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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 61 55
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 902 760 1,400
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.49% 5.03% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 5.29% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 549 381 989
10th Percentile £38,996 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.14% -0.74%
75th Percentile £82,241 £82,500 £80,435
90th Percentile £95,250 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.41% +28.45% -12.49%

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 14,117 14,367 25,565
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.85% 95.11% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,762 21,237
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,750
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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 26 February 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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.11%) Confluence
3 13 (1.44%) CMS
4 9 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.89%) SAS
6 7 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.55%) Apache
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) WordPress
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 132 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
4 7 (0.78%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.44%) Trello
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.11%) Shopify
2 9 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.33%) ResourceLink
5 3 (0.33%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 193 (21.40%) Azure
2 183 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 84 (9.31%) SaaS
4 78 (8.65%) AWS
5 62 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 49 (5.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 34 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
8 32 (3.55%) GitHub
9 30 (3.33%) GCP
10 21 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.22%) Serverless
12 17 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
12 17 (1.88%) PaaS
13 16 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (1.55%) Snowflake
15 13 (1.44%) PowerApps
16 10 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 10 (1.11%) Azure Event Grid
17 8 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.99%) Broadband
2 8 (0.89%) Internet
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
3 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.22%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) DSL
5 1 (0.11%) Intranet
5 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.11%) NAS
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) NGFW
5 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.11%) VPN
5 1 (0.11%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (19.29%) Power BI
2 56 (6.21%) Tableau
3 53 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 45 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (2.99%) Metadata
8 22 (2.44%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.88%) Power Query
10 13 (1.44%) MySQL
11 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
13 9 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.00%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.67%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.67%) QlikView
16 5 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (2.33%) JIRA
2 9 (1.00%) Git
3 7 (0.78%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.78%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.44%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.44%) ERwin
4 4 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (0.44%) Vite
5 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.33%) GitLab
5 3 (0.33%) JMeter
5 3 (0.33%) MLflow
5 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.22%) Selenium
6 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.22%) Storybook
6 2 (0.22%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
General
1 435 (48.23%) Social Skills
2 374 (41.46%) Finance
3 320 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 91 (10.09%) Marketing
6 78 (8.65%) Presentation Skills
7 70 (7.76%) Organisational Skills
8 62 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (4.66%) Retail
11 37 (4.10%) Manufacturing
12 35 (3.88%) Legal
13 31 (3.44%) Games
14 30 (3.33%) Banking
15 27 (2.99%) Advertising
16 24 (2.66%) Law
17 20 (2.22%) Local Government
18 13 (1.44%) Billing
19 11 (1.22%) Publishing
19 11 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (20.95%) Analyst
2 135 (14.97%) Senior
3 77 (8.54%) Lead
4 63 (6.98%) Architect
5 48 (5.32%) Developer
6 46 (5.10%) Data Engineer
7 44 (4.88%) Financial Analyst
8 43 (4.77%) Consultant
9 36 (3.99%) Senior Analyst
9 36 (3.99%) Senior Manager
10 34 (3.77%) Data Analyst
11 32 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
12 30 (3.33%) Report Analyst
12 30 (3.33%) Sales Executive
13 25 (2.77%) Business Manager
14 23 (2.55%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.22%) Insight Analyst
15 20 (2.22%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (2.00%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.88%) .NET
1 17 (1.88%) React
2 11 (1.22%) Flash
3 10 (1.11%) REST
3 10 (1.11%) Spring
4 9 (1.00%) CSS
4 9 (1.00%) HTML
5 8 (0.89%) Kafka
5 8 (0.89%) Spring Boot
5 8 (0.89%) XML
6 7 (0.78%) LangChain
6 7 (0.78%) Middleware
6 7 (0.78%) PySpark
6 7 (0.78%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.67%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.67%) JSON
7 6 (0.67%) RESTful
7 6 (0.67%) Vue
8 5 (0.55%) EDI
8 5 (0.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 48 (5.32%) Onboarding
4 47 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 42 (4.66%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.22%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.88%) Social Media
8 18 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.77%) PMI
11 13 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
14 9 (1.00%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.00%) IoT
14 9 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.89%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.44%) Android
2 20 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 14 (1.55%) Windows
4 8 (0.89%) Linux
5 6 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (32.37%) Analytics
2 264 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
3 236 (26.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 199 (22.06%) Business Intelligence
5 186 (20.62%) AI
6 172 (19.07%) Agile
7 146 (16.19%) Roadmaps
8 120 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 117 (12.97%) Project Management
10 112 (12.42%) CRM
11 111 (12.31%) Data Analysis
11 111 (12.31%) Mentoring
11 111 (12.31%) Visualisation
12 105 (11.64%) Actionable Insight
13 96 (10.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 91 (10.09%) CI/CD
15 87 (9.65%) Data Modelling
16 82 (9.09%) DevOps
17 79 (8.76%) Coaching
18 78 (8.65%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 169 (18.74%) SQL
2 131 (14.52%) Python
3 31 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (2.99%) Java
5 21 (2.33%) R
6 17 (1.88%) TypeScript
7 15 (1.66%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.33%) C#
8 12 (1.33%) VBA
9 9 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.89%) C++
11 6 (0.67%) Bash
11 6 (0.67%) PHP
12 5 (0.55%) Scala
13 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.22%) ABAP
14 2 (0.22%) Bicep
14 2 (0.22%) C
15 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 167 (18.51%) Degree
2 88 (9.76%) ACCA
2 88 (9.76%) CIMA
3 59 (6.54%) Security Cleared
4 45 (4.99%) SC Cleared
5 38 (4.21%) DBS Check
6 32 (3.55%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.77%) CISSP
8 24 (2.66%) AAT
9 22 (2.44%) PMI Certification
10 21 (2.33%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.88%) CISM
12 17 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (1.11%) CEH
15 10 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.54%) QA
3 43 (4.77%) GDPR
4 39 (4.32%) Accessibility
5 31 (3.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 24 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (2.00%) GRC
8 15 (1.66%) NIST
9 14 (1.55%) P3O
10 13 (1.44%) NCSC
11 12 (1.33%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.33%) PMO
12 9 (1.00%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.78%) WCAG
14 6 (0.67%) GAAP
15 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.55%) IFRS
15 5 (0.55%) SLA
16 2 (0.22%) COBIT
16 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (2.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) Firmware
3 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.11%) Terraform
2 18 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.78%) Nmap
4 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.44%) SCCM
6 3 (0.33%) Control-M
6 3 (0.33%) CSIRT
6 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Grafana
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 141 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.76%) Databricks
3 41 (4.55%) SAP
4 33 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 26 (2.88%) Google
6 24 (2.66%) Oracle
7 23 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.44%) HubSpot
9 15 (1.66%) Sage
10 13 (1.44%) Adobe
10 13 (1.44%) Workday
11 11 (1.22%) Autodesk
12 10 (1.11%) Informatica
13 8 (0.89%) Cisco
13 8 (0.89%) Foundry
14 7 (0.78%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.78%) IBM
15 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.55%) BMC
16 5 (0.55%) Talend