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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,841 4,182 6,454
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.93% 25.36% 20.97%
As % of the General category 30.10% 35.03% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,568 2,551 4,297
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,335 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

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 12,760 11,938 18,884
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.58% 72.40% 61.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,265 6,688 13,493
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £98,750
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 17 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
1 109 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 37 (0.96%) Confluence
3 31 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.31%) SAS
5 11 (0.29%) CMS
6 9 (0.23%) Apache
7 7 (0.18%) nginx
8 6 (0.16%) IIS
9 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.10%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.078%) JBoss
12 2 (0.052%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.026%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.026%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.026%) WordPress
Applications
1 235 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.26%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 3 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.078%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.078%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.078%) Productboard
11 2 (0.052%) Simulink
11 2 (0.052%) SPSS
12 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 63 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 57 (1.48%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 30 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 29 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
6 28 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
7 24 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.60%) Elite 3E
9 22 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
10 20 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
11 17 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
12 15 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
12 15 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
14 13 (0.34%) SAP ERP
15 12 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
15 12 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
15 12 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
16 11 (0.29%) SAP CO
16 11 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 825 (21.48%) Azure
2 562 (14.63%) AWS
3 351 (9.14%) SaaS
4 289 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 204 (5.31%) GCP
6 165 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 82 (2.13%) Snowflake
10 73 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
11 72 (1.87%) Entra ID
12 69 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 65 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
14 63 (1.64%) Azure AI
15 61 (1.59%) PaaS
16 60 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
17 49 (1.28%) GitHub
17 49 (1.28%) PowerApps
18 38 (0.99%) Power Automate
19 36 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.11%) WAN
2 76 (1.98%) Firewall
3 72 (1.87%) LAN
4 49 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.07%) HTTP
6 40 (1.04%) Network Security
7 39 (1.02%) VPN
8 37 (0.96%) DNS
9 30 (0.78%) DHCP
10 20 (0.52%) BGP
10 20 (0.52%) Broadband
11 19 (0.49%) Wireless
12 18 (0.47%) MPLS
12 18 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.47%) VLAN
13 13 (0.34%) CHAP
13 13 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
14 12 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
15 11 (0.29%) Internet
15 11 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (4.71%) Power BI
2 166 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 73 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (1.51%) MongoDB
5 55 (1.43%) Tableau
6 49 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.65%) Relational Database
12 24 (0.62%) Big Data
12 24 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (0.60%) MySQL
14 18 (0.47%) Db2
15 17 (0.44%) Metadata
15 17 (0.44%) SAP BW
16 16 (0.42%) Oracle Database
17 15 (0.39%) Power Query
18 13 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 101 (2.63%) JIRA
2 67 (1.74%) Git
3 49 (1.28%) TeamCity
4 19 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.42%) JUnit
5 16 (0.42%) Selenium
6 12 (0.31%) Maven
7 10 (0.26%) Mockito
8 7 (0.18%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.16%) GitLab
9 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.13%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.10%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.10%) Postman
General
1 1,262 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 666 (17.34%) Banking
3 500 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 408 (10.62%) Legal
5 336 (8.75%) Retail
6 333 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 310 (8.07%) Law
8 211 (5.49%) Marketing
9 208 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
10 198 (5.15%) Public Sector
11 195 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
12 166 (4.32%) Financial Institution
13 137 (3.57%) Back Office
14 124 (3.23%) Manufacturing
15 106 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
16 72 (1.87%) Front Office
17 70 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 60 (1.56%) Billing
19 54 (1.41%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.17%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 555 (14.45%) Senior
2 392 (10.21%) Analyst
3 380 (9.89%) Lead
4 349 (9.09%) Developer
5 291 (7.58%) Architect
6 258 (6.72%) Software Engineer
7 207 (5.39%) Consultant
8 153 (3.98%) Finance Manager
8 153 (3.98%) Senior Manager
9 126 (3.28%) Accountant
10 114 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
11 94 (2.45%) Project Manager
12 93 (2.42%) Engineering Manager
13 91 (2.37%) Business Analyst
14 90 (2.34%) IT Manager
15 85 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
16 82 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
17 79 (2.06%) Graduate
17 79 (2.06%) Support Analyst
18 71 (1.85%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (4.19%) .NET
2 152 (3.96%) React
3 113 (2.94%) REST
4 101 (2.63%) Node.js
5 64 (1.67%) CSS
6 62 (1.61%) .NET Core
7 57 (1.48%) ASP.NET
8 55 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
8 55 (1.43%) Kafka
9 52 (1.35%) Spring
10 47 (1.22%) .NET Framework
11 41 (1.07%) Redux
12 39 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.02%) jQuery
13 37 (0.96%) GraphQL
14 36 (0.94%) HTML
14 36 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
15 34 (0.89%) PyTorch
15 34 (0.89%) TensorFlow
16 33 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 252 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 220 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 160 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 150 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 146 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 143 (3.72%) Web Conferencing
7 135 (3.51%) Podcast
8 84 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 83 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 76 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.77%) Fixed Income
12 66 (1.72%) Data Structures
13 58 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.20%) Driving Licence
15 45 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
16 44 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
17 43 (1.12%) Blog
18 42 (1.09%) Credit Risk
19 40 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
19 40 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.36%) Windows
2 114 (2.97%) Linux
3 39 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.47%) Unix
5 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.29%) Android
7 9 (0.23%) 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
1 807 (21.01%) Agile
2 625 (16.27%) Roadmaps
3 609 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 561 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
5 482 (12.55%) AI
6 456 (11.87%) Decision-Making
7 446 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 438 (11.40%) Software Engineering
9 405 (10.54%) Mentoring
10 386 (10.05%) ERP
11 373 (9.71%) Analytics
12 337 (8.77%) CI/CD
13 326 (8.49%) DevOps
14 309 (8.04%) Risk Management
15 301 (7.84%) Project Management
16 272 (7.08%) Project Delivery
17 269 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 246 (6.40%) Process Improvement
19 238 (6.20%) Coaching
20 233 (6.07%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 569 (14.81%) SQL
2 381 (9.92%) Python
3 315 (8.20%) Java
4 250 (6.51%) C#
5 164 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 146 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 93 (2.42%) C++
8 74 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.80%) PHP
10 65 (1.69%) Go
11 28 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.68%) C
13 25 (0.65%) Bicep
14 21 (0.55%) Bash
15 20 (0.52%) R
16 18 (0.47%) VBA
17 16 (0.42%) Rust
18 13 (0.34%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.31%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 348 (9.06%) Degree
2 256 (6.66%) ACCA
3 223 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 215 (5.60%) CIMA
5 131 (3.41%) SC Cleared
6 130 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 99 (2.58%) CISSP
8 81 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (1.54%) CISM
10 53 (1.38%) PMI Certification
11 47 (1.22%) DV Cleared
12 43 (1.12%) PMP
13 41 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 41 (1.07%) CISA
14 32 (0.83%) CRISC
14 32 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.68%) AAT
17 25 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 22 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (4.11%) QA
2 135 (3.51%) GDPR
3 132 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 105 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (2.34%) GRC
6 83 (2.16%) NIST
7 69 (1.80%) IFRS
8 64 (1.67%) PMO
9 57 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 56 (1.46%) SLA
11 47 (1.22%) GAAP
12 39 (1.02%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.86%) COBIT
14 26 (0.68%) SOC 2
15 23 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.39%) FINREP
19 14 (0.36%) COREP
19 14 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 88 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.21%) Docker
3 64 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.34%) Firmware
7 12 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.13%) vSphere
10 4 (0.10%) Squid
11 3 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.026%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 161 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.14%) Terraform
3 60 (1.56%) Grafana
4 42 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.96%) Ansible
6 8 (0.21%) Istio
7 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.13%) Endace
8 5 (0.13%) QRadar
8 5 (0.13%) SCCM
8 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.078%) Argo
10 3 (0.078%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.078%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.078%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.078%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.052%) Puppet
Vendors
1 693 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 233 (6.07%) Oracle
3 138 (3.59%) SAP
4 110 (2.86%) Databricks
5 80 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 69 (1.80%) Sage
7 61 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 56 (1.46%) Google
9 47 (1.22%) Cisco
10 39 (1.02%) VMware
11 37 (0.96%) Workday
11 37 (0.96%) Xero
12 27 (0.70%) Adobe
12 27 (0.70%) HubSpot
12 27 (0.70%) IBM
13 26 (0.68%) Aderant
14 20 (0.52%) OpenAI
14 20 (0.52%) Splunk
15 19 (0.49%) BMC
16 18 (0.47%) iManage