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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,326 4,179 5,198
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 21.72% 21.92% 25.49%
As % of the General category 34.44% 33.41% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,107 2,712 4,150
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +0.80%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,657 12,508 13,301
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 63.07% 65.61% 65.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,202 7,294 10,448
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,920 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 4 December 2025.

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
1 105 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.86%) Apache
4 49 (1.47%) Confluence
5 48 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.36%) CMS
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 8 (0.24%) JBoss
11 6 (0.18%) IIS
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.15%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.090%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.090%) HCL Domino
13 3 (0.090%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 350 (10.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
7 9 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
10 3 (0.090%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.090%) Civil 3D
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.030%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.030%) TeamGantt
Business Applications
1 61 (1.83%) Unit4 Business World
2 51 (1.53%) NetSuite
3 50 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
4 47 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
5 40 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 37 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 37 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
7 31 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
8 27 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
8 27 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
9 26 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 21 (0.63%) SAP FI
11 19 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
12 17 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
13 16 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
13 16 (0.48%) SAP CO
13 16 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
14 14 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
15 13 (0.39%) Workday HCM
16 12 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 739 (22.22%) Azure
2 463 (13.92%) AWS
3 368 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 255 (7.67%) SaaS
5 213 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
6 195 (5.86%) GCP
7 177 (5.32%) GitHub
8 164 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
9 145 (4.36%) dbt
9 145 (4.36%) Snowflake
10 100 (3.01%) Entra ID
11 94 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
12 85 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 67 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
14 59 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
15 56 (1.68%) Power Automate
16 51 (1.53%) OCI
17 47 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 45 (1.35%) PowerApps
19 44 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.38%) Firewall
2 58 (1.74%) WAN
3 56 (1.68%) Wireless
4 55 (1.65%) LAN
5 45 (1.35%) VPN
6 44 (1.32%) Network Security
7 42 (1.26%) SD-WAN
8 39 (1.17%) Wireshark
9 37 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.66%) DNS
11 20 (0.60%) Internet
12 17 (0.51%) DHCP
12 17 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
13 10 (0.30%) WLAN
14 9 (0.27%) SSL
14 9 (0.27%) VLAN
15 8 (0.24%) BGP
15 8 (0.24%) HTTP
15 8 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (8.21%) Power BI
2 146 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 110 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
4 103 (3.10%) Data Lake
5 101 (3.04%) Apache Iceberg
6 98 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
6 98 (2.95%) Apache Arrow
6 98 (2.95%) Dremio
7 85 (2.56%) Tableau
8 77 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
9 56 (1.68%) Apache Ignite
10 53 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 50 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 39 (1.17%) MySQL
13 35 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 32 (0.96%) Metadata
15 31 (0.93%) MongoDB
16 27 (0.81%) Big Data
17 23 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
18 22 (0.66%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 144 (4.33%) JIRA
2 72 (2.16%) Git
3 59 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
4 56 (1.68%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.84%) Selenium
6 25 (0.75%) Postman
7 22 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
8 21 (0.63%) SoapUI
9 19 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.51%) WebDriver
11 16 (0.48%) GitLab
12 15 (0.45%) ERwin
13 14 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 13 (0.39%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.24%) Storybook
16 7 (0.21%) Subversion
17 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.18%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.18%) webpack
18 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,153 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 565 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
3 419 (12.60%) Banking
4 294 (8.84%) Marketing
5 205 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 203 (6.10%) Retail
7 191 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 169 (5.08%) Legal
9 168 (5.05%) Front Office
10 130 (3.91%) Manufacturing
10 130 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
11 129 (3.88%) Financial Institution
11 129 (3.88%) Telecoms
12 119 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
13 110 (3.31%) Law
14 86 (2.59%) Back Office
15 83 (2.50%) Investment Banking
16 78 (2.35%) Electronics
17 76 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
18 50 (1.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 544 (16.36%) Senior
2 461 (13.86%) Analyst
3 344 (10.34%) Developer
4 228 (6.86%) Software Engineer
5 220 (6.61%) Lead
6 211 (6.34%) Consultant
7 140 (4.21%) Architect
8 126 (3.79%) Financial Analyst
9 114 (3.43%) Python Engineer
10 110 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
11 100 (3.01%) Python Software Engineer
12 99 (2.98%) Accountant
13 98 (2.95%) AWS Software Engineer
14 97 (2.92%) Business Analyst
15 90 (2.71%) Java Engineer
16 88 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 80 (2.41%) Java Software Engineer
17 80 (2.41%) Project Manager
18 75 (2.25%) Finance Manager
18 75 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (4.93%) .NET
2 140 (4.21%) React
3 114 (3.43%) Pandas
4 102 (3.07%) Node.js
4 102 (3.07%) NumPy
5 98 (2.95%) SciPy
6 94 (2.83%) REST
7 93 (2.80%) RESTful
8 86 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 82 (2.47%) SOAP
10 61 (1.83%) Vue
11 60 (1.80%) CSS
12 58 (1.74%) gRPC
13 55 (1.65%) Kafka
14 54 (1.62%) Protocol Buffers
15 51 (1.53%) GraphQL
16 47 (1.41%) HTML
16 47 (1.41%) JSON
17 44 (1.32%) Spring
18 41 (1.23%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 150 (4.51%) Management Information System
2 145 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.30%) Fixed Income
4 137 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 133 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 133 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 115 (3.46%) e-Learning
6 115 (3.46%) Equities
7 110 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 86 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 71 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 70 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 70 (2.10%) Hedge funds
11 68 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 66 (1.98%) Derivative
13 53 (1.59%) Pricing Data
14 39 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 39 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.84%) Linux
2 119 (3.58%) Windows
3 50 (1.50%) Unix
4 38 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 15 (0.45%) Android
8 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.18%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) MVS
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 933 (28.05%) Agile
2 588 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
3 518 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 455 (13.68%) Asset Management
5 442 (13.29%) AI
6 392 (11.79%) DevOps
7 387 (11.64%) Analytics
8 379 (11.40%) Roadmaps
9 373 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
10 368 (11.06%) Coaching
10 368 (11.06%) Software Engineering
11 367 (11.03%) Decision-Making
12 361 (10.85%) ERP
13 341 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 330 (9.92%) CI/CD
15 316 (9.50%) Mentoring
16 302 (9.08%) Risk Management
17 288 (8.66%) Project Management
18 211 (6.34%) Fintech
19 210 (6.31%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 574 (17.26%) SQL
2 458 (13.77%) Python
3 322 (9.68%) Java
4 233 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 210 (6.31%) TypeScript
6 165 (4.96%) C#
7 113 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 83 (2.50%) C++
9 69 (2.07%) PHP
10 50 (1.50%) Bash
11 49 (1.47%) Go
12 46 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 45 (1.35%) PL/SQL
14 44 (1.32%) C
15 31 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.66%) Bicep
18 19 (0.57%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 18 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 427 (12.84%) Degree
2 273 (8.21%) ACCA
3 226 (6.79%) Security Cleared
4 217 (6.52%) CIMA
5 175 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 128 (3.85%) CISSP
7 85 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 68 (2.04%) CISA
10 61 (1.83%) CRISC
11 57 (1.71%) CISM
12 55 (1.65%) DBS Check
13 51 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
14 50 (1.50%) AAT
15 44 (1.32%) CCNP
16 38 (1.14%) CEH
17 37 (1.11%) Azure Certification
17 37 (1.11%) Master's Degree
18 33 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
19 32 (0.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (4.90%) NIST
2 121 (3.64%) QA
3 116 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 114 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (3.25%) GDPR
6 93 (2.80%) PCI DSS
7 91 (2.74%) Accessibility
8 58 (1.74%) PMO
9 51 (1.53%) GRC
10 48 (1.44%) IFRS
11 43 (1.29%) GAAP
12 38 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.99%) SLA
14 21 (0.63%) COBIT
15 20 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
16 19 (0.57%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.36%) SEPA
18 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
19 10 (0.30%) WCAG
20 9 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 99 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 53 (1.59%) Docker
3 37 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.99%) Firmware
5 28 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
7 14 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.18%) NFS
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 3 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.090%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 177 (5.32%) Terraform
2 86 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 59 (1.77%) Ansible
4 52 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.93%) Grafana
7 15 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 13 (0.39%) SCCM
9 6 (0.18%) Argo
9 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.12%) Cilium
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.090%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.090%) QRadar
12 2 (0.060%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.060%) Kibana
12 2 (0.060%) Suricata
Vendors
1 590 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 175 (5.26%) SAP
3 169 (5.08%) Oracle
4 108 (3.25%) Cisco
5 81 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 76 (2.29%) Databricks
7 61 (1.83%) Google
8 57 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 50 (1.50%) VMware
10 49 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 47 (1.41%) Workday
12 45 (1.35%) Blue Prism
13 42 (1.26%) Sage
14 35 (1.05%) Xero
15 30 (0.90%) CheckPoint
15 30 (0.90%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.87%) Meraki
16 29 (0.87%) SolarWinds
17 26 (0.78%) Sparx
18 25 (0.75%) IBM