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 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,089 3,631 6,305
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.32% 26.61% 21.01%
As % of the General category 31.99% 37.18% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,967 2,538 4,854
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,675 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -3.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £125,000 £110,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -9.42%

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 9,656 9,765 18,446
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.26% 71.55% 61.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,201 6,319 14,710
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,800
25th Percentile £40,625 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £75,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 16 March 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 77 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.20%) Confluence
2 37 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.65%) SAS
4 13 (0.42%) Apache
4 13 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.42%) JBoss
4 13 (0.42%) WebSphere
5 12 (0.39%) CMS
6 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.097%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.097%) WordPress
11 2 (0.065%) IIS
11 2 (0.065%) nginx
11 2 (0.065%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 236 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
7 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.097%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (1.81%) NetSuite
1 56 (1.81%) Oracle Payables
2 45 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
3 44 (1.42%) Oracle Assets
3 44 (1.42%) Oracle Financials
4 41 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 32 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
6 31 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
6 31 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
7 23 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
8 18 (0.58%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.55%) SAP CO
9 17 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
10 16 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
11 12 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
11 12 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
12 10 (0.32%) Hyperion Planning
12 10 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.26%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 706 (22.86%) Azure
2 426 (13.79%) AWS
3 288 (9.32%) SaaS
4 279 (9.03%) Power Platform
5 201 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
6 171 (5.54%) GitHub
7 169 (5.47%) GCP
8 140 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
9 112 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 96 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
11 86 (2.78%) Entra ID
12 84 (2.72%) Snowflake
13 74 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
14 64 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
15 60 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 57 (1.85%) dbt
18 45 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
19 41 (1.33%) OCI
20 39 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.23%) Firewall
2 50 (1.62%) VPN
2 50 (1.62%) WAN
3 49 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 34 (1.10%) DNS
6 32 (1.04%) DHCP
7 27 (0.87%) Wireless
8 26 (0.84%) LAN
9 24 (0.78%) Network Security
10 23 (0.74%) CHAP
11 16 (0.52%) BGP
11 16 (0.52%) VLAN
11 16 (0.52%) Wireshark
12 15 (0.49%) HTTP
13 14 (0.45%) Internet
14 11 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
15 10 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.32%) MPLS
16 9 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (6.54%) Power BI
2 110 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 96 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (2.62%) Tableau
5 58 (1.88%) Data Lake
6 54 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 53 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.97%) Big Data
11 26 (0.84%) Metadata
12 22 (0.71%) MySQL
13 20 (0.65%) Relational Database
14 19 (0.62%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.58%) DB2
16 16 (0.52%) MongoDB
16 16 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 16 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (0.42%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (3.95%) JIRA
2 63 (2.04%) Git
3 53 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 50 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
5 43 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 34 (1.10%) Selenium
7 24 (0.78%) Postman
8 20 (0.65%) SoapUI
8 20 (0.65%) WebDriver
9 18 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.42%) ERwin
11 13 (0.42%) GitLab
12 11 (0.36%) ER Studio
13 9 (0.29%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.29%) Storybook
13 9 (0.29%) Subversion
14 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
15 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,049 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 512 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
3 485 (15.70%) Banking
4 288 (9.32%) Retail
5 286 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 226 (7.32%) Marketing
8 220 (7.12%) Law
9 210 (6.80%) Legal
10 206 (6.67%) Financial Institution
11 136 (4.40%) Back Office
12 120 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 103 (3.33%) Telecoms
14 102 (3.30%) Manufacturing
15 90 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
16 89 (2.88%) Front Office
17 81 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
18 48 (1.55%) Electronics
19 39 (1.26%) Billing
19 39 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 570 (18.45%) Senior
2 403 (13.05%) Analyst
3 261 (8.45%) Developer
4 258 (8.35%) Lead
5 203 (6.57%) Software Engineer
6 158 (5.11%) Architect
7 157 (5.08%) Consultant
8 101 (3.27%) Business Analyst
9 90 (2.91%) Data Engineer
10 87 (2.82%) Project Manager
11 84 (2.72%) Senior Manager
12 80 (2.59%) Finance Manager
13 74 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 73 (2.36%) Accountant
15 72 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 72 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
16 66 (2.14%) Financial Analyst
17 65 (2.10%) IT Manager
18 57 (1.85%) C# Developer
19 55 (1.78%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.14%) .NET
2 116 (3.76%) React
3 106 (3.43%) REST
4 85 (2.75%) RESTful
5 82 (2.65%) SOAP
6 71 (2.30%) Node.js
7 65 (2.10%) Kafka
8 60 (1.94%) GraphQL
9 56 (1.81%) JSON
10 46 (1.49%) OAuth
11 43 (1.39%) Redux
12 42 (1.36%) Spring
13 35 (1.13%) Middleware
14 34 (1.10%) HTML
15 31 (1.00%) CSS
15 31 (1.00%) XML
16 27 (0.87%) AngularJS
17 25 (0.81%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
17 25 (0.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 189 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 124 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 119 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 101 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 78 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 69 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (2.04%) Fixed Income
9 60 (1.94%) Blog
10 57 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 56 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
12 48 (1.55%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 38 (1.23%) Low-Code
15 37 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 35 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.07%) Public Cloud
18 31 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 30 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 117 (3.79%) Windows
2 105 (3.40%) Linux
3 39 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.94%) Unix
5 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.62%) Android
7 15 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.065%) CentOS
10 2 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.032%) AIX
11 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.032%) VMS
11 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (25.45%) Agile
2 536 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 509 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 412 (13.34%) AI
5 410 (13.27%) Analytics
6 406 (13.14%) DevOps
7 404 (13.08%) Coaching
8 399 (12.92%) CI/CD
9 370 (11.98%) Decision-Making
10 363 (11.75%) Mentoring
11 361 (11.69%) Roadmaps
12 331 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 308 (9.97%) Software Engineering
14 298 (9.65%) Asset Management
15 280 (9.06%) Project Management
16 271 (8.77%) Risk Management
17 270 (8.74%) ERP
18 269 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
19 246 (7.96%) Test Automation
20 212 (6.86%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 521 (16.87%) SQL
2 354 (11.46%) Python
3 317 (10.26%) Java
4 176 (5.70%) C#
5 120 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 115 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 95 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 79 (2.56%) Go
9 65 (2.10%) C++
10 59 (1.91%) PHP
11 50 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 27 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 27 (0.87%) C
13 27 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.81%) Bicep
15 24 (0.78%) Bash
16 16 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.45%) Rust
18 13 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 384 (12.43%) Degree
2 213 (6.90%) ACCA
3 180 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 171 (5.54%) CIMA
5 149 (4.82%) CISSP
6 110 (3.56%) SC Cleared
7 94 (3.04%) CISA
8 71 (2.30%) CISM
9 64 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (2.07%) CRISC
10 54 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 47 (1.52%) PMI Certification
12 45 (1.46%) DBS Check
13 38 (1.23%) Azure Certification
14 35 (1.13%) AAT
15 32 (1.04%) SANS
16 28 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 24 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.44%) NIST
2 120 (3.88%) QA
3 117 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 114 (3.69%) GDPR
5 109 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (2.49%) PCI DSS
7 72 (2.33%) GRC
8 66 (2.14%) IFRS
9 61 (1.97%) Accessibility
10 42 (1.36%) PMO
11 34 (1.10%) GAAP
11 34 (1.10%) SLA
12 30 (0.97%) COBIT
13 29 (0.94%) SOC 2
14 27 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
15 20 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.58%) P3O
17 12 (0.39%) SEPA
18 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
18 9 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.14%) Docker
3 36 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.68%) Firmware
4 21 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.032%) vCloud
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 218 (7.06%) Terraform
2 128 (4.14%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.78%) Grafana
4 47 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (1.13%) Ansible
7 12 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.32%) Argo
9 9 (0.29%) SCCM
10 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.16%) Endace
10 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.13%) Cilium
11 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.13%) QRadar
12 3 (0.097%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.065%) Istio
13 2 (0.065%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 494 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 179 (5.79%) Oracle
3 129 (4.18%) SAP
4 93 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 89 (2.88%) Databricks
6 63 (2.04%) Google
7 61 (1.97%) Cisco
8 47 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.49%) Sage
10 42 (1.36%) VMware
11 30 (0.97%) Workday
12 26 (0.84%) IBM
12 26 (0.84%) Okta
13 24 (0.78%) CheckPoint
14 23 (0.74%) Blue Prism
14 23 (0.74%) HubSpot
15 20 (0.65%) Adobe
16 19 (0.62%) Meraki
17 17 (0.55%) Ab Initio
17 17 (0.55%) Palo Alto