Self-Motivation Job Trends in London

Self-Motivation
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 156 93
Rank change year-on-year +51 -63 +34
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 397 336 676
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.56% 2.23% 3.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.51% 5.13% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 218 120 366
10th Percentile £28,950 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £93,375
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £41,235
% change year-on-year -27.27% +33.38% -21.46%

All Generic Skills
London

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,101 6,549 8,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.39% 43.52% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,621 3,358 6,502
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,227 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -1.96%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Self-Motivation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in London

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Self-Motivation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in London

Self-Motivation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the London region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Central London -30 30 £70,000 +40.00% 26
South London +52 12 £36,500 - 9
West London -20 4 £47,500 -37.91% 8
North London +5 2 £72,500 +3.57% 3
East London -13 1 £73,000 +32.73% 16
Self-Motivation
England

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.27%) Apache
1 9 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 53 (13.35%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.76%) Endur
2 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.25%) EuroRunner
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 49 (12.34%) AWS
2 43 (10.83%) Azure
3 26 (6.55%) SaaS
4 24 (6.05%) GCP
4 24 (6.05%) Power Platform
5 17 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.27%) GitHub
7 11 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (2.52%) Serverless
9 9 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.01%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.01%) Google Docs
14 3 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.78%) Broadband
2 12 (3.02%) Firewall
3 11 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.76%) RTP
5 6 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.51%) WAN
6 5 (1.26%) DNS
7 4 (1.01%) Internet
7 4 (1.01%) VPN
8 3 (0.76%) DHCP
8 3 (0.76%) DMARC
8 3 (0.76%) LAN
8 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.76%) VoIP
9 2 (0.50%) DOCSIS
9 2 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.50%) IPv4
9 2 (0.50%) IPv6
9 2 (0.50%) PPP
9 2 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.82%) Tableau
2 21 (5.29%) Power BI
3 18 (4.53%) Relational Database
3 18 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 13 (3.27%) Metadata
5 10 (2.52%) MySQL
5 10 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.27%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.76%) DB2
8 7 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.51%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.76%) GIS
10 3 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (5.29%) Git
2 20 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.02%) JIRA
4 10 (2.52%) Selenium
5 6 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.51%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.26%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.01%) Postman
7 4 (1.01%) WebDriver
7 4 (1.01%) webpack
8 3 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.76%) JMeter
8 3 (0.76%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.50%) Mocha
9 2 (0.50%) Storybook
10 1 (0.25%) Gradle
10 1 (0.25%) Maven
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 219 (55.16%) Social Skills
2 154 (38.79%) Finance
3 132 (33.25%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (15.37%) Financial Institution
5 58 (14.61%) Presentation Skills
6 57 (14.36%) Banking
6 57 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (12.09%) Marketing
8 37 (9.32%) Legal
8 37 (9.32%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (7.05%) Law
10 24 (6.05%) Billing
11 21 (5.29%) Retail
12 19 (4.79%) Public Sector
13 12 (3.02%) Back Office
13 12 (3.02%) Front Office
14 9 (2.27%) Advertising
15 8 (2.02%) Local Government
16 7 (1.76%) Publishing
16 7 (1.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (17.63%) Analyst
2 53 (13.35%) Senior
3 40 (10.08%) Developer
4 36 (9.07%) Business Development Manager
4 36 (9.07%) Business Manager
4 36 (9.07%) Development Manager
5 34 (8.56%) Data Analyst
6 20 (5.04%) Sales Manager
7 19 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (4.79%) Lead
8 18 (4.53%) IT Manager
8 18 (4.53%) Sales Executive
9 17 (4.28%) Account Manager
10 15 (3.78%) Senior Manager
11 14 (3.53%) Product Management Director
11 14 (3.53%) Sales Business Development Manager
12 13 (3.27%) Architect
12 13 (3.27%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.02%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.05%) React
2 21 (5.29%) AngularJS
3 20 (5.04%) CSS
3 20 (5.04%) HTML
4 19 (4.79%) Kafka
5 18 (4.53%) Node.js
6 16 (4.03%) RESTful
7 12 (3.02%) .NET
8 11 (2.77%) Vue
9 10 (2.52%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.52%) OpenAPI
10 9 (2.27%) Swagger
11 8 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.02%) Spring
12 7 (1.76%) Express.js
12 7 (1.76%) REST
13 4 (1.01%) CSS3
13 4 (1.01%) HTML5
13 4 (1.01%) OAuth
13 4 (1.01%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.34%) Onboarding
2 29 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.30%) Management Information System
4 17 (4.28%) Social Media
5 11 (2.77%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.52%) Web Conferencing
7 9 (2.27%) Blog
7 9 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.27%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.02%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.76%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.26%) CCTV
11 5 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.05%) Windows
2 13 (3.27%) Linux
2 13 (3.27%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.52%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.50%) AIX
5 2 (0.50%) CentOS
5 2 (0.50%) OpenWrt
5 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (41.31%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (23.17%) Business Development
3 88 (22.17%) Analytics
4 87 (21.91%) Agile
5 72 (18.14%) AI
6 67 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (16.37%) Decision-Making
8 62 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (14.61%) Risk Management
10 54 (13.60%) Information Security
11 51 (12.85%) Data Analysis
12 50 (12.59%) Business Strategy
12 50 (12.59%) CRM
13 47 (11.84%) CI/CD
13 47 (11.84%) Project Management
14 44 (11.08%) Collaborative Culture
15 43 (10.83%) Migration
16 42 (10.58%) Computer Science
17 41 (10.33%) B2B
18 37 (9.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 56 (14.11%) Python
2 48 (12.09%) SQL
3 26 (6.55%) JavaScript
4 24 (6.05%) Java
5 17 (4.28%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.78%) C#
7 14 (3.53%) Bash
8 7 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.51%) PHP
10 5 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.26%) VBA
11 4 (1.01%) C++
12 3 (0.76%) RPG
13 2 (0.50%) Bicep
13 2 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.50%) R
13 2 (0.50%) VC++
14 1 (0.25%) ActionScript 2.0
14 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 127 (31.99%) Degree
2 30 (7.56%) Numerate Degree
3 27 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.29%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.04%) CISSP
6 19 (4.79%) CISM
7 14 (3.53%) CISA
7 14 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 13 (3.27%) CRISC
9 10 (2.52%) CFA
9 10 (2.52%) HND
10 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.76%) SC Cleared
12 6 (1.51%) SANS
13 5 (1.26%) MBA
14 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.76%) AAT
15 3 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (5.54%) QA
4 14 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.02%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.52%) SLA
7 7 (1.76%) IFRS
8 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.51%) ISO 9001
8 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (1.26%) GDPR
9 5 (1.26%) NIST
9 5 (1.26%) PMO
10 4 (1.01%) GRC
10 4 (1.01%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.76%) EMIR
11 3 (0.76%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.50%) COBIT
12 2 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.77%) Docker
3 7 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.50%) KVM
4 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.27%) Terraform
3 7 (1.76%) Ansible
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.50%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.50%) SCOM
6 1 (0.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.06%) Bloomberg
3 30 (7.56%) Alteryx
4 15 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.77%) Oracle
6 9 (2.27%) Google
7 8 (2.02%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.76%) VMware
9 6 (1.51%) Adobe
9 6 (1.51%) SAP
10 5 (1.26%) Cisco
11 4 (1.01%) Apple
11 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.01%) Foundry
11 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.01%) Splunk
12 3 (0.76%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.76%) ESRI
12 3 (0.76%) IBM
12 3 (0.76%) Veeam