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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 102 112
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 +30
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 411 567 871
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.02% 3.62% 2.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.43% 8.21% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 279 235 665
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,600 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,750 £64,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £91,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,659
% change year-on-year -1.18% +4.53% -22.55%

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 7,572 6,905 11,820
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.16% 44.14% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,698 3,511 9,106
10th Percentile £34,929 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £43,281
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 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.98%

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 26 June 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 20 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2010
2 9 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2013
3 7 (1.70%) WordPress
4 6 (1.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.22%) CMS
5 5 (1.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.73%) Confluence
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 42 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.97%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.49%) InDesign
8 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 13 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.22%) Primavera
3 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 62 (15.09%) Azure
2 44 (10.71%) AWS
3 28 (6.81%) SaaS
4 21 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (4.87%) GCP
6 19 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.65%) GitHub
7 15 (3.65%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.43%) Figma
8 10 (2.43%) Serverless
9 8 (1.95%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.70%) Canva
10 7 (1.70%) IaaS
10 7 (1.70%) PaaS
11 6 (1.46%) Apigee
11 6 (1.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (1.46%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.46%) Kong
11 6 (1.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.38%) Firewall
2 15 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (3.41%) VPN
4 12 (2.92%) Broadband
4 12 (2.92%) DNS
5 11 (2.68%) DHCP
6 10 (2.43%) Internet
7 7 (1.70%) LTE
7 7 (1.70%) WAN
8 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.46%) Network Security
8 6 (1.46%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.22%) LAN
10 3 (0.73%) DMARC
10 3 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.49%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.49%) WPA
12 1 (0.24%) HTTP
12 1 (0.24%) SNMP
12 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.16%) Power BI
2 11 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.43%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.19%) Tableau
5 8 (1.95%) Metadata
6 7 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (1.22%) MySQL
7 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.97%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.24%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Db2
10 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (7.79%) Git
2 12 (2.92%) JIRA
3 6 (1.46%) GitLab
4 3 (0.73%) JUnit
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.49%) Maven
5 2 (0.49%) Mockito
5 2 (0.49%) Postman
5 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.24%) git-flow
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) JMeter
6 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 177 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.98%) Finance
3 75 (18.25%) Marketing
4 73 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (16.06%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (7.06%) Automotive
7 29 (7.06%) Retail
8 26 (6.33%) Public Sector
9 23 (5.60%) Law
10 22 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (5.11%) Banking
12 20 (4.87%) Telecoms
13 15 (3.65%) Electronics
13 15 (3.65%) Games
13 15 (3.65%) Legal
14 14 (3.41%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.92%) Multimedia
16 9 (2.19%) Back Office
16 9 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (10.46%) Developer
1 43 (10.46%) Senior
2 42 (10.22%) Analyst
3 35 (8.52%) Business Manager
4 33 (8.03%) Business Development Manager
4 33 (8.03%) Development Manager
5 30 (7.30%) Support Engineer
6 17 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (3.89%) Technical Engineer
8 15 (3.65%) Sales Executive
8 15 (3.65%) Technical Support
8 15 (3.65%) Technical Support Engineer
9 14 (3.41%) IT Support
9 14 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (2.92%) Account Manager
10 12 (2.92%) Business Development Executive
10 12 (2.92%) Lead
11 11 (2.68%) Consultant
11 11 (2.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (2.19%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.76%) React
2 19 (4.62%) REST
3 11 (2.68%) JSON
4 10 (2.43%) HTML
4 10 (2.43%) Web Services
5 9 (2.19%) .NET
5 9 (2.19%) XML
6 7 (1.70%) HEVC
7 6 (1.46%) CSS
7 6 (1.46%) Django
7 6 (1.46%) Jinja
7 6 (1.46%) RESTful
7 6 (1.46%) WebSockets
7 6 (1.46%) YAML
7 6 (1.46%) YANG
8 5 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.22%) Kafka
8 5 (1.22%) Middleware
8 5 (1.22%) Twisted
9 4 (0.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.54%) Onboarding
2 29 (7.06%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.60%) Driving Licence
4 18 (4.38%) Social Media
5 15 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.92%) Blog
6 12 (2.92%) e-Learning
6 12 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (2.92%) Web Conferencing
7 9 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.19%) FMCG
8 8 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.70%) Freedom of Information
9 7 (1.70%) Freedom of Information Act
9 7 (1.70%) Podcast
9 7 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.73%) Windows
2 20 (4.87%) Linux
3 16 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.19%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (1.95%) Unix
6 6 (1.46%) Android
6 6 (1.46%) VMS
7 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.49%) AIX
8 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) Solaris
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (25.55%) Business Development
3 85 (20.68%) CRM
4 69 (16.79%) Agile
5 58 (14.11%) AI
6 57 (13.87%) B2B
7 51 (12.41%) Decision-Making
8 48 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (10.22%) Mentoring
10 41 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (8.76%) Coaching
11 36 (8.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 36 (8.76%) Customer Service
11 36 (8.76%) Roadmaps
12 34 (8.27%) Analytics
13 33 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (7.30%) CI/CD
14 30 (7.30%) DevOps
15 29 (7.06%) B2B Sales
16 28 (6.81%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.17%) SQL
2 48 (11.68%) JavaScript
3 37 (9.00%) Python
4 32 (7.79%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.65%) Bash
6 12 (2.92%) Java
7 11 (2.68%) C#
8 9 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.19%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) Bicep
9 6 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.73%) C++
11 3 (0.73%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) Delphi
12 1 (0.24%) Go
12 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.24%) Pascal
12 1 (0.24%) VBA
12 1 (0.24%) VC++
Qualifications
1 80 (19.46%) Degree
2 41 (9.98%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.65%) CISSP
5 14 (3.41%) CISM
6 13 (3.16%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.95%) CISA
10 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.70%) CRISC
10 7 (1.70%) ISACA
10 7 (1.70%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.46%) PMP
12 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.97%) CCSP
12 4 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.73%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (4.38%) QA
4 17 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (3.65%) GDPR
6 14 (3.41%) NIST
7 9 (2.19%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.19%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.95%) COBIT
9 7 (1.70%) GRC
9 7 (1.70%) SOC 1
10 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.73%) PMO
11 3 (0.73%) SLA
12 2 (0.49%) GMP
12 2 (0.49%) NCSC
12 2 (0.49%) WCAG
13 1 (0.24%) EMIR
System Software
1 30 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.43%) Docker
3 9 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.95%) Terraform
3 7 (1.70%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.73%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.38%) SAP
3 17 (4.14%) Cisco
4 15 (3.65%) Oracle
5 13 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.19%) Adobe
6 9 (2.19%) Dell
6 9 (2.19%) HP
7 8 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.46%) F5
8 6 (1.46%) Juniper
8 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.46%) ScienceLogic
8 6 (1.46%) VMware
9 5 (1.22%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.22%) Sage
10 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.97%) Google
11 3 (0.73%) Apple
11 3 (0.73%) Citrix