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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,072 4,143 5,502
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.28% 25.11% 21.76%
As % of the General category 30.58% 34.59% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,482 3,517
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £91,436 £100,000 £102,500
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% -

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 13,317 11,978 15,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.79% 72.59% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 6,695 10,479
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,103
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4 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
1 112 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.25%) Confluence
3 29 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.39%) Apache
5 15 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.27%) nginx
7 10 (0.25%) CMS
8 9 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.22%) SAS
9 6 (0.15%) IIS
10 4 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.098%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.025%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.025%) JBoss
12 1 (0.025%) WordPress
Applications
1 250 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.27%) Simulink
7 10 (0.25%) CorelDRAW
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.12%) Trello
9 4 (0.098%) Sketch
10 3 (0.074%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.074%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.074%) Productboard
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.049%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 64 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 53 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
3 33 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 31 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
6 28 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
7 23 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
8 22 (0.54%) Elite 3E
9 19 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
9 19 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
10 18 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
11 17 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
13 15 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
14 14 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 13 (0.32%) SAP ERP
16 12 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
16 12 (0.29%) SAP CO
16 12 (0.29%) SAP FI
16 12 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 870 (21.37%) Azure
2 600 (14.73%) AWS
3 353 (8.67%) SaaS
4 303 (7.44%) Power Platform
5 211 (5.18%) GCP
6 169 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 142 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
8 108 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 103 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 80 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
11 73 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 73 (1.79%) PaaS
12 67 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 66 (1.62%) Azure AI
14 59 (1.45%) GitHub
15 58 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
16 57 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
17 54 (1.33%) PowerApps
18 45 (1.11%) Serverless
19 42 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.96%) WAN
2 78 (1.92%) LAN
3 66 (1.62%) Firewall
4 42 (1.03%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.01%) HTTP
5 41 (1.01%) Network Security
6 37 (0.91%) DNS
7 28 (0.69%) DHCP
7 28 (0.69%) VPN
8 21 (0.52%) Broadband
9 16 (0.39%) MPLS
9 16 (0.39%) Wireless
10 13 (0.32%) BGP
10 13 (0.32%) VLAN
11 11 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (0.27%) Internet
11 11 (0.27%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.25%) NGFW
12 10 (0.25%) SSL
13 9 (0.22%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (4.67%) Power BI
2 177 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 71 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 62 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 57 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.38%) Tableau
7 44 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 29 (0.71%) Big Data
11 28 (0.69%) Metadata
11 28 (0.69%) Relational Database
12 25 (0.61%) MySQL
13 23 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.52%) NoSQL
15 19 (0.47%) Power Query
15 19 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (0.42%) SAP BW
17 16 (0.39%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 129 (3.17%) JIRA
2 82 (2.01%) Git
3 45 (1.11%) TeamCity
4 24 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.59%) JUnit
5 18 (0.44%) Selenium
6 17 (0.42%) Maven
7 16 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.37%) Mockito
8 15 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
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 (0.15%) Gatling
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.12%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.098%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,321 (32.44%) Social Skills
2 655 (16.09%) Banking
3 538 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 428 (10.51%) Legal
5 409 (10.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 322 (7.91%) Retail
7 301 (7.39%) Law
8 243 (5.97%) Marketing
9 228 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
10 215 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
11 206 (5.06%) Public Sector
12 142 (3.49%) Financial Institution
13 140 (3.44%) Manufacturing
14 124 (3.05%) Back Office
15 118 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
16 92 (2.26%) Aerospace
17 79 (1.94%) Front Office
17 79 (1.94%) Telecoms
18 77 (1.89%) Billing
19 54 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 580 (14.24%) Senior
2 439 (10.78%) Lead
3 412 (10.12%) Analyst
4 357 (8.77%) Developer
5 321 (7.88%) Architect
6 271 (6.66%) Software Engineer
7 227 (5.57%) Consultant
8 163 (4.00%) Finance Manager
9 150 (3.68%) Senior Manager
10 124 (3.05%) Accountant
11 117 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
12 104 (2.55%) Project Manager
13 103 (2.53%) IT Manager
14 96 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
15 95 (2.33%) Business Analyst
15 95 (2.33%) Engineering Manager
16 91 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 82 (2.01%) Graduate
18 76 (1.87%) Support Analyst
19 73 (1.79%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (4.17%) React
2 158 (3.88%) .NET
3 124 (3.05%) REST
4 104 (2.55%) Node.js
5 65 (1.60%) CSS
6 63 (1.55%) .NET Core
7 58 (1.42%) ASP.NET
8 56 (1.38%) Kafka
8 56 (1.38%) Spring
9 54 (1.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 47 (1.15%) .NET Framework
11 43 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 42 (1.03%) GraphQL
13 39 (0.96%) jQuery
13 39 (0.96%) Redux
14 38 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
15 37 (0.91%) LangChain
16 35 (0.86%) HTML
16 35 (0.86%) PyTorch
16 35 (0.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 262 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 213 (5.23%) Cloud Native
3 165 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 161 (3.95%) Virtual Team
5 152 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 146 (3.59%) Web Conferencing
7 137 (3.36%) Podcast
8 105 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
9 90 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 71 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 70 (1.72%) Blog
11 70 (1.72%) Fixed Income
12 64 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 60 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 54 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (1.28%) Driving Licence
16 45 (1.11%) AI Agents
17 44 (1.08%) Credit Risk
18 42 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
19 40 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 136 (3.34%) Windows
2 118 (2.90%) Linux
3 45 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.47%) Unix
5 17 (0.42%) Android
6 15 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.098%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.049%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.025%) AIX
11 1 (0.025%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.025%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (21.61%) Agile
2 687 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 678 (16.65%) Roadmaps
4 617 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 594 (14.59%) AI
6 497 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 488 (11.98%) Decision-Making
8 483 (11.86%) Software Engineering
9 436 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 411 (10.09%) Analytics
11 409 (10.04%) ERP
12 372 (9.14%) CI/CD
13 349 (8.57%) DevOps
14 326 (8.01%) Risk Management
15 305 (7.49%) Project Delivery
15 305 (7.49%) Project Management
16 295 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 282 (6.93%) Process Improvement
18 252 (6.19%) CRM
19 247 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 601 (14.76%) SQL
2 415 (10.19%) Python
3 312 (7.66%) Java
4 251 (6.16%) C#
5 184 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 156 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 106 (2.60%) C++
8 80 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 71 (1.74%) PHP
10 60 (1.47%) Go
11 29 (0.71%) C
11 29 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 25 (0.61%) Bash
13 24 (0.59%) Bicep
13 24 (0.59%) R
14 20 (0.49%) VBA
15 16 (0.39%) Rust
16 14 (0.34%) MATLAB
16 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 387 (9.50%) Degree
2 303 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 256 (6.29%) ACCA
4 218 (5.35%) CIMA
4 218 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 199 (4.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 92 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 85 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 81 (1.99%) CISSP
9 54 (1.33%) CISM
10 48 (1.18%) PMI Certification
10 48 (1.18%) PMP
11 45 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 37 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 35 (0.86%) CISA
14 31 (0.76%) CRISC
15 28 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 26 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 23 (0.56%) AAT
17 23 (0.56%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (3.93%) QA
2 153 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 144 (3.54%) GDPR
4 131 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 94 (2.31%) GRC
6 92 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.89%) NIST
8 72 (1.77%) PMO
9 66 (1.62%) IFRS
10 63 (1.55%) SLA
11 48 (1.18%) GAAP
12 32 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 31 (0.76%) COBIT
14 25 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
15 22 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.42%) MiFID
16 17 (0.42%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.37%) FINREP
18 14 (0.34%) COREP
System Software
1 104 (2.55%) Docker
2 94 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 31 (0.76%) Firmware
6 17 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.15%) Squid
9 6 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 5 (0.12%) vSphere
11 3 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.025%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 173 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 159 (3.90%) Terraform
3 62 (1.52%) Grafana
4 41 (1.01%) Ansible
4 41 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.20%) Istio
6 7 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
7 5 (0.12%) SCCM
8 4 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.098%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.098%) QRadar
8 4 (0.098%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.074%) Argo
9 3 (0.074%) Endace
9 3 (0.074%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.049%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.049%) Puppet
10 2 (0.049%) Salt
Vendors
1 731 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 234 (5.75%) Oracle
3 147 (3.61%) SAP
4 124 (3.05%) Databricks
5 83 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 66 (1.62%) Sage
6 66 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 61 (1.50%) Google
8 49 (1.20%) Workday
9 43 (1.06%) Cisco
10 41 (1.01%) VMware
11 36 (0.88%) Xero
12 32 (0.79%) HubSpot
13 29 (0.71%) IBM
14 27 (0.66%) Aderant
15 25 (0.61%) Adobe
16 24 (0.59%) BMC
17 19 (0.47%) FIS
17 19 (0.47%) Remedy
17 19 (0.47%) Splunk