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 24 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,438 3,911 7,084
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.17% 26.80% 21.66%
As % of the General category 32.35% 35.72% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,269 2,372 4,889
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £120,000
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 10,628 10,949 20,268
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.17% 75.02% 61.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,083 6,020 15,109
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £31,800
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 24 May 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 89 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) Confluence
3 32 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.49%) SAS
5 10 (0.29%) CMS
6 7 (0.20%) IIS
6 7 (0.20%) JBoss
6 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.12%) Apache
8 4 (0.12%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.058%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.029%) Camunda
10 1 (0.029%) nginx
Applications
1 204 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.087%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.087%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.087%) Productboard
9 3 (0.087%) SPSS
10 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 69 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
2 51 (1.48%) NetSuite
3 46 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
4 42 (1.22%) Oracle Assets
5 40 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
6 29 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
7 28 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
8 27 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
9 26 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
10 24 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
11 18 (0.52%) Elite 3E
12 16 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
12 16 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 15 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
14 14 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
14 14 (0.41%) SAP ERP
15 13 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
16 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
16 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
16 9 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 714 (20.77%) Azure
2 476 (13.85%) AWS
3 307 (8.93%) SaaS
4 222 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 177 (5.15%) GCP
6 129 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
7 125 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (2.76%) Snowflake
9 90 (2.62%) GitHub
10 88 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 83 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (2.30%) Entra ID
13 66 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
14 65 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
14 65 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
15 62 (1.80%) Azure AI
16 42 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
17 36 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (0.99%) OCI
19 32 (0.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.92%) Firewall
2 48 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 44 (1.28%) VPN
4 42 (1.22%) WAN
5 38 (1.11%) DNS
6 37 (1.08%) HTTP
7 36 (1.05%) DHCP
8 28 (0.81%) Network Security
9 26 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.61%) Broadband
10 21 (0.61%) CHAP
11 19 (0.55%) BGP
11 19 (0.55%) MPLS
12 17 (0.49%) LAN
13 15 (0.44%) Wireless
14 14 (0.41%) VLAN
15 13 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
16 12 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
17 11 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 155 (4.51%) Power BI
3 65 (1.89%) Tableau
4 55 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (1.45%) Data Lake
6 48 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 41 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (0.73%) Big Data
8 25 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 24 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.64%) MongoDB
11 21 (0.61%) Metadata
12 17 (0.49%) DB2
12 17 (0.49%) MySQL
13 16 (0.47%) NoSQL
14 14 (0.41%) Delta Lake
14 14 (0.41%) SAP BW
15 13 (0.38%) Looker
15 13 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 112 (3.26%) JIRA
2 66 (1.92%) Git
3 42 (1.22%) TeamCity
4 26 (0.76%) Selenium
5 24 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 22 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 18 (0.52%) Postman
8 16 (0.47%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.32%) JUnit
12 9 (0.26%) Maven
13 8 (0.23%) Mockito
14 7 (0.20%) GitLab
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
16 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
17 4 (0.12%) ER Studio
17 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,092 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 570 (16.58%) Banking
3 467 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 350 (10.18%) Legal
5 334 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 326 (9.48%) Retail
7 267 (7.77%) Law
8 225 (6.54%) Marketing
9 224 (6.52%) Public Sector
10 175 (5.09%) Financial Institution
11 172 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
12 134 (3.90%) Back Office
13 113 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
14 95 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (2.47%) Manufacturing
16 71 (2.07%) Front Office
17 62 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 45 (1.31%) Billing
19 39 (1.13%) Investment Banking
20 35 (1.02%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 573 (16.67%) Senior
2 387 (11.26%) Analyst
3 294 (8.55%) Lead
4 288 (8.38%) Developer
5 232 (6.75%) Software Engineer
6 182 (5.29%) Architect
7 180 (5.24%) Consultant
8 141 (4.10%) Finance Manager
9 128 (3.72%) Senior Manager
10 106 (3.08%) Accountant
11 99 (2.88%) Business Analyst
12 87 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
13 85 (2.47%) Project Manager
14 79 (2.30%) C# Developer
15 76 (2.21%) Data Engineer
16 75 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 73 (2.12%) Engineering Manager
18 71 (2.07%) Software Developer
19 70 (2.04%) Graduate
19 70 (2.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (3.93%) .NET
2 132 (3.84%) React
3 116 (3.37%) REST
4 68 (1.98%) Node.js
5 58 (1.69%) Kafka
6 48 (1.40%) CSS
6 48 (1.40%) Spring
7 47 (1.37%) GraphQL
7 47 (1.37%) RESTful
8 44 (1.28%) SOAP
9 43 (1.25%) Redux
10 39 (1.13%) HTML
11 34 (0.99%) JSON
12 32 (0.93%) .NET Core
13 31 (0.90%) jQuery
14 30 (0.87%) Middleware
15 28 (0.81%) OAuth
16 27 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
17 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
18 25 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 233 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 202 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 150 (4.36%) Virtual Team
4 137 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 127 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 102 (2.97%) Web Conferencing
7 96 (2.79%) Podcast
8 73 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 73 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (1.95%) Data Structures
10 65 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 58 (1.69%) Fixed Income
12 47 (1.37%) Blog
12 47 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
12 47 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 39 (1.13%) Driving Licence
16 35 (1.02%) Low-Code
17 34 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 122 (3.55%) Windows
2 105 (3.05%) Linux
3 39 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.79%) Unix
5 24 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.49%) Android
7 13 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.087%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.029%) AIX
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.029%) VMS
10 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (23.30%) Agile
2 503 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
3 491 (14.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 466 (13.55%) Roadmaps
5 419 (12.19%) AI
6 378 (10.99%) Mentoring
7 358 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 355 (10.33%) Decision-Making
9 354 (10.30%) Software Engineering
10 350 (10.18%) DevOps
11 349 (10.15%) Analytics
12 347 (10.09%) CI/CD
12 347 (10.09%) ERP
13 294 (8.55%) Project Management
14 278 (8.09%) Coaching
15 234 (6.81%) Risk Management
16 225 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 211 (6.14%) Fintech
18 205 (5.96%) Test Automation
19 200 (5.82%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 542 (15.76%) SQL
2 345 (10.03%) Python
3 328 (9.54%) Java
4 212 (6.17%) C#
5 133 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 122 (3.55%) TypeScript
7 82 (2.39%) C++
7 82 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 78 (2.27%) Go
9 63 (1.83%) PHP
10 37 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 30 (0.87%) C
12 21 (0.61%) Apex Code
13 18 (0.52%) Bicep
13 18 (0.52%) R
14 17 (0.49%) Rust
14 17 (0.49%) T-SQL
15 16 (0.47%) Bash
16 13 (0.38%) VBA
17 12 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 374 (10.88%) Degree
2 246 (7.16%) ACCA
3 204 (5.93%) CIMA
4 184 (5.35%) Security Cleared
5 116 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 96 (2.79%) CISSP
8 76 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (1.75%) CISM
10 58 (1.69%) PMI Certification
11 51 (1.48%) CISA
12 49 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.13%) PMP
14 38 (1.11%) DBS Check
15 35 (1.02%) Azure Certification
16 33 (0.96%) SANS
17 30 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
18 27 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
19 25 (0.73%) CIPFA
20 24 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (3.93%) QA
2 121 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 115 (3.34%) GDPR
4 87 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (2.21%) NIST
6 64 (1.86%) IFRS
7 60 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.75%) PMO
8 50 (1.45%) GRC
9 45 (1.31%) SLA
10 35 (1.02%) GAAP
11 31 (0.90%) COBIT
12 30 (0.87%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.41%) COREP
16 14 (0.41%) FINREP
16 14 (0.41%) MiFID
17 13 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 108 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 77 (2.24%) Docker
3 69 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 45 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.32%) Firmware
7 10 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.15%) vSphere
9 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 174 (5.06%) Terraform
2 145 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.54%) Grafana
4 48 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.90%) Ansible
6 18 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.23%) Istio
7 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.20%) Argo
8 7 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.15%) Endace
9 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.15%) SCCM
10 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.12%) QRadar
10 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.087%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.087%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.058%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.058%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 562 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 238 (6.92%) Oracle
3 130 (3.78%) SAP
4 125 (3.64%) Databricks
5 93 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 65 (1.89%) Sage
7 55 (1.60%) Google
8 46 (1.34%) VMware
9 41 (1.19%) Cisco
9 41 (1.19%) ServiceNow
10 35 (1.02%) Xero
11 30 (0.87%) Workday
12 25 (0.73%) Adobe
13 23 (0.67%) Aderant
13 23 (0.67%) HubSpot
14 22 (0.64%) Okta
15 21 (0.61%) IBM
16 15 (0.44%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.41%) Splunk
18 13 (0.38%) Meraki