Hybrid/Remote Finance Job Trends

Financial
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,166 4,121 5,440
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.38% 24.99% 21.84%
As % of the General category 30.60% 34.42% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,639 2,452 3,478
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £91,436 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 13,614 11,971 15,238
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.08% 72.60% 61.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,670 6,674 10,320
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,825 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,901 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.04% -6.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Finance job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Finance
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Finance salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 115 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.32%) Confluence
3 29 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.41%) Apache
5 16 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.26%) nginx
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.22%) CMS
8 9 (0.22%) SAS
9 6 (0.14%) IIS
10 4 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.096%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.024%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.024%) JBoss
12 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 257 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.38%) Simulink
7 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.24%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.096%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.096%) Sketch
12 3 (0.072%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.072%) Productboard
13 2 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.048%) InDesign
13 2 (0.048%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 65 (1.56%) NetSuite
2 53 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
3 33 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
6 28 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
7 23 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
8 21 (0.50%) Elite 3E
9 19 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
9 19 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
10 18 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
11 17 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
13 15 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
14 14 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 13 (0.31%) SAP ERP
15 13 (0.31%) Workday HCM
16 12 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (0.29%) SAP CO
16 12 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 884 (21.22%) Azure
2 609 (14.62%) AWS
3 355 (8.52%) SaaS
4 306 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 216 (5.18%) GCP
6 170 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 143 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
8 111 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 81 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
11 75 (1.80%) PaaS
12 73 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 67 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 66 (1.58%) Azure AI
15 64 (1.54%) GitHub
16 58 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
17 57 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
18 55 (1.32%) PowerApps
19 49 (1.18%) Serverless
20 43 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.92%) WAN
2 79 (1.90%) LAN
3 65 (1.56%) Firewall
4 43 (1.03%) Network Security
4 43 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 40 (0.96%) HTTP
6 39 (0.94%) DNS
7 29 (0.70%) DHCP
7 29 (0.70%) VPN
8 21 (0.50%) Broadband
9 17 (0.41%) Wireless
10 15 (0.36%) MPLS
11 14 (0.34%) VLAN
12 13 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.29%) BGP
14 11 (0.26%) Internet
14 11 (0.26%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.24%) NGFW
15 10 (0.24%) SSL
16 9 (0.22%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (4.66%) Power BI
2 178 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 70 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 62 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.42%) Tableau
6 57 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 40 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (0.82%) Metadata
11 30 (0.72%) Big Data
12 29 (0.70%) Relational Database
13 25 (0.60%) MySQL
14 23 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.43%) Looker
17 18 (0.43%) Power Query
18 17 (0.41%) SAP BW
19 16 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 136 (3.26%) JIRA
2 86 (2.06%) Git
3 45 (1.08%) TeamCity
4 25 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 25 (0.60%) JUnit
5 19 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
6 18 (0.43%) Maven
7 17 (0.41%) Selenium
8 16 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.38%) Mockito
9 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.17%) GitLab
9 7 (0.17%) Postman
9 7 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (0.14%) Gatling
11 5 (0.12%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.096%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,357 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 662 (15.89%) Banking
3 559 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 444 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 443 (10.63%) Legal
6 331 (7.95%) Retail
7 302 (7.25%) Law
8 254 (6.10%) Marketing
9 237 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
10 215 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
10 215 (5.16%) Public Sector
11 146 (3.50%) Manufacturing
12 145 (3.48%) Financial Institution
13 126 (3.02%) Back Office
14 121 (2.90%) Aerospace
14 121 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
15 81 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 80 (1.92%) Billing
17 71 (1.70%) Front Office
18 55 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 597 (14.33%) Senior
2 456 (10.95%) Lead
3 416 (9.99%) Analyst
4 353 (8.47%) Developer
5 326 (7.83%) Architect
6 274 (6.58%) Software Engineer
7 231 (5.54%) Consultant
8 163 (3.91%) Finance Manager
9 152 (3.65%) Senior Manager
10 124 (2.98%) Accountant
11 118 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
12 108 (2.59%) IT Manager
13 106 (2.54%) Project Manager
14 97 (2.33%) Business Analyst
15 96 (2.30%) Azure Engineer
16 95 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
17 92 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
18 84 (2.02%) Graduate
19 75 (1.80%) Data Analyst
20 74 (1.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (4.03%) React
2 160 (3.84%) .NET
3 124 (2.98%) REST
4 98 (2.35%) Node.js
5 67 (1.61%) CSS
6 66 (1.58%) .NET Core
7 59 (1.42%) ASP.NET
8 58 (1.39%) Spring
9 54 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 48 (1.15%) .NET Framework
10 48 (1.15%) Kafka
11 43 (1.03%) AngularJS
12 39 (0.94%) jQuery
13 37 (0.89%) LangChain
13 37 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (0.84%) GraphQL
14 35 (0.84%) HTML
14 35 (0.84%) PyTorch
14 35 (0.84%) TensorFlow
15 32 (0.77%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 269 (6.46%) Product Ownership
2 216 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 176 (4.22%) Onboarding
4 161 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 161 (3.86%) Virtual Team
5 146 (3.50%) Web Conferencing
6 137 (3.29%) Podcast
7 113 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 92 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 82 (1.97%) Blog
10 72 (1.73%) Data Centre
11 65 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 62 (1.49%) Fixed Income
13 61 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
14 56 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (1.25%) Driving Licence
16 46 (1.10%) AI Agents
17 45 (1.08%) Credit Risk
18 41 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
19 40 (0.96%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 141 (3.38%) Windows
2 122 (2.93%) Linux
3 46 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.48%) Unix
5 18 (0.43%) Android
6 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.024%) AIX
11 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (21.51%) Agile
2 711 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 699 (16.78%) Roadmaps
4 637 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
5 614 (14.74%) AI
6 520 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 503 (12.07%) Decision-Making
8 498 (11.95%) Software Engineering
9 446 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 421 (10.11%) Analytics
11 410 (9.84%) ERP
12 380 (9.12%) CI/CD
13 358 (8.59%) DevOps
14 342 (8.21%) Risk Management
15 311 (7.47%) Project Delivery
16 310 (7.44%) Project Management
17 306 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 290 (6.96%) Process Improvement
19 260 (6.24%) CRM
20 259 (6.22%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 613 (14.71%) SQL
2 417 (10.01%) Python
3 310 (7.44%) Java
4 255 (6.12%) C#
5 178 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 151 (3.62%) TypeScript
7 112 (2.69%) C++
8 83 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 72 (1.73%) PHP
10 52 (1.25%) Go
11 32 (0.77%) C
12 30 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 26 (0.62%) Bash
14 25 (0.60%) R
15 24 (0.58%) Bicep
16 20 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 20 (0.48%) VBA
17 17 (0.41%) Rust
18 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 410 (9.84%) Degree
2 342 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 260 (6.24%) ACCA
4 253 (6.07%) SC Cleared
5 228 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 222 (5.33%) CIMA
7 118 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 89 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 82 (1.97%) CISSP
10 54 (1.30%) CISM
11 49 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 48 (1.15%) PMP
13 46 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 35 (0.84%) CISA
16 32 (0.77%) CRISC
17 30 (0.72%) DBS Check
18 29 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
19 24 (0.58%) ICAEW
20 23 (0.55%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (3.96%) QA
2 161 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 145 (3.48%) GDPR
5 95 (2.28%) GRC
6 94 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 79 (1.90%) NIST
8 72 (1.73%) PMO
9 71 (1.70%) SLA
10 67 (1.61%) IFRS
11 48 (1.15%) GAAP
12 33 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 31 (0.74%) COBIT
14 24 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
15 22 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.41%) MiFID
16 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.36%) FINREP
18 14 (0.34%) COREP
System Software
1 110 (2.64%) Docker
2 98 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 41 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (0.96%) Firmware
6 18 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.14%) Squid
9 6 (0.14%) vSphere
10 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 177 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 166 (3.98%) Terraform
3 64 (1.54%) Grafana
4 44 (1.06%) Ansible
5 40 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.19%) Istio
7 7 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.14%) SCCM
9 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.096%) QRadar
10 4 (0.096%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.072%) Argo
11 3 (0.072%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.048%) CASB
12 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.048%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.048%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 739 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 233 (5.59%) Oracle
3 152 (3.65%) SAP
4 125 (3.00%) Databricks
5 85 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 66 (1.58%) Google
6 66 (1.58%) Sage
7 64 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.20%) Workday
9 46 (1.10%) Cisco
10 45 (1.08%) VMware
11 37 (0.89%) Xero
12 34 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 30 (0.72%) IBM
14 28 (0.67%) Aderant
15 26 (0.62%) Adobe
16 24 (0.58%) BMC
17 19 (0.46%) Remedy
17 19 (0.46%) Splunk
17 19 (0.46%) Veeam