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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 62 36
Rank change year-on-year +44 -26 +29
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,053 804 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.27% 4.78% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 5.10% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 528 435
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,780 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +3.60% -7.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%

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 20,042 15,769 19,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.69% 93.82% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14,290 8,427 11,609
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

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 5 October 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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.80%) Confluence
3 14 (0.68%) CMS
4 10 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (0.39%) Apache
6 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.097%) SAS
11 1 (0.049%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.049%) Appian
11 1 (0.049%) CICS
11 1 (0.049%) Drupal
11 1 (0.049%) Moodle
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.049%) WebLogic
Applications
1 156 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.29%) Simulink
8 6 (0.29%) Trello
9 5 (0.24%) Notion
9 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.19%) InDesign
10 4 (0.19%) Mathcad
11 3 (0.15%) Blender
11 3 (0.15%) Maya
12 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
13 1 (0.049%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 57 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.51%) Dynamics GP
3 20 (0.97%) Workfront
4 17 (0.83%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.34%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 7 (0.34%) Actimize
7 7 (0.34%) Primavera
8 6 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.19%) FastStats
10 4 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
11 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.15%) SAP R/3
12 2 (0.097%) FastStats PeopleStage
12 2 (0.097%) iTrent
13 1 (0.049%) NEC Housing
13 1 (0.049%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 289 (14.08%) Azure
2 259 (12.62%) Power Platform
3 205 (9.99%) AWS
4 163 (7.94%) SaaS
5 86 (4.19%) GCP
6 71 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (2.34%) GitHub
8 46 (2.24%) Serverless
9 42 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.46%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.07%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (0.97%) iPaaS
16 19 (0.93%) Amazon S3
16 19 (0.93%) Entra ID
17 17 (0.83%) Figma
18 16 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.31%) Broadband
2 63 (3.07%) Network Security
3 57 (2.78%) Firewall
4 50 (2.44%) VLAN
5 15 (0.73%) 5G
6 10 (0.49%) WAN
7 9 (0.44%) Intranet
8 8 (0.39%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.34%) LAN
9 7 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.34%) VPN
10 5 (0.24%) Internet
10 5 (0.24%) Wireless
11 4 (0.19%) SMS
12 3 (0.15%) BGP
12 3 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.15%) MPLS
12 3 (0.15%) OSPF
12 3 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (11.54%) Power BI
2 92 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (3.07%) Metadata
4 45 (2.19%) Tableau
5 34 (1.66%) Data Lake
6 29 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 26 (1.27%) BigQuery
8 25 (1.22%) Looker
9 21 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.97%) Spark SQL
11 17 (0.83%) Big Data
11 17 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 17 (0.83%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (0.63%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.63%) Power Query
13 13 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.58%) Data Mining
14 12 (0.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (2.87%) Git
2 46 (2.24%) JIRA
3 14 (0.68%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (0.29%) GitLab
5 6 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 5 (0.24%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.19%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.19%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.19%) MLflow
7 4 (0.19%) RStudio
7 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.15%) Maven
8 3 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.049%) Ant
9 1 (0.049%) Mocha
9 1 (0.049%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 813 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 696 (33.90%) Finance
3 607 (29.57%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (14.91%) Marketing
5 242 (11.79%) Public Sector
6 229 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 168 (8.18%) Influencing Skills
8 147 (7.16%) Legal
9 130 (6.33%) Retail
10 115 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
11 111 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
12 85 (4.14%) Law
13 76 (3.70%) Manufacturing
14 62 (3.02%) Banking
15 46 (2.24%) Aerospace
16 41 (2.00%) Local Government
17 38 (1.85%) Telecoms
18 34 (1.66%) Games
19 29 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
20 28 (1.36%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 349 (17.00%) Senior
2 275 (13.40%) Analyst
3 236 (11.50%) Lead
4 149 (7.26%) Architect
5 111 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 86 (4.19%) Business Manager
7 85 (4.14%) Data Analyst
8 80 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
9 79 (3.85%) Development Manager
10 70 (3.41%) Business Development Manager
10 70 (3.41%) Developer
11 61 (2.97%) Consultant
12 57 (2.78%) IT Manager
13 53 (2.58%) Security Engineer
14 51 (2.48%) Senior Manager
14 51 (2.48%) Senior Security Engineer
15 44 (2.14%) Senior Architect
16 43 (2.09%) Business Analyst
16 43 (2.09%) Data Architect
16 43 (2.09%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.19%) .NET
2 43 (2.09%) React
3 41 (2.00%) PySpark
4 36 (1.75%) Node.js
5 31 (1.51%) Terraform
6 30 (1.46%) REST
7 23 (1.12%) LangChain
8 16 (0.78%) Spring
8 16 (0.78%) Spring Boot
9 14 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 14 (0.68%) RESTful
10 11 (0.54%) AWS CDK
10 11 (0.54%) FastAPI
10 11 (0.54%) NestJS
10 11 (0.54%) Next.js
11 10 (0.49%) Django
11 10 (0.49%) PyTorch
12 9 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (0.44%) Pandas
12 9 (0.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.48%) Management Information System
2 129 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 75 (3.65%) Cloud Native
5 69 (3.36%) Marketing Technology
6 65 (3.17%) Social Media
7 60 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 49 (2.39%) AI Agents
9 44 (2.14%) Driving Licence
10 42 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 41 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.95%) Blog
13 39 (1.90%) Credit Risk
14 34 (1.66%) Over-the-Top Content
15 31 (1.51%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
16 29 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
17 28 (1.36%) Web Conferencing
18 22 (1.07%) Mobile App
19 21 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (0.97%) Windows
2 13 (0.63%) Android
3 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.34%) Linux
4 6 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.049%) Unix
5 1 (0.049%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (26.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 468 (22.80%) Analytics
3 463 (22.55%) AI
4 445 (21.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 435 (21.19%) Agile
6 405 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 343 (16.71%) Mentoring
8 313 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
9 311 (15.15%) Coaching
10 296 (14.42%) Roadmaps
11 289 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 270 (13.15%) CRM
13 243 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
14 210 (10.23%) Project Delivery
15 202 (9.84%) Business Development
16 192 (9.35%) Actionable Insight
17 191 (9.30%) CI/CD
18 175 (8.52%) Data Modelling
19 170 (8.28%) Risk Management
20 164 (7.99%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 346 (16.85%) SQL
2 247 (12.03%) Python
3 54 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 47 (2.29%) C#
5 45 (2.19%) TypeScript
6 44 (2.14%) Java
7 23 (1.12%) C++
8 22 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 22 (1.07%) R
9 12 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (0.49%) Bicep
10 10 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 9 (0.44%) Bash
11 9 (0.44%) VBA
12 8 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.34%) Ruby
13 7 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.29%) C
14 6 (0.29%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 199 (9.69%) Degree
2 185 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 159 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 82 (3.99%) ACCA
5 79 (3.85%) CIMA
6 65 (3.17%) DBS Check
7 41 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.46%) CISSP
10 27 (1.32%) CISM
11 24 (1.17%) PMP
12 19 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 19 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (0.88%) CIPD
14 15 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.68%) ICAEW
16 12 (0.58%) AAT
16 12 (0.58%) Azure Certification
16 12 (0.58%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (10.03%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 99 (4.82%) GDPR
4 66 (3.21%) QA
5 53 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.29%) PMO
7 33 (1.61%) NIST
8 32 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 29 (1.41%) GRC
10 25 (1.22%) SLA
11 15 (0.73%) IFRS
11 15 (0.73%) WCAG
12 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.44%) COBIT
14 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.29%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.29%) NCSC
15 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (2.19%) Docker
2 15 (0.73%) Firmware
3 13 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.049%) GPFS
8 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.049%) Lustre
8 1 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (1.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.39%) Grafana
3 6 (0.29%) CASB
3 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.24%) Nmap
5 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.097%) Ansible
6 2 (0.097%) Argo
6 2 (0.097%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.049%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.049%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.049%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 311 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 72 (3.51%) Salesforce
3 61 (2.97%) Google
4 55 (2.68%) YouTube
5 54 (2.63%) Adobe
6 52 (2.53%) Databricks
7 43 (2.09%) SAP
8 33 (1.61%) Oracle
9 23 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.07%) HubSpot
11 14 (0.68%) Informatica
12 12 (0.58%) Foundry
12 12 (0.58%) VMware
13 11 (0.54%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.39%) Cisco
14 8 (0.39%) EMC
14 8 (0.39%) Workday
15 6 (0.29%) Sage
15 6 (0.29%) ScienceLogic
16 5 (0.24%) Xero