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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 76 39
Rank change year-on-year +49 -37 +8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,420 723 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.03% 4.67% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 4.94% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 893 432 1,090
10th Percentile £37,100 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,318 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% +4.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £75,988
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year - +9.59% -8.02%

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 16,563 14,642 30,856
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.97% 94.49% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,008 8,523 23,828
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £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 21 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 43 (3.03%) Confluence
2 37 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.46%) CMS
4 14 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.35%) WordPress
8 4 (0.28%) Apache
8 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.28%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.070%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.070%) Drupal
11 1 (0.070%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.070%) Resin
11 1 (0.070%) Umbraco
Applications
1 108 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 31 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.35%) 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 (2.75%) Workfront
2 34 (2.39%) Adobe Campaign
3 16 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.42%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.35%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 5 (0.35%) Shopify
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 267 (18.80%) Azure
2 175 (12.32%) Power Platform
3 156 (10.99%) AWS
4 112 (7.89%) SaaS
5 59 (4.15%) GCP
6 53 (3.73%) iPaaS
7 44 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 40 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (2.61%) Serverless
11 28 (1.97%) GitHub
12 27 (1.90%) Figma
13 26 (1.83%) Adobe Analytics
14 25 (1.76%) Contentsquare
15 20 (1.41%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
17 18 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
18 17 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (1.20%) PaaS
19 16 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 177 (12.46%) Broadband
2 10 (0.70%) Network Security
3 8 (0.56%) Firewall
3 8 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.42%) VPN
5 5 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.35%) 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
8 2 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (11.20%) Power BI
2 76 (5.35%) Metadata
3 52 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (2.89%) Tableau
5 36 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 31 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.06%) MySQL
9 15 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.99%) Big Data
10 14 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.77%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.70%) Looker
13 8 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (2.82%) JIRA
2 28 (1.97%) Git
3 9 (0.63%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.49%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.49%) JMeter
4 7 (0.49%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.42%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.42%) GitLab
6 5 (0.35%) Locust
6 5 (0.35%) 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%) NUnit
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 480 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 416 (29.30%) Finance
3 389 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (14.58%) Marketing
5 128 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (8.52%) Public Sector
7 97 (6.83%) Influencing Skills
8 82 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
9 81 (5.70%) Legal
10 78 (5.49%) Retail
11 75 (5.28%) Games
12 50 (3.52%) Law
13 37 (2.61%) Manufacturing
14 35 (2.46%) Local Government
15 34 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.97%) Banking
17 21 (1.48%) Advertising
18 19 (1.34%) Publishing
19 17 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
20 12 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 232 (16.34%) Senior
2 216 (15.21%) Analyst
3 153 (10.77%) Lead
4 96 (6.76%) Architect
5 67 (4.72%) Data Engineer
6 65 (4.58%) Data Analyst
6 65 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
7 62 (4.37%) Senior Manager
8 58 (4.08%) Product Owner
9 53 (3.73%) Developer
10 52 (3.66%) Consultant
11 44 (3.10%) Development Manager
12 41 (2.89%) Product Manager
13 37 (2.61%) Business Analyst
14 36 (2.54%) Campaign Manager
15 33 (2.32%) Business Manager
16 28 (1.97%) Business Development Manager
16 28 (1.97%) Engineering Manager
16 28 (1.97%) Software Engineer
17 26 (1.83%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.17%) React
2 29 (2.04%) .NET
3 28 (1.97%) LangChain
4 23 (1.62%) REST
5 19 (1.34%) Node.js
6 18 (1.27%) CSS
7 17 (1.20%) HTML
8 16 (1.13%) Next.js
9 15 (1.06%) AWS CDK
10 14 (0.99%) RESTful
10 14 (0.99%) XML
11 12 (0.85%) Spring
12 10 (0.70%) Kafka
12 10 (0.70%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.70%) Vue
13 9 (0.63%) PyTorch
13 9 (0.63%) TensorFlow
14 8 (0.56%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.56%) LangGraph
14 8 (0.56%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 119 (8.38%) Social Media
3 103 (7.25%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (6.20%) Over-the-Top Content
5 71 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 63 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 55 (3.87%) Onboarding
8 49 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (2.75%) AI Agents
10 33 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (2.18%) Mobile App
12 29 (2.04%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.55%) Algorithms
15 22 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (1.34%) Credit Risk
17 18 (1.27%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.27%) PMI
18 17 (1.20%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.32%) Android
2 29 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 20 (1.41%) Windows
4 7 (0.49%) Linux
5 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.28%) VMS
6 4 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (25.77%) Agile
2 342 (24.08%) Roadmaps
3 339 (23.87%) Analytics
4 320 (22.54%) AI
5 318 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 241 (16.97%) Mentoring
8 212 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 190 (13.38%) Business Intelligence
10 161 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 152 (10.70%) CI/CD
12 149 (10.49%) Customer Experience
13 142 (10.00%) Coaching
14 139 (9.79%) Data Modelling
15 138 (9.72%) Project Management
16 130 (9.15%) CRM
17 129 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
18 124 (8.73%) DevOps
19 123 (8.66%) Actionable Insight
20 114 (8.03%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 199 (14.01%) SQL
2 187 (13.17%) Python
3 40 (2.82%) TypeScript
4 36 (2.54%) Java
5 33 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 32 (2.25%) C#
7 19 (1.34%) R
8 11 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (0.70%) Bash
9 10 (0.70%) VBA
10 9 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.56%) Bicep
12 7 (0.49%) C++
13 6 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.35%) PHP
14 5 (0.35%) Ruby
15 4 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.14%) C
16 2 (0.14%) Formula Language
16 2 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 179 (12.61%) Degree
2 100 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 83 (5.85%) ACCA
4 80 (5.63%) CIMA
5 79 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 56 (3.94%) DBS Check
7 42 (2.96%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.97%) CISSP
10 24 (1.69%) PMP
11 22 (1.55%) AAT
12 20 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (1.34%) CISM
13 19 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 16 (1.13%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.77%) CIPD
18 10 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (10.77%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.27%) Accessibility
3 83 (5.85%) GDPR
4 77 (5.42%) QA
5 40 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (2.18%) WCAG
7 29 (2.04%) GRC
8 26 (1.83%) NIST
9 24 (1.69%) PMO
10 21 (1.48%) SLA
11 18 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.92%) P3O
13 12 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.85%) IFRS
13 12 (0.85%) NCSC
14 10 (0.70%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.56%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.28%) GAAP
16 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (2.54%) Docker
2 13 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.28%) Firmware
5 4 (0.28%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.69%) Terraform
3 17 (1.20%) Grafana
4 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.49%) 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 (0.070%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.070%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 201 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 119 (8.38%) Adobe
3 44 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 43 (3.03%) Databricks
5 40 (2.82%) Google
6 35 (2.46%) SAP
7 29 (2.04%) Oracle
8 19 (1.34%) Sage
9 18 (1.27%) HubSpot
10 16 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.06%) Foundry
12 11 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.70%) Informatica
13 10 (0.70%) Xero
14 9 (0.63%) Cisco
15 7 (0.49%) Workday
16 6 (0.42%) Alteryx
16 6 (0.42%) Ariba
16 6 (0.42%) BMC
16 6 (0.42%) VMware