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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,423 3,918 5,220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.45% 24.20% 22.52%
As % of the General category 30.44% 33.66% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,284 3,062
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,575 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £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 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £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 14,529 11,640 14,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.61% 71.91% 62.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,982 6,326 8,483
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £83,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

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 15 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
1 116 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.24%) Confluence
3 25 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.38%) Apache
7 13 (0.29%) CMS
8 11 (0.25%) nginx
9 10 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.14%) IIS
12 5 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.045%) WordPress
15 1 (0.023%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.023%) CICS
15 1 (0.023%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.023%) Hedera
15 1 (0.023%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 267 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.38%) Simulink
7 12 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.23%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.090%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.090%) Sketch
12 3 (0.068%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.068%) Productboard
13 2 (0.045%) InDesign
13 2 (0.045%) SPSS
13 2 (0.045%) Weka
14 1 (0.023%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 61 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 46 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
3 36 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 35 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
4 35 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 27 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 20 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
7 20 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
9 17 (0.38%) Elite 3E
9 17 (0.38%) Primavera
10 16 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
10 16 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 16 (0.36%) Sage 50
11 15 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
11 15 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 15 (0.34%) Workday HCM
12 13 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
13 12 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 876 (19.81%) Azure
2 618 (13.97%) AWS
3 373 (8.43%) SaaS
4 328 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 233 (5.27%) GCP
6 156 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
7 148 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 121 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 110 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (1.94%) PaaS
11 79 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
12 77 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 75 (1.70%) PowerApps
14 71 (1.61%) GitHub
15 68 (1.54%) Azure AI
15 68 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 67 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
17 59 (1.33%) Serverless
18 57 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
18 57 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.76%) LAN
1 78 (1.76%) WAN
2 55 (1.24%) Firewall
3 42 (0.95%) HTTP
4 38 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 37 (0.84%) Network Security
6 35 (0.79%) DNS
7 29 (0.66%) VPN
8 26 (0.59%) DHCP
9 25 (0.57%) 5G
10 24 (0.54%) Broadband
11 16 (0.36%) VLAN
12 14 (0.32%) Internet
13 13 (0.29%) MPLS
13 13 (0.29%) Wireless
14 11 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.25%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.20%) BGP
15 9 (0.20%) NGFW
15 9 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (4.95%) Power BI
2 170 (3.84%) SQL Server
3 67 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 61 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.24%) Tableau
7 54 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 42 (0.95%) Metadata
9 40 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 38 (0.86%) Relational Database
12 28 (0.63%) Big Data
13 22 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
14 21 (0.47%) MySQL
14 21 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 20 (0.45%) Power Query
16 19 (0.43%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.38%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.38%) Looker
17 17 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (3.03%) JIRA
2 95 (2.15%) Git
3 55 (1.24%) TeamCity
4 32 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 30 (0.68%) JUnit
6 24 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.52%) Maven
8 22 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.43%) Mockito
10 13 (0.29%) Selenium
11 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.18%) GitLab
12 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.16%) Postman
12 7 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.14%) Gatling
13 6 (0.14%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.090%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.090%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,492 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 710 (16.05%) Banking
3 682 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 541 (12.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 451 (10.20%) Legal
6 351 (7.94%) Retail
7 348 (7.87%) Law
8 296 (6.69%) Marketing
9 289 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
10 243 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
11 240 (5.43%) Public Sector
12 164 (3.71%) Manufacturing
13 152 (3.44%) Financial Institution
14 150 (3.39%) Aerospace
15 142 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
16 133 (3.01%) Back Office
17 94 (2.13%) Telecoms
18 90 (2.03%) Billing
19 63 (1.42%) General Ledger
20 51 (1.15%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 609 (13.77%) Senior
2 484 (10.94%) Lead
3 432 (9.77%) Analyst
4 393 (8.89%) Architect
5 322 (7.28%) Developer
6 270 (6.10%) Software Engineer
7 217 (4.91%) Consultant
8 164 (3.71%) Senior Manager
9 161 (3.64%) Finance Manager
10 148 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
11 134 (3.03%) Accountant
12 108 (2.44%) IT Manager
12 108 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
13 105 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
14 103 (2.33%) Project Manager
15 101 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
16 94 (2.13%) Business Analyst
17 82 (1.85%) Data Analyst
17 82 (1.85%) Support Analyst
18 80 (1.81%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (4.14%) Terraform
2 150 (3.39%) .NET
3 136 (3.07%) React
4 116 (2.62%) REST
5 71 (1.61%) Node.js
6 70 (1.58%) Spring
7 62 (1.40%) .NET Core
8 61 (1.38%) CSS
9 59 (1.33%) ASP.NET
10 55 (1.24%) LangChain
11 53 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 49 (1.11%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.09%) LangGraph
14 47 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
15 46 (1.04%) XML
16 41 (0.93%) AngularJS
17 40 (0.90%) PyTorch
17 40 (0.90%) TensorFlow
18 37 (0.84%) RESTful
19 36 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 305 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 228 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 210 (4.75%) Onboarding
4 204 (4.61%) Management Information System
5 160 (3.62%) Virtual Team
6 158 (3.57%) Web Conferencing
7 154 (3.48%) Podcast
8 131 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (2.17%) Blog
10 95 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 75 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 74 (1.67%) AI Agents
13 60 (1.36%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.27%) Credit Risk
15 55 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 55 (1.24%) Hedge funds
16 47 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
16 47 (1.06%) Social Media
17 45 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
18 42 (0.95%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 123 (2.78%) Windows
2 102 (2.31%) Linux
3 44 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.43%) Android
5 15 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.32%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.068%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.045%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.023%) AIX
12 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (18.81%) Agile
2 816 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 765 (17.30%) AI
4 744 (16.82%) Roadmaps
5 705 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
6 642 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 639 (14.45%) Decision-Making
8 508 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 472 (10.67%) Mentoring
10 433 (9.79%) ERP
11 427 (9.65%) Analytics
12 412 (9.31%) CI/CD
13 370 (8.37%) Risk Management
14 356 (8.05%) DevOps
15 345 (7.80%) Project Delivery
16 330 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 329 (7.44%) Process Improvement
18 324 (7.33%) Coaching
19 313 (7.08%) Customer Service
20 301 (6.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 652 (14.74%) SQL
2 415 (9.38%) Python
3 310 (7.01%) Java
4 236 (5.34%) C#
5 159 (3.59%) JavaScript
6 120 (2.71%) TypeScript
7 99 (2.24%) C++
8 85 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 53 (1.20%) PHP
10 38 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.66%) Bash
12 28 (0.63%) C
12 28 (0.63%) R
13 24 (0.54%) Bicep
14 23 (0.52%) Go
15 22 (0.50%) MATLAB
16 19 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.38%) VBA
18 16 (0.36%) Rust
19 15 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 415 (9.38%) Degree
2 369 (8.34%) Security Cleared
3 280 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 252 (5.70%) ACCA
5 249 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 225 (5.09%) CIMA
7 134 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 80 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (1.58%) CISSP
10 62 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 52 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 51 (1.15%) CISM
13 48 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 47 (1.06%) PMP
15 38 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (0.75%) CISA
17 30 (0.68%) CRISC
18 27 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
19 25 (0.57%) ICAEW
20 22 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (4.63%) Accessibility
2 183 (4.14%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.69%) QA
4 146 (3.30%) GDPR
5 92 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 89 (2.01%) GRC
7 79 (1.79%) SLA
8 74 (1.67%) PMO
9 65 (1.47%) NIST
10 56 (1.27%) IFRS
11 43 (0.97%) GAAP
12 31 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.61%) COBIT
14 22 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.34%) MiFID
17 15 (0.34%) SOC 2
18 14 (0.32%) Def Stans
18 14 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 112 (2.53%) Docker
2 96 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (1.11%) Firmware
5 38 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.14%) Squid
10 6 (0.14%) vSphere
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.023%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.023%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 188 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.88%) Grafana
3 44 (0.99%) Ansible
4 33 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.14%) Istio
6 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.090%) QRadar
8 4 (0.090%) SCCM
8 4 (0.090%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.068%) Argo
9 3 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.068%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.045%) CASB
10 2 (0.045%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.045%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.045%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 753 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 231 (5.22%) Oracle
3 143 (3.23%) SAP
4 138 (3.12%) Databricks
5 92 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 77 (1.74%) Sage
7 64 (1.45%) Google
8 62 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 58 (1.31%) Workday
10 46 (1.04%) VMware
11 41 (0.93%) Xero
12 33 (0.75%) Cisco
13 32 (0.72%) Aderant
14 31 (0.70%) HubSpot
15 25 (0.57%) BMC
16 23 (0.52%) YouTube
17 21 (0.47%) IBM
17 21 (0.47%) Splunk
18 20 (0.45%) Adobe
18 20 (0.45%) Remedy