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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 61 56
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 879 761 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.38% 4.98% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 5.24% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 537 378 994
10th Percentile £38,992 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.14% -0.74%
75th Percentile £82,241 £82,844 £80,435
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,050 £52,550
% change year-on-year -3.92% +23.79% -12.49%

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 14,012 14,514 25,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.84% 95.01% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,096 8,740 21,398
10th Percentile £30,625 £36,250 £34,757
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £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 23 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 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.59%) Confluence
3 10 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.91%) CMS
4 8 (0.91%) SAS
5 5 (0.57%) Apache
6 4 (0.46%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 130 (14.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (0.68%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.14%) Shopify
2 8 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.46%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.34%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.34%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.11%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 189 (21.50%) Azure
2 182 (20.71%) Power Platform
3 81 (9.22%) SaaS
4 80 (9.10%) AWS
5 61 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (5.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 35 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (3.64%) GitHub
9 28 (3.19%) GCP
10 21 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.39%) Serverless
11 17 (1.93%) PaaS
12 16 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
13 15 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (1.71%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.48%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.37%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
17 8 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.96%) Broadband
2 7 (0.80%) Internet
3 3 (0.34%) SSL
3 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.11%) DSL
5 1 (0.11%) Intranet
5 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.11%) NAS
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) NGFW
5 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (19.57%) Power BI
2 54 (6.14%) Tableau
3 52 (5.92%) SQL Server
4 44 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 41 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (2.96%) Metadata
8 23 (2.62%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.82%) Power Query
10 13 (1.48%) MySQL
11 11 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
16 6 (0.68%) QlikView
17 5 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
17 5 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (2.39%) JIRA
2 9 (1.02%) Git
3 7 (0.80%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.80%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.46%) ERwin
4 4 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (0.46%) Vite
5 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.34%) JMeter
5 3 (0.34%) MLflow
5 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.23%) Selenium
6 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.23%) Storybook
6 2 (0.23%) Toad
6 2 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 423 (48.12%) Social Skills
2 370 (42.09%) Finance
3 311 (35.38%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 87 (9.90%) Marketing
6 78 (8.87%) Presentation Skills
7 66 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
8 62 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (4.78%) Retail
11 36 (4.10%) Manufacturing
12 32 (3.64%) Legal
13 29 (3.30%) Banking
14 25 (2.84%) Advertising
15 24 (2.73%) Law
16 23 (2.62%) Games
17 21 (2.39%) Local Government
18 13 (1.48%) Billing
19 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
20 9 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (21.27%) Analyst
2 132 (15.02%) Senior
3 72 (8.19%) Lead
4 62 (7.05%) Architect
5 48 (5.46%) Developer
6 44 (5.01%) Data Engineer
6 44 (5.01%) Financial Analyst
7 43 (4.89%) Consultant
8 37 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
9 34 (3.87%) Data Analyst
9 34 (3.87%) Senior Manager
10 32 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.41%) Sales Executive
12 28 (3.19%) Report Analyst
13 25 (2.84%) Business Manager
14 23 (2.62%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.28%) Insight Analyst
16 19 (2.16%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 18 (2.05%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.05%) React
2 16 (1.82%) .NET
3 11 (1.25%) Flash
4 10 (1.14%) REST
4 10 (1.14%) Spring
5 9 (1.02%) CSS
5 9 (1.02%) HTML
5 9 (1.02%) Kafka
6 8 (0.91%) Spring Boot
6 8 (0.91%) XML
7 7 (0.80%) Middleware
7 7 (0.80%) PySpark
7 7 (0.80%) TensorFlow
8 6 (0.68%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.68%) JSON
8 6 (0.68%) LangChain
8 6 (0.68%) RESTful
8 6 (0.68%) Vue
9 5 (0.57%) EDI
9 5 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.22%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 45 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 44 (5.01%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 22 (2.50%) Social Media
8 17 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.71%) PMI
10 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.02%) Driving Licence
13 9 (1.02%) IoT
13 9 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.91%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.05%) Android
2 17 (1.93%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.59%) Windows
4 8 (0.91%) Linux
5 6 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (32.65%) Analytics
2 258 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
3 229 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 194 (22.07%) Business Intelligence
5 176 (20.02%) AI
6 160 (18.20%) Agile
7 133 (15.13%) Roadmaps
8 119 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 113 (12.86%) Project Management
10 110 (12.51%) Data Analysis
10 110 (12.51%) Visualisation
11 109 (12.40%) CRM
12 104 (11.83%) Actionable Insight
13 102 (11.60%) Mentoring
14 96 (10.92%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 88 (10.01%) CI/CD
16 84 (9.56%) Data Modelling
17 82 (9.33%) DevOps
18 79 (8.99%) Process Improvement
19 78 (8.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 171 (19.45%) SQL
2 129 (14.68%) Python
3 31 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (2.96%) Java
5 21 (2.39%) R
6 17 (1.93%) TypeScript
7 15 (1.71%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.37%) C#
9 11 (1.25%) VBA
10 9 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.91%) C++
12 6 (0.68%) Bash
12 6 (0.68%) PHP
13 5 (0.57%) Scala
14 4 (0.46%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) ABAP
15 2 (0.23%) Bicep
15 2 (0.23%) VB
16 1 (0.11%) C
Qualifications
1 165 (18.77%) Degree
2 86 (9.78%) ACCA
2 86 (9.78%) CIMA
3 57 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 44 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 37 (4.21%) DBS Check
6 30 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.84%) CISSP
8 22 (2.50%) AAT
9 21 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.39%) PMI Certification
10 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.93%) CISM
11 17 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (1.14%) CEH
14 10 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.29%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.57%) QA
3 40 (4.55%) GDPR
4 29 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 24 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.05%) GRC
7 15 (1.71%) NIST
8 14 (1.59%) P3O
9 13 (1.48%) NCSC
10 12 (1.37%) PCI DSS
11 11 (1.25%) PMO
12 9 (1.02%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.68%) GAAP
14 5 (0.57%) IFRS
14 5 (0.57%) SLA
15 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.23%) COBIT
16 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.05%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (2.28%) Terraform
2 18 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.80%) Nmap
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.46%) SCCM
6 3 (0.34%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Packer
7 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Grafana
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 139 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.80%) Databricks
3 42 (4.78%) SAP
4 33 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 25 (2.84%) Google
6 23 (2.62%) Oracle
6 23 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.39%) HubSpot
8 15 (1.71%) Sage
9 13 (1.48%) Workday
10 11 (1.25%) Autodesk
11 10 (1.14%) Informatica
12 8 (0.91%) Cisco
13 7 (0.80%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.80%) Foundry
13 7 (0.80%) IBM
14 6 (0.68%) Adobe
14 6 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.57%) BMC
15 5 (0.57%) Talend