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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,631 4,052 7,124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.79% 26.03% 20.78%
As % of the General category 30.47% 35.03% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,449 2,466 4,870
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £91,991
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +9.64% -7.41%

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 11,918 11,567 20,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.38% 74.30% 60.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,814 6,392 15,152
10th Percentile £32,261 £27,500 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,094 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,239 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 24 June 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
1 103 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.05%) Confluence
3 33 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.41%) SAS
5 11 (0.30%) CMS
6 6 (0.17%) IIS
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.083%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.055%) Apache
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.028%) WordPress
Applications
1 211 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.19%) CorelDRAW
6 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.083%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.083%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.083%) Productboard
9 2 (0.055%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.055%) SPSS
10 1 (0.028%) Notion
10 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (1.62%) Oracle Financials
2 57 (1.57%) NetSuite
3 34 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 28 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
4 28 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 25 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.52%) Elite 3E
10 18 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
10 18 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
11 15 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
12 14 (0.39%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 10 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
15 9 (0.25%) SAP CO
15 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
15 9 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 727 (20.02%) Azure
2 520 (14.32%) AWS
3 327 (9.01%) SaaS
4 246 (6.77%) Power Platform
5 191 (5.26%) GCP
6 136 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
7 106 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
8 105 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 74 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 73 (2.01%) Snowflake
12 64 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (1.74%) Azure AI
13 63 (1.74%) Azure Machine Learning
14 43 (1.18%) GitHub
15 40 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (1.10%) PaaS
16 39 (1.07%) PowerApps
17 34 (0.94%) Serverless
18 31 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.79%) Firewall
2 47 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 38 (1.05%) HTTP
3 38 (1.05%) VPN
4 37 (1.02%) Network Security
5 35 (0.96%) DNS
5 35 (0.96%) WAN
6 34 (0.94%) DHCP
7 22 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.58%) Broadband
9 19 (0.52%) BGP
9 19 (0.52%) MPLS
10 17 (0.47%) CHAP
10 17 (0.47%) LAN
10 17 (0.47%) VLAN
11 15 (0.41%) Wireless
12 13 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 12 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (4.57%) Power BI
2 162 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 61 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (1.60%) Tableau
5 45 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.13%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 27 (0.74%) Big Data
10 26 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.69%) Relational Database
12 22 (0.61%) MySQL
12 22 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (0.55%) Metadata
14 18 (0.50%) Db2
15 15 (0.41%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.39%) NoSQL
16 14 (0.39%) SAP BW
17 12 (0.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 98 (2.70%) JIRA
2 64 (1.76%) Git
3 46 (1.27%) TeamCity
4 22 (0.61%) Selenium
5 16 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.41%) JUnit
7 11 (0.30%) Maven
8 10 (0.28%) Mockito
8 10 (0.28%) Postman
8 10 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 6 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.14%) GitLab
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.14%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.083%) Cucumber
General
1 1,173 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 650 (17.90%) Banking
3 485 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (11.10%) Legal
5 336 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 321 (8.84%) Retail
7 262 (7.22%) Law
8 215 (5.92%) Marketing
9 204 (5.62%) Public Sector
10 188 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
11 166 (4.57%) Financial Institution
12 131 (3.61%) Back Office
13 127 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
14 111 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
15 107 (2.95%) Manufacturing
16 64 (1.76%) Front Office
17 63 (1.74%) Telecoms
18 52 (1.43%) Billing
19 47 (1.29%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.21%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 548 (15.09%) Senior
2 381 (10.49%) Analyst
3 339 (9.34%) Lead
4 328 (9.03%) Developer
5 256 (7.05%) Software Engineer
6 222 (6.11%) Architect
7 185 (5.10%) Consultant
8 150 (4.13%) Finance Manager
9 146 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 115 (3.17%) Accountant
11 101 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (2.56%) Business Analyst
13 89 (2.45%) Engineering Manager
13 89 (2.45%) Project Manager
14 86 (2.37%) IT Manager
15 79 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
16 78 (2.15%) Graduate
17 71 (1.96%) Systems Manager
18 69 (1.90%) Lead Software Engineer
18 69 (1.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.05%) .NET
2 142 (3.91%) React
3 107 (2.95%) REST
4 86 (2.37%) Node.js
5 57 (1.57%) CSS
6 54 (1.49%) Spring
7 53 (1.46%) Kafka
8 50 (1.38%) .NET Core
9 42 (1.16%) Redux
10 38 (1.05%) ASP.NET
10 38 (1.05%) GraphQL
10 38 (1.05%) jQuery
11 37 (1.02%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
13 34 (0.94%) HTML
14 33 (0.91%) AngularJS
15 32 (0.88%) .NET Framework
15 32 (0.88%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.88%) TensorFlow
16 30 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 248 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 212 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 156 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 142 (3.91%) Onboarding
5 141 (3.88%) Web Conferencing
6 137 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 133 (3.66%) Podcast
8 79 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 78 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 73 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 67 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 58 (1.60%) Fixed Income
13 52 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
17 41 (1.13%) Blog
17 41 (1.13%) Driving Licence
18 38 (1.05%) Credit Risk
19 33 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 114 (3.14%) Windows
2 100 (2.75%) Linux
3 33 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.50%) Unix
5 16 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.25%) Android
6 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.028%) AIX
9 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (21.59%) Agile
2 557 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 546 (15.04%) Roadmaps
4 525 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
5 445 (12.26%) AI
6 425 (11.70%) Decision-Making
7 415 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 400 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 377 (10.38%) Mentoring
10 362 (9.97%) ERP
11 358 (9.86%) Analytics
12 324 (8.92%) CI/CD
13 317 (8.73%) DevOps
14 307 (8.45%) Project Management
15 263 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 262 (7.22%) Risk Management
17 239 (6.58%) Coaching
18 217 (5.98%) Fintech
19 215 (5.92%) Customer Service
20 209 (5.76%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 542 (14.93%) SQL
2 362 (9.97%) Python
3 317 (8.73%) Java
4 235 (6.47%) C#
5 153 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 135 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.37%) C++
8 69 (1.90%) PHP
9 68 (1.87%) Go
10 65 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 27 (0.74%) C
11 27 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 24 (0.66%) Bicep
13 19 (0.52%) R
14 17 (0.47%) Bash
14 17 (0.47%) Rust
15 15 (0.41%) VBA
16 12 (0.33%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.33%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 370 (10.19%) Degree
2 258 (7.11%) ACCA
3 215 (5.92%) CIMA
4 200 (5.51%) Security Cleared
5 123 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (3.08%) SC Cleared
7 106 (2.92%) CISSP
8 81 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (1.87%) CISM
10 53 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 52 (1.43%) CISA
12 44 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 39 (1.07%) PMP
14 32 (0.88%) CRISC
15 30 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.83%) SANS
16 28 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.74%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (4.60%) QA
2 130 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 127 (3.50%) GDPR
4 104 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 86 (2.37%) NIST
6 72 (1.98%) IFRS
7 64 (1.76%) PMO
8 48 (1.32%) SLA
9 47 (1.29%) GRC
10 45 (1.24%) Accessibility
11 43 (1.18%) GAAP
12 37 (1.02%) PCI DSS
13 36 (0.99%) COBIT
14 26 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 21 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
16 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.41%) MiFID
19 14 (0.39%) COREP
19 14 (0.39%) FINREP
System Software
1 92 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.09%) Docker
3 64 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.17%) Firmware
8 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.14%) vSphere
9 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.028%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 149 (4.10%) Terraform
2 147 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 54 (1.49%) Grafana
4 46 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.80%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) Istio
7 7 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.14%) Endace
9 5 (0.14%) QRadar
9 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.14%) SCCM
10 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.083%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.083%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.055%) Argo
12 2 (0.055%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 583 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 225 (6.20%) Oracle
3 130 (3.58%) SAP
4 113 (3.11%) Databricks
5 89 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 71 (1.96%) Sage
7 54 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 52 (1.43%) Google
9 42 (1.16%) Cisco
10 37 (1.02%) Xero
11 36 (0.99%) VMware
12 27 (0.74%) Adobe
12 27 (0.74%) Workday
13 22 (0.61%) Aderant
14 20 (0.55%) HubSpot
15 19 (0.52%) IBM
15 19 (0.52%) Splunk
16 18 (0.50%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.44%) IFS
18 15 (0.41%) Okta
1,759 hybrid/remote Finance jobs