Self-Motivation Job Trends in Wales

Self-Motivation
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 55 60
Rank change year-on-year -35 +5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 21 10 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.92% 1.46% 2.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.43% 4.50% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 30
10th Percentile £33,608 £29,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £38,984 £51,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £75,000 £43,034
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +74.28% +7.58%
75th Percentile £55,000 £87,500 £53,590
90th Percentile £70,000 - £60,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,821
% change year-on-year - +1.62% -20.34%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 613 222 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 26.84% 32.41% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 303 146 351
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,457 £41,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +22.53% -0.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £67,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in Wales

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in Wales over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in Wales

Self-Motivation
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
South Wales -27 16 £42,500 -43.33% 8
West Wales - 4 £70,000 - 1
North Wales -9 1 £29,000 -4.92% 3
Self-Motivation
UK

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) SaaS
2 4 (19.05%) ChatGPT
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Copilot
2 4 (19.05%) Power Automate
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 9 (42.86%) Marketing
2 6 (28.57%) Law
2 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Automotive
5 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Games
6 2 (9.52%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Account Executive
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Business Development Executive
3 1 (4.76%) ICT Technician
3 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 3 (14.29%) JPA
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (14.29%) RESTful
1 3 (14.29%) Spring
1 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Social Media
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 2 (9.52%) e-Learning
4 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Business Development
1 10 (47.62%) CRM
2 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (28.57%) Presales
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
5 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
5 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
6 4 (19.05%) Lead Generation
7 3 (14.29%) Application Security
7 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Sage
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Acronis