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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,536 4,009 7,201
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.91% 26.30% 20.94%
As % of the General category 30.91% 35.23% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,356 2,422 4,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,118 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -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 11,439 11,380 20,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.93% 74.67% 60.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,464 6,238 15,280
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,903 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% -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 13 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 95 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.05%) Confluence
3 33 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.45%) SAS
5 11 (0.31%) CMS
6 7 (0.20%) IIS
7 6 (0.17%) JBoss
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.085%) Apache
10 3 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.028%) WordPress
Applications
1 204 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.11%) CorelDRAW
7 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.085%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.085%) Productboard
8 3 (0.085%) SPSS
9 2 (0.057%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.028%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (1.73%) Oracle Financials
2 53 (1.50%) NetSuite
3 36 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 30 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
5 29 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
6 27 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
7 26 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
8 22 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
8 22 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.54%) Elite 3E
9 19 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
10 17 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
11 15 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
11 15 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (0.40%) SAP ERP
13 9 (0.25%) SAP CO
13 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
14 8 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 702 (19.85%) Azure
2 498 (14.08%) AWS
3 314 (8.88%) SaaS
4 233 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 180 (5.09%) GCP
6 132 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
7 105 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 75 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 71 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 64 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
13 61 (1.73%) Azure AI
14 59 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (1.30%) GitHub
16 45 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.05%) PaaS
18 34 (0.96%) PowerApps
19 31 (0.88%) Serverless
20 30 (0.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.89%) Firewall
2 47 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.13%) VPN
4 39 (1.10%) HTTP
5 36 (1.02%) WAN
6 34 (0.96%) DNS
7 33 (0.93%) DHCP
7 33 (0.93%) Network Security
8 23 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.62%) Broadband
10 20 (0.57%) BGP
10 20 (0.57%) CHAP
10 20 (0.57%) MPLS
11 17 (0.48%) LAN
12 15 (0.42%) VLAN
12 15 (0.42%) Wireless
13 13 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
14 12 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 157 (4.44%) Power BI
3 58 (1.64%) Tableau
4 53 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 39 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 26 (0.74%) Big Data
9 26 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 26 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 23 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (0.62%) MySQL
12 19 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.48%) Db2
13 17 (0.48%) Metadata
14 15 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.40%) SAP BW
16 12 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 105 (2.97%) JIRA
2 64 (1.81%) Git
3 41 (1.16%) TeamCity
4 25 (0.71%) Selenium
5 16 (0.45%) Postman
6 15 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.40%) JUnit
8 13 (0.37%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.28%) Maven
9 10 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (0.25%) Mockito
10 9 (0.25%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.17%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.14%) GitLab
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.085%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,138 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 619 (17.51%) Banking
3 469 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 383 (10.83%) Legal
5 332 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 309 (8.74%) Retail
7 260 (7.35%) Law
8 219 (6.19%) Marketing
9 203 (5.74%) Public Sector
10 184 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
11 171 (4.84%) Financial Institution
12 128 (3.62%) Back Office
13 112 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
14 111 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
15 91 (2.57%) Manufacturing
16 63 (1.78%) Front Office
17 60 (1.70%) Telecoms
18 51 (1.44%) Billing
19 44 (1.24%) Investment Banking
20 41 (1.16%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 560 (15.84%) Senior
2 383 (10.83%) Analyst
3 322 (9.11%) Lead
4 311 (8.80%) Developer
5 252 (7.13%) Software Engineer
6 206 (5.83%) Architect
7 181 (5.12%) Consultant
8 149 (4.21%) Finance Manager
9 146 (4.13%) Senior Manager
10 109 (3.08%) Accountant
11 94 (2.66%) Business Analyst
12 92 (2.60%) Project Manager
12 92 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
13 85 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
14 83 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
15 77 (2.18%) IT Manager
16 75 (2.12%) Graduate
17 67 (1.89%) Lead Software Engineer
18 66 (1.87%) Support Analyst
18 66 (1.87%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.04%) .NET
2 137 (3.87%) React
3 111 (3.14%) REST
4 79 (2.23%) Node.js
5 55 (1.56%) CSS
6 53 (1.50%) Spring
7 51 (1.44%) Kafka
8 42 (1.19%) Redux
9 41 (1.16%) .NET Core
10 40 (1.13%) GraphQL
11 37 (1.05%) jQuery
12 36 (1.02%) HTML
13 33 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
14 31 (0.88%) RESTful
15 30 (0.85%) TensorFlow
16 29 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 29 (0.82%) Middleware
16 29 (0.82%) PyTorch
17 28 (0.79%) ASP.NET
17 28 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 243 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 201 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 155 (4.38%) Virtual Team
4 140 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 131 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 124 (3.51%) Web Conferencing
7 116 (3.28%) Podcast
8 75 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 75 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 73 (2.06%) Data Centre
10 65 (1.84%) Data Structures
11 55 (1.56%) Fixed Income
12 48 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 47 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
14 43 (1.22%) Security Posture
15 42 (1.19%) Blog
16 41 (1.16%) Driving Licence
16 41 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
17 34 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
17 34 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 115 (3.25%) Windows
2 103 (2.91%) Linux
3 34 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.59%) Unix
5 18 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.28%) Android
6 10 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.20%) 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 2008
9 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (22.29%) Agile
2 539 (15.24%) Roadmaps
3 518 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 515 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 430 (12.16%) AI
6 406 (11.48%) Software Engineering
7 394 (11.14%) Decision-Making
8 383 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 368 (10.41%) Mentoring
10 363 (10.27%) Analytics
11 350 (9.90%) ERP
12 311 (8.80%) CI/CD
12 311 (8.80%) DevOps
13 308 (8.71%) Project Management
14 255 (7.21%) Risk Management
15 252 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 233 (6.59%) Coaching
17 211 (5.97%) Fintech
18 210 (5.94%) Customer Service
19 201 (5.68%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 532 (15.05%) SQL
2 358 (10.12%) Python
3 321 (9.08%) Java
4 221 (6.25%) C#
5 145 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 128 (3.62%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.40%) C++
8 72 (2.04%) Go
9 70 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 66 (1.87%) PHP
11 30 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.76%) C
13 21 (0.59%) Bicep
14 18 (0.51%) R
15 17 (0.48%) Bash
15 17 (0.48%) Rust
16 14 (0.40%) Apex Code
17 13 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.37%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 376 (10.63%) Degree
2 248 (7.01%) ACCA
3 206 (5.83%) CIMA
4 190 (5.37%) Security Cleared
5 124 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 108 (3.05%) SC Cleared
7 100 (2.83%) CISSP
8 81 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (1.87%) CISM
10 58 (1.64%) PMI Certification
11 49 (1.39%) CISA
12 46 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 42 (1.19%) PMP
14 36 (1.02%) Azure Certification
15 33 (0.93%) SANS
16 31 (0.88%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
19 25 (0.71%) CRISC
20 23 (0.65%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (4.33%) QA
2 125 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 121 (3.42%) GDPR
4 97 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (2.40%) NIST
6 67 (1.89%) IFRS
7 65 (1.84%) PMO
8 51 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 46 (1.30%) GRC
10 45 (1.27%) SLA
11 38 (1.07%) GAAP
12 35 (0.99%) COBIT
13 34 (0.96%) PCI DSS
14 23 (0.65%) SOC 2
15 20 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
17 15 (0.42%) MiFID
18 14 (0.40%) COREP
18 14 (0.40%) FINREP
System Software
1 95 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 71 (2.01%) Docker
3 64 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Firmware
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.14%) vSphere
8 3 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 146 (4.13%) Terraform
2 139 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 49 (1.39%) Grafana
4 47 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (0.76%) Ansible
6 8 (0.23%) Istio
6 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.14%) Endace
8 5 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.14%) QRadar
8 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.14%) SCCM
9 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.085%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.085%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.057%) Argo
11 2 (0.057%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 567 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 227 (6.42%) Oracle
3 132 (3.73%) SAP
4 119 (3.37%) Databricks
5 88 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 68 (1.92%) Sage
7 51 (1.44%) Google
8 49 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 43 (1.22%) Cisco
10 39 (1.10%) VMware
11 36 (1.02%) Xero
12 29 (0.82%) Workday
13 26 (0.74%) Adobe
14 23 (0.65%) HubSpot
15 22 (0.62%) Aderant
16 19 (0.54%) Splunk
17 18 (0.51%) IBM
18 16 (0.45%) Okta
19 15 (0.42%) OpenAI
20 14 (0.40%) Meraki
1,895 hybrid/remote Finance jobs