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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,285 4,162 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 21.74% 21.57% 25.50%
As % of the General category 34.40% 33.21% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,076 2,699 4,251
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,246 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.49% +3.21% +0.80%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,550 12,533 13,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 63.19% 64.94% 65.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,106 7,286 10,709
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,729 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,313 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 December 2025.

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
1 104 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.89%) Apache
4 47 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 46 (1.40%) Confluence
6 14 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.37%) CMS
9 11 (0.33%) SAS
10 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.24%) Ethereum
11 8 (0.24%) JBoss
12 6 (0.18%) IIS
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.15%) HCL Notes
14 4 (0.12%) WordPress
15 3 (0.091%) Apache Spark
15 3 (0.091%) HCL Domino
15 3 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 349 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
7 9 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 3 (0.091%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.091%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.091%) Sketch
10 2 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 61 (1.86%) Unit4 Business World
2 49 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 48 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
4 47 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
5 40 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 38 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 37 (1.13%) Oracle Assets
8 29 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
9 27 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
9 27 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
10 26 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 20 (0.61%) SAP FI
12 18 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
13 17 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
14 16 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
15 15 (0.46%) SAP CO
15 15 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
16 14 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
17 13 (0.40%) Workday HCM
18 12 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 724 (22.04%) Azure
2 454 (13.82%) AWS
3 368 (11.20%) Power Platform
4 253 (7.70%) SaaS
5 211 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 190 (5.78%) GCP
7 173 (5.27%) GitHub
8 162 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
9 145 (4.41%) dbt
9 145 (4.41%) Snowflake
10 96 (2.92%) Entra ID
11 95 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
12 84 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 66 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
14 59 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
15 56 (1.70%) Power Automate
16 51 (1.55%) OCI
17 46 (1.40%) PowerApps
18 45 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 44 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.37%) Firewall
2 55 (1.67%) WAN
2 55 (1.67%) Wireless
3 54 (1.64%) LAN
4 44 (1.34%) Network Security
5 42 (1.28%) VPN
6 41 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.19%) Wireshark
8 36 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.64%) DNS
10 19 (0.58%) Internet
11 17 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
12 16 (0.49%) DHCP
13 9 (0.27%) SSL
13 9 (0.27%) VLAN
13 9 (0.27%) WLAN
14 8 (0.24%) BGP
14 8 (0.24%) Intranet
14 8 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (8.28%) Power BI
2 145 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 109 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (3.07%) Apache Iceberg
5 100 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 98 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
6 98 (2.98%) Apache Arrow
6 98 (2.98%) Dremio
7 84 (2.56%) Tableau
8 77 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
9 56 (1.70%) Apache Ignite
10 53 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 48 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (1.19%) MySQL
13 34 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 32 (0.97%) Metadata
15 30 (0.91%) MongoDB
16 27 (0.82%) Big Data
17 22 (0.67%) Power Query
18 21 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 140 (4.26%) JIRA
2 68 (2.07%) Git
3 59 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
4 56 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.85%) Selenium
6 24 (0.73%) Postman
7 21 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 20 (0.61%) SoapUI
9 19 (0.58%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.52%) WebDriver
11 16 (0.49%) GitLab
12 15 (0.46%) ERwin
13 14 (0.43%) ER Studio
14 13 (0.40%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.24%) Storybook
16 7 (0.21%) Subversion
17 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.18%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.18%) webpack
18 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,136 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 554 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
3 417 (12.69%) Banking
4 293 (8.92%) Marketing
5 203 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 202 (6.15%) Retail
7 191 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (5.08%) Front Office
8 167 (5.08%) Legal
9 131 (3.99%) Financial Institution
10 129 (3.93%) Manufacturing
10 129 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
10 129 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 118 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
12 111 (3.38%) Law
13 85 (2.59%) Back Office
14 83 (2.53%) Investment Banking
15 77 (2.34%) Electronics
16 74 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
17 48 (1.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 537 (16.35%) Senior
2 454 (13.82%) Analyst
3 344 (10.47%) Developer
4 225 (6.85%) Software Engineer
5 218 (6.64%) Lead
6 208 (6.33%) Consultant
7 138 (4.20%) Architect
8 126 (3.84%) Financial Analyst
9 113 (3.44%) Python Engineer
10 110 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
11 100 (3.04%) Python Software Engineer
12 98 (2.98%) Accountant
12 98 (2.98%) AWS Software Engineer
13 95 (2.89%) Business Analyst
14 90 (2.74%) Java Engineer
15 87 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 80 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
17 78 (2.37%) Project Manager
18 74 (2.25%) Administrator
18 74 (2.25%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (4.96%) .NET
2 143 (4.35%) React
3 114 (3.47%) Pandas
4 102 (3.11%) Node.js
4 102 (3.11%) NumPy
5 98 (2.98%) SciPy
6 93 (2.83%) REST
6 93 (2.83%) RESTful
7 87 (2.65%) AngularJS
8 81 (2.47%) SOAP
9 63 (1.92%) CSS
10 62 (1.89%) Vue
11 57 (1.74%) gRPC
12 54 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
13 53 (1.61%) Kafka
14 51 (1.55%) GraphQL
15 49 (1.49%) HTML
16 47 (1.43%) JSON
17 43 (1.31%) Spring
18 41 (1.25%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 149 (4.54%) Management Information System
2 143 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 141 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 137 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 133 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 133 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 115 (3.50%) e-Learning
6 115 (3.50%) Equities
7 106 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 86 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 70 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 70 (2.13%) Hedge funds
10 69 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
11 66 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 66 (2.01%) Derivative
12 53 (1.61%) Pricing Data
13 39 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 36 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 31 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (4.87%) Linux
2 115 (3.50%) Windows
3 48 (1.46%) Unix
4 36 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
7 16 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.43%) Android
9 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.18%) VMS
12 4 (0.12%) CentOS
13 2 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.030%) AIX
14 1 (0.030%) MVS
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (28.19%) Agile
2 579 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
3 512 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 453 (13.79%) Asset Management
5 436 (13.27%) AI
6 392 (11.93%) DevOps
7 382 (11.63%) Analytics
8 374 (11.39%) Roadmaps
9 371 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
10 364 (11.08%) Coaching
10 364 (11.08%) Decision-Making
10 364 (11.08%) Software Engineering
11 354 (10.78%) ERP
12 339 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 327 (9.95%) CI/CD
14 312 (9.50%) Mentoring
15 298 (9.07%) Risk Management
16 281 (8.55%) Project Management
17 211 (6.42%) Fintech
18 207 (6.30%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 561 (17.08%) SQL
2 452 (13.76%) Python
3 317 (9.65%) Java
4 237 (7.21%) JavaScript
5 211 (6.42%) TypeScript
6 163 (4.96%) C#
7 110 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 82 (2.50%) C++
9 68 (2.07%) PHP
10 50 (1.52%) Bash
11 49 (1.49%) Go
12 46 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 44 (1.34%) PL/SQL
14 43 (1.31%) C
15 31 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.67%) Bicep
18 19 (0.58%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.55%) VBA
20 17 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 417 (12.69%) Degree
2 269 (8.19%) ACCA
3 224 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 213 (6.48%) CIMA
5 175 (5.33%) SC Cleared
6 126 (3.84%) CISSP
7 84 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.98%) CISA
10 60 (1.83%) CRISC
11 54 (1.64%) CISM
12 52 (1.58%) DBS Check
13 51 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
14 49 (1.49%) AAT
15 44 (1.34%) CCNP
16 38 (1.16%) CEH
17 37 (1.13%) Master's Degree
18 36 (1.10%) Azure Certification
19 33 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
20 32 (0.97%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (4.96%) NIST
2 120 (3.65%) QA
3 113 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 112 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 108 (3.29%) GDPR
6 93 (2.83%) PCI DSS
7 90 (2.74%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.77%) PMO
9 50 (1.52%) GRC
10 47 (1.43%) IFRS
11 42 (1.28%) GAAP
12 37 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.94%) SLA
14 20 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.61%) COBIT
15 19 (0.58%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.37%) SEPA
17 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
18 10 (0.30%) WCAG
19 9 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 96 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 51 (1.55%) Docker
3 35 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.94%) Firmware
5 28 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
7 13 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.18%) NFS
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 3 (0.091%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.061%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 172 (5.24%) Terraform
2 84 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 58 (1.77%) Ansible
4 51 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.94%) Grafana
7 15 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 13 (0.40%) SCCM
9 6 (0.18%) Argo
9 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.12%) Cilium
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.091%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.091%) QRadar
12 2 (0.061%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.061%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 2 (0.061%) Suricata
Vendors
1 580 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 171 (5.21%) SAP
3 165 (5.02%) Oracle
4 108 (3.29%) Cisco
5 79 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.25%) Databricks
7 60 (1.83%) Google
8 57 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 49 (1.49%) VMware
10 48 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 45 (1.37%) Blue Prism
11 45 (1.37%) Workday
12 41 (1.25%) Sage
13 35 (1.07%) Xero
14 30 (0.91%) Palo Alto
15 29 (0.88%) CheckPoint
15 29 (0.88%) Meraki
15 29 (0.88%) SolarWinds
16 26 (0.79%) Sparx
17 25 (0.76%) IBM