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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 67 36
Rank change year-on-year +50 -31 +33
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,074 790 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.37% 4.78% 6.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.32% 5.12% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 521 460
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,125 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,447 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,338 £57,500 £55,107
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +4.34% -8.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,625
UK median annual salary £59,250 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -1.25% +6.19% +2.73%

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 20,104 15,435 20,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.13% 93.44% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 14,351 8,541 12,114
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,460 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 September 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 47 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.74%) Confluence
3 14 (0.68%) CMS
4 9 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (0.39%) Apache
5 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.096%) SAS
10 1 (0.048%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.048%) Drupal
10 1 (0.048%) Moodle
10 1 (0.048%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.048%) Resin
10 1 (0.048%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.048%) WordPress
Applications
1 154 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 34 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.29%) Simulink
7 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.29%) Trello
8 4 (0.19%) InDesign
8 4 (0.19%) Mathcad
9 3 (0.14%) Blender
9 3 (0.14%) Maya
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) Notion
10 2 (0.096%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) SPSS
11 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 56 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.49%) Dynamics GP
3 28 (1.35%) Workfront
4 20 (0.96%) Adobe Campaign
5 17 (0.82%) NetSuite
5 17 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.34%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 7 (0.34%) Primavera
7 6 (0.29%) Actimize
7 6 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.14%) FastStats
10 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.14%) SAP R/3
11 1 (0.048%) Magento
11 1 (0.048%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.048%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 285 (13.74%) Azure
2 255 (12.30%) Power Platform
3 201 (9.69%) AWS
4 162 (7.81%) SaaS
5 83 (4.00%) GCP
6 71 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (2.22%) GitHub
7 46 (2.22%) Serverless
8 41 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (1.69%) iPaaS
10 32 (1.54%) Google Analytics
11 27 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (1.06%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (0.96%) Entra ID
16 19 (0.92%) Amazon S3
17 18 (0.87%) Figma
18 16 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.34%) Broadband
2 62 (2.99%) Network Security
3 57 (2.75%) Firewall
4 50 (2.41%) VLAN
5 15 (0.72%) 5G
6 9 (0.43%) Intranet
7 8 (0.39%) Unified Communications
7 8 (0.39%) WAN
8 7 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.34%) VPN
9 5 (0.24%) Internet
9 5 (0.24%) LAN
9 5 (0.24%) Wireless
10 4 (0.19%) SMS
11 3 (0.14%) BGP
11 3 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.14%) MPLS
11 3 (0.14%) OSPF
11 3 (0.14%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.14%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (11.23%) Power BI
2 89 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (3.66%) Metadata
4 45 (2.17%) Tableau
5 34 (1.64%) Data Lake
6 31 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 29 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 27 (1.30%) Looker
9 19 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.87%) Spark SQL
11 17 (0.82%) Big Data
12 16 (0.77%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.63%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.58%) MySQL
16 11 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (2.70%) Git
2 47 (2.27%) JIRA
3 14 (0.68%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.29%) GitLab
6 6 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.19%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.19%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.19%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.19%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.19%) MLflow
7 4 (0.19%) RStudio
7 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.14%) Maven
8 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.048%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.048%) Mocha
9 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 805 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 704 (33.94%) Finance
3 604 (29.12%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (15.62%) Marketing
5 241 (11.62%) Public Sector
6 225 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
8 145 (6.99%) Legal
9 130 (6.27%) Retail
10 115 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
11 110 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
12 86 (4.15%) Law
13 69 (3.33%) Manufacturing
14 59 (2.84%) Banking
15 46 (2.22%) Aerospace
16 40 (1.93%) Local Government
17 39 (1.88%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.69%) Games
19 29 (1.40%) Electronics
20 25 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 352 (16.97%) Senior
2 271 (13.07%) Analyst
3 243 (11.72%) Lead
4 154 (7.43%) Architect
5 109 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 85 (4.10%) Business Manager
6 85 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
7 82 (3.95%) Data Analyst
8 79 (3.81%) Development Manager
9 73 (3.52%) Developer
10 69 (3.33%) Business Development Manager
11 60 (2.89%) Consultant
12 57 (2.75%) IT Manager
13 51 (2.46%) Security Engineer
13 51 (2.46%) Senior Manager
13 51 (2.46%) Senior Security Engineer
14 46 (2.22%) Data Architect
15 44 (2.12%) Marketing Manager
15 44 (2.12%) Senior Architect
16 43 (2.07%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.12%) .NET
2 41 (1.98%) React
3 39 (1.88%) PySpark
4 34 (1.64%) Node.js
5 28 (1.35%) REST
6 27 (1.30%) Terraform
7 23 (1.11%) LangChain
8 16 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 15 (0.72%) RESTful
9 15 (0.72%) Spring
9 15 (0.72%) Spring Boot
10 11 (0.53%) AWS CDK
10 11 (0.53%) NestJS
10 11 (0.53%) Next.js
11 10 (0.48%) Django
11 10 (0.48%) FastAPI
11 10 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (0.48%) PyTorch
12 9 (0.43%) React Native
12 9 (0.43%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 128 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 125 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 121 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
4 96 (4.63%) Marketing Technology
5 86 (4.15%) Social Media
6 75 (3.62%) Cloud Native
7 62 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 56 (2.70%) Over-the-Top Content
9 49 (2.36%) AI Agents
10 42 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (1.98%) Driving Licence
12 40 (1.93%) Blog
12 40 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
13 37 (1.78%) Credit Risk
14 31 (1.49%) Security Posture
15 30 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
16 28 (1.35%) Web Conferencing
17 27 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
18 22 (1.06%) Data Centre
19 21 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (0.96%) Windows
2 13 (0.63%) Android
3 7 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.34%) Linux
4 6 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.048%) Unix
5 1 (0.048%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (25.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 477 (23.00%) Analytics
3 466 (22.47%) AI
4 451 (21.75%) Agile
5 442 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 401 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
7 343 (16.54%) Mentoring
8 316 (15.24%) Roadmaps
9 309 (14.90%) Business Intelligence
10 307 (14.80%) Coaching
11 286 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 260 (12.54%) CRM
13 239 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
14 208 (10.03%) Project Delivery
15 191 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
15 191 (9.21%) Business Development
16 186 (8.97%) CI/CD
17 177 (8.53%) Data Modelling
18 166 (8.00%) Risk Management
19 163 (7.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 338 (16.30%) SQL
2 240 (11.57%) Python
3 53 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 46 (2.22%) C#
5 44 (2.12%) Java
6 43 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 23 (1.11%) C++
8 21 (1.01%) R
9 20 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (0.53%) Bicep
12 10 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.48%) VBA
13 9 (0.43%) Bash
14 7 (0.34%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.34%) Ruby
15 6 (0.29%) C
15 6 (0.29%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 199 (9.59%) Degree
2 187 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 159 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 93 (4.48%) ACCA
5 90 (4.34%) CIMA
6 67 (3.23%) DBS Check
7 40 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (1.78%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 31 (1.49%) CISSP
11 28 (1.35%) CISM
12 27 (1.30%) PMP
13 21 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 19 (0.92%) CIPD
14 19 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.68%) ICAEW
17 13 (0.63%) AAT
18 12 (0.58%) Azure Certification
18 12 (0.58%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 99 (4.77%) GDPR
4 68 (3.28%) QA
5 54 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.31%) PMO
7 34 (1.64%) NIST
8 31 (1.49%) GRC
9 29 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (1.21%) SLA
11 16 (0.77%) WCAG
12 15 (0.72%) IFRS
13 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.43%) COBIT
15 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.29%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.29%) NCSC
16 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (2.03%) Docker
2 15 (0.72%) Firmware
3 11 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.29%) vSphere
6 2 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.048%) GPFS
7 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.048%) Lustre
7 1 (0.048%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.43%) Grafana
3 6 (0.29%) CASB
3 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.19%) Nmap
5 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.096%) Ansible
6 2 (0.096%) Argo
6 2 (0.096%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.096%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.048%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.048%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 305 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 75 (3.62%) Adobe
3 68 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 61 (2.94%) Google
5 51 (2.46%) Databricks
6 47 (2.27%) SAP
6 47 (2.27%) YouTube
7 33 (1.59%) Oracle
8 23 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.06%) HubSpot
10 14 (0.68%) Informatica
11 12 (0.58%) VMware
12 11 (0.53%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.48%) Sage
14 9 (0.43%) Foundry
14 9 (0.43%) Workday
15 8 (0.39%) Cisco
15 8 (0.39%) EMC
16 7 (0.34%) Xero
17 6 (0.29%) ScienceLogic