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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,681 4,086 7,011
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.76% 25.71% 20.97%
As % of the General category 30.27% 35.06% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,494 2,492 4,784
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,025 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £45,455
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,740 £71,996 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,750 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.50% +9.64% -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 12,161 11,655 20,418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.69% 73.35% 61.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,010 6,494 14,892
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,275
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,539
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 1 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
1 108 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.06%) Confluence
3 33 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.41%) SAS
5 12 (0.33%) CMS
6 6 (0.16%) IIS
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.081%) Apache
9 3 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.081%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.027%) nginx
11 1 (0.027%) WordPress
Applications
1 218 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.27%) CorelDRAW
7 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.081%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.081%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.081%) Productboard
10 2 (0.054%) SPSS
10 2 (0.054%) Trello
11 1 (0.027%) Notion
11 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 59 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
2 58 (1.58%) NetSuite
3 32 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 29 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
6 26 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
7 25 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
8 22 (0.60%) Elite 3E
9 19 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
10 18 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
10 18 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
11 14 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
11 14 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
11 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 12 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
13 9 (0.24%) SAP CO
13 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
13 9 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 753 (20.46%) Azure
2 538 (14.62%) AWS
3 338 (9.18%) SaaS
4 248 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 192 (5.22%) GCP
6 137 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 74 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 74 (2.01%) Entra ID
11 64 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (1.71%) Azure AI
13 62 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
14 48 (1.30%) PaaS
15 46 (1.25%) GitHub
16 42 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (0.95%) Serverless
19 33 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 69 (1.87%) Firewall
2 46 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 40 (1.09%) VPN
4 39 (1.06%) Network Security
5 38 (1.03%) HTTP
6 35 (0.95%) DNS
6 35 (0.95%) WAN
7 33 (0.90%) DHCP
8 21 (0.57%) Broadband
8 21 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.52%) BGP
9 19 (0.52%) LAN
9 19 (0.52%) MPLS
10 18 (0.49%) VLAN
11 17 (0.46%) Wireless
12 15 (0.41%) CHAP
13 13 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (4.65%) Power BI
2 167 (4.54%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (1.55%) Tableau
5 49 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 46 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 33 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.71%) Big Data
10 26 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.68%) Relational Database
12 24 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.60%) MySQL
14 20 (0.54%) Metadata
15 18 (0.49%) Db2
16 15 (0.41%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.41%) SAP BW
17 12 (0.33%) Looker
17 12 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 96 (2.61%) JIRA
2 63 (1.71%) Git
3 46 (1.25%) TeamCity
4 18 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 17 (0.46%) Selenium
6 15 (0.41%) JUnit
7 11 (0.30%) Maven
8 10 (0.27%) Mockito
9 7 (0.19%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.14%) GitLab
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.14%) Postman
12 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.081%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.081%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.081%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.081%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.081%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,189 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 651 (17.69%) Banking
3 484 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 404 (10.98%) Legal
5 334 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 322 (8.75%) Retail
7 268 (7.28%) Law
8 213 (5.79%) Marketing
9 204 (5.54%) Public Sector
10 195 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
11 165 (4.48%) Financial Institution
12 132 (3.59%) Back Office
13 131 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
14 113 (3.07%) Manufacturing
15 110 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (1.79%) Front Office
17 65 (1.77%) Telecoms
18 54 (1.47%) Billing
19 51 (1.39%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.22%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 547 (14.86%) Senior
2 382 (10.38%) Analyst
3 349 (9.48%) Lead
4 340 (9.24%) Developer
5 256 (6.95%) Software Engineer
6 228 (6.19%) Architect
7 190 (5.16%) Consultant
8 149 (4.05%) Finance Manager
8 149 (4.05%) Senior Manager
9 116 (3.15%) Accountant
10 107 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (2.50%) Business Analyst
12 91 (2.47%) Project Manager
13 90 (2.44%) IT Manager
14 89 (2.42%) Engineering Manager
15 78 (2.12%) Graduate
16 77 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
17 72 (1.96%) Support Analyst
18 70 (1.90%) Azure Engineer
19 69 (1.87%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (4.21%) .NET
2 150 (4.07%) React
3 111 (3.02%) REST
4 95 (2.58%) Node.js
5 61 (1.66%) CSS
6 57 (1.55%) .NET Core
7 54 (1.47%) Kafka
7 54 (1.47%) Spring
8 48 (1.30%) ASP.NET
9 46 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 42 (1.14%) Redux
11 40 (1.09%) .NET Framework
11 40 (1.09%) GraphQL
12 39 (1.06%) jQuery
13 36 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 36 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 34 (0.92%) HTML
15 32 (0.87%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.87%) TensorFlow
16 30 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.68%) Product Ownership
2 217 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 157 (4.27%) Virtual Team
4 145 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 141 (3.83%) Web Conferencing
6 139 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 133 (3.61%) Podcast
8 81 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 77 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 75 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 62 (1.68%) Fixed Income
13 55 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 44 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 42 (1.14%) Blog
16 42 (1.14%) Driving Licence
17 38 (1.03%) Credit Risk
18 34 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 116 (3.15%) Windows
2 102 (2.77%) Linux
3 34 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.49%) Unix
5 15 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.27%) Android
7 9 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (21.46%) Agile
2 572 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 551 (14.97%) Roadmaps
4 535 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
5 456 (12.39%) AI
6 431 (11.71%) Decision-Making
7 418 (11.36%) Software Engineering
8 414 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 385 (10.46%) Mentoring
10 369 (10.02%) ERP
11 359 (9.75%) Analytics
12 331 (8.99%) CI/CD
13 324 (8.80%) DevOps
14 303 (8.23%) Project Management
15 266 (7.23%) Risk Management
16 261 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 236 (6.41%) Coaching
18 223 (6.06%) Fintech
19 218 (5.92%) CRM
20 217 (5.90%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 551 (14.97%) SQL
2 366 (9.94%) Python
3 313 (8.50%) Java
4 245 (6.66%) C#
5 158 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 140 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 87 (2.36%) C++
8 70 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.87%) PHP
10 66 (1.79%) Go
11 27 (0.73%) Bicep
11 27 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.71%) C
13 21 (0.57%) R
14 18 (0.49%) Bash
15 17 (0.46%) Rust
16 16 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.33%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.33%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 367 (9.97%) Degree
2 256 (6.95%) ACCA
3 214 (5.81%) CIMA
4 210 (5.70%) Security Cleared
5 120 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 117 (3.18%) SC Cleared
7 106 (2.88%) CISSP
8 82 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 65 (1.77%) CISM
10 54 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 49 (1.33%) CISA
12 44 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 41 (1.11%) PMP
14 40 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 33 (0.90%) CRISC
16 31 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
17 30 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
18 28 (0.76%) DBS Check
18 28 (0.76%) SANS
19 27 (0.73%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (4.37%) QA
2 132 (3.59%) GDPR
3 130 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 107 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 88 (2.39%) NIST
6 71 (1.93%) IFRS
7 64 (1.74%) PMO
8 49 (1.33%) SLA
9 48 (1.30%) GRC
10 44 (1.20%) Accessibility
10 44 (1.20%) GAAP
11 40 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 34 (0.92%) COBIT
13 27 (0.73%) SOC 2
14 22 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.41%) MiFID
18 14 (0.38%) COREP
18 14 (0.38%) FINREP
System Software
1 91 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 81 (2.20%) Docker
3 64 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.16%) Firmware
7 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.14%) vSphere
9 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.027%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.027%) Squid
10 1 (0.027%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 157 (4.27%) Terraform
2 151 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 54 (1.47%) Grafana
4 45 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (0.81%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) Istio
7 7 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.14%) Endace
9 5 (0.14%) QRadar
9 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.14%) SCCM
10 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.081%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.081%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.054%) Argo
12 2 (0.054%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 606 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 229 (6.22%) Oracle
3 132 (3.59%) SAP
4 110 (2.99%) Databricks
5 87 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 71 (1.93%) Sage
7 58 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 51 (1.39%) Google
9 44 (1.20%) Cisco
10 37 (1.01%) Xero
11 36 (0.98%) VMware
12 32 (0.87%) Workday
13 27 (0.73%) Adobe
14 25 (0.68%) Aderant
15 21 (0.57%) HubSpot
15 21 (0.57%) IBM
16 20 (0.54%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.52%) Splunk
18 17 (0.46%) BMC
19 16 (0.43%) iManage