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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 73 39
Rank change year-on-year +47 -34 +9
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,506 764 1,889
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.23% 4.76% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.77% 5.08% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 951 471 1,033
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £34,924
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £53,433
% change year-on-year - +12.29% -10.24%

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 17,169 15,050 29,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 93.73% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12,535 8,890 22,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,906 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £79,938 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 45 (2.99%) Confluence
2 39 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.26%) CMS
4 14 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.33%) SAS
8 5 (0.33%) WordPress
9 4 (0.27%) Apache
9 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.066%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.066%) Appian
11 1 (0.066%) Drupal
11 1 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.066%) Resin
11 1 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 120 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 31 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.40%) Trello
8 4 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.20%) Blender
9 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.20%) Maya
Business Applications
1 39 (2.59%) Workfront
2 34 (2.26%) Adobe Campaign
3 24 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.80%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.40%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.33%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 4 (0.27%) Shopify
9 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 275 (18.26%) Azure
2 182 (12.08%) Power Platform
3 164 (10.89%) AWS
4 121 (8.03%) SaaS
5 63 (4.18%) GCP
6 53 (3.52%) iPaaS
7 47 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 38 (2.52%) Serverless
11 32 (2.12%) GitHub
12 27 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 27 (1.79%) Figma
13 26 (1.73%) Adobe Analytics
14 25 (1.66%) Contentsquare
15 22 (1.46%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
17 19 (1.26%) PaaS
18 17 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
19 15 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 178 (11.82%) Broadband
2 21 (1.39%) Network Security
3 19 (1.26%) Firewall
4 12 (0.80%) VLAN
5 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.53%) VPN
6 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.33%) WAN
7 4 (0.27%) DNS
7 4 (0.27%) LAN
8 3 (0.20%) BGP
8 3 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.20%) Internet
8 3 (0.20%) Modbus
8 3 (0.20%) MPLS
8 3 (0.20%) OSPF
8 3 (0.20%) SSL
8 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.13%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (10.96%) Power BI
2 80 (5.31%) Metadata
3 58 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (2.79%) Tableau
5 37 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 32 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.13%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (1.00%) MySQL
12 14 (0.93%) Big Data
12 14 (0.93%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.93%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.66%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.66%) Looker
15 9 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
16 8 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (2.72%) JIRA
2 33 (2.19%) Git
3 10 (0.66%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.46%) JMeter
5 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.40%) GitLab
6 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.33%) Locust
6 5 (0.33%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.33%) MLflow
7 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.13%) NUnit
9 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.13%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 521 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 437 (29.02%) Finance
3 397 (26.36%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (14.08%) Marketing
5 136 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 131 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 100 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
8 85 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
9 84 (5.58%) Legal
10 80 (5.31%) Retail
11 74 (4.91%) Games
12 54 (3.59%) Law
13 43 (2.86%) Manufacturing
14 36 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (2.26%) Local Government
16 30 (1.99%) Banking
17 21 (1.39%) Advertising
18 19 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.26%) Publishing
19 13 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 258 (17.13%) Senior
2 222 (14.74%) Analyst
3 164 (10.89%) Lead
4 109 (7.24%) Architect
5 69 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
6 68 (4.52%) Data Engineer
7 65 (4.32%) Data Analyst
8 61 (4.05%) Senior Manager
9 57 (3.78%) Product Owner
10 56 (3.72%) Developer
11 55 (3.65%) Consultant
12 51 (3.39%) Development Manager
13 42 (2.79%) Product Manager
14 37 (2.46%) Business Manager
15 36 (2.39%) Business Analyst
15 36 (2.39%) Campaign Manager
16 32 (2.12%) Business Development Manager
17 30 (1.99%) Engineering Manager
18 29 (1.93%) Accountant
18 29 (1.93%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.19%) React
2 31 (2.06%) .NET
3 29 (1.93%) LangChain
4 24 (1.59%) REST
5 19 (1.26%) Node.js
6 17 (1.13%) CSS
7 16 (1.06%) HTML
7 16 (1.06%) Next.js
8 15 (1.00%) AWS CDK
9 14 (0.93%) RESTful
9 14 (0.93%) XML
10 13 (0.86%) Spring
11 12 (0.80%) PyTorch
11 12 (0.80%) TensorFlow
12 11 (0.73%) Spring Boot
13 10 (0.66%) Kafka
13 10 (0.66%) Vue
14 9 (0.60%) LangGraph
15 8 (0.53%) LlamaIndex
15 8 (0.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 119 (7.90%) Social Media
3 103 (6.84%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (5.84%) Over-the-Top Content
5 75 (4.98%) Cloud Native
6 71 (4.71%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.65%) Onboarding
8 52 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (2.92%) AI Agents
10 36 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (2.06%) Mobile App
12 29 (1.93%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.46%) Credit Risk
16 20 (1.33%) Algorithms
17 18 (1.20%) Driving Licence
17 18 (1.20%) PMI
18 17 (1.13%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.26%) Android
2 29 (1.93%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.46%) Windows
4 7 (0.46%) Linux
5 6 (0.40%) VMS
5 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.066%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (25.76%) Agile
2 353 (23.44%) Analytics
3 352 (23.37%) Roadmaps
4 351 (23.31%) AI
5 335 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 331 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
7 266 (17.66%) Mentoring
8 238 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 197 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
10 184 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 160 (10.62%) CI/CD
12 156 (10.36%) Coaching
13 151 (10.03%) Customer Experience
13 151 (10.03%) Data Modelling
14 150 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
15 145 (9.63%) CRM
15 145 (9.63%) Project Management
16 131 (8.70%) DevOps
17 124 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
18 121 (8.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 205 (13.61%) SQL
2 197 (13.08%) Python
3 41 (2.72%) TypeScript
4 37 (2.46%) C#
4 37 (2.46%) Java
5 34 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.33%) R
7 11 (0.73%) Bash
7 11 (0.73%) Bicep
7 11 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.73%) VBA
8 10 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (0.46%) C++
10 5 (0.33%) Ruby
11 4 (0.27%) PHP
11 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.13%) Formula Language
13 2 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 182 (12.08%) Degree
2 105 (6.97%) Security Cleared
3 85 (5.64%) ACCA
4 82 (5.44%) CIMA
4 82 (5.44%) SC Cleared
5 58 (3.85%) DBS Check
6 45 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 36 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.79%) PMP
9 26 (1.73%) CISSP
10 24 (1.59%) AAT
11 23 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 20 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.26%) CISM
14 17 (1.13%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.93%) CIPD
16 13 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.66%) ICAEW
17 10 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 92 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 90 (5.98%) GDPR
4 76 (5.05%) QA
5 42 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.12%) GRC
7 30 (1.99%) WCAG
8 26 (1.73%) NIST
9 23 (1.53%) PMO
10 21 (1.39%) SLA
11 16 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.86%) IFRS
13 12 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.80%) NCSC
13 12 (0.80%) P3O
14 9 (0.60%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.40%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (2.52%) Docker
2 16 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.40%) Firmware
5 6 (0.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.066%) GPFS
7 1 (0.066%) Lustre
7 1 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.86%) Terraform
3 17 (1.13%) Grafana
4 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.33%) Nmap
6 4 (0.27%) Argo
6 4 (0.27%) SCCM
7 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Ansible
8 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.13%) Packer
8 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.13%) Puppet
8 2 (0.13%) Salt
9 1 (0.066%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 216 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.90%) Adobe
3 46 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 44 (2.92%) Databricks
5 43 (2.86%) Google
6 38 (2.52%) SAP
7 30 (1.99%) Oracle
8 19 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 18 (1.20%) Sage
10 17 (1.13%) Foundry
11 16 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.73%) Informatica
12 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.66%) Xero
14 8 (0.53%) VMware
15 7 (0.46%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.46%) Cisco
15 7 (0.46%) Workday
16 6 (0.40%) Ariba
16 6 (0.40%) BMC