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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,595 3,924 5,114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.47% 23.29% 22.96%
As % of the General category 30.14% 32.94% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,653 2,230 2,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -8.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £63,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% -9.29% -

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 15,247 11,914 14,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.30% 70.70% 62.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,206 6,237 7,809
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 4 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
1 110 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.18%) Confluence
3 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 15 (0.33%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SAS
10 6 (0.13%) IIS
11 5 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.087%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.044%) Hedera
13 2 (0.044%) WordPress
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
14 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.022%) Moodle
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 283 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
9 7 (0.15%) Notion
10 6 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.13%) Trello
11 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.11%) InDesign
12 4 (0.087%) Mathcad
12 4 (0.087%) Sketch
13 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
13 3 (0.065%) Productboard
14 2 (0.044%) SPSS
14 2 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 57 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 35 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 35 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
3 34 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 33 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
5 30 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 22 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 20 (0.44%) Primavera
7 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
8 19 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 17 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
9 17 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
10 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 16 (0.35%) Workday HCM
11 13 (0.28%) Elite 3E
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
12 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.26%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 828 (18.02%) Azure
2 619 (13.47%) AWS
3 401 (8.73%) SaaS
4 353 (7.68%) Power Platform
5 242 (5.27%) GCP
6 161 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
7 155 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (2.18%) Snowflake
10 89 (1.94%) PaaS
11 84 (1.83%) GitHub
12 81 (1.76%) Entra ID
13 80 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
14 79 (1.72%) PowerApps
15 74 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
16 62 (1.35%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
17 60 (1.31%) Serverless
18 49 (1.07%) Amazon Bedrock
19 40 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.68%) WAN
2 76 (1.65%) LAN
3 62 (1.35%) Firewall
4 43 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 38 (0.83%) Network Security
5 38 (0.83%) VPN
6 35 (0.76%) HTTP
7 34 (0.74%) DNS
8 26 (0.57%) Broadband
9 25 (0.54%) 5G
10 24 (0.52%) DHCP
11 18 (0.39%) VLAN
12 17 (0.37%) Internet
13 15 (0.33%) Wireless
14 14 (0.30%) BGP
15 13 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
17 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.24%) MPLS
18 9 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.29%) Power BI
2 127 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 72 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 61 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 57 (1.24%) Tableau
7 53 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 44 (0.96%) Metadata
8 44 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 36 (0.78%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.61%) Big Data
12 22 (0.48%) MySQL
12 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 21 (0.46%) Power Query
14 20 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 134 (2.92%) JIRA
2 90 (1.96%) Git
3 70 (1.52%) TeamCity
4 44 (0.96%) Claude Code
5 34 (0.74%) JUnit
6 23 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 23 (0.50%) Maven
7 21 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.26%) Selenium
10 9 (0.20%) GitLab
11 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.15%) Postman
12 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.13%) Gatling
13 6 (0.13%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.087%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,637 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 749 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 721 (15.69%) Banking
4 596 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 497 (10.82%) Legal
6 397 (8.64%) Retail
7 377 (8.20%) Law
8 336 (7.31%) Marketing
9 325 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
10 273 (5.94%) Public Sector
11 251 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
12 186 (4.05%) Manufacturing
13 174 (3.79%) Financial Institution
14 160 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
15 159 (3.46%) Aerospace
15 159 (3.46%) Back Office
16 111 (2.42%) Telecoms
17 91 (1.98%) Billing
18 69 (1.50%) General Ledger
19 66 (1.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 645 (14.04%) Senior
2 518 (11.27%) Lead
3 442 (9.62%) Analyst
4 406 (8.84%) Architect
5 340 (7.40%) Developer
6 289 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 231 (5.03%) Consultant
8 174 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 154 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 145 (3.16%) Finance Manager
11 133 (2.89%) Accountant
12 117 (2.55%) IT Manager
13 103 (2.24%) Azure Engineer
13 103 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 102 (2.22%) Project Manager
15 95 (2.07%) Business Analyst
16 91 (1.98%) Data Analyst
17 89 (1.94%) Enterprise Architect
18 82 (1.78%) Business Manager
19 79 (1.72%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (4.11%) Terraform
2 164 (3.57%) .NET
3 137 (2.98%) React
4 109 (2.37%) REST
5 72 (1.57%) Spring
6 70 (1.52%) Node.js
7 65 (1.41%) LangChain
8 61 (1.33%) .NET Core
9 59 (1.28%) ASP.NET
10 58 (1.26%) LangGraph
11 53 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
11 53 (1.15%) CSS
12 52 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
13 49 (1.07%) .NET Framework
14 47 (1.02%) XML
15 45 (0.98%) RESTful
16 42 (0.91%) PyTorch
16 42 (0.91%) TensorFlow
17 41 (0.89%) AngularJS
18 37 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 306 (6.66%) Product Ownership
2 256 (5.57%) Management Information System
3 243 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 220 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 180 (3.92%) Web Conferencing
6 175 (3.81%) Podcast
7 159 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
8 152 (3.31%) Virtual Team
9 100 (2.18%) Blog
10 93 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 77 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 75 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 73 (1.59%) Hedge funds
14 72 (1.57%) Social Media
15 68 (1.48%) Credit Risk
16 64 (1.39%) Data Centre
17 54 (1.18%) Data Structures
18 46 (1.00%) Mobile App
19 44 (0.96%) Driving Licence
20 43 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 120 (2.61%) Windows
2 95 (2.07%) Linux
3 49 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.50%) Android
5 21 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.20%) Unix
6 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.022%) AIX
10 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 872 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
2 794 (17.28%) AI
3 787 (17.13%) Agile
4 763 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
5 733 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 712 (15.50%) Roadmaps
7 697 (15.17%) Decision-Making
8 528 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 497 (10.82%) Mentoring
10 463 (10.08%) Analytics
11 446 (9.71%) ERP
12 434 (9.45%) CI/CD
13 381 (8.29%) Risk Management
14 368 (8.01%) Coaching
15 367 (7.99%) Process Improvement
16 358 (7.79%) Project Delivery
17 357 (7.77%) DevOps
18 354 (7.70%) Customer Service
19 335 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 323 (7.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 657 (14.30%) SQL
2 444 (9.66%) Python
3 316 (6.88%) Java
4 239 (5.20%) C#
5 153 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 118 (2.57%) TypeScript
7 86 (1.87%) C++
8 83 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 45 (0.98%) PHP
10 40 (0.87%) R
11 37 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 30 (0.65%) Bicep
13 29 (0.63%) Bash
14 27 (0.59%) Go
15 23 (0.50%) C
15 23 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
17 17 (0.37%) VBA
18 15 (0.33%) T-SQL
19 14 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 409 (8.90%) Degree
2 388 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 300 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 273 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 235 (5.11%) ACCA
6 212 (4.61%) CIMA
7 130 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 75 (1.63%) DBS Check
9 72 (1.57%) CISSP
10 66 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 56 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 54 (1.18%) CISM
13 48 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.89%) PMP
15 38 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (0.72%) CISA
17 32 (0.70%) CRISC
18 29 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
19 26 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
20 25 (0.54%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (4.90%) Accessibility
2 191 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 167 (3.63%) QA
4 152 (3.31%) GDPR
5 103 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 95 (2.07%) GRC
7 78 (1.70%) SLA
8 77 (1.68%) PMO
9 68 (1.48%) NIST
10 49 (1.07%) IFRS
11 40 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 36 (0.78%) GAAP
13 28 (0.61%) COBIT
13 28 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 21 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (0.35%) NCSC
15 16 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (2.42%) Docker
2 93 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.09%) Firmware
4 33 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.13%) Squid
11 4 (0.087%) vSphere
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.022%) HDFS
14 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 201 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.24%) Grafana
3 39 (0.85%) Ansible
4 31 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.087%) SCCM
9 3 (0.065%) Cilium
9 3 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.065%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.065%) QRadar
9 3 (0.065%) SQL Sentry
10 2 (0.044%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 752 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 233 (5.07%) Oracle
3 150 (3.26%) SAP
4 109 (2.37%) Databricks
5 107 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 81 (1.76%) Google
7 75 (1.63%) Sage
8 68 (1.48%) Workday
9 57 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 42 (0.91%) VMware
11 38 (0.83%) HubSpot
11 38 (0.83%) Xero
12 33 (0.72%) Cisco
13 30 (0.65%) YouTube
14 29 (0.63%) Adobe
15 26 (0.57%) Aderant
16 24 (0.52%) BMC
17 22 (0.48%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.46%) IFS
18 21 (0.46%) Splunk