Self-Motivation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 111 47
Rank change year-on-year +45 -64 +7
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 115 51 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.32% 1.86% 4.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.00% 5.47% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 95 36 238
10th Percentile £27,500 £48,549 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £59,375 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +50.00% +4.05%
75th Percentile £64,375 £122,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 - £64,750
South East median annual salary £40,000 £62,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year -36.00% +73.61% -28.00%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,278 932 2,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.77% 33.90% 33.58%
Number of salaries quoted 759 496 1,471
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +16.16% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Self-Motivation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in the Thames Valley

Self-Motivation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Berkshire +34 66 £40,000 -61.90% 31
Buckinghamshire +12 38 £40,000 -36.00% 16
Oxfordshire -2 11 £32,500 -16.13% 6
Self-Motivation
South East

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (10.43%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) SAP GTS
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.61%) Azure
2 13 (11.30%) AWS
3 11 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.35%) Apigee
4 5 (4.35%) Figma
4 5 (4.35%) GCP
4 5 (4.35%) GitHub
4 5 (4.35%) Kong
4 5 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.48%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) Firewall
2 5 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (4.35%) DNS
3 2 (1.74%) NAS
3 2 (1.74%) NetScaler
3 2 (1.74%) SAN
3 2 (1.74%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.87%) DHCP
4 1 (0.87%) Network Security
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Git
1 5 (4.35%) GitLab
2 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.74%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) Selenium
2 2 (1.74%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
General
1 67 (58.26%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.74%) Marketing
4 11 (9.57%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Finance
5 10 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.83%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (6.09%) Billing
9 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.48%) Law
10 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.48%) Retail
11 3 (2.61%) French Language
11 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.87%) Environmental Health
13 1 (0.87%) German Language
13 1 (0.87%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 12 (10.43%) 3rd Line Support
1 12 (10.43%) Senior
2 11 (9.57%) Technical Support
3 10 (8.70%) Developer
3 10 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 9 (7.83%) IT Technician
4 9 (7.83%) Oracle Developer
4 9 (7.83%) Sales Executive
4 9 (7.83%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 8 (6.96%) Applications Architect
5 8 (6.96%) Architect
6 7 (6.09%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 7 (6.09%) Consultant
6 7 (6.09%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Administrator
7 6 (5.22%) IT Support
8 5 (4.35%) IT Support Technician
8 5 (4.35%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Network Specialist
8 5 (4.35%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.39%) JSON
2 14 (12.17%) REST
3 12 (10.43%) XML
4 9 (7.83%) HTML
5 7 (6.09%) Django
6 5 (4.35%) Jinja
6 5 (4.35%) React
6 5 (4.35%) SOAP
6 5 (4.35%) Twisted
6 5 (4.35%) Web Services
6 5 (4.35%) WebSockets
6 5 (4.35%) YAML
6 5 (4.35%) YANG
7 4 (3.48%) Middleware
8 2 (1.74%) JSON Schema
8 2 (1.74%) LDAP
8 2 (1.74%) Playwright
8 2 (1.74%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (2.61%) PMI
4 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.74%) PKI
4 2 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.87%) Life Science
5 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.17%) Linux
2 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 11 (9.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.35%) Unix
4 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.04%) CRM
2 27 (23.48%) Customer Service
3 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.39%) Business Development
5 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
6 14 (12.17%) Decision-Making
7 11 (9.57%) Containerisation
7 11 (9.57%) Lead Generation
8 10 (8.70%) Coaching
8 10 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 10 (8.70%) Service Management
9 9 (7.83%) Agile
9 9 (7.83%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (7.83%) Computer Science
9 9 (7.83%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (7.83%) Issue Tracking
10 8 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (6.96%) DevOps
10 8 (6.96%) Software Engineering
10 8 (6.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.52%) JavaScript
2 15 (13.04%) Java
3 13 (11.30%) Python
3 13 (11.30%) SQL
4 9 (7.83%) PL/SQL
5 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.48%) C#
7 2 (1.74%) C++
7 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.87%) Bash
8 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (24.35%) Degree
2 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.48%) HNC
5 3 (2.61%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) QA
2 5 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (14.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.96%) Hyper-V
3 6 (5.22%) Docker
3 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.87%) Ansible
1 1 (0.87%) Grafana
1 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.43%) Salesforce
3 10 (8.70%) VMware
4 9 (7.83%) Oracle
5 5 (4.35%) Cisco
5 5 (4.35%) F5
5 5 (4.35%) Juniper
5 5 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.61%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) Citrix
7 2 (1.74%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.74%) NetApp
8 1 (0.87%) BMC
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow