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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,230 10,496 15,622
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.35% 25.24% 22.74%
As % of the General category 34.80% 38.24% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,873 7,014 8,988
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,893 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +5.88% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £105,000
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 20,774 27,449 43,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.35% 66.02% 62.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,088 18,261 24,404
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £79,406
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £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 8 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
1 356 (4.92%) SAS
2 328 (4.54%) Apache
3 310 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 133 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 126 (1.74%) Confluence
6 104 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 78 (1.08%) IIS
8 41 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 29 (0.40%) nginx
10 25 (0.35%) CMS
11 22 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 19 (0.26%) WordPress
13 6 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.069%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.055%) Ethereum
15 4 (0.055%) Moodle
15 4 (0.055%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2013
16 3 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 817 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 113 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.19%) Trello
8 12 (0.17%) SPSS
9 11 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.083%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.069%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.069%) Sketch
12 4 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.055%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.041%) InVision
14 2 (0.028%) EViews
14 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 304 (4.20%) SAP ERP
2 67 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 64 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 46 (0.64%) SAP FI
5 44 (0.61%) SAP CO
5 44 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
6 36 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 33 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
8 27 (0.37%) NetSuite
9 24 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
10 22 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
11 20 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
11 20 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
11 20 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
12 14 (0.19%) Elite 3E
13 12 (0.17%) iTrent
13 12 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
14 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
15 10 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
15 10 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (17.63%) Azure
2 1,052 (14.55%) AWS
3 556 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 521 (7.21%) GCP
5 338 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
6 280 (3.87%) Snowflake
7 279 (3.86%) dbt
8 197 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 189 (2.61%) SaaS
10 180 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 159 (2.20%) GitHub
12 104 (1.44%) Serverless
13 92 (1.27%) PowerApps
14 81 (1.12%) Entra ID
14 81 (1.12%) Power Automate
15 80 (1.11%) PaaS
16 79 (1.09%) IaaS
17 78 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 72 (1.00%) Amazon S3
19 65 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 781 (10.80%) Broadband
2 190 (2.63%) Firewall
3 107 (1.48%) Internet
4 96 (1.33%) WAN
5 94 (1.30%) DNS
6 85 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 81 (1.12%) VPN
8 65 (0.90%) LAN
8 65 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 59 (0.82%) IPsec
10 56 (0.77%) Network Security
10 56 (0.77%) SNMP
11 49 (0.68%) Wireless
12 48 (0.66%) DHCP
13 38 (0.53%) SAN
13 38 (0.53%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.25%) iSCSI
15 17 (0.24%) HTTP
16 14 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 14 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 461 (6.38%) Power BI
3 319 (4.41%) Data Lake
4 300 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
5 259 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
5 259 (3.58%) Dremio
6 256 (3.54%) Apache Arrow
7 217 (3.00%) Apache Ignite
8 169 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 141 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 140 (1.94%) Tableau
11 135 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
12 124 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 94 (1.30%) Big Data
14 78 (1.08%) Relational Database
15 61 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 60 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 54 (0.75%) BigQuery
18 52 (0.72%) Oracle Database
19 49 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 260 (3.60%) JIRA
2 235 (3.25%) Git
3 141 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 79 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 64 (0.89%) GitLab
6 52 (0.72%) Maven
7 36 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 34 (0.47%) Selenium
9 31 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
9 31 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
10 29 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
11 28 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 27 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (0.22%) JUnit
16 15 (0.21%) Subversion
17 13 (0.18%) NUnit
18 12 (0.17%) Eclipse
18 12 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 2,769 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 1,280 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
3 967 (13.37%) Banking
4 625 (8.64%) Influencing Skills
5 618 (8.55%) Retail
6 521 (7.21%) Front Office
7 498 (6.89%) Public Sector
8 496 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 471 (6.51%) Marketing
10 391 (5.41%) Legal
11 247 (3.42%) Investment Banking
12 231 (3.20%) Law
13 224 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
14 206 (2.85%) Manufacturing
15 159 (2.20%) Back Office
16 157 (2.17%) Telecoms
17 114 (1.58%) Financial Institution
18 104 (1.44%) Electronics
19 101 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
20 88 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,394 (19.28%) Analyst
2 1,296 (17.93%) Senior
3 1,022 (14.14%) Developer
4 694 (9.60%) Lead
5 690 (9.54%) Architect
6 500 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 442 (6.11%) Consultant
8 384 (5.31%) Software Engineer
9 363 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
10 356 (4.92%) Financial Analyst
11 326 (4.51%) Project Manager
12 277 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 227 (3.14%) .NET Developer
14 167 (2.31%) Senior Software Engineer
15 160 (2.21%) IT Manager
16 157 (2.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 154 (2.13%) Python Developer
18 146 (2.02%) Software Developer
19 145 (2.01%) Python Engineer
20 143 (1.98%) Commercial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 489 (6.76%) .NET
2 377 (5.21%) React
3 324 (4.48%) gRPC
4 307 (4.25%) AngularJS
5 283 (3.91%) HTML
6 281 (3.89%) Protocol Buffers
7 254 (3.51%) Pandas
8 219 (3.03%) ASP.NET
9 215 (2.97%) NumPy
10 205 (2.84%) SciPy
11 181 (2.50%) Vue
12 173 (2.39%) Node.js
13 170 (2.35%) .NET Core
14 169 (2.34%) CSS
15 151 (2.09%) Kafka
16 147 (2.03%) Spring
17 128 (1.77%) .NET Framework
18 123 (1.70%) Redux
19 122 (1.69%) Spring Boot
20 121 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 442 (6.11%) Hedge funds
2 393 (5.44%) Derivative
3 385 (5.33%) Fixed Income
4 347 (4.80%) Equities
5 345 (4.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 274 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 228 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 170 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 150 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 144 (1.99%) PMI
11 140 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 117 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 107 (1.48%) Cloud Native
14 100 (1.38%) Social Media
15 96 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 92 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 86 (1.19%) Clustering
17 86 (1.19%) Virtual Team
18 67 (0.93%) Data Structures
19 60 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 587 (8.12%) Windows
2 419 (5.80%) Linux
3 178 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 129 (1.78%) Unix
5 70 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 54 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 54 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
7 51 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 43 (0.59%) Solaris
10 39 (0.54%) Android
11 34 (0.47%) CentOS
12 25 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 24 (0.33%) zOS
14 22 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 13 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
15 13 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.15%) Windows 8
16 11 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,720 (37.62%) Agile
2 1,230 (17.01%) Mentoring
3 1,035 (14.32%) Roadmaps
4 1,005 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
5 894 (12.37%) Decision-Making
6 772 (10.68%) Software Engineering
7 710 (9.82%) Project Management
8 706 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
9 661 (9.14%) Asset Management
10 650 (8.99%) DevOps
11 638 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
12 588 (8.13%) ERP
13 584 (8.08%) Change Management
14 577 (7.98%) Analytics
15 572 (7.91%) Business Case
16 518 (7.16%) Data Management
17 516 (7.14%) Coaching
18 503 (6.96%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 502 (6.94%) Budgeting
20 471 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (16.83%) Python
2 1,140 (15.77%) SQL
3 749 (10.36%) JavaScript
4 616 (8.52%) Java
5 578 (7.99%) C#
6 527 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 189 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 123 (1.70%) Go
9 114 (1.58%) R
10 107 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 92 (1.27%) Bash
12 76 (1.05%) C++
13 64 (0.89%) PHP
14 56 (0.77%) C
15 48 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 38 (0.53%) Perl
16 38 (0.53%) VBA
17 35 (0.48%) Scala
18 34 (0.47%) Groovy
19 31 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 953 (13.18%) Degree
2 553 (7.65%) ACCA
3 512 (7.08%) CIMA
4 296 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 191 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 158 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 123 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (1.56%) CISSP
9 91 (1.26%) PMP
10 88 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 84 (1.16%) Azure Certification
12 68 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 61 (0.84%) DV Cleared
14 54 (0.75%) CISM
15 48 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 40 (0.55%) DBS Check
16 40 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 36 (0.50%) CEH
17 36 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
18 35 (0.48%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (3.20%) QA
2 192 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 98 (1.36%) PMO
4 97 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (1.34%) NIST
5 95 (1.31%) SLA
6 75 (1.04%) GDPR
7 61 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 35 (0.48%) IFRS
9 34 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.43%) GRC
11 26 (0.36%) NCSC
12 24 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.26%) ITGC
14 18 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 17 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.17%) IFRS 9
17 12 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 348 (4.81%) Docker
2 255 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 182 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 34 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.37%) vSphere
7 26 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.29%) Firmware
9 20 (0.28%) XenApp
10 15 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.15%) IAG
11 11 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
11 11 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.12%) OpenSSH
13 6 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.028%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.014%) Ceph
16 1 (0.014%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 369 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 297 (4.11%) Terraform
3 152 (2.10%) Ansible
4 106 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 68 (0.94%) vCenter Server
6 67 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (0.66%) SCCM
8 32 (0.44%) Grafana
9 25 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 20 (0.28%) Puppet
11 16 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.21%) Nmap
13 12 (0.17%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.17%) VxRail
13 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (0.14%) SCOM
15 9 (0.12%) Istio
15 9 (0.12%) PowerCLI
15 9 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,652 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 636 (8.80%) SAP
3 605 (8.37%) Oracle
4 311 (4.30%) Anaplan
5 305 (4.22%) Hyperion
6 221 (3.06%) Google
7 215 (2.97%) VMware
8 96 (1.33%) Cisco
9 88 (1.22%) IBM
10 81 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 79 (1.09%) Databricks
11 79 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 78 (1.08%) Citrix
13 75 (1.04%) ServiceNow
14 74 (1.02%) NetApp
15 66 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 64 (0.89%) Splunk
17 58 (0.80%) Atlassian
18 54 (0.75%) SolidFire
19 51 (0.71%) Dell