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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,487 4,003 7,156
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.93% 26.48% 20.94%
As % of the General category 31.06% 35.35% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,307 2,411 4,902
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,250 £45,006
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -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 11,228 11,325 20,713
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.72% 74.92% 60.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,303 6,219 15,235
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £40,931 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 10 June 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 96 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.06%) Confluence
3 34 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.46%) SAS
5 11 (0.32%) CMS
6 7 (0.20%) IIS
7 6 (0.17%) JBoss
8 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.086%) Apache
10 3 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.086%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.057%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 200 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.14%) Sketch
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) CorelDRAW
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.086%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.086%) Productboard
9 3 (0.086%) SPSS
10 2 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.029%) Notion
11 1 (0.029%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (1.84%) Oracle Financials
2 52 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 39 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 33 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
5 30 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
6 26 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
8 22 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
9 21 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
10 19 (0.54%) Elite 3E
11 16 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
12 15 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
12 15 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
12 15 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 14 (0.40%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.26%) SAP CO
14 9 (0.26%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
15 8 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 694 (19.90%) Azure
2 487 (13.97%) AWS
3 308 (8.83%) SaaS
4 228 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 178 (5.10%) GCP
6 132 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 106 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 80 (2.29%) Snowflake
10 73 (2.09%) Entra ID
11 65 (1.86%) Azure Machine Learning
12 61 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
12 61 (1.75%) Azure AI
13 54 (1.55%) GitHub
14 49 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 36 (1.03%) PaaS
16 34 (0.98%) PowerApps
17 32 (0.92%) Serverless
18 31 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.89%) Firewall
2 48 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 41 (1.18%) VPN
4 38 (1.09%) HTTP
5 36 (1.03%) WAN
6 35 (1.00%) DNS
7 34 (0.98%) DHCP
8 31 (0.89%) Network Security
9 24 (0.69%) SD-WAN
10 22 (0.63%) Broadband
11 20 (0.57%) CHAP
12 19 (0.54%) BGP
12 19 (0.54%) MPLS
13 16 (0.46%) LAN
14 15 (0.43%) Wireless
15 14 (0.40%) VLAN
16 13 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
17 11 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
17 11 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 155 (4.45%) Power BI
3 57 (1.63%) Tableau
4 50 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 39 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (0.75%) Big Data
8 26 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 26 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 24 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 23 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (0.63%) MySQL
12 17 (0.49%) Db2
12 17 (0.49%) Metadata
13 14 (0.40%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.40%) SAP BW
14 13 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 106 (3.04%) JIRA
2 63 (1.81%) Git
3 41 (1.18%) TeamCity
4 26 (0.75%) Selenium
5 17 (0.49%) Postman
6 16 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 14 (0.40%) JUnit
7 14 (0.40%) WebDriver
8 11 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.29%) Maven
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (0.29%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.26%) Mockito
11 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.17%) GitLab
12 6 (0.17%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.086%) Eclipse
General
1 1,107 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 599 (17.18%) Banking
3 463 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 362 (10.38%) Legal
5 333 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 309 (8.86%) Retail
7 260 (7.46%) Law
8 217 (6.22%) Marketing
9 209 (5.99%) Public Sector
10 185 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
11 173 (4.96%) Financial Institution
12 129 (3.70%) Back Office
13 108 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
14 91 (2.61%) Manufacturing
15 89 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
16 65 (1.86%) Front Office
17 59 (1.69%) Telecoms
18 48 (1.38%) Billing
19 44 (1.26%) Investment Banking
20 39 (1.12%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 559 (16.03%) Senior
2 389 (11.16%) Analyst
3 320 (9.18%) Lead
4 303 (8.69%) Developer
5 245 (7.03%) Software Engineer
6 198 (5.68%) Architect
7 175 (5.02%) Consultant
8 148 (4.24%) Finance Manager
9 146 (4.19%) Senior Manager
10 109 (3.13%) Accountant
11 99 (2.84%) Business Analyst
12 91 (2.61%) Project Manager
13 87 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
14 86 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 84 (2.41%) Engineering Manager
16 77 (2.21%) IT Manager
17 70 (2.01%) Graduate
18 67 (1.92%) Lead Software Engineer
19 66 (1.89%) C# Developer
19 66 (1.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (3.93%) .NET
2 132 (3.79%) React
3 113 (3.24%) REST
4 71 (2.04%) Node.js
5 53 (1.52%) CSS
6 52 (1.49%) Kafka
6 52 (1.49%) Spring
7 41 (1.18%) GraphQL
7 41 (1.18%) Redux
8 36 (1.03%) jQuery
9 35 (1.00%) HTML
10 34 (0.98%) .NET Core
11 33 (0.95%) RESTful
12 31 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
13 30 (0.86%) SOAP
14 29 (0.83%) Middleware
14 29 (0.83%) TensorFlow
15 28 (0.80%) PyTorch
16 27 (0.77%) AngularJS
17 26 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 242 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 196 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 155 (4.45%) Virtual Team
4 139 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 129 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 108 (3.10%) Web Conferencing
7 100 (2.87%) Podcast
8 74 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 72 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 71 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 64 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 55 (1.58%) Fixed Income
13 48 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (1.20%) Blog
16 41 (1.18%) Security Posture
17 40 (1.15%) Driving Licence
18 39 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
19 33 (0.95%) Credit Risk
19 33 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 116 (3.33%) Windows
2 103 (2.95%) Linux
3 35 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.63%) Unix
5 20 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.34%) Android
7 11 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.029%) AIX
10 1 (0.029%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (22.45%) Agile
2 535 (15.34%) Roadmaps
3 509 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
4 507 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 425 (12.19%) AI
6 396 (11.36%) Software Engineering
7 384 (11.01%) Decision-Making
8 375 (10.75%) Mentoring
8 375 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 365 (10.47%) Analytics
10 348 (9.98%) ERP
11 318 (9.12%) CI/CD
12 316 (9.06%) DevOps
13 303 (8.69%) Project Management
14 246 (7.05%) Risk Management
14 246 (7.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 233 (6.68%) Coaching
16 208 (5.97%) Customer Service
17 207 (5.94%) Fintech
18 198 (5.68%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 532 (15.26%) SQL
2 360 (10.32%) Python
3 325 (9.32%) Java
4 212 (6.08%) C#
5 139 (3.99%) JavaScript
6 123 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 85 (2.44%) C++
8 75 (2.15%) Go
9 74 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 63 (1.81%) PHP
11 32 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 28 (0.80%) C
13 21 (0.60%) Bicep
14 20 (0.57%) R
15 17 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 17 (0.49%) Bash
15 17 (0.49%) Rust
16 14 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.37%) VBA
18 12 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 371 (10.64%) Degree
2 246 (7.05%) ACCA
3 204 (5.85%) CIMA
4 178 (5.10%) Security Cleared
5 123 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 102 (2.93%) SC Cleared
7 94 (2.70%) CISSP
8 79 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (1.69%) CISM
10 57 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 48 (1.38%) CISA
12 46 (1.32%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.18%) PMP
14 35 (1.00%) Azure Certification
15 33 (0.95%) SANS
16 30 (0.86%) DBS Check
17 27 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
18 23 (0.66%) CIPFA
18 23 (0.66%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (3.93%) QA
2 125 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 116 (3.33%) GDPR
4 89 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (2.27%) NIST
6 67 (1.92%) IFRS
7 63 (1.81%) PMO
8 57 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 46 (1.32%) GRC
10 45 (1.29%) SLA
11 37 (1.06%) GAAP
12 32 (0.92%) COBIT
13 31 (0.89%) PCI DSS
14 22 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 20 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.43%) MiFID
18 14 (0.40%) COREP
18 14 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
18 14 (0.40%) FINREP
System Software
1 100 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 71 (2.04%) Docker
3 64 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Firmware
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.14%) vSphere
8 3 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.029%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 152 (4.36%) Terraform
2 139 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.43%) Grafana
4 48 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (0.75%) Ansible
6 11 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.23%) Istio
8 7 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.14%) Endace
10 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.14%) SCCM
11 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.11%) Argo
11 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.11%) QRadar
11 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.086%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.086%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.057%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 563 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 228 (6.54%) Oracle
3 129 (3.70%) SAP
4 119 (3.41%) Databricks
5 89 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 67 (1.92%) Sage
7 52 (1.49%) Google
8 48 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 42 (1.20%) Cisco
10 40 (1.15%) VMware
11 36 (1.03%) Xero
12 29 (0.83%) Workday
13 26 (0.75%) Adobe
14 23 (0.66%) HubSpot
15 22 (0.63%) Aderant
16 19 (0.54%) IBM
17 17 (0.49%) Okta
18 16 (0.46%) Splunk
19 13 (0.37%) IFS
19 13 (0.37%) Meraki