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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,208 4,005 5,372
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.36% 24.18% 21.77%
As % of the General category 30.48% 33.82% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,610 2,377 3,361
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,493 £37,521
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £105,000
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% -1.67%

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 13,808 11,842 15,103
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.23% 71.51% 61.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,705 6,564 9,979
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.36% -4.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,563 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.80% -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 20 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
1 111 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.26%) Confluence
3 28 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.40%) Apache
5 16 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.26%) nginx
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.21%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) SAS
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
11 4 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.095%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.024%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.024%) JBoss
13 1 (0.024%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 256 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.40%) Simulink
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
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 (0.095%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.095%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.095%) Sketch
12 3 (0.071%) Productboard
13 2 (0.048%) InDesign
13 2 (0.048%) SPSS
14 1 (0.024%) Notion
14 1 (0.024%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.024%) Weka
Business Applications
1 67 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 51 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
3 33 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 28 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 25 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
7 21 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.43%) Elite 3E
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
11 15 (0.36%) Primavera
11 15 (0.36%) Workday HCM
12 14 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
13 13 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
14 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
15 10 (0.24%) Sage 50
16 9 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 870 (20.67%) Azure
2 607 (14.42%) AWS
3 339 (8.06%) SaaS
4 317 (7.53%) Power Platform
5 214 (5.09%) GCP
6 155 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 144 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (2.66%) Snowflake
9 106 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (1.92%) PaaS
11 75 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
12 71 (1.69%) Entra ID
13 68 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 67 (1.59%) Azure AI
15 65 (1.54%) GitHub
16 62 (1.47%) PowerApps
17 57 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
17 57 (1.35%) Serverless
18 56 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
19 48 (1.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.90%) LAN
1 80 (1.90%) WAN
2 62 (1.47%) Firewall
3 42 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 41 (0.97%) Network Security
5 40 (0.95%) HTTP
6 38 (0.90%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 29 (0.69%) DHCP
9 21 (0.50%) Broadband
10 15 (0.36%) MPLS
10 15 (0.36%) VLAN
10 15 (0.36%) Wireless
11 13 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 11 (0.26%) Ethernet
12 11 (0.26%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.24%) NGFW
14 9 (0.21%) Internet
15 8 (0.19%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (4.90%) Power BI
2 177 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (1.35%) Tableau
7 45 (1.07%) Data Lake
8 44 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (0.90%) Metadata
11 34 (0.81%) Relational Database
12 28 (0.67%) Big Data
13 22 (0.52%) MySQL
14 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
15 20 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 19 (0.45%) Power Query
17 17 (0.40%) Oracle Database
17 17 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 16 (0.38%) Looker
18 16 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 137 (3.26%) JIRA
2 86 (2.04%) Git
3 43 (1.02%) TeamCity
4 26 (0.62%) JUnit
5 22 (0.52%) Claude Code
5 22 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (0.45%) Maven
7 17 (0.40%) Mockito
8 15 (0.36%) Selenium
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
10 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.095%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.095%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,391 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 680 (16.16%) Banking
3 587 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 479 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 426 (10.12%) Legal
6 312 (7.41%) Retail
7 305 (7.25%) Law
8 266 (6.32%) Marketing
9 249 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
10 229 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
11 206 (4.90%) Public Sector
12 150 (3.56%) Manufacturing
13 146 (3.47%) Aerospace
14 140 (3.33%) Financial Institution
15 118 (2.80%) Back Office
16 117 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
17 83 (1.97%) Billing
18 78 (1.85%) Telecoms
19 66 (1.57%) Front Office
20 53 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 595 (14.14%) Senior
2 463 (11.00%) Lead
3 438 (10.41%) Analyst
4 344 (8.17%) Architect
5 343 (8.15%) Developer
6 273 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 213 (5.06%) Consultant
8 162 (3.85%) Finance Manager
9 150 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 122 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
11 119 (2.83%) Accountant
12 111 (2.64%) Project Manager
12 111 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
13 109 (2.59%) IT Manager
14 103 (2.45%) Business Analyst
15 101 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
16 95 (2.26%) Engineering Manager
17 81 (1.92%) Data Analyst
18 80 (1.90%) Graduate
18 80 (1.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (4.06%) Terraform
2 161 (3.83%) React
3 157 (3.73%) .NET
4 117 (2.78%) REST
5 91 (2.16%) Node.js
6 67 (1.59%) .NET Core
7 65 (1.54%) CSS
8 62 (1.47%) Spring
9 60 (1.43%) ASP.NET
10 54 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
11 50 (1.19%) .NET Framework
12 45 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 45 (1.07%) LangChain
13 41 (0.97%) Kafka
14 38 (0.90%) LangGraph
14 38 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
15 36 (0.86%) HTML
15 36 (0.86%) PyTorch
15 36 (0.86%) TensorFlow
16 35 (0.83%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 276 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 212 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 195 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 167 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 162 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 155 (3.68%) Web Conferencing
7 145 (3.45%) Podcast
8 118 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 94 (2.23%) Blog
10 91 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 69 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 64 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 59 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
14 58 (1.38%) AI Agents
15 55 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
16 54 (1.28%) Credit Risk
17 53 (1.26%) Fixed Income
18 47 (1.12%) Driving Licence
18 47 (1.12%) Hedge funds
19 42 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 135 (3.21%) Windows
2 118 (2.80%) Linux
3 45 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.43%) Android
5 17 (0.40%) Unix
6 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.071%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.024%) AIX
12 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (20.96%) Agile
2 737 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 701 (16.66%) Roadmaps
4 654 (15.54%) AI
5 653 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
6 549 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 543 (12.90%) Decision-Making
8 502 (11.93%) Software Engineering
9 427 (10.15%) Analytics
10 426 (10.12%) Mentoring
11 405 (9.62%) ERP
12 383 (9.10%) CI/CD
13 352 (8.37%) DevOps
14 351 (8.34%) Risk Management
15 338 (8.03%) Project Delivery
16 321 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 306 (7.27%) Project Management
18 297 (7.06%) Process Improvement
19 275 (6.54%) Machine Learning
20 270 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 637 (15.14%) SQL
2 424 (10.08%) Python
3 299 (7.11%) Java
4 249 (5.92%) C#
5 172 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 145 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 109 (2.59%) C++
8 86 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 68 (1.62%) PHP
10 43 (1.02%) Go
11 31 (0.74%) C
12 28 (0.67%) Bash
13 27 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.59%) R
15 24 (0.57%) Bicep
16 22 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.43%) Rust
17 18 (0.43%) VBA
18 16 (0.38%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 424 (10.08%) Degree
2 348 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 267 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 250 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 247 (5.87%) ACCA
6 214 (5.09%) CIMA
7 134 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 84 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.69%) CISSP
10 52 (1.24%) PMI Certification
11 51 (1.21%) CISM
12 49 (1.16%) PMP
13 45 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.76%) CISA
16 29 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
17 28 (0.67%) CRISC
18 24 (0.57%) ICAEW
19 23 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (4.16%) Accessibility
2 169 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 165 (3.92%) QA
4 143 (3.40%) GDPR
5 91 (2.16%) GRC
6 89 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.83%) PMO
8 73 (1.73%) SLA
9 71 (1.69%) NIST
10 62 (1.47%) IFRS
11 49 (1.16%) GAAP
12 30 (0.71%) COBIT
12 30 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 21 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.40%) MiFID
16 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.36%) FINREP
18 14 (0.33%) COREP
18 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (2.57%) Docker
2 99 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (1.16%) Firmware
5 41 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.14%) Squid
10 6 (0.14%) vSphere
11 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.024%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 173 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 64 (1.52%) Grafana
3 45 (1.07%) Ansible
4 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.19%) Istio
6 7 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.14%) SCCM
8 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
8 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.095%) QRadar
9 4 (0.095%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.071%) Argo
10 3 (0.071%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.048%) CASB
11 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.048%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.048%) Puppet
11 2 (0.048%) Salt
Vendors
1 730 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 219 (5.20%) Oracle
3 142 (3.37%) SAP
4 132 (3.14%) Databricks
5 91 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 65 (1.54%) Sage
7 63 (1.50%) Google
8 56 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 50 (1.19%) Workday
10 48 (1.14%) VMware
11 43 (1.02%) Cisco
12 38 (0.90%) Xero
13 34 (0.81%) HubSpot
14 30 (0.71%) Aderant
15 29 (0.69%) IBM
16 25 (0.59%) BMC
17 21 (0.50%) Splunk
18 20 (0.48%) Remedy
19 19 (0.45%) Adobe
19 19 (0.45%) Veeam