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 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,110 3,765 6,165
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.91% 25.44% 21.66%
As % of the General category 32.26% 35.92% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,946 2,495 4,795
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.43% -3.61%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,001 £85,000
90th Percentile £116,875 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -6.40%

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 9,639 10,483 17,628
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.61% 70.83% 61.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,095 6,190 14,072
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,250 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

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 1 March 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 76 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.38%) Confluence
3 41 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.64%) SAS
5 19 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.48%) Apache
6 15 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 14 (0.45%) JBoss
7 14 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 12 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
13 3 (0.096%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.096%) WordPress
14 2 (0.064%) nginx
14 2 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 243 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
7 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.16%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 56 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
2 54 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
3 48 (1.54%) NetSuite
4 43 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
5 41 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 39 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
7 35 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 34 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
9 25 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
10 20 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
10 20 (0.64%) SAP FI
10 20 (0.64%) Unit4 Business World
11 19 (0.61%) SAP CO
11 19 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
13 13 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
14 12 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
15 11 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
15 11 (0.35%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 740 (23.79%) Azure
2 430 (13.83%) AWS
3 313 (10.06%) Power Platform
4 288 (9.26%) SaaS
5 218 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
6 182 (5.85%) GCP
7 181 (5.82%) GitHub
8 147 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
9 113 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 100 (3.22%) Entra ID
11 94 (3.02%) Snowflake
12 91 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
13 77 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
14 66 (2.12%) dbt
15 63 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 63 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
18 48 (1.54%) OCI
19 43 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.35%) Firewall
2 58 (1.86%) WAN
3 51 (1.64%) VPN
4 46 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 43 (1.38%) SD-WAN
6 34 (1.09%) DNS
7 31 (1.00%) DHCP
7 31 (1.00%) LAN
8 30 (0.96%) Wireless
9 22 (0.71%) Wireshark
10 21 (0.68%) CHAP
10 21 (0.68%) Network Security
11 15 (0.48%) BGP
11 15 (0.48%) HTTP
11 15 (0.48%) Internet
12 14 (0.45%) VLAN
13 10 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
14 9 (0.29%) MPLS
14 9 (0.29%) SSL
15 8 (0.26%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (6.82%) Power BI
2 107 (3.44%) SQL Server
3 105 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
4 86 (2.77%) Tableau
5 62 (1.99%) Data Lake
6 54 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 54 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 51 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (0.93%) Big Data
9 29 (0.93%) Metadata
10 21 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 20 (0.64%) MySQL
12 18 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 18 (0.58%) Relational Database
13 17 (0.55%) NoSQL
13 17 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
14 16 (0.51%) Apache Iceberg
14 16 (0.51%) DB2
15 15 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (4.21%) JIRA
2 61 (1.96%) Git
2 61 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
4 41 (1.32%) TeamCity
5 34 (1.09%) Selenium
6 26 (0.84%) Postman
7 21 (0.68%) SoapUI
7 21 (0.68%) WebDriver
8 19 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 16 (0.51%) GitLab
10 15 (0.48%) ERwin
11 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.42%) ER Studio
13 9 (0.29%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.29%) Storybook
13 9 (0.29%) Subversion
14 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
15 5 (0.16%) Cucumber
General
1 1,067 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 520 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
3 460 (14.79%) Banking
4 283 (9.10%) Retail
5 260 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (7.91%) Public Sector
7 218 (7.01%) Marketing
8 210 (6.75%) Financial Institution
9 207 (6.66%) Legal
10 199 (6.40%) Law
11 128 (4.12%) Back Office
12 113 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
13 110 (3.54%) Telecoms
14 100 (3.22%) Manufacturing
15 87 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
16 86 (2.77%) Front Office
17 82 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
18 50 (1.61%) Electronics
19 44 (1.41%) Billing
20 37 (1.19%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 564 (18.14%) Senior
2 414 (13.31%) Analyst
3 272 (8.75%) Developer
4 248 (7.97%) Lead
5 189 (6.08%) Software Engineer
6 166 (5.34%) Consultant
7 159 (5.11%) Architect
8 94 (3.02%) Data Engineer
9 92 (2.96%) Business Analyst
10 80 (2.57%) Project Manager
11 77 (2.48%) Senior Manager
12 74 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
12 74 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
13 73 (2.35%) Finance Manager
14 70 (2.25%) Financial Analyst
15 69 (2.22%) Senior Software Engineer
16 68 (2.19%) Accountant
17 58 (1.86%) Software Developer
18 57 (1.83%) IT Manager
19 52 (1.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (4.47%) .NET
2 111 (3.57%) REST
3 103 (3.31%) React
4 90 (2.89%) RESTful
5 89 (2.86%) SOAP
6 66 (2.12%) Node.js
7 61 (1.96%) JSON
8 59 (1.90%) Kafka
9 53 (1.70%) GraphQL
10 51 (1.64%) OAuth
11 46 (1.48%) Spring
12 36 (1.16%) Middleware
13 35 (1.13%) HTML
13 35 (1.13%) XML
14 33 (1.06%) Redux
15 29 (0.93%) AngularJS
15 29 (0.93%) OAuth2
16 28 (0.90%) SAML
17 27 (0.87%) CSS
18 26 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 211 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 194 (6.24%) Product Ownership
3 132 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 119 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 105 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 79 (2.54%) Data Centre
6 79 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 79 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 59 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 59 (1.90%) Blog
7 59 (1.90%) Fixed Income
8 54 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
9 51 (1.64%) Security Posture
10 36 (1.16%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 36 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 35 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 35 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 34 (1.09%) Public Cloud
13 28 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.63%) Windows
2 105 (3.38%) Linux
3 41 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.03%) Unix
5 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.61%) Android
7 14 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.064%) CentOS
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.064%) VMS
11 1 (0.032%) AIX
11 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (26.01%) Agile
2 544 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 498 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
4 452 (14.53%) AI
5 440 (14.15%) Coaching
6 418 (13.44%) DevOps
7 417 (13.41%) Analytics
8 412 (13.25%) Roadmaps
9 407 (13.09%) CI/CD
10 371 (11.93%) Decision-Making
11 369 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 345 (11.09%) Asset Management
13 341 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 303 (9.74%) Software Engineering
15 289 (9.29%) ERP
16 288 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
17 280 (9.00%) Project Management
18 273 (8.78%) Risk Management
19 257 (8.26%) Test Automation
20 209 (6.72%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 557 (17.91%) SQL
2 363 (11.67%) Python
3 312 (10.03%) Java
4 154 (4.95%) C#
5 138 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 118 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 109 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.12%) Go
9 57 (1.83%) C++
10 54 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 47 (1.51%) PHP
12 35 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 33 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.90%) Apex Code
14 28 (0.90%) Bash
15 27 (0.87%) Bicep
16 25 (0.80%) C
17 19 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 18 (0.58%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 371 (11.93%) Degree
2 206 (6.62%) ACCA
3 187 (6.01%) Security Cleared
4 167 (5.37%) CIMA
5 152 (4.89%) CISSP
6 119 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 92 (2.96%) CISA
8 75 (2.41%) CISM
9 64 (2.06%) CRISC
10 59 (1.90%) DV Cleared
11 57 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 46 (1.48%) PMI Certification
13 45 (1.45%) DBS Check
14 40 (1.29%) Azure Certification
15 36 (1.16%) AAT
16 30 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
16 30 (0.96%) SANS
17 27 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 26 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
19 25 (0.80%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (4.73%) NIST
2 125 (4.02%) QA
3 117 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 115 (3.70%) GDPR
4 115 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.51%) PCI DSS
6 72 (2.32%) GRC
7 63 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.90%) IFRS
9 49 (1.58%) PMO
10 32 (1.03%) SLA
11 30 (0.96%) COBIT
12 29 (0.93%) GAAP
13 28 (0.90%) SOC 2
14 27 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
15 19 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.58%) P3O
17 12 (0.39%) SEPA
18 9 (0.29%) WCAG
19 8 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 105 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.06%) Docker
3 37 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (0.61%) Firmware
6 14 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.032%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 223 (7.17%) Terraform
2 123 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.77%) Grafana
4 52 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 38 (1.22%) Ansible
7 13 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.35%) SCCM
9 10 (0.32%) Argo
10 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.16%) Endace
11 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) Cilium
12 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.13%) QRadar
12 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.064%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.064%) Kibana
13 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 525 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.69%) Oracle
3 134 (4.31%) SAP
4 92 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 89 (2.86%) Databricks
6 65 (2.09%) Cisco
7 61 (1.96%) Google
8 52 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 45 (1.45%) Blue Prism
10 44 (1.41%) VMware
11 41 (1.32%) Sage
12 34 (1.09%) Workday
13 28 (0.90%) Okta
14 27 (0.87%) CheckPoint
15 24 (0.77%) Meraki
16 21 (0.68%) IBM
16 21 (0.68%) SolarWinds
17 20 (0.64%) Adobe
17 20 (0.64%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.61%) HubSpot