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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,933 5,256 6,242
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.21% 22.52% 25.12%
As % of the General category 33.68% 35.98% 38.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,292 3,056 5,064
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,988 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,840 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £97,625 £108,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £132,500 £142,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,676 14,608 16,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 71.89% 62.59% 65.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,358 8,447 12,952
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,655 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.97% -7.24% -

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Finance
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Finance over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Finance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 206 (5.24%) Confluence
2 190 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (2.72%) SharePoint
4 93 (2.36%) Apache
5 84 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.41%) CMS
6 16 (0.41%) IIS
7 8 (0.20%) Appian
7 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.18%) SAS
9 6 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.13%) WordPress
11 4 (0.10%) Moodle
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.10%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
12 3 (0.076%) HCL Domino
13 2 (0.051%) Drupal
13 2 (0.051%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 321 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.36%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Civil 3D
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.10%) Simulink
9 2 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.051%) Elementor
9 2 (0.051%) Trello
10 1 (0.025%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.025%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.025%) TeamGantt
Business Applications
1 61 (1.55%) Unit4 Business World
2 52 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 47 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 45 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 33 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 33 (0.84%) thinkFolio
6 28 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
6 28 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
7 24 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
7 24 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
8 23 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
9 21 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
10 19 (0.48%) Sage 200
11 16 (0.41%) Sage CRM
11 16 (0.41%) SAP FI
12 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
13 14 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
14 13 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
15 12 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 851 (21.64%) Azure
2 720 (18.31%) AWS
3 392 (9.97%) GCP
4 369 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 224 (5.70%) SaaS
6 201 (5.11%) dbt
7 183 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 150 (3.81%) Snowflake
9 131 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
11 79 (2.01%) GitHub
12 68 (1.73%) Power Automate
13 64 (1.63%) PowerApps
14 60 (1.53%) Entra ID
15 41 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 40 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
17 33 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
18 32 (0.81%) OneDrive
19 29 (0.74%) IaaS
19 29 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (1.78%) Firewall
2 65 (1.65%) Wireless
3 47 (1.20%) Network Security
4 46 (1.17%) LAN
5 45 (1.14%) WAN
6 41 (1.04%) Software-Defined Radio
7 36 (0.92%) VPN
8 34 (0.86%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.71%) Wireshark
10 24 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.43%) DNS
12 16 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.38%) Internet
14 10 (0.25%) Broadband
14 10 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.25%) Intranet
15 9 (0.23%) Junos
15 9 (0.23%) VLAN
16 8 (0.20%) Cisco Firepower
16 8 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (10.55%) SQL Server
2 275 (6.99%) Power BI
3 187 (4.75%) Amazon Athena
4 186 (4.73%) Apache Arrow
4 186 (4.73%) Apache Iceberg
4 186 (4.73%) Dremio
5 130 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 127 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 106 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 91 (2.31%) Apache Ignite
9 72 (1.83%) Tableau
10 44 (1.12%) MySQL
11 43 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 37 (0.94%) Metadata
14 33 (0.84%) Data Hub
15 30 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 30 (0.76%) NoSQL
16 26 (0.66%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 371 (9.43%) JIRA
2 265 (6.74%) GitLab
3 264 (6.71%) Selenium
4 262 (6.66%) Maven
5 261 (6.64%) SonarQube
6 260 (6.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 254 (6.46%) Cucumber
8 249 (6.33%) Bitbucket
9 94 (2.39%) Git
10 47 (1.20%) Jenkins
11 24 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
12 19 (0.48%) Postman
13 18 (0.46%) JUnit
14 17 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
15 15 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 14 (0.36%) SoapUI
17 13 (0.33%) Visual Studio
17 13 (0.33%) WebDriver
18 10 (0.25%) Cypress.io
18 10 (0.25%) ER Studio
General
1 1,405 (35.72%) Social Skills
2 732 (18.61%) Banking
3 551 (14.01%) Marketing
4 481 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
5 434 (11.03%) Public Sector
6 399 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 312 (7.93%) Front Office
8 253 (6.43%) Retail
9 209 (5.31%) Investment Banking
10 203 (5.16%) Legal
11 152 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 124 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
13 123 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
14 114 (2.90%) Telecoms
15 95 (2.42%) Corporate Banking
16 79 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
17 78 (1.98%) Electronics
18 75 (1.91%) Law
19 71 (1.81%) Back Office
19 71 (1.81%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 600 (15.26%) Senior
2 580 (14.75%) Software Engineer
3 488 (12.41%) Developer
4 463 (11.77%) Analyst
5 336 (8.54%) Business Manager
6 307 (7.81%) Development Manager
7 294 (7.48%) Business Development Manager
8 200 (5.09%) Lead
9 195 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
10 194 (4.93%) Consultant
11 186 (4.73%) AWS Software Engineer
12 172 (4.37%) Python Engineer
13 162 (4.12%) Python Software Engineer
14 147 (3.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 130 (3.31%) Business Analyst
16 129 (3.28%) Java Engineer
17 122 (3.10%) Java Software Engineer
18 115 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
19 114 (2.90%) Financial Analyst
20 104 (2.64%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (11.77%) React
2 330 (8.39%) CSS
3 326 (8.29%) HTML
4 304 (7.73%) Redux
5 300 (7.63%) Kafka
6 293 (7.45%) Spring
7 289 (7.35%) Spring Boot
8 248 (6.31%) JPA
9 206 (5.24%) Pandas
10 193 (4.91%) NumPy
11 186 (4.73%) .NET
11 186 (4.73%) SciPy
12 175 (4.45%) Hibernate
13 159 (4.04%) AngularJS
14 157 (3.99%) RESTful
15 156 (3.97%) Node.js
16 154 (3.92%) REST
17 125 (3.18%) Vue
18 115 (2.92%) HTML5
19 112 (2.85%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 355 (9.03%) Product Ownership
2 285 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
3 280 (7.12%) Fixed Income
4 236 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 218 (5.54%) Equities
6 198 (5.03%) e-Learning
7 166 (4.22%) Derivative
8 161 (4.09%) Management Information System
9 145 (3.69%) Hedge funds
10 138 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
11 122 (3.10%) Onboarding
12 95 (2.42%) Pricing Data
13 62 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 62 (1.58%) Cloud Native
14 50 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 41 (1.04%) Social Media
16 39 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
17 38 (0.97%) Data Centre
17 38 (0.97%) MicroBlaze
17 38 (0.97%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 217 (5.52%) Linux
2 119 (3.03%) Windows
3 55 (1.40%) Unix
4 49 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 43 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
6 26 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.15%) Android
10 6 (0.15%) VMS
10 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.076%) CentOS
14 2 (0.051%) Solaris
15 1 (0.025%) AIX
15 1 (0.025%) MVS
15 1 (0.025%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,359 (34.55%) Agile
2 687 (17.47%) Software Engineering
3 618 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
4 593 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 560 (14.24%) DevOps
6 460 (11.70%) Project Management
7 458 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 441 (11.21%) CI/CD
9 435 (11.06%) Asset Management
10 407 (10.35%) Business Intelligence
11 383 (9.74%) Collaborative Working
12 378 (9.61%) Collaborative Culture
13 370 (9.41%) Business Development
14 368 (9.36%) Mentoring
15 354 (9.00%) Microservices
16 348 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
17 344 (8.75%) Test Automation
18 322 (8.19%) Analytics
18 322 (8.19%) SDLC
19 320 (8.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 806 (20.49%) SQL
2 621 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 577 (14.67%) Java
4 543 (13.81%) Python
5 402 (10.22%) TypeScript
6 174 (4.42%) C#
7 116 (2.95%) C++
8 76 (1.93%) C
9 70 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 55 (1.40%) PHP
11 52 (1.32%) Go
12 43 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 42 (1.07%) Bash
14 31 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 25 (0.64%) R
16 18 (0.46%) Perl
16 18 (0.46%) Scala
17 17 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.41%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 406 (10.32%) Degree
2 307 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 236 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 196 (4.98%) ACCA
5 150 (3.81%) CIMA
6 98 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 69 (1.75%) CISSP
9 67 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 65 (1.65%) CCNP
11 60 (1.53%) DBS Check
12 58 (1.47%) PMI Certification
13 52 (1.32%) Master's Degree
14 44 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
15 38 (0.97%) PMP
16 34 (0.86%) CEH
16 34 (0.86%) CISM
17 33 (0.84%) CCNA
18 32 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
19 31 (0.79%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (9.46%) QA
2 291 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 114 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 94 (2.39%) NIST
5 92 (2.34%) GDPR
6 90 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.88%) PMO
8 42 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 38 (0.97%) SLA
10 36 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 34 (0.86%) GAAP
12 28 (0.71%) GRC
13 23 (0.58%) IFRS
14 21 (0.53%) ITGC
15 19 (0.48%) COBIT
16 16 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
16 16 (0.41%) SOC 2
17 10 (0.25%) ISO 9001
17 10 (0.25%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.25%) SOC 1
System Software
1 315 (8.01%) Docker
2 81 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.40%) Firmware
5 41 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
6 24 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.18%) vSphere
9 6 (0.15%) NFS
10 4 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.076%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.025%) HDFS
12 1 (0.025%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 320 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.62%) Terraform
3 56 (1.42%) Ansible
4 48 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.41%) Grafana
7 14 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 13 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
8 13 (0.33%) Istio
9 12 (0.31%) SCCM
10 10 (0.25%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.13%) Nagios
13 4 (0.10%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.076%) Control-M
14 3 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.076%) Kibana
14 3 (0.076%) Puppet
Vendors
1 610 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 250 (6.36%) Solace
3 194 (4.93%) SAP
4 159 (4.04%) Oracle
5 115 (2.92%) Cisco
6 77 (1.96%) VMware
7 75 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 74 (1.88%) Google
9 62 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.45%) Sage
11 50 (1.27%) Databricks
12 49 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 49 (1.25%) Workday
13 45 (1.14%) Sparx
14 40 (1.02%) Xero
15 37 (0.94%) Calypso
16 34 (0.86%) Charles River
17 33 (0.84%) BISAM
17 33 (0.84%) SimCorp
18 29 (0.74%) Adobe