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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 73 39
Rank change year-on-year +49 -34 +21
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,539 786 1,798
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.21% 4.77% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.72% 5.11% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 974 480 957
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £34,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,063 £70,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year - +14.18% -11.76%

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 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 July 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 45 (2.92%) Confluence
2 38 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.08%) CMS
4 14 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 10 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.32%) Apache
7 5 (0.32%) WordPress
8 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.065%) Appian
10 1 (0.065%) Drupal
10 1 (0.065%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.065%) Resin
10 1 (0.065%) Umbraco
Applications
1 116 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 29 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.39%) Trello
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.19%) Blender
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Maya
Business Applications
1 39 (2.53%) Workfront
2 34 (2.21%) Adobe Campaign
3 27 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.84%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.32%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 4 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.19%) Raiser’s Edge
10 2 (0.13%) Shopify
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle General Ledger
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
11 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 274 (17.80%) Azure
2 178 (11.57%) Power Platform
3 158 (10.27%) AWS
4 123 (7.99%) SaaS
5 61 (3.96%) GCP
6 53 (3.44%) iPaaS
7 49 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 34 (2.21%) GitHub
11 34 (2.21%) Serverless
12 28 (1.82%) Figma
13 26 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
14 25 (1.62%) Contentsquare
15 23 (1.49%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.23%) PaaS
17 18 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
18 17 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
19 15 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 178 (11.57%) Broadband
2 28 (1.82%) Network Security
3 26 (1.69%) Firewall
4 19 (1.23%) VLAN
5 8 (0.52%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.52%) VPN
6 5 (0.32%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.32%) WAN
7 4 (0.26%) DNS
7 4 (0.26%) LAN
8 3 (0.19%) BGP
8 3 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.19%) Modbus
8 3 (0.19%) MPLS
8 3 (0.19%) OSPF
8 3 (0.19%) SSL
8 3 (0.19%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.13%) Internet
9 2 (0.13%) SMS
9 2 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (10.33%) Power BI
2 82 (5.33%) Metadata
3 63 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (2.73%) Tableau
5 35 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 31 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.91%) Big Data
10 14 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.91%) Oracle Database
11 13 (0.84%) MySQL
12 12 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.71%) Looker
14 10 (0.65%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
15 9 (0.58%) Star Schema
16 8 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (2.66%) JIRA
2 35 (2.27%) Git
3 10 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.45%) JMeter
5 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.39%) GitLab
6 5 (0.32%) Locust
7 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.26%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.26%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.26%) MLflow
7 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.13%) NUnit
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 531 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 439 (28.53%) Finance
3 397 (25.80%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (14.55%) Marketing
5 132 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 126 (8.19%) Public Sector
7 96 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
8 86 (5.59%) Legal
9 83 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (5.13%) Retail
11 74 (4.81%) Games
12 51 (3.31%) Law
13 45 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 40 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.88%) Local Government
16 28 (1.82%) Banking
17 20 (1.30%) Advertising
17 20 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.97%) Publishing
19 13 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 268 (17.41%) Senior
2 219 (14.23%) Analyst
3 170 (11.05%) Lead
4 112 (7.28%) Architect
5 72 (4.68%) Data Engineer
6 67 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 64 (4.16%) Data Analyst
8 60 (3.90%) Senior Manager
9 58 (3.77%) Development Manager
10 57 (3.70%) Developer
11 56 (3.64%) Consultant
12 55 (3.57%) Product Owner
13 44 (2.86%) Product Manager
14 43 (2.79%) Business Manager
15 38 (2.47%) Business Development Manager
16 37 (2.40%) Campaign Manager
17 34 (2.21%) Business Analyst
18 32 (2.08%) Engineering Manager
19 31 (2.01%) Accountant
19 31 (2.01%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.31%) React
2 29 (1.88%) .NET
3 28 (1.82%) LangChain
4 25 (1.62%) REST
5 23 (1.49%) Node.js
6 16 (1.04%) Next.js
7 15 (0.97%) AWS CDK
7 15 (0.97%) CSS
8 14 (0.91%) HTML
9 13 (0.84%) RESTful
9 13 (0.84%) Spring
9 13 (0.84%) XML
10 11 (0.71%) PyTorch
10 11 (0.71%) Spring Boot
10 11 (0.71%) TensorFlow
11 10 (0.65%) Kafka
12 9 (0.58%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.58%) LangGraph
12 9 (0.58%) PySpark
13 8 (0.52%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 118 (7.67%) Social Media
3 103 (6.69%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (5.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 75 (4.87%) Cloud Native
5 75 (4.87%) Management Information System
6 59 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 45 (2.92%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (2.14%) Mobile App
11 28 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.49%) Credit Risk
14 21 (1.36%) Driving Licence
15 19 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 17 (1.10%) Data Structures
17 16 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.34%) Android
2 29 (1.88%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.43%) Windows
4 6 (0.39%) VMS
4 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.32%) Linux
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.065%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (25.73%) Agile
2 357 (23.20%) Analytics
3 356 (23.13%) AI
4 347 (22.55%) Roadmaps
5 345 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 331 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (17.74%) Mentoring
8 248 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 195 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
10 194 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 168 (10.92%) CI/CD
12 165 (10.72%) Cybersecurity
13 157 (10.20%) Customer Experience
14 156 (10.14%) CRM
15 155 (10.07%) Coaching
16 153 (9.94%) Data Modelling
17 147 (9.55%) Project Management
18 133 (8.64%) DevOps
19 124 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
20 120 (7.80%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 210 (13.65%) SQL
2 203 (13.19%) Python
3 45 (2.92%) TypeScript
4 38 (2.47%) C#
5 36 (2.34%) Java
5 36 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.04%) R
7 12 (0.78%) Bicep
8 11 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (0.71%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.71%) VBA
9 9 (0.58%) Bash
10 7 (0.45%) C++
11 6 (0.39%) Ruby
12 5 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.13%) Formula Language
14 2 (0.13%) Go
14 2 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 173 (11.24%) Degree
2 106 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.26%) ACCA
5 77 (5.00%) CIMA
6 51 (3.31%) DBS Check
7 45 (2.92%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.88%) PMP
10 24 (1.56%) CISSP
11 23 (1.49%) AAT
11 23 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 20 (1.30%) CISM
13 19 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.84%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.84%) CIPD
16 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.65%) ICAEW
17 10 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (10.85%) Data Quality
2 96 (6.24%) GDPR
3 95 (6.17%) Accessibility
4 71 (4.61%) QA
5 44 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (2.01%) GRC
7 30 (1.95%) WCAG
8 25 (1.62%) NIST
9 24 (1.56%) PMO
10 21 (1.36%) SLA
11 15 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.78%) IFRS
13 11 (0.71%) NCSC
14 10 (0.65%) P3O
15 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.32%) COBIT
17 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
18 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 35 (2.27%) Docker
2 16 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.45%) Firmware
4 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.39%) vSphere
6 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.065%) GPFS
8 1 (0.065%) Lustre
8 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 30 (1.95%) Terraform
2 28 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.36%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.26%) Argo
5 4 (0.26%) Nmap
5 4 (0.26%) SCCM
6 3 (0.19%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.13%) Packer
7 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.13%) Puppet
7 2 (0.13%) Salt
8 1 (0.065%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.065%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 234 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.73%) Adobe
3 45 (2.92%) Google
3 45 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 43 (2.79%) Databricks
5 37 (2.40%) SAP
6 29 (1.88%) Oracle
7 20 (1.30%) HubSpot
8 17 (1.10%) Foundry
9 16 (1.04%) Sage
9 16 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.84%) Informatica
11 10 (0.65%) Xero
12 9 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.52%) VMware
14 7 (0.45%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.39%) Ariba
15 6 (0.39%) BMC
15 6 (0.39%) Cisco
15 6 (0.39%) ScienceLogic