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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 103 111
Rank change year-on-year -30 +8 +23
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 411 562 903
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.02% 3.61% 2.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.46% 8.15% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 278 230 690
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £24,975
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year - -9.98% -9.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £64,075
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,625 £72,500
UK median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% -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 7,525 6,899 12,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.99% 44.34% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,645 3,493 9,304
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,524
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%

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 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%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (1.70%) Apache
4 7 (1.70%) WordPress
5 6 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.22%) CMS
6 5 (1.22%) IIS
7 3 (0.73%) Confluence
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 45 (10.95%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.16%) 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 61 (14.84%) Azure
2 45 (10.95%) AWS
3 28 (6.81%) SaaS
4 21 (5.11%) GCP
4 21 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 15 (3.65%) GitHub
6 15 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.43%) Serverless
8 9 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.19%) Figma
9 8 (1.95%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.70%) Canva
11 6 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.46%) Apigee
11 6 (1.46%) IaaS
11 6 (1.46%) Kong
11 6 (1.46%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.46%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.38%) Firewall
2 15 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (3.16%) 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%) CHAP
12 1 (0.24%) HTTP
12 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.16%) Power BI
2 10 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.43%) Tableau
3 9 (2.19%) Metadata
3 9 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.46%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.46%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (1.22%) MySQL
6 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.97%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.24%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (8.03%) 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%) 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%) Postman
6 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 177 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.71%) Finance
3 75 (18.25%) Marketing
4 74 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (16.30%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (9.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (7.54%) Retail
8 29 (7.06%) Automotive
9 27 (6.57%) Public Sector
10 22 (5.35%) 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 44 (10.71%) Developer
1 44 (10.71%) Senior
2 41 (9.98%) Analyst
3 34 (8.27%) Business Manager
4 32 (7.79%) Business Development Manager
4 32 (7.79%) Development Manager
5 29 (7.06%) Support Engineer
6 17 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (3.65%) Sales Executive
7 15 (3.65%) Technical Engineer
8 14 (3.41%) IT Support
8 14 (3.41%) Technical Support
8 14 (3.41%) Technical Support Engineer
9 13 (3.16%) Lead
9 13 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (2.92%) Account Manager
10 12 (2.92%) Business Development Executive
11 11 (2.68%) Consultant
11 11 (2.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (2.19%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.52%) React
2 19 (4.62%) REST
3 12 (2.92%) JSON
4 11 (2.68%) HTML
5 9 (2.19%) .NET
5 9 (2.19%) Web Services
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%) Kafka
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%) Middleware
8 5 (1.22%) Twisted
9 4 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.54%) Onboarding
2 29 (7.06%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.60%) Driving Licence
4 20 (4.87%) Social Media
5 16 (3.89%) 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
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%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.46%) Podcast
10 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.49%) 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
7 5 (1.22%) VMS
8 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.49%) AIX
9 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.24%) CentOS
10 1 (0.24%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.24%) Solaris
10 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (25.30%) Business Development
3 85 (20.68%) CRM
4 69 (16.79%) Agile
5 57 (13.87%) AI
6 56 (13.63%) B2B
7 51 (12.41%) Decision-Making
8 47 (11.44%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (10.22%) Mentoring
10 37 (9.00%) Coaching
11 36 (8.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 36 (8.76%) Customer Service
12 35 (8.52%) Analytics
12 35 (8.52%) Roadmaps
13 33 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 31 (7.54%) CI/CD
14 31 (7.54%) DevOps
15 29 (7.06%) B2B Sales
16 28 (6.81%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (12.17%) SQL
2 49 (11.92%) JavaScript
3 38 (9.25%) Python
4 33 (8.03%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.65%) Bash
6 12 (2.92%) Java
7 10 (2.43%) C#
8 9 (2.19%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.95%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.22%) Bicep
10 5 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.73%) C++
11 3 (0.73%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) Delphi
12 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.24%) Pascal
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) VBA
12 1 (0.24%) VC++
Qualifications
1 83 (20.19%) 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 10 (2.43%) DBS Check
7 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.95%) CISA
8 8 (1.95%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.70%) CRISC
9 7 (1.70%) ISACA
10 6 (1.46%) PMP
11 5 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.97%) CCSP
12 4 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.35%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (4.62%) QA
4 18 (4.38%) Data Quality
5 17 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (3.65%) GDPR
7 14 (3.41%) NIST
8 9 (2.19%) PCI DSS
8 9 (2.19%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.95%) COBIT
10 7 (1.70%) GRC
10 7 (1.70%) SOC 1
11 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.73%) PMO
12 3 (0.73%) SLA
12 3 (0.73%) WCAG
13 2 (0.49%) GMP
13 2 (0.49%) NCSC
14 1 (0.24%) EMIR
System Software
1 30 (7.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.43%) Docker
3 9 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.22%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.70%) Terraform
3 3 (0.73%) Ansible
3 3 (0.73%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.62%) SAP
3 17 (4.14%) Cisco
4 16 (3.89%) 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
9 5 (1.22%) Google
9 5 (1.22%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.22%) Sage
9 5 (1.22%) ScienceLogic
9 5 (1.22%) VMware
10 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.73%) Apple
11 3 (0.73%) Citrix