Self-Motivation Jobs

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 cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 67 111
Rank change year-on-year -31 +44 -25
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 1,664 3,783 2,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.96% 3.49% 3.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.91% 10.28% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 603 2,202 1,501
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £72,230
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £49,748
% change year-on-year +6.67% -24.62% +10.55%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,039 36,806 40,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.41% 33.94% 43.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,687 23,367 22,228
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK

Self-Motivation
Top 17 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 10 June 2025. 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 -43 1,464 £42,500 +6.25% 2,740
UK excluding London -65 970 £40,000 +6.67% 1,934
Work from Home +40 833 £45,000 -8.16% 1,273
London -8 405 £57,500 +8.24% 1,162
North of England -27 376 £30,150 -13.86% 463
North West -41 257 £42,500 +21.43% 278
South East -103 204 £55,000 +46.67% 655
East of England -15 167 £42,000 +27.27% 139
Midlands -93 100 £42,500 +13.33% 265
South West -38 86 £40,000 -2.94% 179
Yorkshire -6 81 £26,500 -29.33% 129
West Midlands -63 58 £45,000 +28.57% 150
East Midlands -64 41 £42,000 +5.00% 107
North East +34 38 £28,188 -13.27% 60
Scotland +57 21 £57,500 +91.67% 115
Wales -12 11 £75,000 +47.48% 53
Northern Ireland +34 5 - - 54

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 79 (4.75%) Confluence
2 59 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.90%) IIS
5 10 (0.60%) WordPress
6 9 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.24%) Liferay
8 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 2 (0.12%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.060%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.060%) Drupal
10 1 (0.060%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.060%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.060%) SAS
10 1 (0.060%) Umbraco
Applications
1 230 (13.82%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.54%) Revit
5 6 (0.36%) Blender
5 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.18%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.18%) Simulink
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.060%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.96%) Sage 200
2 16 (0.96%) Sage CRM
3 12 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.60%) Teamcenter
5 9 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.30%) Maximo
6 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.12%) SAP GTS
9 2 (0.12%) Shopify
10 1 (0.060%) C-CURE
10 1 (0.060%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.060%) iTrent
10 1 (0.060%) LabWindows
10 1 (0.060%) Magento
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle iRecruitment
10 1 (0.060%) ResourceLink
10 1 (0.060%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 497 (29.87%) Azure
2 457 (27.46%) AWS
3 405 (24.34%) GCP
4 219 (13.16%) Serverless
5 215 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 84 (5.05%) SaaS
8 72 (4.33%) Asana
8 72 (4.33%) Miro
9 33 (1.98%) Google Analytics
9 33 (1.98%) OneDrive
9 33 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 26 (1.56%) Entra ID
11 25 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (0.84%) Adobe Analytics
12 14 (0.84%) Power Automate
13 12 (0.72%) GitHub
14 10 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (0.54%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 299 (17.97%) Broadband
2 64 (3.85%) Firewall
3 41 (2.46%) WAN
4 26 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (1.44%) 5G
6 24 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 21 (1.26%) LAN
8 18 (1.08%) Internet
8 18 (1.08%) SSL
8 18 (1.08%) Wireless
9 17 (1.02%) DNS
10 16 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
11 13 (0.78%) HTTP
11 13 (0.78%) Network Security
12 11 (0.66%) VLAN
13 10 (0.60%) DHCP
13 10 (0.60%) VoIP
13 10 (0.60%) WebEx
14 9 (0.54%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 24 (1.44%) Power BI
3 22 (1.32%) Tableau
4 21 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.66%) MySQL
5 11 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 10 (0.60%) OLTP
7 9 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.42%) Metadata
9 6 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
9 6 (0.36%) QGIS
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.30%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.30%) RDBMS
10 5 (0.30%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.24%) Couchbase
11 4 (0.24%) GIS
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (5.23%) JIRA
2 33 (1.98%) Git
3 11 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (0.54%) Subversion
5 8 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.30%) LabVIEW
7 4 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.18%) GDB
9 2 (0.12%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.12%) Babel
9 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.12%) Mocha
9 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.12%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.12%) Spock
9 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 717 (43.09%) Social Skills
2 456 (27.40%) Analytical Skills
3 380 (22.84%) Finance
4 250 (15.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 198 (11.90%) Marketing
6 156 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
7 114 (6.85%) Electronics
8 106 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
9 86 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (4.03%) Legal
11 63 (3.79%) Advertising
12 61 (3.67%) Manufacturing
13 54 (3.25%) Retail
14 46 (2.76%) Law
15 42 (2.52%) Public Sector
16 40 (2.40%) Banking
17 33 (1.98%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.80%) Games
19 14 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 506 (30.41%) Senior
2 215 (12.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 189 (11.36%) Software Engineer
4 178 (10.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 171 (10.28%) Analyst
6 124 (7.45%) Business Manager
7 122 (7.33%) Development Manager
8 121 (7.27%) Business Development Manager
9 79 (4.75%) IT Support
10 78 (4.69%) Developer
11 74 (4.45%) Product Analyst
12 64 (3.85%) Support Engineer
13 61 (3.67%) Lead
14 51 (3.06%) Account Executive
15 43 (2.58%) Technical Support
16 41 (2.46%) IT Engineer
17 40 (2.40%) Consultant
18 37 (2.22%) IT Support Engineer
19 36 (2.16%) Administrator
20 34 (2.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (12.32%) .NET
2 186 (11.18%) Node.js
3 44 (2.64%) HTML
4 24 (1.44%) JSON
5 23 (1.38%) React
6 18 (1.08%) CSS
6 18 (1.08%) REST
6 18 (1.08%) XML
7 12 (0.72%) Blazor
8 11 (0.66%) SOAP
9 8 (0.48%) Bootstrap
9 8 (0.48%) HTML5
10 6 (0.36%) EDI
10 6 (0.36%) pytest
10 6 (0.36%) Web Services
10 6 (0.36%) WinForms
11 5 (0.30%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.30%) SAP Fiori
11 5 (0.30%) SAPUI5
12 4 (0.24%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 182 (10.94%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (10.70%) Cyberattack
3 82 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.81%) Social Media
5 72 (4.33%) Over-the-Top Content
5 72 (4.33%) Video\Live Streaming
6 54 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 53 (3.19%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.34%) Mobile App
9 37 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.16%) Driving Licence
11 32 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 24 (1.44%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.32%) Self-Driving Car
14 19 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (1.02%) CCTV
15 17 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.78%) Tandem
17 12 (0.72%) Blog
17 12 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 245 (14.72%) Linux
2 178 (10.70%) Windows
3 55 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.74%) Android
5 25 (1.50%) Unix
5 25 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.44%) Windows Vista
7 21 (1.26%) Mac OS
8 18 (1.08%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.48%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.36%) zOS
12 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.060%) Debian
14 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (39.54%) Problem-Solving
2 608 (36.54%) Agile
3 473 (28.43%) Mentoring
4 405 (24.34%) Machine Learning
5 366 (22.00%) Customer Service
6 267 (16.05%) Business Development
7 245 (14.72%) Creative Thinking
8 241 (14.48%) Clean Code
9 240 (14.42%) Performance Metrics
10 238 (14.30%) Data Science
11 235 (14.12%) CI/CD
12 231 (13.88%) Software Engineering
13 215 (12.92%) Personalization
14 210 (12.62%) User Experience
15 205 (12.32%) CRM
16 197 (11.84%) Cloud Security
17 192 (11.54%) Scrum
18 188 (11.30%) Microservices
19 182 (10.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 181 (10.88%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 465 (27.94%) Python
2 240 (14.42%) JavaScript
3 235 (14.12%) Java
4 232 (13.94%) TypeScript
5 218 (13.10%) C++
6 180 (10.82%) Rust
7 178 (10.70%) Go
8 163 (9.80%) SQL
9 35 (2.10%) C#
10 29 (1.74%) C
11 23 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 21 (1.26%) MATLAB
13 17 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.72%) R
14 12 (0.72%) VBA
15 11 (0.66%) Bash
16 9 (0.54%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.48%) PHP
18 6 (0.36%) Embedded C
19 5 (0.30%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 494 (29.69%) Degree
2 229 (13.76%) PhD
3 228 (13.70%) Security Cleared
4 188 (11.30%) DV Cleared
5 182 (10.94%) AWS Certification
6 181 (10.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 178 (10.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 68 (4.09%) Master's Degree
9 54 (3.25%) DBS Check
10 32 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.26%) CISSP
12 21 (1.26%) SC Cleared
13 20 (1.20%) CISM
13 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.96%) CISA
15 14 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.78%) MCSA
17 11 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 10 (0.60%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (2.16%) GDPR
3 28 (1.68%) SLA
4 25 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.26%) QA
6 15 (0.90%) NIST
7 14 (0.84%) PMO
8 11 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.24%) GRC
12 4 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.18%) COSHH
13 3 (0.18%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.18%) JTAG
14 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 57 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 15 (0.90%) Docker
3 15 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) Firmware
5 7 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.060%) HDFS
8 1 (0.060%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.060%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.90%) Terraform
3 13 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.60%) SCCM
5 9 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.42%) PaperCut
7 6 (0.36%) Ansible
8 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.12%) Grafana
9 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.12%) SCOM
9 2 (0.12%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.12%) SCSM
10 1 (0.060%) Avamar
10 1 (0.060%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.060%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.060%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 349 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 123 (7.39%) Salesforce
3 57 (3.43%) Google
4 47 (2.82%) YouTube
5 45 (2.70%) Oracle
6 31 (1.86%) Citrix
7 29 (1.74%) SAP
8 26 (1.56%) Intel
9 23 (1.38%) Adobe
10 22 (1.32%) VMware
11 18 (1.08%) Cisco
11 18 (1.08%) Zoho
12 17 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 16 (0.96%) Apple
13 16 (0.96%) Sage
14 14 (0.84%) BT
14 14 (0.84%) HP
14 14 (0.84%) Marketo
14 14 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 13 (0.78%) HubSpot
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