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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,799 4,177 6,665
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.79% 25.33% 20.88%
As % of the General category 29.98% 34.99% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,551 4,480
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,000 £65,582
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +8.26% -5.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -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 12,670 11,938 19,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.35% 72.40% 61.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,228 6,684 14,109
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,825 £31,773
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £79,127 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 15 July 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
1 110 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 37 (0.97%) Confluence
3 32 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.32%) SAS
5 11 (0.29%) CMS
6 7 (0.18%) Apache
7 6 (0.16%) IIS
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.13%) nginx
9 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.11%) JBoss
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.053%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.026%) WordPress
Applications
1 227 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.26%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.079%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.079%) Productboard
11 2 (0.053%) SPSS
12 1 (0.026%) Notion
12 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 61 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 57 (1.50%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 29 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 29 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
7 23 (0.61%) Elite 3E
8 22 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
9 20 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
11 15 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
11 15 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
12 14 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
13 13 (0.34%) SAP ERP
14 12 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
14 12 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 11 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
16 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
16 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 820 (21.58%) Azure
2 555 (14.61%) AWS
3 350 (9.21%) SaaS
4 282 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 201 (5.29%) GCP
6 167 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 123 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
8 107 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 83 (2.18%) Snowflake
10 73 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
11 72 (1.90%) Entra ID
12 69 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 65 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
14 63 (1.66%) Azure AI
15 61 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
16 59 (1.55%) PaaS
17 49 (1.29%) GitHub
18 47 (1.24%) PowerApps
19 36 (0.95%) Power Automate
20 35 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (2.18%) WAN
2 76 (2.00%) Firewall
3 71 (1.87%) LAN
4 50 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.08%) Network Security
6 40 (1.05%) HTTP
6 40 (1.05%) VPN
7 37 (0.97%) DNS
8 31 (0.82%) DHCP
9 21 (0.55%) BGP
10 20 (0.53%) Broadband
11 19 (0.50%) MPLS
11 19 (0.50%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.50%) VLAN
12 18 (0.47%) Wireless
13 13 (0.34%) CHAP
13 13 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.29%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (4.55%) Power BI
2 164 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 73 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 54 (1.42%) Tableau
6 48 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 24 (0.63%) Relational Database
11 24 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (0.61%) Big Data
12 23 (0.61%) MySQL
13 19 (0.50%) Metadata
14 18 (0.47%) Db2
15 16 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.42%) SAP BW
16 14 (0.37%) Power Query
17 13 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (2.63%) JIRA
2 63 (1.66%) Git
3 49 (1.29%) TeamCity
4 19 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.39%) JUnit
5 15 (0.39%) Selenium
6 12 (0.32%) Maven
7 10 (0.26%) Mockito
8 6 (0.16%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.13%) GitLab
9 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.079%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.079%) Postman
11 3 (0.079%) SonarQube
General
1 1,256 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 661 (17.40%) Banking
3 491 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (10.66%) Legal
5 331 (8.71%) Retail
6 325 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 311 (8.19%) Law
8 211 (5.55%) Marketing
9 204 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
10 196 (5.16%) Public Sector
11 194 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
12 166 (4.37%) Financial Institution
13 136 (3.58%) Back Office
14 120 (3.16%) Manufacturing
15 106 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
16 71 (1.87%) Front Office
17 67 (1.76%) Telecoms
18 57 (1.50%) Billing
19 54 (1.42%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.16%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 549 (14.45%) Senior
2 383 (10.08%) Analyst
3 369 (9.71%) Lead
4 349 (9.19%) Developer
5 290 (7.63%) Architect
6 256 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 203 (5.34%) Consultant
8 154 (4.05%) Finance Manager
9 150 (3.95%) Senior Manager
10 123 (3.24%) Accountant
11 113 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
12 94 (2.47%) Project Manager
13 91 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
13 91 (2.40%) IT Manager
14 88 (2.32%) Business Analyst
15 82 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
16 80 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
17 78 (2.05%) Graduate
17 78 (2.05%) Support Analyst
18 70 (1.84%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (4.24%) .NET
2 152 (4.00%) React
3 111 (2.92%) REST
4 101 (2.66%) Node.js
5 64 (1.68%) CSS
6 62 (1.63%) .NET Core
7 57 (1.50%) ASP.NET
8 55 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 55 (1.45%) Kafka
9 52 (1.37%) Spring
10 47 (1.24%) .NET Framework
11 41 (1.08%) Redux
12 39 (1.03%) jQuery
13 38 (1.00%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.00%) GraphQL
14 37 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
15 36 (0.95%) HTML
16 33 (0.87%) PyTorch
16 33 (0.87%) TensorFlow
17 32 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 248 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.82%) Cloud Native
3 159 (4.19%) Virtual Team
4 148 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 147 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 142 (3.74%) Web Conferencing
7 134 (3.53%) Podcast
8 82 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 81 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 73 (1.92%) Data Centre
11 67 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 67 (1.76%) Fixed Income
12 56 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.21%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 45 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.13%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.11%) Blog
17 40 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
18 39 (1.03%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.32%) Windows
2 111 (2.92%) Linux
3 37 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.47%) Unix
5 13 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.29%) Android
7 9 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.026%) AIX
10 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (21.06%) Agile
2 611 (16.08%) Roadmaps
3 597 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 551 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
5 468 (12.32%) AI
6 439 (11.56%) Decision-Making
7 437 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 431 (11.35%) Software Engineering
9 397 (10.45%) Mentoring
10 378 (9.95%) ERP
11 364 (9.58%) Analytics
12 337 (8.87%) CI/CD
13 327 (8.61%) DevOps
14 310 (8.16%) Risk Management
15 295 (7.77%) Project Management
16 265 (6.98%) Project Delivery
17 263 (6.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 236 (6.21%) Coaching
19 232 (6.11%) CRM
19 232 (6.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 564 (14.85%) SQL
2 377 (9.92%) Python
3 311 (8.19%) Java
4 251 (6.61%) C#
5 165 (4.34%) JavaScript
6 145 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.47%) C++
8 74 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.82%) PHP
10 66 (1.74%) Go
11 28 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.68%) Bicep
13 24 (0.63%) C
14 22 (0.58%) Bash
15 20 (0.53%) R
16 18 (0.47%) VBA
17 17 (0.45%) Rust
18 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.32%) VB.NET
18 12 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 341 (8.98%) Degree
2 250 (6.58%) ACCA
3 215 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 208 (5.48%) CIMA
5 122 (3.21%) SC Cleared
6 121 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 103 (2.71%) CISSP
8 82 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (1.61%) CISM
10 52 (1.37%) PMI Certification
11 43 (1.13%) CISA
11 43 (1.13%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.11%) PMP
13 39 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 34 (0.89%) CRISC
15 30 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 30 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 26 (0.68%) AAT
18 24 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (4.13%) QA
2 135 (3.55%) GDPR
3 130 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 109 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (2.45%) GRC
6 84 (2.21%) NIST
7 70 (1.84%) IFRS
8 65 (1.71%) PMO
9 55 (1.45%) SLA
10 50 (1.32%) Accessibility
11 47 (1.24%) GAAP
12 39 (1.03%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.87%) COBIT
14 26 (0.68%) SOC 2
15 23 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.39%) MiFID
19 14 (0.37%) COREP
19 14 (0.37%) FINREP
System Software
1 89 (2.34%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.21%) Docker
3 64 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.21%) Firmware
7 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.079%) Squid
9 3 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.026%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 157 (4.13%) Kubernetes
1 157 (4.13%) Terraform
2 59 (1.55%) Grafana
3 43 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.89%) Ansible
5 8 (0.21%) Istio
6 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.13%) Endace
7 5 (0.13%) QRadar
7 5 (0.13%) SCCM
8 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.079%) Argo
9 3 (0.079%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.079%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.079%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.053%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 688 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 230 (6.05%) Oracle
3 135 (3.55%) SAP
4 109 (2.87%) Databricks
5 80 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 68 (1.79%) Sage
7 61 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 53 (1.40%) Google
9 47 (1.24%) Cisco
10 38 (1.00%) VMware
11 37 (0.97%) Workday
11 37 (0.97%) Xero
12 27 (0.71%) Adobe
13 26 (0.68%) Aderant
14 25 (0.66%) HubSpot
15 23 (0.61%) IBM
16 20 (0.53%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.53%) Splunk
17 19 (0.50%) BMC
18 18 (0.47%) iManage