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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 66 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 849 746 1,399
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.26% 4.76% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 5.02% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 531 385 984
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,250 £45,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +9.14% -0.74%
75th Percentile £82,241 £82,958 £80,435
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -14.19%

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 13,929 14,866 25,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.27% 94.76% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 8,893 21,194
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.09% -7.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,700 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 28 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.65%) Confluence
3 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.94%) CMS
4 8 (0.94%) SAS
5 5 (0.59%) Apache
6 4 (0.47%) nginx
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 127 (14.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.47%) Trello
6 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) Shopify
2 9 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.35%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.35%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Primavera
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 184 (21.67%) Azure
1 184 (21.67%) Power Platform
2 81 (9.54%) SaaS
3 76 (8.95%) AWS
4 61 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 49 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 34 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (3.65%) GitHub
9 26 (3.06%) GCP
10 22 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.24%) Serverless
12 18 (2.12%) PaaS
13 15 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (1.77%) Snowflake
14 14 (1.65%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.41%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
16 9 (1.06%) Power Automate
17 8 (0.94%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.88%) Broadband
2 7 (0.82%) Internet
3 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) ADSL
4 1 (0.12%) DNS
4 1 (0.12%) DSL
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) Intranet
4 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.12%) NAS
4 1 (0.12%) Network Security
4 1 (0.12%) NGFW
4 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) WAN
4 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (20.26%) Power BI
2 56 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 54 (6.36%) Tableau
4 43 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 38 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (3.18%) Metadata
8 24 (2.83%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.77%) Power Query
10 14 (1.65%) MySQL
11 13 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (1.30%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.71%) Looker
14 6 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (0.71%) QlikView
14 6 (0.71%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.59%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 21 (2.47%) JIRA
2 8 (0.94%) Git
3 7 (0.82%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.82%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.47%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.47%) ERwin
4 4 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (0.47%) Toad
4 4 (0.47%) Vite
5 3 (0.35%) GitLab
5 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.24%) JMeter
6 2 (0.24%) MLflow
6 2 (0.24%) Selenium
6 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.24%) Storybook
6 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.12%) Locust
General
1 415 (48.88%) Social Skills
2 369 (43.46%) Finance
3 306 (36.04%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 87 (10.25%) Marketing
6 78 (9.19%) Presentation Skills
7 60 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
8 59 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (4.71%) Retail
11 39 (4.59%) Manufacturing
12 34 (4.00%) Legal
13 29 (3.42%) Banking
14 23 (2.71%) Advertising
14 23 (2.71%) Law
15 22 (2.59%) Local Government
16 17 (2.00%) Games
17 13 (1.53%) Billing
18 11 (1.30%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 185 (21.79%) Analyst
2 132 (15.55%) Senior
3 72 (8.48%) Lead
4 65 (7.66%) Architect
5 48 (5.65%) Developer
6 46 (5.42%) Financial Analyst
7 43 (5.06%) Data Engineer
8 40 (4.71%) Consultant
9 39 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
10 35 (4.12%) Data Analyst
11 33 (3.89%) Senior Manager
12 32 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (3.65%) Sales Executive
14 28 (3.30%) Business Manager
14 28 (3.30%) Report Analyst
15 25 (2.94%) Business Analyst
16 20 (2.36%) Development Manager
16 20 (2.36%) Insight Analyst
17 18 (2.12%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.12%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.12%) .NET
2 16 (1.88%) React
3 11 (1.30%) Flash
4 10 (1.18%) CSS
4 10 (1.18%) HTML
4 10 (1.18%) Spring
5 9 (1.06%) Kafka
5 9 (1.06%) REST
6 8 (0.94%) Middleware
6 8 (0.94%) PySpark
6 8 (0.94%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.82%) RESTful
7 7 (0.82%) TensorFlow
8 6 (0.71%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.71%) Node.js
8 6 (0.71%) Vue
8 6 (0.71%) XML
9 5 (0.59%) EDI
9 5 (0.59%) JSON
9 5 (0.59%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.66%) Self-Motivation
2 52 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 42 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 41 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 41 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 29 (3.42%) Virtual Team
7 18 (2.12%) Social Media
8 16 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.77%) PMI
10 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.06%) IoT
12 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.94%) GNSS
13 8 (0.94%) Insider Threat
13 8 (0.94%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.77%) Windows
2 11 (1.30%) Android
2 11 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.82%) Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
4 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Unix
6 2 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (33.45%) Analytics
2 247 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
3 225 (26.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 191 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
5 169 (19.91%) AI
6 149 (17.55%) Agile
7 126 (14.84%) Roadmaps
8 122 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 110 (12.96%) Visualisation
10 108 (12.72%) Data Analysis
11 107 (12.60%) Actionable Insight
12 104 (12.25%) Project Management
13 103 (12.13%) CRM
14 97 (11.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 92 (10.84%) Mentoring
16 84 (9.89%) CI/CD
16 84 (9.89%) DevOps
17 82 (9.66%) Data Modelling
18 75 (8.83%) Collaborative Culture
18 75 (8.83%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 177 (20.85%) SQL
2 128 (15.08%) Python
3 31 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 24 (2.83%) Java
5 22 (2.59%) R
6 17 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.65%) C#
8 13 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.18%) VBA
10 9 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.94%) C++
12 7 (0.82%) PHP
12 7 (0.82%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.71%) Bash
13 6 (0.71%) Scala
13 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.47%) VB
15 2 (0.24%) ABAP
15 2 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 169 (19.91%) Degree
2 84 (9.89%) ACCA
2 84 (9.89%) CIMA
3 57 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 46 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 38 (4.48%) DBS Check
6 31 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 24 (2.83%) CISSP
8 22 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.47%) AAT
9 21 (2.47%) CISM
9 21 (2.47%) PMI Certification
10 19 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (1.53%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (1.18%) CISA
15 10 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.78%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.54%) QA
3 40 (4.71%) GDPR
4 27 (3.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 26 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 26 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.12%) GRC
7 17 (2.00%) NIST
8 14 (1.65%) P3O
9 13 (1.53%) PMO
10 11 (1.30%) NCSC
11 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
12 9 (1.06%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.71%) GAAP
14 5 (0.59%) IFRS
15 4 (0.47%) SLA
16 3 (0.35%) COBIT
16 3 (0.35%) ITGC
17 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.12%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (2.36%) Terraform
2 18 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.82%) Nmap
4 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.47%) SCCM
6 3 (0.35%) Control-M
7 2 (0.24%) Packer
7 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.24%) Databricks
3 43 (5.06%) SAP
4 34 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 24 (2.83%) Oracle
6 22 (2.59%) Google
7 20 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.24%) HubSpot
9 15 (1.77%) Sage
10 13 (1.53%) Workday
11 12 (1.41%) Autodesk
12 10 (1.18%) Informatica
13 8 (0.94%) Cisco
13 8 (0.94%) IBM
14 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.82%) Anaplan
15 6 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.59%) BMC
16 5 (0.59%) Talend
17 4 (0.47%) Adobe