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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,587 3,911 5,129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.65% 24.20% 22.75%
As % of the General category 30.46% 33.68% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,705 2,246 2,986
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £48,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,840 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -6.88% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,500 £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 15,061 11,613 14,117
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.23% 71.87% 62.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9,215 6,269 8,136
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,377 £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 £106,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £56,988
% change year-on-year +1.85% -5.24% -5.02%

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 23 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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.22%) Confluence
3 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 14 (0.31%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.13%) IIS
12 3 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.044%) Hedera
13 2 (0.044%) 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
1 285 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.55%) 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 (0.044%) SPSS
13 2 (0.044%) Weka
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 61 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 42 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 36 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 35 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 35 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
7 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
8 19 (0.41%) Primavera
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
10 16 (0.35%) Elite 3E
11 15 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
11 15 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
11 15 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
12 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
13 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 858 (18.71%) Azure
2 625 (13.63%) AWS
3 400 (8.72%) SaaS
4 343 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 237 (5.17%) GCP
6 157 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 155 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
8 115 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (2.51%) Snowflake
9 87 (1.90%) PaaS
10 82 (1.79%) GitHub
11 81 (1.77%) Entra ID
12 80 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
13 77 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 71 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
15 63 (1.37%) Serverless
16 60 (1.31%) Power Automate
17 56 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
17 56 (1.22%) Azure AI
18 53 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.70%) LAN
2 77 (1.68%) WAN
3 57 (1.24%) Firewall
4 41 (0.89%) HTTP
4 41 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 36 (0.78%) Network Security
6 35 (0.76%) DNS
7 32 (0.70%) VPN
8 25 (0.55%) 5G
8 25 (0.55%) DHCP
9 24 (0.52%) Broadband
10 18 (0.39%) VLAN
11 17 (0.37%) Internet
12 14 (0.31%) Wireless
13 12 (0.26%) MPLS
14 11 (0.24%) BGP
14 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.24%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.20%) NGFW
15 9 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (5.01%) Power BI
2 151 (3.29%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (1.42%) MongoDB
5 64 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.22%) Tableau
7 55 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 44 (0.96%) Metadata
9 42 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (0.85%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.59%) Big Data
12 22 (0.48%) MySQL
12 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 21 (0.46%) Power Query
14 19 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.37%) Looker
16 16 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (2.92%) JIRA
2 96 (2.09%) Git
3 66 (1.44%) TeamCity
4 40 (0.87%) Claude Code
5 32 (0.70%) JUnit
6 23 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 23 (0.50%) Maven
7 22 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.26%) Selenium
10 9 (0.20%) 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%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,594 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 733 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
3 728 (15.87%) Banking
4 569 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 473 (10.31%) Legal
6 373 (8.13%) Retail
7 368 (8.02%) Law
8 325 (7.09%) Marketing
9 312 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
10 256 (5.58%) Public Sector
11 247 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
12 175 (3.82%) Manufacturing
13 163 (3.55%) Financial Institution
14 152 (3.31%) Aerospace
14 152 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
15 147 (3.20%) Back Office
16 102 (2.22%) Telecoms
17 98 (2.14%) Billing
18 67 (1.46%) General Ledger
19 57 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 620 (13.52%) Senior
2 507 (11.05%) Lead
3 450 (9.81%) Analyst
4 404 (8.81%) Architect
5 326 (7.11%) Developer
6 284 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 225 (4.91%) Consultant
8 165 (3.60%) Finance Manager
9 164 (3.58%) Senior Manager
10 153 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
11 144 (3.14%) Accountant
12 116 (2.53%) IT Manager
13 109 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
14 105 (2.29%) Azure Engineer
14 105 (2.29%) Project Manager
15 100 (2.18%) Business Analyst
16 90 (1.96%) Engineering Manager
17 89 (1.94%) Data Analyst
18 88 (1.92%) Enterprise Architect
19 82 (1.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (4.16%) Terraform
2 156 (3.40%) .NET
3 142 (3.10%) React
4 116 (2.53%) REST
5 72 (1.57%) Node.js
5 72 (1.57%) Spring
6 63 (1.37%) .NET Core
7 59 (1.29%) ASP.NET
8 58 (1.26%) CSS
8 58 (1.26%) LangChain
9 53 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
10 52 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 51 (1.11%) LangGraph
12 49 (1.07%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.05%) XML
14 43 (0.94%) AngularJS
14 43 (0.94%) RESTful
15 40 (0.87%) PyTorch
15 40 (0.87%) TensorFlow
16 37 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 312 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 239 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 236 (5.14%) Management Information System
4 217 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 171 (3.73%) Web Conferencing
6 166 (3.62%) Podcast
7 156 (3.40%) Virtual Team
8 144 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
9 97 (2.11%) Blog
10 91 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 85 (1.85%) AI Agents
12 78 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 66 (1.44%) Hedge funds
14 63 (1.37%) Credit Risk
15 61 (1.33%) Data Centre
16 56 (1.22%) Data Structures
17 55 (1.20%) Social Media
18 45 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
19 44 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
19 44 (0.96%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.66%) Windows
2 99 (2.16%) Linux
3 46 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.48%) Android
5 19 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.26%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.044%) 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
1 860 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 819 (17.85%) Agile
3 799 (17.42%) AI
4 745 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
5 741 (16.15%) Roadmaps
6 709 (15.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 697 (15.20%) Decision-Making
8 533 (11.62%) Software Engineering
9 490 (10.68%) Mentoring
10 456 (9.94%) ERP
11 447 (9.74%) Analytics
12 433 (9.44%) CI/CD
13 379 (8.26%) Risk Management
14 364 (7.94%) Process Improvement
15 358 (7.80%) DevOps
16 356 (7.76%) Project Delivery
17 339 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 337 (7.35%) Coaching
19 331 (7.22%) Customer Service
20 312 (6.80%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 655 (14.28%) SQL
2 425 (9.27%) Python
3 318 (6.93%) Java
4 238 (5.19%) C#
5 160 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 123 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 93 (2.03%) C++
8 84 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.07%) PHP
10 37 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 33 (0.72%) R
12 30 (0.65%) Bash
13 28 (0.61%) Bicep
14 26 (0.57%) C
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 21 (0.46%) Go
16 21 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.37%) VBA
18 15 (0.33%) Rust
18 15 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 415 (9.05%) Degree
2 380 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 291 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 267 (5.82%) ACCA
5 258 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 241 (5.25%) CIMA
7 129 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (1.50%) CISSP
9 69 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 53 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 51 (1.11%) CISM
12 50 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 45 (0.98%) PMP
14 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.72%) CISA
16 31 (0.68%) CRISC
17 28 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.57%) ICAEW
19 25 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (4.60%) Accessibility
2 192 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.71%) QA
4 148 (3.23%) GDPR
5 94 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.96%) GRC
7 80 (1.74%) SLA
8 77 (1.68%) PMO
9 62 (1.35%) NIST
10 56 (1.22%) IFRS
11 41 (0.89%) GAAP
12 35 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.59%) COBIT
14 21 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 20 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.33%) NCSC
18 14 (0.31%) Def Stans
18 14 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (2.33%) Docker
2 95 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.07%) Firmware
4 45 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) 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
1 194 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 98 (2.14%) Grafana
3 41 (0.89%) Ansible
4 32 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
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%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.065%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.044%) Argo
10 2 (0.044%) CASB
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.044%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.022%) Control-M
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 762 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 236 (5.14%) Oracle
3 150 (3.27%) SAP
4 130 (2.83%) Databricks
5 99 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 78 (1.70%) Sage
7 68 (1.48%) Google
8 64 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 64 (1.40%) Workday
9 45 (0.98%) VMware
10 41 (0.89%) Xero
11 37 (0.81%) HubSpot
12 33 (0.72%) Cisco
13 30 (0.65%) Aderant
14 26 (0.57%) Adobe
15 25 (0.55%) BMC
16 24 (0.52%) YouTube
17 22 (0.48%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.46%) IBM
19 20 (0.44%) Remedy