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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,784 4,176 6,793
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.83% 25.36% 21.01%
As % of the General category 29.98% 34.97% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,557 4,593
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £122,861
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -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 12,621 11,940 19,860
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.48% 72.50% 61.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,231 6,684 14,381
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,825 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +5.36% -10.40%
75th Percentile £78,878 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
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 10 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
1 110 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.03%) Confluence
3 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.37%) SAS
5 11 (0.29%) CMS
6 7 (0.18%) Apache
7 6 (0.16%) IIS
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.13%) nginx
9 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.11%) JBoss
10 3 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.053%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.026%) WordPress
Applications
1 225 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.26%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.079%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.079%) Productboard
11 2 (0.053%) SPSS
12 1 (0.026%) Notion
12 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 61 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 58 (1.53%) Oracle Financials
3 32 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
4 29 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 27 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
6 24 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
7 23 (0.61%) Elite 3E
8 20 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
10 16 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
11 14 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
11 14 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
11 14 (0.37%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
12 12 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 11 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
14 10 (0.26%) SAP CO
14 10 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 798 (21.09%) Azure
2 549 (14.51%) AWS
3 348 (9.20%) SaaS
4 284 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 198 (5.23%) GCP
6 167 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
7 123 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (2.09%) Snowflake
10 74 (1.96%) Entra ID
11 71 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 65 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (1.66%) Azure AI
14 61 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
15 54 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
15 54 (1.43%) PaaS
16 49 (1.29%) GitHub
17 45 (1.19%) PowerApps
18 35 (0.92%) Power Automate
18 35 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.03%) Firewall
2 64 (1.69%) WAN
3 51 (1.35%) LAN
3 51 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 41 (1.08%) Network Security
5 40 (1.06%) VPN
6 39 (1.03%) HTTP
7 38 (1.00%) DNS
8 32 (0.85%) DHCP
9 21 (0.55%) BGP
9 21 (0.55%) Broadband
10 19 (0.50%) MPLS
10 19 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.50%) VLAN
11 18 (0.48%) Wireless
12 13 (0.34%) CHAP
12 13 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
12 13 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (4.68%) Power BI
2 166 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 75 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 55 (1.45%) Tableau
6 51 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 37 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.66%) Relational Database
11 25 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (0.63%) Big Data
13 23 (0.61%) MySQL
14 20 (0.53%) Metadata
15 18 (0.48%) Db2
16 16 (0.42%) SAP BW
17 15 (0.40%) Oracle Database
18 14 (0.37%) Power Query
19 12 (0.32%) Looker
Development Applications
1 102 (2.70%) JIRA
2 64 (1.69%) Git
3 49 (1.29%) TeamCity
4 19 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.40%) JUnit
5 15 (0.40%) Selenium
6 12 (0.32%) Maven
7 10 (0.26%) Mockito
8 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.13%) GitLab
9 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (0.13%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.079%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.079%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.079%) Postman
11 3 (0.079%) SonarQube
General
1 1,242 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 660 (17.44%) Banking
3 496 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (10.70%) Legal
5 334 (8.83%) Retail
6 333 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 307 (8.11%) Law
8 209 (5.52%) Marketing
9 201 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
9 201 (5.31%) Public Sector
10 170 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
11 166 (4.39%) Financial Institution
12 136 (3.59%) Back Office
13 120 (3.17%) Manufacturing
14 108 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
15 69 (1.82%) Front Office
16 67 (1.77%) Telecoms
17 57 (1.51%) Billing
18 55 (1.45%) Investment Banking
19 44 (1.16%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 542 (14.32%) Senior
2 387 (10.23%) Analyst
3 366 (9.67%) Lead
4 348 (9.20%) Developer
5 268 (7.08%) Architect
6 255 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 198 (5.23%) Consultant
8 152 (4.02%) Finance Manager
9 148 (3.91%) Senior Manager
10 121 (3.20%) Accountant
11 111 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
12 94 (2.48%) Project Manager
13 91 (2.40%) IT Manager
14 89 (2.35%) Engineering Manager
15 88 (2.33%) Business Analyst
16 78 (2.06%) Graduate
17 77 (2.03%) Azure Engineer
18 76 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
18 76 (2.01%) Support Analyst
19 70 (1.85%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (4.28%) .NET
2 153 (4.04%) React
3 111 (2.93%) REST
4 101 (2.67%) Node.js
5 64 (1.69%) CSS
6 63 (1.66%) .NET Core
7 57 (1.51%) ASP.NET
7 57 (1.51%) Kafka
8 55 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
9 53 (1.40%) Spring
10 47 (1.24%) .NET Framework
11 41 (1.08%) Redux
12 39 (1.03%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.03%) jQuery
13 38 (1.00%) GraphQL
14 36 (0.95%) HTML
14 36 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
15 33 (0.87%) Vue
16 32 (0.85%) PyTorch
16 32 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 221 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 160 (4.23%) Virtual Team
4 147 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 147 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 142 (3.75%) Web Conferencing
6 134 (3.54%) Podcast
7 83 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 80 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 74 (1.96%) Data Centre
10 69 (1.82%) Data Structures
11 66 (1.74%) Fixed Income
12 55 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.22%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 45 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 44 (1.16%) Blog
16 41 (1.08%) Credit Risk
17 40 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 126 (3.33%) Windows
2 111 (2.93%) Linux
3 37 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.48%) Unix
5 13 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.26%) Android
7 9 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.026%) AIX
10 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (21.14%) Agile
2 595 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
3 586 (15.49%) Roadmaps
4 551 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 466 (12.32%) AI
6 444 (11.73%) Decision-Making
7 430 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 425 (11.23%) Software Engineering
9 397 (10.49%) Mentoring
10 379 (10.02%) ERP
11 365 (9.65%) Analytics
12 336 (8.88%) CI/CD
13 330 (8.72%) DevOps
14 301 (7.95%) Project Management
15 296 (7.82%) Risk Management
16 261 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 240 (6.34%) Project Delivery
18 237 (6.26%) Coaching
19 228 (6.03%) Process Improvement
20 226 (5.97%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 568 (15.01%) SQL
2 378 (9.99%) Python
3 313 (8.27%) Java
4 252 (6.66%) C#
5 164 (4.33%) JavaScript
6 144 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 92 (2.43%) C++
8 75 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.82%) PHP
10 66 (1.74%) Go
11 28 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.71%) Bicep
13 25 (0.66%) C
14 21 (0.55%) Bash
14 21 (0.55%) R
15 17 (0.45%) Rust
15 17 (0.45%) VBA
16 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.32%) VB.NET
16 12 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 347 (9.17%) Degree
2 253 (6.69%) ACCA
3 219 (5.79%) Security Cleared
4 210 (5.55%) CIMA
5 122 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 121 (3.20%) SC Cleared
7 105 (2.77%) CISSP
8 82 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (1.69%) CISM
10 54 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 45 (1.19%) CISA
11 45 (1.19%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.11%) PMP
13 41 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 33 (0.87%) CRISC
15 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (0.71%) AAT
17 27 (0.71%) DBS Check
18 26 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (4.25%) QA
2 135 (3.57%) GDPR
3 131 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 113 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 87 (2.30%) NIST
6 77 (2.03%) GRC
7 71 (1.88%) IFRS
8 66 (1.74%) PMO
9 54 (1.43%) SLA
10 48 (1.27%) Accessibility
11 47 (1.24%) GAAP
12 41 (1.08%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.87%) COBIT
14 27 (0.71%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.40%) MiFID
19 14 (0.37%) COREP
19 14 (0.37%) FINREP
System Software
1 90 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.22%) Docker
3 64 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.21%) Firmware
7 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.079%) Squid
9 3 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.026%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 162 (4.28%) Terraform
2 159 (4.20%) Kubernetes
3 59 (1.56%) Grafana
4 45 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.90%) Ansible
6 8 (0.21%) Istio
7 7 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.13%) Endace
9 5 (0.13%) QRadar
9 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.079%) Argo
11 3 (0.079%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.079%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.053%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 667 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 232 (6.13%) Oracle
3 137 (3.62%) SAP
4 109 (2.88%) Databricks
5 86 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 69 (1.82%) Sage
7 61 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 54 (1.43%) Google
9 47 (1.24%) Cisco
10 38 (1.00%) VMware
11 37 (0.98%) Xero
12 35 (0.92%) Workday
13 27 (0.71%) Adobe
14 26 (0.69%) Aderant
15 24 (0.63%) HubSpot
16 23 (0.61%) IBM
17 20 (0.53%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.53%) Splunk
18 19 (0.50%) BMC
19 18 (0.48%) Okta