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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 63 38
Rank change year-on-year +33 -25 +6
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,138 645 1,956
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.30% 4.78% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 5.04% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 657 393 1,119
10th Percentile £37,300 £36,250 £34,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,250 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +6.64% -5.83%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14,981 12,789 29,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 94.78% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,485 8,897 23,598
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,690 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 26 April 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 (3.25%) CMS
1 37 (3.25%) Confluence
2 35 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.35%) nginx
6 4 (0.35%) WordPress
7 3 (0.26%) Apache
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.088%) Drupal
Applications
1 128 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (3.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.70%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.26%) Trello
9 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.088%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (2.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (1.76%) Workfront
3 18 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.79%) Shopify
5 5 (0.44%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 5 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.088%) Magento
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.088%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 224 (19.68%) Azure
2 178 (15.64%) Power Platform
3 103 (9.05%) AWS
4 85 (7.47%) SaaS
5 65 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (3.87%) GCP
8 35 (3.08%) iPaaS
8 35 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.55%) GitHub
11 27 (2.37%) Figma
11 27 (2.37%) Serverless
12 26 (2.28%) Contentsquare
13 25 (2.20%) Adobe Analytics
14 23 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.76%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.23%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.14%) PaaS
18 12 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 138 (12.13%) Broadband
2 5 (0.44%) Internet
2 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.26%) DNS
4 3 (0.26%) Modbus
4 3 (0.26%) Network Security
4 3 (0.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.088%) ADSL
6 1 (0.088%) DSL
6 1 (0.088%) Intranet
6 1 (0.088%) NAS
6 1 (0.088%) NGFW
6 1 (0.088%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.088%) VPN
6 1 (0.088%) WAN
6 1 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (14.94%) Power BI
2 61 (5.36%) Metadata
3 60 (5.27%) SQL Server
4 47 (4.13%) Tableau
5 41 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 12 (1.05%) MySQL
11 11 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.88%) Looker
13 9 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.70%) Power Query
15 6 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 26 (2.28%) JIRA
2 16 (1.41%) Git
3 8 (0.70%) JMeter
4 6 (0.53%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.53%) Locust
5 5 (0.44%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.44%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.35%) Vite
7 3 (0.26%) GitLab
7 3 (0.26%) MLflow
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
9 1 (0.088%) REST Assured
General
1 443 (38.93%) Social Skills
2 399 (35.06%) Finance
3 352 (30.93%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (15.64%) Marketing
5 119 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 89 (7.82%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (5.71%) Legal
9 64 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
10 62 (5.45%) Games
11 54 (4.75%) Retail
12 41 (3.60%) Law
13 34 (2.99%) Manufacturing
14 32 (2.81%) Advertising
15 30 (2.64%) Banking
16 19 (1.67%) Local Government
17 16 (1.41%) Publishing
18 15 (1.32%) Billing
19 12 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (16.70%) Analyst
2 171 (15.03%) Senior
3 116 (10.19%) Lead
4 77 (6.77%) Architect
5 57 (5.01%) Data Engineer
6 54 (4.75%) Senior Manager
7 42 (3.69%) Developer
8 40 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
9 38 (3.34%) Financial Analyst
10 37 (3.25%) Product Owner
11 35 (3.08%) Data Analyst
11 35 (3.08%) Product Manager
11 35 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 33 (2.90%) Consultant
14 28 (2.46%) Campaign Manager
15 25 (2.20%) Engineering Manager
16 24 (2.11%) Business Manager
16 24 (2.11%) Development Manager
16 24 (2.11%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.37%) React
2 22 (1.93%) .NET
3 17 (1.49%) CSS
3 17 (1.49%) HTML
4 15 (1.32%) XML
5 13 (1.14%) LangChain
5 13 (1.14%) REST
6 12 (1.05%) Middleware
7 10 (0.88%) AWS CDK
7 10 (0.88%) Next.js
8 8 (0.70%) JSON
8 8 (0.70%) Kafka
8 8 (0.70%) PySpark
8 8 (0.70%) RESTful
9 7 (0.62%) EDI
9 7 (0.62%) Flash
9 7 (0.62%) TensorFlow
9 7 (0.62%) Vue
10 6 (0.53%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.02%) Product Ownership
2 88 (7.73%) Social Media
3 76 (6.68%) Marketing Technology
4 74 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (5.45%) Over-the-Top Content
6 61 (5.36%) Onboarding
7 53 (4.66%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.69%) Management Information System
9 37 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (2.81%) Virtual Team
11 26 (2.28%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.67%) Security Posture
14 17 (1.49%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.49%) PMI
15 16 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.41%) Driving Licence
16 13 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.64%) Android
2 28 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.14%) Windows
4 8 (0.70%) Linux
5 6 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (29.00%) Analytics
2 295 (25.92%) Problem-Solving
3 272 (23.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 268 (23.55%) Agile
5 250 (21.97%) AI
6 239 (21.00%) Roadmaps
7 199 (17.49%) Business Intelligence
8 176 (15.47%) Mentoring
9 151 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 149 (13.09%) Customer Experience
11 137 (12.04%) Project Management
12 122 (10.72%) Coaching
13 112 (9.84%) CI/CD
14 110 (9.67%) Data Analysis
14 110 (9.67%) Data Modelling
15 109 (9.58%) CRM
16 104 (9.14%) Actionable Insight
17 98 (8.61%) Visualisation
18 97 (8.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 97 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 164 (14.41%) SQL
2 140 (12.30%) Python
3 31 (2.72%) Java
4 30 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (1.85%) C#
5 21 (1.85%) R
5 21 (1.85%) TypeScript
6 19 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.88%) VBA
8 9 (0.79%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.62%) PHP
10 5 (0.44%) Bash
10 5 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.35%) Bicep
11 4 (0.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.18%) C
12 2 (0.18%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.088%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 165 (14.50%) Degree
2 105 (9.23%) ACCA
3 104 (9.14%) CIMA
4 71 (6.24%) Security Cleared
5 46 (4.04%) SC Cleared
6 39 (3.43%) DBS Check
7 37 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.81%) PMI Certification
9 23 (2.02%) AAT
10 20 (1.76%) CISSP
11 15 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.32%) PMP
12 14 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.05%) CISM
13 12 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (1.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.88%) PhD
15 9 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.79%) CIPD
15 9 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (11.95%) Data Quality
2 86 (7.56%) Accessibility
3 58 (5.10%) QA
4 52 (4.57%) GDPR
5 32 (2.81%) WCAG
6 29 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 27 (2.37%) GRC
8 25 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.58%) NIST
10 13 (1.14%) P3O
11 11 (0.97%) NCSC
11 11 (0.97%) PMO
12 10 (0.88%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.79%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.62%) GAAP
15 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.53%) IFRS
16 4 (0.35%) SLA
17 3 (0.26%) MiFID
17 3 (0.26%) TickIT
System Software
1 22 (1.93%) Docker
2 6 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (1.76%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.67%) Terraform
3 15 (1.32%) Grafana
4 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.44%) Nmap
6 4 (0.35%) SCCM
7 3 (0.26%) Argo
7 3 (0.26%) Control-M
7 3 (0.26%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.18%) Ansible
8 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.18%) Packer
8 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.18%) Puppet
8 2 (0.18%) Salt
9 1 (0.088%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 171 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.26%) Adobe
3 45 (3.95%) Databricks
4 43 (3.78%) SAP
5 38 (3.34%) Google
6 31 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.55%) Oracle
8 24 (2.11%) Sage
9 22 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 21 (1.85%) HubSpot
11 11 (0.97%) Foundry
11 11 (0.97%) Workday
12 10 (0.88%) Xero
13 8 (0.70%) BMC
13 8 (0.70%) Informatica
13 8 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.53%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.53%) Ariba
14 6 (0.53%) Cisco
14 6 (0.53%) Talend