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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 64 55
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,000 617 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.93% 4.75% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 4.99% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 578 385 1,080
10th Percentile £38,979 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,563 £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 £83,750 £82,958 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 14,255 12,358 28,134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.46% 95.09% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,572 8,784 23,084
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 25 March 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 27 (2.70%) Confluence
2 25 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.30%) CMS
4 10 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.90%) SAS
6 7 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.60%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.40%) Apache
8 4 (0.40%) nginx
8 4 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 131 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.80%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.40%) Trello
8 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.40%) Adobe Campaign
2 13 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.20%) Shopify
4 11 (1.10%) Workfront
5 10 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.30%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.10%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 215 (21.50%) Azure
2 180 (18.00%) Power Platform
3 100 (10.00%) AWS
4 85 (8.50%) SaaS
5 66 (6.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (4.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 46 (4.60%) GCP
8 34 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
9 33 (3.30%) GitHub
10 32 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.20%) Serverless
13 20 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
14 19 (1.90%) iPaaS
15 15 (1.50%) Contentsquare
15 15 (1.50%) Figma
15 15 (1.50%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.40%) Adobe Analytics
16 14 (1.40%) PaaS
17 13 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 97 (9.70%) Broadband
2 5 (0.50%) Internet
2 5 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.30%) DNS
3 3 (0.30%) Firewall
3 3 (0.30%) Modbus
3 3 (0.30%) SSL
4 2 (0.20%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.10%) ADSL
5 1 (0.10%) DSL
5 1 (0.10%) Intranet
5 1 (0.10%) NAS
5 1 (0.10%) Network Security
5 1 (0.10%) NGFW
5 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.10%) VPN
5 1 (0.10%) WAN
5 1 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (17.10%) Power BI
2 60 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 53 (5.30%) Tableau
4 46 (4.60%) Metadata
5 44 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 23 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.50%) MySQL
9 15 (1.50%) Power Query
10 14 (1.40%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 9 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (0.80%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 22 (2.20%) JIRA
2 10 (1.00%) Git
3 7 (0.70%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.70%) JMeter
3 7 (0.70%) Metasploit
4 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.50%) Locust
5 4 (0.40%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.40%) ERwin
5 4 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (0.40%) Vite
6 3 (0.30%) MLflow
6 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.20%) Storybook
7 2 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 450 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 366 (36.60%) Finance
3 339 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (13.00%) Marketing
5 97 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 80 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
7 75 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
8 64 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (5.30%) Retail
11 51 (5.10%) Legal
12 47 (4.70%) Games
13 43 (4.30%) Manufacturing
14 35 (3.50%) Law
15 33 (3.30%) Advertising
16 30 (3.00%) Banking
17 20 (2.00%) Local Government
18 15 (1.50%) Publishing
19 14 (1.40%) Billing
20 11 (1.10%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 182 (18.20%) Analyst
2 146 (14.60%) Senior
3 91 (9.10%) Lead
4 70 (7.00%) Architect
5 47 (4.70%) Data Engineer
5 47 (4.70%) Senior Manager
6 42 (4.20%) Financial Analyst
7 38 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (3.60%) Developer
9 35 (3.50%) Data Analyst
10 34 (3.40%) Consultant
10 34 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (2.90%) Report Analyst
12 26 (2.60%) Product Owner
12 26 (2.60%) Sales Executive
13 24 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
14 23 (2.30%) Business Manager
15 21 (2.10%) Business Analyst
15 21 (2.10%) Development Manager
16 19 (1.90%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.40%) React
2 21 (2.10%) .NET
3 15 (1.50%) CSS
3 15 (1.50%) HTML
4 10 (1.00%) Flash
4 10 (1.00%) LangChain
4 10 (1.00%) REST
4 10 (1.00%) XML
5 8 (0.80%) Kafka
6 7 (0.70%) AWS CDK
6 7 (0.70%) JSON
6 7 (0.70%) Middleware
6 7 (0.70%) Next.js
6 7 (0.70%) PySpark
6 7 (0.70%) RESTful
6 7 (0.70%) Spring
6 7 (0.70%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.60%) .NET Core
7 6 (0.60%) Node.js
7 6 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 82 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
2 75 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.10%) Social Media
4 58 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 52 (5.20%) Cloud Native
6 46 (4.60%) Management Information System
7 41 (4.10%) Marketing Technology
8 38 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (3.30%) Virtual Team
10 32 (3.20%) Over-the-Top Content
11 24 (2.40%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.70%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.70%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.60%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.50%) PMI
16 12 (1.20%) GNSS
16 12 (1.20%) Satnav
17 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.80%) Android
2 26 (2.60%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.60%) Windows
4 9 (0.90%) Linux
5 6 (0.60%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (31.50%) Analytics
2 285 (28.50%) Problem-Solving
3 240 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 228 (22.80%) AI
5 208 (20.80%) Agile
6 203 (20.30%) Business Intelligence
7 192 (19.20%) Roadmaps
8 138 (13.80%) Project Management
9 137 (13.70%) Mentoring
10 129 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 113 (11.30%) CRM
12 107 (10.70%) Customer Experience
13 105 (10.50%) CI/CD
14 104 (10.40%) Visualisation
15 102 (10.20%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 101 (10.10%) Actionable Insight
16 101 (10.10%) Data Analysis
17 99 (9.90%) Data Modelling
18 90 (9.00%) B2B
18 90 (9.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 163 (16.30%) SQL
2 140 (14.00%) Python
3 33 (3.30%) Java
4 31 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (2.10%) R
6 19 (1.90%) C#
6 19 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 17 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.90%) VBA
10 7 (0.70%) PHP
11 6 (0.60%) Bash
12 5 (0.50%) C++
12 5 (0.50%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.40%) Scala
14 3 (0.30%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) C
15 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.10%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 159 (15.90%) Degree
2 94 (9.40%) ACCA
3 93 (9.30%) CIMA
4 59 (5.90%) Security Cleared
5 42 (4.20%) DBS Check
6 40 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 35 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.70%) PMI Certification
9 26 (2.60%) AAT
10 24 (2.40%) CISSP
11 20 (2.00%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.40%) CISM
14 13 (1.30%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.20%) PMP
15 12 (1.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (1.00%) CEH
17 10 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.60%) Accessibility
3 55 (5.50%) QA
4 51 (5.10%) GDPR
5 32 (3.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 26 (2.60%) GRC
7 23 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (2.00%) WCAG
9 15 (1.50%) NIST
10 14 (1.40%) NCSC
10 14 (1.40%) P3O
11 13 (1.30%) ISO 9001
11 13 (1.30%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.30%) PMO
12 7 (0.70%) GAAP
13 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.50%) IFRS
14 4 (0.40%) SLA
15 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (2.10%) Docker
2 6 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.20%) Firmware
3 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (2.30%) Terraform
2 21 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.30%) Grafana
4 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.70%) Nmap
5 4 (0.40%) SCCM
6 3 (0.30%) Control-M
6 3 (0.30%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.20%) Packer
7 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.10%) Ansible
8 1 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 158 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.30%) Adobe
2 53 (5.30%) Databricks
3 40 (4.00%) SAP
4 36 (3.60%) Google
5 32 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 28 (2.80%) Oracle
7 24 (2.40%) HubSpot
8 20 (2.00%) Sage
8 20 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.10%) Autodesk
9 11 (1.10%) Foundry
9 11 (1.10%) Informatica
10 9 (0.90%) Workday
11 8 (0.80%) Cisco
12 7 (0.70%) IBM
13 6 (0.60%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.60%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.60%) Talend
14 5 (0.50%) Xero