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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 61 51
Rank change year-on-year +33 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,091 634 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.33% 4.90% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 5.17% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 625 395 1,108
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £79,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -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 14,365 12,253 29,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.40% 94.79% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,024 8,885 23,521
10th Percentile £31,788 £32,500 £33,769
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 9 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 31 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.66%) Confluence
3 26 (2.38%) CMS
4 14 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.73%) SAS
7 7 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.37%) Apache
8 4 (0.37%) nginx
8 4 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 134 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (3.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.46%) Trello
9 4 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.37%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.092%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.092%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.92%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (1.83%) Workfront
3 17 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.92%) Shopify
5 9 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.46%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.27%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.092%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.092%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 222 (20.35%) Azure
2 182 (16.68%) Power Platform
3 105 (9.62%) AWS
4 88 (8.07%) SaaS
5 68 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (4.40%) GCP
7 47 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 37 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (3.21%) iPaaS
10 32 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (2.93%) GitHub
11 23 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (2.11%) Serverless
12 20 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
13 18 (1.65%) Figma
14 17 (1.56%) Contentsquare
15 16 (1.47%) Adobe Analytics
16 15 (1.37%) PaaS
17 13 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 122 (11.18%) Broadband
2 5 (0.46%) Internet
2 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.27%) DNS
3 3 (0.27%) Firewall
3 3 (0.27%) Modbus
3 3 (0.27%) Network Security
3 3 (0.27%) SSL
4 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.092%) ADSL
5 1 (0.092%) DSL
5 1 (0.092%) Intranet
5 1 (0.092%) NAS
5 1 (0.092%) NGFW
5 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.092%) VPN
5 1 (0.092%) WAN
5 1 (0.092%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (15.77%) Power BI
2 62 (5.68%) Metadata
2 62 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 49 (4.49%) Tableau
4 44 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 17 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.37%) MySQL
10 14 (1.28%) Power Query
11 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (1.10%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.92%) Looker
13 10 (0.92%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
14 9 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (2.38%) JIRA
2 15 (1.37%) Git
3 8 (0.73%) JMeter
4 7 (0.64%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.64%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.55%) Locust
6 4 (0.37%) Vite
7 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.27%) GitLab
7 3 (0.27%) MLflow
7 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.18%) NUnit
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.18%) Storybook
8 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.092%) Serenity BDD
General
1 455 (41.70%) Social Skills
2 395 (36.21%) Finance
3 347 (31.81%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (15.12%) Marketing
5 108 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 88 (8.07%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (6.69%) Presentation Skills
8 70 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (5.41%) Retail
10 58 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (5.32%) Legal
11 50 (4.58%) Games
12 40 (3.67%) Law
13 34 (3.12%) Advertising
13 34 (3.12%) Manufacturing
14 33 (3.02%) Banking
15 20 (1.83%) Local Government
16 16 (1.47%) Billing
16 16 (1.47%) Publishing
17 12 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (17.32%) Analyst
2 159 (14.57%) Senior
3 104 (9.53%) Lead
4 75 (6.87%) Architect
5 52 (4.77%) Data Engineer
5 52 (4.77%) Senior Manager
6 47 (4.31%) Developer
7 42 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
8 41 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
9 37 (3.39%) Product Owner
9 37 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (3.21%) Consultant
11 33 (3.02%) Data Analyst
12 28 (2.57%) Product Manager
12 28 (2.57%) Report Analyst
13 25 (2.29%) Business Analyst
13 25 (2.29%) Engineering Manager
14 23 (2.11%) Business Manager
15 22 (2.02%) Development Manager
16 21 (1.92%) Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.29%) React
2 22 (2.02%) .NET
3 17 (1.56%) CSS
3 17 (1.56%) HTML
4 14 (1.28%) XML
5 12 (1.10%) LangChain
5 12 (1.10%) REST
6 10 (0.92%) JSON
7 9 (0.82%) Flash
7 9 (0.82%) Kafka
7 9 (0.82%) Middleware
8 8 (0.73%) RESTful
8 8 (0.73%) TensorFlow
9 7 (0.64%) AngularJS
9 7 (0.64%) AWS CDK
9 7 (0.64%) EDI
9 7 (0.64%) Next.js
9 7 (0.64%) PySpark
9 7 (0.64%) Vue
10 6 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 85 (7.79%) Social Media
3 74 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
4 69 (6.32%) Marketing Technology
5 61 (5.59%) Onboarding
6 55 (5.04%) Cloud Native
6 55 (5.04%) Over-the-Top Content
7 42 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 33 (3.02%) Virtual Team
9 25 (2.29%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.47%) PMI
13 10 (0.92%) Driving Licence
13 10 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.66%) Android
2 27 (2.47%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.37%) Windows
4 8 (0.73%) Linux
5 6 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (29.70%) Analytics
2 297 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
3 247 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 245 (22.46%) AI
5 243 (22.27%) Agile
6 224 (20.53%) Roadmaps
7 206 (18.88%) Business Intelligence
8 147 (13.47%) Mentoring
9 139 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 138 (12.65%) Project Management
11 134 (12.28%) Customer Experience
12 110 (10.08%) CI/CD
12 110 (10.08%) Data Modelling
13 107 (9.81%) Visualisation
14 106 (9.72%) CRM
15 105 (9.62%) Data Analysis
15 105 (9.62%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 104 (9.53%) Actionable Insight
17 100 (9.17%) Coaching
18 89 (8.16%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 174 (15.95%) SQL
2 142 (13.02%) Python
3 33 (3.02%) Java
4 32 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (1.92%) C#
6 20 (1.83%) R
7 19 (1.74%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.74%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.92%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.92%) VBA
9 7 (0.64%) PHP
10 5 (0.46%) Bash
10 5 (0.46%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.37%) Bicep
11 4 (0.37%) Scala
12 3 (0.27%) C++
13 2 (0.18%) C
13 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.092%) ABAP
14 1 (0.092%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 170 (15.58%) Degree
2 106 (9.72%) ACCA
3 105 (9.62%) CIMA
4 71 (6.51%) Security Cleared
5 49 (4.49%) SC Cleared
6 40 (3.67%) DBS Check
7 37 (3.39%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.93%) PMI Certification
9 26 (2.38%) AAT
10 23 (2.11%) CISSP
11 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.47%) PMP
12 15 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 13 (1.19%) CISM
13 13 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (1.01%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.92%) CEH
16 10 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (12.10%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 57 (5.22%) QA
4 55 (5.04%) GDPR
5 31 (2.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 29 (2.66%) GRC
7 23 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (2.11%) WCAG
8 16 (1.47%) NIST
9 14 (1.28%) P3O
9 14 (1.28%) PMO
10 12 (1.10%) NCSC
11 11 (1.01%) ISO 9001
11 11 (1.01%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.64%) GAAP
13 6 (0.55%) IFRS
14 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.37%) SLA
16 3 (0.27%) EMIR
16 3 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (2.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.092%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.83%) Terraform
3 14 (1.28%) Grafana
4 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.64%) Nmap
5 4 (0.37%) SCCM
6 3 (0.27%) Argo
6 3 (0.27%) Control-M
6 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.18%) Ansible
7 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.18%) Packer
7 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.18%) Puppet
7 2 (0.18%) Salt
8 1 (0.092%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 168 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.15%) Adobe
3 51 (4.67%) Databricks
4 46 (4.22%) SAP
5 41 (3.76%) Google
6 31 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.66%) Oracle
8 24 (2.20%) Sage
9 23 (2.11%) HubSpot
10 22 (2.02%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.01%) Foundry
12 10 (0.92%) Workday
13 9 (0.82%) Informatica
14 8 (0.73%) Cisco
14 8 (0.73%) Xero
15 7 (0.64%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.55%) Alteryx
16 6 (0.55%) Ariba
16 6 (0.55%) BMC
16 6 (0.55%) Talend