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 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,143 3,827 6,054
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.47% 24.39% 21.90%
As % of the General category 32.91% 35.08% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 2,497 4,756
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +12.19% -3.61%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £125,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -6.54%

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 9,551 10,910 17,140
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.16% 69.54% 62.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,059 6,251 13,636
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,435
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £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 £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 13 February 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 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.56%) Confluence
3 43 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.76%) Apache
6 20 (0.64%) SAS
7 17 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 15 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.41%) JBoss
10 12 (0.38%) CMS
11 8 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
15 3 (0.095%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.095%) WordPress
16 2 (0.064%) IIS
16 2 (0.064%) nginx
Applications
1 255 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.032%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 64 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
2 61 (1.94%) Oracle Payables
3 48 (1.53%) Oracle Assets
4 46 (1.46%) NetSuite
4 46 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 42 (1.34%) Oracle Financials
6 41 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 41 (1.30%) Unit4 Business World
7 29 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
8 22 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
9 21 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.54%) SAP FI
11 16 (0.51%) SAP CO
11 16 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.45%) Hyperion Planning
12 14 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
12 14 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
13 13 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
14 12 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 775 (24.66%) Azure
2 416 (13.24%) AWS
3 326 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 296 (9.42%) SaaS
5 235 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
6 198 (6.30%) GitHub
7 181 (5.76%) GCP
8 161 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
9 113 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 111 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 111 (3.53%) Snowflake
11 84 (2.67%) dbt
12 83 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
13 82 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
14 65 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
15 61 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
16 59 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 59 (1.88%) OCI
17 49 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
18 46 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.61%) Firewall
2 63 (2.00%) WAN
3 55 (1.75%) VPN
4 50 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 48 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.30%) LAN
7 36 (1.15%) Wireless
8 34 (1.08%) DNS
9 31 (0.99%) Wireshark
10 28 (0.89%) DHCP
11 21 (0.67%) Network Security
12 19 (0.60%) CHAP
13 16 (0.51%) Internet
13 16 (0.51%) VLAN
14 13 (0.41%) BGP
14 13 (0.41%) HTTP
15 8 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (0.25%) NX-OS
15 8 (0.25%) Telnet
15 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (7.32%) Power BI
2 115 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 96 (3.05%) Tableau
5 74 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 55 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 54 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 35 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 31 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
10 31 (0.99%) Metadata
11 30 (0.95%) Big Data
12 28 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 28 (0.89%) Apache Arrow
12 28 (0.89%) Dremio
13 24 (0.76%) MongoDB
14 23 (0.73%) MySQL
15 21 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 20 (0.64%) Relational Database
17 17 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 147 (4.68%) JIRA
2 70 (2.23%) Oracle Forms
3 63 (2.00%) Git
4 62 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 39 (1.24%) TeamCity
6 33 (1.05%) Selenium
7 28 (0.89%) Postman
8 23 (0.73%) SoapUI
9 20 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 20 (0.64%) WebDriver
10 18 (0.57%) ERwin
11 16 (0.51%) ER Studio
11 16 (0.51%) GitLab
12 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.32%) Storybook
14 9 (0.29%) Subversion
15 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.19%) SpecFlow
17 5 (0.16%) Cucumber
17 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,086 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 531 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
3 458 (14.57%) Banking
4 264 (8.40%) Retail
5 251 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (7.89%) Marketing
7 235 (7.48%) Public Sector
8 204 (6.49%) Financial Institution
9 183 (5.82%) Law
10 172 (5.47%) Legal
11 124 (3.95%) Back Office
12 109 (3.47%) Telecoms
13 106 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
14 96 (3.05%) Manufacturing
15 95 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
16 88 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
17 80 (2.55%) Front Office
18 53 (1.69%) Electronics
19 45 (1.43%) Advertising
19 45 (1.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 567 (18.04%) Senior
2 435 (13.84%) Analyst
3 270 (8.59%) Developer
4 227 (7.22%) Lead
5 181 (5.76%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.19%) Consultant
7 145 (4.61%) Architect
8 100 (3.18%) Business Analyst
9 90 (2.86%) Data Engineer
10 80 (2.55%) Project Manager
10 80 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
11 73 (2.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 71 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
13 69 (2.20%) Finance Manager
14 68 (2.16%) Senior Manager
14 68 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
15 67 (2.13%) Accountant
16 64 (2.04%) Software Developer
17 56 (1.78%) Cloud Engineer
18 55 (1.75%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (5.06%) .NET
2 109 (3.47%) REST
3 96 (3.05%) RESTful
3 96 (3.05%) SOAP
4 93 (2.96%) React
5 59 (1.88%) JSON
6 55 (1.75%) Node.js
7 51 (1.62%) OAuth
8 48 (1.53%) Spring
9 44 (1.40%) Kafka
10 38 (1.21%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.18%) GraphQL
11 37 (1.18%) Middleware
12 36 (1.15%) HTML
13 34 (1.08%) XML
14 33 (1.05%) Pandas
15 32 (1.02%) OAuth2
16 29 (0.92%) NumPy
16 29 (0.92%) SAML
17 28 (0.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 205 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 142 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 124 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 112 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 83 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 78 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 66 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 59 (1.88%) Blog
11 55 (1.75%) Fixed Income
12 54 (1.72%) Security Posture
13 52 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 40 (1.27%) Equities
16 35 (1.11%) Hedge funds
17 34 (1.08%) e-Learning
17 34 (1.08%) Low-Code
17 34 (1.08%) Public Cloud
18 33 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.53%) Windows
2 110 (3.50%) Linux
3 41 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.05%) Unix
5 26 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.60%) Android
7 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.16%) VMS
11 2 (0.064%) AIX
11 2 (0.064%) CentOS
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (26.66%) Agile
2 569 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 518 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 492 (15.65%) Coaching
5 477 (15.18%) AI
6 440 (14.00%) Roadmaps
7 434 (13.81%) DevOps
8 424 (13.49%) Analytics
9 421 (13.39%) Asset Management
10 415 (13.20%) CI/CD
11 369 (11.74%) Decision-Making
12 362 (11.52%) Mentoring
13 340 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 316 (10.05%) Software Engineering
15 315 (10.02%) ERP
16 302 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
17 281 (8.94%) Project Management
18 270 (8.59%) Risk Management
19 252 (8.02%) Test Automation
20 211 (6.71%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 578 (18.39%) SQL
2 397 (12.63%) Python
3 309 (9.83%) Java
4 155 (4.93%) C#
5 151 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 126 (4.01%) TypeScript
7 123 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 60 (1.91%) C++
9 56 (1.78%) PL/SQL
10 49 (1.56%) Go
11 48 (1.53%) PHP
12 39 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.15%) Bash
14 35 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 31 (0.99%) Bicep
16 28 (0.89%) Apex Code
17 27 (0.86%) C
18 20 (0.64%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.60%) Kotlin
20 15 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 375 (11.93%) Degree
2 193 (6.14%) ACCA
3 167 (5.31%) Security Cleared
4 157 (5.00%) CIMA
5 142 (4.52%) CISSP
6 107 (3.40%) SC Cleared
7 92 (2.93%) CISA
8 73 (2.32%) CISM
9 63 (2.00%) CRISC
10 62 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 56 (1.78%) DV Cleared
12 49 (1.56%) DBS Check
13 44 (1.40%) PMI Certification
14 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
15 36 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
16 34 (1.08%) AAT
17 28 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 28 (0.89%) ISTQB
18 27 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
19 25 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (4.65%) NIST
2 125 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 125 (3.98%) QA
3 116 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 114 (3.63%) GDPR
5 78 (2.48%) PCI DSS
6 72 (2.29%) GRC
7 67 (2.13%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.75%) IFRS
9 46 (1.46%) PMO
10 33 (1.05%) SLA
11 31 (0.99%) COBIT
12 29 (0.92%) GAAP
12 29 (0.92%) SOC 2
13 26 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.57%) P3O
16 12 (0.38%) SEPA
17 10 (0.32%) WCAG
18 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 109 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.16%) Docker
3 37 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.64%) Firmware
6 17 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.064%) NFS
10 2 (0.064%) vSphere
11 1 (0.032%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 243 (7.73%) Terraform
2 127 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 57 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 55 (1.75%) Grafana
5 38 (1.21%) Ansible
6 16 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.35%) SCCM
8 10 (0.32%) Argo
9 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
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 (0.095%) Endace
12 3 (0.095%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.064%) Kibana
13 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 531 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.60%) Oracle
3 126 (4.01%) SAP
4 91 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 88 (2.80%) Databricks
6 78 (2.48%) Cisco
7 54 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 53 (1.69%) Google
9 47 (1.50%) VMware
10 46 (1.46%) Sage
11 45 (1.43%) Blue Prism
12 33 (1.05%) CheckPoint
12 33 (1.05%) Workday
13 29 (0.92%) Meraki
14 28 (0.89%) Okta
15 27 (0.86%) Red Hat
15 27 (0.86%) SolarWinds
16 25 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.64%) IBM
18 19 (0.60%) Adobe