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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,622 3,953 5,206
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.70% 23.98% 22.60%
As % of the General category 30.47% 33.60% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,706 2,252 3,007
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,348 £47,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -8.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,600 £97,500 £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 15,167 11,766 14,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.38% 71.37% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,235 6,295 8,225
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.14% -5.00%

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 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 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.17%) Confluence
3 27 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 14 (0.30%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.19%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.13%) IIS
12 4 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.043%) Hedera
13 2 (0.043%) WordPress
14 1 (0.022%) CICS
14 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
14 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.022%) Moodle
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 288 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.54%) 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
10 5 (0.11%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.087%) Sketch
12 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.065%) Productboard
13 2 (0.043%) SPSS
13 2 (0.043%) Weka
14 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 59 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 41 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
3 36 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 35 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 34 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
6 29 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
9 19 (0.41%) Primavera
10 18 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 17 (0.37%) Elite 3E
11 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
12 16 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
12 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 15 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
13 15 (0.32%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
15 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 860 (18.61%) Azure
2 630 (13.63%) AWS
3 398 (8.61%) SaaS
4 350 (7.57%) Power Platform
5 238 (5.15%) GCP
6 159 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
7 157 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 117 (2.53%) Snowflake
9 115 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 87 (1.88%) PaaS
11 84 (1.82%) GitHub
12 82 (1.77%) Entra ID
13 80 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
14 78 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 72 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (1.36%) Serverless
17 61 (1.32%) Power Automate
18 58 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
19 56 (1.21%) Azure AI
20 53 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.69%) LAN
2 77 (1.67%) WAN
3 58 (1.25%) Firewall
4 42 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 41 (0.89%) HTTP
6 37 (0.80%) Network Security
7 36 (0.78%) DNS
8 33 (0.71%) VPN
9 26 (0.56%) DHCP
10 25 (0.54%) 5G
11 24 (0.52%) Broadband
12 18 (0.39%) Internet
12 18 (0.39%) VLAN
13 15 (0.32%) Wireless
14 12 (0.26%) BGP
14 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
14 12 (0.26%) MPLS
15 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.19%) NGFW
16 9 (0.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.13%) Power BI
2 153 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 66 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 57 (1.23%) Tableau
7 56 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 44 (0.95%) Metadata
9 42 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.58%) Big Data
12 22 (0.48%) MySQL
12 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 21 (0.45%) Power Query
14 19 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.37%) Looker
15 17 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 133 (2.88%) JIRA
2 95 (2.06%) Git
3 67 (1.45%) TeamCity
4 42 (0.91%) Claude Code
5 33 (0.71%) JUnit
6 24 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 24 (0.52%) Maven
7 22 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.26%) Selenium
10 9 (0.19%) GitLab
11 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.15%) Postman
12 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.13%) Gatling
13 6 (0.13%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,618 (35.01%) Social Skills
2 742 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
3 737 (15.95%) Banking
4 580 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 486 (10.51%) Legal
6 376 (8.14%) Retail
7 373 (8.07%) Law
8 324 (7.01%) Marketing
9 321 (6.95%) Organisational Skills
10 263 (5.69%) Public Sector
11 250 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
12 177 (3.83%) Manufacturing
13 167 (3.61%) Financial Institution
14 158 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
15 154 (3.33%) Aerospace
16 151 (3.27%) Back Office
17 103 (2.23%) Telecoms
18 94 (2.03%) Billing
19 68 (1.47%) General Ledger
20 61 (1.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 636 (13.76%) Senior
2 511 (11.06%) Lead
3 451 (9.76%) Analyst
4 408 (8.83%) Architect
5 330 (7.14%) Developer
6 285 (6.17%) Software Engineer
7 228 (4.93%) Consultant
8 167 (3.61%) Senior Manager
9 159 (3.44%) Finance Manager
10 153 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
11 145 (3.14%) Accountant
12 116 (2.51%) IT Manager
13 109 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
14 105 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
14 105 (2.27%) Project Manager
15 100 (2.16%) Business Analyst
16 90 (1.95%) Data Analyst
17 89 (1.93%) Engineering Manager
18 88 (1.90%) Enterprise Architect
19 81 (1.75%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (4.11%) Terraform
2 157 (3.40%) .NET
3 142 (3.07%) React
4 117 (2.53%) REST
5 72 (1.56%) Node.js
6 71 (1.54%) Spring
7 63 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 59 (1.28%) ASP.NET
9 58 (1.25%) LangChain
10 57 (1.23%) CSS
11 53 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
12 52 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
13 51 (1.10%) LangGraph
14 49 (1.06%) .NET Framework
14 49 (1.06%) XML
15 42 (0.91%) AngularJS
15 42 (0.91%) RESTful
16 40 (0.87%) PyTorch
16 40 (0.87%) TensorFlow
17 37 (0.80%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 313 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 244 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 241 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 219 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 174 (3.76%) Web Conferencing
6 169 (3.66%) Podcast
7 156 (3.38%) Virtual Team
8 148 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
9 97 (2.10%) Blog
10 89 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 85 (1.84%) AI Agents
12 78 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 68 (1.47%) Hedge funds
14 64 (1.38%) Credit Risk
15 63 (1.36%) Data Centre
16 59 (1.28%) Social Media
17 56 (1.21%) Data Structures
18 45 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
19 44 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
20 43 (0.93%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.66%) Windows
2 99 (2.14%) Linux
3 47 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.50%) Android
5 20 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.26%) Unix
7 9 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.043%) 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
1 865 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 818 (17.70%) Agile
3 802 (17.35%) AI
4 757 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
5 745 (16.12%) Roadmaps
6 723 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 699 (15.12%) Decision-Making
8 533 (11.53%) Software Engineering
9 497 (10.75%) Mentoring
10 459 (9.93%) ERP
11 457 (9.89%) Analytics
12 436 (9.43%) CI/CD
13 382 (8.26%) Risk Management
14 369 (7.98%) Process Improvement
15 363 (7.85%) Project Delivery
16 361 (7.81%) DevOps
17 345 (7.46%) Coaching
18 342 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 334 (7.23%) Customer Service
20 318 (6.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 661 (14.30%) SQL
2 435 (9.41%) Python
3 320 (6.92%) Java
4 240 (5.19%) C#
5 159 (3.44%) JavaScript
6 123 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 93 (2.01%) C++
8 84 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.06%) PHP
10 37 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 33 (0.71%) R
12 30 (0.65%) Bash
13 28 (0.61%) Bicep
14 26 (0.56%) C
15 22 (0.48%) Go
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 21 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.37%) VBA
18 16 (0.35%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 421 (9.11%) Degree
2 384 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 294 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 263 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 258 (5.58%) ACCA
6 232 (5.02%) CIMA
7 129 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (1.51%) DBS Check
10 69 (1.49%) CISSP
11 52 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 51 (1.10%) CISM
12 51 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 44 (0.95%) PMP
14 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.71%) CISA
16 31 (0.67%) CRISC
17 28 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.56%) ICAEW
19 25 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 192 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.68%) QA
4 149 (3.22%) GDPR
5 96 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 91 (1.97%) GRC
7 80 (1.73%) PMO
7 80 (1.73%) SLA
8 63 (1.36%) NIST
9 55 (1.19%) IFRS
10 39 (0.84%) GAAP
11 35 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.58%) COBIT
13 22 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 21 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.32%) NCSC
18 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
19 13 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (2.32%) Docker
2 97 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.06%) Firmware
4 45 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.13%) Squid
11 5 (0.11%) vSphere
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.022%) HDFS
13 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 195 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 99 (2.14%) Grafana
3 42 (0.91%) Ansible
4 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.087%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.087%) QRadar
8 4 (0.087%) SCCM
9 3 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.065%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.043%) Argo
10 2 (0.043%) CASB
10 2 (0.043%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.043%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.043%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.022%) WSUS
Vendors
1 770 (16.66%) Microsoft
2 240 (5.19%) Oracle
3 151 (3.27%) SAP
4 131 (2.83%) Databricks
5 98 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 76 (1.64%) Sage
7 67 (1.45%) Google
8 66 (1.43%) Workday
9 64 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 45 (0.97%) VMware
11 41 (0.89%) Xero
12 37 (0.80%) HubSpot
13 34 (0.74%) Cisco
14 30 (0.65%) Aderant
15 26 (0.56%) Adobe
16 25 (0.54%) BMC
17 24 (0.52%) YouTube
18 22 (0.48%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.45%) IBM
19 21 (0.45%) Splunk