Self-Motivation Jobs

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 cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 114 83
Rank change year-on-year +44 -31 +36
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 2,965 2,366 7,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 2.93% 4.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.86% 7.13% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 1,421 2,729
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,699 £71,250 £69,315
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,200 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -19.60% +6.38% +4.44%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +47 2,738 £45,000 -14.29% 833
UK excluding London +42 2,147 £40,200 -19.60% 758
South East +73 827 £42,500 -15.00% 225
London +14 669 £54,000 -16.92% 177
Work from Home +9 656 £52,500 -6.25% 292
North of England +32 433 £37,500 -21.05% 188
Midlands -7 323 £40,000 -25.93% 134
South West +66 279 £47,500 +11.76% 107
North West +30 266 £36,286 -19.37% 116
West Midlands -10 193 £47,500 -12.04% 76
East of England -12 170 £37,500 -30.56% 79
Yorkshire +27 134 £48,750 -2.50% 52
East Midlands +15 126 £40,000 -20.00% 55
Scotland -74 59 £40,000 -27.27% 31
Wales +36 41 £45,000 +12.50% 13
North East -4 33 £33,000 -27.87% 21
Northern Ireland +18 13 £42,800 -18.48% 28
Isle of Man - 1 - - 3

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 89 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.96%) IIS
4 45 (1.52%) CMS
5 37 (1.25%) Umbraco
6 30 (1.01%) WordPress
7 28 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
8 27 (0.91%) Headless CMS
9 26 (0.88%) Kentico
10 20 (0.67%) Skype for Business
11 13 (0.44%) Confluence
12 9 (0.30%) nginx
12 9 (0.30%) Office Communications Server
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
14 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
14 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2007
14 3 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
14 3 (0.10%) SAS
14 3 (0.10%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 616 (20.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 408 (13.76%) Microsoft Office
3 287 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 13 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 12 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
9 12 (0.40%) OrCAD
10 10 (0.34%) AutoCAD
11 9 (0.30%) Adobe XD
11 9 (0.30%) InDesign
12 6 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.13%) Sketch
13 4 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
14 3 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.067%) Avid Media Composer
15 2 (0.067%) CapCut
15 2 (0.067%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (0.81%) NEC Housing
2 22 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.24%) CA PPM
6 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
8 3 (0.10%) Endur
8 3 (0.10%) Magento
8 3 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.10%) Oracle Manufacturing
9 2 (0.067%) Findur
9 2 (0.067%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.067%) SAP PLM
9 2 (0.067%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 334 (11.26%) Azure
2 292 (9.85%) GCP
3 261 (8.80%) AWS
4 227 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 73 (2.46%) SaaS
7 70 (2.36%) Entra ID
8 62 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (1.32%) GitHub
10 29 (0.98%) Google Analytics
11 26 (0.88%) IBM Cloud
11 26 (0.88%) Kontent
12 21 (0.71%) dbt
12 21 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (0.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 19 (0.64%) OneDrive
15 18 (0.61%) Azure Storage
16 16 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (0.54%) IaaS
16 16 (0.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 113 (3.81%) Firewall
2 100 (3.37%) DNS
3 86 (2.90%) Wireless
4 84 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 60 (2.02%) DHCP
6 56 (1.89%) Internet
6 56 (1.89%) WAN
7 44 (1.48%) LAN
8 42 (1.42%) Network Security
8 42 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (1.18%) SSL
10 31 (1.05%) VPN
11 30 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 25 (0.84%) Broadband
12 25 (0.84%) VoIP
13 23 (0.78%) Ethernet
14 22 (0.74%) HTTP
15 21 (0.71%) SAN
16 20 (0.67%) MQTT
16 20 (0.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (8.16%) Looker
2 239 (8.06%) BigQuery
3 147 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 94 (3.17%) Power BI
5 89 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 58 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.81%) Oracle Database
8 24 (0.81%) Tableau
9 23 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 23 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 23 (0.78%) Power Query
10 22 (0.74%) Oracle Database 12c
11 21 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (0.61%) MySQL
13 16 (0.54%) Big Data
13 16 (0.54%) Relational Database
14 13 (0.44%) SAP HANA
15 12 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
15 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (2.26%) Git
2 40 (1.35%) JIRA
3 37 (1.25%) GitLab
4 30 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 21 (0.71%) LabVIEW
5 21 (0.71%) MSI
6 13 (0.44%) AdminStudio
6 13 (0.44%) InstallShield
7 11 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.37%) Selenium
8 9 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.20%) Postman
9 6 (0.20%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.17%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.13%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.13%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.10%) gulp
12 3 (0.10%) Locust
General
1 1,722 (58.08%) Social Skills
2 954 (32.18%) Analytical Skills
3 576 (19.43%) Finance
4 372 (12.55%) Organisational Skills
4 372 (12.55%) Retail
5 206 (6.95%) Marketing
6 198 (6.68%) German Language
7 157 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 148 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 140 (4.72%) Public Sector
10 139 (4.69%) Billing
11 116 (3.91%) Manufacturing
12 108 (3.64%) Law
13 99 (3.34%) Telecoms
14 79 (2.66%) Legal
15 66 (2.23%) Banking
16 65 (2.19%) Local Government
17 58 (1.96%) Electronics
18 53 (1.79%) Advertising
19 52 (1.75%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 279 (9.41%) Senior
2 231 (7.79%) Graduate
3 215 (7.25%) Developer
4 196 (6.61%) Coordinator
5 190 (6.41%) Analyst
6 184 (6.21%) Data Engineer
7 176 (5.94%) Principal Engineer
8 170 (5.73%) Principal Data Engineer
9 168 (5.67%) Project Manager
10 160 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
11 136 (4.59%) Lead
12 124 (4.18%) Consultant
13 122 (4.11%) Software Engineer
14 121 (4.08%) Development Manager
15 112 (3.78%) Architect
16 106 (3.58%) Business Manager
17 102 (3.44%) IT Support
18 92 (3.10%) IT Manager
19 90 (3.04%) Business Development Manager
20 76 (2.56%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (4.52%) CSS
2 126 (4.25%) React
3 115 (3.88%) HTML
4 100 (3.37%) REST
5 92 (3.10%) .NET
6 61 (2.06%) ASP.NET
7 48 (1.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 48 (1.62%) Web Services
8 47 (1.59%) Tailwind CSS
9 43 (1.45%) RESTful
10 40 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 38 (1.28%) GraphQL
12 37 (1.25%) .NET Core
12 37 (1.25%) Vue
13 35 (1.18%) XML
14 34 (1.15%) .NET Framework
15 32 (1.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 31 (1.05%) jQuery
17 29 (0.98%) Next.js
18 26 (0.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 341 (11.50%) Driving Licence
2 144 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 109 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
4 90 (3.04%) Digital Signage
5 89 (3.00%) Social Media
5 89 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 55 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 38 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (1.21%) EPoS
9 35 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 34 (1.15%) Product Ownership
11 33 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 33 (1.11%) Media Streaming
12 29 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 29 (0.98%) FPGA
13 28 (0.94%) Blog
14 26 (0.88%) CCTV
15 25 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (0.81%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 359 (12.11%) Windows
2 147 (4.96%) Linux
3 126 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 97 (3.27%) Windows 10
5 66 (2.23%) Unix
6 51 (1.72%) Android
7 49 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 43 (1.45%) Apple iOS
10 32 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 26 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
12 18 (0.61%) Windows 7
13 10 (0.34%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.24%) AIX
14 7 (0.24%) VMS
15 5 (0.17%) Solaris
15 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.13%) CentOS
16 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 598 (20.17%) Agile
3 434 (14.64%) Mentoring
4 423 (14.27%) Project Management
5 421 (14.20%) Customer Service
6 303 (10.22%) DevOps
7 274 (9.24%) Change Management
8 244 (8.23%) Data Engineering
9 239 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
10 223 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 208 (7.02%) Business Development
12 197 (6.64%) Project Delivery
13 195 (6.58%) Computer Science
14 192 (6.48%) Data Pipeline
14 192 (6.48%) Software Engineering
15 188 (6.34%) Customer Insight
16 187 (6.31%) ITIL
17 180 (6.07%) Collaborative Working
18 173 (5.83%) Data Science
19 172 (5.80%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 211 (7.12%) SQL
2 173 (5.83%) JavaScript
3 155 (5.23%) C#
4 140 (4.72%) Python
5 119 (4.01%) Java
6 74 (2.50%) C++
6 74 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 69 (2.33%) Scala
8 55 (1.85%) C
9 50 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 39 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 36 (1.21%) Bash
11 36 (1.21%) VB
12 19 (0.64%) MATLAB
12 19 (0.64%) XAML
13 18 (0.61%) Bicep
13 18 (0.61%) VBScript
14 15 (0.51%) PHP
15 13 (0.44%) Embedded C
16 11 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 722 (24.35%) Degree
2 286 (9.65%) DBS Check
3 172 (5.80%) Security Cleared
4 96 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (2.29%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 44 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 40 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 39 (1.32%) CIMA
10 38 (1.28%) ACCA
11 36 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.18%) CISSP
13 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 25 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
16 23 (0.78%) HNC
17 21 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
18 20 (0.67%) CCNA
18 20 (0.67%) HND
19 19 (0.64%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (10.22%) GDPR
2 185 (6.24%) SLA
3 103 (3.47%) PMO
4 92 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 69 (2.33%) QA
6 56 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 51 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.57%) GRC
10 16 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.40%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.37%) NIST
12 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.20%) COSHH
14 6 (0.20%) JTAG
14 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.17%) NCSC
15 5 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 187 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 90 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (2.19%) Firmware
4 52 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (1.45%) Docker
6 35 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 21 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.61%) vSphere
10 15 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.067%) HDFS
12 2 (0.067%) Varnish
12 2 (0.067%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.034%) XenApp
13 1 (0.034%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (1.59%) SCCM
1 47 (1.59%) WSUS
2 42 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 27 (0.91%) Terraform
5 25 (0.84%) Ansible
6 17 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (0.57%) FortiGate
7 16 (0.54%) Puppet
7 16 (0.54%) SCOM
8 15 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.34%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.24%) Nessus
13 6 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.20%) Rundeck
14 5 (0.17%) Autotask
14 5 (0.17%) Graphite
14 5 (0.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 733 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 324 (10.93%) Google
3 106 (3.58%) VMware
4 77 (2.60%) Oracle
5 69 (2.33%) Cisco
6 64 (2.16%) IBM
7 63 (2.12%) NEC
8 48 (1.62%) SAP
9 40 (1.35%) HP
10 38 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 35 (1.18%) Virgin Media
12 34 (1.15%) Dell
12 34 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 33 (1.11%) Adobe
14 30 (1.01%) Sitecore
15 28 (0.94%) Optimizely
16 26 (0.88%) ServiceNow
17 24 (0.81%) NetApp
18 23 (0.78%) Veeam
19 21 (0.71%) Apple