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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,709 4,103 7,006
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.82% 25.70% 20.94%
As % of the General category 30.26% 35.07% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,505 2,507 4,783
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,150 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £66,875 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +10.40% -7.41%

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 12,259 11,700 20,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.89% 73.29% 61.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,035 6,533 14,895
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 2 July 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
1 109 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.05%) Confluence
3 33 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.40%) SAS
5 12 (0.32%) CMS
6 6 (0.16%) IIS
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.13%) JBoss
8 4 (0.11%) Apache
8 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.081%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.054%) nginx
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.027%) WordPress
Applications
1 221 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.27%) CorelDRAW
7 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.081%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.081%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.081%) Productboard
10 2 (0.054%) SPSS
10 2 (0.054%) Trello
11 1 (0.027%) Notion
11 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 61 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 59 (1.59%) Oracle Financials
3 33 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
4 29 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 26 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
6 26 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
7 23 (0.62%) Elite 3E
8 20 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
9 18 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
10 14 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
10 14 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
10 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
11 12 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 12 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (0.24%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
12 9 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 769 (20.73%) Azure
2 538 (14.51%) AWS
3 340 (9.17%) SaaS
4 266 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 192 (5.18%) GCP
6 150 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
7 111 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (2.02%) Snowflake
10 74 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 73 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 64 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (1.70%) Azure AI
14 62 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
15 48 (1.29%) PaaS
16 45 (1.21%) GitHub
17 43 (1.16%) PowerApps
18 39 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
19 37 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
20 35 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 71 (1.91%) Firewall
2 49 (1.32%) WAN
3 46 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 40 (1.08%) VPN
5 39 (1.05%) Network Security
6 38 (1.02%) HTTP
7 36 (0.97%) DNS
8 33 (0.89%) DHCP
8 33 (0.89%) LAN
9 21 (0.57%) Broadband
9 21 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.51%) BGP
10 19 (0.51%) MPLS
11 18 (0.49%) VLAN
12 17 (0.46%) Wireless
13 15 (0.40%) CHAP
14 13 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
15 12 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (4.72%) Power BI
2 168 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (1.54%) Tableau
5 49 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 47 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 33 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.70%) Big Data
10 26 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 25 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (0.62%) MySQL
13 20 (0.54%) Metadata
14 18 (0.49%) Db2
15 15 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.40%) SAP BW
16 12 (0.32%) Looker
16 12 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 97 (2.62%) JIRA
2 61 (1.64%) Git
3 46 (1.24%) TeamCity
4 18 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.46%) Selenium
6 15 (0.40%) JUnit
7 11 (0.30%) Maven
8 10 (0.27%) Mockito
9 7 (0.19%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.13%) GitLab
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.13%) Postman
12 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.081%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.081%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.081%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,212 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 651 (17.55%) Banking
3 487 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 404 (10.89%) Legal
5 333 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 323 (8.71%) Retail
7 284 (7.66%) Law
8 212 (5.72%) Marketing
9 205 (5.53%) Public Sector
10 195 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
11 165 (4.45%) Financial Institution
12 145 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
13 132 (3.56%) Back Office
14 115 (3.10%) Manufacturing
15 110 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (1.78%) Front Office
17 65 (1.75%) Telecoms
18 54 (1.46%) Billing
19 51 (1.38%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.21%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 547 (14.75%) Senior
2 383 (10.33%) Analyst
3 352 (9.49%) Lead
4 341 (9.19%) Developer
5 256 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 242 (6.52%) Architect
7 192 (5.18%) Consultant
8 149 (4.02%) Finance Manager
8 149 (4.02%) Senior Manager
9 119 (3.21%) Accountant
10 107 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (2.48%) Project Manager
12 91 (2.45%) Business Analyst
13 90 (2.43%) IT Manager
14 89 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
15 78 (2.10%) Graduate
16 77 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
17 72 (1.94%) Support Analyst
18 71 (1.91%) Azure Engineer
19 69 (1.86%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (4.23%) .NET
2 150 (4.04%) React
3 112 (3.02%) REST
4 95 (2.56%) Node.js
5 61 (1.64%) CSS
6 57 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 54 (1.46%) Kafka
7 54 (1.46%) Spring
8 48 (1.29%) ASP.NET
9 46 (1.24%) ASP.NET Core
10 42 (1.13%) Redux
11 40 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 40 (1.08%) GraphQL
12 39 (1.05%) jQuery
13 36 (0.97%) AngularJS
13 36 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
14 34 (0.92%) HTML
15 32 (0.86%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.86%) TensorFlow
16 30 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 245 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 217 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 157 (4.23%) Virtual Team
4 145 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 144 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 141 (3.80%) Web Conferencing
7 133 (3.59%) Podcast
8 81 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 77 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
10 75 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 62 (1.67%) Fixed Income
13 55 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.19%) Security Posture
16 43 (1.16%) Driving Licence
17 42 (1.13%) Blog
18 38 (1.02%) Credit Risk
19 35 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 118 (3.18%) Windows
2 103 (2.78%) Linux
3 35 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.49%) Unix
5 15 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.27%) Android
6 10 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.027%) AIX
9 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (21.25%) Agile
2 573 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 566 (15.26%) Roadmaps
4 540 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 457 (12.32%) AI
6 435 (11.73%) Decision-Making
7 420 (11.32%) Software Engineering
8 415 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 388 (10.46%) Mentoring
10 373 (10.06%) ERP
11 360 (9.71%) Analytics
12 331 (8.92%) CI/CD
13 324 (8.74%) DevOps
14 302 (8.14%) Project Management
15 281 (7.58%) Risk Management
16 263 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 235 (6.34%) Coaching
18 223 (6.01%) Fintech
19 221 (5.96%) CRM
20 217 (5.85%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 554 (14.94%) SQL
2 368 (9.92%) Python
3 313 (8.44%) Java
4 246 (6.63%) C#
5 158 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 140 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.35%) C++
8 71 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.86%) PHP
10 66 (1.78%) Go
11 27 (0.73%) Bicep
11 27 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 25 (0.67%) C
13 21 (0.57%) R
14 19 (0.51%) Bash
15 17 (0.46%) Rust
16 16 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.32%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 365 (9.84%) Degree
2 260 (7.01%) ACCA
3 217 (5.85%) CIMA
4 212 (5.72%) Security Cleared
5 120 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 119 (3.21%) SC Cleared
7 107 (2.88%) CISSP
8 82 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (1.78%) CISM
10 54 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 50 (1.35%) CISA
12 45 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.11%) Azure Certification
14 40 (1.08%) PMP
15 33 (0.89%) CRISC
16 32 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
17 30 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
18 29 (0.78%) AAT
19 28 (0.75%) DBS Check
19 28 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (4.29%) QA
2 134 (3.61%) GDPR
3 132 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 109 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 88 (2.37%) NIST
6 73 (1.97%) IFRS
7 63 (1.70%) PMO
8 62 (1.67%) GRC
9 51 (1.38%) SLA
10 45 (1.21%) Accessibility
10 45 (1.21%) GAAP
11 40 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 34 (0.92%) COBIT
13 27 (0.73%) SOC 2
14 22 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.40%) MiFID
18 14 (0.38%) COREP
18 14 (0.38%) FINREP
System Software
1 91 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.18%) Docker
3 64 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.19%) Firmware
7 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.054%) Squid
11 1 (0.027%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 156 (4.21%) Terraform
2 152 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.48%) Grafana
4 46 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.84%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) Istio
7 7 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.13%) Endace
9 5 (0.13%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.13%) QRadar
9 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.081%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.081%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.054%) Argo
12 2 (0.054%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 621 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 232 (6.26%) Oracle
3 132 (3.56%) SAP
4 109 (2.94%) Databricks
5 87 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 71 (1.91%) Sage
7 59 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 51 (1.38%) Google
9 44 (1.19%) Cisco
10 37 (1.00%) VMware
10 37 (1.00%) Xero
11 33 (0.89%) Workday
12 27 (0.73%) Adobe
13 26 (0.70%) Aderant
14 22 (0.59%) IBM
15 21 (0.57%) HubSpot
16 20 (0.54%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.54%) Splunk
17 18 (0.49%) iManage
18 17 (0.46%) Okta