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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,146 3,827 6,047
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.13% 25.34% 21.92%
As % of the General category 32.47% 35.89% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 2,522 4,725
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,700
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.43% -3.61%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -6.40%

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 9,688 10,663 17,119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.92% 70.59% 62.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,125 6,206 13,678
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,625 £32,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

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 26 February 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 78 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.46%) Confluence
3 43 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.64%) SAS
6 18 (0.57%) Apache
7 15 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 15 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 13 (0.41%) JBoss
9 12 (0.38%) CMS
10 8 (0.25%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
14 3 (0.095%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.095%) WordPress
15 2 (0.064%) nginx
15 2 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 248 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
6 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.84%) Oracle ERP
1 58 (1.84%) Oracle Payables
2 46 (1.46%) NetSuite
3 45 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
4 43 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 40 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
6 36 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 35 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 30 (0.95%) Unit4 Business World
9 23 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
10 20 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
10 20 (0.64%) SAP FI
11 19 (0.60%) SAP CO
11 19 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
13 13 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
14 12 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
15 11 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 757 (24.06%) Azure
2 438 (13.92%) AWS
3 320 (10.17%) Power Platform
4 288 (9.15%) SaaS
5 225 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
6 187 (5.94%) GCP
6 187 (5.94%) GitHub
7 151 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
8 113 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 105 (3.34%) Entra ID
10 98 (3.12%) Snowflake
11 91 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
12 79 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
13 73 (2.32%) dbt
14 64 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
14 64 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
15 60 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 51 (1.62%) OCI
17 50 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
18 44 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.51%) Firewall
2 60 (1.91%) WAN
3 53 (1.68%) VPN
4 47 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 45 (1.43%) SD-WAN
6 35 (1.11%) DNS
6 35 (1.11%) LAN
7 33 (1.05%) Wireless
8 31 (0.99%) DHCP
9 25 (0.79%) Wireshark
10 23 (0.73%) Network Security
11 21 (0.67%) CHAP
12 15 (0.48%) BGP
12 15 (0.48%) HTTP
12 15 (0.48%) VLAN
13 14 (0.45%) Internet
14 10 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (0.29%) MPLS
15 9 (0.29%) SSL
16 8 (0.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (6.93%) Power BI
2 107 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 91 (2.89%) Tableau
4 64 (2.03%) Data Lake
5 55 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 53 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 37 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.95%) Big Data
10 29 (0.92%) Metadata
11 22 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
12 21 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 21 (0.67%) MySQL
13 19 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (0.60%) Apache Arrow
13 19 (0.60%) Dremio
13 19 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 18 (0.57%) Relational Database
15 17 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 137 (4.35%) JIRA
2 64 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.00%) Git
4 62 (1.97%) Oracle Forms
5 41 (1.30%) TeamCity
6 34 (1.08%) Selenium
7 26 (0.83%) Postman
8 21 (0.67%) SoapUI
9 20 (0.64%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (0.51%) ERwin
11 16 (0.51%) GitLab
12 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.45%) ER Studio
13 9 (0.29%) Storybook
13 9 (0.29%) Subversion
14 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
14 8 (0.25%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.16%) Cucumber
General
1 1,090 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 525 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
3 462 (14.69%) Banking
4 282 (8.96%) Retail
5 262 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (7.85%) Public Sector
7 228 (7.25%) Marketing
8 209 (6.64%) Financial Institution
9 206 (6.55%) Legal
10 199 (6.33%) Law
11 129 (4.10%) Back Office
12 114 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
13 111 (3.53%) Telecoms
14 102 (3.24%) Manufacturing
15 92 (2.92%) Front Office
16 88 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
17 84 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
18 51 (1.62%) Electronics
19 43 (1.37%) Billing
20 39 (1.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 571 (18.15%) Senior
2 419 (13.32%) Analyst
3 278 (8.84%) Developer
4 245 (7.79%) Lead
5 196 (6.23%) Software Engineer
6 174 (5.53%) Consultant
7 156 (4.96%) Architect
8 95 (3.02%) Data Engineer
9 94 (2.99%) Business Analyst
10 79 (2.51%) Project Manager
11 77 (2.45%) Senior Manager
12 74 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
13 72 (2.29%) Finance Manager
13 72 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
14 71 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
15 70 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
16 69 (2.19%) Accountant
17 58 (1.84%) Software Developer
18 54 (1.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 54 (1.72%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (4.45%) .NET
2 109 (3.46%) REST
3 106 (3.37%) React
4 92 (2.92%) RESTful
5 90 (2.86%) SOAP
6 70 (2.23%) Node.js
7 60 (1.91%) JSON
7 60 (1.91%) Kafka
8 53 (1.68%) GraphQL
9 52 (1.65%) OAuth
10 47 (1.49%) Spring
11 35 (1.11%) Middleware
12 34 (1.08%) HTML
12 34 (1.08%) XML
13 33 (1.05%) AngularJS
13 33 (1.05%) Redux
14 30 (0.95%) OAuth2
14 30 (0.95%) SAML
15 27 (0.86%) CSS
15 27 (0.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 214 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 201 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 139 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 118 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 106 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 80 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 79 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
8 78 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.10%) Fixed Income
10 61 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 61 (1.94%) Blog
11 54 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 53 (1.68%) Security Posture
13 42 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 37 (1.18%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.11%) Equities
16 35 (1.11%) Public Cloud
17 34 (1.08%) Data Structures
18 31 (0.99%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.53%) Windows
2 107 (3.40%) Linux
3 40 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.05%) Unix
5 26 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.60%) Android
7 14 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.095%) VMS
11 2 (0.064%) CentOS
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (26.32%) Agile
2 555 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 500 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
4 462 (14.69%) Coaching
5 461 (14.65%) AI
6 432 (13.73%) DevOps
7 427 (13.57%) Analytics
8 420 (13.35%) Roadmaps
9 413 (13.13%) CI/CD
10 374 (11.89%) Decision-Making
10 374 (11.89%) Mentoring
11 372 (11.82%) Asset Management
12 344 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 312 (9.92%) Software Engineering
14 302 (9.60%) ERP
15 295 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
16 281 (8.93%) Project Management
17 278 (8.84%) Risk Management
18 260 (8.26%) Test Automation
19 214 (6.80%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 563 (17.90%) SQL
2 385 (12.24%) Python
3 317 (10.08%) Java
4 154 (4.90%) C#
5 146 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 124 (3.94%) TypeScript
7 113 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.13%) Go
9 59 (1.88%) C++
10 55 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 48 (1.53%) PHP
12 35 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 35 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 31 (0.99%) Bash
14 28 (0.89%) Apex Code
14 28 (0.89%) Bicep
15 26 (0.83%) C
16 19 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.57%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 375 (11.92%) Degree
2 205 (6.52%) ACCA
3 183 (5.82%) Security Cleared
4 166 (5.28%) CIMA
5 153 (4.86%) CISSP
6 115 (3.66%) SC Cleared
7 93 (2.96%) CISA
8 77 (2.45%) CISM
9 65 (2.07%) CRISC
10 59 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 59 (1.88%) DV Cleared
11 47 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 45 (1.43%) DBS Check
13 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
14 36 (1.14%) AAT
15 31 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 30 (0.95%) SANS
17 28 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 26 (0.83%) ISTQB
18 26 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (4.74%) NIST
2 125 (3.97%) QA
3 120 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 118 (3.75%) GDPR
5 116 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (2.48%) PCI DSS
7 73 (2.32%) GRC
8 65 (2.07%) Accessibility
9 58 (1.84%) IFRS
10 47 (1.49%) PMO
11 32 (1.02%) SLA
12 31 (0.99%) COBIT
13 29 (0.92%) SOC 2
14 28 (0.89%) GAAP
15 27 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
16 20 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.57%) P3O
18 12 (0.38%) SEPA
19 9 (0.29%) WCAG
20 7 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 66 (2.10%) Docker
3 39 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.60%) Firmware
6 15 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.032%) NFS
10 1 (0.032%) vCloud
10 1 (0.032%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 231 (7.34%) Terraform
2 127 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 56 (1.78%) Grafana
4 55 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 53 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (1.30%) Ansible
7 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.38%) SCCM
9 10 (0.32%) Argo
10 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.16%) Endace
11 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) Cilium
12 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.13%) QRadar
13 2 (0.064%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.064%) Kibana
13 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 528 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.63%) Oracle
3 135 (4.29%) SAP
4 91 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 88 (2.80%) Databricks
6 68 (2.16%) Cisco
7 63 (2.00%) Google
8 53 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.46%) VMware
10 45 (1.43%) Blue Prism
11 40 (1.27%) Sage
12 34 (1.08%) Workday
13 29 (0.92%) CheckPoint
13 29 (0.92%) Okta
14 26 (0.83%) Meraki
15 23 (0.73%) SolarWinds
16 22 (0.70%) Adobe
16 22 (0.70%) IBM
16 22 (0.70%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.67%) Red Hat