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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,531 3,933 5,256
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.65% 24.21% 22.52%
As % of the General category 30.59% 33.67% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,668 2,292 3,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,840 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -6.88% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £97,625 £108,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -

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 14,812 11,680 14,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.95% 71.90% 62.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,119 6,362 8,449
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%

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 17 September 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
1 117 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.21%) Confluence
3 25 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.38%) Apache
7 14 (0.31%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) IIS
12 5 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.044%) WordPress
15 1 (0.022%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.022%) CICS
15 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
15 1 (0.022%) Moodle
15 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 277 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.38%) Simulink
7 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.088%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.088%) Sketch
12 3 (0.066%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.066%) InDesign
12 3 (0.066%) Productboard
13 2 (0.044%) SPSS
13 2 (0.044%) Weka
14 1 (0.022%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 61 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 46 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
3 36 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 35 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 35 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
7 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
8 19 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
8 19 (0.42%) Primavera
9 17 (0.38%) Elite 3E
9 17 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 16 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
10 16 (0.35%) Sage 50
11 15 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
11 15 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
12 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
13 11 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 876 (19.33%) Azure
2 620 (13.68%) AWS
3 384 (8.47%) SaaS
4 336 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 230 (5.08%) GCP
6 156 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
6 156 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 127 (2.80%) Snowflake
8 111 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (1.90%) PaaS
10 79 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
11 78 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 76 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 74 (1.63%) GitHub
14 70 (1.54%) Azure AI
15 68 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 64 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
17 60 (1.32%) Serverless
18 58 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
19 57 (1.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.72%) LAN
1 78 (1.72%) WAN
2 56 (1.24%) Firewall
3 42 (0.93%) HTTP
4 39 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 37 (0.82%) Network Security
6 36 (0.79%) DNS
7 29 (0.64%) VPN
8 27 (0.60%) DHCP
9 25 (0.55%) 5G
10 24 (0.53%) Broadband
11 17 (0.38%) Internet
12 16 (0.35%) VLAN
13 13 (0.29%) MPLS
13 13 (0.29%) Wireless
14 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.24%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.20%) BGP
15 9 (0.20%) NGFW
15 9 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (5.01%) Power BI
2 172 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 67 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 62 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 56 (1.24%) Tableau
7 42 (0.93%) Metadata
8 40 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.60%) Big Data
12 22 (0.49%) MySQL
12 22 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 21 (0.46%) Power Query
14 17 (0.38%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.38%) Looker
14 17 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 136 (3.00%) JIRA
2 97 (2.14%) Git
3 59 (1.30%) TeamCity
4 36 (0.79%) Claude Code
5 30 (0.66%) JUnit
6 24 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.51%) Maven
8 22 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.42%) Mockito
10 13 (0.29%) Selenium
11 9 (0.20%) GitLab
12 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.15%) Postman
13 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.13%) Gatling
14 6 (0.13%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,555 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 722 (15.93%) Banking
3 710 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 558 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 472 (10.42%) Legal
6 363 (8.01%) Law
7 360 (7.95%) Retail
8 310 (6.84%) Marketing
9 305 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
10 249 (5.50%) Public Sector
11 245 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
12 170 (3.75%) Manufacturing
13 157 (3.47%) Financial Institution
14 154 (3.40%) Aerospace
15 147 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
16 139 (3.07%) Back Office
17 99 (2.18%) Telecoms
18 95 (2.10%) Billing
19 63 (1.39%) General Ledger
20 56 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 622 (13.73%) Senior
2 498 (10.99%) Lead
3 440 (9.71%) Analyst
4 401 (8.85%) Architect
5 327 (7.22%) Developer
6 275 (6.07%) Software Engineer
7 224 (4.94%) Consultant
8 170 (3.75%) Senior Manager
9 168 (3.71%) Finance Manager
10 149 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 141 (3.11%) Accountant
12 112 (2.47%) IT Manager
13 108 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
14 105 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
14 105 (2.32%) Project Manager
15 101 (2.23%) Engineering Manager
16 95 (2.10%) Business Analyst
17 85 (1.88%) Data Analyst
18 83 (1.83%) Enterprise Architect
19 82 (1.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (3.97%) Terraform
2 155 (3.42%) .NET
3 141 (3.11%) React
4 118 (2.60%) REST
5 73 (1.61%) Node.js
6 71 (1.57%) Spring
7 63 (1.39%) .NET Core
7 63 (1.39%) CSS
8 59 (1.30%) ASP.NET
9 55 (1.21%) LangChain
10 53 (1.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 50 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
12 49 (1.08%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.06%) LangGraph
14 46 (1.02%) XML
15 43 (0.95%) AngularJS
16 40 (0.88%) PyTorch
16 40 (0.88%) RESTful
16 40 (0.88%) TensorFlow
17 37 (0.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 313 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 236 (5.21%) Cloud Native
3 226 (4.99%) Management Information System
4 214 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 168 (3.71%) Web Conferencing
6 165 (3.64%) Podcast
7 161 (3.55%) Virtual Team
8 139 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (2.12%) Blog
10 94 (2.07%) Public Cloud
11 79 (1.74%) AI Agents
12 78 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 60 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 59 (1.30%) Credit Risk
15 57 (1.26%) Data Structures
16 52 (1.15%) Social Media
17 47 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
18 45 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
19 42 (0.93%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.69%) Windows
2 102 (2.25%) Linux
3 45 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.42%) Android
5 15 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.31%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.066%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.022%) AIX
12 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (18.54%) Agile
2 833 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 786 (17.35%) AI
4 755 (16.66%) Roadmaps
5 730 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
6 676 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 669 (14.76%) Decision-Making
8 520 (11.48%) Software Engineering
9 489 (10.79%) Mentoring
10 457 (10.09%) ERP
11 436 (9.62%) Analytics
12 421 (9.29%) CI/CD
13 375 (8.28%) Risk Management
14 356 (7.86%) DevOps
15 354 (7.81%) Project Delivery
16 349 (7.70%) Process Improvement
17 335 (7.39%) Coaching
17 335 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 324 (7.15%) Customer Service
19 311 (6.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 658 (14.52%) SQL
2 417 (9.20%) Python
3 317 (7.00%) Java
4 241 (5.32%) C#
5 160 (3.53%) JavaScript
6 121 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 99 (2.18%) C++
8 86 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 54 (1.19%) PHP
10 38 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.64%) Bash
12 28 (0.62%) C
12 28 (0.62%) R
13 24 (0.53%) Bicep
14 22 (0.49%) MATLAB
15 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.38%) Go
16 17 (0.38%) VBA
17 16 (0.35%) Rust
18 15 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 422 (9.31%) Degree
2 375 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 284 (6.27%) SC Cleared
4 265 (5.85%) ACCA
5 257 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 238 (5.25%) CIMA
7 134 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 80 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.57%) CISSP
10 66 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 52 (1.15%) CISM
11 52 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 47 (1.04%) PMP
14 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.73%) CISA
16 31 (0.68%) CRISC
17 27 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
18 25 (0.55%) ICAEW
19 24 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 187 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 167 (3.69%) QA
4 148 (3.27%) GDPR
5 94 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.99%) GRC
7 80 (1.77%) SLA
8 78 (1.72%) PMO
9 65 (1.43%) NIST
10 55 (1.21%) IFRS
11 43 (0.95%) GAAP
12 32 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.60%) COBIT
14 22 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
15 19 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.35%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.33%) MiFID
19 14 (0.31%) Def Stans
19 14 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (2.34%) Docker
2 97 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 50 (1.10%) Firmware
5 37 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.13%) Squid
9 6 (0.13%) vSphere
10 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.022%) HDFS
11 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 187 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 86 (1.90%) Grafana
3 44 (0.97%) Ansible
4 32 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.088%) QRadar
8 4 (0.088%) SCCM
8 4 (0.088%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.066%) Argo
9 3 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.066%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.044%) CASB
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.044%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.044%) Puppet
10 2 (0.044%) Salt
Vendors
1 773 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 236 (5.21%) Oracle
3 148 (3.27%) SAP
4 141 (3.11%) Databricks
5 94 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 77 (1.70%) Sage
7 63 (1.39%) Google
7 63 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 60 (1.32%) Workday
9 45 (0.99%) VMware
10 41 (0.90%) Xero
11 33 (0.73%) Cisco
12 32 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 31 (0.68%) Aderant
14 25 (0.55%) BMC
15 23 (0.51%) Adobe
15 23 (0.51%) YouTube
16 21 (0.46%) IBM
16 21 (0.46%) Splunk
17 20 (0.44%) Remedy