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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,346 4,055 7,031
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.24% 28.22% 21.62%
As % of the General category 32.73% 38.10% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,198 2,611 4,873
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,335 £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% -6.31%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -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 10,222 10,643 20,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.74% 74.06% 61.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,809 6,480 15,088
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 9 May 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 83 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.17%) Confluence
3 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.42%) SAS
5 9 (0.27%) CMS
5 9 (0.27%) JBoss
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.15%) Apache
8 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.060%) nginx
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.030%) Camunda
10 1 (0.030%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 201 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.090%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.090%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.090%) Sketch
9 1 (0.030%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.030%) Productboard
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 68 (2.03%) Oracle Financials
2 51 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 49 (1.46%) Oracle Payables
4 45 (1.34%) Oracle Assets
5 43 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
6 33 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
7 31 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
8 28 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
9 27 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
9 27 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.51%) Elite 3E
11 16 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
11 16 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
11 16 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 15 (0.45%) SAP ERP
13 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
15 11 (0.33%) SAP FI
16 10 (0.30%) SAP CO
16 10 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 731 (21.85%) Azure
2 452 (13.51%) AWS
3 280 (8.37%) SaaS
4 217 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 176 (5.26%) GCP
6 141 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 113 (3.38%) GitHub
9 105 (3.14%) Snowflake
10 98 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
11 90 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 80 (2.39%) Entra ID
13 71 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
15 60 (1.79%) Azure AI
16 59 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
17 54 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
18 38 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
19 37 (1.11%) dbt
20 36 (1.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 65 (1.94%) Firewall
2 50 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 45 (1.34%) VPN
4 44 (1.32%) WAN
5 41 (1.23%) DNS
6 39 (1.17%) DHCP
7 36 (1.08%) HTTP
8 29 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 27 (0.81%) CHAP
9 27 (0.81%) Network Security
10 19 (0.57%) BGP
10 19 (0.57%) LAN
10 19 (0.57%) MPLS
11 18 (0.54%) Wireless
12 17 (0.51%) Broadband
13 15 (0.45%) VLAN
14 13 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (0.36%) Internet
16 11 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 152 (4.54%) Power BI
3 66 (1.97%) Tableau
4 63 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 45 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (0.84%) Big Data
10 25 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 25 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.63%) Metadata
12 19 (0.57%) MongoDB
13 18 (0.54%) MySQL
14 17 (0.51%) DB2
15 16 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 14 (0.42%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.42%) SAP BW
17 13 (0.39%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 115 (3.44%) JIRA
2 70 (2.09%) Git
3 35 (1.05%) TeamCity
4 31 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
5 28 (0.84%) Selenium
6 20 (0.60%) Postman
7 16 (0.48%) WebDriver
8 15 (0.45%) SoapUI
9 14 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.27%) GitLab
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 6 (0.18%) Storybook
12 6 (0.18%) Subversion
13 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.12%) ERwin
14 4 (0.12%) Maven
14 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,048 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 590 (17.63%) Banking
3 468 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 301 (9.00%) Legal
6 289 (8.64%) Retail
7 237 (7.08%) Public Sector
8 230 (6.87%) Law
9 229 (6.84%) Marketing
10 165 (4.93%) Financial Institution
11 138 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
12 119 (3.56%) Back Office
13 102 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
14 98 (2.93%) Manufacturing
15 90 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
16 76 (2.27%) Front Office
17 71 (2.12%) Telecoms
18 39 (1.17%) Investment Banking
19 37 (1.11%) Billing
20 36 (1.08%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 571 (17.07%) Senior
2 391 (11.69%) Analyst
3 283 (8.46%) Developer
4 275 (8.22%) Lead
5 217 (6.49%) Software Engineer
6 179 (5.35%) Architect
7 176 (5.26%) Consultant
8 130 (3.89%) Finance Manager
9 113 (3.38%) Senior Manager
10 107 (3.20%) Accountant
11 101 (3.02%) Business Analyst
12 88 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
13 84 (2.51%) C# Developer
13 84 (2.51%) Project Manager
14 81 (2.42%) Data Engineer
15 76 (2.27%) Software Developer
16 75 (2.24%) Graduate
17 71 (2.12%) Graduate Developer
17 71 (2.12%) Senior Software Engineer
17 71 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (3.83%) .NET
2 124 (3.71%) React
3 113 (3.38%) REST
4 67 (2.00%) Node.js
5 62 (1.85%) Kafka
6 53 (1.58%) SOAP
7 51 (1.52%) GraphQL
7 51 (1.52%) RESTful
8 47 (1.40%) CSS
9 43 (1.29%) JSON
9 43 (1.29%) Redux
10 40 (1.20%) Spring
11 37 (1.11%) HTML
12 35 (1.05%) OAuth
13 32 (0.96%) jQuery
14 31 (0.93%) Middleware
15 28 (0.84%) .NET Core
15 28 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
16 27 (0.81%) XML
17 26 (0.78%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.46%) Product Ownership
2 202 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 131 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 124 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 115 (3.44%) Virtual Team
6 74 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 68 (2.03%) Web Conferencing
8 62 (1.85%) Podcast
8 62 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 61 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 61 (1.82%) Fixed Income
10 58 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 57 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 47 (1.40%) Blog
13 46 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.29%) Security Posture
16 35 (1.05%) Low-Code
17 34 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 34 (1.02%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.62%) Windows
2 101 (3.02%) Linux
3 42 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.81%) Unix
5 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.45%) Android
8 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.090%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.060%) CentOS
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.030%) VMS
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (23.82%) Agile
2 495 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
3 479 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 475 (14.20%) Roadmaps
5 407 (12.16%) AI
6 360 (10.76%) DevOps
7 358 (10.70%) Mentoring
8 349 (10.43%) Analytics
8 349 (10.43%) CI/CD
9 345 (10.31%) Decision-Making
9 345 (10.31%) ERP
9 345 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 333 (9.95%) Software Engineering
11 305 (9.12%) Coaching
12 283 (8.46%) Project Management
13 275 (8.22%) Risk Management
14 214 (6.40%) Test Automation
15 212 (6.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 207 (6.19%) Fintech
17 203 (6.07%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 543 (16.23%) SQL
2 336 (10.04%) Python
3 323 (9.65%) Java
4 208 (6.22%) C#
5 123 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 120 (3.59%) TypeScript
7 82 (2.45%) C++
8 81 (2.42%) Go
8 81 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 69 (2.06%) PHP
10 36 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.87%) C
12 25 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.60%) Bicep
14 18 (0.54%) Rust
15 16 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 15 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.42%) R
18 13 (0.39%) VBA
19 12 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 359 (10.73%) Degree
2 263 (7.86%) ACCA
3 218 (6.52%) CIMA
4 188 (5.62%) Security Cleared
5 150 (4.48%) CISSP
6 107 (3.20%) SC Cleared
7 99 (2.96%) CISA
8 78 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 78 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.06%) CISM
10 66 (1.97%) CRISC
11 55 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 49 (1.46%) PMI Certification
13 39 (1.17%) DBS Check
13 39 (1.17%) SANS
14 30 (0.90%) Azure Certification
15 29 (0.87%) PMP
16 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
17 27 (0.81%) CGEIT
17 27 (0.81%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (3.86%) QA
2 126 (3.77%) NIST
3 120 (3.59%) GDPR
4 115 (3.44%) Data Quality
5 87 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 68 (2.03%) IFRS
8 58 (1.73%) GRC
9 56 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 48 (1.43%) PMO
11 40 (1.20%) GAAP
12 39 (1.17%) SLA
13 33 (0.99%) COBIT
14 21 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.45%) MiFID
17 14 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.42%) P3O
18 13 (0.39%) COREP
18 13 (0.39%) FINREP
System Software
1 106 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 74 (2.21%) Docker
3 71 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
4 51 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.39%) Firmware
7 12 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.15%) vSphere
10 4 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 177 (5.29%) Terraform
2 134 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.40%) Grafana
4 45 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.90%) Ansible
6 25 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.27%) Argo
7 9 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.24%) Istio
9 7 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.15%) Endace
10 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.15%) SCCM
11 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.090%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.090%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.090%) Puppet
12 3 (0.090%) QRadar
13 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 552 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 231 (6.90%) Oracle
3 135 (4.03%) SAP
4 130 (3.89%) Databricks
5 84 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 60 (1.79%) Sage
7 55 (1.64%) Google
8 53 (1.58%) VMware
9 41 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 39 (1.17%) Cisco
11 30 (0.90%) Workday
11 30 (0.90%) Xero
12 24 (0.72%) Okta
13 23 (0.69%) HubSpot
14 22 (0.66%) Adobe
15 21 (0.63%) IBM
16 18 (0.54%) Aderant
16 18 (0.54%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.42%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.39%) CheckPoint