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 6 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,345 4,140 5,240
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 21.80% 21.83% 25.49%
As % of the General category 34.61% 33.19% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,110 2,679 4,191
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £118,750 £128,750 £114,152
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +0.80%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,665 12,474 13,393
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 63.00% 65.77% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,191 7,256 10,537
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 2025.

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
1 101 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.73%) Apache
4 50 (1.49%) Confluence
5 48 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.36%) CMS
8 12 (0.36%) SAS
9 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 8 (0.24%) JBoss
11 6 (0.18%) IIS
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.15%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.090%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.090%) HCL Domino
13 3 (0.090%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 348 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
7 9 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
10 3 (0.090%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.090%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.090%) Civil 3D
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.060%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.030%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.030%) TeamGantt
Business Applications
1 61 (1.82%) Unit4 Business World
2 53 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
3 52 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 51 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
5 42 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 40 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
7 37 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
8 32 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
9 30 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
9 30 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
10 26 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 21 (0.63%) SAP FI
12 19 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
13 17 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
14 16 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
14 16 (0.48%) SAP CO
14 16 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
15 14 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
16 13 (0.39%) Workday HCM
17 12 (0.36%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 756 (22.60%) Azure
2 464 (13.87%) AWS
3 375 (11.21%) Power Platform
4 257 (7.68%) SaaS
5 223 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 196 (5.86%) GCP
7 186 (5.56%) GitHub
8 164 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
9 146 (4.36%) Snowflake
10 144 (4.30%) dbt
11 102 (3.05%) Entra ID
12 94 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
13 90 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 71 (2.12%) GitHub Copilot
15 64 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
16 55 (1.64%) Power Automate
17 52 (1.55%) OCI
18 50 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 44 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
19 44 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (2.33%) Firewall
2 57 (1.70%) WAN
3 56 (1.67%) Wireless
4 54 (1.61%) LAN
5 44 (1.32%) Network Security
5 44 (1.32%) VPN
6 42 (1.26%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.17%) Wireshark
8 37 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 22 (0.66%) DNS
10 20 (0.60%) Internet
11 17 (0.51%) DHCP
11 17 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
12 9 (0.27%) SSL
12 9 (0.27%) VLAN
12 9 (0.27%) WLAN
13 8 (0.24%) BGP
13 8 (0.24%) HTTP
13 8 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (8.28%) Power BI
2 148 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 112 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (3.05%) Data Lake
5 97 (2.90%) Apache Iceberg
6 94 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
6 94 (2.81%) Apache Arrow
6 94 (2.81%) Dremio
7 87 (2.60%) Tableau
8 77 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 52 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
9 52 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 50 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (1.17%) MySQL
12 34 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 33 (0.99%) Metadata
14 32 (0.96%) MongoDB
15 27 (0.81%) Big Data
16 23 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
16 23 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 147 (4.39%) JIRA
2 71 (2.12%) Git
3 63 (1.88%) Oracle Forms
4 58 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.90%) Selenium
6 26 (0.78%) Postman
7 23 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
8 22 (0.66%) SoapUI
9 20 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.54%) GitLab
10 18 (0.54%) WebDriver
11 16 (0.48%) ERwin
12 15 (0.45%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.27%) Storybook
15 8 (0.24%) Subversion
16 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.18%) Cucumber
18 5 (0.15%) JMeter
18 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,154 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 575 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
3 417 (12.47%) Banking
4 293 (8.76%) Marketing
5 208 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 206 (6.16%) Retail
7 194 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 167 (4.99%) Front Office
9 166 (4.96%) Legal
10 131 (3.92%) Manufacturing
10 131 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
11 130 (3.89%) Telecoms
12 129 (3.86%) Financial Institution
13 119 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
14 112 (3.35%) Law
15 87 (2.60%) Back Office
16 79 (2.36%) Investment Banking
17 78 (2.33%) Electronics
18 76 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
19 51 (1.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 545 (16.29%) Senior
2 460 (13.75%) Analyst
3 346 (10.34%) Developer
4 224 (6.70%) Lead
4 224 (6.70%) Software Engineer
5 214 (6.40%) Consultant
6 140 (4.19%) Architect
7 126 (3.77%) Financial Analyst
8 110 (3.29%) Python Engineer
9 106 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
10 99 (2.96%) Accountant
11 97 (2.90%) Business Analyst
12 96 (2.87%) Python Software Engineer
13 94 (2.81%) AWS Software Engineer
14 87 (2.60%) Java Engineer
15 83 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
16 80 (2.39%) Project Manager
17 78 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
18 77 (2.30%) Java Software Engineer
19 75 (2.24%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (4.93%) .NET
2 143 (4.28%) React
3 110 (3.29%) Pandas
4 102 (3.05%) Node.js
5 98 (2.93%) NumPy
6 97 (2.90%) REST
7 96 (2.87%) RESTful
8 94 (2.81%) SciPy
9 87 (2.60%) SOAP
10 84 (2.51%) AngularJS
11 61 (1.82%) Vue
12 57 (1.70%) CSS
12 57 (1.70%) Kafka
13 54 (1.61%) gRPC
14 52 (1.55%) GraphQL
15 50 (1.49%) JSON
15 50 (1.49%) Protocol Buffers
16 46 (1.38%) HTML
16 46 (1.38%) Spring
17 43 (1.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 149 (4.45%) Product Ownership
2 147 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 139 (4.16%) Fixed Income
4 137 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 136 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 129 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 115 (3.44%) e-Learning
8 112 (3.35%) Onboarding
9 111 (3.32%) Equities
10 86 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 72 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
12 71 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
13 68 (2.03%) Data Centre
14 66 (1.97%) Hedge funds
15 61 (1.82%) Derivative
16 49 (1.46%) Pricing Data
17 38 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.14%) Virtual Team
18 37 (1.11%) Security Posture
19 33 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (4.78%) Linux
2 122 (3.65%) Windows
3 50 (1.49%) Unix
4 39 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 25 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
7 15 (0.45%) Android
8 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.18%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) MVS
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (28.04%) Agile
2 593 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
3 525 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 465 (13.90%) Asset Management
5 449 (13.42%) AI
6 412 (12.32%) DevOps
7 395 (11.81%) Analytics
8 382 (11.42%) Roadmaps
9 381 (11.39%) Coaching
10 377 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
11 369 (11.03%) Decision-Making
12 366 (10.94%) ERP
12 366 (10.94%) Software Engineering
13 351 (10.49%) CI/CD
14 337 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 322 (9.63%) Mentoring
16 302 (9.03%) Risk Management
17 287 (8.58%) Project Management
18 210 (6.28%) Fintech
18 210 (6.28%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 592 (17.70%) SQL
2 465 (13.90%) Python
3 325 (9.72%) Java
4 231 (6.91%) JavaScript
5 206 (6.16%) TypeScript
6 170 (5.08%) C#
7 117 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 83 (2.48%) C++
9 69 (2.06%) PHP
10 52 (1.55%) Go
11 49 (1.46%) Bash
12 47 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 47 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 44 (1.32%) C
14 33 (0.99%) Shell Script
15 24 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 23 (0.69%) Bicep
17 21 (0.63%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.54%) Scala
18 18 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 426 (12.74%) Degree
2 273 (8.16%) ACCA
3 228 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 217 (6.49%) CIMA
5 177 (5.29%) SC Cleared
6 128 (3.83%) CISSP
7 85 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 72 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 67 (2.00%) CISA
10 61 (1.82%) CRISC
11 57 (1.70%) CISM
12 56 (1.67%) DBS Check
13 51 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
14 50 (1.49%) AAT
15 44 (1.32%) CCNP
16 38 (1.14%) CEH
17 37 (1.11%) Azure Certification
17 37 (1.11%) Master's Degree
18 33 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
18 33 (0.99%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (4.87%) NIST
2 121 (3.62%) QA
3 118 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 114 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 106 (3.17%) GDPR
6 93 (2.78%) PCI DSS
7 92 (2.75%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.64%) PMO
9 52 (1.55%) GRC
10 48 (1.43%) IFRS
11 43 (1.29%) GAAP
12 37 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.99%) SLA
14 21 (0.63%) COBIT
15 20 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
16 19 (0.57%) SOC 2
17 12 (0.36%) SEPA
18 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
19 10 (0.30%) WCAG
20 9 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 104 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 55 (1.64%) Docker
3 38 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.96%) Firmware
5 28 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
7 15 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.18%) NFS
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 187 (5.59%) Terraform
2 91 (2.72%) Kubernetes
3 58 (1.73%) Ansible
4 53 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 52 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.99%) Grafana
7 16 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.39%) SCCM
9 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (0.24%) Argo
11 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.12%) Cilium
12 4 (0.12%) Control-M
12 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.090%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.090%) QRadar
14 2 (0.060%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Spacewalk
14 2 (0.060%) Suricata
Vendors
1 596 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.26%) SAP
3 174 (5.20%) Oracle
4 107 (3.20%) Cisco
5 82 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 77 (2.30%) Databricks
7 60 (1.79%) Google
8 57 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 51 (1.52%) VMware
10 49 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 47 (1.41%) Workday
12 45 (1.35%) Blue Prism
13 42 (1.26%) Sage
14 35 (1.05%) Xero
15 30 (0.90%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.87%) CheckPoint
16 29 (0.87%) Meraki
16 29 (0.87%) SolarWinds
17 26 (0.78%) IBM
17 26 (0.78%) Sparx