Actionable Insight Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 57 418
Rank change year-on-year -5 +361 +94
Permanent jobs citing Actionable Insight 3,977 4,898 1,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.67% 5.26% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 5.51% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 551 263 305
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,435 £87,419 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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
England 0 2,983 £52,500 -6.25% 420
UK excluding London -28 2,930 £47,500 -9.52% 194
Work from Home +15 2,137 £50,000 -9.20% 195
London +157 871 £60,000 +1.69% 224
South East +12 725 £45,000 -14.29% 43
North of England -24 577 £55,000 +5.77% 71
South West -27 447 £55,000 -26.67% 21
Scotland -39 429 £51,500 +7.95% 9
North West -20 394 £60,000 -11.11% 39
Midlands -54 301 £57,500 +27.78% 27
Wales -5 252 £42,500 -29.17% 4
East Midlands -42 193 £36,750 +8.09% 7
Yorkshire -18 177 £41,250 -2.94% 24
Northern Ireland +2 161 £35,000 - 2
West Midlands -23 108 £57,500 +3.14% 20
East of England -27 42 £43,000 +35.43% 21
North East -10 6 £38,362 -19.24% 8

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
1 318 (8.00%) ArcGIS
1 318 (8.00%) GeoServer
2 113 (2.84%) WebLogic
3 81 (2.04%) Apache
4 54 (1.36%) Confluence
5 49 (1.23%) SAS
6 42 (1.06%) Oracle Service Bus
7 37 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.28%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.10%) TWiki
12 3 (0.075%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 669 (16.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 74 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (1.31%) Sketch
5 40 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 26 (0.65%) UserZoom
7 6 (0.15%) InVision
7 6 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
8 5 (0.13%) SPSS
9 2 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.025%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 74 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 58 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 33 (0.83%) Siebel CRM
4 8 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.15%) HFM
5 6 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
6 5 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.10%) BASE24
8 2 (0.050%) Primavera
9 1 (0.025%) Magento
9 1 (0.025%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.025%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 969 (24.37%) AWS
2 817 (20.54%) Azure
3 253 (6.36%) Power Platform
4 175 (4.40%) SaaS
5 148 (3.72%) GCP
6 105 (2.64%) Figma
7 91 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (1.84%) Miro
9 71 (1.79%) Amazon S3
10 65 (1.63%) SurveyMonkey
11 57 (1.43%) PowerApps
12 56 (1.41%) OpenShift
12 56 (1.41%) Power Automate
13 50 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
14 46 (1.16%) Heroku
15 39 (0.98%) Serverless
16 31 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
16 31 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 453 (11.39%) Broadband
2 315 (7.92%) VSAT
3 188 (4.73%) Firewall
4 105 (2.64%) VPN
5 101 (2.54%) DNS
6 99 (2.49%) TCP/IP
7 90 (2.26%) Internet
8 54 (1.36%) IPsec
8 54 (1.36%) SNMP
9 53 (1.33%) WAN
10 46 (1.16%) BGP
10 46 (1.16%) LAN
10 46 (1.16%) SSL
11 41 (1.03%) DHCP
12 34 (0.85%) HTTP
13 23 (0.58%) AMQP
14 22 (0.55%) Network Security
14 22 (0.55%) Wireless
15 17 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (0.40%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 412 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 342 (8.60%) GIS
3 319 (8.02%) Tableau
4 318 (8.00%) QGIS
5 251 (6.31%) Power BI
6 182 (4.58%) Oracle Database
7 133 (3.34%) Oracle Database 11g
8 105 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
9 85 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 85 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 74 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 63 (1.58%) RDBMS
12 62 (1.56%) SQL Server
13 52 (1.31%) Big Data
14 48 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
15 43 (1.08%) Data Lake
16 42 (1.06%) Oracle Database 10g
16 42 (1.06%) VLDB
17 30 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
17 30 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 240 (6.03%) Git
2 162 (4.07%) JIRA
3 82 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.53%) Selenium
5 20 (0.50%) Ant
6 17 (0.43%) Subversion
7 12 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 12 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.25%) Trac
9 9 (0.23%) GitLab
10 8 (0.20%) TestRail
10 8 (0.20%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.10%) eggPlant
12 3 (0.075%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.075%) ERwin
13 1 (0.025%) Maven
13 1 (0.025%) TeamCity
General
1 1,516 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 944 (23.74%) Finance
3 931 (23.41%) Analytical Skills
4 478 (12.02%) Influencing Skills
5 324 (8.15%) Presentation Skills
6 278 (6.99%) Aerospace
7 235 (5.91%) Marketing
8 208 (5.23%) Retail
9 111 (2.79%) Public Sector
10 100 (2.51%) Law
11 87 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 60 (1.51%) Games
13 45 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 40 (1.01%) Social Science
15 39 (0.98%) Local Government
16 34 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 34 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (0.68%) Police
18 26 (0.65%) Legal
19 24 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,206 (30.32%) Senior
2 1,023 (25.72%) Analyst
3 750 (18.86%) Architect
4 457 (11.49%) Senior Analyst
5 431 (10.84%) Software Engineer
6 321 (8.07%) Software Architect
7 301 (7.57%) Developer
8 251 (6.31%) Lead
9 237 (5.96%) Data Analyst
10 221 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 197 (4.95%) Project Manager
12 188 (4.73%) Senior Developer
13 183 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
14 172 (4.32%) Consultant
15 147 (3.70%) Presales Manager
16 132 (3.32%) Financial Analyst
17 129 (3.24%) Senior Data Analyst
18 128 (3.22%) Commercial Analyst
19 95 (2.39%) Data Scientist
20 91 (2.29%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (9.28%) React
2 340 (8.55%) .NET
3 319 (8.02%) Leaflet
3 319 (8.02%) OpenLayers
4 318 (8.00%) PostGIS
5 316 (7.95%) CSS
6 304 (7.64%) .NET Core
7 123 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
8 114 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 100 (2.51%) HTML
10 79 (1.99%) Node.js
11 73 (1.84%) Spring
12 69 (1.73%) Spring Boot
13 66 (1.66%) TensorFlow
14 54 (1.36%) YAML
15 52 (1.31%) scikit-learn
16 51 (1.28%) Pandas
17 48 (1.21%) PySpark
18 40 (1.01%) Express.js
19 37 (0.93%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 127 (3.19%) Public Cloud
2 100 (2.51%) Management Information System
3 99 (2.49%) Algorithms
4 97 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 94 (2.36%) PKI
5 94 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 79 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 77 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 44 (1.11%) Onboarding
10 43 (1.08%) Cloud Native
11 28 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (0.68%) Market Risk
13 22 (0.55%) CMDB
14 20 (0.50%) NHS
15 17 (0.43%) Satnav
16 15 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
17 14 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
18 13 (0.33%) FMCG
18 13 (0.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 456 (11.47%) Linux
2 240 (6.03%) Windows
3 118 (2.97%) Unix
4 105 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 91 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 55 (1.38%) CentOS
7 54 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
8 50 (1.26%) Solaris
9 46 (1.16%) VMS
10 27 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 27 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (0.63%) Windows Server
12 24 (0.60%) Debian
13 13 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.20%) AIX
15 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.10%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,817 (45.69%) Agile
2 844 (21.22%) Decision-Making
3 798 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
4 688 (17.30%) DevOps
5 656 (16.49%) Mentoring
6 618 (15.54%) Business Case
7 605 (15.21%) Project Management
8 560 (14.08%) Analytics
9 520 (13.08%) TOGAF
10 474 (11.92%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 466 (11.72%) Visualisation
12 461 (11.59%) Software Engineering
13 458 (11.52%) Budgeting
14 427 (10.74%) Validation
15 421 (10.59%) Collaborative Working
16 399 (10.03%) Presales
17 348 (8.75%) Data Analysis
17 348 (8.75%) Technical Architecture
18 347 (8.73%) Model Validation
19 341 (8.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 846 (21.27%) Python
2 685 (17.22%) SQL
3 406 (10.21%) JavaScript
4 246 (6.19%) C#
5 165 (4.15%) Java
6 139 (3.50%) PL/SQL
7 92 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 75 (1.89%) R
9 68 (1.71%) Bash
10 47 (1.18%) C++
11 38 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 26 (0.65%) MATLAB
12 26 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.63%) C
14 17 (0.43%) Bicep
15 15 (0.38%) TypeScript
16 14 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.20%) VB
18 6 (0.15%) Go
19 5 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,609 (40.46%) Security Cleared
2 1,277 (32.11%) SC Cleared
3 648 (16.29%) Degree
4 456 (11.47%) ACCA
4 456 (11.47%) CIMA
5 251 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 208 (5.23%) DBS Check
7 150 (3.77%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 72 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 47 (1.18%) PhD
12 46 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 32 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (0.43%) CISSP
15 16 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.35%) CISM
17 13 (0.33%) GCIA
17 13 (0.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 103 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 77 (1.94%) QA
4 68 (1.71%) SLA
5 62 (1.56%) PMO
6 61 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 58 (1.46%) WCAG
8 32 (0.80%) COBIT
9 17 (0.43%) NIST
9 17 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
10 14 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.28%) GDPR
12 8 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.15%) GRC
13 6 (0.15%) IFRS
14 4 (0.10%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.025%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.025%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 164 (4.12%) Docker
2 115 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 47 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
6 33 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.40%) pfSense
8 15 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.25%) NFS
10 8 (0.20%) Firmware
10 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.20%) vSphere
11 3 (0.075%) KVM
12 1 (0.025%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 252 (6.34%) Ansible
2 177 (4.45%) Kubernetes
3 104 (2.62%) Terraform
4 54 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 54 (1.36%) Puppet
4 54 (1.36%) vCenter Server
5 42 (1.06%) Data Guard
5 42 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
6 32 (0.80%) OpenView
7 25 (0.63%) OpenSSO
7 25 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.40%) Grafana
8 16 (0.40%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.30%) SCCM
9 12 (0.30%) WSUS
10 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 10 (0.25%) SCDPM
11 1 (0.025%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.025%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 765 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 347 (8.73%) Oracle
3 321 (8.07%) ESRI
4 200 (5.03%) Databricks
5 158 (3.97%) VMware
6 157 (3.95%) Google
7 147 (3.70%) Red Hat
8 99 (2.49%) Remedy
9 64 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 64 (1.61%) Qualtrics
10 63 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 58 (1.46%) Sparx
12 54 (1.36%) NetApp
12 54 (1.36%) SolidFire
13 42 (1.06%) Sun
14 39 (0.98%) Cisco
15 37 (0.93%) HP
16 33 (0.83%) Siebel
17 32 (0.80%) BMC
18 26 (0.65%) Fortinet