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 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,537 3,961 5,299
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.54% 24.35% 22.67%
As % of the General category 30.41% 33.86% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 2,291 3,066
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £49,000 £48,125 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,500 £98,237 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 14,917 11,698 14,668
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.96% 71.90% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,149 6,356 8,416
10th Percentile £32,227 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,679 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%

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 20 September 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
1 115 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.21%) Confluence
3 24 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 14 (0.31%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) IIS
12 5 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.066%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.044%) WordPress
15 1 (0.022%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.022%) CICS
15 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
15 1 (0.022%) Moodle
15 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 282 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.088%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.088%) Sketch
12 3 (0.066%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.066%) InDesign
12 3 (0.066%) Productboard
13 2 (0.044%) SPSS
13 2 (0.044%) Weka
14 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 63 (1.39%) NetSuite
2 46 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
3 36 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 35 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
5 34 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
6 28 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
9 19 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
9 19 (0.42%) Primavera
10 17 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
11 16 (0.35%) Elite 3E
11 16 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
12 15 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
12 15 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
13 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
13 12 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 854 (18.82%) Azure
2 613 (13.51%) AWS
3 393 (8.66%) SaaS
4 337 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 231 (5.09%) GCP
6 155 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 154 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 113 (2.49%) Snowflake
9 111 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (1.90%) PaaS
11 80 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
12 78 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 76 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 75 (1.65%) GitHub
15 66 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
16 59 (1.30%) Serverless
17 57 (1.26%) Power Automate
18 55 (1.21%) Azure AI
19 53 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 52 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.72%) LAN
2 77 (1.70%) WAN
3 56 (1.23%) Firewall
4 41 (0.90%) HTTP
5 39 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.77%) DNS
6 35 (0.77%) Network Security
7 28 (0.62%) VPN
8 26 (0.57%) DHCP
9 25 (0.55%) 5G
10 24 (0.53%) Broadband
11 17 (0.37%) Internet
12 16 (0.35%) VLAN
13 13 (0.29%) Wireless
14 12 (0.26%) MPLS
15 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
15 11 (0.24%) Ethernet
16 9 (0.20%) NGFW
16 9 (0.20%) SD-WAN
17 8 (0.18%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (5.03%) Power BI
2 152 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 67 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 64 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 56 (1.23%) Tableau
7 43 (0.95%) Metadata
8 39 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 39 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (0.82%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.60%) Big Data
11 22 (0.48%) MySQL
11 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 21 (0.46%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 21 (0.46%) Power Query
13 18 (0.40%) Looker
14 17 (0.37%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 135 (2.98%) JIRA
2 96 (2.12%) Git
3 61 (1.34%) TeamCity
4 36 (0.79%) Claude Code
5 31 (0.68%) JUnit
6 24 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.51%) Maven
8 22 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.42%) Mockito
10 12 (0.26%) Selenium
11 9 (0.20%) GitLab
12 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.15%) Postman
13 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.13%) Gatling
14 6 (0.13%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,570 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 721 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
2 721 (15.89%) Banking
3 566 (12.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 471 (10.38%) Legal
5 368 (8.11%) Retail
6 366 (8.07%) Law
7 320 (7.05%) Marketing
8 307 (6.77%) Organisational Skills
9 250 (5.51%) Public Sector
10 247 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
11 170 (3.75%) Manufacturing
12 158 (3.48%) Financial Institution
13 152 (3.35%) Aerospace
14 149 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
15 144 (3.17%) Back Office
16 99 (2.18%) Telecoms
17 96 (2.12%) Billing
18 66 (1.45%) General Ledger
19 57 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 619 (13.64%) Senior
2 500 (11.02%) Lead
3 447 (9.85%) Analyst
4 395 (8.71%) Architect
5 326 (7.19%) Developer
6 278 (6.13%) Software Engineer
7 224 (4.94%) Consultant
8 167 (3.68%) Senior Manager
9 155 (3.42%) Finance Manager
10 148 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 144 (3.17%) Accountant
12 115 (2.53%) IT Manager
13 109 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 105 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
15 103 (2.27%) Project Manager
16 97 (2.14%) Business Analyst
17 90 (1.98%) Engineering Manager
18 87 (1.92%) Data Analyst
19 83 (1.83%) Enterprise Architect
20 82 (1.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (3.99%) Terraform
2 154 (3.39%) .NET
3 140 (3.09%) React
4 115 (2.53%) REST
5 72 (1.59%) Spring
6 71 (1.56%) Node.js
7 63 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 59 (1.30%) ASP.NET
9 58 (1.28%) CSS
9 58 (1.28%) LangChain
10 53 (1.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 51 (1.12%) LangGraph
12 49 (1.08%) .NET Framework
12 49 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
13 46 (1.01%) XML
14 43 (0.95%) AngularJS
15 40 (0.88%) PyTorch
15 40 (0.88%) RESTful
15 40 (0.88%) TensorFlow
16 37 (0.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 311 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 236 (5.20%) Cloud Native
3 228 (5.03%) Management Information System
4 216 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 169 (3.72%) Web Conferencing
6 166 (3.66%) Podcast
7 157 (3.46%) Virtual Team
8 141 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
9 95 (2.09%) Blog
10 91 (2.01%) Public Cloud
11 82 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 77 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 63 (1.39%) Hedge funds
14 61 (1.34%) Credit Risk
14 61 (1.34%) Data Centre
15 56 (1.23%) Data Structures
16 52 (1.15%) Social Media
17 46 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
18 44 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
19 43 (0.95%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.67%) Windows
2 100 (2.20%) Linux
3 45 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.44%) Android
5 17 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.26%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.066%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.022%) AIX
12 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 818 (18.03%) Agile
3 780 (17.19%) AI
4 736 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 732 (16.13%) Roadmaps
6 689 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 682 (15.03%) Decision-Making
8 521 (11.48%) Software Engineering
9 485 (10.69%) Mentoring
10 453 (9.98%) ERP
11 438 (9.65%) Analytics
12 421 (9.28%) CI/CD
13 377 (8.31%) Risk Management
14 355 (7.82%) Project Delivery
15 354 (7.80%) DevOps
15 354 (7.80%) Process Improvement
16 336 (7.41%) Coaching
17 335 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 326 (7.19%) Customer Service
19 309 (6.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 641 (14.13%) SQL
2 415 (9.15%) Python
3 312 (6.88%) Java
4 234 (5.16%) C#
5 159 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 122 (2.69%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.07%) C++
8 84 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.08%) PHP
10 38 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 32 (0.71%) R
12 28 (0.62%) Bash
13 27 (0.60%) C
14 24 (0.53%) Bicep
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 20 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.37%) Go
17 17 (0.37%) VBA
18 15 (0.33%) Rust
18 15 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 414 (9.12%) Degree
2 377 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 287 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 268 (5.91%) ACCA
5 257 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 240 (5.29%) CIMA
7 131 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (1.54%) CISSP
10 69 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 51 (1.12%) CISM
11 51 (1.12%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 46 (1.01%) PMP
14 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.73%) CISA
16 31 (0.68%) CRISC
17 27 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.57%) ICAEW
19 25 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (4.54%) Accessibility
2 190 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 169 (3.72%) QA
4 147 (3.24%) GDPR
5 93 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.98%) GRC
7 80 (1.76%) SLA
8 77 (1.70%) PMO
9 63 (1.39%) NIST
10 56 (1.23%) IFRS
11 43 (0.95%) GAAP
12 32 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 26 (0.57%) COBIT
14 22 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.35%) SOC 2
18 14 (0.31%) Def Stans
18 14 (0.31%) MiFID
18 14 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (2.34%) Docker
2 95 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.08%) Firmware
4 44 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.13%) Squid
11 5 (0.11%) vSphere
12 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.022%) HDFS
13 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 188 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 88 (1.94%) Grafana
3 42 (0.93%) Ansible
4 32 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.088%) QRadar
8 4 (0.088%) SCCM
9 3 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.066%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.066%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.044%) Argo
10 2 (0.044%) CASB
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.044%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.022%) Control-M
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 750 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 236 (5.20%) Oracle
3 147 (3.24%) SAP
4 127 (2.80%) Databricks
5 96 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 79 (1.74%) Sage
7 65 (1.43%) Google
8 63 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 61 (1.34%) Workday
10 44 (0.97%) VMware
11 42 (0.93%) Xero
12 34 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 33 (0.73%) Cisco
14 30 (0.66%) Aderant
15 25 (0.55%) BMC
16 23 (0.51%) Adobe
16 23 (0.51%) YouTube
17 21 (0.46%) IBM
18 20 (0.44%) Remedy
19 19 (0.42%) Veeam