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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 812 826 979
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.34% 4.83% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 5.20% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 499 418 619
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £35,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,608 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +2.74% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,958 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,990 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.17% +18.18% -10.57%

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 13,452 15,895 19,293
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.53% 93.01% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 9,528 15,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 December 2025.

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 21 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.48%) Confluence
3 9 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.86%) CMS
4 7 (0.86%) SAS
5 4 (0.49%) Apache
5 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.25%) nginx
6 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 146 (17.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.65%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.49%) Trello
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Revit
7 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.72%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.99%) Shopify
4 6 (0.74%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.49%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.49%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.37%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.37%) SAP PS
8 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.25%) Magento
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Primavera
9 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 169 (20.81%) Power Platform
2 146 (17.98%) Azure
3 85 (10.47%) SaaS
4 58 (7.14%) AWS
5 45 (5.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 44 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (3.20%) GitHub
10 21 (2.59%) GCP
11 18 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.97%) PaaS
12 16 (1.97%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (1.60%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.35%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.35%) Serverless
17 10 (1.23%) PowerApps
18 8 (0.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.74%) Internet
2 4 (0.49%) Broadband
3 2 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.25%) Network Security
3 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) ADSL
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) Intranet
4 1 (0.12%) LAN
4 1 (0.12%) SAN
4 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (19.46%) Power BI
2 49 (6.03%) Tableau
3 48 (5.91%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (4.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 25 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.96%) Power Query
8 22 (2.71%) Metadata
9 14 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
10 11 (1.35%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.35%) MySQL
11 10 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
11 10 (1.23%) GIS
11 10 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.86%) QlikView
15 6 (0.74%) Looker
15 6 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 19 (2.34%) JIRA
2 5 (0.62%) Burp Suite
2 5 (0.62%) Git
2 5 (0.62%) Metasploit
3 4 (0.49%) ER Studio
3 4 (0.49%) ERwin
3 4 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (0.49%) Toad
4 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.25%) GitLab
5 2 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.25%) Selenium
5 2 (0.25%) Storybook
5 2 (0.25%) Vite
6 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.12%) Locust
6 1 (0.12%) MLflow
6 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.12%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 381 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 365 (44.95%) Finance
3 318 (39.16%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (11.21%) Marketing
5 85 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 80 (9.85%) Presentation Skills
7 59 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (5.91%) Legal
10 45 (5.54%) Manufacturing
11 42 (5.17%) Retail
12 32 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.83%) Banking
14 21 (2.59%) Advertising
14 21 (2.59%) Law
15 16 (1.97%) Local Government
16 14 (1.72%) Billing
17 11 (1.35%) French Language
18 9 (1.11%) Automotive
18 9 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 174 (21.43%) Analyst
2 110 (13.55%) Senior
3 68 (8.37%) Lead
4 67 (8.25%) Architect
5 58 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
6 48 (5.91%) Developer
7 41 (5.05%) Consultant
8 35 (4.31%) Data Engineer
9 34 (4.19%) Business Manager
9 34 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
10 33 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.69%) Data Analyst
12 29 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 29 (3.57%) Sales Executive
13 28 (3.45%) Senior Manager
14 25 (3.08%) Business Analyst
15 24 (2.96%) Development Manager
16 22 (2.71%) Product Manager
17 20 (2.46%) HR Advisor
17 20 (2.46%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.60%) Flash
1 13 (1.60%) REST
2 10 (1.23%) .NET
2 10 (1.23%) Middleware
2 10 (1.23%) React
3 9 (1.11%) SOAP
4 8 (0.99%) Blazor
4 8 (0.99%) CSS
4 8 (0.99%) HTML
4 8 (0.99%) JSON
4 8 (0.99%) PySpark
5 6 (0.74%) Kafka
5 6 (0.74%) OAuth
5 6 (0.74%) Spring
5 6 (0.74%) Spring Boot
6 5 (0.62%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.62%) RESTful
6 5 (0.62%) XML
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.33%) Self-Motivation
2 48 (5.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 45 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 41 (5.05%) Cloud Native
5 37 (4.56%) Management Information System
6 35 (4.31%) Product Ownership
7 27 (3.33%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.72%) Social Media
9 13 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
10 12 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.35%) Life Science
12 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.11%) Digital Media
14 8 (0.99%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.86%) IoT
15 7 (0.86%) NHS
16 6 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.11%) Windows
2 6 (0.74%) Linux
3 5 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.49%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (30.91%) Analytics
2 249 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
3 207 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 181 (22.29%) Business Intelligence
5 143 (17.61%) AI
6 139 (17.12%) Agile
7 116 (14.29%) Visualisation
8 109 (13.42%) CRM
9 106 (13.05%) Data Analysis
10 102 (12.56%) Actionable Insight
10 102 (12.56%) Roadmaps
11 88 (10.84%) Project Management
12 82 (10.10%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 82 (10.10%) ERP
13 80 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 79 (9.73%) DevOps
15 78 (9.61%) Process Improvement
16 75 (9.24%) B2B
17 72 (8.87%) Data Visualisation
18 63 (7.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 183 (22.54%) SQL
2 115 (14.16%) Python
3 36 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 22 (2.71%) R
5 20 (2.46%) VBA
6 18 (2.22%) Java
7 15 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.48%) C#
9 10 (1.23%) Scala
9 10 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.11%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.74%) Bash
12 6 (0.74%) C++
12 6 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.49%) PHP
13 4 (0.49%) VB
14 2 (0.25%) ABAP
14 2 (0.25%) Bicep
14 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 161 (19.83%) Degree
2 102 (12.56%) ACCA
2 102 (12.56%) CIMA
3 51 (6.28%) Security Cleared
4 41 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 34 (4.19%) DBS Check
6 26 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.46%) CISSP
8 19 (2.34%) AAT
8 19 (2.34%) CISM
9 16 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.48%) CISA
11 12 (1.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 10 (1.23%) CRISC
12 10 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.03%) GDPR
3 26 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.20%) QA
4 23 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 18 (2.22%) NIST
7 15 (1.85%) GRC
8 14 (1.72%) PMO
9 9 (1.11%) NCSC
10 7 (0.86%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.62%) COBIT
12 5 (0.62%) ITGC
13 4 (0.49%) GAAP
13 4 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.49%) SLA
14 3 (0.37%) IFRS
15 2 (0.25%) P3O
15 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (1.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) vSphere
3 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (2.22%) Terraform
2 12 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.62%) Nmap
4 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.37%) Control-M
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.12%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 157 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.14%) SAP
3 45 (5.54%) Databricks
4 37 (4.56%) Workday
5 36 (4.43%) Oracle
6 33 (4.06%) ServiceNow
7 26 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 25 (3.08%) Google
9 15 (1.85%) Sage
10 12 (1.48%) Autodesk
10 12 (1.48%) HubSpot
11 11 (1.35%) Adaptive Insights
12 10 (1.23%) IBM
13 8 (0.99%) Anaplan
14 6 (0.74%) Informatica
15 5 (0.62%) Cisco
15 5 (0.62%) Xero
16 4 (0.49%) Adobe
16 4 (0.49%) Alteryx
16 4 (0.49%) Concur