Hybrid/Remote Self-Motivation Job Trends

Self-Motivation
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 103 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +13
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 419 533 597
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.74% 3.09% 3.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.90% 7.91% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 262 214 410
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £28,000 £39,449 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +0.92% -2.70%
75th Percentile £56,875 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £54,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -30.56% +0.93% +1.90%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,306 6,735 7,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.72% 39.06% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,428 3,828 5,919
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,266
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,173 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,063 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £103,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Self-Motivation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Self-Motivation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Self-Motivation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Self-Motivation
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 9 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.72%) Apache
3 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.48%) Confluence
4 2 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 46 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.19%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.24%) InDesign
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Shopify
2 7 (1.67%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.19%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.24%) Endur
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.65%) Azure
2 40 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (8.35%) Power Platform
4 29 (6.92%) SaaS
5 21 (5.01%) AWS
6 19 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (3.10%) GitHub
7 13 (3.10%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.67%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.19%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.19%) Google Docs
11 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.19%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.95%) GCP
12 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (2.39%) Firewall
2 10 (2.39%) Internet
2 10 (2.39%) VPN
3 9 (2.15%) VLAN
3 9 (2.15%) VoIP
4 8 (1.91%) DNS
4 8 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.91%) WAN
5 7 (1.67%) DHCP
5 7 (1.67%) LAN
6 6 (1.43%) Broadband
7 4 (0.95%) WLAN
8 3 (0.72%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.72%) DSL
8 3 (0.72%) IPv4
8 3 (0.72%) IPv6
8 3 (0.72%) PPP
8 3 (0.72%) RTP
8 3 (0.72%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.11%) Power BI
2 23 (5.49%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (3.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (2.86%) GIS
5 11 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (1.91%) MySQL
7 6 (1.43%) MariaDB
7 6 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.19%) Tableau
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.72%) Metadata
10 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (4.30%) Selenium
2 17 (4.06%) WebDriver
3 14 (3.34%) Git
3 14 (3.34%) JIRA
4 9 (2.15%) Cypress.io
4 9 (2.15%) Postman
4 9 (2.15%) SoapUI
4 9 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.72%) JMeter
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.48%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.24%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.24%) TestNG
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 247 (58.95%) Social Skills
2 134 (31.98%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (29.83%) Finance
4 60 (14.32%) Presentation Skills
5 56 (13.37%) Marketing
6 49 (11.69%) Public Sector
7 35 (8.35%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (6.44%) Manufacturing
9 26 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (5.97%) Billing
10 25 (5.97%) Law
11 18 (4.30%) Legal
12 15 (3.58%) Retail
12 15 (3.58%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.63%) Advertising
14 9 (2.15%) Local Government
15 8 (1.91%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.67%) Automotive
16 7 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.19%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 63 (15.04%) Analyst
2 47 (11.22%) Technical Support
3 40 (9.55%) Support Engineer
4 37 (8.83%) Technical Engineer
4 37 (8.83%) Technical Support Engineer
5 33 (7.88%) IT Support
6 32 (7.64%) Architect
7 29 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 29 (6.92%) Support Technician
8 25 (5.97%) IT Support Technician
8 25 (5.97%) IT Technician
8 25 (5.97%) Sales Executive
9 20 (4.77%) Senior
10 19 (4.53%) Lead
11 18 (4.30%) Account Manager
11 18 (4.30%) Developer
11 18 (4.30%) Sales Manager
12 17 (4.06%) Business Development Manager
12 17 (4.06%) Business Manager
12 17 (4.06%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.58%) HTML
2 14 (3.34%) .NET
3 9 (2.15%) SOAP
4 8 (1.91%) Playwright
5 7 (1.67%) Node.js
6 4 (0.95%) Vue
7 3 (0.72%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (0.72%) Kafka
7 3 (0.72%) RESTful
8 2 (0.48%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.48%) CSS
8 2 (0.48%) CSS3
8 2 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.48%) HTML5
8 2 (0.48%) OpenAPI
8 2 (0.48%) Sass
8 2 (0.48%) Swagger
8 2 (0.48%) XML
8 2 (0.48%) XSLT
8 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.93%) Onboarding
2 29 (6.92%) Virtual Team
3 27 (6.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.06%) Driving Licence
6 14 (3.34%) Social Media
7 10 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (1.67%) IoT
9 7 (1.67%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.72%) Blog
12 3 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.72%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.72%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 63 (15.04%) Windows
2 24 (5.73%) Windows 10
3 23 (5.49%) Apple iOS
4 22 (5.25%) Linux
5 10 (2.39%) Windows 7
6 7 (1.67%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.19%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.95%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.48%) Android
9 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.48%) Unix
10 1 (0.24%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (45.35%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (21.72%) Decision-Making
3 82 (19.57%) Analytics
4 75 (17.90%) Agile
5 71 (16.95%) Business Development
5 71 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (16.71%) CRM
6 70 (16.71%) Customer Service
7 63 (15.04%) B2B
8 50 (11.93%) Customer Experience
9 49 (11.69%) AI
10 48 (11.46%) Coaching
11 44 (10.50%) Mentoring
12 43 (10.26%) Project Management
13 40 (9.55%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (9.31%) Time Management
14 39 (9.31%) User Experience
15 38 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (9.07%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 35 (8.35%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.95%) SQL
2 27 (6.44%) C#
3 26 (6.21%) Python
4 25 (5.97%) Java
5 13 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.91%) C++
8 7 (1.67%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.67%) PHP
9 6 (1.43%) Bash
10 5 (1.19%) C
10 5 (1.19%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
11 2 (0.48%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.48%) R
11 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.48%) VBA
11 2 (0.48%) VC++
12 1 (0.24%) Ruby
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (25.06%) Degree
2 43 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.01%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.15%) ISTQB
7 9 (2.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (1.91%) CFA
9 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.43%) MCSE
10 5 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.19%) MCP
10 5 (1.19%) MCSA
11 4 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.72%) AAT
12 3 (0.72%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.77%) QA
3 13 (3.10%) SLA
4 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.67%) GDPR
6 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.19%) IFRS
8 4 (0.95%) PMO
8 4 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.72%) EMIR
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
11 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
11 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (9.07%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.43%) Firmware
4 3 (0.72%) Docker
4 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) iptables
6 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.95%) Terraform
4 3 (0.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) SCOM
6 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 90 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.34%) Google
3 11 (2.63%) Autodesk
4 10 (2.39%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.39%) VMware
5 7 (1.67%) Cisco
6 6 (1.43%) Apple
6 6 (1.43%) Oracle
6 6 (1.43%) Xero
7 4 (0.95%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.95%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.72%) Intel
8 3 (0.72%) YouTube
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe
9 2 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.48%) Mercator
9 2 (0.48%) Nokia
9 2 (0.48%) TP-LINK
9 2 (0.48%) Ubiquiti