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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 65 36
Rank change year-on-year +45 -29 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,868 800 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.99% 4.85% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.74% 5.21% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 535 551
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,650 £34,404
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,300 £95,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 19,177 15,355 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.02% 93.03% 87.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,861 8,958 14,299
10th Percentile £34,674 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 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 44 (2.36%) Confluence
2 35 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.34%) CMS
4 14 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.37%) Apache
6 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.11%) WordPress
10 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.054%) Appian
10 1 (0.054%) CICS
10 1 (0.054%) Drupal
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.054%) Resin
10 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 127 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (2.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 24 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.32%) Simulink
6 6 (0.32%) Trello
7 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) Mathcad
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.16%) Blender
9 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.054%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 51 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (2.03%) Workfront
3 31 (1.66%) Dynamics GP
4 28 (1.50%) Adobe Campaign
5 18 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.75%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.27%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 5 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.27%) Primavera
7 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
8 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.16%) Actimize
9 3 (0.16%) SAP R/3
10 2 (0.11%) Shopify
11 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
11 1 (0.054%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (15.52%) Azure
2 212 (11.35%) Power Platform
3 195 (10.44%) AWS
4 159 (8.51%) SaaS
5 90 (4.82%) GCP
6 57 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (2.78%) iPaaS
8 46 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
9 42 (2.25%) GitHub
10 37 (1.98%) Serverless
11 30 (1.61%) Google Analytics
12 29 (1.55%) Figma
13 26 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.34%) Entra ID
15 21 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
16 20 (1.07%) Contentsquare
17 16 (0.86%) Amazon S3
17 16 (0.86%) Snowflake
18 15 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 139 (7.44%) Broadband
2 61 (3.27%) Network Security
3 58 (3.10%) Firewall
4 48 (2.57%) VLAN
5 7 (0.37%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.37%) VPN
5 7 (0.37%) WAN
6 4 (0.21%) LAN
6 4 (0.21%) Wireless
7 3 (0.16%) BGP
7 3 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.16%) Modbus
7 3 (0.16%) MPLS
7 3 (0.16%) OSPF
7 3 (0.16%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.16%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.11%) DNS
8 2 (0.11%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (10.12%) Power BI
2 89 (4.76%) Metadata
3 77 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (2.57%) Tableau
5 37 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 34 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 31 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.39%) Looker
9 21 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.07%) BigQuery
10 20 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (0.91%) Big Data
12 13 (0.70%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.64%) MySQL
13 12 (0.64%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.59%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (2.52%) JIRA
2 46 (2.46%) Git
3 11 (0.59%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.32%) GitLab
6 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.21%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.21%) MLflow
8 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.16%) RStudio
10 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.11%) JMeter
10 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.11%) NUnit
10 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 720 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 570 (30.51%) Finance
3 523 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (16.81%) Marketing
5 197 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 168 (8.99%) Public Sector
7 146 (7.82%) Influencing Skills
8 134 (7.17%) Legal
9 130 (6.96%) Retail
10 97 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
11 93 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (4.18%) Law
13 54 (2.89%) Manufacturing
14 50 (2.68%) Banking
15 45 (2.41%) Games
16 41 (2.19%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.71%) Local Government
18 23 (1.23%) Electronics
18 23 (1.23%) Telecoms
19 21 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 335 (17.93%) Senior
2 251 (13.44%) Analyst
3 221 (11.83%) Lead
4 145 (7.76%) Architect
5 88 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
6 84 (4.50%) Data Engineer
7 81 (4.34%) Development Manager
8 77 (4.12%) Business Manager
9 76 (4.07%) Data Analyst
10 65 (3.48%) Business Development Manager
11 58 (3.10%) Developer
12 55 (2.94%) Consultant
12 55 (2.94%) Product Owner
13 54 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 49 (2.62%) Security Engineer
14 49 (2.62%) Senior Security Engineer
15 45 (2.41%) Product Manager
16 42 (2.25%) Data Architect
17 41 (2.19%) Business Analyst
17 41 (2.19%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.57%) React
2 37 (1.98%) .NET
3 30 (1.61%) Node.js
4 28 (1.50%) Terraform
5 26 (1.39%) REST
6 25 (1.34%) LangChain
7 23 (1.23%) PySpark
8 15 (0.80%) CSS
9 14 (0.75%) AWS CDK
9 14 (0.75%) HTML
9 14 (0.75%) Next.js
10 13 (0.70%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.70%) RESTful
11 11 (0.59%) Spring
11 11 (0.59%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.54%) Django
12 10 (0.54%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.54%) XML
13 9 (0.48%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 145 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 124 (6.64%) Marketing Technology
3 112 (6.00%) Social Media
4 101 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 93 (4.98%) Management Information System
6 84 (4.50%) Cloud Native
7 81 (4.34%) Over-the-Top Content
8 50 (2.68%) AI Agents
9 46 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 40 (2.14%) Blog
11 39 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
12 36 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.71%) Credit Risk
13 32 (1.71%) Driving Licence
13 32 (1.71%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 24 (1.28%) Web Conferencing
16 22 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (1.02%) Data Centre
17 19 (1.02%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 17 (0.91%) Windows
2 11 (0.59%) Android
3 6 (0.32%) VMS
4 5 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.27%) Linux
5 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.054%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (24.25%) Agile
2 446 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 440 (23.55%) AI
4 438 (23.45%) Analytics
5 376 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
6 350 (18.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 332 (17.77%) Roadmaps
8 306 (16.38%) Mentoring
9 258 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 244 (13.06%) Business Intelligence
11 232 (12.42%) CRM
12 229 (12.26%) Coaching
13 219 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
14 185 (9.90%) Customer Experience
14 185 (9.90%) Project Delivery
15 174 (9.31%) CI/CD
16 168 (8.99%) Business Development
17 162 (8.67%) Actionable Insight
17 162 (8.67%) Data Modelling
18 149 (7.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 276 (14.78%) SQL
2 225 (12.04%) Python
3 47 (2.52%) C#
4 44 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 42 (2.25%) TypeScript
6 37 (1.98%) Java
7 20 (1.07%) R
8 12 (0.64%) Bicep
8 12 (0.64%) C++
8 12 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (0.59%) VBA
10 10 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.48%) Bash
11 9 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.32%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.32%) Ruby
13 5 (0.27%) C
14 4 (0.21%) Go
14 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (10.22%) Degree
2 154 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 126 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.50%) ACCA
5 81 (4.34%) CIMA
6 51 (2.73%) DBS Check
7 43 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 41 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.77%) PMP
11 25 (1.34%) CISSP
11 25 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 23 (1.23%) CISM
13 17 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.86%) AAT
15 15 (0.80%) CIPD
16 14 (0.75%) ICAEW
17 12 (0.64%) Azure Certification
17 12 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (9.74%) Data Quality
2 115 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 103 (5.51%) GDPR
4 67 (3.59%) QA
5 52 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.14%) GRC
7 35 (1.87%) PMO
8 33 (1.77%) NIST
9 27 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 27 (1.45%) WCAG
10 20 (1.07%) SLA
11 12 (0.64%) IFRS
12 11 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.43%) COBIT
14 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.32%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.32%) NCSC
15 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 38 (2.03%) Docker
2 12 (0.64%) Firmware
3 11 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.32%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.054%) GPFS
8 1 (0.054%) Lustre
8 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.96%) Grafana
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.32%) CASB
5 4 (0.21%) Ansible
5 4 (0.21%) Argo
5 4 (0.21%) Nmap
6 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.11%) Puppet
6 2 (0.11%) Salt
6 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.054%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.054%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.054%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.054%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 265 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 106 (5.67%) Adobe
3 65 (3.48%) Google
4 62 (3.32%) Salesforce
5 49 (2.62%) Databricks
6 44 (2.36%) SAP
7 24 (1.28%) Oracle
7 24 (1.28%) YouTube
8 19 (1.02%) HubSpot
9 16 (0.86%) Informatica
10 15 (0.80%) Sage
11 12 (0.64%) Foundry
12 10 (0.54%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.54%) Xero
13 9 (0.48%) VMware
14 8 (0.43%) Cisco
15 6 (0.32%) Ariba
15 6 (0.32%) ScienceLogic
16 5 (0.27%) Workday