24 (0.58%) Debian
13 14 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.19%) AIX
15 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.096%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,880 (45.17%) Agile
2 871 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 835 (20.06%) Decision-Making
4 756 (18.16%) DevOps
5 677 (16.27%) Mentoring
6 630 (15.14%) Project Management
7 623 (14.97%) Business Case
8 569 (13.67%) TOGAF
9 535 (12.85%) Software Engineering
10 531 (12.76%) Analytics
11 486 (11.68%) Validation
12 469 (11.27%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 454 (10.91%) Budgeting
14 438 (10.52%) Collaborative Working
15 437 (10.50%) Visualisation
16 411 (9.88%) Presales
17 400 (9.61%) Model Validation
18 396 (9.51%) Technical Architecture
19 384 (9.23%) Requirements Management
20 381 (9.15%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 867 (20.83%) Python
2 676 (16.24%) SQL
3 459 (11.03%) JavaScript
4 255 (6.13%) C#
5 232 (5.57%) Java
6 141 (3.39%) PL/SQL
7 107 (2.57%) Bash
8 101 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 74 (1.78%) R
10 57 (1.37%) C++
11 42 (1.01%) Go
12 41 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 38 (0.91%) Ruby
14 36 (0.86%) Perl
15 28 (0.67%) C
15 28 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 25 (0.60%) MATLAB
18 16 (0.38%) Bicep
19 15 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,704 (40.94%) Security Cleared
2 1,339 (32.17%) SC Cleared
3 643 (15.45%) Degree
4 456 (10.96%) ACCA
4 456 (10.96%) CIMA
5 264 (6.34%) DV Cleared
6 184 (4.42%) DBS Check
7 135 (3.24%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 71 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 49 (1.18%) PhD
12 46 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 32 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.43%) CISSP
15 17 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.36%) CISM
16 15 (0.36%) GCIA
16 15 (0.36%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 124 (2.98%) Actionable Recommendations
3 119 (2.86%) QA
4 70 (1.68%) SLA
5 62 (1.49%) PMO
6 60 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 59 (1.42%) WCAG
8 32 (0.77%) COBIT
9 21 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
10 17 (0.41%) NIST
11 14 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 11 (0.26%) GDPR
13 8 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.14%) GRC
14 6 (0.14%) IFRS
15 4 (0.096%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.072%) HAZOP
17 1 (0.024%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 1 (0.024%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 168 (4.04%) Docker
2 116 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 48 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
6 40 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.38%) pfSense
8 15 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.24%) NFS
10 8 (0.19%) Firmware
10 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.19%) vSphere
11 3 (0.072%) KVM
12 1 (0.024%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 258 (6.20%) Ansible
2 180 (4.32%) Kubernetes
3 105 (2.52%) Terraform
4 55 (1.32%) Puppet
5 54 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 54 (1.30%) vCenter Server
6 43 (1.03%) Data Guard
6 43 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
7 32 (0.77%) OpenView
8 26 (0.62%) OpenSSO
8 26 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.38%) Grafana
9 16 (0.38%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.29%) SCCM
10 12 (0.29%) WSUS
11 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.24%) SCDPM
12 1 (0.024%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.024%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.024%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 762 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 391 (9.39%) Oracle
3 333 (8.00%) ESRI
4 177 (4.25%) Databricks
5 159 (3.82%) VMware
6 156 (3.75%) Google
7 148 (3.56%) Red Hat
8 101 (2.43%) Remedy
9 70 (1.68%) Qualtrics
10 65 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 63 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 58 (1.39%) Sparx
13 54 (1.30%) NetApp
13 54 (1.30%) SolidFire
14 43 (1.03%) Sun
15 40 (0.96%) Cisco
16 37 (0.89%) HP
16 37 (0.89%) Siebel
17 32 (0.77%) BMC
18 27 (0.65%) Fortinet