Self-Motivation
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 115 87
Rank change year-on-year +49 -28 +47
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 3,686 3,139 6,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.74% 3.02% 3.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.54% 7.08% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,228 1,697 2,552
10th Percentile £24,203 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £36,250 £35,957
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,550 £87,813 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,500 £47,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -23.16% +7.95% +3.53%

All Generic Skills
UK

Self-Motivation is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation.

Salary trend for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +54 3,400 £40,000 -23.81% 1,347
UK excluding London +42 2,718 £36,500 -23.16% 1,051
Work from Home +38 953 £49,000 -10.91% 490
South East +48 891 £37,000 -26.00% 273
London +35 789 £55,000 -18.52% 360
North of England +79 538 £35,000 -26.32% 257
Midlands +34 479 £37,500 -21.05% 209
South West +69 390 £40,000 -13.04% 137
North West +74 335 £35,000 -22.22% 161
East of England +10 270 £33,000 -37.14% 121
West Midlands +6 264 £35,000 -26.32% 120
East Midlands +67 211 £40,000 -5.88% 89
Yorkshire +70 151 £35,000 -30.00% 78
Scotland -108 76 £30,000 -41.46% 67
Wales +23 63 £47,304 +18.26% 24
North East +3 52 £32,000 -18.99% 25
Northern Ireland +18 13 £37,750 -21.35% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 - 3

Self-Motivation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 125 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 74 (2.01%) IIS
4 53 (1.44%) CMS
5 41 (1.11%) Umbraco
6 37 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
7 36 (0.98%) Headless CMS
8 35 (0.95%) Kentico
8 35 (0.95%) WordPress
9 13 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
9 13 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
9 13 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
9 13 (0.35%) Skype for Business
10 12 (0.33%) nginx
11 10 (0.27%) Confluence
12 9 (0.24%) Office Communications Server
13 8 (0.22%) Apache Pig
14 7 (0.19%) SAS
15 6 (0.16%) Apache
15 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 667 (18.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 494 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
3 407 (11.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 16 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 15 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 14 (0.38%) AutoCAD
10 13 (0.35%) OrCAD
11 12 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
12 8 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
12 8 (0.22%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.22%) InDesign
13 7 (0.19%) Simulink
14 6 (0.16%) Sketch
15 5 (0.14%) Stateflow
16 4 (0.11%) Revit
16 4 (0.11%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 35 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 9 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
8 3 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.081%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.081%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.081%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.081%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.054%) Endur
9 2 (0.054%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.054%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.054%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 451 (12.24%) Azure
2 300 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
3 288 (7.81%) GCP
4 276 (7.49%) AWS
5 143 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 118 (3.20%) SaaS
7 81 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 64 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (0.95%) Kontent
10 33 (0.90%) Snowflake
11 32 (0.87%) Google Analytics
12 31 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 31 (0.84%) dbt
12 31 (0.84%) Matillion
13 27 (0.73%) OneDrive
14 25 (0.68%) GitHub
15 24 (0.65%) WhatsApp
16 23 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (0.54%) Amazon S3
18 19 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.58%) DNS
2 131 (3.55%) Firewall
3 80 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 80 (2.17%) Wireless
4 70 (1.90%) Internet
5 67 (1.82%) DHCP
6 66 (1.79%) WAN
7 61 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
8 54 (1.47%) LAN
9 50 (1.36%) Network Security
10 44 (1.19%) SAN
11 36 (0.98%) SSL
12 34 (0.92%) VPN
13 31 (0.84%) Broadband
14 30 (0.81%) Unified Communications
15 29 (0.79%) Ethernet
16 28 (0.76%) VoIP
17 23 (0.62%) HTTP
18 22 (0.60%) SD-WAN
19 20 (0.54%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (7.79%) Looker
2 279 (7.57%) BigQuery
3 227 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 165 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 133 (3.61%) Power BI
6 46 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 43 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 41 (1.11%) Power Query
9 39 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (0.98%) MySQL
12 35 (0.95%) Tableau
13 31 (0.84%) Big Data
14 30 (0.81%) Star Schema
15 24 (0.65%) RDBMS
15 24 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 24 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 21 (0.57%) Metadata
17 16 (0.43%) NoSQL
18 15 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 75 (2.03%) Git
2 58 (1.57%) GitLab
3 52 (1.41%) JIRA
4 37 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.65%) LabVIEW
6 14 (0.38%) Selenium
7 11 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.22%) Checkstyle
10 8 (0.22%) JUnit
10 8 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.19%) MSI
11 7 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.16%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.16%) JBehave
12 6 (0.16%) Postman
12 6 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 2,029 (55.05%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (29.65%) Analytical Skills
3 751 (20.37%) Finance
4 481 (13.05%) Retail
5 350 (9.50%) Organisational Skills
6 253 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 250 (6.78%) Marketing
8 210 (5.70%) German Language
9 155 (4.21%) Billing
10 154 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
11 139 (3.77%) Banking
12 126 (3.42%) Manufacturing
13 124 (3.36%) Telecoms
14 115 (3.12%) Public Sector
15 112 (3.04%) Investment Banking
16 110 (2.98%) Law
17 101 (2.74%) Legal
18 85 (2.31%) Advertising
19 67 (1.82%) Local Government
20 64 (1.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 413 (11.20%) Analyst
2 359 (9.74%) Senior
3 288 (7.81%) Graduate
4 248 (6.73%) Developer
5 234 (6.35%) Consultant
6 227 (6.16%) Project Manager
7 216 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 178 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
9 169 (4.58%) Architect
9 169 (4.58%) Principal Data Engineer
10 160 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
11 139 (3.77%) IT Support
12 136 (3.69%) Administrator
13 125 (3.39%) Lead
14 117 (3.17%) Coordinator
15 114 (3.09%) IT Manager
16 113 (3.07%) Data Architect
17 107 (2.90%) Software Engineer
18 97 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 92 (2.50%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (3.34%) .NET
2 121 (3.28%) CSS
3 113 (3.07%) React
4 83 (2.25%) HTML
5 79 (2.14%) ASP.NET
6 68 (1.84%) REST
7 56 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC
8 48 (1.30%) .NET Core
8 48 (1.30%) .NET Framework
9 46 (1.25%) AngularJS
10 45 (1.22%) RESTful
11 43 (1.17%) Vue
12 38 (1.03%) Next.js
13 35 (0.95%) JSON
14 34 (0.92%) Tailwind CSS
15 32 (0.87%) jQuery
15 32 (0.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 27 (0.73%) WPF
17 25 (0.68%) Web Services
18 24 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 410 (11.12%) Driving Licence
2 196 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 105 (2.85%) Video Conferencing
4 104 (2.82%) Social Media
5 95 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 92 (2.50%) Digital Signage
7 89 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
8 76 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 60 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.17%) EPoS
12 42 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
13 38 (1.03%) Mobile App
14 34 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 31 (0.84%) CCTV
16 30 (0.81%) Public Cloud
17 27 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (0.68%) Virtual Team
19 21 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
19 21 (0.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 441 (11.96%) Windows
2 175 (4.75%) Linux
3 161 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 96 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 70 (1.90%) Unix
6 64 (1.74%) Android
6 64 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 58 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 56 (1.52%) Apple iOS
9 51 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 24 (0.65%) Windows 7
11 18 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
12 14 (0.38%) VMS
13 13 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 13 (0.35%) Windows 8
14 8 (0.22%) AIX
14 8 (0.22%) Solaris
15 7 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,345 (36.49%) Problem-Solving
2 577 (15.65%) Agile
3 542 (14.70%) Customer Service
4 524 (14.22%) Mentoring
5 489 (13.27%) Project Management
6 321 (8.71%) DevOps
7 316 (8.57%) Data Engineering
8 304 (8.25%) Change Management
9 280 (7.60%) Platform Engineering
10 268 (7.27%) Time Management
11 258 (7.00%) Computer Science
12 241 (6.54%) Project Delivery
13 235 (6.38%) CRM
14 228 (6.19%) Data Science
15 227 (6.16%) Decision-Making
16 226 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 219 (5.94%) Business Development
18 213 (5.78%) Data Pipeline
19 204 (5.53%) Innovative Thinking
20 203 (5.51%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 379 (10.28%) SQL
2 197 (5.34%) Python
3 163 (4.42%) C#
4 135 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 101 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 89 (2.41%) Java
7 80 (2.17%) C++
8 59 (1.60%) C
9 35 (0.95%) Bash
10 33 (0.90%) Scala
10 33 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 29 (0.79%) PHP
12 24 (0.65%) MATLAB
12 24 (0.65%) VB
12 24 (0.65%) XAML
13 21 (0.57%) R
14 19 (0.52%) VBScript
15 17 (0.46%) Perl
15 17 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 847 (22.98%) Degree
2 328 (8.90%) DBS Check
3 201 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 145 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 98 (2.66%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 45 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 45 (1.22%) CIMA
8 44 (1.19%) ACCA
9 43 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 34 (0.92%) HNC
10 34 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (0.87%) CISSP
12 30 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (0.76%) HND
14 25 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 20 (0.54%) AWS Certification
16 19 (0.52%) GIAC
17 18 (0.49%) CCNA
17 18 (0.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (9.69%) GDPR
2 208 (5.64%) SLA
3 183 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 94 (2.55%) PMO
4 94 (2.55%) QA
5 75 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 35 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 20 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 18 (0.49%) GRC
10 15 (0.41%) NIST
11 9 (0.24%) COSHH
11 9 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.24%) NCSC
12 7 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (0.19%) ISO 26262
12 7 (0.19%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.16%) JTAG
13 6 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 266 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 44 (1.19%) Firmware
5 35 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 34 (0.92%) Docker
7 20 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.46%) vSphere
9 8 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.22%) HDFS
10 6 (0.16%) DFS Replication
10 6 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.054%) NFS
11 2 (0.054%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (1.60%) SCCM
2 57 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.17%) WSUS
4 38 (1.03%) Terraform
5 37 (1.00%) Ansible
6 21 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (0.54%) Puppet
8 15 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 15 (0.41%) SCOM
8 15 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 12 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.16%) Nessus
11 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.16%) Rundeck
11 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 5 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 956 (25.94%) Microsoft
2 365 (9.90%) Google
3 141 (3.83%) VMware
4 98 (2.66%) Oracle
5 74 (2.01%) Cisco
6 70 (1.90%) SAP
7 61 (1.65%) NEC
8 56 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.47%) HP
10 52 (1.41%) Adobe
11 47 (1.28%) Apple
12 41 (1.11%) Virgin Media
13 39 (1.06%) Citrix
13 39 (1.06%) IBM
14 38 (1.03%) Sitecore
15 36 (0.98%) Optimizely
16 35 (0.95%) NetApp
17 33 (0.90%) Dell
18 29 (0.79%) Veeam
19 25 (0.68%) IFS