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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,605 3,943 5,125
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.51% 23.43% 22.93%
As % of the General category 30.19% 33.15% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,666 2,234 2,881
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,825 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,670 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -7.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,250 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 15,251 11,896 14,052
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.30% 70.70% 62.88%
Number of salaries quoted 9,222 6,225 7,859
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £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 3 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 (1.17%) Confluence
3 28 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.43%) 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%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.13%) IIS
11 5 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.043%) Hedera
12 2 (0.043%) WordPress
13 1 (0.022%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.022%) Moodle
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 285 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.48%) 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 (0.043%) SPSS
14 2 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 56 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 36 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
3 35 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 34 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 33 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 29 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
7 25 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.43%) Primavera
8 20 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
9 19 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 17 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
10 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
11 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 16 (0.35%) Workday HCM
12 15 (0.33%) Elite 3E
13 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
14 12 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
14 12 (0.26%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 836 (18.15%) Azure
2 620 (13.46%) AWS
3 400 (8.69%) SaaS
4 356 (7.73%) Power Platform
5 242 (5.26%) GCP
6 161 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
6 161 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (2.17%) Snowflake
9 89 (1.93%) PaaS
10 84 (1.82%) GitHub
11 83 (1.80%) Entra ID
12 80 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
13 79 (1.72%) PowerApps
14 74 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
15 62 (1.35%) Power Automate
16 60 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
16 60 (1.30%) Serverless
17 49 (1.06%) Amazon Bedrock
18 40 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 77 (1.67%) LAN
1 77 (1.67%) WAN
2 63 (1.37%) Firewall
3 43 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 39 (0.85%) Network Security
5 38 (0.83%) VPN
6 35 (0.76%) HTTP
7 34 (0.74%) DNS
8 26 (0.56%) Broadband
9 25 (0.54%) 5G
10 24 (0.52%) DHCP
11 19 (0.41%) VLAN
12 17 (0.37%) Internet
13 16 (0.35%) 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 (5.28%) Power BI
2 127 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 72 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 61 (1.32%) 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 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 135 (2.93%) JIRA
2 90 (1.95%) 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 22 (0.48%) 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 1,642 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 749 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
3 724 (15.72%) Banking
4 596 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 497 (10.79%) Legal
6 397 (8.62%) Retail
7 378 (8.21%) Law
8 334 (7.25%) Marketing
9 325 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
10 270 (5.86%) Public Sector
11 252 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
12 184 (4.00%) Manufacturing
13 174 (3.78%) Financial Institution
14 160 (3.47%) Aerospace
15 159 (3.45%) Back Office
15 159 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
16 111 (2.41%) Telecoms
17 92 (2.00%) Billing
18 69 (1.50%) General Ledger
19 66 (1.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 645 (14.01%) Senior
2 518 (11.25%) Lead
3 445 (9.66%) Analyst
4 410 (8.90%) Architect
5 337 (7.32%) Developer
6 290 (6.30%) Software Engineer
7 229 (4.97%) Consultant
8 174 (3.78%) Senior Manager
9 155 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 145 (3.15%) Finance Manager
11 135 (2.93%) Accountant
12 118 (2.56%) IT Manager
13 103 (2.24%) Azure Engineer
13 103 (2.24%) Project Manager
13 103 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 95 (2.06%) Business Analyst
15 92 (2.00%) Data Analyst
16 89 (1.93%) Enterprise Architect
17 82 (1.78%) Business Manager
18 80 (1.74%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (4.08%) Terraform
2 161 (3.50%) .NET
3 138 (3.00%) React
4 109 (2.37%) REST
5 71 (1.54%) Spring
6 70 (1.52%) Node.js
7 65 (1.41%) LangChain
8 61 (1.32%) .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 (1.06%) .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 (0.80%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 306 (6.64%) Product Ownership
2 256 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 242 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 219 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 180 (3.91%) Web Conferencing
6 175 (3.80%) Podcast
7 159 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
8 151 (3.28%) Virtual Team
9 100 (2.17%) Blog
10 93 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 77 (1.67%) Public Cloud
12 75 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 75 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 72 (1.56%) Social Media
14 68 (1.48%) Credit Risk
15 64 (1.39%) Data Centre
16 57 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 46 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 45 (0.98%) Driving Licence
19 43 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 121 (2.63%) Windows
2 95 (2.06%) Linux
3 49 (1.06%) 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
1 876 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
2 793 (17.22%) AI
3 788 (17.11%) Agile
4 762 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 711 (15.44%) Roadmaps
7 701 (15.22%) Decision-Making
8 530 (11.51%) Software Engineering
9 499 (10.84%) Mentoring
10 464 (10.08%) Analytics
11 449 (9.75%) ERP
12 436 (9.47%) CI/CD
13 382 (8.30%) Risk Management
14 367 (7.97%) Process Improvement
15 366 (7.95%) Coaching
16 360 (7.82%) DevOps
16 360 (7.82%) Project Delivery
17 354 (7.69%) Customer Service
18 335 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 322 (6.99%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 656 (14.25%) SQL
2 444 (9.64%) Python
3 315 (6.84%) Java
4 237 (5.15%) C#
5 153 (3.32%) JavaScript
6 121 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 86 (1.87%) C++
8 83 (1.80%) PowerShell
9 45 (0.98%) PHP
10 40 (0.87%) R
11 37 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 30 (0.65%) Bicep
13 29 (0.63%) Bash
13 29 (0.63%) Go
14 23 (0.50%) C
14 23 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.37%) VBA
17 16 (0.35%) Rust
18 15 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 414 (8.99%) Degree
2 386 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 300 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 274 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 235 (5.10%) ACCA
6 212 (4.60%) CIMA
7 129 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 74 (1.61%) DBS Check
9 72 (1.56%) CISSP
10 68 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 56 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 54 (1.17%) CISM
13 48 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.89%) PMP
15 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (0.72%) CISA
17 32 (0.69%) CRISC
18 30 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
19 26 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
20 25 (0.54%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (4.89%) Accessibility
2 194 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 166 (3.60%) QA
4 156 (3.39%) GDPR
5 103 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 94 (2.04%) GRC
7 79 (1.72%) SLA
8 77 (1.67%) PMO
9 68 (1.48%) NIST
10 52 (1.13%) 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 19 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.35%) NCSC
17 15 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
18 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
19 12 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (2.41%) Docker
2 95 (2.06%) 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 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.022%) HDFS
14 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 201 (4.36%) 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 (0.043%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.043%) CASB
10 2 (0.043%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.043%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.043%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.043%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 758 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 234 (5.08%) Oracle
3 149 (3.24%) SAP
4 109 (2.37%) Databricks
5 107 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 81 (1.76%) Google
7 75 (1.63%) Sage
8 69 (1.50%) Workday
9 59 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 42 (0.91%) VMware
11 38 (0.83%) HubSpot
12 37 (0.80%) Xero
13 34 (0.74%) Cisco
14 30 (0.65%) YouTube
15 29 (0.63%) Adobe
16 27 (0.59%) Aderant
17 25 (0.54%) BMC
18 22 (0.48%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.46%) IFS
19 21 (0.46%) Splunk