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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,637 3,876 4,576
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.50% 23.45% 21.80%
As % of the General category 30.00% 33.09% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,636 2,203 2,728
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £130,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,312 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -9.55% -

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 15,459 11,713 13,125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.66% 70.87% 62.53%
Number of salaries quoted 9,262 6,184 7,410
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,891 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -8.05% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,560
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.79% -4.07%

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 14 October 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
1 115 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.21%) Confluence
3 29 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Apache
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 16 (0.35%) CMS
7 11 (0.24%) nginx
8 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 10 (0.22%) SAS
9 7 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.086%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.086%) IIS
11 3 (0.065%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.065%) WordPress
12 2 (0.043%) Hedera
13 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.022%) Moodle
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 287 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 15 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.28%) Notion
9 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
10 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.13%) Trello
12 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 5 (0.11%) InDesign
13 4 (0.086%) Mathcad
13 4 (0.086%) Sketch
14 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
14 3 (0.065%) Productboard
14 3 (0.065%) Revit
15 2 (0.043%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 55 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 39 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 31 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 31 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
6 26 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
7 21 (0.45%) Primavera
8 20 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
11 17 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
11 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
12 16 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 16 (0.35%) Sage X3
12 16 (0.35%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
13 13 (0.28%) SAP FI
13 13 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 824 (17.77%) Azure
2 635 (13.69%) AWS
3 417 (8.99%) SaaS
4 371 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 261 (5.63%) GCP
6 172 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
7 164 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
8 118 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (1.94%) GitHub
9 90 (1.94%) PaaS
10 89 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 87 (1.88%) Entra ID
12 83 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 81 (1.75%) Snowflake
14 79 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
15 66 (1.42%) Power Automate
16 65 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
17 62 (1.34%) Serverless
18 53 (1.14%) Amazon Bedrock
19 43 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.64%) LAN
2 75 (1.62%) WAN
3 65 (1.40%) Firewall
4 54 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.01%) VPN
6 42 (0.91%) Network Security
7 33 (0.71%) HTTP
8 32 (0.69%) 5G
9 30 (0.65%) DNS
10 28 (0.60%) Broadband
11 24 (0.52%) VLAN
12 23 (0.50%) BGP
13 19 (0.41%) DHCP
14 18 (0.39%) Internet
15 14 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.30%) Wireless
16 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
17 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
18 9 (0.19%) Unified Communications
18 9 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (5.52%) Power BI
2 102 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.42%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (1.25%) Tableau
7 56 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 54 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 44 (0.95%) Metadata
10 39 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 26 (0.56%) Big Data
12 24 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.52%) Power Query
13 22 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
14 21 (0.45%) MySQL
14 21 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 20 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 20 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 137 (2.95%) JIRA
2 90 (1.94%) Git
3 86 (1.85%) TeamCity
4 48 (1.04%) Claude Code
5 38 (0.82%) JUnit
6 26 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.50%) Maven
8 21 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.41%) Mockito
10 11 (0.24%) Selenium
11 9 (0.19%) GitLab
12 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.17%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.15%) Postman
13 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.13%) Gatling
14 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.11%) Android Studio
16 4 (0.086%) SonarQube
General
1 1,670 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 777 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
3 733 (15.81%) Banking
4 618 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 487 (10.50%) Legal
6 412 (8.89%) Retail
7 385 (8.30%) Law
8 343 (7.40%) Marketing
9 324 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
10 276 (5.95%) Public Sector
11 253 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
12 191 (4.12%) Financial Institution
12 191 (4.12%) Manufacturing
13 178 (3.84%) Back Office
14 168 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
15 162 (3.49%) Aerospace
16 116 (2.50%) Telecoms
17 89 (1.92%) Billing
18 69 (1.49%) Front Office
19 68 (1.47%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 658 (14.19%) Senior
2 518 (11.17%) Lead
3 452 (9.75%) Analyst
4 424 (9.14%) Architect
5 351 (7.57%) Developer
6 308 (6.64%) Software Engineer
7 229 (4.94%) Consultant
8 180 (3.88%) Senior Manager
9 168 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
10 133 (2.87%) Finance Manager
11 123 (2.65%) Accountant
12 121 (2.61%) IT Manager
13 104 (2.24%) Project Manager
14 98 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
15 95 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
16 93 (2.01%) Enterprise Architect
17 92 (1.98%) Business Analyst
17 92 (1.98%) Data Analyst
18 90 (1.94%) Business Manager
19 79 (1.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (4.44%) Terraform
2 167 (3.60%) .NET
3 132 (2.85%) React
4 114 (2.46%) REST
5 73 (1.57%) Spring
6 72 (1.55%) Node.js
7 71 (1.53%) LangChain
8 62 (1.34%) .NET Core
8 62 (1.34%) LangGraph
9 58 (1.25%) ASP.NET
10 54 (1.16%) RESTful
11 52 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
12 50 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
12 50 (1.08%) XML
13 48 (1.04%) .NET Framework
14 47 (1.01%) CSS
15 43 (0.93%) AngularJS
15 43 (0.93%) PyTorch
15 43 (0.93%) TensorFlow
16 36 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 313 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 265 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 263 (5.67%) Management Information System
4 228 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 177 (3.82%) Web Conferencing
6 171 (3.69%) Podcast
7 163 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
8 141 (3.04%) Virtual Team
9 110 (2.37%) Blog
10 98 (2.11%) AI Agents
11 78 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 77 (1.66%) Hedge funds
12 77 (1.66%) Social Media
13 73 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 72 (1.55%) Credit Risk
15 62 (1.34%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 54 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.10%) Mobile App
18 46 (0.99%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 115 (2.48%) Windows
2 91 (1.96%) Linux
3 45 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.58%) Android
5 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.26%) macOS
7 9 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.11%) Unix
8 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.022%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 812 (17.51%) AI
3 786 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 765 (16.50%) Agile
5 763 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 711 (15.33%) Decision-Making
7 707 (15.25%) Roadmaps
8 552 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 511 (11.02%) Mentoring
10 482 (10.39%) Analytics
11 455 (9.81%) CI/CD
12 441 (9.51%) ERP
13 382 (8.24%) Risk Management
14 379 (8.17%) Coaching
15 365 (7.87%) Process Improvement
16 364 (7.85%) DevOps
17 363 (7.83%) Project Delivery
18 358 (7.72%) Customer Service
19 336 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 330 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 653 (14.08%) SQL
2 479 (10.33%) Python
3 340 (7.33%) Java
4 235 (5.07%) C#
5 158 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 121 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 81 (1.75%) C++
8 78 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.01%) Go
10 45 (0.97%) R
11 37 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 35 (0.75%) PHP
13 34 (0.73%) Bash
14 32 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 31 (0.67%) Bicep
16 22 (0.47%) C
16 22 (0.47%) MATLAB
16 22 (0.47%) Rust
17 18 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 405 (8.73%) Degree
2 388 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 297 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 271 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 220 (4.74%) ACCA
6 201 (4.33%) CIMA
7 129 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 85 (1.83%) DBS Check
9 74 (1.60%) CISSP
10 69 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (1.21%) CISM
13 47 (1.01%) PMI Certification
14 40 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 40 (0.86%) PMP
15 33 (0.71%) CRISC
16 32 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
17 31 (0.67%) CISA
18 28 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
19 27 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (5.24%) Accessibility
2 200 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 172 (3.71%) QA
4 153 (3.30%) GDPR
5 113 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 99 (2.14%) GRC
7 78 (1.68%) SLA
8 77 (1.66%) PMO
9 69 (1.49%) NIST
10 49 (1.06%) PCI DSS
11 44 (0.95%) IFRS
12 40 (0.86%) SOC 2
13 33 (0.71%) GAAP
14 27 (0.58%) COBIT
15 23 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
16 17 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (0.37%) NCSC
16 17 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (2.48%) Docker
2 89 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.08%) Firmware
4 28 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.13%) Squid
8 6 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.086%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.043%) vSphere
12 1 (0.022%) HDFS
12 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 215 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 120 (2.59%) Grafana
3 37 (0.80%) Ansible
4 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.17%) Cilium
8 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.086%) SCCM
10 3 (0.065%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.065%) QRadar
10 3 (0.065%) SQL Sentry
11 2 (0.043%) Argo
11 2 (0.043%) CASB
11 2 (0.043%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.043%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.043%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.043%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.022%) Control-M
Vendors
1 759 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 225 (4.85%) Oracle
3 151 (3.26%) SAP
4 114 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 105 (2.26%) Google
6 91 (1.96%) Databricks
7 76 (1.64%) Sage
8 65 (1.40%) Workday
9 54 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 38 (0.82%) HubSpot
11 37 (0.80%) VMware
12 34 (0.73%) Adobe
13 33 (0.71%) Cisco
14 32 (0.69%) Xero
15 31 (0.67%) YouTube
16 25 (0.54%) Aderant
17 24 (0.52%) BMC
17 24 (0.52%) Dynatrace
18 22 (0.47%) IFS
19 21 (0.45%) Splunk