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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,622 3,955 5,154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.54% 23.44% 22.93%
As % of the General category 30.21% 33.20% 36.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,679 2,238 2,905
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,736 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -8.35% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £112,550 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,240 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -7.14% -

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 15,298 11,913 14,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.36% 70.62% 62.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9,266 6,228 7,932
10th Percentile £32,250 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 2 October 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
1 113 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.17%) Confluence
3 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 14 (0.30%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SAS
10 6 (0.13%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.13%) IIS
11 4 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.043%) Hedera
12 2 (0.043%) WordPress
13 1 (0.022%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.022%) CICS
13 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 287 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) InDesign
10 5 (0.11%) Notion
11 4 (0.087%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.087%) Sketch
12 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.065%) Productboard
13 2 (0.043%) SPSS
13 2 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.21%) NetSuite
2 36 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 36 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
3 35 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 33 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 25 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 20 (0.43%) Primavera
7 20 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 17 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
10 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 16 (0.35%) Workday HCM
11 15 (0.32%) Elite 3E
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
13 12 (0.26%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 836 (18.09%) Azure
2 618 (13.37%) AWS
3 400 (8.65%) SaaS
4 357 (7.72%) Power Platform
5 240 (5.19%) GCP
6 161 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
7 160 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
8 115 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (2.16%) Snowflake
10 89 (1.93%) PaaS
11 84 (1.82%) Entra ID
11 84 (1.82%) GitHub
12 80 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 79 (1.71%) PowerApps
14 76 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
15 62 (1.34%) Power Automate
16 60 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
16 60 (1.30%) Serverless
17 47 (1.02%) Amazon Bedrock
18 40 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.69%) LAN
1 78 (1.69%) WAN
2 62 (1.34%) Firewall
3 44 (0.95%) TCP/IP
4 39 (0.84%) Network Security
5 38 (0.82%) VPN
6 35 (0.76%) HTTP
7 34 (0.74%) DNS
8 25 (0.54%) 5G
8 25 (0.54%) Broadband
9 24 (0.52%) DHCP
10 19 (0.41%) VLAN
11 18 (0.39%) Internet
12 16 (0.35%) Wireless
13 14 (0.30%) BGP
14 13 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
16 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (0.24%) MPLS
17 9 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (5.24%) Power BI
2 128 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 63 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 57 (1.23%) Tableau
7 54 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 45 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (0.93%) Metadata
10 39 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 38 (0.82%) Relational Database
12 28 (0.61%) Big Data
13 22 (0.48%) MySQL
13 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
14 21 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 21 (0.45%) Power Query
15 20 (0.43%) NoSQL
16 18 (0.39%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.37%) Looker
17 17 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (2.90%) JIRA
2 90 (1.95%) Git
3 71 (1.54%) TeamCity
4 44 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 34 (0.74%) JUnit
6 23 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 23 (0.50%) Maven
7 22 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.26%) Selenium
10 9 (0.19%) GitLab
11 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.15%) Postman
12 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.13%) Gatling
13 6 (0.13%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.087%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,645 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 753 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
3 725 (15.69%) Banking
4 595 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 496 (10.73%) Legal
6 398 (8.61%) Retail
7 382 (8.26%) Law
8 329 (7.12%) Marketing
9 325 (7.03%) Organisational Skills
10 272 (5.88%) Public Sector
11 253 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
12 184 (3.98%) Manufacturing
13 176 (3.81%) Financial Institution
14 161 (3.48%) Back Office
14 161 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
15 158 (3.42%) Aerospace
16 110 (2.38%) Telecoms
17 92 (1.99%) Billing
18 69 (1.49%) General Ledger
19 63 (1.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 646 (13.98%) Senior
2 515 (11.14%) Lead
3 449 (9.71%) Analyst
4 409 (8.85%) Architect
5 336 (7.27%) Developer
6 286 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 230 (4.98%) Consultant
8 174 (3.76%) Senior Manager
9 156 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
10 146 (3.16%) Finance Manager
11 137 (2.96%) Accountant
12 118 (2.55%) IT Manager
13 105 (2.27%) Project Manager
13 105 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
14 104 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
15 97 (2.10%) Business Analyst
16 92 (1.99%) Data Analyst
17 89 (1.93%) Enterprise Architect
18 82 (1.77%) Business Manager
19 80 (1.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (4.13%) Terraform
2 162 (3.50%) .NET
3 139 (3.01%) React
4 109 (2.36%) REST
5 71 (1.54%) Spring
6 70 (1.51%) Node.js
7 62 (1.34%) .NET Core
8 61 (1.32%) LangChain
9 59 (1.28%) ASP.NET
10 54 (1.17%) LangGraph
11 53 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
11 53 (1.15%) CSS
11 53 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
12 49 (1.06%) .NET Framework
13 47 (1.02%) XML
14 46 (1.00%) RESTful
15 41 (0.89%) AngularJS
15 41 (0.89%) PyTorch
15 41 (0.89%) TensorFlow
16 37 (0.80%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 305 (6.60%) Product Ownership
2 255 (5.52%) Management Information System
3 245 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 222 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 180 (3.89%) Web Conferencing
6 175 (3.79%) Podcast
7 157 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
8 151 (3.27%) Virtual Team
9 100 (2.16%) Blog
10 89 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 77 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 76 (1.64%) Public Cloud
13 72 (1.56%) Hedge funds
13 72 (1.56%) Social Media
14 68 (1.47%) Credit Risk
15 65 (1.41%) Data Centre
16 57 (1.23%) Data Structures
17 48 (1.04%) Mobile App
18 45 (0.97%) Driving Licence
19 43 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.62%) Windows
2 96 (2.08%) Linux
3 48 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 24 (0.52%) Android
5 21 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.19%) Unix
6 9 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.022%) AIX
9 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 795 (17.20%) AI
3 793 (17.16%) Agile
4 764 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
5 737 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 714 (15.45%) Roadmaps
7 705 (15.25%) Decision-Making
8 529 (11.45%) Software Engineering
9 497 (10.75%) Mentoring
10 464 (10.04%) Analytics
11 452 (9.78%) ERP
12 439 (9.50%) CI/CD
13 384 (8.31%) Risk Management
14 366 (7.92%) Process Improvement
15 365 (7.90%) Coaching
16 363 (7.85%) DevOps
17 362 (7.83%) Project Delivery
18 352 (7.62%) Customer Service
19 342 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 322 (6.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 656 (14.19%) SQL
2 442 (9.56%) Python
3 317 (6.86%) Java
4 238 (5.15%) C#
5 153 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 122 (2.64%) TypeScript
7 86 (1.86%) C++
8 82 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 45 (0.97%) PHP
10 37 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 37 (0.80%) R
11 30 (0.65%) Bicep
11 30 (0.65%) Go
12 29 (0.63%) Bash
13 24 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.50%) C
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.37%) VBA
17 16 (0.35%) Rust
18 14 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 415 (8.98%) Degree
2 394 (8.52%) Security Cleared
3 301 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 273 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 237 (5.13%) ACCA
6 214 (4.63%) CIMA
7 129 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 72 (1.56%) CISSP
10 68 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 55 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 54 (1.17%) CISM
13 48 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.89%) PMP
15 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (0.71%) CISA
17 32 (0.69%) CRISC
18 30 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
19 26 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
20 25 (0.54%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 194 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.68%) QA
4 153 (3.31%) GDPR
5 101 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (1.99%) GRC
7 80 (1.73%) SLA
8 78 (1.69%) PMO
9 68 (1.47%) NIST
10 52 (1.13%) IFRS
11 40 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 36 (0.78%) GAAP
13 28 (0.61%) COBIT
13 28 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 21 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.35%) NCSC
17 15 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
18 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
19 12 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (2.40%) Docker
2 95 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.08%) Firmware
4 33 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.13%) Squid
11 4 (0.087%) vSphere
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.022%) HDFS
13 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 203 (4.39%) Kubernetes
2 104 (2.25%) Grafana
3 39 (0.84%) Ansible
4 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.087%) QRadar
8 4 (0.087%) SCCM
9 3 (0.065%) Cilium
9 3 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.065%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.043%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.043%) CASB
10 2 (0.043%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.043%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.043%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.043%) SQL Sentry
10 2 (0.043%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.022%) Control-M
Vendors
1 759 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 235 (5.08%) Oracle
3 149 (3.22%) SAP
4 110 (2.38%) Databricks
5 103 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 78 (1.69%) Google
7 75 (1.62%) Sage
8 69 (1.49%) Workday
9 62 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 42 (0.91%) VMware
11 39 (0.84%) Xero
12 37 (0.80%) HubSpot
13 34 (0.74%) Cisco
14 30 (0.65%) YouTube
15 29 (0.63%) Adobe
16 27 (0.58%) Aderant
17 25 (0.54%) BMC
18 22 (0.48%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.48%) Splunk
19 21 (0.45%) IFS