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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 66 36
Rank change year-on-year +45 -30 +39
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,780 825 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.84% 5.02% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 5.40% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 514 604
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,404
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% -6.22%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -7.22%

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 18,770 15,275 21,889
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.72% 92.90% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,576 8,969 15,635
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 11 August 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 48 (2.70%) Confluence
2 34 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.80%) CMS
4 14 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.34%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (0.22%) WordPress
9 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.056%) Appian
10 1 (0.056%) Drupal
10 1 (0.056%) Resin
10 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 132 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 29 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.34%) Simulink
7 6 (0.34%) Trello
8 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
9 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.17%) Blender
10 3 (0.17%) Maya
11 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.056%) InDesign
11 1 (0.056%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 54 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (2.19%) Workfront
3 34 (1.91%) Adobe Campaign
4 31 (1.74%) Dynamics GP
5 20 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.73%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.22%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.17%) Primavera
11 2 (0.11%) Shopify
12 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
12 1 (0.056%) NEC Housing
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Assets
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
12 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 288 (16.18%) Azure
2 207 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 180 (10.11%) AWS
4 152 (8.54%) SaaS
5 82 (4.61%) GCP
6 55 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (2.98%) iPaaS
8 46 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
9 41 (2.30%) GitHub
10 33 (1.85%) Serverless
11 31 (1.74%) Figma
12 28 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (1.52%) Google Analytics
14 26 (1.46%) Adobe Analytics
15 25 (1.40%) Contentsquare
16 23 (1.29%) Entra ID
17 17 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (0.90%) Azure Machine Learning
18 16 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 170 (9.55%) Broadband
2 52 (2.92%) Network Security
3 50 (2.81%) Firewall
4 40 (2.25%) VLAN
5 8 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.45%) VPN
6 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.22%) LAN
8 3 (0.17%) BGP
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.17%) DNS
8 3 (0.17%) Modbus
8 3 (0.17%) MPLS
8 3 (0.17%) OSPF
8 3 (0.17%) SSL
8 3 (0.17%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (10.39%) Power BI
2 85 (4.78%) Metadata
3 75 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (3.03%) Tableau
5 36 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 33 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 31 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.35%) Looker
9 21 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 16 (0.90%) Big Data
13 14 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (0.79%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (0.67%) MySQL
16 11 (0.62%) MongoDB
16 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 45 (2.53%) Git
2 44 (2.47%) JIRA
3 11 (0.62%) Claude Code
4 8 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) JMeter
6 6 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 5 (0.28%) Locust
7 5 (0.28%) MLflow
8 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.22%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.22%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.11%) NUnit
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.056%) Ant
General
1 657 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 503 (28.26%) Finance
3 487 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (16.85%) Marketing
5 182 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 135 (7.58%) Public Sector
7 122 (6.85%) Legal
8 118 (6.63%) Influencing Skills
9 117 (6.57%) Retail
10 96 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (3.76%) Games
12 63 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
13 55 (3.09%) Law
14 52 (2.92%) Manufacturing
15 34 (1.91%) Aerospace
16 33 (1.85%) Banking
17 30 (1.69%) Local Government
18 24 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (1.24%) Electronics
20 21 (1.18%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 304 (17.08%) Senior
2 238 (13.37%) Analyst
3 214 (12.02%) Lead
4 132 (7.42%) Architect
5 81 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 74 (4.16%) Development Manager
7 73 (4.10%) Data Analyst
8 70 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
9 65 (3.65%) Business Manager
10 58 (3.26%) Developer
10 58 (3.26%) Senior Manager
11 57 (3.20%) Product Owner
12 56 (3.15%) Consultant
13 55 (3.09%) Business Development Manager
14 43 (2.42%) Product Manager
15 42 (2.36%) Marketing Manager
16 40 (2.25%) Business Analyst
16 40 (2.25%) Security Engineer
16 40 (2.25%) Senior Security Engineer
17 38 (2.13%) Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.92%) React
2 29 (1.63%) .NET
3 28 (1.57%) LangChain
4 27 (1.52%) Node.js
4 27 (1.52%) REST
5 17 (0.96%) AWS CDK
5 17 (0.96%) Next.js
6 15 (0.84%) CSS
6 15 (0.84%) PySpark
7 14 (0.79%) HTML
8 13 (0.73%) RESTful
9 11 (0.62%) AngularJS
9 11 (0.62%) PyTorch
9 11 (0.62%) Spring
9 11 (0.62%) Spring Boot
9 11 (0.62%) XML
10 10 (0.56%) Django
11 9 (0.51%) GraphQL
11 9 (0.51%) React Native
11 9 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.31%) Product Ownership
2 132 (7.42%) Marketing Technology
3 119 (6.69%) Social Media
4 89 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 88 (4.94%) Over-the-Top Content
6 81 (4.55%) Cloud Native
7 79 (4.44%) Management Information System
8 47 (2.64%) AI Agents
9 44 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.13%) Blog
10 38 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 34 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (1.85%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.63%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (1.57%) Credit Risk
15 27 (1.52%) Driving Licence
16 19 (1.07%) Algorithms
16 19 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.07%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.69%) Android
2 22 (1.24%) Apple iOS
3 16 (0.90%) Windows
4 6 (0.34%) VMS
5 4 (0.22%) Linux
5 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.056%) Unix
6 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (24.94%) Agile
2 430 (24.16%) Analytics
3 424 (23.82%) AI
4 415 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 372 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
6 348 (19.55%) Roadmaps
7 314 (17.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 293 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 237 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
10 236 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 219 (12.30%) CRM
12 210 (11.80%) Cybersecurity
13 181 (10.17%) CI/CD
14 179 (10.06%) Customer Experience
15 178 (10.00%) Coaching
16 161 (9.04%) Data Modelling
17 150 (8.43%) Project Management
18 149 (8.37%) Business Development
19 145 (8.15%) Data Management
19 145 (8.15%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 250 (14.04%) SQL
2 223 (12.53%) Python
3 43 (2.42%) TypeScript
4 37 (2.08%) C#
5 36 (2.02%) Java
5 36 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.90%) R
7 13 (0.73%) VBA
8 12 (0.67%) Bicep
8 12 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.45%) Bash
12 7 (0.39%) C
12 7 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.34%) C++
13 6 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.34%) Ruby
14 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 183 (10.28%) Degree
2 137 (7.70%) Security Cleared
3 112 (6.29%) SC Cleared
4 87 (4.89%) ACCA
5 83 (4.66%) CIMA
6 52 (2.92%) DBS Check
7 43 (2.42%) PMI Certification
8 38 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.85%) PMP
10 29 (1.63%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.40%) CISSP
12 25 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.12%) AAT
13 20 (1.12%) CISM
14 17 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.79%) ICAEW
16 13 (0.73%) CIPD
17 12 (0.67%) PhD
18 11 (0.62%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 123 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 106 (5.96%) GDPR
4 64 (3.60%) QA
5 51 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.19%) GRC
7 33 (1.85%) WCAG
8 31 (1.74%) NIST
9 27 (1.52%) PMO
10 21 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (1.07%) SLA
12 15 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.73%) IFRS
14 9 (0.51%) NCSC
14 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.45%) COBIT
16 6 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (2.30%) Docker
2 13 (0.73%) Firmware
3 12 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.34%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.056%) GPFS
8 1 (0.056%) Lustre
8 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 32 (1.80%) Terraform
2 31 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.18%) Grafana
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
5 4 (0.22%) CASB
5 4 (0.22%) Nmap
6 3 (0.17%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.11%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Salt
8 1 (0.056%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.056%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 256 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.63%) Adobe
3 62 (3.48%) Google
4 53 (2.98%) Databricks
5 51 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.47%) SAP
7 28 (1.57%) Oracle
8 21 (1.18%) HubSpot
9 15 (0.84%) Foundry
9 15 (0.84%) Informatica
9 15 (0.84%) Sage
10 13 (0.73%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.56%) Xero
12 8 (0.45%) Cisco
12 8 (0.45%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.45%) VMware
13 6 (0.34%) Ariba
13 6 (0.34%) ScienceLogic
14 5 (0.28%) BMC
14 5 (0.28%) Workday