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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 81 37
Rank change year-on-year +53 -44 +9
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,342 692 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.84% 4.58% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 4.84% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 828 408 1,090
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £34,991
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year - +9.10% -7.61%

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 16,117 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.10% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,559 8,372 23,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 11 June 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 39 (2.91%) Confluence
2 35 (2.61%) CMS
3 34 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.30%) Apache
7 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.30%) SAS
7 4 (0.30%) WordPress
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.075%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.075%) Drupal
10 1 (0.075%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.075%) Umbraco
Applications
1 102 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 33 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.91%) Workfront
2 34 (2.53%) Adobe Campaign
3 16 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 5 (0.37%) Shopify
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 247 (18.41%) Azure
2 167 (12.44%) Power Platform
3 144 (10.73%) AWS
4 104 (7.75%) SaaS
5 54 (4.02%) GCP
6 53 (3.95%) iPaaS
7 44 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 37 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (2.61%) Serverless
10 31 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (2.01%) Figma
11 27 (2.01%) GitHub
12 25 (1.86%) Adobe Analytics
12 25 (1.86%) Contentsquare
13 18 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (1.19%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 177 (13.19%) Broadband
2 8 (0.60%) Firewall
2 8 (0.60%) Network Security
2 8 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
3 5 (0.37%) WAN
4 4 (0.30%) DNS
4 4 (0.30%) LAN
4 4 (0.30%) VPN
5 3 (0.22%) BGP
5 3 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.22%) Modbus
5 3 (0.22%) MPLS
5 3 (0.22%) OSPF
5 3 (0.22%) SSL
5 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.15%) SMS
6 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (11.62%) Power BI
2 75 (5.59%) Metadata
3 48 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (3.13%) Tableau
5 38 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 31 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (1.04%) Big Data
10 14 (1.04%) MySQL
10 14 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.75%) Looker
11 10 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
14 7 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (2.53%) JIRA
2 23 (1.71%) Git
3 7 (0.52%) Claude Code
3 7 (0.52%) JMeter
4 6 (0.45%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.45%) GitLab
4 6 (0.45%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.37%) Locust
6 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.30%) MLflow
6 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.22%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.22%) Vite
8 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 449 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 388 (28.91%) Finance
3 370 (27.57%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (15.28%) Marketing
5 118 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (8.42%) Public Sector
7 92 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
8 81 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
9 77 (5.74%) Legal
10 74 (5.51%) Games
11 67 (4.99%) Retail
12 49 (3.65%) Law
13 36 (2.68%) Local Government
14 30 (2.24%) Banking
15 28 (2.09%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.56%) Advertising
17 19 (1.42%) Publishing
18 11 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
19 9 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (16.47%) Senior
2 206 (15.35%) Analyst
3 145 (10.80%) Lead
4 80 (5.96%) Architect
5 69 (5.14%) Data Engineer
6 62 (4.62%) Senior Manager
7 61 (4.55%) Data Analyst
8 60 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
9 57 (4.25%) Product Owner
10 51 (3.80%) Developer
11 42 (3.13%) Consultant
12 41 (3.06%) Product Manager
13 38 (2.83%) Business Analyst
14 36 (2.68%) Campaign Manager
14 36 (2.68%) Development Manager
15 27 (2.01%) Engineering Manager
15 27 (2.01%) Software Engineer
16 26 (1.94%) Business Manager
17 24 (1.79%) Accountant
18 23 (1.71%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.28%) React
2 30 (2.24%) .NET
3 25 (1.86%) LangChain
4 22 (1.64%) REST
5 18 (1.34%) CSS
6 17 (1.27%) HTML
6 17 (1.27%) Node.js
7 16 (1.19%) Next.js
8 15 (1.12%) XML
9 14 (1.04%) AWS CDK
10 12 (0.89%) RESTful
10 12 (0.89%) Spring
11 10 (0.75%) Kafka
11 10 (0.75%) PySpark
11 10 (0.75%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.67%) Middleware
12 9 (0.67%) TensorFlow
12 9 (0.67%) Vue
13 8 (0.60%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.60%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 139 (10.36%) Product Ownership
2 118 (8.79%) Social Media
3 102 (7.60%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (6.56%) Over-the-Top Content
5 66 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 59 (4.40%) Onboarding
7 56 (4.17%) Management Information System
8 40 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.53%) AI Agents
10 31 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 30 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
12 25 (1.86%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.79%) Algorithms
14 21 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (1.27%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.27%) PMI
17 16 (1.19%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.46%) Android
2 29 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 17 (1.27%) Windows
4 7 (0.52%) Linux
5 6 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (25.78%) Agile
2 330 (24.59%) Analytics
3 315 (23.47%) Roadmaps
4 304 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (22.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 287 (21.39%) AI
7 214 (15.95%) Mentoring
8 195 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 186 (13.86%) Business Intelligence
10 149 (11.10%) Customer Experience
11 145 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 140 (10.43%) CI/CD
13 134 (9.99%) Coaching
14 131 (9.76%) Data Modelling
14 131 (9.76%) Project Management
15 130 (9.69%) CRM
16 118 (8.79%) Actionable Insight
17 114 (8.49%) DevOps
17 114 (8.49%) Digital Marketing
18 111 (8.27%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 193 (14.38%) SQL
2 188 (14.01%) Python
3 38 (2.83%) TypeScript
4 37 (2.76%) Java
5 31 (2.31%) C#
6 30 (2.24%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.71%) R
8 9 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.67%) VBA
9 8 (0.60%) Bash
9 8 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.52%) Bicep
10 7 (0.52%) C++
11 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.37%) PHP
13 4 (0.30%) Ruby
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) Scala
15 2 (0.15%) C
15 2 (0.15%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 168 (12.52%) Degree
2 86 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 80 (5.96%) ACCA
4 77 (5.74%) CIMA
5 68 (5.07%) SC Cleared
6 51 (3.80%) DBS Check
7 40 (2.98%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.71%) CISSP
9 23 (1.71%) PMP
10 19 (1.42%) AAT
10 19 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.04%) CISM
12 14 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.75%) PhD
16 9 (0.67%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (10.95%) Data Quality
2 88 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 80 (5.96%) GDPR
4 75 (5.59%) QA
5 31 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (2.31%) WCAG
6 27 (2.01%) GRC
7 22 (1.64%) NIST
7 22 (1.64%) PMO
8 19 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (1.34%) SLA
10 13 (0.97%) P3O
11 11 (0.82%) NCSC
11 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.67%) IFRS
12 9 (0.67%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.30%) GAAP
14 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 32 (2.38%) Docker
2 9 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.30%) Firmware
3 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 24 (1.79%) Terraform
2 16 (1.19%) Grafana
3 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.45%) Nmap
5 4 (0.30%) SCCM
6 3 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.22%) Control-M
6 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.15%) Ansible
7 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.15%) Packer
7 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.15%) Salt
8 1 (0.075%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 187 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 118 (8.79%) Adobe
3 42 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 41 (3.06%) Databricks
5 38 (2.83%) Google
6 36 (2.68%) SAP
7 28 (2.09%) Oracle
8 21 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.42%) HubSpot
9 19 (1.42%) Sage
10 11 (0.82%) Foundry
10 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.75%) BMC
11 10 (0.75%) Cisco
11 10 (0.75%) Informatica
11 10 (0.75%) Workday
11 10 (0.75%) Xero
12 6 (0.45%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.45%) Ariba
12 6 (0.45%) Talend