Self-Motivation
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 120 88
Rank change year-on-year +51 -32 +43
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 3,684 2,895 6,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.65% 2.94% 3.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.46% 6.88% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,204 1,565 2,558
10th Percentile £24,000 £27,350 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £35,302 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £69,174
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% +5.26%

All Generic Skills
UK

Self-Motivation is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation.

Salary trend for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +54 3,398 £40,000 -23.81% 1,594
UK excluding London +50 2,729 £37,500 -21.05% 1,259
Work from Home +40 935 £49,000 -10.91% 541
South East +52 907 £37,500 -25.00% 355
London +36 777 £54,000 -17.56% 442
North of England +84 548 £35,000 -26.32% 306
Midlands +32 471 £37,500 -21.05% 257
South West +76 381 £41,214 -6.33% 127
North West +75 344 £35,000 -22.22% 185
East of England +5 272 £33,000 -37.14% 153
West Midlands +9 268 £35,000 -26.32% 135
East Midlands +71 199 £40,000 - 118
Yorkshire +74 154 £35,000 -30.00% 97
Scotland -96 75 £30,000 -33.33% 68
Wales +27 61 £50,855 +27.14% 28
North East -1 50 £32,500 -10.96% 32
Northern Ireland +20 15 £37,650 -24.70% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 - 1

Self-Motivation
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
1 122 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 93 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 76 (2.06%) IIS
4 56 (1.52%) CMS
5 43 (1.17%) Umbraco
6 38 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
7 37 (1.00%) Headless CMS
8 36 (0.98%) Kentico
9 35 (0.95%) WordPress
10 15 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 13 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
11 13 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
11 13 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
12 12 (0.33%) Confluence
13 11 (0.30%) nginx
14 9 (0.24%) Office Communications Server
15 7 (0.19%) Apache Pig
15 7 (0.19%) SAS
16 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
17 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 658 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 482 (13.08%) Microsoft Office
3 377 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 44 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
8 16 (0.43%) Photoshop
9 15 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 14 (0.38%) AutoCAD
11 13 (0.35%) OrCAD
12 12 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.24%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
14 8 (0.22%) InDesign
15 7 (0.19%) Simulink
16 6 (0.16%) Sketch
17 5 (0.14%) Stateflow
18 4 (0.11%) Revit
18 4 (0.11%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 33 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 17 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.24%) SAP BPC
6 6 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.11%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.081%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.081%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.081%) Q-Pulse
9 3 (0.081%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.054%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.054%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 448 (12.16%) Azure
2 296 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
3 295 (8.01%) GCP
4 286 (7.76%) AWS
5 147 (3.99%) Power Platform
6 113 (3.07%) SaaS
7 80 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 65 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (0.98%) Kontent
10 33 (0.90%) Snowflake
11 32 (0.87%) Google Analytics
12 31 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 31 (0.84%) dbt
12 31 (0.84%) GitHub
13 30 (0.81%) Matillion
14 27 (0.73%) OneDrive
15 25 (0.68%) WhatsApp
16 23 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
17 21 (0.57%) Amazon S3
18 18 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 128 (3.47%) DNS
2 126 (3.42%) Firewall
3 80 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 79 (2.14%) Wireless
5 69 (1.87%) Internet
6 62 (1.68%) DHCP
7 61 (1.66%) WAN
8 60 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (1.41%) LAN
10 51 (1.38%) Network Security
11 42 (1.14%) SAN
12 36 (0.98%) SSL
13 34 (0.92%) VPN
14 31 (0.84%) Broadband
15 29 (0.79%) Ethernet
15 29 (0.79%) Unified Communications
15 29 (0.79%) VoIP
16 21 (0.57%) HTTP
17 19 (0.52%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.46%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (7.79%) Looker
2 279 (7.57%) BigQuery
3 233 (6.32%) SQL Server
4 165 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 134 (3.64%) Power BI
6 51 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (1.19%) Data Lake
8 42 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 41 (1.11%) Power Query
10 39 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 35 (0.95%) Tableau
12 30 (0.81%) MySQL
12 30 (0.81%) Star Schema
13 29 (0.79%) Big Data
14 24 (0.65%) Oracle Database 12c
15 23 (0.62%) Oracle Database
16 21 (0.57%) NoSQL
16 21 (0.57%) RDBMS
16 21 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (2.06%) Git
2 65 (1.76%) GitLab
3 53 (1.44%) JIRA
4 39 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.57%) LabVIEW
6 12 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.33%) Selenium
7 10 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.22%) MSI
9 8 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.19%) Checkstyle
10 7 (0.19%) JUnit
10 7 (0.19%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.16%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.16%) JBehave
11 6 (0.16%) Postman
11 6 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 2,039 (55.35%) Social Skills
2 1,096 (29.75%) Analytical Skills
3 724 (19.65%) Finance
4 476 (12.92%) Retail
5 376 (10.21%) Organisational Skills
6 255 (6.92%) Marketing
7 253 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 210 (5.70%) German Language
9 153 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
10 152 (4.13%) Billing
11 125 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 124 (3.37%) Banking
13 119 (3.23%) Telecoms
14 118 (3.20%) Law
14 118 (3.20%) Public Sector
15 101 (2.74%) Legal
16 94 (2.55%) Investment Banking
17 83 (2.25%) Advertising
18 73 (1.98%) Local Government
19 64 (1.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 377 (10.23%) Analyst
2 363 (9.85%) Senior
3 283 (7.68%) Graduate
4 247 (6.70%) Developer
5 234 (6.35%) Consultant
6 224 (6.08%) Project Manager
7 215 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 178 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
9 169 (4.59%) Principal Data Engineer
10 168 (4.56%) Architect
11 160 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
12 145 (3.94%) Administrator
13 137 (3.72%) Coordinator
13 137 (3.72%) IT Support
14 128 (3.47%) Lead
15 117 (3.18%) Software Engineer
16 113 (3.07%) Data Architect
17 109 (2.96%) IT Manager
18 100 (2.71%) Development Manager
19 98 (2.66%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (3.47%) .NET
2 121 (3.28%) CSS
3 112 (3.04%) React
4 82 (2.23%) HTML
5 80 (2.17%) ASP.NET
5 80 (2.17%) REST
6 57 (1.55%) ASP.NET MVC
7 50 (1.36%) .NET Framework
8 49 (1.33%) .NET Core
9 46 (1.25%) AngularJS
9 46 (1.25%) RESTful
10 43 (1.17%) Vue
11 38 (1.03%) Next.js
12 37 (1.00%) Tailwind CSS
13 36 (0.98%) Web Services
14 33 (0.90%) jQuery
14 33 (0.90%) JSON
14 33 (0.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 27 (0.73%) WPF
16 26 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 419 (11.37%) Driving Licence
2 178 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 107 (2.90%) Video Conferencing
4 104 (2.82%) Social Media
5 94 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 92 (2.50%) Digital Signage
7 89 (2.42%) Video\Live Streaming
8 74 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 61 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 45 (1.22%) EPoS
12 42 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
13 39 (1.06%) Mobile App
14 33 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 33 (0.90%) Public Cloud
15 30 (0.81%) CCTV
16 28 (0.76%) Virtual Team
17 27 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
19 22 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 436 (11.83%) Windows
2 179 (4.86%) Linux
3 156 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.61%) Windows 10
5 75 (2.04%) Unix
6 64 (1.74%) Android
7 63 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 56 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (1.44%) Apple iOS
10 48 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 24 (0.65%) Windows 7
12 17 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
13 16 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
14 15 (0.41%) VMS
15 12 (0.33%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.33%) Windows 8
16 8 (0.22%) AIX
16 8 (0.22%) Solaris
17 6 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 5 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,346 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
2 585 (15.88%) Agile
3 548 (14.88%) Customer Service
4 521 (14.14%) Mentoring
5 484 (13.14%) Project Management
6 325 (8.82%) DevOps
7 315 (8.55%) Data Engineering
8 305 (8.28%) Change Management
9 280 (7.60%) Platform Engineering
10 260 (7.06%) Time Management
11 256 (6.95%) Computer Science
12 240 (6.51%) Project Delivery
13 230 (6.24%) CRM
14 228 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 226 (6.13%) Business Development
15 226 (6.13%) Data Science
16 221 (6.00%) Decision-Making
17 213 (5.78%) Data Pipeline
18 208 (5.65%) Software Engineering
19 207 (5.62%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 371 (10.07%) SQL
2 188 (5.10%) Python
3 162 (4.40%) C#
4 136 (3.69%) JavaScript
5 100 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 91 (2.47%) Java
7 81 (2.20%) C++
8 62 (1.68%) C
9 40 (1.09%) Scala
10 35 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 33 (0.90%) Bash
12 26 (0.71%) PHP
13 25 (0.68%) VB
14 24 (0.65%) XAML
15 21 (0.57%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.57%) R
16 20 (0.54%) VBScript
17 19 (0.52%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.49%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 847 (22.99%) Degree
2 326 (8.85%) DBS Check
3 210 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 140 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 99 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 45 (1.22%) CIMA
8 45 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 44 (1.19%) ACCA
10 34 (0.92%) HNC
11 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (0.84%) CISSP
13 29 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 25 (0.68%) HND
16 22 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
17 20 (0.54%) GIAC
18 19 (0.52%) AWS Certification
19 17 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (9.69%) GDPR
2 206 (5.59%) SLA
3 182 (4.94%) Data Quality
4 95 (2.58%) PMO
5 91 (2.47%) QA
6 71 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 45 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 18 (0.49%) GRC
11 14 (0.38%) NIST
12 9 (0.24%) COSHH
12 9 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.24%) NCSC
13 7 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.16%) ISO 26262
14 6 (0.16%) JTAG
14 6 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 255 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (1.52%) Firmware
4 52 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 42 (1.14%) Docker
6 36 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.46%) vSphere
10 8 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.19%) HDFS
11 7 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.14%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.054%) NFS
13 2 (0.054%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 57 (1.55%) SCCM
2 51 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 47 (1.28%) Kubernetes
4 45 (1.22%) WSUS
5 37 (1.00%) Ansible
5 37 (1.00%) Terraform
6 21 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (0.54%) Puppet
8 16 (0.43%) SCOM
9 15 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.35%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.30%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.16%) Nessus
14 6 (0.16%) Rundeck
15 5 (0.14%) NetBackup
15 5 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 936 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 366 (9.93%) Google
3 137 (3.72%) VMware
4 109 (2.96%) Oracle
5 72 (1.95%) Cisco
6 70 (1.90%) NEC
7 68 (1.85%) SAP
8 57 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.44%) Adobe
9 53 (1.44%) HP
10 46 (1.25%) Apple
11 44 (1.19%) NetApp
12 42 (1.14%) IBM
13 41 (1.11%) Virgin Media
14 39 (1.06%) Sitecore
15 37 (1.00%) Citrix
15 37 (1.00%) Optimizely
16 36 (0.98%) Dell
17 27 (0.73%) Veeam
18 25 (0.68%) IFS