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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 104 104
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 +36
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 363 517 918
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.89% 3.55% 2.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.46% 7.76% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 241 213 708
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,350 £24,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -11.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -23.81%

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 6,644 6,662 11,804
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.67% 45.69% 35.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,193 3,339 9,267
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 28 May 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 19 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.48%) Apache
3 9 (2.48%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (2.48%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (2.48%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.65%) WordPress
6 5 (1.38%) CMS
7 3 (0.83%) Confluence
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 55 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (4.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.83%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 13 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.10%) Primavera
3 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.77%) Azure
2 43 (11.85%) AWS
3 28 (7.71%) SaaS
4 25 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (6.06%) GCP
6 17 (4.68%) Power Platform
7 16 (4.41%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.31%) GitHub
9 9 (2.48%) Figma
10 8 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (2.20%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.20%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.93%) Canva
12 6 (1.65%) Apigee
12 6 (1.65%) Kong
12 6 (1.65%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.65%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.65%) Serverless
12 6 (1.65%) Smartsheet
13 5 (1.38%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.13%) Firewall
2 11 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.75%) Broadband
3 10 (2.75%) DHCP
3 10 (2.75%) DNS
4 9 (2.48%) LAN
5 8 (2.20%) Internet
5 8 (2.20%) WAN
6 7 (1.93%) LTE
6 7 (1.93%) VPN
7 6 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (1.38%) Network Security
9 3 (0.83%) DMARC
9 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.83%) VLAN
9 3 (0.83%) WLAN
10 2 (0.55%) 4G
10 2 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.28%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.13%) Power BI
2 12 (3.31%) Tableau
3 9 (2.48%) Metadata
3 9 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
4 8 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (2.20%) Apache Iceberg
4 8 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.38%) MySQL
8 3 (0.83%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.28%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (7.44%) Git
2 12 (3.31%) JIRA
3 6 (1.65%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) JUnit
4 3 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.55%) Maven
5 2 (0.55%) Mockito
5 2 (0.55%) Storybook
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.28%) git-flow
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) Postman
6 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 165 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 72 (19.83%) Finance
2 72 (19.83%) Marketing
3 70 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (14.05%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (7.16%) Automotive
7 21 (5.79%) Law
8 20 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (5.51%) Telecoms
9 19 (5.23%) Public Sector
9 19 (5.23%) Retail
10 16 (4.41%) Banking
11 15 (4.13%) Electronics
11 15 (4.13%) Games
11 15 (4.13%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.75%) Legal
13 8 (2.20%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (11.85%) Senior
2 35 (9.64%) Analyst
3 34 (9.37%) Developer
4 25 (6.89%) Business Manager
5 24 (6.61%) Support Engineer
6 23 (6.34%) Business Development Manager
6 23 (6.34%) Development Manager
7 17 (4.68%) Sales Executive
8 16 (4.41%) IT Support
8 16 (4.41%) Lead
9 14 (3.86%) Account Manager
10 13 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.31%) Business Development Executive
12 11 (3.03%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Consultant
13 10 (2.75%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) IT Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) IT Support Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 9 (2.48%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.71%) React
2 18 (4.96%) REST
3 12 (3.31%) HTML
4 10 (2.75%) XML
5 9 (2.48%) JSON
5 9 (2.48%) Web Services
6 8 (2.20%) Kafka
7 7 (1.93%) CSS
7 7 (1.93%) HEVC
7 7 (1.93%) RESTful
8 6 (1.65%) Django
8 6 (1.65%) Jinja
8 6 (1.65%) WebSockets
8 6 (1.65%) YAML
8 6 (1.65%) YANG
9 5 (1.38%) .NET
9 5 (1.38%) Twisted
10 4 (1.10%) EDI
10 4 (1.10%) OpenAPI
10 4 (1.10%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.79%) Social Media
4 17 (4.68%) Driving Licence
5 15 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.58%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (3.31%) Blog
8 11 (3.03%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.65%) FMCG
10 6 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.38%) PMI
11 5 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Licensing
13 3 (0.83%) Replication
13 3 (0.83%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.64%) Windows
2 20 (5.51%) Linux
3 18 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.20%) Unix
6 7 (1.93%) Android
7 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.55%) AIX
8 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Debian
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (25.90%) Business Development
1 94 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (21.21%) CRM
3 56 (15.43%) Agile
4 49 (13.50%) B2B
5 45 (12.40%) AI
6 40 (11.02%) Collaborative Culture
6 40 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (10.19%) Decision-Making
8 36 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (9.64%) Analytics
10 32 (8.82%) Customer Service
11 29 (7.99%) CI/CD
12 28 (7.71%) Coaching
12 28 (7.71%) DevOps
12 28 (7.71%) Software Engineering
13 27 (7.44%) B2B Sales
13 27 (7.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (7.44%) Roadmaps
14 25 (6.89%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.85%) JavaScript
1 43 (11.85%) SQL
2 42 (11.57%) Python
3 27 (7.44%) TypeScript
4 13 (3.58%) Java
5 12 (3.31%) Bash
6 8 (2.20%) C#
7 7 (1.93%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.10%) C++
10 3 (0.83%) Perl
10 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) VBA
11 2 (0.55%) VC++
12 1 (0.28%) Go
12 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 77 (21.21%) Degree
2 37 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.51%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 7 (1.93%) CISSP
7 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.65%) CISM
7 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.65%) PMP
8 5 (1.38%) CISA
8 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.10%) CFA
10 3 (0.83%) CAPM
10 3 (0.83%) CCNP
10 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.83%) CRISC
10 3 (0.83%) ISACA
10 3 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.96%) QA
3 13 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (2.48%) GDPR
5 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.20%) NIST
6 5 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.38%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.10%) COBIT
7 4 (1.10%) WCAG
8 3 (0.83%) GRC
8 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.83%) PMO
8 3 (0.83%) SOC 1
9 2 (0.55%) EMIR
9 2 (0.55%) GMP
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.75%) Docker
3 6 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.83%) Ansible
3 3 (0.83%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.55%) Terraform
5 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.96%) SAP
3 17 (4.68%) Oracle
4 11 (3.03%) Cisco
5 10 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.48%) Dell
6 9 (2.48%) Google
6 9 (2.48%) HP
7 8 (2.20%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.93%) Adobe
9 6 (1.65%) F5
9 6 (1.65%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.65%) Juniper
9 6 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.10%) Sage
11 3 (0.83%) Apple
11 3 (0.83%) Citrix
11 3 (0.83%) Intel
11 3 (0.83%) Planview