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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,286 3,472 7,131
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.72% 26.32% 22.03%
As % of the General category 33.18% 36.64% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,137 2,567 4,961
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -5.55%
75th Percentile £89,750 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +15.19% -7.59%

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 9,904 9,475 20,050
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.43% 71.82% 61.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,575 6,439 15,199
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,500 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,684 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +13.68% -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 16 April 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 74 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.19%) Confluence
3 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.46%) SAS
5 12 (0.37%) JBoss
6 10 (0.30%) CMS
6 10 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.21%) Apache
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.091%) IIS
13 2 (0.061%) nginx
13 2 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.061%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.061%) WordPress
14 1 (0.030%) Tomcat
Applications
1 223 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
5 11 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.15%) Sketch
7 3 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
9 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 66 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
2 61 (1.86%) NetSuite
3 57 (1.73%) Oracle Payables
4 50 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
5 42 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
5 42 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 37 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 30 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
8 29 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
9 28 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.52%) Elite 3E
10 17 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
11 16 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
12 15 (0.46%) SAP FI
13 14 (0.43%) SAP CO
13 14 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
14 12 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.37%) SAP ERP
15 10 (0.30%) Hyperion Planning
15 10 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 760 (23.13%) Azure
2 458 (13.94%) AWS
3 326 (9.92%) SaaS
4 241 (7.33%) Power Platform
5 197 (6.00%) GCP
6 165 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
7 154 (4.69%) GitHub
8 126 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
9 117 (3.56%) Snowflake
10 116 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 108 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 97 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
13 74 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
14 72 (2.19%) Entra ID
14 72 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
15 70 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
16 57 (1.73%) Azure AI
17 56 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
18 48 (1.46%) dbt
19 38 (1.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.83%) Firewall
2 53 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 47 (1.43%) VPN
4 41 (1.25%) WAN
5 40 (1.22%) DNS
6 38 (1.16%) DHCP
7 29 (0.88%) HTTP
8 27 (0.82%) Network Security
9 25 (0.76%) CHAP
9 25 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 20 (0.61%) BGP
11 17 (0.52%) Wireless
12 16 (0.49%) VLAN
13 14 (0.43%) Internet
13 14 (0.43%) MPLS
14 13 (0.40%) LAN
15 11 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
16 9 (0.27%) Broadband
16 9 (0.27%) SSL
17 8 (0.24%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (5.72%) Power BI
2 182 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 77 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (2.13%) Tableau
5 61 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 53 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 50 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.85%) Big Data
11 25 (0.76%) Metadata
12 24 (0.73%) MySQL
13 23 (0.70%) Relational Database
14 20 (0.61%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.52%) DB2
16 15 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 14 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
18 13 (0.40%) Delta Lake
19 12 (0.37%) MongoDB
20 11 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 121 (3.68%) JIRA
2 74 (2.25%) Git
3 48 (1.46%) TeamCity
4 40 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
5 38 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 30 (0.91%) Selenium
7 19 (0.58%) Postman
8 16 (0.49%) WebDriver
9 15 (0.46%) SoapUI
10 14 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.37%) GitLab
12 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.27%) Storybook
12 9 (0.27%) Subversion
13 8 (0.24%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
15 6 (0.18%) ERwin
16 4 (0.12%) ER Studio
16 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,067 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 579 (17.62%) Banking
3 509 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 316 (9.62%) Retail
6 262 (7.97%) Law
7 250 (7.61%) Public Sector
8 246 (7.49%) Legal
9 239 (7.27%) Marketing
10 198 (6.03%) Financial Institution
11 144 (4.38%) Back Office
12 122 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
13 105 (3.20%) Manufacturing
14 94 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
14 94 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
15 86 (2.62%) Front Office
16 76 (2.31%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.40%) Billing
18 40 (1.22%) Advertising
19 38 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 579 (17.62%) Senior
2 395 (12.02%) Analyst
3 262 (7.97%) Developer
4 259 (7.88%) Lead
5 215 (6.54%) Software Engineer
6 181 (5.51%) Architect
7 166 (5.05%) Consultant
8 121 (3.68%) Finance Manager
9 107 (3.26%) Business Analyst
10 100 (3.04%) Accountant
11 97 (2.95%) Senior Manager
12 91 (2.77%) Project Manager
13 86 (2.62%) Data Engineer
14 84 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
15 81 (2.47%) C# Developer
16 80 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
17 79 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
18 73 (2.22%) Software Developer
19 72 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
20 70 (2.13%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (3.74%) .NET
2 120 (3.65%) React
3 115 (3.50%) REST
4 69 (2.10%) Kafka
4 69 (2.10%) Node.js
5 63 (1.92%) SOAP
6 62 (1.89%) RESTful
7 57 (1.73%) GraphQL
8 51 (1.55%) JSON
9 45 (1.37%) Spring
10 44 (1.34%) CSS
11 43 (1.31%) OAuth
11 43 (1.31%) Redux
12 36 (1.10%) Middleware
13 31 (0.94%) HTML
14 30 (0.91%) jQuery
14 30 (0.91%) XML
15 25 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
16 24 (0.73%) AngularJS
17 22 (0.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 226 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 210 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 128 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 122 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 93 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 66 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.89%) Fixed Income
10 59 (1.80%) Blog
11 58 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
12 57 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 52 (1.58%) Data Structures
15 47 (1.43%) Security Posture
16 40 (1.22%) Low-Code
17 39 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 34 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
19 29 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 27 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.74%) Windows
2 103 (3.13%) Linux
3 43 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 29 (0.88%) Unix
5 28 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.61%) Android
7 15 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.030%) AIX
11 1 (0.030%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.030%) VMS
11 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (24.89%) Agile
2 526 (16.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 524 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
4 454 (13.82%) AI
5 429 (13.06%) Roadmaps
6 395 (12.02%) CI/CD
7 393 (11.96%) DevOps
8 391 (11.90%) Decision-Making
9 380 (11.56%) Analytics
10 354 (10.77%) Mentoring
11 344 (10.47%) Coaching
12 342 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 340 (10.35%) Software Engineering
14 325 (9.89%) ERP
15 281 (8.55%) Risk Management
16 278 (8.46%) Project Management
17 251 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
18 248 (7.55%) Test Automation
19 225 (6.85%) Asset Management
20 222 (6.76%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 558 (16.98%) SQL
2 347 (10.56%) Python
3 332 (10.10%) Java
4 198 (6.03%) C#
5 118 (3.59%) TypeScript
6 113 (3.44%) JavaScript
7 91 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 90 (2.74%) Go
9 78 (2.37%) C++
10 74 (2.25%) PHP
11 40 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 31 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 28 (0.85%) C
14 24 (0.73%) Apex Code
14 24 (0.73%) Bicep
15 21 (0.64%) Bash
16 18 (0.55%) Rust
16 18 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.49%) T-SQL
18 15 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 396 (12.05%) Degree
2 266 (8.09%) ACCA
3 219 (6.66%) CIMA
4 188 (5.72%) Security Cleared
5 152 (4.63%) CISSP
6 106 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 97 (2.95%) CISA
8 79 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.10%) CISM
10 66 (2.01%) CRISC
11 58 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.52%) PMI Certification
13 37 (1.13%) DBS Check
13 37 (1.13%) SANS
14 36 (1.10%) Azure Certification
15 30 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
16 29 (0.88%) AAT
17 27 (0.82%) PMP
18 25 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
18 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (4.02%) NIST
2 128 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 118 (3.59%) GDPR
4 112 (3.41%) QA
5 105 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 68 (2.07%) IFRS
8 66 (2.01%) GRC
9 59 (1.80%) Accessibility
10 50 (1.52%) PMO
11 39 (1.19%) GAAP
12 36 (1.10%) SLA
13 31 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
14 30 (0.91%) COBIT
14 30 (0.91%) SOC 2
15 19 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.49%) MiFID
16 16 (0.49%) P3O
17 15 (0.46%) EMIR
18 11 (0.33%) COREP
System Software
1 97 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 74 (2.25%) Docker
3 72 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.49%) Firmware
6 14 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 215 (6.54%) Terraform
2 150 (4.56%) Kubernetes
3 61 (1.86%) Grafana
4 40 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (1.07%) Ansible
6 30 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.37%) Argo
9 8 (0.24%) Istio
10 7 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 6 (0.18%) QRadar
12 5 (0.15%) Endace
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.15%) SCCM
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.091%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 534 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 213 (6.48%) Oracle
3 137 (4.17%) Databricks
4 136 (4.14%) SAP
5 88 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 62 (1.89%) Google
7 61 (1.86%) Sage
8 49 (1.49%) VMware
9 44 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.10%) Cisco
11 28 (0.85%) Workday
12 25 (0.76%) Okta
13 24 (0.73%) Xero
14 21 (0.64%) Adobe
14 21 (0.64%) HubSpot
15 20 (0.61%) IBM
16 16 (0.49%) Aderant
16 16 (0.49%) Atlassian
16 16 (0.49%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.49%) Splunk