Self-Motivation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 66 104
Rank change year-on-year -53 +38 -35
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 1,069 2,502 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.47% 3.43% 3.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.35% 10.87% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 503 1,485 876
10th Percentile £25,000 £23,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,250 £27,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £64,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -21.30% -1.82%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,537 23,015 20,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.59% 31.53% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,674 13,716 10,697
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £35,195 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,200 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
North of England -20 393 £30,500 -18.67% 341
North West -44 253 £37,500 +15.38% 208
South East -90 241 £42,500 +8.97% 418
East of England -8 183 £42,500 +26.87% 132
Midlands -72 119 £40,000 -4.76% 225
Yorkshire -6 97 £26,500 -41.11% 108
South West -26 95 £40,000 -15.79% 116
West Midlands -40 76 £40,000 -15.79% 147
North East +40 43 £28,188 -14.58% 30
East Midlands -53 42 £35,500 -11.25% 75
Scotland +50 23 £47,750 +46.92% 88
Wales -9 10 £75,000 +82.63% 27
Northern Ireland +29 5 - - 20
Self-Motivation
UK

Self-Motivation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (2.34%) Confluence
2 22 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.40%) IIS
5 9 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.65%) WordPress
7 3 (0.28%) Apache
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.094%) Drupal
9 1 (0.094%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.094%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.094%) SAS
9 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
Applications
1 155 (14.50%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.65%) Revit
5 3 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.28%) Final Cut Pro
5 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.28%) Simulink
5 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.094%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.094%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 23 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 17 (1.59%) Sage 200
3 16 (1.50%) Sage CRM
4 7 (0.65%) Maximo
4 7 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.56%) Shopify
6 5 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.094%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.094%) iTrent
7 1 (0.094%) Magento
7 1 (0.094%) MFGPRO
7 1 (0.094%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.094%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 312 (29.19%) Azure
2 287 (26.85%) AWS
3 239 (22.36%) GCP
4 65 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (6.08%) Serverless
5 58 (5.43%) SaaS
6 22 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 21 (1.96%) Asana
7 21 (1.96%) Miro
8 20 (1.87%) Entra ID
9 18 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
10 11 (1.03%) Nutanix
11 10 (0.94%) Power Automate
12 9 (0.84%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.56%) GitHub
14 5 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.37%) CloudFront
15 4 (0.37%) Google Ads
15 4 (0.37%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 101 (9.45%) Broadband
2 41 (3.84%) Firewall
3 22 (2.06%) WAN
4 21 (1.96%) Wireless
5 18 (1.68%) VoIP
6 17 (1.59%) LAN
7 16 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.40%) Internet
9 14 (1.31%) DNS
9 14 (1.31%) SSL
10 11 (1.03%) 5G
10 11 (1.03%) DHCP
11 10 (0.94%) Network Security
11 10 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.84%) DMARC
12 9 (0.84%) VPN
13 8 (0.75%) HTTP
13 8 (0.75%) VLAN
13 8 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (1.59%) Power BI
4 16 (1.50%) OLTP
5 7 (0.65%) MySQL
5 7 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.47%) NonStop SQL
7 5 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.47%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.37%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.28%) Metadata
9 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.28%) MS Access
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.19%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 35 (3.27%) JIRA
2 17 (1.59%) Git
3 5 (0.47%) Subversion
3 5 (0.47%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.37%) SoapUI
5 3 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.19%) GitLab
6 2 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.19%) Postman
6 2 (0.19%) Selenium
6 2 (0.19%) Spock
6 2 (0.19%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.094%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.094%) GDB
7 1 (0.094%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.094%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.094%) WebSpeed
General
1 493 (46.12%) Social Skills
2 224 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
3 196 (18.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 189 (17.68%) Finance
5 138 (12.91%) Organisational Skills
6 106 (9.92%) Marketing
7 75 (7.02%) Electronics
8 68 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (5.43%) Manufacturing
10 48 (4.49%) Telecoms
11 43 (4.02%) Legal
12 41 (3.84%) Retail
13 33 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (3.09%) Public Sector
14 28 (2.62%) Games
15 18 (1.68%) Billing
16 17 (1.59%) Law
17 14 (1.31%) Banking
18 11 (1.03%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 321 (30.03%) Senior
2 177 (16.56%) Software Engineer
3 172 (16.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 78 (7.30%) Analyst
4 78 (7.30%) IT Support
5 65 (6.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 62 (5.80%) Developer
7 52 (4.86%) Support Engineer
8 44 (4.12%) Technical Support
9 43 (4.02%) Account Executive
10 37 (3.46%) IT Engineer
11 36 (3.37%) Consultant
12 34 (3.18%) IT Support Engineer
13 33 (3.09%) Administrator
14 29 (2.71%) Sales Executive
14 29 (2.71%) Senior Developer
15 25 (2.34%) Lead
16 21 (1.96%) Product Analyst
17 20 (1.87%) Business Manager
17 20 (1.87%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (17.40%) .NET
2 180 (16.84%) Node.js
3 36 (3.37%) HTML
4 27 (2.53%) JSON
5 15 (1.40%) XML
6 14 (1.31%) REST
6 14 (1.31%) SOAP
7 12 (1.12%) React
8 7 (0.65%) CSS
9 6 (0.56%) Blazor
9 6 (0.56%) WinForms
10 5 (0.47%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.47%) SAPUI5
11 4 (0.37%) FreeSWITCH
11 4 (0.37%) Web Services
12 3 (0.28%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.28%) RESTful
12 3 (0.28%) Spring
13 2 (0.19%) Bootstrap
13 2 (0.19%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 173 (16.18%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (16.09%) Cyberattack
3 57 (5.33%) Social Media
4 48 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 46 (4.30%) Driving Licence
6 43 (4.02%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.90%) Mobile App
8 23 (2.15%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.96%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.96%) Over-the-Top Content
9 21 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 21 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 16 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.03%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.03%) Digital Signage
14 10 (0.94%) EPoS
14 10 (0.94%) FPGA
15 9 (0.84%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 222 (20.77%) Linux
2 118 (11.04%) Windows
3 41 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.34%) Android
5 23 (2.15%) Mac OS
6 19 (1.78%) Windows Vista
7 14 (1.31%) Unix
8 12 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 11 (1.03%) Windows 7
9 11 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.56%) zOS
11 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.094%) Debian
13 1 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (33.86%) Agile
2 341 (31.90%) Problem-Solving
3 299 (27.97%) Mentoring
4 283 (26.47%) Customer Service
5 246 (23.01%) Machine Learning
6 212 (19.83%) Software Engineering
7 193 (18.05%) User Experience
8 188 (17.59%) Scrum
9 187 (17.49%) Cloud Security
10 177 (16.56%) Microservices
11 174 (16.28%) Data Engineering
12 173 (16.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 136 (12.72%) CRM
14 124 (11.60%) Business Development
15 90 (8.42%) Clean Code
15 90 (8.42%) Project Management
16 89 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
17 88 (8.23%) Creative Thinking
18 74 (6.92%) CI/CD
18 74 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 260 (24.32%) Python
2 224 (20.95%) JavaScript
3 219 (20.49%) Java
4 198 (18.52%) C++
5 174 (16.28%) Rust
6 172 (16.09%) Go
7 125 (11.69%) SQL
8 70 (6.55%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.43%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.96%) C
11 18 (1.68%) C#
12 14 (1.31%) VBA
13 13 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 10 (0.94%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.65%) PHP
16 6 (0.56%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.47%) R
17 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 219 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 218 (20.39%) Degree
3 180 (16.84%) DV Cleared
4 172 (16.09%) AWS Certification
4 172 (16.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (16.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 78 (7.30%) PhD
6 39 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 38 (3.55%) DBS Check
8 35 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.87%) SC Cleared
10 17 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.31%) CISM
12 14 (1.31%) CISSP
13 11 (1.03%) MCSA
14 10 (0.94%) MCSE
15 9 (0.84%) MCP
16 8 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (2.71%) SLA
3 24 (2.25%) GDPR
4 12 (1.12%) PMO
5 10 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.75%) QA
7 8 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (0.56%) NIST
10 3 (0.28%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.19%) COSHH
11 2 (0.19%) GMP
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.094%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.094%) JTAG
12 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.62%) Hyper-V
3 15 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.31%) Firmware
5 6 (0.56%) Docker
6 5 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.19%) vSphere
9 1 (0.094%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (0.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.75%) Terraform
4 7 (0.65%) PaperCut
5 6 (0.56%) SCCM
6 5 (0.47%) Ansible
7 3 (0.28%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.28%) SCOM
8 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.19%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.19%) SCSM
9 1 (0.094%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.094%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.094%) Nessus
Vendors
1 218 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.21%) Oracle
3 36 (3.37%) Salesforce
4 33 (3.09%) YouTube
5 28 (2.62%) SAP
6 20 (1.87%) Google
7 18 (1.68%) Zoho
8 17 (1.59%) BT
8 17 (1.59%) Sage
9 16 (1.50%) Cisco
9 16 (1.50%) VMware
10 15 (1.40%) IBM
11 13 (1.22%) Dell
12 11 (1.03%) Citrix
13 10 (0.94%) Adobe
13 10 (0.94%) Commvault
13 10 (0.94%) Intel
14 9 (0.84%) HP
15 8 (0.75%) JD Edwards
15 8 (0.75%) ServiceNow