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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,162 4,109 5,419
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.35% 25.01% 21.73%
As % of the General category 30.54% 34.44% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,632 2,426 3,442
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,335 £37,502
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £71,375
Median % change year-on-year - -1.93% +1.96%
75th Percentile £91,436 £98,474 £104,000
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% -0.04%

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 13,630 11,930 15,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.08% 72.62% 61.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,659 6,630 10,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,263
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.21% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,906 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 12 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
1 111 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.27%) Confluence
3 30 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.41%) Apache
5 16 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.26%) nginx
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.22%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) SAS
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
11 4 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.096%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.024%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.024%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.024%) JBoss
13 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 260 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 132 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.41%) Simulink
5 17 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.24%) CorelDRAW
8 6 (0.14%) Trello
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.096%) Mathcad
10 4 (0.096%) Sketch
11 3 (0.072%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.072%) Productboard
12 2 (0.048%) InDesign
12 2 (0.048%) SPSS
13 1 (0.024%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.024%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 67 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 52 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
3 32 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 31 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
7 22 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.48%) Elite 3E
8 20 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
10 16 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
11 15 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
12 14 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 14 (0.34%) Primavera
12 14 (0.34%) Workday HCM
13 13 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.29%) SAP CO
14 12 (0.29%) SAP FI
14 12 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 885 (21.26%) Azure
2 607 (14.58%) AWS
3 339 (8.15%) SaaS
4 309 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 214 (5.14%) GCP
6 165 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
7 142 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (2.55%) Snowflake
10 80 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
11 79 (1.90%) PaaS
12 72 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 67 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 66 (1.59%) Azure AI
15 65 (1.56%) GitHub
16 57 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
17 56 (1.35%) PowerApps
18 54 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
19 52 (1.25%) Serverless
20 44 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.92%) WAN
2 79 (1.90%) LAN
3 65 (1.56%) Firewall
4 43 (1.03%) Network Security
5 42 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 40 (0.96%) HTTP
7 39 (0.94%) DNS
8 31 (0.74%) VPN
9 30 (0.72%) DHCP
10 21 (0.50%) Broadband
11 17 (0.41%) Wireless
12 16 (0.38%) MPLS
13 15 (0.36%) VLAN
14 13 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
15 12 (0.29%) BGP
16 11 (0.26%) Internet
16 11 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 10 (0.24%) Ethernet
17 10 (0.24%) NGFW
17 10 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (4.69%) Power BI
2 179 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 70 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 62 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 57 (1.37%) Tableau
6 56 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 40 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (0.84%) Metadata
11 32 (0.77%) Relational Database
12 29 (0.70%) Big Data
13 25 (0.60%) MySQL
14 22 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
16 19 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.43%) Power Query
18 17 (0.41%) Looker
19 16 (0.38%) Oracle Database
19 16 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 135 (3.24%) JIRA
2 85 (2.04%) Git
3 41 (0.99%) TeamCity
4 25 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.58%) JUnit
6 20 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.43%) Maven
9 17 (0.41%) Selenium
10 16 (0.38%) Mockito
11 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.17%) GitLab
11 7 (0.17%) Postman
11 7 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.14%) Gatling
12 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.096%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.096%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,347 (32.36%) Social Skills
2 648 (15.57%) Banking
3 557 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 442 (10.62%) Legal
6 312 (7.50%) Retail
7 288 (6.92%) Law
8 254 (6.10%) Marketing
9 239 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
10 211 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
11 209 (5.02%) Public Sector
12 148 (3.56%) Manufacturing
13 136 (3.27%) Aerospace
14 134 (3.22%) Financial Institution
15 115 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
16 112 (2.69%) Back Office
17 84 (2.02%) Telecoms
18 81 (1.95%) Billing
19 71 (1.71%) Front Office
20 53 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 592 (14.22%) Senior
2 460 (11.05%) Lead
3 422 (10.14%) Analyst
4 354 (8.51%) Developer
5 331 (7.95%) Architect
6 273 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 222 (5.33%) Consultant
8 165 (3.96%) Finance Manager
9 153 (3.68%) Senior Manager
10 123 (2.96%) Accountant
11 115 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
12 108 (2.59%) IT Manager
13 107 (2.57%) Project Manager
14 100 (2.40%) Business Analyst
15 98 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
16 95 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
17 94 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
18 83 (1.99%) Graduate
19 77 (1.85%) Data Analyst
20 73 (1.75%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (4.01%) React
2 159 (3.82%) .NET
3 123 (2.96%) REST
4 100 (2.40%) Node.js
5 67 (1.61%) CSS
6 66 (1.59%) .NET Core
7 59 (1.42%) ASP.NET
7 59 (1.42%) Spring
8 54 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
9 48 (1.15%) .NET Framework
9 48 (1.15%) Kafka
10 44 (1.06%) AngularJS
11 40 (0.96%) LangChain
12 39 (0.94%) jQuery
13 36 (0.86%) GraphQL
13 36 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
13 36 (0.86%) PyTorch
13 36 (0.86%) TensorFlow
14 35 (0.84%) HTML
14 35 (0.84%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 266 (6.39%) Product Ownership
2 211 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 174 (4.18%) Onboarding
4 163 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 161 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 147 (3.53%) Web Conferencing
7 138 (3.32%) Podcast
8 114 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 92 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 89 (2.14%) Blog
11 71 (1.71%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 62 (1.49%) Fixed Income
13 61 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 59 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 52 (1.25%) Driving Licence
16 46 (1.11%) Credit Risk
17 44 (1.06%) Hedge funds
18 41 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 142 (3.41%) Windows
2 121 (2.91%) Linux
3 46 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.48%) Unix
5 18 (0.43%) Android
6 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.024%) AIX
11 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (21.58%) Agile
2 706 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 696 (16.72%) Roadmaps
4 637 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
5 629 (15.11%) AI
6 524 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 505 (12.13%) Decision-Making
8 499 (11.99%) Software Engineering
9 440 (10.57%) Mentoring
10 422 (10.14%) Analytics
11 404 (9.71%) ERP
12 378 (9.08%) CI/CD
13 356 (8.55%) DevOps
14 340 (8.17%) Risk Management
15 318 (7.64%) Project Delivery
16 309 (7.42%) Project Management
17 303 (7.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 291 (6.99%) Process Improvement
19 266 (6.39%) Machine Learning
20 258 (6.20%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 621 (14.92%) SQL
2 422 (10.14%) Python
3 303 (7.28%) Java
4 252 (6.05%) C#
5 180 (4.32%) JavaScript
6 152 (3.65%) TypeScript
7 113 (2.72%) C++
8 82 (1.97%) PowerShell
9 72 (1.73%) PHP
10 51 (1.23%) Go
11 31 (0.74%) C
12 29 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.65%) Bash
14 24 (0.58%) Bicep
14 24 (0.58%) R
15 22 (0.53%) MATLAB
16 20 (0.48%) VBA
17 16 (0.38%) Rust
18 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
19 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 415 (9.97%) Degree
2 353 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 268 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 255 (6.13%) ACCA
5 241 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 219 (5.26%) CIMA
7 128 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 90 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 80 (1.92%) CISSP
10 53 (1.27%) CISM
11 48 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 47 (1.13%) PMP
13 46 (1.11%) Azure Certification
14 34 (0.82%) CISA
15 33 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 31 (0.74%) CRISC
17 29 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 28 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
19 24 (0.58%) ICAEW
20 23 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (4.01%) Accessibility
2 165 (3.96%) QA
3 161 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 146 (3.51%) GDPR
5 93 (2.23%) GRC
6 92 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 77 (1.85%) NIST
8 74 (1.78%) PMO
9 71 (1.71%) SLA
10 64 (1.54%) IFRS
11 48 (1.15%) GAAP
12 31 (0.74%) COBIT
12 31 (0.74%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 22 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.41%) MiFID
16 15 (0.36%) FINREP
16 15 (0.36%) SOC 2
17 14 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.34%) COREP
System Software
1 112 (2.69%) Docker
2 100 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 45 (1.08%) Firmware
5 42 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.14%) Squid
9 6 (0.14%) vSphere
10 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 173 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 162 (3.89%) Terraform
3 59 (1.42%) Grafana
4 44 (1.06%) Ansible
5 40 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.19%) Istio
6 8 (0.19%) SCCM
7 7 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.096%) QRadar
9 4 (0.096%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.072%) Argo
10 3 (0.072%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.048%) CASB
11 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.048%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.048%) Endace
Vendors
1 731 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 227 (5.45%) Oracle
3 149 (3.58%) SAP
4 128 (3.08%) Databricks
5 85 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 65 (1.56%) Google
6 65 (1.56%) Sage
6 65 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 50 (1.20%) Workday
8 47 (1.13%) VMware
9 44 (1.06%) Cisco
10 37 (0.89%) Xero
11 34 (0.82%) HubSpot
12 31 (0.74%) IBM
13 29 (0.70%) Aderant
14 25 (0.60%) BMC
15 23 (0.55%) Adobe
16 20 (0.48%) Remedy
17 19 (0.46%) FIS
17 19 (0.46%) Veeam