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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 94 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 -29
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 677 624 543
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.73% 3.72% 2.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.11% 9.04% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 460 302 232
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,525 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,412 £80,000 £86,125
UK median annual salary £42,000 £37,500 £53,200
% change year-on-year +12.00% -29.51% +6.40%

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 9,528 6,900 7,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.45% 41.09% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,440 3,467 4,313
10th Percentile £32,670 £29,363 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.38% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,875 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 9 October 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 27 (3.99%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.33%) CMS
4 7 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.89%) WordPress
6 5 (0.74%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 49 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (0.89%) Navisworks
5 6 (0.89%) Revit
5 6 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.74%) InDesign
6 5 (0.74%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.15%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 9 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.74%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 5 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.74%) Primavera
2 5 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.44%) Sage 50
4 2 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) JDE World
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 74 (10.93%) SaaS
2 69 (10.19%) Azure
3 42 (6.20%) AWS
4 40 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (3.25%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.51%) Figma
7 15 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (2.22%) GCP
7 15 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.62%) GitHub
9 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (1.03%) IaaS
10 7 (1.03%) PaaS
10 7 (1.03%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (0.89%) Azure Functions
11 6 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.89%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.89%) Serverless
11 6 (0.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.10%) Firewall
2 18 (2.66%) VPN
3 16 (2.36%) LAN
3 16 (2.36%) WAN
4 15 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (2.07%) Broadband
6 12 (1.77%) Network Security
7 9 (1.33%) DNS
8 7 (1.03%) DHCP
9 6 (0.89%) Internet
10 5 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.74%) Wireless
10 5 (0.74%) WPA
11 4 (0.59%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.59%) VLAN
12 3 (0.44%) VoIP
13 2 (0.30%) Bluetooth
13 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.77%) Power BI
3 7 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.74%) Metadata
4 5 (0.74%) Tableau
5 4 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.59%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.59%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.59%) MySQL
5 4 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.44%) Looker
6 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 36 (5.32%) Git
2 16 (2.36%) JIRA
3 7 (1.03%) JUnit
3 7 (1.03%) Maven
3 7 (1.03%) Mockito
4 6 (0.89%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.44%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.44%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) Mocha
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 366 (54.06%) Social Skills
2 166 (24.52%) Marketing
3 163 (24.08%) Finance
4 129 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (10.93%) Organisational Skills
6 71 (10.49%) Retail
7 60 (8.86%) Presentation Skills
8 59 (8.71%) Public Sector
9 55 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (6.94%) Legal
11 44 (6.50%) Games
12 33 (4.87%) Manufacturing
13 31 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (4.58%) Telecoms
14 29 (4.28%) Law
15 28 (4.14%) Automotive
16 26 (3.84%) French Language
17 23 (3.40%) Banking
18 19 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (2.51%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 63 (9.31%) Developer
2 61 (9.01%) Business Manager
3 59 (8.71%) Business Development Manager
3 59 (8.71%) Development Manager
4 52 (7.68%) Analyst
5 48 (7.09%) Senior
6 30 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (3.99%) Sales Executive
8 23 (3.40%) Consultant
9 22 (3.25%) IT Support
10 20 (2.95%) Lead
11 17 (2.51%) Account Executive
11 17 (2.51%) Customer Service Specialist
12 16 (2.36%) IT Analyst
12 16 (2.36%) Recruitment Consultant
12 16 (2.36%) Sales Representative
12 16 (2.36%) Support Specialist
13 15 (2.22%) Business Development Executive
13 15 (2.22%) Project Manager
13 15 (2.22%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.94%) React
2 15 (2.22%) .NET
3 12 (1.77%) REST
4 8 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 8 (1.18%) Middleware
5 7 (1.03%) Spring
5 7 (1.03%) Terraform
6 6 (0.89%) Web Services
7 5 (0.74%) JSON
8 4 (0.59%) COM
8 4 (0.59%) CSS
8 4 (0.59%) DCOM
8 4 (0.59%) HTML
8 4 (0.59%) LDAP
9 3 (0.44%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.44%) EDI
9 3 (0.44%) RESTful
9 3 (0.44%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.30%) Kafka
10 2 (0.30%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.83%) Driving Licence
2 51 (7.53%) Management Information System
3 44 (6.50%) Social Media
4 43 (6.35%) Onboarding
5 40 (5.91%) Web Conferencing
6 26 (3.84%) Podcast
7 21 (3.10%) Mobile App
8 17 (2.51%) Blog
9 13 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.92%) FMCG
10 12 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 11 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.62%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.33%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (1.18%) Cloud Native
14 7 (1.03%) Educational Technology
14 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.03%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.61%) Windows
2 14 (2.07%) Linux
3 9 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.89%) VMS
5 3 (0.44%) Android
5 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.30%) VxWorks
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Solaris
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (26.59%) CRM
2 167 (24.67%) Business Development
3 153 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
4 133 (19.65%) Decision-Making
5 116 (17.13%) AI
6 106 (15.66%) Agile
7 104 (15.36%) Customer Service
8 102 (15.07%) B2B
9 85 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (10.49%) Mentoring
11 68 (10.04%) Customer Experience
12 66 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 63 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
14 59 (8.71%) Business Strategy
14 59 (8.71%) Coaching
14 59 (8.71%) Collaborative Culture
15 58 (8.57%) B2B Sales
16 52 (7.68%) Time Management
17 51 (7.53%) Lead Generation
17 51 (7.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (7.83%) JavaScript
2 49 (7.24%) SQL
3 39 (5.76%) TypeScript
4 23 (3.40%) Python
5 16 (2.36%) Java
6 14 (2.07%) Bash
7 11 (1.62%) C#
8 8 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.03%) Bicep
9 7 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.59%) C++
12 3 (0.44%) Perl
12 3 (0.44%) R
13 2 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.15%) Delphi
14 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.15%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 86 (12.70%) Degree
2 62 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 40 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.66%) DBS Check
5 18 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.36%) CISSP
7 14 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.92%) CISM
9 11 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.48%) CCNA
10 10 (1.48%) CCNP
10 10 (1.48%) PMP
11 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
13 7 (1.03%) CISA
13 7 (1.03%) CRISC
13 7 (1.03%) ISACA
14 6 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 6 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.20%) Accessibility
2 30 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.55%) GDPR
3 24 (3.55%) QA
4 19 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.92%) NIST
7 12 (1.77%) ISO 9001
7 12 (1.77%) PMO
8 10 (1.48%) GRC
9 9 (1.33%) PCI DSS
10 7 (1.03%) COBIT
10 7 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 7 (1.03%) SLA
10 7 (1.03%) SOC 1
10 7 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.89%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.74%) ISO 14001
12 5 (0.74%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.36%) Docker
3 11 (1.62%) Firmware
4 6 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.89%) vSphere
5 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.44%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 146 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.02%) SAP
3 33 (4.87%) Salesforce
4 30 (4.43%) HubSpot
5 24 (3.55%) Google
6 20 (2.95%) YouTube
7 18 (2.66%) Cisco
8 17 (2.51%) Oracle
9 11 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.48%) Adobe
11 7 (1.03%) Sage
12 6 (0.89%) ScienceLogic
12 6 (0.89%) VMware
13 3 (0.44%) Apple
13 3 (0.44%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.44%) Marketo
13 3 (0.44%) Pardot
13 3 (0.44%) Perforce
13 3 (0.44%) Planview
14 2 (0.30%) Infoblox