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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 49 255
Rank change year-on-year -228 +206 +244
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 632 3,633 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 4.72% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 5.32% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 313 433 229
10th Percentile £38,550 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +5.26%

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 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -206 570 £65,000 +13.04% 914
UK excluding London -254 359 £60,000 +20.00% 416
Work from Home -213 232 £62,500 +7.76% 444
London -77 230 £75,000 +18.51% 631
East of England +58 77 £76,000 +76.74% 33
South East -169 74 £76,000 +72.73% 190
Midlands -126 69 £43,756 -23.90% 53
North of England -197 69 £60,000 +14.29% 97
West Midlands -35 47 £45,000 -21.74% 35
South West -141 40 £48,507 -19.16% 27
North West -176 35 £46,250 -13.95% 63
Yorkshire -83 31 £64,000 +19.63% 26
Scotland -134 24 £80,000 +55.34% 17
East Midlands -85 22 £42,500 +1.80% 18
Wales -73 4 £42,512 - 6
North East +25 3 £45,500 -3.42% 9
Northern Ireland -44 2 £55,000 - 1

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 29 (4.59%) SAS
2 23 (3.64%) Mule
3 16 (2.53%) CMS
4 10 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.42%) WordPress
6 7 (1.11%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.95%) IBM Domino
8 5 (0.79%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.63%) Apache
10 3 (0.47%) Confluence
11 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 114 (18.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.63%) Trello
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Notion
6 1 (0.16%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.16%) Simulink
6 1 (0.16%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.11%) SAP Business One
3 6 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.32%) iTrent
6 1 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.16%) Relativity
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 273 (43.20%) Power Platform
2 94 (14.87%) Azure
3 55 (8.70%) AWS
4 37 (5.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 31 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (4.27%) Google Analytics
6 27 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (3.96%) GCP
8 22 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (3.32%) Snowflake
10 20 (3.16%) dbt
10 20 (3.16%) Serverless
11 16 (2.53%) GitHub
12 15 (2.37%) Google Ads
13 11 (1.74%) Amazon S3
13 11 (1.74%) PowerApps
13 11 (1.74%) SaaS
14 9 (1.42%) Typeform
15 8 (1.27%) OCI
15 8 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) Broadband
2 10 (1.58%) HTTP
3 8 (1.27%) Wireless
4 7 (1.11%) Bluetooth
5 6 (0.95%) Firewall
5 6 (0.95%) Network Security
6 5 (0.79%) DNS
6 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.79%) VLAN
6 5 (0.79%) VPN
7 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.32%) Intranet
9 1 (0.16%) Internet
9 1 (0.16%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (43.20%) Power BI
2 112 (17.72%) Power Query
3 95 (15.03%) GIS
4 94 (14.87%) Geospatial Data
5 82 (12.97%) Tableau
6 49 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (4.27%) BigQuery
8 23 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 22 (3.48%) Data Lake
10 15 (2.37%) Big Data
11 14 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
12 12 (1.90%) Data Mining
13 11 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.42%) Looker
14 9 (1.42%) SQL Server
14 9 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.85%) Git
2 14 (2.22%) JIRA
3 7 (1.11%) Robot Framework
4 6 (0.95%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.63%) Xcode
6 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.16%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.16%) ERwin
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 280 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 241 (38.13%) Analytical Skills
3 170 (26.90%) Finance
4 130 (20.57%) Marketing
5 47 (7.44%) Banking
6 44 (6.96%) Manufacturing
7 39 (6.17%) Legal
7 39 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (5.22%) Advertising
9 27 (4.27%) Public Sector
10 25 (3.96%) Retail
11 18 (2.85%) Electronics
12 16 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.22%) Retail Banking
14 13 (2.06%) Billing
15 11 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.42%) Brand Awareness
16 9 (1.42%) Health Technology
17 7 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 200 (31.65%) Analyst
2 134 (21.20%) Senior
3 64 (10.13%) Senior Analyst
4 58 (9.18%) Data Analyst
5 32 (5.06%) Data Scientist
5 32 (5.06%) Developer
5 32 (5.06%) Strategy Analyst
6 31 (4.91%) Lead
7 30 (4.75%) Senior Strategy Analyst
8 27 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 23 (3.64%) Business Analyst
9 23 (3.64%) Fraud Analyst
10 17 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
11 15 (2.37%) Consultant
12 14 (2.22%) Senior Data Analyst
13 13 (2.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (2.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (2.06%) Designer
14 12 (1.90%) Senior Data Scientist
14 12 (1.90%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.69%) HTML
2 16 (2.53%) CSS
3 13 (2.06%) JSON
4 9 (1.42%) Kafka
4 9 (1.42%) Pandas
5 8 (1.27%) .NET
5 8 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (1.27%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.11%) PySpark
7 6 (0.95%) Django
7 6 (0.95%) EDI
7 6 (0.95%) NumPy
7 6 (0.95%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.95%) WebSockets
8 4 (0.63%) Flash
8 4 (0.63%) Node.js
8 4 (0.63%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.63%) React
8 4 (0.63%) RESTful
8 4 (0.63%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 109 (17.25%) Algorithms
2 39 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 22 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (3.48%) Social Media
4 19 (3.01%) Credit Risk
5 18 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 14 (2.22%) Robotics
9 10 (1.58%) SCADA
10 9 (1.42%) Blog
10 9 (1.42%) IoT
11 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.95%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
14 4 (0.63%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.42%) Linux
2 6 (0.95%) Ubuntu
2 6 (0.95%) Windows
3 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.32%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (48.42%) Problem-Solving
2 284 (44.94%) Business Intelligence
3 266 (42.09%) Analytics
4 191 (30.22%) Decision-Making
5 153 (24.21%) Data Analysis
5 153 (24.21%) Visualisation
6 144 (22.78%) Data Management
7 115 (18.20%) Service Delivery
8 111 (17.56%) Data Visualisation
9 106 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (15.03%) Strategic Planning
11 94 (14.87%) Asset Management
12 93 (14.72%) Data Science
13 92 (14.56%) Agile
14 76 (12.03%) Artificial Intelligence
15 74 (11.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 73 (11.55%) Machine Learning
17 72 (11.39%) Computer Science
18 67 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
19 66 (10.44%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 333 (52.69%) SQL
2 172 (27.22%) Python
3 69 (10.92%) R
4 28 (4.43%) C++
5 22 (3.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (3.01%) Java
7 16 (2.53%) C
8 8 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.95%) Ladder Logic
9 6 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.63%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.63%) Swift
11 3 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) Go
12 2 (0.32%) Scala
12 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.16%) Bash
13 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 142 (22.47%) Degree
2 34 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.27%) DBS Check
4 21 (3.32%) Master's Degree
5 20 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
8 10 (1.58%) CREST Certified
9 9 (1.42%) ACCA
9 9 (1.42%) CIMA
10 8 (1.27%) CFA
10 8 (1.27%) CHECK Team Leader
11 7 (1.11%) HND
12 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.95%) CISSP
12 6 (0.95%) MBA
12 6 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.79%) CBAP
13 5 (0.79%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 49 (7.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 24 (3.80%) QA
4 21 (3.32%) GDPR
5 13 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.58%) SLA
8 8 (1.27%) NIST
9 7 (1.11%) PMO
10 6 (0.95%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.79%) GRC
11 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.47%) SOC 1
14 1 (0.16%) COSO
14 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
1 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.11%) Terraform
2 2 (0.32%) Grafana
2 2 (0.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.16%) Check_MK
3 1 (0.16%) Control-M
3 1 (0.16%) Kibana
3 1 (0.16%) Nessus
3 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.28%) Google
3 38 (6.01%) Databricks
4 37 (5.85%) Salesforce
5 25 (3.96%) SAP
6 16 (2.53%) Oracle
7 14 (2.22%) Ahrefs
8 8 (1.27%) Screaming Frog
9 7 (1.11%) Sitecore
10 6 (0.95%) Adobe
10 6 (0.95%) Mercator
10 6 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (0.95%) Siemens
11 5 (0.79%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.79%) Anaplan
11 5 (0.79%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) YouTube
12 4 (0.63%) Apple
13 3 (0.47%) Sparx
13 3 (0.47%) TikTok