Actionable Recommendations Job Trends in the West Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 194 171
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +105
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 5 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.77% 0.71% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £41,102 - £39,750
25th Percentile £48,380 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £66,570 - £50,625
90th Percentile £67,128 - £56,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year +5.13% +0.75% +8.40%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

Actionable Recommendations falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 649 708 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.28% 17.09% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 299 376 490
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,938 £37,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,125 £73,875
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.69% +2.61%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Actionable Recommendations
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Actionable Recommendations.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Actionable Recommendations

Actionable Recommendations
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Recommendations within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Birmingham +21 4 £64,038 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £37,500 - 1
Actionable Recommendations
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) User Researcher
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Auditor
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Insight Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior User Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Qualitative Research
2 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design
2 2 (40.00%) User Research
2 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft