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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,306 10,059 16,827
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.22% 25.38% 23.01%
As % of the General category 34.79% 38.58% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,856 6,630 9,122
10th Percentile £37,278 £42,278 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,650 £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 20,999 26,076 46,831
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.98% 65.79% 64.05%
Number of salaries quoted 15,110 17,356 24,818
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 £82,762 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £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 29 May 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
1 427 (5.84%) Apache
2 417 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 341 (4.67%) SAS
4 124 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 119 (1.63%) Confluence
6 95 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 87 (1.19%) IIS
8 29 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 29 (0.40%) nginx
9 28 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 24 (0.33%) CMS
11 20 (0.27%) WordPress
12 5 (0.068%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.055%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.055%) Moodle
13 4 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.055%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2013
15 2 (0.027%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 812 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 107 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.42%) 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
1 303 (4.15%) SAP ERP
2 60 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 57 (0.78%) 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 Financials
10 24 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 24 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
11 22 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
12 15 (0.21%) Elite 3E
13 14 (0.19%) PlanetPress Connect
14 12 (0.16%) iTrent
15 10 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
15 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
16 8 (0.11%) Misys Midas
16 8 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1,288 (17.63%) Azure
2 1,146 (15.69%) AWS
3 576 (7.88%) Power Platform
4 488 (6.68%) GCP
5 387 (5.30%) dbt
6 368 (5.04%) Snowflake
7 330 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
8 195 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
9 180 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 175 (2.40%) SaaS
11 138 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 132 (1.81%) GitHub
13 100 (1.37%) Serverless
14 92 (1.26%) PowerApps
15 81 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 72 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
16 72 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
16 72 (0.99%) IaaS
17 71 (0.97%) Amazon S3
18 64 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 778 (10.65%) Broadband
2 190 (2.60%) Firewall
3 110 (1.51%) Internet
4 97 (1.33%) DNS
5 95 (1.30%) WAN
6 84 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 83 (1.14%) VPN
8 66 (0.90%) LAN
9 64 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 62 (0.85%) Network Security
11 60 (0.82%) IPsec
12 56 (0.77%) SNMP
13 51 (0.70%) Wireless
14 50 (0.68%) DHCP
15 38 (0.52%) SAN
16 35 (0.48%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.23%) iSCSI
18 15 (0.21%) BGP
18 15 (0.21%) HTTP
18 15 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 505 (6.91%) SQL Server
2 481 (6.58%) Power BI
3 436 (5.97%) Data Lake
4 368 (5.04%) Dremio
5 360 (4.93%) Amazon Athena
6 359 (4.91%) Apache Arrow
7 307 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
8 306 (4.19%) Apache Ignite
9 170 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 148 (2.03%) Tableau
11 136 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 131 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
13 124 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
14 105 (1.44%) Big Data
15 80 (1.09%) Relational Database
16 62 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 56 (0.77%) NoSQL
18 51 (0.70%) DB2
19 50 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
19 50 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 236 (3.23%) JIRA
2 221 (3.02%) Git
3 120 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 62 (0.85%) GitLab
6 42 (0.57%) Maven
7 30 (0.41%) Selenium
7 30 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 29 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
9 28 (0.38%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 21 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
12 19 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
14 17 (0.23%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.21%) JUnit
16 14 (0.19%) Subversion
17 13 (0.18%) NUnit
18 12 (0.16%) Eclipse
18 12 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,750 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 1,232 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
3 987 (13.51%) Banking
4 611 (8.36%) Influencing Skills
5 602 (8.24%) Front Office
6 597 (8.17%) Retail
7 506 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 502 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 487 (6.67%) Marketing
10 443 (6.06%) Legal
11 321 (4.39%) Investment Banking
12 227 (3.11%) Law
13 215 (2.94%) Manufacturing
14 209 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
15 159 (2.18%) Back Office
16 155 (2.12%) Telecoms
17 118 (1.62%) Financial Institution
18 100 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
19 99 (1.36%) Local Government
20 98 (1.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,410 (19.30%) Analyst
2 1,377 (18.85%) Senior
3 1,026 (14.04%) Developer
4 718 (9.83%) Lead
5 681 (9.32%) Architect
6 490 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
7 466 (6.38%) Consultant
8 437 (5.98%) Software Engineer
9 407 (5.57%) Senior Analyst
10 374 (5.12%) Financial Analyst
11 329 (4.50%) Project Manager
12 278 (3.81%) Senior Developer
13 236 (3.23%) .NET Developer
14 196 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 192 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
16 184 (2.52%) Python Engineer
17 172 (2.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 156 (2.14%) Software Developer
19 154 (2.11%) IT Manager
19 154 (2.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (6.62%) .NET
2 424 (5.80%) gRPC
3 382 (5.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 377 (5.16%) React
5 344 (4.71%) Pandas
6 313 (4.28%) AngularJS
7 303 (4.15%) NumPy
8 294 (4.02%) SciPy
9 271 (3.71%) HTML
10 216 (2.96%) ASP.NET
11 195 (2.67%) Vue
12 179 (2.45%) Node.js
13 167 (2.29%) .NET Core
13 167 (2.29%) CSS
14 139 (1.90%) Kafka
15 130 (1.78%) .NET Framework
16 128 (1.75%) Web Services
17 127 (1.74%) Redux
18 125 (1.71%) REST
19 124 (1.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 532 (7.28%) Hedge funds
2 471 (6.45%) Derivative
3 469 (6.42%) Fixed Income
4 434 (5.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 429 (5.87%) Equities
6 330 (4.52%) Management Information System
7 226 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 175 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 138 (1.89%) Data Centre
10 135 (1.85%) Public Cloud
11 132 (1.81%) PMI
12 115 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 101 (1.38%) Clustering
14 100 (1.37%) Social Media
15 96 (1.31%) Cloud Native
16 88 (1.20%) Mobile App
16 88 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 84 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (0.88%) Data Structures
19 63 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 577 (7.90%) Windows
2 407 (5.57%) Linux
3 179 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 140 (1.92%) 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 (0.47%) 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 14 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
17 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 13 (0.18%) Windows Vista
18 12 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,762 (37.80%) Agile
2 1,206 (16.51%) Mentoring
3 1,091 (14.93%) Roadmaps
4 995 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
5 890 (12.18%) Decision-Making
6 845 (11.57%) Software Engineering
7 750 (10.27%) Asset Management
8 715 (9.79%) Project Management
9 691 (9.46%) Actionable Insight
10 627 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
11 619 (8.47%) DevOps
12 586 (8.02%) ERP
13 582 (7.97%) Change Management
14 574 (7.86%) Business Case
15 567 (7.76%) Coaching
16 556 (7.61%) Analytics
17 542 (7.42%) Investment Management
18 510 (6.98%) Budgeting
19 505 (6.91%) Data Management
20 504 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,271 (17.40%) Python
2 1,182 (16.18%) SQL
3 831 (11.37%) JavaScript
4 659 (9.02%) Java
5 605 (8.28%) TypeScript
6 586 (8.02%) C#
7 248 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 138 (1.89%) Go
9 107 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 96 (1.31%) R
11 77 (1.05%) C++
12 73 (1.00%) Bash
13 65 (0.89%) PHP
14 56 (0.77%) 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
1 950 (13.00%) Degree
2 560 (7.66%) ACCA
3 514 (7.04%) CIMA
4 311 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 184 (2.52%) PMI Certification
6 164 (2.24%) SC Cleared
7 139 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 114 (1.56%) CISSP
9 96 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 95 (1.30%) PMP
11 92 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 79 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 66 (0.90%) DV Cleared
14 53 (0.73%) CISM
15 50 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
16 48 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 45 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
18 35 (0.48%) CEH
19 34 (0.47%) APMP
19 34 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 216 (2.96%) QA
3 102 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 102 (1.40%) NIST
4 98 (1.34%) SLA
5 90 (1.23%) PMO
6 71 (0.97%) GDPR
7 68 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 35 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.42%) IFRS
10 30 (0.41%) GRC
11 27 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 27 (0.37%) NCSC
12 19 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 19 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.22%) ITGC
13 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 11 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 321 (4.39%) Docker
2 306 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 179 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.68%) RACF
5 44 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 33 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 32 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.44%) vSphere
8 27 (0.37%) XenApp
9 21 (0.29%) Firmware
10 20 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 15 (0.21%) 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 3 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.027%) NFS
18 1 (0.014%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 344 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 293 (4.01%) Terraform
3 144 (1.97%) Ansible
4 121 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 73 (1.00%) vCenter Server
6 67 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 43 (0.59%) SCCM
8 29 (0.40%) Grafana
9 18 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.21%) 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 1,714 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 619 (8.47%) SAP
3 603 (8.25%) Oracle
4 309 (4.23%) Anaplan
5 307 (4.20%) Hyperion
6 210 (2.87%) VMware
7 175 (2.40%) Google
8 96 (1.31%) Cisco
9 80 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 79 (1.08%) IBM
11 78 (1.07%) Citrix
11 78 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 77 (1.05%) Databricks
13 72 (0.99%) NetApp
14 68 (0.93%) ServiceNow
15 63 (0.86%) Salesforce
16 56 (0.77%) Splunk
17 55 (0.75%) Atlassian
18 54 (0.74%) SolidFire
19 53 (0.73%) NEC