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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,354 4,211 5,334
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 22.00% 21.19% 25.36%
As % of the General category 34.06% 33.13% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 2,726 4,239
10th Percentile £35,021 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,745 £52,500 £53,000
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 £119,875 £132,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.18% +2.84% +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 9,848 12,711 13,689
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 64.59% 63.96% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,325 7,352 10,773
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £36,019
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +0.81%
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 26 November 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
1 113 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.94%) Apache
4 51 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 49 (1.46%) Confluence
6 13 (0.39%) CMS
7 12 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 12 (0.36%) SAS
7 12 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.24%) Appian
9 8 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.21%) IIS
10 7 (0.21%) JBoss
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.089%) HCL Domino
13 3 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 356 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 162 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.089%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.089%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.089%) Sketch
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.060%) Elementor
11 1 (0.030%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 61 (1.82%) Unit4 Business World
2 49 (1.46%) NetSuite
3 43 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 42 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 42 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
5 36 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
6 33 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
7 31 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
8 28 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 23 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
9 23 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
10 21 (0.63%) SAP FI
11 19 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
12 17 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
13 16 (0.48%) SAP CO
13 16 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
14 15 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
15 14 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
16 13 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
16 13 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 713 (21.26%) Azure
2 474 (14.13%) AWS
3 384 (11.45%) Power Platform
4 251 (7.48%) SaaS
5 201 (5.99%) GCP
6 197 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
7 169 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
8 158 (4.71%) GitHub
9 147 (4.38%) dbt
10 141 (4.20%) Snowflake
11 101 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
12 94 (2.80%) Entra ID
13 80 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 59 (1.76%) Power Automate
15 55 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
16 53 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
17 51 (1.52%) PowerApps
18 47 (1.40%) OCI
19 46 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
20 44 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.42%) Firewall
2 59 (1.76%) WAN
3 58 (1.73%) LAN
3 58 (1.73%) Wireless
4 47 (1.40%) VPN
5 45 (1.34%) Network Security
6 42 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.16%) Wireshark
8 36 (1.07%) TCP/IP
9 20 (0.60%) DNS
10 19 (0.57%) Internet
10 19 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
11 15 (0.45%) DHCP
12 13 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.33%) VLAN
14 10 (0.30%) BGP
15 9 (0.27%) SSL
15 9 (0.27%) WLAN
16 8 (0.24%) Intranet
17 7 (0.21%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (8.47%) Power BI
2 157 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 110 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
4 109 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 107 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
5 107 (3.19%) Apache Arrow
5 107 (3.19%) Dremio
6 103 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 88 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
8 84 (2.50%) Tableau
9 60 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
10 56 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 49 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (1.31%) MySQL
13 35 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (0.98%) MongoDB
15 31 (0.92%) Metadata
16 27 (0.81%) Big Data
17 22 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
17 22 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 137 (4.08%) JIRA
2 71 (2.12%) Git
3 54 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
5 27 (0.81%) Selenium
6 23 (0.69%) Postman
7 20 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 19 (0.57%) SoapUI
8 19 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.48%) GitLab
9 16 (0.48%) WebDriver
10 14 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.42%) ER Studio
10 14 (0.42%) ERwin
11 8 (0.24%) webpack
12 7 (0.21%) Storybook
13 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.18%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.18%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 1,161 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 562 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
3 429 (12.79%) Banking
4 300 (8.94%) Marketing
5 203 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 201 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 198 (5.90%) Retail
8 179 (5.34%) Front Office
9 175 (5.22%) Legal
10 135 (4.03%) Manufacturing
11 132 (3.94%) Telecoms
12 131 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
13 129 (3.85%) Financial Institution
14 117 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
15 111 (3.31%) Law
16 90 (2.68%) Investment Banking
17 84 (2.50%) Back Office
18 79 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
19 77 (2.30%) Electronics
20 48 (1.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 529 (15.77%) Senior
2 476 (14.19%) Analyst
3 382 (11.39%) Developer
4 236 (7.04%) Software Engineer
5 228 (6.80%) Lead
6 209 (6.23%) Consultant
7 143 (4.26%) Architect
8 129 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
9 120 (3.58%) Python Engineer
10 118 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
11 107 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
11 107 (3.19%) Python Software Engineer
12 101 (3.01%) Business Analyst
13 99 (2.95%) Accountant
14 96 (2.86%) Java Engineer
15 87 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
16 86 (2.56%) Java Software Engineer
17 81 (2.42%) Project Manager
18 80 (2.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 77 (2.30%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (4.89%) .NET
2 159 (4.74%) React
3 126 (3.76%) Pandas
4 113 (3.37%) NumPy
5 110 (3.28%) Node.js
6 107 (3.19%) SciPy
7 99 (2.95%) AngularJS
8 92 (2.74%) REST
9 91 (2.71%) RESTful
10 74 (2.21%) CSS
11 73 (2.18%) SOAP
12 70 (2.09%) Vue
13 61 (1.82%) gRPC
14 60 (1.79%) HTML
15 58 (1.73%) Protocol Buffers
16 54 (1.61%) Kafka
17 48 (1.43%) GraphQL
18 46 (1.37%) Spring
19 43 (1.28%) ASP.NET
19 43 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 157 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 153 (4.56%) Fixed Income
3 145 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 142 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 135 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 125 (3.73%) Equities
7 124 (3.70%) Cloud Native
8 123 (3.67%) e-Learning
9 110 (3.28%) Onboarding
10 87 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 77 (2.30%) Hedge funds
12 74 (2.21%) Derivative
13 69 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
14 66 (1.97%) Data Centre
14 66 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
15 58 (1.73%) Pricing Data
16 41 (1.22%) Virtual Team
17 40 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 36 (1.07%) Security Posture
19 34 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.89%) Linux
2 113 (3.37%) Windows
3 48 (1.43%) Unix
4 35 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
7 15 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.39%) Android
9 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.18%) VMS
12 3 (0.089%) CentOS
13 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.030%) AIX
14 1 (0.030%) MVS
14 1 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
14 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (28.12%) Agile
2 581 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
3 531 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 435 (12.97%) Asset Management
5 431 (12.85%) AI
6 391 (11.66%) Analytics
7 381 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 377 (11.24%) DevOps
9 376 (11.21%) Decision-Making
10 375 (11.18%) Software Engineering
11 370 (11.03%) Roadmaps
12 350 (10.44%) ERP
13 342 (10.20%) Coaching
13 342 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 314 (9.36%) Mentoring
15 312 (9.30%) Risk Management
16 310 (9.24%) CI/CD
17 294 (8.77%) Project Management
18 222 (6.62%) Fintech
19 211 (6.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 559 (16.67%) SQL
2 467 (13.92%) Python
3 323 (9.63%) Java
4 259 (7.72%) JavaScript
5 227 (6.77%) TypeScript
6 159 (4.74%) C#
7 104 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 83 (2.47%) C++
9 65 (1.94%) PHP
10 50 (1.49%) Go
11 49 (1.46%) Bash
12 46 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 45 (1.34%) C
14 41 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 28 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.75%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.60%) Bicep
18 18 (0.54%) VBA
19 17 (0.51%) R
19 17 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 435 (12.97%) Degree
2 269 (8.02%) ACCA
3 237 (7.07%) Security Cleared
4 214 (6.38%) CIMA
5 190 (5.66%) SC Cleared
6 123 (3.67%) CISSP
7 87 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 75 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 64 (1.91%) CISA
10 61 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.76%) CRISC
12 57 (1.70%) DBS Check
13 53 (1.58%) CCNP
14 52 (1.55%) CISM
15 49 (1.46%) AAT
16 43 (1.28%) Master's Degree
17 38 (1.13%) CEH
18 37 (1.10%) Azure Certification
19 36 (1.07%) CCNA
20 33 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (4.80%) NIST
2 129 (3.85%) QA
3 114 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 109 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (3.16%) GDPR
6 92 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 91 (2.71%) Accessibility
8 66 (1.97%) PMO
9 48 (1.43%) GRC
10 46 (1.37%) IFRS
11 41 (1.22%) GAAP
12 37 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.92%) SLA
14 21 (0.63%) COBIT
15 20 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.54%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.36%) SEPA
18 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
19 9 (0.27%) ISO 9001
19 9 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 54 (1.61%) Docker
3 35 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.98%) Firmware
5 28 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 13 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.18%) NFS
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.060%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 161 (4.80%) Terraform
2 84 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.70%) Ansible
4 53 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.89%) Grafana
7 14 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.39%) SCCM
9 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.15%) Argo
13 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 4 (0.12%) Control-M
13 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.089%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 3 (0.089%) QRadar
15 2 (0.060%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.060%) Suricata
Vendors
1 588 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.31%) SAP
3 161 (4.80%) Oracle
4 116 (3.46%) Cisco
5 76 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 73 (2.18%) Databricks
7 64 (1.91%) Google
8 59 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 50 (1.49%) VMware
10 47 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 47 (1.40%) Workday
11 45 (1.34%) Blue Prism
12 44 (1.31%) Sage
13 35 (1.04%) Xero
14 30 (0.89%) Palo Alto
14 30 (0.89%) SolarWinds
15 29 (0.86%) CheckPoint
15 29 (0.86%) Meraki
16 28 (0.83%) Sparx
17 25 (0.75%) IBM