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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,282 3,472 6,650
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.97% 26.74% 21.01%
As % of the General category 33.32% 37.27% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,139 2,553 4,947
10th Percentile £33,950 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,893
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -5.55%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +15.19% -9.19%

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 9,851 9,316 19,503
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.93% 71.74% 61.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,554 6,427 15,138
10th Percentile £30,125 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £44,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +6.57% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 10 April 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 73 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.16%) Confluence
3 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.52%) SAS
5 13 (0.40%) JBoss
6 12 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.30%) Apache
7 10 (0.30%) CMS
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.091%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.091%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.091%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.061%) IIS
12 2 (0.061%) nginx
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.061%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 230 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.030%) SPSS
10 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (1.95%) NetSuite
2 62 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
3 60 (1.83%) Oracle Payables
4 49 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
5 42 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
5 42 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 36 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
7 30 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
8 29 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
9 28 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
11 16 (0.49%) Elite 3E
11 16 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
11 16 (0.49%) SAP FI
12 15 (0.46%) SAP CO
12 15 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
13 12 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
13 12 (0.37%) SAP ERP
14 10 (0.30%) Hyperion Planning
15 8 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 757 (23.07%) Azure
2 464 (14.14%) AWS
3 320 (9.75%) SaaS
4 239 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 193 (5.88%) GCP
6 166 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 152 (4.63%) GitHub
8 128 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 123 (3.75%) Snowflake
10 115 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 108 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 96 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
13 72 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
14 71 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
14 71 (2.16%) Entra ID
15 70 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
16 57 (1.74%) Azure AI
17 55 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
18 52 (1.58%) dbt
19 39 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.71%) Firewall
2 52 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 47 (1.43%) VPN
4 40 (1.22%) WAN
5 39 (1.19%) DNS
6 37 (1.13%) DHCP
7 26 (0.79%) HTTP
7 26 (0.79%) Network Security
8 25 (0.76%) CHAP
8 25 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 20 (0.61%) BGP
10 17 (0.52%) Wireless
11 16 (0.49%) VLAN
12 14 (0.43%) MPLS
13 12 (0.37%) LAN
14 11 (0.34%) Internet
14 11 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
15 10 (0.30%) SSL
16 8 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.24%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (5.70%) Power BI
2 180 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (2.04%) Tableau
5 61 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 53 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 50 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 48 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.82%) Big Data
11 25 (0.76%) MySQL
12 23 (0.70%) Metadata
12 23 (0.70%) Relational Database
13 20 (0.61%) NoSQL
14 18 (0.55%) DB2
15 15 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 15 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
16 12 (0.37%) Delta Lake
16 12 (0.37%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 119 (3.63%) JIRA
2 73 (2.22%) Git
3 45 (1.37%) TeamCity
4 41 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
5 40 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.94%) Selenium
7 19 (0.58%) Postman
8 16 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 15 (0.46%) SoapUI
10 14 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.37%) GitLab
12 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
12 9 (0.27%) Storybook
12 9 (0.27%) Subversion
13 8 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
14 7 (0.21%) ERwin
15 5 (0.15%) ER Studio
16 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,068 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 579 (17.64%) Banking
3 522 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 313 (9.54%) Retail
6 259 (7.89%) Law
7 255 (7.77%) Public Sector
8 239 (7.28%) Marketing
9 234 (7.13%) Legal
10 195 (5.94%) Financial Institution
11 141 (4.30%) Back Office
12 125 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
13 103 (3.14%) Manufacturing
14 94 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (2.74%) Front Office
16 89 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
17 81 (2.47%) Telecoms
18 47 (1.43%) Billing
19 42 (1.28%) Investment Banking
20 41 (1.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 577 (17.58%) Senior
2 395 (12.04%) Analyst
3 263 (8.01%) Lead
4 262 (7.98%) Developer
5 215 (6.55%) Software Engineer
6 177 (5.39%) Architect
7 168 (5.12%) Consultant
8 122 (3.72%) Finance Manager
9 107 (3.26%) Business Analyst
10 98 (2.99%) Senior Manager
11 96 (2.93%) Accountant
12 91 (2.77%) Project Manager
13 88 (2.68%) Data Engineer
14 81 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 79 (2.41%) Senior Software Engineer
16 77 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
17 76 (2.32%) C# Developer
18 70 (2.13%) Financial Analyst
19 68 (2.07%) Graduate
19 68 (2.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (3.81%) .NET
2 124 (3.78%) React
3 114 (3.47%) REST
4 70 (2.13%) Node.js
5 69 (2.10%) Kafka
6 64 (1.95%) SOAP
7 60 (1.83%) RESTful
8 58 (1.77%) GraphQL
9 50 (1.52%) JSON
10 45 (1.37%) Spring
11 43 (1.31%) CSS
11 43 (1.31%) OAuth
11 43 (1.31%) Redux
12 36 (1.10%) Middleware
13 31 (0.94%) jQuery
14 29 (0.88%) HTML
15 28 (0.85%) XML
16 25 (0.76%) AngularJS
17 22 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
17 22 (0.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 204 (6.22%) Product Ownership
3 129 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 94 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 65 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 65 (1.98%) Fixed Income
7 62 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (1.80%) Blog
9 58 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 58 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 57 (1.74%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 49 (1.49%) Security Posture
13 45 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 42 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (1.19%) Low-Code
16 38 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 34 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
18 32 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 128 (3.90%) Windows
2 110 (3.35%) Linux
3 43 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.01%) Unix
5 29 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.64%) Android
7 15 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.030%) AIX
11 1 (0.030%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.030%) VMS
11 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (25.11%) Agile
2 535 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
3 534 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 461 (14.05%) AI
5 424 (12.92%) Roadmaps
6 396 (12.07%) Decision-Making
7 391 (11.91%) DevOps
8 390 (11.88%) CI/CD
9 385 (11.73%) Analytics
10 351 (10.69%) Mentoring
11 347 (10.57%) Coaching
12 342 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 340 (10.36%) Software Engineering
14 310 (9.45%) ERP
15 280 (8.53%) Risk Management
16 278 (8.47%) Project Management
17 252 (7.68%) Business Intelligence
18 246 (7.50%) Test Automation
19 233 (7.10%) Asset Management
20 221 (6.73%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 557 (16.97%) SQL
2 356 (10.85%) Python
3 334 (10.18%) Java
4 195 (5.94%) C#
5 123 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 116 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 91 (2.77%) Go
8 89 (2.71%) PowerShell
9 79 (2.41%) C++
10 73 (2.22%) PHP
11 41 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 32 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 29 (0.88%) C
14 24 (0.73%) Apex Code
15 23 (0.70%) Bicep
16 21 (0.64%) Bash
17 19 (0.58%) Rust
18 18 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.49%) Kotlin
20 15 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 408 (12.43%) Degree
2 266 (8.10%) ACCA
3 221 (6.73%) CIMA
4 192 (5.85%) Security Cleared
5 150 (4.57%) CISSP
6 111 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 97 (2.96%) CISA
8 83 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (2.13%) CISM
10 66 (2.01%) CRISC
11 59 (1.80%) DV Cleared
12 49 (1.49%) PMI Certification
13 42 (1.28%) DBS Check
14 37 (1.13%) Azure Certification
15 35 (1.07%) SANS
16 33 (1.01%) AAT
17 26 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
17 26 (0.79%) PMP
18 25 (0.76%) CGEIT
18 25 (0.76%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (4.11%) NIST
2 126 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 118 (3.60%) GDPR
4 115 (3.50%) QA
5 107 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 68 (2.07%) GRC
8 66 (2.01%) IFRS
9 59 (1.80%) Accessibility
10 49 (1.49%) PMO
11 38 (1.16%) SLA
12 37 (1.13%) GAAP
13 31 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
14 30 (0.91%) COBIT
14 30 (0.91%) SOC 2
15 20 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 17 (0.52%) P3O
17 15 (0.46%) MiFID
18 14 (0.43%) EMIR
19 11 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 98 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 75 (2.29%) Docker
3 72 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 43 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.55%) Firmware
6 14 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 211 (6.43%) Terraform
2 145 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 58 (1.77%) Grafana
4 39 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (1.13%) Ansible
6 31 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.37%) Argo
9 8 (0.24%) Istio
10 5 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.15%) Endace
10 5 (0.15%) QRadar
10 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.15%) SCCM
11 4 (0.12%) Cilium
11 4 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.091%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 534 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 206 (6.28%) Oracle
3 138 (4.20%) Databricks
4 131 (3.99%) SAP
5 89 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 63 (1.92%) Google
7 61 (1.86%) Sage
8 48 (1.46%) VMware
9 46 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 38 (1.16%) Cisco
11 28 (0.85%) Workday
12 24 (0.73%) Okta
13 23 (0.70%) IBM
13 23 (0.70%) Xero
14 21 (0.64%) Adobe
14 21 (0.64%) HubSpot
15 16 (0.49%) Aderant
15 16 (0.49%) Atlassian
15 16 (0.49%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.46%) Splunk