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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 63 36
Rank change year-on-year +32 -27 +7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,107 650 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.10% 4.83% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 5.09% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 654 397 1,123
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £34,924
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £83,438 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,125 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,484 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.95% +18.18% -8.33%

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 15,018 12,758 29,714
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.78% 94.74% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,546 8,888 23,579
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,794
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 May 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 37 (3.34%) CMS
2 35 (3.16%) Confluence
2 35 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.36%) nginx
6 4 (0.36%) WordPress
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache
8 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.090%) Drupal
9 1 (0.090%) Jupyter
Applications
1 102 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (3.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.72%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.07%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (1.81%) Workfront
3 16 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.72%) Shopify
6 5 (0.45%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 5 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.27%) ResourceLink
8 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.090%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.090%) Magento
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.090%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 197 (17.80%) Azure
2 153 (13.82%) Power Platform
3 100 (9.03%) AWS
4 87 (7.86%) SaaS
5 41 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 41 (3.70%) GCP
6 35 (3.16%) iPaaS
7 33 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (2.53%) Serverless
10 27 (2.44%) Figma
11 26 (2.35%) Contentsquare
12 25 (2.26%) Adobe Analytics
12 25 (2.26%) GitHub
13 24 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.26%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 150 (13.55%) Broadband
2 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.36%) Firewall
3 4 (0.36%) Internet
4 3 (0.27%) DNS
4 3 (0.27%) Modbus
4 3 (0.27%) Network Security
4 3 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.090%) ADSL
6 1 (0.090%) DSL
6 1 (0.090%) Intranet
6 1 (0.090%) NAS
6 1 (0.090%) NGFW
6 1 (0.090%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.090%) VPN
6 1 (0.090%) WAN
6 1 (0.090%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (13.10%) Power BI
2 58 (5.24%) Metadata
3 44 (3.97%) Tableau
4 37 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 12 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.99%) MySQL
12 9 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.72%) Looker
14 7 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.63%) Big Data
14 7 (0.63%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.63%) Power Query
14 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (2.17%) JIRA
2 17 (1.54%) Git
3 8 (0.72%) JMeter
4 6 (0.54%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.54%) Locust
5 4 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.36%) Vite
6 3 (0.27%) GitLab
6 3 (0.27%) MLflow
7 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.18%) NUnit
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.18%) Selenium
7 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.18%) Storybook
7 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 392 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 357 (32.25%) Finance
3 323 (29.18%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (16.17%) Marketing
5 109 (9.85%) Public Sector
6 87 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 69 (6.23%) Games
9 65 (5.87%) Legal
10 59 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (4.34%) Retail
12 43 (3.88%) Law
13 35 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (2.62%) Banking
15 28 (2.53%) Advertising
15 28 (2.53%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.72%) Local Government
17 18 (1.63%) Publishing
18 11 (0.99%) Multimedia
19 10 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 182 (16.44%) Analyst
2 179 (16.17%) Senior
3 116 (10.48%) Lead
4 59 (5.33%) Senior Manager
5 58 (5.24%) Architect
6 56 (5.06%) Data Engineer
7 43 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
8 40 (3.61%) Developer
9 39 (3.52%) Product Manager
10 37 (3.34%) Financial Analyst
10 37 (3.34%) Product Owner
11 35 (3.16%) Business Analyst
11 35 (3.16%) Data Analyst
12 34 (3.07%) Campaign Manager
13 31 (2.80%) Consultant
14 29 (2.62%) Development Manager
15 25 (2.26%) Engineering Manager
16 23 (2.08%) Report Analyst
17 22 (1.99%) Accountant
17 22 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.53%) React
2 22 (1.99%) .NET
3 17 (1.54%) CSS
3 17 (1.54%) HTML
4 15 (1.36%) XML
5 14 (1.26%) LangChain
5 14 (1.26%) REST
6 12 (1.08%) Middleware
7 11 (0.99%) AWS CDK
7 11 (0.99%) Next.js
8 8 (0.72%) Kafka
8 8 (0.72%) PySpark
8 8 (0.72%) RESTful
9 7 (0.63%) EDI
9 7 (0.63%) JSON
9 7 (0.63%) TensorFlow
9 7 (0.63%) Vue
10 6 (0.54%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.54%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 117 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 92 (8.31%) Social Media
3 82 (7.41%) Marketing Technology
4 68 (6.14%) Over-the-Top Content
5 61 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 51 (4.61%) Cloud Native
7 47 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (3.61%) Management Information System
9 27 (2.44%) Mobile App
10 23 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.63%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.54%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.54%) PMI
14 16 (1.45%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.36%) Driving Licence
16 14 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.80%) Android
2 29 (2.62%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.17%) Windows
4 8 (0.72%) Linux
5 6 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (26.38%) Analytics
2 273 (24.66%) Agile
3 255 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 254 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
5 244 (22.04%) Roadmaps
6 234 (21.14%) AI
7 177 (15.99%) Mentoring
8 169 (15.27%) Business Intelligence
9 149 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 141 (12.74%) Customer Experience
11 127 (11.47%) Coaching
12 123 (11.11%) Project Management
13 112 (10.12%) CI/CD
14 110 (9.94%) CRM
15 99 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 95 (8.58%) Data Modelling
17 93 (8.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 91 (8.22%) Digital Marketing
19 90 (8.13%) Data Management
20 88 (7.95%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 140 (12.65%) SQL
2 137 (12.38%) Python
3 31 (2.80%) Java
4 22 (1.99%) TypeScript
5 21 (1.90%) C#
5 21 (1.90%) R
6 19 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.99%) VBA
8 8 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.63%) PHP
10 5 (0.45%) Bash
10 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.36%) Bicep
11 4 (0.36%) Scala
12 2 (0.18%) C
12 2 (0.18%) C++
12 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.090%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.090%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 149 (13.46%) Degree
2 104 (9.39%) ACCA
3 103 (9.30%) CIMA
4 68 (6.14%) Security Cleared
5 46 (4.16%) SC Cleared
6 42 (3.79%) DBS Check
7 37 (3.34%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.89%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.99%) AAT
10 18 (1.63%) CISSP
11 15 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.36%) PMP
12 13 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.99%) CISM
14 10 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (0.90%) PhD
15 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.81%) CIPD
16 8 (0.72%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 86 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 59 (5.33%) GDPR
3 59 (5.33%) QA
4 32 (2.89%) WCAG
5 27 (2.44%) GRC
6 25 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.63%) NIST
8 16 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (1.17%) P3O
10 11 (0.99%) NCSC
11 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.90%) PMO
12 9 (0.81%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.63%) GAAP
14 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.54%) IFRS
15 4 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.36%) SLA
16 3 (0.27%) TickIT
System Software
1 21 (1.90%) Docker
2 6 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (1.72%) Kubernetes
1 19 (1.72%) Terraform
2 16 (1.45%) Grafana
3 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.36%) Nmap
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.27%) Argo
5 3 (0.27%) Control-M
5 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.18%) Packer
6 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) Salt
7 1 (0.090%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 170 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.03%) Adobe
3 44 (3.97%) Databricks
4 40 (3.61%) SAP
5 36 (3.25%) Google
6 31 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.53%) Oracle
8 23 (2.08%) Sage
9 22 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.81%) HubSpot
11 11 (0.99%) Workday
12 10 (0.90%) Foundry
13 9 (0.81%) Xero
14 8 (0.72%) BMC
14 8 (0.72%) Informatica
14 8 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.54%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.54%) Ariba
15 6 (0.54%) Talend
16 5 (0.45%) Cisco