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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 147 92
Rank change year-on-year +32 -55 +27
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 384 329 947
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.29% 2.37% 3.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.62% 5.65% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 210 165 692
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,200 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.02% -9.11%
75th Percentile £61,938 £67,500 £64,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £41,234
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.32% -21.46%

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 5,800 5,828 11,023
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.59% 41.96% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,567 3,552 8,982
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%

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 12 March 2026.

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 12 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.60%) Apache
2 10 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Moodle
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.52%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.26%) InDesign
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.56%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.52%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 59 (15.36%) Azure
2 37 (9.64%) AWS
3 34 (8.85%) SaaS
4 31 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 30 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (4.43%) GCP
8 12 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.13%) GitHub
9 9 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (2.34%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.34%) OpenShift
9 9 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (1.56%) Google Docs
13 5 (1.30%) Apigee
13 5 (1.30%) Kong
13 5 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) Firewall
1 13 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (2.60%) DHCP
2 10 (2.60%) WAN
3 9 (2.34%) DNS
3 9 (2.34%) Internet
3 9 (2.34%) LAN
4 6 (1.56%) Broadband
4 6 (1.56%) VLAN
5 5 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.30%) VPN
6 4 (1.04%) LTE
6 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.04%) WLAN
7 3 (0.78%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.78%) DSL
7 3 (0.78%) IPv4
7 3 (0.78%) Network Security
7 3 (0.78%) PPP
7 3 (0.78%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.55%) Power BI
2 17 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (3.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (3.13%) Tableau
6 10 (2.60%) Metadata
7 9 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (2.34%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (1.82%) MySQL
9 6 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.78%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (5.47%) Git
2 13 (3.39%) JIRA
3 6 (1.56%) Selenium
3 6 (1.56%) WebDriver
4 5 (1.30%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.30%) GitLab
5 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.78%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.78%) JMeter
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.78%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.52%) Postman
6 2 (0.52%) Storybook
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.26%) git-flow
7 1 (0.26%) JUnit
7 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 230 (59.90%) Social Skills
2 122 (31.77%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (26.82%) Finance
4 52 (13.54%) Presentation Skills
5 44 (11.46%) Public Sector
6 43 (11.20%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (10.42%) Marketing
8 28 (7.29%) Law
9 25 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (6.51%) Manufacturing
10 21 (5.47%) Billing
11 16 (4.17%) Retail
11 16 (4.17%) Telecoms
12 15 (3.91%) Electronics
12 15 (3.91%) Financial Institution
13 13 (3.39%) Banking
14 12 (3.13%) Legal
15 8 (2.08%) Advertising
15 8 (2.08%) Automotive
16 7 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 57 (14.84%) Analyst
2 45 (11.72%) Support Engineer
3 38 (9.90%) Technical Support
4 37 (9.64%) Architect
5 36 (9.38%) Technical Engineer
5 36 (9.38%) Technical Support Engineer
6 33 (8.59%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (7.29%) Senior
8 21 (5.47%) Account Manager
8 21 (5.47%) IT Support
9 20 (5.21%) Sales Executive
10 16 (4.17%) Developer
10 16 (4.17%) Lead
10 16 (4.17%) Sales Manager
11 13 (3.39%) Insight Analyst
12 12 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.13%) Business Development Manager
12 12 (3.13%) Business Manager
12 12 (3.13%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (3.13%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.60%) HTML
1 10 (2.60%) REST
1 10 (2.60%) XML
2 9 (2.34%) Kafka
2 9 (2.34%) RESTful
3 8 (2.08%) JSON
4 6 (1.56%) OpenAPI
4 6 (1.56%) Swagger
5 5 (1.30%) Jinja
5 5 (1.30%) Node.js
5 5 (1.30%) Playwright
5 5 (1.30%) React
5 5 (1.30%) YAML
5 5 (1.30%) YANG
6 4 (1.04%) .NET
6 4 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.04%) CSS
6 4 (1.04%) HEVC
6 4 (1.04%) Web Services
7 3 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.94%) Onboarding
2 27 (7.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (6.77%) Virtual Team
4 18 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.43%) Social Media
6 13 (3.39%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.34%) Blog
8 8 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (1.82%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.56%) Solar Energy
10 6 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.30%) PMI
12 4 (1.04%) IoT
13 3 (0.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.16%) Windows
2 21 (5.47%) Linux
3 11 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.56%) Android
5 6 (1.56%) Unix
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.04%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.52%) Debian
7 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (22.92%) Analytics
3 84 (21.88%) Decision-Making
4 75 (19.53%) Business Development
5 72 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (18.75%) CRM
6 65 (16.93%) Agile
7 59 (15.36%) B2B
8 54 (14.06%) Customer Experience
9 50 (13.02%) AI
10 49 (12.76%) Customer Service
11 46 (11.98%) Coaching
12 44 (11.46%) Collaborative Culture
12 44 (11.46%) Project Management
13 40 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (9.64%) Strategic Thinking
15 36 (9.38%) Software Engineering
16 35 (9.11%) Data Analysis
17 33 (8.59%) DevOps
18 32 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (14.58%) SQL
2 36 (9.38%) Python
3 18 (4.69%) Java
3 18 (4.69%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.65%) C#
5 13 (3.39%) Bash
5 13 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (2.34%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.08%) C++
8 6 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.30%) C
10 3 (0.78%) PHP
10 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.78%) VBA
10 3 (0.78%) VC++
11 2 (0.52%) Bicep
11 2 (0.52%) R
11 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 97 (25.26%) Degree
2 37 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 10 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.82%) CFA
7 6 (1.56%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.78%) PMP
10 2 (0.52%) AAT
10 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CISA
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CISM
10 2 (0.52%) CISSP
10 2 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.95%) QA
3 14 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.56%) IFRS
6 4 (1.04%) EMIR
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.04%) WCAG
7 3 (0.78%) NIST
7 3 (0.78%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.52%) GMP
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.56%) Docker
3 5 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.56%) Ansible
2 6 (1.56%) Terraform
3 5 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.52%) SCOM
5 1 (0.26%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.91%) Oracle
3 13 (3.39%) Google
4 11 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.34%) Autodesk
6 8 (2.08%) Cisco
7 6 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.56%) Dell
7 6 (1.56%) HP
7 6 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.30%) F5
8 5 (1.30%) Juniper
8 5 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.04%) VMware
10 3 (0.78%) Adobe
10 3 (0.78%) Intel
10 3 (0.78%) SAP
10 3 (0.78%) Splunk
10 3 (0.78%) Veeam