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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 103 103
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 +30
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 336 500 932
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.82% 3.44% 2.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.32% 7.65% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 221 201 711
10th Percentile £27,875 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £42,417 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.70% +18.75% -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 6,317 6,532 11,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.13% 44.94% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 3,571 9,269
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £102,500
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 14 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 21 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.98%) Apache
4 9 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.68%) Exchange Server 2007
4 9 (2.68%) Exchange Server 2010
4 9 (2.68%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (1.19%) WordPress
6 3 (0.89%) CMS
6 3 (0.89%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 54 (16.07%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.89%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 8 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.89%) Primavera
3 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.58%) Azure
2 42 (12.50%) AWS
3 29 (8.63%) SaaS
4 26 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.25%) GCP
6 17 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.87%) GitHub
9 9 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.38%) Figma
10 8 (2.38%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.38%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.79%) Apigee
11 6 (1.79%) Google Docs
11 6 (1.79%) Kong
11 6 (1.79%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.79%) Serverless
12 5 (1.49%) Canva
12 5 (1.49%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.87%) Firewall
2 12 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (2.68%) DHCP
3 9 (2.68%) DNS
3 9 (2.68%) LAN
4 8 (2.38%) Broadband
4 8 (2.38%) Internet
4 8 (2.38%) WAN
5 7 (2.08%) LTE
6 6 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.49%) VPN
8 4 (1.19%) VLAN
8 4 (1.19%) WLAN
9 3 (0.89%) DMARC
9 3 (0.89%) Network Security
10 2 (0.60%) 4G
10 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.30%) AMQP
11 1 (0.30%) CHAP
11 1 (0.30%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.46%) Power BI
2 12 (3.57%) Tableau
3 10 (2.98%) Metadata
4 9 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (2.68%) Amazon QuickSight
4 9 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.19%) MySQL
9 3 (0.89%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 25 (7.44%) Git
2 8 (2.38%) JIRA
3 6 (1.79%) GitLab
4 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.60%) JUnit
5 2 (0.60%) Storybook
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.30%) git-flow
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) JMeter
6 1 (0.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) Postman
6 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 153 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (18.75%) Finance
4 61 (18.15%) Marketing
5 50 (14.88%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (7.74%) Automotive
8 23 (6.85%) Law
9 19 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (5.65%) Retail
10 17 (5.06%) Banking
10 17 (5.06%) Manufacturing
11 16 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 16 (4.76%) Telecoms
12 15 (4.46%) Electronics
12 15 (4.46%) Games
13 9 (2.68%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.68%) Legal
14 6 (1.79%) Back Office
14 6 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (11.61%) Senior
2 36 (10.71%) Analyst
3 27 (8.04%) Developer
4 24 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 18 (5.36%) Business Manager
6 17 (5.06%) IT Support
6 17 (5.06%) Lead
7 16 (4.76%) Business Development Manager
7 16 (4.76%) Development Manager
8 15 (4.46%) Sales Executive
9 14 (4.17%) Account Manager
10 12 (3.57%) Business Development Executive
11 11 (3.27%) IT Engineer
11 11 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (2.98%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 9 (2.68%) Lead Data Engineer
14 8 (2.38%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.85%) React
2 17 (5.06%) REST
3 11 (3.27%) HTML
4 10 (2.98%) XML
5 9 (2.68%) JSON
5 9 (2.68%) Kafka
6 8 (2.38%) Web Services
7 7 (2.08%) HEVC
7 7 (2.08%) RESTful
8 6 (1.79%) CSS
8 6 (1.79%) Django
8 6 (1.79%) Jinja
8 6 (1.79%) WebSockets
8 6 (1.79%) YAML
8 6 (1.79%) YANG
9 5 (1.49%) Twisted
10 4 (1.19%) .NET
10 4 (1.19%) Node.js
10 4 (1.19%) OpenAPI
10 4 (1.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.04%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.55%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.65%) Social Media
4 17 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.76%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.68%) Blog
7 9 (2.68%) Web Conferencing
8 6 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.49%) PMI
9 5 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.89%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Licensing
11 3 (0.89%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.71%) Windows
2 20 (5.95%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.65%) Linux
4 9 (2.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.08%) Unix
6 6 (1.79%) Android
7 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.60%) AIX
8 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) Solaris
9 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (25.00%) Business Development
3 70 (20.83%) CRM
4 47 (13.99%) Agile
5 45 (13.39%) AI
6 42 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (12.20%) B2B
8 37 (11.01%) Collaborative Culture
9 34 (10.12%) Analytics
10 33 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (9.82%) Decision-Making
11 32 (9.52%) Customer Service
12 28 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 28 (8.33%) DevOps
13 27 (8.04%) Roadmaps
14 26 (7.74%) Coaching
14 26 (7.74%) Software Engineering
15 25 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (6.55%) B2B Sales
16 22 (6.55%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 44 (13.10%) SQL
2 41 (12.20%) Python
3 38 (11.31%) JavaScript
4 24 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 12 (3.57%) Bash
6 11 (3.27%) Java
7 8 (2.38%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.08%) C#
9 4 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.60%) VBA
11 2 (0.60%) VC++
12 1 (0.30%) C
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (21.43%) Degree
2 33 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.79%) CFA
4 6 (1.79%) CISSP
4 6 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.79%) DBS Check
4 6 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.49%) CISA
5 5 (1.49%) CISM
5 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.89%) CRISC
6 3 (0.89%) ISACA
6 3 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.89%) PhD
7 2 (0.60%) CCNA
7 2 (0.60%) CCNP
7 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.46%) QA
3 13 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.68%) GDPR
5 7 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.08%) NIST
6 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.19%) COBIT
8 4 (1.19%) WCAG
9 3 (0.89%) SOC 1
10 2 (0.60%) EMIR
10 2 (0.60%) GMP
10 2 (0.60%) GRC
10 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.30%) IFRS
11 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.38%) Docker
3 5 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.89%) Ansible
3 3 (0.89%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.60%) Terraform
5 1 (0.30%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.46%) Oracle
3 12 (3.57%) SAP
4 11 (3.27%) Google
5 9 (2.68%) Dell
5 9 (2.68%) HP
6 8 (2.38%) Cisco
6 8 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.79%) F5
7 6 (1.79%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.79%) Juniper
7 6 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.49%) Adobe
9 4 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.19%) Sage
10 3 (0.89%) Citrix
10 3 (0.89%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.89%) Intel
10 3 (0.89%) Veeam