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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 73 41
Rank change year-on-year +46 -32 +7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,480 749 1,889
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.16% 4.74% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 5.05% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 931 457 1,035
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £34,943
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £53,262
% change year-on-year - +12.65% -10.52%

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 16,995 14,837 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 93.93% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,422 8,708 22,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £75,250
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% -9.09%

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 30 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 (3.04%) Confluence
2 38 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.30%) CMS
4 14 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.34%) WordPress
9 4 (0.27%) Apache
9 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.068%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.068%) Appian
11 1 (0.068%) Drupal
11 1 (0.068%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.068%) Resin
11 1 (0.068%) Umbraco
Applications
1 112 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.41%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.20%) Blender
8 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.20%) Maya
Business Applications
1 39 (2.64%) Workfront
2 34 (2.30%) Adobe Campaign
3 20 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.41%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.34%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 4 (0.27%) Shopify
9 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 273 (18.45%) Azure
2 177 (11.96%) Power Platform
3 162 (10.95%) AWS
4 120 (8.11%) SaaS
5 62 (4.19%) GCP
6 53 (3.58%) iPaaS
7 46 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 38 (2.57%) Serverless
11 31 (2.09%) GitHub
12 27 (1.82%) Figma
13 26 (1.76%) Adobe Analytics
14 25 (1.69%) Contentsquare
15 23 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (1.42%) Entra ID
17 20 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
18 19 (1.28%) PaaS
19 17 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
20 15 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 178 (12.03%) Broadband
2 21 (1.42%) Network Security
3 19 (1.28%) Firewall
4 12 (0.81%) VLAN
5 8 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.54%) VPN
6 5 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.34%) WAN
7 4 (0.27%) DNS
7 4 (0.27%) LAN
8 3 (0.20%) BGP
8 3 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.20%) Internet
8 3 (0.20%) Modbus
8 3 (0.20%) MPLS
8 3 (0.20%) OSPF
8 3 (0.20%) SSL
8 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (10.81%) Power BI
2 80 (5.41%) Metadata
3 54 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (2.70%) Tableau
5 36 (2.43%) SQL Server
6 32 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.01%) MySQL
11 14 (0.95%) Big Data
11 14 (0.95%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.95%) Oracle Database
12 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.68%) Looker
14 9 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
15 8 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (2.84%) JIRA
2 31 (2.09%) Git
3 10 (0.68%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.47%) 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 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.14%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 510 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 423 (28.58%) Finance
3 390 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (14.26%) Marketing
5 133 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 128 (8.65%) Public Sector
7 102 (6.89%) Influencing Skills
8 82 (5.54%) Legal
9 81 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (5.34%) Retail
11 74 (5.00%) Games
12 54 (3.65%) Law
13 42 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 36 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (2.30%) Local Government
16 27 (1.82%) Banking
17 21 (1.42%) Advertising
18 19 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.28%) Publishing
19 13 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 255 (17.23%) Senior
2 215 (14.53%) Analyst
3 158 (10.68%) Lead
4 106 (7.16%) Architect
5 68 (4.59%) Data Engineer
5 68 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
6 64 (4.32%) Data Analyst
7 60 (4.05%) Senior Manager
8 57 (3.85%) Product Owner
9 55 (3.72%) Consultant
9 55 (3.72%) Developer
10 51 (3.45%) Development Manager
11 42 (2.84%) Product Manager
12 38 (2.57%) Business Manager
13 36 (2.43%) Business Analyst
13 36 (2.43%) Campaign Manager
14 33 (2.23%) Business Development Manager
15 30 (2.03%) Engineering Manager
16 29 (1.96%) Data Architect
17 28 (1.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (3.18%) React
2 31 (2.09%) .NET
3 29 (1.96%) LangChain
4 24 (1.62%) REST
5 18 (1.22%) Node.js
6 17 (1.15%) CSS
7 16 (1.08%) HTML
7 16 (1.08%) Next.js
8 15 (1.01%) AWS CDK
9 14 (0.95%) RESTful
9 14 (0.95%) XML
10 13 (0.88%) Spring
11 11 (0.74%) PyTorch
11 11 (0.74%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.74%) TensorFlow
12 10 (0.68%) Kafka
12 10 (0.68%) Vue
13 9 (0.61%) LangGraph
14 8 (0.54%) LlamaIndex
14 8 (0.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 119 (8.04%) Social Media
3 103 (6.96%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (5.95%) Over-the-Top Content
5 72 (4.86%) Cloud Native
6 66 (4.46%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.72%) Onboarding
8 52 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (2.97%) AI Agents
10 36 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (2.09%) Mobile App
12 29 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.35%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.35%) Credit Risk
17 18 (1.22%) Driving Licence
17 18 (1.22%) PMI
18 16 (1.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.30%) Android
2 29 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.49%) Windows
4 7 (0.47%) Linux
5 6 (0.41%) VMS
5 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.068%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (25.95%) Agile
2 353 (23.85%) Roadmaps
3 344 (23.24%) AI
3 344 (23.24%) Analytics
4 325 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 324 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 259 (17.50%) Mentoring
7 230 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 191 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
9 177 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 159 (10.74%) CI/CD
11 151 (10.20%) Coaching
12 150 (10.14%) Customer Experience
13 146 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
13 146 (9.86%) Data Modelling
14 145 (9.80%) Project Management
15 141 (9.53%) CRM
16 131 (8.85%) DevOps
17 122 (8.24%) Actionable Insight
18 117 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 200 (13.51%) SQL
2 192 (12.97%) Python
3 40 (2.70%) TypeScript
4 37 (2.50%) C#
4 37 (2.50%) Java
5 33 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.28%) R
7 11 (0.74%) Bash
7 11 (0.74%) Bicep
7 11 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (0.74%) PowerShell
7 11 (0.74%) VBA
8 9 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (0.47%) C++
10 5 (0.34%) Ruby
11 4 (0.27%) PHP
11 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.14%) C
13 2 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 181 (12.23%) Degree
2 103 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.54%) ACCA
4 80 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 79 (5.34%) CIMA
6 58 (3.92%) DBS Check
7 45 (3.04%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.43%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.82%) CISSP
9 27 (1.82%) PMP
10 23 (1.55%) AAT
10 23 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 20 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.28%) CISM
13 17 (1.15%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.95%) CIPD
14 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 85 (5.74%) GDPR
4 76 (5.14%) QA
5 41 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.16%) GRC
7 30 (2.03%) WCAG
8 25 (1.69%) NIST
9 23 (1.55%) PMO
10 21 (1.42%) SLA
11 17 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.81%) IFRS
12 12 (0.81%) NCSC
12 12 (0.81%) P3O
13 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.47%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (2.57%) Docker
2 15 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.47%) 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 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.068%) GPFS
8 1 (0.068%) Lustre
8 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.89%) Terraform
3 17 (1.15%) Grafana
4 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.41%) Nmap
6 4 (0.27%) Argo
6 4 (0.27%) SCCM
7 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.068%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 211 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 119 (8.04%) Adobe
3 46 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 43 (2.91%) Databricks
5 42 (2.84%) Google
6 36 (2.43%) SAP
7 29 (1.96%) Oracle
8 18 (1.22%) HubSpot
8 18 (1.22%) Sage
9 17 (1.15%) Foundry
10 16 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.74%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.68%) Informatica
12 10 (0.68%) Xero
13 8 (0.54%) Cisco
13 8 (0.54%) VMware
14 7 (0.47%) Workday
15 6 (0.41%) Ariba
15 6 (0.41%) BMC
15 6 (0.41%) ScienceLogic