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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 62 56
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 882 764 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.38% 4.98% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 5.25% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 539 379 993
10th Percentile £38,996 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,250 £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 £82,729 £80,435
90th Percentile £95,250 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.81% -12.57%

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 14,069 14,554 25,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.89% 94.92% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,144 8,791 21,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
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 22 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 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.59%) Confluence
3 10 (1.13%) 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 (0.45%) 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
1 131 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.13%) 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 (0.45%) 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 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.13%) Shopify
2 8 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.45%) 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 (21.43%) Azure
2 183 (20.75%) Power Platform
3 81 (9.18%) AWS
3 81 (9.18%) SaaS
4 61 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 48 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 35 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
7 32 (3.63%) GitHub
8 29 (3.29%) GCP
9 21 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.38%) Serverless
10 17 (1.93%) PaaS
11 16 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (1.70%) Snowflake
13 13 (1.47%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.36%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
16 8 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.95%) Broadband
2 7 (0.79%) 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
1 173 (19.61%) Power BI
2 55 (6.24%) Tableau
3 52 (5.90%) SQL Server
4 44 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 41 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (2.95%) Metadata
8 23 (2.61%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.81%) Power Query
10 13 (1.47%) MySQL
11 11 (1.25%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.79%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.68%) QlikView
16 5 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (2.38%) JIRA
2 9 (1.02%) Git
3 7 (0.79%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.79%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.45%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.45%) ERwin
4 4 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (0.45%) 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
1 425 (48.19%) Social Skills
2 371 (42.06%) Finance
3 312 (35.37%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 88 (9.98%) Marketing
6 78 (8.84%) Presentation Skills
7 66 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
8 62 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (4.76%) Retail
11 36 (4.08%) Manufacturing
12 33 (3.74%) Legal
13 29 (3.29%) Banking
14 25 (2.83%) Advertising
15 24 (2.72%) Law
16 23 (2.61%) Games
17 21 (2.38%) Local Government
18 13 (1.47%) Billing
19 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
20 9 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 188 (21.32%) Analyst
2 132 (14.97%) Senior
3 73 (8.28%) Lead
4 62 (7.03%) Architect
5 48 (5.44%) Developer
6 44 (4.99%) Data Engineer
6 44 (4.99%) Financial Analyst
7 43 (4.88%) Consultant
8 37 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
9 34 (3.85%) Data Analyst
9 34 (3.85%) Senior Manager
10 32 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.40%) Sales Executive
12 28 (3.17%) Report Analyst
13 25 (2.83%) Business Manager
14 23 (2.61%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.27%) Insight Analyst
16 19 (2.15%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 18 (2.04%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.04%) React
2 16 (1.81%) .NET
3 11 (1.25%) Flash
4 10 (1.13%) REST
4 10 (1.13%) 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 (0.79%) Middleware
7 7 (0.79%) PySpark
7 7 (0.79%) 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 (9.18%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 44 (4.99%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 43 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 22 (2.49%) Social Media
8 17 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.70%) PMI
10 13 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.13%) 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 (2.04%) 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
1 289 (32.77%) Analytics
2 258 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
3 230 (26.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 195 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
5 176 (19.95%) AI
6 161 (18.25%) Agile
7 134 (15.19%) Roadmaps
8 120 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 113 (12.81%) Project Management
10 111 (12.59%) Visualisation
11 110 (12.47%) Data Analysis
12 109 (12.36%) CRM
13 105 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
14 103 (11.68%) Mentoring
15 97 (11.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 88 (9.98%) CI/CD
17 84 (9.52%) Data Modelling
18 82 (9.30%) DevOps
19 79 (8.96%) Process Improvement
20 78 (8.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.50%) SQL
2 130 (14.74%) Python
3 31 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (2.95%) Java
5 22 (2.49%) R
6 17 (1.93%) TypeScript
7 15 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.36%) 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 (0.45%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.23%) ABAP
15 2 (0.23%) Bicep
15 2 (0.23%) VB
16 1 (0.11%) C
Qualifications
1 167 (18.93%) Degree
2 86 (9.75%) ACCA
2 86 (9.75%) CIMA
3 58 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 45 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 37 (4.20%) DBS Check
6 30 (3.40%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.83%) CISSP
8 22 (2.49%) AAT
9 21 (2.38%) Azure Certification
9 21 (2.38%) PMI Certification
10 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.93%) CISM
11 17 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.36%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (1.13%) CEH
14 10 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.56%) QA
3 40 (4.54%) GDPR
4 30 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 29 (3.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 24 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (2.04%) GRC
8 15 (1.70%) NIST
9 14 (1.59%) P3O
10 13 (1.47%) NCSC
11 12 (1.36%) PCI DSS
12 11 (1.25%) PMO
13 9 (1.02%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.68%) GAAP
15 5 (0.57%) IFRS
15 5 (0.57%) SLA
16 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
17 2 (0.23%) COBIT
17 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (2.04%) 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 (2.27%) Terraform
2 18 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.79%) Nmap
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.45%) 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%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.11%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.11%) Grafana
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 139 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.78%) Databricks
3 42 (4.76%) SAP
4 33 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.95%) Google
6 23 (2.61%) Oracle
6 23 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.38%) HubSpot
8 15 (1.70%) Sage
9 13 (1.47%) Workday
10 11 (1.25%) Autodesk
11 10 (1.13%) Informatica
12 8 (0.91%) Cisco
13 7 (0.79%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.79%) Foundry
13 7 (0.79%) IBM
14 6 (0.68%) Adobe
14 6 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.57%) BMC
15 5 (0.57%) Talend