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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 62 55
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 -8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,042 620 1,536
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.22% 4.84% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 5.10% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 598 392 1,087
10th Percentile £38,535 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.14% -1.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,958 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,950 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -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 14,015 12,148 28,480
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.70% 94.82% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,753 8,786 23,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,754
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £42,500
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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 1 April 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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 26 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.30%) CMS
4 14 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.77%) SAS
7 6 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.38%) Apache
8 4 (0.38%) nginx
8 4 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 131 (12.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (3.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.77%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.38%) Trello
8 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.096%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.02%) Adobe Campaign
2 19 (1.82%) Workfront
3 15 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (1.15%) Shopify
5 9 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.29%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.19%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.096%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.096%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.096%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 217 (20.83%) Azure
2 177 (16.99%) Power Platform
3 102 (9.79%) AWS
4 86 (8.25%) SaaS
5 66 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 46 (4.41%) GCP
8 35 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 34 (3.26%) GitHub
9 34 (3.26%) iPaaS
10 32 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (2.21%) Serverless
13 20 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (1.63%) Figma
15 16 (1.54%) Contentsquare
15 16 (1.54%) Snowflake
16 15 (1.44%) Adobe Analytics
16 15 (1.44%) PaaS
17 13 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 120 (11.52%) Broadband
2 5 (0.48%) Internet
2 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.29%) DNS
3 3 (0.29%) Firewall
3 3 (0.29%) Modbus
3 3 (0.29%) SSL
4 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.096%) ADSL
5 1 (0.096%) DSL
5 1 (0.096%) Intranet
5 1 (0.096%) NAS
5 1 (0.096%) Network Security
5 1 (0.096%) NGFW
5 1 (0.096%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.096%) VPN
5 1 (0.096%) WAN
5 1 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (16.12%) Power BI
2 63 (6.05%) Metadata
3 61 (5.85%) SQL Server
4 52 (4.99%) Tableau
5 44 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (2.21%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.44%) MySQL
9 15 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.34%) Power Query
11 12 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (1.06%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (0.86%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (0.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (2.21%) JIRA
2 12 (1.15%) Git
3 8 (0.77%) JMeter
4 7 (0.67%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.67%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.58%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.58%) Locust
6 4 (0.38%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.38%) ERwin
6 4 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.38%) Vite
7 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.29%) MLflow
7 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.19%) GitLab
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.19%) Storybook
8 2 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 454 (43.57%) Social Skills
2 379 (36.37%) Finance
3 339 (32.53%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (14.97%) Marketing
5 97 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 85 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (7.39%) Presentation Skills
8 68 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (5.57%) Retail
10 55 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
11 54 (5.18%) Legal
12 49 (4.70%) Games
13 40 (3.84%) Manufacturing
14 38 (3.65%) Law
15 34 (3.26%) Advertising
16 31 (2.98%) Banking
17 20 (1.92%) Local Government
18 15 (1.44%) Publishing
19 14 (1.34%) Billing
20 11 (1.06%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 181 (17.37%) Analyst
2 147 (14.11%) Senior
3 94 (9.02%) Lead
4 72 (6.91%) Architect
5 51 (4.89%) Senior Manager
6 48 (4.61%) Data Engineer
7 42 (4.03%) Financial Analyst
8 41 (3.93%) Developer
9 38 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.45%) Product Owner
11 34 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (3.17%) Consultant
12 33 (3.17%) Data Analyst
13 29 (2.78%) Report Analyst
14 26 (2.50%) Product Manager
15 24 (2.30%) Engineering Manager
16 23 (2.21%) Business Manager
16 23 (2.21%) Sales Executive
17 22 (2.11%) Development Manager
18 21 (2.02%) Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.30%) React
2 22 (2.11%) .NET
3 16 (1.54%) CSS
3 16 (1.54%) HTML
4 11 (1.06%) REST
4 11 (1.06%) XML
5 10 (0.96%) Flash
5 10 (0.96%) LangChain
6 9 (0.86%) Kafka
7 8 (0.77%) AngularJS
7 8 (0.77%) RESTful
8 7 (0.67%) AWS CDK
8 7 (0.67%) JSON
8 7 (0.67%) Middleware
8 7 (0.67%) Next.js
8 7 (0.67%) PySpark
8 7 (0.67%) Spring
8 7 (0.67%) TensorFlow
8 7 (0.67%) Vue
9 6 (0.58%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 98 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 83 (7.97%) Social Media
3 79 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
4 68 (6.53%) Marketing Technology
5 57 (5.47%) Onboarding
6 54 (5.18%) Over-the-Top Content
7 53 (5.09%) Cloud Native
8 44 (4.22%) Management Information System
9 36 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (3.17%) Virtual Team
11 24 (2.30%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.63%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.63%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.54%) PMI
15 11 (1.06%) GNSS
15 11 (1.06%) Satnav
16 8 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.69%) Android
2 26 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.54%) Windows
4 8 (0.77%) Linux
5 6 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (31.09%) Analytics
2 291 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
3 240 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 236 (22.65%) AI
5 233 (22.36%) Agile
6 216 (20.73%) Roadmaps
7 200 (19.19%) Business Intelligence
8 139 (13.34%) Mentoring
9 136 (13.05%) Project Management
10 133 (12.76%) Customer Experience
11 132 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 110 (10.56%) CRM
13 109 (10.46%) CI/CD
14 105 (10.08%) Data Modelling
15 104 (9.98%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 103 (9.88%) Visualisation
17 98 (9.40%) Data Analysis
18 97 (9.31%) Actionable Insight
19 93 (8.93%) Coaching
20 89 (8.54%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 162 (15.55%) SQL
2 138 (13.24%) Python
3 34 (3.26%) Java
4 30 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (1.92%) C#
5 20 (1.92%) R
5 20 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 18 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 10 (0.96%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.86%) VBA
9 7 (0.67%) PHP
10 5 (0.48%) Bash
10 5 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.38%) Bicep
11 4 (0.38%) C++
11 4 (0.38%) Scala
12 2 (0.19%) C
12 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.096%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 163 (15.64%) Degree
2 103 (9.88%) ACCA
3 102 (9.79%) CIMA
4 62 (5.95%) Security Cleared
5 43 (4.13%) DBS Check
6 42 (4.03%) SC Cleared
7 37 (3.55%) Master's Degree
8 30 (2.88%) PMI Certification
9 27 (2.59%) AAT
10 22 (2.11%) CISSP
11 19 (1.82%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.34%) PMP
14 12 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.15%) CISM
14 12 (1.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.96%) CEH
16 10 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 70 (6.72%) Accessibility
3 56 (5.37%) QA
4 54 (5.18%) GDPR
5 30 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 26 (2.50%) GRC
7 22 (2.11%) WCAG
8 21 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (1.34%) NIST
9 14 (1.34%) P3O
10 13 (1.25%) PMO
11 12 (1.15%) ISO 9001
11 12 (1.15%) NCSC
12 11 (1.06%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.67%) GAAP
14 6 (0.58%) IFRS
15 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.38%) SLA
17 2 (0.19%) ISO 26262
17 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (2.21%) Docker
2 6 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (2.30%) Terraform
2 22 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.34%) Grafana
4 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.67%) Nmap
5 4 (0.38%) SCCM
6 3 (0.29%) Argo
6 3 (0.29%) Control-M
6 3 (0.29%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.19%) Ansible
7 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.19%) Packer
7 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) Salt
8 1 (0.096%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 159 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.29%) Adobe
3 54 (5.18%) Databricks
4 43 (4.13%) SAP
5 37 (3.55%) Google
6 33 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 27 (2.59%) Oracle
8 23 (2.21%) HubSpot
8 23 (2.21%) Sage
9 22 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.15%) Informatica
11 11 (1.06%) Foundry
12 8 (0.77%) Autodesk
12 8 (0.77%) Cisco
12 8 (0.77%) Workday
13 7 (0.67%) IBM
14 6 (0.58%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.58%) Talend
14 6 (0.58%) Xero