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 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,100 3,866 5,863
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.66% 23.68% 22.85%
As % of the General category 33.02% 34.26% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,875 2,476 4,611
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,177 £52,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.77% -3.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,750 £123,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -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 9,389 11,284 15,998
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.55% 69.12% 62.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,900 6,385 12,648
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,875 £110,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.41%

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 29 January 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 67 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.65%) Confluence
3 43 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.94%) Apache
6 19 (0.61%) SAS
7 17 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 17 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.39%) JBoss
9 10 (0.32%) CMS
10 8 (0.26%) Ethereum
10 8 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.13%) HCL Notes
14 3 (0.097%) HCL Domino
14 3 (0.097%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.097%) WordPress
15 2 (0.065%) nginx
Applications
1 258 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
7 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.065%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.032%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 63 (2.03%) Oracle ERP
2 58 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
3 47 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
4 46 (1.48%) NetSuite
5 43 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 41 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
6 41 (1.32%) Unit4 Business World
7 40 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
8 27 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
9 22 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
10 19 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
11 18 (0.58%) SAP FI
12 16 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
12 16 (0.52%) SAP CO
12 16 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
13 14 (0.45%) Hyperion Planning
14 12 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
14 12 (0.39%) Workday HCM
15 11 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 764 (24.65%) Azure
2 407 (13.13%) AWS
3 327 (10.55%) Power Platform
4 274 (8.84%) SaaS
5 236 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 201 (6.48%) GitHub
7 175 (5.65%) GCP
8 147 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
9 116 (3.74%) Snowflake
10 108 (3.48%) Entra ID
11 107 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 93 (3.00%) dbt
13 82 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
14 81 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 58 (1.87%) OCI
18 55 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
19 46 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
19 46 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.55%) Firewall
2 60 (1.94%) WAN
3 51 (1.65%) VPN
4 49 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 46 (1.48%) SD-WAN
6 42 (1.35%) LAN
7 38 (1.23%) Wireless
8 34 (1.10%) Wireshark
9 33 (1.06%) DNS
10 28 (0.90%) DHCP
11 21 (0.68%) Network Security
12 17 (0.55%) CHAP
12 17 (0.55%) Internet
13 15 (0.48%) VLAN
14 11 (0.35%) HTTP
15 10 (0.32%) BGP
16 9 (0.29%) SSL
17 8 (0.26%) Telnet
17 8 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
18 7 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (7.48%) Power BI
2 120 (3.87%) SQL Server
3 108 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (3.06%) Tableau
5 81 (2.61%) Data Lake
6 54 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 54 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 39 (1.26%) Apache Iceberg
9 36 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (1.16%) Apache Arrow
9 36 (1.16%) Dremio
10 34 (1.10%) Metadata
11 31 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (0.97%) MySQL
13 28 (0.90%) Big Data
14 25 (0.81%) MongoDB
15 22 (0.71%) Apache Ignite
16 21 (0.68%) Relational Database
17 20 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 157 (5.06%) JIRA
2 70 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
3 66 (2.13%) Git
4 63 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.19%) Selenium
6 34 (1.10%) Postman
7 31 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 27 (0.87%) SoapUI
9 24 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
10 22 (0.71%) WebDriver
11 18 (0.58%) ERwin
12 17 (0.55%) GitLab
13 16 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.52%) ER Studio
14 10 (0.32%) Storybook
15 9 (0.29%) Subversion
16 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.19%) Cucumber
18 5 (0.16%) JMeter
18 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,078 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 537 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
3 443 (14.29%) Banking
4 250 (8.06%) Marketing
5 227 (7.32%) Retail
6 224 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 224 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 182 (5.87%) Financial Institution
8 162 (5.23%) Legal
9 160 (5.16%) Law
10 106 (3.42%) Back Office
11 105 (3.39%) Telecoms
12 101 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
13 97 (3.13%) Manufacturing
14 92 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
15 78 (2.52%) Front Office
16 75 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
17 56 (1.81%) Electronics
18 50 (1.61%) Billing
19 48 (1.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 555 (17.90%) Senior
2 434 (14.00%) Analyst
3 260 (8.39%) Developer
4 216 (6.97%) Lead
5 172 (5.55%) Software Engineer
6 155 (5.00%) Consultant
7 139 (4.48%) Architect
8 100 (3.23%) Business Analyst
9 92 (2.97%) Data Engineer
10 82 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
11 77 (2.48%) Project Manager
12 74 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
13 72 (2.32%) Senior Software Engineer
14 70 (2.26%) Finance Manager
15 67 (2.16%) Senior Manager
16 64 (2.06%) Software Developer
16 64 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
17 62 (2.00%) Accountant
18 59 (1.90%) Applications Engineer
19 58 (1.87%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (5.23%) .NET
2 102 (3.29%) REST
3 97 (3.13%) SOAP
4 95 (3.06%) RESTful
5 85 (2.74%) React
6 57 (1.84%) JSON
7 51 (1.65%) OAuth
8 49 (1.58%) Node.js
9 46 (1.48%) Spring
10 42 (1.35%) Pandas
11 41 (1.32%) HTML
12 40 (1.29%) AngularJS
13 37 (1.19%) Middleware
13 37 (1.19%) NumPy
14 36 (1.16%) SciPy
15 35 (1.13%) CSS
15 35 (1.13%) Kafka
16 32 (1.03%) OAuth2
16 32 (1.03%) XML
17 29 (0.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 202 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 188 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 150 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 123 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 120 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 77 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 73 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
8 72 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 59 (1.90%) e-Learning
10 59 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 56 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 53 (1.71%) Blog
12 53 (1.71%) Fixed Income
13 48 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 46 (1.48%) Equities
15 40 (1.29%) Hedge funds
16 38 (1.23%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.06%) Public Cloud
18 32 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 131 (4.23%) Linux
2 108 (3.48%) Windows
3 43 (1.39%) Unix
4 39 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.58%) Android
6 18 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.065%) CentOS
11 2 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (27.23%) Agile
2 546 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 530 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
4 471 (15.19%) Coaching
5 461 (14.87%) AI
6 436 (14.06%) Asset Management
7 434 (14.00%) DevOps
8 419 (13.52%) Roadmaps
9 411 (13.26%) Analytics
10 408 (13.16%) CI/CD
11 363 (11.71%) Decision-Making
12 336 (10.84%) Mentoring
13 332 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 312 (10.06%) Software Engineering
15 305 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
15 305 (9.84%) ERP
16 282 (9.10%) Project Management
17 275 (8.87%) Risk Management
18 240 (7.74%) Test Automation
19 198 (6.39%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 582 (18.77%) SQL
2 404 (13.03%) Python
3 303 (9.77%) Java
4 158 (5.10%) C#
5 147 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 124 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 123 (3.97%) PowerShell
8 70 (2.26%) C++
9 55 (1.77%) PHP
10 54 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 40 (1.29%) Go
12 39 (1.26%) Bash
12 39 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 32 (1.03%) Bicep
14 32 (1.03%) C
15 28 (0.90%) Apex Code
16 20 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 19 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 397 (12.81%) Degree
2 196 (6.32%) ACCA
3 180 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 158 (5.10%) CIMA
5 141 (4.55%) CISSP
6 125 (4.03%) SC Cleared
7 90 (2.90%) CISA
8 73 (2.35%) CISM
9 69 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.23%) DV Cleared
10 63 (2.03%) CRISC
11 57 (1.84%) DBS Check
12 43 (1.39%) PMI Certification
13 40 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
14 36 (1.16%) ISTQB
15 35 (1.13%) Azure Certification
16 33 (1.06%) AAT
17 28 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 27 (0.87%) CCNP
19 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (4.81%) NIST
2 127 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 125 (4.03%) QA
4 118 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (3.68%) GDPR
6 78 (2.52%) PCI DSS
7 70 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 70 (2.26%) GRC
8 53 (1.71%) PMO
9 52 (1.68%) IFRS
10 32 (1.03%) COBIT
11 31 (1.00%) SLA
12 30 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 29 (0.94%) GAAP
14 26 (0.84%) SOC 2
15 22 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.58%) P3O
17 11 (0.35%) SEPA
17 11 (0.35%) WCAG
18 8 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 108 (3.48%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.13%) Docker
3 39 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (0.77%) Firmware
6 17 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.13%) NFS
9 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.13%) vSphere
10 1 (0.032%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 237 (7.65%) Terraform
2 117 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 56 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 54 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.45%) Grafana
6 42 (1.35%) Ansible
7 16 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.35%) SCCM
9 10 (0.32%) Argo
10 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) Cilium
13 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) QRadar
14 2 (0.065%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.065%) Kibana
14 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 525 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 164 (5.29%) Oracle
3 126 (4.06%) SAP
4 89 (2.87%) Salesforce
5 85 (2.74%) Databricks
6 81 (2.61%) Cisco
7 53 (1.71%) Google
8 51 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 49 (1.58%) VMware
10 45 (1.45%) Blue Prism
11 44 (1.42%) Sage
12 35 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 32 (1.03%) CheckPoint
14 31 (1.00%) Workday
15 28 (0.90%) Meraki
16 27 (0.87%) Okta
17 26 (0.84%) SolarWinds
18 25 (0.81%) Palo Alto
19 23 (0.74%) IBM
20 18 (0.58%) Ab Initio