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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 62 37
Rank change year-on-year +41 -25 +36
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,803 832 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.94% 5.01% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 5.39% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 524 600
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,404
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,468
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.60% -6.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.60%

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 18,760 15,439 21,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.60% 92.96% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,517 8,929 15,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,852 £40,600 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,005
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 14 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 48 (2.66%) Confluence
2 33 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.77%) CMS
4 14 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.39%) Apache
6 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.22%) WordPress
9 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.055%) Appian
10 1 (0.055%) Drupal
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.055%) Resin
10 1 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 131 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 29 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.33%) Simulink
7 6 (0.33%) Trello
8 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.17%) Blender
10 3 (0.17%) Maya
11 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.055%) InDesign
11 1 (0.055%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 53 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (2.16%) Workfront
3 34 (1.89%) Adobe Campaign
4 31 (1.72%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.72%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.28%) Primavera
9 4 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.11%) Shopify
11 1 (0.055%) Actimize
11 1 (0.055%) Aladdin
11 1 (0.055%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 291 (16.14%) Azure
2 205 (11.37%) Power Platform
3 182 (10.09%) AWS
4 156 (8.65%) SaaS
5 85 (4.71%) GCP
6 54 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (2.94%) iPaaS
8 46 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (2.33%) GitHub
10 40 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (1.77%) Figma
11 32 (1.77%) Serverless
12 29 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 28 (1.55%) Google Analytics
14 26 (1.44%) Adobe Analytics
15 25 (1.39%) Contentsquare
16 23 (1.28%) Entra ID
17 16 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (0.89%) Snowflake
18 15 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (9.32%) Broadband
2 59 (3.27%) Network Security
3 56 (3.11%) Firewall
4 47 (2.61%) VLAN
5 8 (0.44%) VPN
6 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.22%) LAN
8 3 (0.17%) BGP
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.17%) Modbus
8 3 (0.17%) MPLS
8 3 (0.17%) OSPF
8 3 (0.17%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.11%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.11%) DNS
9 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (10.21%) Power BI
2 85 (4.71%) Metadata
3 76 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.88%) Tableau
5 38 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 34 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 33 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.39%) Looker
9 21 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 17 (0.94%) Big Data
13 14 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.78%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (0.67%) MySQL
16 11 (0.61%) MongoDB
16 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 46 (2.55%) Git
1 46 (2.55%) JIRA
2 11 (0.61%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 6 (0.33%) GitLab
5 6 (0.33%) JMeter
5 6 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.28%) Locust
7 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.22%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.22%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.22%) MLflow
7 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.11%) NUnit
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.055%) Ant
General
1 676 (37.49%) Social Skills
2 516 (28.62%) Finance
3 490 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (17.08%) Marketing
5 184 (10.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 145 (8.04%) Public Sector
7 124 (6.88%) Legal
8 123 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
8 123 (6.82%) Retail
9 100 (5.55%) Organisational Skills
10 66 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (3.61%) Games
12 56 (3.11%) Law
13 52 (2.88%) Manufacturing
14 39 (2.16%) Banking
15 37 (2.05%) Aerospace
16 31 (1.72%) Local Government
17 23 (1.28%) Electronics
18 22 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
19 20 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 314 (17.42%) Senior
2 235 (13.03%) Analyst
3 221 (12.26%) Lead
4 134 (7.43%) Architect
5 83 (4.60%) Data Engineer
6 74 (4.10%) Development Manager
7 73 (4.05%) Data Analyst
8 70 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
9 66 (3.66%) Business Manager
10 60 (3.33%) Senior Manager
11 58 (3.22%) Developer
12 57 (3.16%) Consultant
12 57 (3.16%) Product Owner
13 56 (3.11%) Business Development Manager
14 47 (2.61%) Product Manager
14 47 (2.61%) Security Engineer
14 47 (2.61%) Senior Security Engineer
15 43 (2.38%) Marketing Manager
16 41 (2.27%) Business Analyst
17 38 (2.11%) Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.77%) React
2 30 (1.66%) .NET
3 29 (1.61%) LangChain
4 28 (1.55%) Node.js
5 25 (1.39%) REST
6 16 (0.89%) AWS CDK
6 16 (0.89%) Next.js
6 16 (0.89%) PySpark
7 15 (0.83%) CSS
8 14 (0.78%) HTML
9 13 (0.72%) RESTful
10 12 (0.67%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.61%) PyTorch
11 11 (0.61%) Spring
11 11 (0.61%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.61%) XML
12 10 (0.55%) Django
13 9 (0.50%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.50%) React Native
13 9 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 150 (8.32%) Product Ownership
2 133 (7.38%) Marketing Technology
3 119 (6.60%) Social Media
4 91 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
5 88 (4.88%) Over-the-Top Content
6 83 (4.60%) Cloud Native
7 78 (4.33%) Management Information System
8 46 (2.55%) AI Agents
9 45 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 40 (2.22%) Blog
11 38 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.77%) Mobile App
14 31 (1.72%) Credit Risk
15 29 (1.61%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (1.50%) Driving Licence
18 20 (1.11%) Algorithms
19 19 (1.05%) Life Science
20 18 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.55%) Android
2 20 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 16 (0.89%) Windows
4 6 (0.33%) VMS
5 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.17%) Linux
7 1 (0.055%) Unix
7 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (25.24%) Agile
2 438 (24.29%) Analytics
3 432 (23.96%) AI
4 421 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 379 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
6 352 (19.52%) Roadmaps
7 324 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 301 (16.69%) Mentoring
9 238 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
10 237 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 220 (12.20%) CRM
12 219 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
13 187 (10.37%) Coaching
14 182 (10.09%) Customer Experience
15 180 (9.98%) CI/CD
16 163 (9.04%) Data Modelling
17 157 (8.71%) Project Delivery
18 154 (8.54%) Project Management
19 152 (8.43%) Business Development
20 149 (8.26%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 259 (14.36%) SQL
2 230 (12.76%) Python
3 42 (2.33%) TypeScript
4 39 (2.16%) C#
5 38 (2.11%) Java
6 36 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.89%) R
8 13 (0.72%) VBA
9 12 (0.67%) Bicep
9 12 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (0.55%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.50%) Bash
11 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.39%) C
14 6 (0.33%) C++
14 6 (0.33%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.33%) Ruby
15 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 185 (10.26%) Degree
2 144 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 118 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 87 (4.83%) ACCA
5 83 (4.60%) CIMA
6 51 (2.83%) DBS Check
7 42 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 41 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.83%) PMP
10 30 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 29 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 24 (1.33%) CISSP
14 20 (1.11%) CISM
15 19 (1.05%) AAT
16 17 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.78%) CIPD
17 14 (0.78%) ICAEW
18 12 (0.67%) PhD
19 11 (0.61%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.15%) Accessibility
3 108 (5.99%) GDPR
4 68 (3.77%) QA
5 50 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.16%) GRC
7 34 (1.89%) WCAG
8 31 (1.72%) NIST
9 28 (1.55%) PMO
10 22 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (1.11%) SLA
12 14 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.67%) IFRS
14 8 (0.44%) COBIT
14 8 (0.44%) NCSC
14 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (2.27%) Docker
2 14 (0.78%) Firmware
3 12 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.055%) GPFS
8 1 (0.055%) Lustre
8 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (1.66%) Terraform
2 28 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.16%) Grafana
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
5 4 (0.22%) CASB
5 4 (0.22%) Nmap
6 2 (0.11%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.11%) Puppet
6 2 (0.11%) Salt
7 1 (0.055%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.055%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.055%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.055%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 257 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.60%) Adobe
3 64 (3.55%) Google
4 54 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 53 (2.94%) Databricks
6 45 (2.50%) SAP
7 29 (1.61%) Oracle
8 21 (1.16%) HubSpot
9 16 (0.89%) Foundry
9 16 (0.89%) Informatica
10 15 (0.83%) Sage
11 11 (0.61%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.55%) Xero
13 8 (0.44%) Cisco
13 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.44%) VMware
14 6 (0.33%) Ariba
14 6 (0.33%) ScienceLogic
15 5 (0.28%) Workday
15 5 (0.28%) YouTube