Finance Jobs with Work from Home Options

Financial
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,324 9,850 17,207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.05% 25.56% 23.10%
As % of the General category 34.74% 38.93% 35.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,867 6,551 9,215
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,893 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £116,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,085 25,303 47,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.60% 65.66% 64.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,141 17,245 25,038
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,116 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance.

Finance salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Finance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 441 (6.02%) Apache
2 427 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 341 (4.66%) SAS
4 126 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 121 (1.65%) Confluence
6 94 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 87 (1.19%) IIS
8 31 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.41%) nginx
10 29 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 24 (0.33%) CMS
12 21 (0.29%) WordPress
13 5 (0.068%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.055%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.055%) Moodle
14 4 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.055%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2013
16 2 (0.027%) MQSeries
Applications
1 813 (11.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.19%) Trello
8 10 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.14%) SPSS
9 6 (0.082%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.068%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.068%) Sketch
11 4 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.055%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.041%) InVision
12 3 (0.041%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 302 (4.12%) SAP ERP
2 59 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 56 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 50 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 40 (0.55%) SAP FI
6 39 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 39 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
7 31 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
8 27 (0.37%) NetSuite
9 25 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 25 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 25 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
10 22 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
11 14 (0.19%) Elite 3E
12 12 (0.16%) iTrent
12 12 (0.16%) PlanetPress Connect
13 10 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
13 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
14 8 (0.11%) Misys Midas
14 8 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1,298 (17.72%) Azure
2 1,163 (15.88%) AWS
3 587 (8.01%) Power Platform
4 486 (6.64%) GCP
5 401 (5.48%) dbt
6 378 (5.16%) Snowflake
7 331 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
8 197 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
9 182 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
10 175 (2.39%) SaaS
11 140 (1.91%) Entra ID
12 130 (1.77%) GitHub
13 97 (1.32%) Serverless
14 94 (1.28%) PowerApps
15 82 (1.12%) Power Automate
16 73 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 71 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 70 (0.96%) Amazon S3
18 70 (0.96%) IaaS
19 62 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 778 (10.62%) Broadband
2 191 (2.61%) Firewall
3 111 (1.52%) Internet
4 96 (1.31%) DNS
5 93 (1.27%) WAN
6 83 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 82 (1.12%) VPN
8 66 (0.90%) LAN
9 65 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 62 (0.85%) Network Security
11 59 (0.81%) IPsec
12 56 (0.76%) SNMP
13 50 (0.68%) DHCP
14 49 (0.67%) Wireless
15 38 (0.52%) SAN
16 33 (0.45%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.23%) iSCSI
18 16 (0.22%) BGP
18 16 (0.22%) Wireshark
19 15 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 506 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 492 (6.72%) Power BI
3 452 (6.17%) Data Lake
4 382 (5.22%) Dremio
5 373 (5.09%) Apache Arrow
6 370 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
7 316 (4.31%) Apache Ignite
8 307 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
9 170 (2.32%) MongoDB
10 154 (2.10%) Tableau
11 136 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 133 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
13 125 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 109 (1.49%) Big Data
15 81 (1.11%) Relational Database
16 63 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 57 (0.78%) NoSQL
18 51 (0.70%) DB2
19 50 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 50 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 237 (3.24%) JIRA
2 221 (3.02%) Git
3 120 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 62 (0.85%) GitLab
6 43 (0.59%) Maven
7 31 (0.42%) Selenium
8 28 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 28 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 28 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 24 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
11 20 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
13 16 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.22%) JUnit
14 14 (0.19%) Subversion
15 13 (0.18%) NUnit
16 12 (0.16%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,741 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 1,233 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 991 (13.53%) Banking
4 613 (8.37%) Front Office
5 611 (8.34%) Influencing Skills
6 599 (8.18%) Retail
7 511 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 502 (6.85%) Public Sector
9 488 (6.66%) Marketing
10 441 (6.02%) Legal
11 333 (4.55%) Investment Banking
12 226 (3.09%) Law
13 218 (2.98%) Manufacturing
14 211 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
15 154 (2.10%) Back Office
15 154 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 117 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 99 (1.35%) Local Government
18 98 (1.34%) Electronics
18 98 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,412 (19.28%) Analyst
2 1,386 (18.92%) Senior
3 1,030 (14.06%) Developer
4 720 (9.83%) Lead
5 677 (9.24%) Architect
6 487 (6.65%) Solutions Architect
7 469 (6.40%) Consultant
8 450 (6.14%) Software Engineer
9 407 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
10 378 (5.16%) Financial Analyst
11 328 (4.48%) Project Manager
12 280 (3.82%) Senior Developer
13 236 (3.22%) .NET Developer
14 205 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 200 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
16 191 (2.61%) Python Engineer
17 172 (2.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 158 (2.16%) Software Developer
19 154 (2.10%) Python Developer
20 153 (2.09%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (6.61%) .NET
2 434 (5.93%) gRPC
3 392 (5.35%) Protocol Buffers
4 378 (5.16%) React
5 353 (4.82%) Pandas
6 313 (4.27%) AngularJS
6 313 (4.27%) NumPy
7 304 (4.15%) SciPy
8 270 (3.69%) HTML
9 216 (2.95%) ASP.NET
10 195 (2.66%) Vue
11 180 (2.46%) Node.js
12 167 (2.28%) .NET Core
12 167 (2.28%) CSS
13 140 (1.91%) Kafka
14 131 (1.79%) .NET Framework
15 128 (1.75%) Web Services
16 127 (1.73%) Redux
17 125 (1.71%) REST
17 125 (1.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 544 (7.43%) Hedge funds
2 484 (6.61%) Derivative
3 483 (6.59%) Fixed Income
4 448 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 443 (6.05%) Equities
6 332 (4.53%) Management Information System
7 229 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 175 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 136 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 133 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 132 (1.80%) PMI
12 117 (1.60%) Onboarding
13 101 (1.38%) Clustering
14 100 (1.37%) Social Media
15 95 (1.30%) Cloud Native
16 88 (1.20%) Mobile App
16 88 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 83 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
18 66 (0.90%) Data Structures
19 63 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 580 (7.92%) Windows
2 406 (5.54%) Linux
3 178 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 140 (1.91%) Unix
5 68 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 55 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 54 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
8 50 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 49 (0.67%) Solaris
10 46 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 39 (0.53%) Android
12 34 (0.46%) CentOS
13 25 (0.34%) Ubuntu
14 24 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 24 (0.33%) zOS
15 16 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
16 15 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
16 15 (0.20%) Windows Vista
17 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 12 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,769 (37.81%) Agile
2 1,202 (16.41%) Mentoring
3 1,085 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 997 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
5 890 (12.15%) Decision-Making
6 859 (11.73%) Software Engineering
7 760 (10.38%) Asset Management
8 719 (9.82%) Project Management
9 689 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
10 633 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
11 620 (8.47%) DevOps
12 583 (7.96%) ERP
13 582 (7.95%) Change Management
14 574 (7.84%) Business Case
15 568 (7.76%) Analytics
15 568 (7.76%) Coaching
16 554 (7.56%) Investment Management
17 513 (7.00%) Budgeting
18 507 (6.92%) Data Management
19 505 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,282 (17.50%) Python
2 1,188 (16.22%) SQL
3 843 (11.51%) JavaScript
4 672 (9.18%) Java
5 615 (8.40%) TypeScript
6 589 (8.04%) C#
7 251 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 138 (1.88%) Go
9 108 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 96 (1.31%) R
11 78 (1.06%) C++
12 73 (1.00%) Bash
13 66 (0.90%) PHP
14 56 (0.76%) C
15 55 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 42 (0.57%) VBA
17 35 (0.48%) Perl
18 31 (0.42%) Groovy
18 31 (0.42%) Scala
19 24 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 954 (13.03%) Degree
2 563 (7.69%) ACCA
3 516 (7.05%) CIMA
4 316 (4.31%) Security Cleared
5 184 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 168 (2.29%) SC Cleared
7 139 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 110 (1.50%) CISSP
9 96 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 95 (1.30%) PMP
11 90 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 79 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 67 (0.91%) DV Cleared
14 49 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 49 (0.67%) CISM
14 49 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 48 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 35 (0.48%) CEH
17 34 (0.46%) APMP
17 34 (0.46%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (3.14%) Data Quality
2 214 (2.92%) QA
3 103 (1.41%) NIST
4 102 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (1.35%) SLA
6 90 (1.23%) PMO
7 71 (0.97%) GDPR
8 68 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 35 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.44%) IFRS
11 30 (0.41%) GRC
12 28 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (0.38%) NCSC
13 19 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 19 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 16 (0.22%) ITGC
14 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 12 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 11 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 321 (4.38%) Docker
2 308 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 178 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.68%) RACF
5 45 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 33 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 32 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.44%) vSphere
8 28 (0.38%) XenApp
9 21 (0.29%) Firmware
10 20 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.22%) XenDesktop
12 12 (0.16%) OpenSSH
13 11 (0.15%) IAG
13 11 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
15 5 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.027%) NFS
18 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 344 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 294 (4.01%) Terraform
3 145 (1.98%) Ansible
4 121 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 72 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 67 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (0.57%) SCCM
8 29 (0.40%) Grafana
9 18 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.20%) Nmap
11 14 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.16%) IBM BigFix
12 12 (0.16%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.16%) PowerCLI
12 12 (0.16%) VxRail
12 12 (0.16%) ZABBIX
13 11 (0.15%) Nagios
13 11 (0.15%) Puppet
13 11 (0.15%) SCOM
14 9 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,722 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 613 (8.37%) SAP
3 599 (8.18%) Oracle
4 308 (4.21%) Anaplan
5 307 (4.19%) Hyperion
6 209 (2.85%) VMware
7 173 (2.36%) Google
8 100 (1.37%) Cisco
9 81 (1.11%) Red Hat
10 80 (1.09%) IBM
11 77 (1.05%) Citrix
11 77 (1.05%) Databricks
12 76 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 72 (0.98%) NetApp
14 70 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 62 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 55 (0.75%) Atlassian
17 54 (0.74%) SolidFire
17 54 (0.74%) Splunk
18 53 (0.72%) NEC