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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,398 3,970 5,257
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.39% 24.46% 22.43%
As % of the General category 30.39% 34.10% 35.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 2,332 3,117
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £40,893
25th Percentile £49,348 £47,688 £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 £93,750 £98,474 £108,750
90th Percentile £116,625 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +0.72%

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 14,471 11,641 14,615
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.52% 71.72% 62.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,988 6,430 8,649
10th Percentile £32,428 £28,750 £34,874
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

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 12 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 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.23%) Confluence
3 25 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.39%) Apache
6 13 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 12 (0.27%) CMS
8 11 (0.25%) nginx
9 10 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.14%) IIS
12 4 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.091%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.045%) WordPress
14 1 (0.023%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.023%) CICS
14 1 (0.023%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 269 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.39%) Simulink
7 12 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.23%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.091%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.091%) Sketch
12 3 (0.068%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.068%) Productboard
13 2 (0.045%) InDesign
13 2 (0.045%) SPSS
13 2 (0.045%) Weka
14 1 (0.023%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 62 (1.41%) NetSuite
2 47 (1.07%) Oracle Financials
3 35 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
4 31 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
5 30 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
6 27 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.41%) Elite 3E
9 18 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
10 17 (0.39%) Primavera
11 16 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
11 16 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 16 (0.36%) Sage 50
12 15 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
12 15 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
12 15 (0.34%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
14 12 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
15 10 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 871 (19.80%) Azure
2 619 (14.07%) AWS
3 374 (8.50%) SaaS
4 323 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 231 (5.25%) GCP
6 153 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
7 144 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
8 120 (2.73%) Snowflake
9 109 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (1.96%) PaaS
11 79 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
12 76 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 72 (1.64%) PowerApps
14 71 (1.61%) GitHub
15 68 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 67 (1.52%) Azure AI
17 66 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
18 59 (1.34%) Serverless
19 57 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
20 53 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.77%) LAN
1 78 (1.77%) WAN
2 55 (1.25%) Firewall
3 41 (0.93%) HTTP
4 39 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 37 (0.84%) Network Security
6 35 (0.80%) DNS
7 29 (0.66%) VPN
8 26 (0.59%) DHCP
9 23 (0.52%) Broadband
10 22 (0.50%) 5G
11 15 (0.34%) VLAN
12 13 (0.30%) MPLS
12 13 (0.30%) Wireless
13 12 (0.27%) Internet
14 11 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.25%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.20%) BGP
15 9 (0.20%) NGFW
15 9 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (4.93%) Power BI
2 172 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 67 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (1.48%) MongoDB
5 61 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (1.23%) Tableau
7 53 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 40 (0.91%) Metadata
8 40 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.61%) Big Data
12 21 (0.48%) MySQL
13 20 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 20 (0.45%) Power Query
14 18 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.39%) Looker
15 17 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 135 (3.07%) JIRA
2 93 (2.11%) Git
3 54 (1.23%) TeamCity
4 31 (0.70%) Claude Code
5 30 (0.68%) JUnit
6 24 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.52%) Maven
8 22 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.43%) Mockito
10 13 (0.30%) Selenium
11 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.18%) GitLab
12 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.16%) Postman
12 7 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.14%) Gatling
13 6 (0.14%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.091%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,480 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 711 (16.17%) Banking
3 672 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 537 (12.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 442 (10.05%) Legal
6 345 (7.84%) Retail
7 338 (7.69%) Law
8 289 (6.57%) Marketing
9 281 (6.39%) Organisational Skills
10 243 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
11 233 (5.30%) Public Sector
12 161 (3.66%) Manufacturing
13 149 (3.39%) Aerospace
14 148 (3.37%) Financial Institution
15 138 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
16 131 (2.98%) Back Office
17 90 (2.05%) Billing
18 89 (2.02%) Telecoms
19 58 (1.32%) General Ledger
20 51 (1.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 603 (13.71%) Senior
2 484 (11.01%) Lead
3 427 (9.71%) Analyst
4 388 (8.82%) Architect
5 319 (7.25%) Developer
6 273 (6.21%) Software Engineer
7 218 (4.96%) Consultant
8 162 (3.68%) Senior Manager
9 160 (3.64%) Finance Manager
10 145 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
11 135 (3.07%) Accountant
12 108 (2.46%) IT Manager
13 107 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 105 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 103 (2.34%) Project Manager
16 101 (2.30%) Engineering Manager
17 93 (2.11%) Business Analyst
18 83 (1.89%) Data Analyst
19 81 (1.84%) Support Analyst
20 79 (1.80%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (4.14%) Terraform
2 150 (3.41%) .NET
3 139 (3.16%) React
4 117 (2.66%) REST
5 71 (1.61%) Node.js
6 70 (1.59%) Spring
7 63 (1.43%) .NET Core
8 61 (1.39%) CSS
9 59 (1.34%) ASP.NET
10 55 (1.25%) LangChain
11 53 (1.21%) ASP.NET Core
12 49 (1.11%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.09%) LangGraph
14 46 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
15 42 (0.95%) AngularJS
15 42 (0.95%) XML
16 40 (0.91%) PyTorch
16 40 (0.91%) TensorFlow
17 35 (0.80%) HTML
17 35 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 308 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 229 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 213 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 201 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 160 (3.64%) Virtual Team
6 158 (3.59%) Web Conferencing
7 146 (3.32%) Podcast
8 131 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
9 95 (2.16%) Blog
9 95 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 74 (1.68%) AI Agents
11 70 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 61 (1.39%) Data Centre
13 57 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 56 (1.27%) Credit Risk
14 56 (1.27%) Hedge funds
15 48 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
16 46 (1.05%) Social Media
17 45 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
18 42 (0.95%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.80%) Windows
2 104 (2.36%) Linux
3 44 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.43%) Android
5 15 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.32%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.068%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.023%) AIX
12 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (18.92%) Agile
2 804 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 754 (17.14%) AI
4 742 (16.87%) Roadmaps
5 693 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
6 636 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 634 (14.42%) Decision-Making
8 513 (11.66%) Software Engineering
9 460 (10.46%) Mentoring
10 434 (9.87%) ERP
11 426 (9.69%) Analytics
12 409 (9.30%) CI/CD
13 368 (8.37%) Risk Management
14 356 (8.09%) DevOps
15 346 (7.87%) Project Delivery
16 329 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 327 (7.44%) Process Improvement
18 314 (7.14%) Coaching
19 308 (7.00%) Customer Service
20 305 (6.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 640 (14.55%) SQL
2 413 (9.39%) Python
3 308 (7.00%) Java
4 234 (5.32%) C#
5 159 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 124 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 100 (2.27%) C++
8 85 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 54 (1.23%) PHP
10 34 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.66%) Bash
11 29 (0.66%) C
12 28 (0.64%) R
13 24 (0.55%) Bicep
14 23 (0.52%) Go
15 22 (0.50%) MATLAB
16 19 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.39%) VBA
18 16 (0.36%) Rust
19 15 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 413 (9.39%) Degree
2 368 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 279 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 252 (5.73%) ACCA
5 249 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 225 (5.12%) CIMA
7 134 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 81 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (1.59%) CISSP
10 56 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 53 (1.21%) PMI Certification
12 51 (1.16%) CISM
13 48 (1.09%) PMP
14 46 (1.05%) Azure Certification
15 36 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (0.75%) CISA
17 30 (0.68%) CRISC
18 27 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
19 25 (0.57%) ICAEW
20 22 (0.50%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 184 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.68%) QA
4 145 (3.30%) GDPR
5 91 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 89 (2.02%) GRC
7 79 (1.80%) SLA
8 75 (1.71%) PMO
9 65 (1.48%) NIST
10 57 (1.30%) IFRS
11 44 (1.00%) GAAP
12 30 (0.68%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.61%) COBIT
14 22 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.34%) MiFID
17 14 (0.32%) Def Stans
17 14 (0.32%) NCSC
17 14 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (2.43%) Docker
2 96 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 50 (1.14%) Firmware
5 38 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.14%) Squid
10 6 (0.14%) vSphere
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.023%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.023%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 183 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 81 (1.84%) Grafana
3 44 (1.00%) Ansible
4 33 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.14%) Istio
6 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.091%) QRadar
8 4 (0.091%) SCCM
8 4 (0.091%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.068%) Argo
9 3 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.068%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.045%) CASB
10 2 (0.045%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.045%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.045%) Puppet
10 2 (0.045%) Salt
Vendors
1 747 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 226 (5.14%) Oracle
3 142 (3.23%) SAP
4 139 (3.16%) Databricks
5 92 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 78 (1.77%) Sage
7 64 (1.46%) Google
8 59 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.30%) Workday
10 46 (1.05%) VMware
11 41 (0.93%) Xero
12 33 (0.75%) Aderant
12 33 (0.75%) Cisco
13 31 (0.70%) HubSpot
14 25 (0.57%) BMC
15 21 (0.48%) IBM
15 21 (0.48%) Splunk
15 21 (0.48%) YouTube
16 20 (0.45%) Adobe
16 20 (0.45%) Remedy