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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 77 39
Rank change year-on-year +50 -38 +9
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,453 731 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 4.70% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 4.98% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 914 436 1,054
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,068
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +4.49% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,784 £75,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,375 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,151
% change year-on-year - +10.80% -9.08%

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 16,750 14,693 30,457
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.39% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12,187 8,560 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,969 £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 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 24 June 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 45 (3.10%) Confluence
2 37 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.41%) CMS
4 14 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.34%) WordPress
9 4 (0.28%) Apache
9 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.28%) SAS
10 3 (0.21%) nginx
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.069%) Drupal
12 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.069%) Resin
12 1 (0.069%) Umbraco
Applications
1 112 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 31 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.34%) Trello
9 4 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.21%) Blender
10 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.21%) Maya
Business Applications
1 39 (2.68%) Workfront
2 34 (2.34%) Adobe Campaign
3 19 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.62%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.34%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 5 (0.34%) Shopify
8 3 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 272 (18.72%) Azure
2 178 (12.25%) Power Platform
3 161 (11.08%) AWS
4 116 (7.98%) SaaS
5 60 (4.13%) GCP
6 53 (3.65%) iPaaS
7 44 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 40 (2.75%) Serverless
10 32 (2.20%) GitHub
11 27 (1.86%) Figma
12 26 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
13 25 (1.72%) Contentsquare
14 22 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (1.38%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.31%) PaaS
17 18 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
18 17 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
19 15 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 178 (12.25%) Broadband
2 14 (0.96%) Network Security
3 12 (0.83%) Firewall
4 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.55%) VPN
5 5 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.34%) VLAN
5 5 (0.34%) WAN
6 4 (0.28%) DNS
6 4 (0.28%) LAN
7 3 (0.21%) BGP
7 3 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.21%) Internet
7 3 (0.21%) Modbus
7 3 (0.21%) MPLS
7 3 (0.21%) OSPF
7 3 (0.21%) SSL
7 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
8 2 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (11.08%) Power BI
2 78 (5.37%) Metadata
3 52 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (2.82%) Tableau
5 37 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 31 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.10%) MySQL
9 15 (1.03%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.96%) Big Data
10 14 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.76%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.69%) Looker
13 9 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
14 8 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.89%) JIRA
2 31 (2.13%) Git
3 10 (0.69%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.48%) JMeter
5 6 (0.41%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.41%) GitLab
5 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.34%) Locust
6 5 (0.34%) MLflow
7 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.21%) Vite
9 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 495 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 425 (29.25%) Finance
3 392 (26.98%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (14.38%) Marketing
5 132 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 126 (8.67%) Public Sector
7 101 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
8 81 (5.57%) Legal
9 80 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (5.44%) Retail
11 74 (5.09%) Games
12 53 (3.65%) Law
13 40 (2.75%) Manufacturing
14 35 (2.41%) Local Government
14 35 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.93%) Banking
16 21 (1.45%) Advertising
17 19 (1.31%) Publishing
18 18 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (16.59%) Senior
2 216 (14.87%) Analyst
3 158 (10.87%) Lead
4 101 (6.95%) Architect
5 67 (4.61%) Data Engineer
5 67 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
6 64 (4.40%) Data Analyst
7 60 (4.13%) Senior Manager
8 58 (3.99%) Product Owner
9 54 (3.72%) Developer
10 52 (3.58%) Consultant
11 46 (3.17%) Development Manager
12 41 (2.82%) Product Manager
13 36 (2.48%) Business Analyst
13 36 (2.48%) Campaign Manager
14 34 (2.34%) Business Manager
15 29 (2.00%) Business Development Manager
15 29 (2.00%) Software Engineer
16 28 (1.93%) Engineering Manager
17 27 (1.86%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.17%) React
2 31 (2.13%) .NET
3 29 (2.00%) LangChain
4 23 (1.58%) REST
5 19 (1.31%) Node.js
6 18 (1.24%) CSS
7 17 (1.17%) HTML
8 16 (1.10%) Next.js
9 15 (1.03%) AWS CDK
9 15 (1.03%) RESTful
10 14 (0.96%) XML
11 13 (0.89%) Spring
12 11 (0.76%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.76%) Spring Boot
12 11 (0.76%) TensorFlow
13 10 (0.69%) Kafka
13 10 (0.69%) Vue
14 9 (0.62%) LangGraph
15 8 (0.55%) .NET Core
15 8 (0.55%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 119 (8.19%) Social Media
3 103 (7.09%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (6.06%) Over-the-Top Content
5 73 (5.02%) Cloud Native
6 64 (4.40%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.79%) Onboarding
8 52 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (2.75%) AI Agents
10 35 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (2.06%) Mobile App
12 29 (2.00%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.45%) Algorithms
17 20 (1.38%) Credit Risk
18 18 (1.24%) Data Structures
18 18 (1.24%) PMI
19 17 (1.17%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.27%) Android
2 29 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.51%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Linux
5 6 (0.41%) VMS
5 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.069%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (25.95%) Agile
2 351 (24.16%) Roadmaps
3 344 (23.68%) Analytics
4 331 (22.78%) AI
5 323 (22.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 323 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
6 251 (17.27%) Mentoring
7 221 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 192 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
9 169 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 158 (10.87%) CI/CD
11 150 (10.32%) Customer Experience
12 149 (10.25%) Coaching
13 141 (9.70%) Data Modelling
14 140 (9.64%) Project Management
15 137 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
16 136 (9.36%) CRM
17 128 (8.81%) DevOps
18 122 (8.40%) Actionable Insight
19 114 (7.85%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 202 (13.90%) SQL
2 190 (13.08%) Python
3 41 (2.82%) TypeScript
4 36 (2.48%) Java
5 35 (2.41%) C#
6 34 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.38%) R
8 12 (0.83%) Bash
9 11 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 10 (0.69%) Bicep
10 10 (0.69%) VBA
11 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.48%) C++
13 5 (0.34%) PHP
13 5 (0.34%) Ruby
14 4 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.14%) C
15 2 (0.14%) Formula Language
15 2 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 180 (12.39%) Degree
2 99 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 85 (5.85%) ACCA
4 82 (5.64%) CIMA
5 78 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 57 (3.92%) DBS Check
7 43 (2.96%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.86%) CISSP
10 25 (1.72%) PMP
11 23 (1.58%) AAT
12 20 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 20 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.31%) CISM
14 18 (1.24%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.83%) CIPD
17 10 (0.69%) PhD
18 9 (0.62%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (10.74%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 85 (5.85%) GDPR
4 78 (5.37%) QA
5 39 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (2.13%) WCAG
7 30 (2.06%) GRC
8 25 (1.72%) NIST
9 23 (1.58%) PMO
10 21 (1.45%) SLA
11 17 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.83%) IFRS
12 12 (0.83%) NCSC
12 12 (0.83%) P3O
13 10 (0.69%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.55%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.28%) GAAP
15 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (2.68%) Docker
2 15 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.41%) vSphere
6 5 (0.34%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.069%) GPFS
8 1 (0.069%) Lustre
8 1 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.86%) Terraform
3 17 (1.17%) Grafana
4 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.41%) Nmap
6 4 (0.28%) Argo
6 4 (0.28%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.14%) Ansible
8 2 (0.14%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.14%) Salt
9 1 (0.069%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 207 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 119 (8.19%) Adobe
3 45 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 42 (2.89%) Databricks
5 40 (2.75%) Google
6 36 (2.48%) SAP
7 28 (1.93%) Oracle
8 19 (1.31%) Sage
9 18 (1.24%) HubSpot
10 16 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.03%) Foundry
12 11 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.69%) Informatica
13 10 (0.69%) Xero
14 8 (0.55%) Cisco
14 8 (0.55%) VMware
15 7 (0.48%) Workday
16 6 (0.41%) Ariba
16 6 (0.41%) BMC
16 6 (0.41%) ScienceLogic