Actionable Insight Jobs

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Actionable Insight skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -217 +6 +360
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 645 4,092 4,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 4.01% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 4.75% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 367 555 263
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,945
25th Percentile £43,125 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £73,125 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £80,435 £87,419
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,197 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.68% -9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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
England -211 558 £57,500 +9.52% 3,674
UK excluding London -239 325 £50,197 +5.68% 3,093
London -102 249 £70,000 +16.67% 1,061
Work from Home -246 212 £50,000 - 1,932
South East -164 93 £50,000 +11.11% 1,000
Midlands -92 79 £47,500 -17.39% 542
North of England -208 74 £52,000 -5.45% 717
West Midlands +19 59 £50,000 -13.04% 300
North West -193 44 £50,000 -16.67% 358
South West -102 35 £57,471 -0.05% 299
Yorkshire -66 27 £60,000 +41.18% 282
Scotland -92 20 £51,250 -0.49% 136
East Midlands -90 19 £39,919 +14.05% 208
East of England +17 16 £72,500 +68.60% 375
Northern Ireland -26 7 £30,000 -14.29% 50
North East +45 3 £51,000 +32.94% 77
Wales -70 1 £50,393 +18.57% 76

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 20 (3.10%) CMS
2 13 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.55%) WordPress
4 6 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.62%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Confluence
7 2 (0.31%) Apache
7 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 135 (20.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.24%) Photoshop
5 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.62%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Sketch
8 2 (0.31%) Trello
9 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.47%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.16%) iTrent
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.16%) Relativity
5 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 217 (33.64%) Power Platform
2 118 (18.29%) Azure
3 67 (10.39%) Google Analytics
4 61 (9.46%) AWS
5 29 (4.50%) GCP
6 25 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (3.88%) Google Ads
7 24 (3.72%) Snowflake
8 23 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.95%) SaaS
11 15 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.17%) dbt
13 11 (1.71%) Serverless
14 10 (1.55%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.55%) Google Sheets
15 9 (1.40%) Canva
16 8 (1.24%) GitHub
16 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Advertising
17 7 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.09%) Firewall
2 5 (0.78%) Network Security
3 4 (0.62%) Bluetooth
3 4 (0.62%) HTTP
4 3 (0.47%) Internet
4 3 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.47%) Wireless
5 2 (0.31%) Intranet
5 2 (0.31%) VoIP
5 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (33.64%) Power BI
2 88 (13.64%) Tableau
3 49 (7.60%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.74%) Data Lake
5 22 (3.41%) BigQuery
6 21 (3.26%) Looker
6 21 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 20 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.02%) Metadata
8 13 (2.02%) Power Query
8 13 (2.02%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.71%) Big Data
9 11 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.40%) Data Hub
10 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (1.09%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (3.41%) Git
2 17 (2.64%) JIRA
3 4 (0.62%) Bazaar
4 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.31%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.31%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.31%) GitLab
5 2 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.31%) WaveMaker
6 1 (0.16%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.16%) ERwin
6 1 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 326 (50.54%) Social Skills
2 311 (48.22%) Analytical Skills
3 202 (31.32%) Finance
4 160 (24.81%) Marketing
5 67 (10.39%) Law
6 54 (8.37%) Retail
7 42 (6.51%) Advertising
8 37 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.65%) Banking
9 30 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (3.72%) Public Sector
12 22 (3.41%) Legal
12 22 (3.41%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.02%) Billing
14 12 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.40%) Games
16 8 (1.24%) Automotive
16 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (33.33%) Analyst
2 121 (18.76%) Senior
3 64 (9.92%) Lead
4 55 (8.53%) Data Analyst
5 40 (6.20%) Senior Analyst
6 38 (5.89%) Insight Analyst
7 31 (4.81%) Business Analyst
8 29 (4.50%) Data Scientist
9 28 (4.34%) Data Engineer
10 25 (3.88%) Developer
11 21 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 18 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 18 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
12 18 (2.79%) Senior Data Scientist
13 17 (2.64%) Insight Manager
13 17 (2.64%) User Researcher
14 15 (2.33%) IT Manager
15 14 (2.17%) Data Manager
16 13 (2.02%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
17 12 (1.86%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.88%) HTML
2 23 (3.57%) CSS
3 14 (2.17%) Kafka
3 14 (2.17%) scikit-learn
3 14 (2.17%) TensorFlow
4 13 (2.02%) PySpark
5 12 (1.86%) Pandas
6 6 (0.93%) JSON
6 6 (0.93%) XML
7 5 (0.78%) PyTorch
7 5 (0.78%) React
8 4 (0.62%) Django
8 4 (0.62%) Node.js
9 3 (0.47%) .NET
9 3 (0.47%) NumPy
9 3 (0.47%) WebSockets
10 2 (0.31%) EDI
10 2 (0.31%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.31%) Loki
10 2 (0.31%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 36 (5.58%) Social Media
3 29 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 26 (4.03%) Algorithms
5 23 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.33%) Credit Risk
8 12 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.71%) Digital Media
9 11 (1.71%) FMCG
10 10 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (1.40%) Blog
12 8 (1.24%) BBC
12 8 (1.24%) Robotics
13 7 (1.09%) Derivative
13 7 (1.09%) OTC Derivatives
13 7 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.93%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.93%) Linux
2 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (51.16%) Analytics
2 268 (41.55%) Decision-Making
3 241 (37.36%) Business Intelligence
4 214 (33.18%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (27.60%) Visualisation
6 145 (22.48%) Data Analysis
7 134 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 132 (20.47%) Data Science
9 118 (18.29%) Data Visualisation
10 112 (17.36%) Machine Learning
11 110 (17.05%) Agile
12 96 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 89 (13.80%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 84 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence
15 82 (12.71%) Data Modelling
16 78 (12.09%) Data Analytics
17 73 (11.32%) Data Governance
18 64 (9.92%) ETL
19 56 (8.68%) Data Management
19 56 (8.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 203 (31.47%) SQL
2 148 (22.95%) Python
3 42 (6.51%) R
4 29 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.55%) C++
6 10 (1.55%) Java
6 10 (1.55%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.09%) C
7 7 (1.09%) VBA
8 5 (0.78%) Bash
9 4 (0.62%) C#
9 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
10 3 (0.47%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.31%) Go
11 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.16%) Perl
12 1 (0.16%) Scala
12 1 (0.16%) VC++
Qualifications
1 159 (24.65%) Degree
2 52 (8.06%) DBS Check
3 27 (4.19%) Master's Degree
4 22 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.10%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.17%) ACCA
7 11 (1.71%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.55%) CIMA
8 10 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.40%) CREST Certified
9 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.24%) CBAP
11 7 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.93%) IIBA
12 6 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.63%) Actionable Recommendations
2 62 (9.61%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 29 (4.50%) GDPR
5 23 (3.57%) QA
6 7 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.78%) SLA
8 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.62%) PMO
8 4 (0.62%) WCAG
9 3 (0.47%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) COBIT
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.31%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (0.62%) Terraform
2 3 (0.47%) Grafana
2 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.31%) Nessus
3 2 (0.31%) Nmap
3 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.16%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Control-M
4 1 (0.16%) Kibana
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 149 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 104 (16.12%) Google
3 40 (6.20%) Salesforce
4 36 (5.58%) Databricks
5 19 (2.95%) SAP
6 18 (2.79%) Ahrefs
7 15 (2.33%) Adobe
8 13 (2.02%) Oracle
8 13 (2.02%) TikTok
9 12 (1.86%) YouTube
10 10 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.40%) JD Edwards
12 8 (1.24%) Instagram
12 8 (1.24%) Mercator
12 8 (1.24%) Screaming Frog
13 6 (0.93%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.93%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.93%) Yahoo!
14 5 (0.78%) Facebook
14 5 (0.78%) Intel