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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,873 4,154 6,374
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.97% 25.18% 20.92%
As % of the General category 30.18% 34.81% 34.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,591 2,532 4,234
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,335 £37,250
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 £134,750 £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 12,832 11,933 18,680
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.53% 72.34% 61.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,308 6,687 13,329
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
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 £76,500
90th Percentile £99,273 £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 19 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 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.03%) Confluence
3 31 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.31%) SAS
5 11 (0.28%) CMS
6 10 (0.26%) Apache
7 8 (0.21%) nginx
8 6 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.15%) IIS
9 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.077%) 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
1 241 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.75%) 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 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.077%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.077%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.077%) Productboard
11 2 (0.052%) Simulink
11 2 (0.052%) SPSS
12 1 (0.026%) Notion
Business Applications
1 64 (1.65%) NetSuite
2 57 (1.47%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 30 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 29 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
6 28 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
7 24 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
8 23 (0.59%) 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 (0.28%) SAP CO
16 11 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 831 (21.46%) Azure
2 565 (14.59%) AWS
3 353 (9.11%) SaaS
4 293 (7.57%) Power Platform
5 204 (5.27%) GCP
6 165 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 107 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 82 (2.12%) Snowflake
10 73 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
11 72 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 69 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 65 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
14 63 (1.63%) Azure AI
14 63 (1.63%) PaaS
15 60 (1.55%) Azure Machine Learning
16 49 (1.27%) GitHub
16 49 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 38 (0.98%) Power Automate
18 36 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.09%) WAN
2 76 (1.96%) Firewall
3 72 (1.86%) LAN
4 49 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.06%) HTTP
6 40 (1.03%) Network Security
7 39 (1.01%) VPN
8 37 (0.96%) DNS
9 30 (0.77%) DHCP
10 20 (0.52%) BGP
10 20 (0.52%) Broadband
11 19 (0.49%) Wireless
12 18 (0.46%) MPLS
12 18 (0.46%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.46%) VLAN
13 13 (0.34%) CHAP
13 13 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
14 12 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
15 11 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (4.78%) Power BI
2 166 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 73 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (1.50%) MongoDB
5 56 (1.45%) Tableau
6 50 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 37 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.65%) Big Data
12 24 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (0.59%) MySQL
14 19 (0.49%) Metadata
15 18 (0.46%) Db2
16 17 (0.44%) SAP BW
17 16 (0.41%) Oracle Database
18 15 (0.39%) Power Query
19 13 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 106 (2.74%) JIRA
2 67 (1.73%) Git
3 49 (1.27%) TeamCity
4 19 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.44%) JUnit
6 16 (0.41%) Selenium
7 13 (0.34%) Maven
8 11 (0.28%) Mockito
9 7 (0.18%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.15%) GitLab
10 6 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.13%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.10%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.10%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.10%) Postman
General
1 1,273 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 667 (17.22%) Banking
3 506 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 411 (10.61%) Legal
5 340 (8.78%) Retail
6 335 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 310 (8.00%) Law
8 211 (5.45%) Marketing
9 208 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
10 199 (5.14%) Public Sector
11 197 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
12 166 (4.29%) Financial Institution
13 139 (3.59%) Back Office
14 126 (3.25%) Manufacturing
15 109 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
16 74 (1.91%) Front Office
17 71 (1.83%) Telecoms
18 61 (1.58%) Billing
19 54 (1.39%) Investment Banking
20 46 (1.19%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 559 (14.43%) Senior
2 399 (10.30%) Analyst
3 386 (9.97%) Lead
4 352 (9.09%) Developer
5 294 (7.59%) Architect
6 258 (6.66%) Software Engineer
7 209 (5.40%) Consultant
8 153 (3.95%) Finance Manager
8 153 (3.95%) Senior Manager
9 128 (3.30%) Accountant
10 114 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (2.45%) Project Manager
12 93 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
13 92 (2.38%) Business Analyst
14 91 (2.35%) IT Manager
15 87 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
16 84 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
17 80 (2.07%) Graduate
18 79 (2.04%) Support Analyst
19 71 (1.83%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (4.18%) .NET
2 155 (4.00%) React
3 116 (3.00%) REST
4 101 (2.61%) Node.js
5 64 (1.65%) CSS
6 62 (1.60%) .NET Core
7 57 (1.47%) ASP.NET
8 56 (1.45%) Kafka
9 55 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
10 54 (1.39%) Spring
11 47 (1.21%) .NET Framework
12 41 (1.06%) Redux
13 39 (1.01%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.01%) jQuery
14 38 (0.98%) GraphQL
15 36 (0.93%) HTML
15 36 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
16 34 (0.88%) PyTorch
16 34 (0.88%) RESTful
16 34 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 252 (6.51%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 160 (4.13%) Virtual Team
4 153 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 146 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 143 (3.69%) Web Conferencing
7 135 (3.49%) Podcast
8 85 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 84 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 76 (1.96%) Data Centre
11 70 (1.81%) Fixed Income
12 66 (1.70%) Data Structures
13 59 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 46 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
14 46 (1.19%) Driving Licence
15 45 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 44 (1.14%) Blog
17 43 (1.11%) Credit Risk
18 41 (1.06%) Security Posture
19 40 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.36%) Windows
2 116 (3.00%) Linux
3 41 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.46%) Unix
5 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.28%) Android
7 10 (0.26%) 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
1 813 (20.99%) Agile
2 632 (16.32%) Roadmaps
3 617 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 568 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
5 488 (12.60%) AI
6 461 (11.90%) Decision-Making
7 452 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 440 (11.36%) Software Engineering
9 408 (10.53%) Mentoring
10 387 (9.99%) ERP
11 378 (9.76%) Analytics
12 341 (8.80%) CI/CD
13 327 (8.44%) DevOps
14 311 (8.03%) Risk Management
15 306 (7.90%) Project Management
16 275 (7.10%) Project Delivery
17 269 (6.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 247 (6.38%) Process Improvement
19 239 (6.17%) Coaching
20 235 (6.07%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 574 (14.82%) SQL
2 383 (9.89%) Python
3 318 (8.21%) Java
4 250 (6.45%) C#
5 166 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 147 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.43%) C++
8 74 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.78%) PHP
10 65 (1.68%) Go
11 29 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.67%) C
13 25 (0.65%) Bicep
14 22 (0.57%) Bash
15 20 (0.52%) R
16 18 (0.46%) VBA
17 16 (0.41%) Rust
18 13 (0.34%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.31%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 351 (9.06%) Degree
2 258 (6.66%) ACCA
3 225 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 216 (5.58%) CIMA
5 133 (3.43%) SC Cleared
6 130 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 99 (2.56%) CISSP
8 81 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (1.52%) CISM
10 55 (1.42%) PMI Certification
11 47 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.14%) PMP
13 41 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 41 (1.06%) CISA
14 33 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.83%) CRISC
16 30 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.67%) AAT
18 25 (0.65%) DBS Check
19 22 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (4.11%) QA
2 136 (3.51%) GDPR
3 135 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 105 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (2.32%) GRC
6 83 (2.14%) NIST
7 70 (1.81%) IFRS
8 67 (1.73%) PMO
9 59 (1.52%) Accessibility
10 57 (1.47%) SLA
11 47 (1.21%) GAAP
12 39 (1.01%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.85%) COBIT
14 26 (0.67%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.39%) FINREP
19 14 (0.36%) COREP
19 14 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 89 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 86 (2.22%) Docker
3 64 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.36%) Firmware
7 13 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.13%) vSphere
10 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.10%) Squid
11 3 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.026%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 163 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.11%) Terraform
3 60 (1.55%) Grafana
4 42 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.96%) Ansible
6 8 (0.21%) Istio
7 6 (0.15%) 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%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.077%) Argo
10 3 (0.077%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.077%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.077%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.052%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 698 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 236 (6.09%) Oracle
3 140 (3.61%) SAP
4 111 (2.87%) Databricks
5 80 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 69 (1.78%) Sage
7 61 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 56 (1.45%) Google
9 47 (1.21%) Cisco
10 40 (1.03%) VMware
11 38 (0.98%) Workday
12 37 (0.96%) Xero
13 28 (0.72%) HubSpot
14 27 (0.70%) Adobe
14 27 (0.70%) IBM
15 26 (0.67%) Aderant
16 20 (0.52%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.52%) Splunk
17 19 (0.49%) BMC
18 18 (0.46%) iManage