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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 71 36
Rank change year-on-year +41 -35 +7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,113 656 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.07% 4.64% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.35% 4.89% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 667 397 1,123
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,750 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% -8.33%

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 15,141 13,407 29,643
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.62% 94.90% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,685 8,886 23,498
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%

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 6 May 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 37 (3.32%) CMS
2 35 (3.14%) Confluence
3 34 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.36%) nginx
7 4 (0.36%) WordPress
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.090%) Drupal
10 1 (0.090%) Jupyter
Applications
1 99 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (3.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.72%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) Trello
9 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.05%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (1.80%) Workfront
3 16 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.72%) Shopify
6 5 (0.45%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 5 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.090%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.090%) Magento
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.090%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 203 (18.24%) Azure
2 152 (13.66%) Power Platform
3 105 (9.43%) AWS
4 89 (8.00%) SaaS
5 43 (3.86%) GCP
6 40 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (3.14%) iPaaS
8 32 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (2.52%) Serverless
10 27 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (2.43%) Figma
11 26 (2.34%) Contentsquare
11 26 (2.34%) GitHub
12 25 (2.25%) Adobe Analytics
13 24 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.26%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 150 (13.48%) Broadband
2 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.36%) Firewall
4 3 (0.27%) DNS
4 3 (0.27%) Internet
4 3 (0.27%) Modbus
4 3 (0.27%) Network Security
4 3 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.090%) DSL
6 1 (0.090%) Intranet
6 1 (0.090%) NAS
6 1 (0.090%) NGFW
6 1 (0.090%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.090%) VPN
6 1 (0.090%) WAN
6 1 (0.090%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (12.94%) Power BI
2 57 (5.12%) Metadata
3 44 (3.95%) Tableau
4 38 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 19 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.26%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.08%) MySQL
10 12 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.72%) Looker
13 8 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.63%) Big Data
14 7 (0.63%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (2.16%) JIRA
2 19 (1.71%) Git
3 8 (0.72%) JMeter
4 6 (0.54%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.54%) Locust
5 5 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.36%) GitLab
6 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.36%) Vite
7 3 (0.27%) MLflow
7 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.18%) NUnit
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.18%) Storybook
8 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 387 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 353 (31.72%) Finance
3 319 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (16.62%) Marketing
5 108 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 84 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (6.20%) Games
8 69 (6.20%) Legal
9 59 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (4.40%) Retail
11 43 (3.86%) Law
12 36 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (2.61%) Banking
14 28 (2.52%) Advertising
15 27 (2.43%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.71%) Local Government
16 19 (1.71%) Publishing
17 11 (0.99%) Multimedia
17 11 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (16.26%) Senior
2 179 (16.08%) Analyst
3 118 (10.60%) Lead
4 60 (5.39%) Architect
5 58 (5.21%) Senior Manager
6 57 (5.12%) Data Engineer
7 42 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
8 39 (3.50%) Developer
9 38 (3.41%) Product Manager
10 37 (3.32%) Product Owner
11 35 (3.14%) Business Analyst
11 35 (3.14%) Data Analyst
12 34 (3.05%) Campaign Manager
13 33 (2.96%) Financial Analyst
14 32 (2.88%) Consultant
15 31 (2.79%) Development Manager
16 25 (2.25%) Engineering Manager
17 22 (1.98%) Accountant
17 22 (1.98%) Report Analyst
17 22 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.70%) React
2 23 (2.07%) .NET
3 17 (1.53%) CSS
3 17 (1.53%) HTML
4 16 (1.44%) LangChain
5 15 (1.35%) REST
5 15 (1.35%) XML
6 12 (1.08%) Middleware
7 11 (0.99%) AWS CDK
7 11 (0.99%) Next.js
8 9 (0.81%) RESTful
9 8 (0.72%) Kafka
9 8 (0.72%) PySpark
9 8 (0.72%) Vue
10 7 (0.63%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.63%) EDI
10 7 (0.63%) JSON
10 7 (0.63%) Node.js
10 7 (0.63%) TensorFlow
11 6 (0.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 116 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 92 (8.27%) Social Media
3 82 (7.37%) Marketing Technology
4 68 (6.11%) Over-the-Top Content
5 62 (5.57%) Onboarding
6 52 (4.67%) Cloud Native
7 47 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.43%) Mobile App
10 23 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.71%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.62%) Security Posture
14 17 (1.53%) PMI
15 16 (1.44%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.35%) Driving Licence
17 14 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.79%) Android
2 29 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.17%) Windows
4 8 (0.72%) Linux
5 6 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (26.33%) Analytics
2 273 (24.53%) Agile
3 256 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 255 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
5 244 (21.92%) Roadmaps
6 235 (21.11%) AI
7 177 (15.90%) Mentoring
8 167 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
9 149 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 140 (12.58%) Customer Experience
11 129 (11.59%) Coaching
12 125 (11.23%) Project Management
13 113 (10.15%) CI/CD
14 112 (10.06%) CRM
15 98 (8.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 94 (8.45%) Data Modelling
17 93 (8.36%) Digital Marketing
18 92 (8.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 90 (8.09%) B2B
20 89 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 139 (12.49%) SQL
2 138 (12.40%) Python
3 32 (2.88%) Java
4 23 (2.07%) TypeScript
5 22 (1.98%) C#
6 21 (1.89%) R
7 20 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.90%) VBA
9 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.63%) PHP
9 7 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.45%) Bash
10 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.36%) Bicep
11 4 (0.36%) Scala
12 3 (0.27%) C++
13 2 (0.18%) C
13 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.090%) Formula Language
14 1 (0.090%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 147 (13.21%) Degree
2 99 (8.89%) ACCA
3 98 (8.81%) CIMA
4 68 (6.11%) Security Cleared
5 46 (4.13%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.04%) DBS Check
7 36 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.88%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.89%) AAT
10 18 (1.62%) CISSP
11 15 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.35%) PMP
12 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.99%) CISM
14 10 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (0.90%) PhD
15 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.72%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.72%) DV Cleared
16 8 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 85 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 61 (5.48%) GDPR
4 59 (5.30%) QA
5 32 (2.88%) WCAG
6 27 (2.43%) GRC
7 25 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.62%) NIST
9 16 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (1.17%) P3O
11 11 (0.99%) NCSC
12 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.90%) PMO
13 9 (0.81%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.63%) GAAP
15 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.54%) IFRS
16 4 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.36%) SLA
17 3 (0.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 22 (1.98%) Docker
2 6 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (1.71%) Kubernetes
1 19 (1.71%) Terraform
2 16 (1.44%) Grafana
3 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.36%) Nmap
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.27%) Argo
5 3 (0.27%) Control-M
5 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.18%) Packer
6 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) Salt
7 1 (0.090%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 168 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.98%) Adobe
3 44 (3.95%) Databricks
4 40 (3.59%) SAP
5 36 (3.23%) Google
6 32 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.52%) Oracle
8 22 (1.98%) Sage
9 21 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.80%) HubSpot
11 11 (0.99%) Workday
12 10 (0.90%) Foundry
13 9 (0.81%) Xero
14 8 (0.72%) BMC
14 8 (0.72%) Informatica
14 8 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.54%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.54%) Ariba
15 6 (0.54%) Talend
16 5 (0.45%) Cisco