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 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,208 4,015 5,388
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.33% 24.23% 21.79%
As % of the General category 30.41% 33.89% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,610 2,367 3,359
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,335 £37,800
25th Percentile £48,063 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,840 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -3.67% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,237 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -0.74%

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 13,836 11,847 15,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.26% 71.49% 61.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,734 6,551 9,953
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.36% -4.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%

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 21 August 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
1 109 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.26%) Confluence
3 27 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.40%) Apache
5 16 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.26%) nginx
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.21%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) SAS
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
11 4 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.095%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.024%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.024%) JBoss
13 1 (0.024%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 253 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.40%) Simulink
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.24%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.095%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.095%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.095%) Sketch
12 3 (0.071%) Productboard
13 2 (0.048%) InDesign
13 2 (0.048%) SPSS
14 1 (0.024%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.024%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.024%) Weka
Business Applications
1 66 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 51 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
3 32 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 28 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 25 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
7 21 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.45%) Elite 3E
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
11 15 (0.36%) Primavera
11 15 (0.36%) Workday HCM
12 14 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
13 13 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
14 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
15 10 (0.24%) Sage 50
16 9 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 873 (20.75%) Azure
2 610 (14.50%) AWS
3 338 (8.03%) SaaS
4 315 (7.49%) Power Platform
5 217 (5.16%) GCP
6 155 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 142 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (2.66%) Snowflake
9 107 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (1.92%) PaaS
11 75 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
12 70 (1.66%) Entra ID
13 68 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 67 (1.59%) Azure AI
15 65 (1.54%) GitHub
16 62 (1.47%) PowerApps
17 57 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
17 57 (1.35%) Serverless
18 56 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
19 49 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.90%) LAN
1 80 (1.90%) WAN
2 62 (1.47%) Firewall
3 42 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 41 (0.97%) Network Security
5 40 (0.95%) HTTP
6 38 (0.90%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 29 (0.69%) DHCP
9 21 (0.50%) Broadband
10 17 (0.40%) Wireless
11 15 (0.36%) MPLS
11 15 (0.36%) VLAN
12 13 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.26%) BGP
13 11 (0.26%) Ethernet
13 11 (0.26%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.24%) NGFW
15 9 (0.21%) Internet
16 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (4.87%) Power BI
2 178 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.33%) Tableau
7 45 (1.07%) Data Lake
8 44 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (0.90%) Metadata
11 34 (0.81%) Relational Database
12 28 (0.67%) Big Data
13 22 (0.52%) MySQL
14 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
14 21 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 19 (0.45%) Power Query
16 17 (0.40%) Oracle Database
16 17 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (0.38%) Looker
17 16 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 137 (3.26%) JIRA
2 86 (2.04%) Git
3 43 (1.02%) TeamCity
4 26 (0.62%) JUnit
5 24 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 22 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
7 21 (0.50%) Maven
8 17 (0.40%) Mockito
9 14 (0.33%) Selenium
10 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.17%) GitLab
10 7 (0.17%) Postman
10 7 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.14%) Gatling
11 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.095%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.095%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,391 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 682 (16.21%) Banking
3 584 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 479 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 425 (10.10%) Legal
6 310 (7.37%) Retail
7 307 (7.30%) Law
8 265 (6.30%) Marketing
9 251 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
10 229 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
11 206 (4.90%) Public Sector
12 151 (3.59%) Manufacturing
13 146 (3.47%) Aerospace
14 139 (3.30%) Financial Institution
15 119 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
16 118 (2.80%) Back Office
17 83 (1.97%) Billing
18 77 (1.83%) Telecoms
19 66 (1.57%) Front Office
20 53 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 593 (14.09%) Senior
2 463 (11.00%) Lead
3 436 (10.36%) Analyst
4 344 (8.17%) Architect
5 343 (8.15%) Developer
6 274 (6.51%) Software Engineer
7 214 (5.09%) Consultant
8 161 (3.83%) Finance Manager
9 151 (3.59%) Senior Manager
10 121 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
11 118 (2.80%) Accountant
12 111 (2.64%) Project Manager
13 110 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
14 109 (2.59%) IT Manager
15 103 (2.45%) Business Analyst
16 101 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
17 96 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
18 81 (1.92%) Data Analyst
19 79 (1.88%) Graduate
19 79 (1.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (4.06%) Terraform
2 161 (3.83%) React
3 156 (3.71%) .NET
4 116 (2.76%) REST
5 91 (2.16%) Node.js
6 67 (1.59%) .NET Core
7 65 (1.54%) CSS
8 63 (1.50%) Spring
9 60 (1.43%) ASP.NET
10 54 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
11 51 (1.21%) .NET Framework
12 46 (1.09%) LangChain
13 45 (1.07%) AngularJS
14 41 (0.97%) Kafka
15 39 (0.93%) LangGraph
16 38 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
17 37 (0.88%) PyTorch
17 37 (0.88%) TensorFlow
18 36 (0.86%) HTML
19 35 (0.83%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 279 (6.63%) Product Ownership
2 214 (5.09%) Cloud Native
3 196 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 167 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 163 (3.87%) Virtual Team
6 156 (3.71%) Web Conferencing
7 146 (3.47%) Podcast
8 118 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 94 (2.23%) Blog
10 92 (2.19%) Public Cloud
11 69 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 63 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 58 (1.38%) AI Agents
13 58 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 55 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
15 54 (1.28%) Credit Risk
16 53 (1.26%) Fixed Income
17 47 (1.12%) Driving Licence
17 47 (1.12%) Hedge funds
18 42 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 136 (3.23%) Windows
2 116 (2.76%) Linux
3 46 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.43%) Android
5 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.38%) Unix
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.071%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.024%) AIX
11 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (20.94%) Agile
2 738 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 703 (16.71%) Roadmaps
4 653 (15.52%) AI
5 650 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 550 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 543 (12.90%) Decision-Making
8 504 (11.98%) Software Engineering
9 425 (10.10%) Mentoring
10 424 (10.08%) Analytics
11 406 (9.65%) ERP
12 384 (9.13%) CI/CD
13 352 (8.37%) DevOps
13 352 (8.37%) Risk Management
14 340 (8.08%) Project Delivery
15 321 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 307 (7.30%) Project Management
17 295 (7.01%) Process Improvement
18 276 (6.56%) Machine Learning
19 268 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 635 (15.09%) SQL
2 424 (10.08%) Python
3 298 (7.08%) Java
4 246 (5.85%) C#
5 172 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 145 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 108 (2.57%) C++
8 85 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 67 (1.59%) PHP
10 42 (1.00%) Go
11 31 (0.74%) C
12 28 (0.67%) Bash
13 27 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.59%) R
15 24 (0.57%) Bicep
16 22 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 17 (0.40%) Rust
17 17 (0.40%) VBA
18 16 (0.38%) Kotlin
19 15 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 421 (10.00%) Degree
2 349 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 268 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 251 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 245 (5.82%) ACCA
6 213 (5.06%) CIMA
7 134 (3.18%) DV Cleared
8 84 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (1.69%) CISSP
10 54 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 51 (1.21%) CISM
12 49 (1.16%) PMP
13 45 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.76%) CISA
16 29 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
17 28 (0.67%) CRISC
18 24 (0.57%) ICAEW
19 22 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (4.16%) Accessibility
2 169 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 164 (3.90%) QA
4 144 (3.42%) GDPR
5 91 (2.16%) GRC
5 91 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.83%) PMO
7 73 (1.73%) SLA
8 71 (1.69%) NIST
9 61 (1.45%) IFRS
10 49 (1.16%) GAAP
11 30 (0.71%) COBIT
11 30 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 23 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.40%) MiFID
15 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.33%) FINREP
16 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 13 (0.31%) COREP
System Software
1 108 (2.57%) Docker
2 100 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (1.16%) Firmware
5 41 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.14%) Squid
10 6 (0.14%) vSphere
11 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.024%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 173 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 64 (1.52%) Grafana
3 45 (1.07%) Ansible
4 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.19%) Istio
6 7 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
7 5 (0.12%) SCCM
7 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.095%) QRadar
8 4 (0.095%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.071%) Argo
9 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.071%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.048%) CASB
10 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.048%) Puppet
10 2 (0.048%) Salt
Vendors
1 729 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 217 (5.16%) Oracle
3 141 (3.35%) SAP
4 132 (3.14%) Databricks
5 92 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 64 (1.52%) Sage
7 63 (1.50%) Google
8 57 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 51 (1.21%) Workday
10 48 (1.14%) VMware
11 43 (1.02%) Cisco
12 39 (0.93%) Xero
13 34 (0.81%) HubSpot
14 30 (0.71%) Aderant
15 28 (0.67%) IBM
16 25 (0.59%) BMC
17 21 (0.50%) Splunk
18 20 (0.48%) Remedy
19 19 (0.45%) Adobe
19 19 (0.45%) Veeam