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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,664 4,076 7,013
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.72% 25.81% 20.98%
As % of the General category 30.19% 35.06% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 2,483 4,784
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,050 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £45,455
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £72,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.77% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
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 12,136 11,627 20,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.68% 73.61% 61.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,974 6,469 14,891
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £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 £96,539
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 30 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
1 107 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.06%) Confluence
3 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.38%) SAS
5 12 (0.33%) CMS
6 6 (0.16%) 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 (0.082%) Apache
9 3 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.082%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.027%) nginx
11 1 (0.027%) WordPress
Applications
1 214 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.27%) CorelDRAW
7 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.082%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.082%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.082%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.082%) Productboard
10 2 (0.055%) SPSS
10 2 (0.055%) Trello
11 1 (0.027%) Notion
11 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 59 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
2 57 (1.56%) NetSuite
3 32 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 28 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
6 26 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
8 22 (0.60%) Elite 3E
9 19 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
10 18 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
11 14 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
11 14 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
11 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 10 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
14 9 (0.25%) SAP CO
14 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 750 (20.47%) Azure
2 536 (14.63%) AWS
3 338 (9.22%) SaaS
4 248 (6.77%) Power Platform
5 191 (5.21%) GCP
6 136 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
7 111 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (2.02%) Snowflake
10 73 (1.99%) Entra ID
11 64 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (1.72%) Azure AI
13 62 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
14 46 (1.26%) GitHub
15 44 (1.20%) PaaS
16 42 (1.15%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (0.96%) Serverless
19 33 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.86%) Firewall
2 45 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.06%) VPN
4 38 (1.04%) HTTP
4 38 (1.04%) Network Security
5 35 (0.96%) WAN
6 34 (0.93%) DNS
7 32 (0.87%) DHCP
8 21 (0.57%) Broadband
8 21 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.52%) BGP
9 19 (0.52%) LAN
9 19 (0.52%) MPLS
10 17 (0.46%) CHAP
10 17 (0.46%) VLAN
10 17 (0.46%) Wireless
11 13 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (4.61%) Power BI
2 166 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (1.53%) Tableau
5 49 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 45 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 33 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.71%) Big Data
10 26 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.68%) Relational Database
12 24 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.60%) MySQL
14 20 (0.55%) Metadata
15 18 (0.49%) Db2
16 15 (0.41%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.41%) SAP BW
17 12 (0.33%) Looker
17 12 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 98 (2.67%) JIRA
2 64 (1.75%) Git
3 46 (1.26%) TeamCity
4 19 (0.52%) Selenium
5 18 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.41%) JUnit
7 11 (0.30%) Maven
8 10 (0.27%) Mockito
9 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.19%) Postman
10 7 (0.19%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.14%) GitLab
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.082%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.082%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.082%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (0.082%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,185 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 649 (17.71%) Banking
3 480 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (11.00%) Legal
5 334 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 322 (8.79%) Retail
7 268 (7.31%) Law
8 214 (5.84%) Marketing
9 205 (5.59%) Public Sector
10 192 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
11 166 (4.53%) Financial Institution
12 132 (3.60%) Back Office
13 131 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
14 112 (3.06%) Manufacturing
15 110 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (1.80%) Front Office
17 65 (1.77%) Telecoms
18 53 (1.45%) Billing
19 49 (1.34%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.20%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 548 (14.96%) Senior
2 378 (10.32%) Analyst
3 343 (9.36%) Lead
4 341 (9.31%) Developer
5 256 (6.99%) Software Engineer
6 228 (6.22%) Architect
7 189 (5.16%) Consultant
8 150 (4.09%) Senior Manager
9 148 (4.04%) Finance Manager
10 114 (3.11%) Accountant
11 107 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
12 92 (2.51%) Project Manager
13 91 (2.48%) Business Analyst
14 89 (2.43%) Engineering Manager
15 88 (2.40%) IT Manager
16 78 (2.13%) Graduate
17 77 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
18 71 (1.94%) Support Analyst
19 69 (1.88%) Lead Software Engineer
20 67 (1.83%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (4.23%) .NET
2 149 (4.07%) React
3 111 (3.03%) REST
4 95 (2.59%) Node.js
5 61 (1.66%) CSS
6 57 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 54 (1.47%) Kafka
7 54 (1.47%) Spring
8 48 (1.31%) ASP.NET
9 46 (1.26%) ASP.NET Core
10 42 (1.15%) Redux
11 40 (1.09%) .NET Framework
11 40 (1.09%) GraphQL
12 39 (1.06%) jQuery
13 36 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 36 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 35 (0.96%) HTML
15 32 (0.87%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.87%) TensorFlow
16 30 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.71%) Product Ownership
2 216 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 157 (4.28%) Virtual Team
4 144 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 141 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
6 140 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 133 (3.63%) Podcast
8 81 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 78 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 75 (2.05%) Data Centre
11 67 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 61 (1.66%) Fixed Income
13 55 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 43 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
17 42 (1.15%) Driving Licence
18 41 (1.12%) Blog
19 37 (1.01%) Credit Risk
20 34 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 115 (3.14%) Windows
2 102 (2.78%) Linux
3 33 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.49%) Unix
5 15 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.27%) Android
7 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (21.70%) Agile
2 563 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 552 (15.07%) Roadmaps
4 532 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
5 454 (12.39%) AI
6 423 (11.54%) Decision-Making
7 417 (11.38%) Software Engineering
8 412 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 381 (10.40%) Mentoring
10 365 (9.96%) ERP
11 355 (9.69%) Analytics
12 327 (8.92%) CI/CD
13 323 (8.82%) DevOps
14 305 (8.32%) Project Management
15 265 (7.23%) Risk Management
16 262 (7.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 237 (6.47%) Coaching
18 223 (6.09%) Fintech
19 216 (5.90%) CRM
19 216 (5.90%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 552 (15.07%) SQL
2 363 (9.91%) Python
3 314 (8.57%) Java
4 245 (6.69%) C#
5 159 (4.34%) JavaScript
6 140 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.37%) C++
8 69 (1.88%) PHP
8 69 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 66 (1.80%) Go
10 28 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 26 (0.71%) Bicep
11 26 (0.71%) C
12 19 (0.52%) R
13 18 (0.49%) Bash
14 17 (0.46%) Rust
15 15 (0.41%) VBA
16 12 (0.33%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.33%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 367 (10.02%) Degree
2 254 (6.93%) ACCA
3 212 (5.79%) CIMA
4 210 (5.73%) Security Cleared
5 121 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 117 (3.19%) SC Cleared
7 108 (2.95%) CISSP
8 81 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (1.86%) CISM
10 55 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 51 (1.39%) CISA
12 44 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.12%) PMP
14 40 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 32 (0.87%) CRISC
16 31 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
16 31 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
17 30 (0.82%) SANS
18 28 (0.76%) DBS Check
19 27 (0.74%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (4.48%) QA
2 132 (3.60%) GDPR
3 130 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 107 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 88 (2.40%) NIST
6 71 (1.94%) IFRS
7 64 (1.75%) PMO
8 49 (1.34%) SLA
9 47 (1.28%) GRC
10 44 (1.20%) Accessibility
11 43 (1.17%) GAAP
12 39 (1.06%) PCI DSS
13 36 (0.98%) COBIT
14 27 (0.74%) SOC 2
15 21 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
16 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.41%) MiFID
19 14 (0.38%) COREP
19 14 (0.38%) FINREP
System Software
1 90 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 80 (2.18%) Docker
3 64 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.16%) Firmware
7 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.14%) vSphere
9 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.027%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) Squid
10 1 (0.027%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 153 (4.18%) Terraform
2 150 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 54 (1.47%) Grafana
4 45 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.82%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) Istio
7 7 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.16%) 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 (0.082%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.082%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.055%) Argo
12 2 (0.055%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 605 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 229 (6.25%) Oracle
3 130 (3.55%) SAP
4 111 (3.03%) Databricks
5 87 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 70 (1.91%) Sage
7 56 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 51 (1.39%) Google
9 44 (1.20%) Cisco
10 37 (1.01%) Xero
11 36 (0.98%) VMware
12 32 (0.87%) Workday
13 27 (0.74%) Adobe
14 25 (0.68%) Aderant
15 21 (0.57%) HubSpot
15 21 (0.57%) IBM
16 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.52%) Splunk
18 16 (0.44%) iManage
19 15 (0.41%) Okta