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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,423 3,914 7,085
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.14% 26.80% 21.61%
As % of the General category 32.31% 35.72% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 2,370 4,889
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,750 £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 10,595 10,956 20,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.16% 75.01% 61.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,052 6,018 15,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,800
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,494
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 £111,250 £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 25 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 88 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) Confluence
3 32 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.50%) SAS
5 9 (0.26%) 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
1 203 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.088%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.088%) Productboard
9 3 (0.088%) SPSS
10 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 69 (2.02%) Oracle Financials
2 51 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 46 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
4 42 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
5 40 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
6 29 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
7 28 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
8 27 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
9 26 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
10 23 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
11 18 (0.53%) 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
1 708 (20.68%) Azure
2 468 (13.67%) AWS
3 307 (8.97%) SaaS
4 220 (6.43%) Power Platform
5 176 (5.14%) GCP
6 127 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
7 125 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (2.78%) Snowflake
9 88 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 88 (2.57%) GitHub
10 82 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
11 77 (2.25%) Entra ID
12 66 (1.93%) Azure Machine Learning
13 65 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
13 65 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
14 61 (1.78%) Azure AI
15 41 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
16 35 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 34 (0.99%) OCI
18 32 (0.93%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.96%) Firewall
2 48 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 44 (1.29%) VPN
4 42 (1.23%) WAN
5 36 (1.05%) DNS
5 36 (1.05%) HTTP
6 35 (1.02%) DHCP
7 29 (0.85%) Network Security
8 26 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 21 (0.61%) Broadband
9 21 (0.61%) CHAP
10 19 (0.56%) BGP
10 19 (0.56%) MPLS
11 17 (0.50%) LAN
12 15 (0.44%) Wireless
13 14 (0.41%) VLAN
14 13 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (0.32%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 154 (4.50%) Power BI
3 64 (1.87%) Tableau
4 54 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (1.46%) Data Lake
6 47 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 41 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 24 (0.70%) Big Data
9 24 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 22 (0.64%) MongoDB
11 21 (0.61%) Metadata
12 17 (0.50%) DB2
12 17 (0.50%) 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
1 111 (3.24%) JIRA
2 66 (1.93%) Git
3 42 (1.23%) TeamCity
4 26 (0.76%) Selenium
5 24 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 22 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 18 (0.53%) Postman
8 16 (0.47%) WebDriver
9 14 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 13 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 11 (0.32%) JUnit
12 10 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.26%) Maven
14 8 (0.23%) Mockito
15 7 (0.20%) GitLab
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
17 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
18 4 (0.12%) ER Studio
18 4 (0.12%) Storybook
General
1 1,089 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 569 (16.62%) Banking
3 466 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 350 (10.22%) Legal
5 333 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 326 (9.52%) Retail
7 266 (7.77%) Law
8 224 (6.54%) Marketing
9 222 (6.49%) Public Sector
10 175 (5.11%) Financial Institution
11 171 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
12 133 (3.89%) Back Office
13 112 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
14 92 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
15 85 (2.48%) Manufacturing
16 71 (2.07%) Front Office
17 63 (1.84%) Telecoms
18 45 (1.31%) Billing
19 39 (1.14%) Investment Banking
20 35 (1.02%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 568 (16.59%) Senior
2 387 (11.31%) Analyst
3 293 (8.56%) Lead
4 284 (8.30%) Developer
5 229 (6.69%) Software Engineer
6 182 (5.32%) Architect
7 179 (5.23%) Consultant
8 141 (4.12%) Finance Manager
9 128 (3.74%) Senior Manager
10 105 (3.07%) Accountant
11 99 (2.89%) Business Analyst
12 87 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
13 85 (2.48%) Project Manager
14 76 (2.22%) C# Developer
14 76 (2.22%) Data Engineer
15 75 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.13%) Engineering Manager
17 71 (2.07%) Software Developer
18 70 (2.04%) Graduate
19 67 (1.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (3.89%) .NET
2 128 (3.74%) React
3 111 (3.24%) REST
4 67 (1.96%) Node.js
5 58 (1.69%) Kafka
6 48 (1.40%) CSS
6 48 (1.40%) Spring
7 46 (1.34%) GraphQL
8 44 (1.29%) SOAP
9 43 (1.26%) RESTful
10 42 (1.23%) Redux
11 39 (1.14%) HTML
12 34 (0.99%) JSON
13 31 (0.91%) jQuery
14 30 (0.88%) .NET Core
14 30 (0.88%) Middleware
15 27 (0.79%) OAuth
15 27 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
16 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
17 25 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 200 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 150 (4.38%) Virtual Team
4 137 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 127 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 102 (2.98%) Web Conferencing
7 96 (2.80%) Podcast
8 73 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 71 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 67 (1.96%) Data Structures
11 64 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 58 (1.69%) Fixed Income
13 47 (1.37%) Blog
13 47 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 47 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 39 (1.14%) Driving Licence
17 34 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
17 34 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.59%) Windows
2 103 (3.01%) Linux
3 39 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.73%) Unix
5 24 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.47%) Android
7 13 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (23.37%) Agile
2 503 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
3 489 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 463 (13.53%) Roadmaps
5 415 (12.12%) AI
6 375 (10.96%) Mentoring
7 358 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 354 (10.34%) Decision-Making
9 350 (10.22%) Software Engineering
10 349 (10.20%) DevOps
11 348 (10.17%) Analytics
12 345 (10.08%) ERP
13 343 (10.02%) CI/CD
14 294 (8.59%) Project Management
15 277 (8.09%) Coaching
16 234 (6.84%) Risk Management
17 224 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 209 (6.11%) Fintech
19 203 (5.93%) Test Automation
20 199 (5.81%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 540 (15.78%) SQL
2 344 (10.05%) Python
3 326 (9.52%) Java
4 210 (6.13%) C#
5 133 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 118 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 83 (2.42%) PowerShell
8 82 (2.40%) C++
9 78 (2.28%) Go
10 63 (1.84%) PHP
11 37 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 30 (0.88%) C
13 21 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 18 (0.53%) Bicep
15 17 (0.50%) R
15 17 (0.50%) Rust
16 16 (0.47%) Bash
16 16 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.38%) VBA
18 12 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 373 (10.90%) Degree
2 245 (7.16%) ACCA
3 204 (5.96%) CIMA
4 184 (5.38%) Security Cleared
5 116 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (3.01%) SC Cleared
7 96 (2.80%) CISSP
8 76 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (1.75%) CISM
10 58 (1.69%) PMI Certification
11 51 (1.49%) CISA
12 49 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.14%) PMP
14 37 (1.08%) DBS Check
15 34 (0.99%) Azure Certification
16 33 (0.96%) SANS
17 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
18 27 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
19 25 (0.73%) CIPFA
20 23 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (3.89%) QA
2 120 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 114 (3.33%) GDPR
4 88 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (2.25%) NIST
6 63 (1.84%) IFRS
7 60 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 60 (1.75%) PMO
8 50 (1.46%) GRC
9 43 (1.26%) SLA
10 34 (0.99%) GAAP
11 31 (0.91%) COBIT
12 30 (0.88%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.50%) 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 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 77 (2.25%) Docker
3 69 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 43 (1.26%) 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 3 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.058%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 174 (5.08%) Terraform
2 145 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.55%) Grafana
4 48 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.85%) Ansible
6 18 (0.53%) 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 (0.088%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.088%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.058%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.058%) Salt
Vendors
1 558 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 237 (6.92%) Oracle
3 130 (3.80%) SAP
4 125 (3.65%) Databricks
5 95 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 65 (1.90%) Sage
7 53 (1.55%) Google
8 44 (1.29%) VMware
9 41 (1.20%) Cisco
9 41 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 35 (1.02%) Xero
11 29 (0.85%) Workday
12 25 (0.73%) Adobe
13 23 (0.67%) HubSpot
14 22 (0.64%) Aderant
14 22 (0.64%) Okta
15 21 (0.61%) IBM
16 14 (0.41%) Splunk
17 13 (0.38%) CheckPoint
17 13 (0.38%) Red Hat