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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 72 35
Rank change year-on-year +41 -37 +8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,119 672 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.10% 4.68% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 4.92% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 681 404 1,109
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £34,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 15,177 13,659 29,626
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,750 8,839 23,447
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 May 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 38 (3.40%) CMS
2 36 (3.22%) Confluence
3 35 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.36%) nginx
7 4 (0.36%) WordPress
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.089%) Drupal
10 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.089%) Umbraco
Applications
1 94 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (3.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.71%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.18%) Trello
9 1 (0.089%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.04%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (1.79%) Workfront
3 16 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.63%) Shopify
6 5 (0.45%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 5 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.089%) Magento
7 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.089%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.089%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.089%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 211 (18.86%) Azure
2 154 (13.76%) Power Platform
3 109 (9.74%) AWS
4 89 (7.95%) SaaS
5 46 (4.11%) GCP
6 42 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 35 (3.13%) iPaaS
8 32 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (2.50%) Serverless
10 27 (2.41%) Figma
11 26 (2.32%) Contentsquare
11 26 (2.32%) GitHub
12 25 (2.23%) Adobe Analytics
12 25 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.25%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (1.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 150 (13.40%) Broadband
2 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.45%) Firewall
4 4 (0.36%) Network Security
5 3 (0.27%) DNS
5 3 (0.27%) Internet
5 3 (0.27%) Modbus
5 3 (0.27%) SSL
6 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.18%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.18%) WAN
7 1 (0.089%) BGP
7 1 (0.089%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.089%) DSL
7 1 (0.089%) MPLS
7 1 (0.089%) NAS
7 1 (0.089%) NGFW
7 1 (0.089%) OSPF
7 1 (0.089%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.089%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (13.05%) Power BI
2 56 (5.00%) Metadata
3 43 (3.84%) Tableau
4 39 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 37 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.07%) MySQL
10 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.71%) Looker
15 7 (0.63%) Big Data
15 7 (0.63%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (2.32%) JIRA
2 19 (1.70%) Git
3 8 (0.71%) JMeter
4 6 (0.54%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.54%) Locust
5 5 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.36%) GitLab
6 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.36%) Vite
7 3 (0.27%) MLflow
7 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.18%) Storybook
8 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 376 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 345 (30.83%) Finance
3 312 (27.88%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (16.26%) Marketing
5 99 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 83 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (7.42%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (6.52%) Legal
8 70 (6.26%) Games
9 60 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (4.47%) Retail
11 44 (3.93%) Law
12 28 (2.50%) Banking
13 25 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.14%) Advertising
15 23 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.70%) Local Government
16 19 (1.70%) Publishing
17 11 (0.98%) Multimedia
17 11 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (16.44%) Senior
2 183 (16.35%) Analyst
3 120 (10.72%) Lead
4 58 (5.18%) Data Engineer
4 58 (5.18%) Senior Manager
5 54 (4.83%) Architect
6 43 (3.84%) Senior Analyst
7 40 (3.57%) Developer
8 38 (3.40%) Product Manager
8 38 (3.40%) Product Owner
9 37 (3.31%) Data Analyst
10 36 (3.22%) Business Analyst
11 35 (3.13%) Campaign Manager
12 32 (2.86%) Consultant
13 31 (2.77%) Development Manager
14 30 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
15 25 (2.23%) Engineering Manager
16 23 (2.06%) Accountant
17 22 (1.97%) Report Analyst
18 20 (1.79%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.68%) React
2 25 (2.23%) .NET
3 18 (1.61%) LangChain
4 17 (1.52%) CSS
4 17 (1.52%) HTML
5 16 (1.43%) REST
6 15 (1.34%) XML
7 12 (1.07%) Middleware
8 11 (0.98%) AWS CDK
8 11 (0.98%) Next.js
9 9 (0.80%) RESTful
10 8 (0.71%) Kafka
10 8 (0.71%) PySpark
10 8 (0.71%) Vue
11 7 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.63%) EDI
11 7 (0.63%) JSON
11 7 (0.63%) Node.js
11 7 (0.63%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 118 (10.55%) Product Ownership
2 93 (8.31%) Social Media
3 82 (7.33%) Marketing Technology
4 68 (6.08%) Over-the-Top Content
5 61 (5.45%) Onboarding
6 53 (4.74%) Cloud Native
7 38 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.41%) Mobile App
10 23 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.61%) Security Posture
14 17 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.52%) PMI
15 16 (1.43%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.25%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.77%) Android
2 29 (2.59%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.71%) Linux
5 6 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (25.20%) Analytics
2 281 (25.11%) Agile
3 248 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 247 (22.07%) Roadmaps
5 246 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
6 232 (20.73%) AI
7 183 (16.35%) Mentoring
8 168 (15.01%) Business Intelligence
9 152 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 131 (11.71%) Coaching
11 126 (11.26%) Customer Experience
12 116 (10.37%) CI/CD
12 116 (10.37%) CRM
13 114 (10.19%) Project Management
14 100 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 98 (8.76%) Data Modelling
16 94 (8.40%) Digital Marketing
17 93 (8.31%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 93 (8.31%) DevOps
18 90 (8.04%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 146 (13.05%) SQL
2 144 (12.87%) Python
3 32 (2.86%) Java
4 24 (2.14%) C#
5 23 (2.06%) TypeScript
6 21 (1.88%) R
7 20 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 10 (0.89%) VBA
9 8 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.63%) PHP
11 5 (0.45%) Bash
11 5 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.36%) Bicep
12 4 (0.36%) Scala
13 3 (0.27%) C++
14 2 (0.18%) C
14 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.089%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.089%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 148 (13.23%) Degree
2 93 (8.31%) ACCA
3 92 (8.22%) CIMA
4 71 (6.34%) Security Cleared
5 49 (4.38%) SC Cleared
6 48 (4.29%) DBS Check
7 37 (3.31%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.95%) PMI Certification
9 21 (1.88%) AAT
10 18 (1.61%) CISSP
11 16 (1.43%) PMP
12 15 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.98%) CISM
15 10 (0.89%) PhD
16 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 9 (0.80%) HNC
17 8 (0.71%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (10.90%) Data Quality
2 85 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 63 (5.63%) GDPR
4 60 (5.36%) QA
5 32 (2.86%) WCAG
6 27 (2.41%) GRC
7 25 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.61%) NIST
9 15 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (1.16%) P3O
11 11 (0.98%) NCSC
12 10 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.89%) PMO
13 9 (0.80%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.63%) SLA
15 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.54%) GAAP
16 5 (0.45%) IFRS
17 4 (0.36%) NIST 800
18 3 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (1.97%) Docker
2 6 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (1.70%) Kubernetes
1 19 (1.70%) Terraform
2 16 (1.43%) Grafana
3 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.36%) Nmap
4 4 (0.36%) SCCM
5 3 (0.27%) Argo
5 3 (0.27%) Control-M
5 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.18%) Packer
6 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) Salt
7 1 (0.089%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 170 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.94%) Adobe
3 45 (4.02%) Databricks
4 40 (3.57%) SAP
5 37 (3.31%) Google
6 36 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.50%) Oracle
8 21 (1.88%) HubSpot
8 21 (1.88%) Sage
8 21 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 11 (0.98%) Workday
10 10 (0.89%) Foundry
11 9 (0.80%) Informatica
12 8 (0.71%) BMC
12 8 (0.71%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.71%) Xero
13 6 (0.54%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.54%) Ariba
13 6 (0.54%) Cisco
13 6 (0.54%) Talend