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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 78 37
Rank change year-on-year +49 -41 +8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,270 688 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.64% 4.62% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 4.87% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 785 400 1,087
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,950 £35,135
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,385
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +3.82% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.57%

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 15,796 14,113 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.60% 94.78% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,308 8,284 23,565
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 2 June 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 38 (2.99%) Confluence
2 35 (2.76%) CMS
3 33 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.31%) Apache
6 4 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.31%) SAS
6 4 (0.31%) WordPress
7 3 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.079%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.079%) Drupal
9 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.079%) Umbraco
Applications
1 100 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 35 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.16%) Blender
10 2 (0.16%) Maya
11 1 (0.079%) SPSS
11 1 (0.079%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (3.07%) Workfront
2 34 (2.68%) Adobe Campaign
3 16 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.39%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 5 (0.39%) Shopify
7 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.16%) Raiser’s Edge
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.079%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.079%) ResourceLink
10 1 (0.079%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 232 (18.27%) Azure
2 168 (13.23%) Power Platform
3 130 (10.24%) AWS
4 102 (8.03%) SaaS
5 53 (4.17%) GCP
5 53 (4.17%) iPaaS
6 44 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (2.60%) Serverless
9 27 (2.13%) Figma
10 26 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (2.05%) GitHub
11 25 (1.97%) Adobe Analytics
11 25 (1.97%) Contentsquare
12 19 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
13 18 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.10%) Entra ID
16 13 (1.02%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 170 (13.39%) Broadband
2 8 (0.63%) Firewall
2 8 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.55%) Network Security
4 5 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.39%) WAN
5 4 (0.31%) DNS
5 4 (0.31%) LAN
6 3 (0.24%) BGP
6 3 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.24%) Internet
6 3 (0.24%) Modbus
6 3 (0.24%) MPLS
6 3 (0.24%) OSPF
6 3 (0.24%) SSL
6 3 (0.24%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.16%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.16%) SMS
7 2 (0.16%) VPN
7 2 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (12.60%) Power BI
2 74 (5.83%) Metadata
3 45 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (3.39%) Tableau
5 39 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 22 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.18%) Big Data
8 15 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.10%) MySQL
9 14 (1.10%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 9 (0.71%) Looker
12 8 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (2.28%) JIRA
2 21 (1.65%) Git
3 7 (0.55%) JMeter
4 6 (0.47%) Claude Code
4 6 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.47%) GitLab
5 5 (0.39%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.39%) Locust
5 5 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.31%) MLflow
6 4 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.24%) Vite
8 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 417 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 373 (29.37%) Finance
3 349 (27.48%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (16.14%) Marketing
5 109 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 107 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
8 81 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (5.98%) Legal
10 69 (5.43%) Games
11 65 (5.12%) Retail
12 49 (3.86%) Law
13 32 (2.52%) Local Government
14 30 (2.36%) Banking
15 28 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.97%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.65%) Advertising
18 19 (1.50%) Publishing
19 11 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
20 9 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 206 (16.22%) Senior
2 188 (14.80%) Analyst
3 137 (10.79%) Lead
4 72 (5.67%) Architect
5 68 (5.35%) Data Engineer
6 63 (4.96%) Senior Manager
7 55 (4.33%) Product Owner
8 52 (4.09%) Data Analyst
9 51 (4.02%) Developer
10 50 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
11 41 (3.23%) Product Manager
12 38 (2.99%) Consultant
13 37 (2.91%) Business Analyst
13 37 (2.91%) Development Manager
14 36 (2.83%) Campaign Manager
15 27 (2.13%) Business Manager
16 26 (2.05%) Software Engineer
17 25 (1.97%) Engineering Manager
18 23 (1.81%) Lead Architect
19 22 (1.73%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.39%) React
2 28 (2.20%) .NET
3 24 (1.89%) LangChain
4 19 (1.50%) CSS
4 19 (1.50%) REST
5 18 (1.42%) HTML
6 15 (1.18%) XML
7 14 (1.10%) Next.js
7 14 (1.10%) Node.js
8 13 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 13 (1.02%) RESTful
9 11 (0.87%) Middleware
9 11 (0.87%) PySpark
10 9 (0.71%) AngularJS
10 9 (0.71%) Spring
10 9 (0.71%) Vue
11 8 (0.63%) EDI
11 8 (0.63%) Kafka
11 8 (0.63%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 139 (10.94%) Product Ownership
2 111 (8.74%) Social Media
3 102 (8.03%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (6.93%) Over-the-Top Content
5 63 (4.96%) Cloud Native
6 61 (4.80%) Onboarding
7 51 (4.02%) Management Information System
8 38 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (2.44%) Mobile App
10 26 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.97%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.89%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
13 22 (1.73%) Security Posture
14 20 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (1.34%) Data Structures
16 17 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (1.34%) PMI
17 16 (1.26%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.60%) Android
2 29 (2.28%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.47%) Linux
4 6 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (25.98%) Agile
2 314 (24.72%) Analytics
3 295 (23.23%) Roadmaps
4 280 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 280 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
5 268 (21.10%) AI
6 197 (15.51%) Mentoring
7 184 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
8 176 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 148 (11.65%) Customer Experience
10 133 (10.47%) Coaching
11 131 (10.31%) CI/CD
11 131 (10.31%) CRM
12 127 (10.00%) Project Management
13 124 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 120 (9.45%) Data Modelling
15 116 (9.13%) Digital Marketing
16 110 (8.66%) User Stories
17 105 (8.27%) Actionable Insight
17 105 (8.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 183 (14.41%) SQL
2 179 (14.09%) Python
3 34 (2.68%) Java
4 33 (2.60%) TypeScript
5 30 (2.36%) C#
6 28 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 24 (1.89%) R
8 9 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.71%) VBA
9 7 (0.55%) C++
9 7 (0.55%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.47%) Bash
10 6 (0.47%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 4 (0.31%) Ruby
12 4 (0.31%) Scala
13 3 (0.24%) Bicep
14 2 (0.16%) C
14 2 (0.16%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 162 (12.76%) Degree
2 85 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 75 (5.91%) ACCA
4 72 (5.67%) CIMA
5 65 (5.12%) SC Cleared
6 48 (3.78%) DBS Check
7 37 (2.91%) PMI Certification
8 32 (2.52%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.57%) CISSP
9 20 (1.57%) PMP
10 18 (1.42%) AAT
11 16 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.87%) CISM
14 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.79%) PhD
15 9 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.71%) HNC
15 9 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (11.10%) Data Quality
2 88 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 73 (5.75%) GDPR
3 73 (5.75%) QA
4 32 (2.52%) WCAG
5 28 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.05%) GRC
7 20 (1.57%) NIST
8 19 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (1.34%) PMO
10 15 (1.18%) SLA
11 13 (1.02%) P3O
12 10 (0.79%) NCSC
12 10 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.71%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.47%) IFRS
16 5 (0.39%) GAAP
17 4 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 3 (0.24%) TickIT
System Software
1 27 (2.13%) Docker
2 7 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.31%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (1.57%) Kubernetes
1 20 (1.57%) Terraform
2 16 (1.26%) Grafana
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.39%) Nmap
5 4 (0.31%) SCCM
6 3 (0.24%) Argo
6 3 (0.24%) Control-M
6 3 (0.24%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.16%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.16%) Packer
7 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.16%) Puppet
7 2 (0.16%) Salt
8 1 (0.079%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 178 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 118 (9.29%) Adobe
3 42 (3.31%) Salesforce
4 41 (3.23%) Databricks
5 38 (2.99%) Google
6 37 (2.91%) SAP
7 28 (2.20%) Oracle
8 23 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.65%) HubSpot
10 19 (1.50%) Sage
11 10 (0.79%) BMC
11 10 (0.79%) Cisco
11 10 (0.79%) Foundry
11 10 (0.79%) Informatica
11 10 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.79%) Workday
11 10 (0.79%) Xero
12 6 (0.47%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.47%) Ariba
12 6 (0.47%) Talend