Hybrid/Remote Decision-Making Job Trends

Decision-Making
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 70 36
Rank change year-on-year +49 -34 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,775 821 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.83% 4.98% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.45% 5.36% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 509 600
10th Percentile £36,849 £36,250 £34,404
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,792 15,324 21,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 92.94% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,561 9,021 15,723
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +0.34% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Decision-Making
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Decision-Making salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 48 (2.70%) Confluence
2 35 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.80%) CMS
4 14 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 5 (0.28%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.056%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.056%) Appian
11 1 (0.056%) Drupal
11 1 (0.056%) Resin
11 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 133 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 30 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.34%) Simulink
7 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.34%) Trello
8 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.17%) Blender
10 3 (0.17%) Maya
11 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.056%) InDesign
11 1 (0.056%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 54 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (2.20%) Workfront
3 34 (1.92%) Adobe Campaign
4 31 (1.75%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.73%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.11%) Primavera
10 2 (0.11%) Shopify
11 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
11 1 (0.056%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 285 (16.06%) Azure
2 209 (11.77%) Power Platform
3 181 (10.20%) AWS
4 152 (8.56%) SaaS
5 80 (4.51%) GCP
6 56 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (2.99%) iPaaS
8 46 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
9 41 (2.31%) GitHub
10 34 (1.92%) Serverless
11 31 (1.75%) Figma
12 27 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (1.46%) Adobe Analytics
14 25 (1.41%) Contentsquare
15 24 (1.35%) Google Analytics
16 23 (1.30%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (0.90%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 169 (9.52%) Broadband
2 52 (2.93%) Network Security
3 50 (2.82%) Firewall
4 40 (2.25%) VLAN
5 8 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.45%) VPN
6 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.23%) LAN
8 3 (0.17%) BGP
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.17%) DNS
8 3 (0.17%) Modbus
8 3 (0.17%) MPLS
8 3 (0.17%) OSPF
8 3 (0.17%) SSL
8 3 (0.17%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.11%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (10.54%) Power BI
2 85 (4.79%) Metadata
3 74 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (3.21%) Tableau
5 37 (2.08%) SQL Server
6 33 (1.86%) Data Lake
7 31 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 21 (1.18%) Looker
8 21 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.96%) BigQuery
11 16 (0.90%) Big Data
12 14 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.68%) MySQL
15 11 (0.62%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 45 (2.54%) Git
2 44 (2.48%) JIRA
3 11 (0.62%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) JMeter
6 6 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 5 (0.28%) Locust
7 5 (0.28%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.23%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.11%) NUnit
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.056%) Ant
General
1 661 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 503 (28.34%) Finance
3 489 (27.55%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (16.79%) Marketing
5 178 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 136 (7.66%) Public Sector
7 123 (6.93%) Legal
8 117 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
9 116 (6.54%) Retail
10 95 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (3.77%) Games
12 61 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (3.04%) Law
14 51 (2.87%) Manufacturing
15 34 (1.92%) Banking
16 31 (1.75%) Aerospace
17 29 (1.63%) Local Government
18 23 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (1.18%) Electronics
20 19 (1.07%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 310 (17.46%) Senior
2 236 (13.30%) Analyst
3 213 (12.00%) Lead
4 131 (7.38%) Architect
5 79 (4.45%) Data Engineer
6 74 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 73 (4.11%) Development Manager
7 73 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
8 64 (3.61%) Business Manager
9 60 (3.38%) Senior Manager
10 58 (3.27%) Developer
10 58 (3.27%) Product Owner
11 56 (3.15%) Consultant
12 54 (3.04%) Business Development Manager
13 45 (2.54%) Product Manager
14 43 (2.42%) Marketing Manager
15 40 (2.25%) Business Analyst
15 40 (2.25%) Security Engineer
15 40 (2.25%) Senior Security Engineer
16 38 (2.14%) Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.04%) React
2 29 (1.63%) .NET
3 28 (1.58%) LangChain
4 27 (1.52%) Node.js
4 27 (1.52%) REST
5 18 (1.01%) AWS CDK
5 18 (1.01%) Next.js
6 15 (0.85%) CSS
6 15 (0.85%) PySpark
7 14 (0.79%) HTML
7 14 (0.79%) RESTful
8 11 (0.62%) AngularJS
8 11 (0.62%) PyTorch
8 11 (0.62%) Spring
8 11 (0.62%) Spring Boot
8 11 (0.62%) XML
9 10 (0.56%) Django
10 9 (0.51%) GraphQL
10 9 (0.51%) React Native
10 9 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 132 (7.44%) Marketing Technology
3 119 (6.70%) Social Media
4 88 (4.96%) Over-the-Top Content
4 88 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (4.51%) Cloud Native
6 79 (4.45%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 45 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 38 (2.14%) Blog
9 38 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 28 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.58%) Credit Risk
13 26 (1.46%) Driving Licence
14 20 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.07%) Algorithms
15 19 (1.07%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.69%) Android
2 22 (1.24%) Apple iOS
3 17 (0.96%) Windows
4 6 (0.34%) VMS
5 4 (0.23%) Linux
5 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (25.01%) Agile
2 426 (24.00%) Analytics
3 424 (23.89%) AI
4 419 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 375 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
6 349 (19.66%) Roadmaps
7 313 (17.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 295 (16.62%) Mentoring
9 237 (13.35%) Business Intelligence
10 236 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 218 (12.28%) CRM
12 209 (11.77%) Cybersecurity
13 181 (10.20%) CI/CD
14 180 (10.14%) Coaching
15 177 (9.97%) Customer Experience
16 163 (9.18%) Data Modelling
17 149 (8.39%) Project Management
18 147 (8.28%) Business Development
19 145 (8.17%) Data Management
19 145 (8.17%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 248 (13.97%) SQL
2 224 (12.62%) Python
3 45 (2.54%) TypeScript
4 38 (2.14%) C#
4 38 (2.14%) Java
5 36 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.01%) R
7 14 (0.79%) VBA
8 12 (0.68%) Bicep
8 12 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.45%) Bash
12 7 (0.39%) C
12 7 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.34%) C++
13 6 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.34%) Ruby
14 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 189 (10.65%) Degree
2 136 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 111 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.01%) ACCA
5 85 (4.79%) CIMA
6 52 (2.93%) DBS Check
7 43 (2.42%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.86%) PMP
10 30 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.41%) CISSP
11 25 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 24 (1.35%) DV Cleared
13 21 (1.18%) AAT
14 20 (1.13%) CISM
15 17 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.79%) ICAEW
17 13 (0.73%) CIPD
18 12 (0.68%) PhD
19 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (9.69%) Data Quality
2 120 (6.76%) Accessibility
3 107 (6.03%) GDPR
4 64 (3.61%) QA
5 51 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.20%) GRC
7 33 (1.86%) WCAG
8 31 (1.75%) NIST
9 23 (1.30%) PMO
10 20 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (1.07%) SLA
12 15 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.73%) IFRS
14 9 (0.51%) NCSC
14 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.45%) COBIT
16 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (2.31%) Docker
2 13 (0.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.73%) Firmware
3 8 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) vSphere
6 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.056%) GPFS
7 1 (0.056%) Lustre
7 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.80%) Terraform
3 21 (1.18%) Grafana
4 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.23%) Argo
5 4 (0.23%) CASB
5 4 (0.23%) Nmap
6 3 (0.17%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Salt
8 1 (0.056%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 254 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.70%) Adobe
3 60 (3.38%) Google
4 52 (2.93%) Databricks
5 49 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.42%) SAP
7 29 (1.63%) Oracle
8 22 (1.24%) HubSpot
9 16 (0.90%) Foundry
9 16 (0.90%) Informatica
10 15 (0.85%) Sage
11 13 (0.73%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.56%) Xero
13 8 (0.45%) Cisco
13 8 (0.45%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.45%) VMware
14 7 (0.39%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.34%) Ariba
15 6 (0.34%) ScienceLogic
16 5 (0.28%) Workday