Decision-Making Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Decision-Making
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -48 +9 +34
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 764 1,889 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.75% 5.48% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 6.13% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 471 1,033 883
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,924 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,269
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £53,433 £59,526
% change year-on-year +7.61% -10.24% -0.79%

All Process and 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 18,981 30,804 34,537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.14% 89.33% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 10,113 22,881 24,933
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Decision-Making
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Decision-Making trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Decision-Making
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Decision-Making.

Decision-Making salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Decision-Making salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.01%) Jupyter
3 15 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.18%) Moodle
5 7 (0.92%) CMS
5 7 (0.92%) Confluence
6 5 (0.65%) Apache
7 4 (0.52%) WordPress
8 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 121 (15.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.79%) Trello
7 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.05%) Shopify
4 6 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.26%) Primavera
7 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.13%) FastStats
8 1 (0.13%) FastStats PeopleStage
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Magento
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 180 (23.56%) Power Platform
2 132 (17.28%) Azure
3 66 (8.64%) AWS
3 66 (8.64%) SaaS
4 40 (5.24%) GCP
5 32 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (3.01%) Google Analytics
7 23 (3.01%) Power Automate
7 23 (3.01%) PowerApps
8 18 (2.36%) PaaS
8 18 (2.36%) Serverless
9 14 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.57%) IaaS
10 12 (1.57%) Snowflake
10 12 (1.57%) Zapier
11 11 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.36%) Firewall
2 14 (1.83%) Network Security
3 10 (1.31%) WAN
4 7 (0.92%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.92%) VPN
5 6 (0.79%) Internet
6 5 (0.65%) 4G
6 5 (0.65%) 5G
6 5 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.65%) VLAN
7 4 (0.52%) Intranet
8 3 (0.39%) BGP
8 3 (0.39%) LAN
8 3 (0.39%) OSPF
9 2 (0.26%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.26%) SAN
9 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.13%) Broadband
10 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (22.51%) Power BI
2 66 (8.64%) Tableau
3 55 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.19%) Big Data
6 29 (3.80%) Power Query
7 19 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.57%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.57%) Metadata
9 12 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.44%) Looker
11 10 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.31%) Star Schema
12 9 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.18%) Data Hub
12 9 (1.18%) GIS
13 8 (1.05%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.92%) MySQL
14 7 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.40%) JIRA
2 20 (2.62%) Git
3 14 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) GitLab
6 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.26%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.26%) webpack
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) ESLint
8 1 (0.13%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Storybook
8 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 363 (47.51%) Social Skills
2 296 (38.74%) Finance
3 219 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (10.86%) Marketing
6 65 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
7 62 (8.12%) Banking
8 60 (7.85%) Legal
9 43 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 38 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (4.84%) Law
12 30 (3.93%) Retail
13 26 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 17 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 17 (2.23%) Local Government
16 15 (1.96%) Automotive
17 12 (1.57%) Advertising
18 11 (1.44%) Games
19 9 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (20.94%) Analyst
2 127 (16.62%) Senior
3 88 (11.52%) Lead
4 48 (6.28%) Data Scientist
5 47 (6.15%) Developer
6 41 (5.37%) Architect
7 38 (4.97%) Business Manager
8 37 (4.84%) Senior Data Scientist
9 35 (4.58%) Business Analyst
9 35 (4.58%) Financial Analyst
10 33 (4.32%) Data Analyst
11 32 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
12 31 (4.06%) Development Manager
13 30 (3.93%) Business Development Manager
14 29 (3.80%) IT Manager
15 28 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 25 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 24 (3.14%) Data Engineer
18 23 (3.01%) Data Manager
19 19 (2.49%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.19%) .NET
2 18 (2.36%) Pandas
3 15 (1.96%) .NET Core
4 14 (1.83%) REST
5 13 (1.70%) React
5 13 (1.70%) TensorFlow
6 12 (1.57%) HTML
6 12 (1.57%) PySpark
7 11 (1.44%) CSS
7 11 (1.44%) scikit-learn
8 10 (1.31%) JSON
9 9 (1.18%) XGBoost
10 8 (1.05%) ASP.NET
11 7 (0.92%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.92%) Node.js
12 6 (0.79%) EDI
12 6 (0.79%) XML
13 5 (0.65%) Middleware
14 4 (0.52%) Leaflet
14 4 (0.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.90%) Management Information System
2 41 (5.37%) Algorithms
3 38 (4.97%) Social Media
4 33 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.66%) Cyberattack
6 25 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.01%) Cloud Native
8 22 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.70%) Learning Management System
11 13 (1.70%) NHS
12 10 (1.31%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.05%) IoT
13 8 (1.05%) Pricing Data
13 8 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.92%) Derivative
14 7 (0.92%) Mainframe
15 6 (0.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.27%) Windows
2 8 (1.05%) Linux
3 4 (0.52%) Unix
4 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
2 227 (29.71%) Analytics
3 192 (25.13%) Business Intelligence
4 170 (22.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 158 (20.68%) Visualisation
6 150 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 147 (19.24%) Agile
8 133 (17.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 126 (16.49%) Data Analysis
10 117 (15.31%) Mentoring
11 113 (14.79%) CRM
12 101 (13.22%) Project Management
13 96 (12.57%) Roadmaps
14 95 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 93 (12.17%) Actionable Insight
16 87 (11.39%) Data Science
17 84 (10.99%) Data Visualisation
18 81 (10.60%) ETL
19 78 (10.21%) Machine Learning
20 77 (10.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 198 (25.92%) SQL
2 141 (18.46%) Python
3 55 (7.20%) JavaScript
4 33 (4.32%) Java
5 27 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (3.14%) C#
7 15 (1.96%) R
8 13 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 8 (1.05%) Bash
10 7 (0.92%) PHP
11 6 (0.79%) C++
11 6 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.65%) VBA
13 4 (0.52%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.26%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.26%) VB
15 1 (0.13%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.13%) Fortran
15 1 (0.13%) Lisp
15 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 155 (20.29%) Degree
2 47 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 33 (4.32%) ACCA
4 32 (4.19%) CIMA
5 31 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 29 (3.80%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.36%) SC Cleared
9 17 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 17 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.79%) AAT
11 6 (0.79%) CISSP
11 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.65%) PMP
13 4 (0.52%) CFA
13 4 (0.52%) CISMP
13 4 (0.52%) PhD
13 4 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.25%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.63%) GDPR
3 38 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.93%) QA
5 13 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.57%) NIST
7 11 (1.44%) NCSC
8 6 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.65%) PMO
10 3 (0.39%) COBIT
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.26%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (4.32%) Docker
2 9 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.31%) Ansible
2 10 (1.31%) Terraform
3 4 (0.52%) Grafana
4 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) Matomo
6 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 160 (20.94%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.64%) Google
3 50 (6.54%) Salesforce
4 32 (4.19%) SAP
5 21 (2.75%) Databricks
6 19 (2.49%) Oracle
7 12 (1.57%) Anaplan
7 12 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.44%) HubSpot
8 11 (1.44%) Xero
9 10 (1.31%) IBM
10 9 (1.18%) Adobe
10 9 (1.18%) Sage
11 8 (1.05%) Apple
11 8 (1.05%) Workday
12 6 (0.79%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.65%) TikTok
14 4 (0.52%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.52%) Hotjar
14 4 (0.52%) Informatica