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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 78 35
Rank change year-on-year +51 -43 +11
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 1,374 701 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.92% 4.58% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 4.84% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 856 414 1,089
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,700
% change year-on-year - +9.69% -8.15%

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 16,250 14,485 30,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.82% 94.60% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,711 8,403 23,769
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 41 (2.98%) Confluence
2 35 (2.55%) CMS
2 35 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.36%) WordPress
7 4 (0.29%) Apache
7 4 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.073%) Drupal
10 1 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.073%) Resin
10 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 104 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 35 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.51%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.22%) Blender
9 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.22%) Maya
10 2 (0.15%) Trello
11 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.84%) Workfront
2 34 (2.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 17 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.36%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 5 (0.36%) Shopify
7 4 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 254 (18.49%) Azure
2 170 (12.37%) Power Platform
3 148 (10.77%) AWS
4 106 (7.71%) SaaS
5 55 (4.00%) GCP
6 53 (3.86%) iPaaS
7 43 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 40 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (2.55%) Serverless
10 27 (1.97%) Figma
10 27 (1.97%) GitHub
11 25 (1.82%) Adobe Analytics
11 25 (1.82%) Contentsquare
12 19 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
14 17 (1.24%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 177 (12.88%) Broadband
2 9 (0.66%) Network Security
3 8 (0.58%) Firewall
3 8 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.36%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.36%) WAN
5 4 (0.29%) DNS
5 4 (0.29%) LAN
5 4 (0.29%) VPN
6 3 (0.22%) BGP
6 3 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.22%) Modbus
6 3 (0.22%) MPLS
6 3 (0.22%) OSPF
6 3 (0.22%) SSL
6 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.15%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.15%) SMS
7 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (11.35%) Power BI
2 74 (5.39%) Metadata
3 48 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (2.98%) Tableau
5 37 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 31 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.09%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.02%) Big Data
10 14 (1.02%) MySQL
10 14 (1.02%) Oracle Database
10 14 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.73%) Looker
11 10 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (2.62%) JIRA
2 24 (1.75%) Git
3 8 (0.58%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.51%) JMeter
4 7 (0.51%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.44%) GitLab
6 5 (0.36%) Locust
7 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.29%) MLflow
7 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.22%) Vite
9 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.15%) Vagrant
General
1 465 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 401 (29.18%) Finance
3 376 (27.37%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (15.07%) Marketing
5 121 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (8.52%) Public Sector
7 92 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
8 83 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
9 78 (5.68%) Legal
10 75 (5.46%) Games
11 71 (5.17%) Retail
12 48 (3.49%) Law
13 36 (2.62%) Local Government
14 31 (2.26%) Manufacturing
14 31 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (2.11%) Banking
16 21 (1.53%) Advertising
17 19 (1.38%) Publishing
18 13 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
19 10 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 225 (16.38%) Senior
2 209 (15.21%) Analyst
3 146 (10.63%) Lead
4 88 (6.40%) Architect
5 67 (4.88%) Data Engineer
6 63 (4.59%) Data Analyst
7 61 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
7 61 (4.44%) Senior Manager
8 57 (4.15%) Product Owner
9 52 (3.78%) Developer
10 47 (3.42%) Consultant
11 41 (2.98%) Product Manager
12 40 (2.91%) Development Manager
13 36 (2.62%) Business Analyst
13 36 (2.62%) Campaign Manager
14 29 (2.11%) Business Manager
15 27 (1.97%) Engineering Manager
15 27 (1.97%) Software Engineer
16 25 (1.82%) Accountant
17 24 (1.75%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.28%) React
2 31 (2.26%) .NET
3 25 (1.82%) LangChain
4 22 (1.60%) REST
5 18 (1.31%) CSS
6 17 (1.24%) HTML
6 17 (1.24%) Node.js
7 16 (1.16%) Next.js
8 15 (1.09%) XML
9 14 (1.02%) AWS CDK
10 13 (0.95%) RESTful
11 12 (0.87%) Spring
12 10 (0.73%) Kafka
12 10 (0.73%) Spring Boot
13 9 (0.66%) Middleware
13 9 (0.66%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.66%) Vue
14 8 (0.58%) AngularJS
14 8 (0.58%) PySpark
14 8 (0.58%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 139 (10.12%) Product Ownership
2 119 (8.66%) Social Media
3 102 (7.42%) Marketing Technology
4 88 (6.40%) Over-the-Top Content
5 68 (4.95%) Cloud Native
6 59 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 58 (4.22%) Management Information System
8 42 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (2.62%) AI Agents
10 31 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (2.26%) Mobile App
11 26 (1.89%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 23 (1.67%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (1.31%) Credit Risk
15 18 (1.31%) PMI
16 17 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 16 (1.16%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.40%) Android
2 29 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 17 (1.24%) Windows
4 7 (0.51%) Linux
5 6 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (25.76%) Agile
2 331 (24.09%) Analytics
3 323 (23.51%) Roadmaps
4 310 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 306 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 297 (21.62%) AI
7 222 (16.16%) Mentoring
8 203 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 187 (13.61%) Business Intelligence
10 150 (10.92%) Customer Experience
10 150 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 144 (10.48%) CI/CD
12 139 (10.12%) Coaching
13 133 (9.68%) CRM
13 133 (9.68%) Project Management
14 131 (9.53%) Data Modelling
15 122 (8.88%) Actionable Insight
16 117 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
17 116 (8.44%) DevOps
18 114 (8.30%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 192 (13.97%) SQL
2 185 (13.46%) Python
3 39 (2.84%) TypeScript
4 37 (2.69%) Java
5 32 (2.33%) C#
6 31 (2.26%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.53%) R
8 9 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (0.66%) VBA
9 8 (0.58%) Bash
9 8 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.51%) Bicep
10 7 (0.51%) C++
11 5 (0.36%) PHP
11 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.29%) Ruby
13 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) C
14 2 (0.15%) Formula Language
14 2 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 168 (12.23%) Degree
2 94 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.97%) ACCA
4 79 (5.75%) CIMA
5 74 (5.39%) SC Cleared
6 54 (3.93%) DBS Check
7 40 (2.91%) PMI Certification
8 34 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.89%) CISSP
10 22 (1.60%) PMP
11 20 (1.46%) AAT
11 20 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (1.24%) CISM
13 15 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 14 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (0.73%) PhD
18 9 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.66%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 84 (6.11%) GDPR
4 75 (5.46%) QA
5 37 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (2.26%) WCAG
7 29 (2.11%) GRC
8 25 (1.82%) NIST
9 22 (1.60%) PMO
10 20 (1.46%) SLA
11 19 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.95%) P3O
13 12 (0.87%) NCSC
14 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.80%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.73%) IFRS
16 9 (0.66%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.29%) GAAP
17 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 35 (2.55%) Docker
2 9 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) Firmware
3 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.15%) vSphere
6 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.67%) Terraform
3 16 (1.16%) Grafana
4 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.51%) Nmap
6 4 (0.29%) SCCM
7 3 (0.22%) Argo
7 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.15%) Ansible
8 2 (0.15%) Control-M
8 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.15%) Salt
9 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 196 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 118 (8.59%) Adobe
3 44 (3.20%) Salesforce
4 41 (2.98%) Databricks
5 39 (2.84%) Google
6 35 (2.55%) SAP
7 28 (2.04%) Oracle
8 19 (1.38%) HubSpot
8 19 (1.38%) Sage
9 18 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.87%) Foundry
11 11 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.73%) Cisco
12 10 (0.73%) Informatica
12 10 (0.73%) Xero
13 9 (0.66%) Workday
14 8 (0.58%) BMC
15 6 (0.44%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.44%) Ariba
16 5 (0.36%) Talend