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 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,157 3,836 6,098
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.45% 24.48% 21.94%
As % of the General category 32.82% 35.16% 35.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,952 2,493 4,784
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,213 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.43% -3.61%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -6.40%

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 9,620 10,911 17,250
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.26% 69.62% 62.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6,126 6,236 13,721
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £32,435
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,636 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.52% +9.09% -10.57%

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 14 February 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 76 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.46%) Confluence
3 42 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.76%) Apache
6 20 (0.63%) SAS
7 16 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 15 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.41%) JBoss
10 12 (0.38%) CMS
11 8 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
15 3 (0.095%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.095%) WordPress
16 2 (0.063%) IIS
16 2 (0.063%) nginx
Applications
1 255 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 131 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.44%) Oracle Smart View
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.032%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 61 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
2 59 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
3 46 (1.46%) Oracle Assets
4 45 (1.43%) NetSuite
5 44 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 41 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
6 41 (1.30%) Unit4 Business World
7 39 (1.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 29 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
9 22 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
10 21 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
11 18 (0.57%) SAP FI
12 17 (0.54%) SAP CO
12 17 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
13 14 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
13 14 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
14 13 (0.41%) Hyperion Planning
15 12 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
15 12 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
16 11 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 768 (24.33%) Azure
2 434 (13.75%) AWS
3 326 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 302 (9.57%) SaaS
5 229 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
6 193 (6.11%) GCP
6 193 (6.11%) GitHub
7 158 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 112 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 107 (3.39%) Snowflake
10 106 (3.36%) Entra ID
11 83 (2.63%) dbt
12 81 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (2.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 64 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
13 64 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
14 59 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 56 (1.77%) OCI
16 50 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
17 45 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.57%) Firewall
2 62 (1.96%) WAN
3 55 (1.74%) VPN
4 48 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 48 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 39 (1.24%) LAN
6 35 (1.11%) Wireless
7 34 (1.08%) DNS
8 29 (0.92%) DHCP
8 29 (0.92%) Wireshark
9 22 (0.70%) Network Security
10 19 (0.60%) CHAP
11 16 (0.51%) Internet
11 16 (0.51%) VLAN
12 14 (0.44%) BGP
12 14 (0.44%) HTTP
13 8 (0.25%) MPLS
13 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 8 (0.25%) Telnet
13 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (7.25%) Power BI
2 112 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 94 (2.98%) Tableau
5 74 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 57 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
7 54 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 36 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 31 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
10 31 (0.98%) Metadata
11 30 (0.95%) Big Data
12 28 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 28 (0.89%) Apache Arrow
12 28 (0.89%) Dremio
13 24 (0.76%) MongoDB
14 23 (0.73%) MySQL
15 20 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 20 (0.63%) Relational Database
16 17 (0.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 141 (4.47%) JIRA
2 66 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
3 63 (2.00%) Git
4 61 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 41 (1.30%) TeamCity
6 34 (1.08%) Selenium
7 28 (0.89%) Postman
8 23 (0.73%) SoapUI
9 21 (0.67%) WebDriver
10 20 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
11 17 (0.54%) ERwin
12 16 (0.51%) GitLab
13 15 (0.48%) ER Studio
14 14 (0.44%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.32%) Storybook
16 9 (0.29%) Subversion
17 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
18 7 (0.22%) SpecFlow
19 5 (0.16%) Cucumber
19 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,090 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 530 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
3 466 (14.76%) Banking
4 273 (8.65%) Retail
5 260 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (7.67%) Marketing
7 241 (7.63%) Public Sector
8 210 (6.65%) Financial Institution
9 193 (6.11%) Law
10 184 (5.83%) Legal
11 131 (4.15%) Back Office
12 110 (3.48%) Telecoms
13 109 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
14 97 (3.07%) Manufacturing
15 91 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
16 90 (2.85%) Front Office
17 88 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
18 53 (1.68%) Electronics
19 47 (1.49%) Advertising
20 45 (1.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 570 (18.06%) Senior
2 432 (13.68%) Analyst
3 284 (9.00%) Developer
4 236 (7.48%) Lead
5 193 (6.11%) Software Engineer
6 171 (5.42%) Consultant
7 146 (4.62%) Architect
8 100 (3.17%) Business Analyst
9 90 (2.85%) Data Engineer
10 81 (2.57%) Project Manager
11 78 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
12 74 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 72 (2.28%) Senior Manager
14 71 (2.25%) Financial Analyst
15 70 (2.22%) Finance Manager
16 68 (2.15%) Accountant
16 68 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
17 64 (2.03%) Software Developer
18 55 (1.74%) IT Manager
18 55 (1.74%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (5.07%) .NET
2 111 (3.52%) REST
3 103 (3.26%) React
4 94 (2.98%) RESTful
4 94 (2.98%) SOAP
5 65 (2.06%) Node.js
6 59 (1.87%) JSON
7 52 (1.65%) Kafka
8 51 (1.62%) OAuth
9 48 (1.52%) Spring
10 45 (1.43%) GraphQL
11 40 (1.27%) AngularJS
12 37 (1.17%) Middleware
13 36 (1.14%) HTML
14 34 (1.08%) XML
15 33 (1.05%) Pandas
16 31 (0.98%) OAuth2
17 29 (0.92%) NumPy
17 29 (0.92%) SAML
18 28 (0.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 211 (6.68%) Product Ownership
2 210 (6.65%) Cloud Native
3 140 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 122 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 112 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 82 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 77 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.06%) Fixed Income
10 62 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 60 (1.90%) Blog
12 54 (1.71%) Security Posture
13 53 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
14 51 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 42 (1.33%) Equities
16 35 (1.11%) Hedge funds
16 35 (1.11%) Low-Code
17 34 (1.08%) Public Cloud
17 34 (1.08%) Virtual Team
18 33 (1.05%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.52%) Windows
2 110 (3.48%) Linux
3 41 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.05%) Unix
5 27 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.63%) Android
7 14 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.063%) AIX
11 2 (0.063%) CentOS
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (26.73%) Agile
2 559 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 521 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
4 478 (15.14%) Coaching
5 471 (14.92%) AI
6 439 (13.91%) Roadmaps
7 430 (13.62%) DevOps
8 421 (13.34%) Analytics
9 415 (13.15%) CI/CD
10 402 (12.73%) Asset Management
11 368 (11.66%) Decision-Making
11 368 (11.66%) Mentoring
12 341 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 328 (10.39%) Software Engineering
14 313 (9.91%) ERP
15 300 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
16 282 (8.93%) Project Management
17 272 (8.62%) Risk Management
18 253 (8.01%) Test Automation
19 217 (6.87%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 574 (18.18%) SQL
2 400 (12.67%) Python
3 320 (10.14%) Java
4 161 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 159 (5.04%) C#
6 136 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 118 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 61 (1.93%) C++
9 58 (1.84%) Go
10 55 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 48 (1.52%) PHP
12 37 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 34 (1.08%) Bash
15 30 (0.95%) Bicep
16 28 (0.89%) Apex Code
17 27 (0.86%) C
18 20 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 19 (0.60%) Kotlin
20 15 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 377 (11.94%) Degree
2 194 (6.15%) ACCA
3 173 (5.48%) Security Cleared
4 158 (5.00%) CIMA
5 146 (4.62%) CISSP
6 110 (3.48%) SC Cleared
7 92 (2.91%) CISA
8 74 (2.34%) CISM
9 64 (2.03%) CRISC
10 62 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (1.81%) DV Cleared
12 49 (1.55%) DBS Check
13 45 (1.43%) PMI Certification
14 40 (1.27%) Azure Certification
15 34 (1.08%) AAT
15 34 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 28 (0.89%) ISTQB
17 27 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
18 26 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (4.66%) NIST
2 125 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 125 (3.96%) QA
3 117 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 115 (3.64%) GDPR
5 78 (2.47%) PCI DSS
6 73 (2.31%) GRC
7 65 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 55 (1.74%) IFRS
9 45 (1.43%) PMO
10 33 (1.05%) SLA
11 31 (0.98%) COBIT
12 29 (0.92%) GAAP
12 29 (0.92%) SOC 2
13 27 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 18 (0.57%) P3O
16 13 (0.41%) SEPA
17 10 (0.32%) WCAG
18 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 107 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 67 (2.12%) Docker
3 38 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (0.63%) Firmware
6 16 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.063%) NFS
10 2 (0.063%) vSphere
11 1 (0.032%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 239 (7.57%) Terraform
2 128 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.81%) Grafana
4 55 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 54 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (1.24%) Ansible
7 15 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.35%) SCCM
9 10 (0.32%) Argo
10 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) Cilium
12 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.13%) Endace
12 4 (0.13%) QRadar
13 3 (0.095%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.063%) Kibana
14 2 (0.063%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 530 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.57%) Oracle
3 130 (4.12%) SAP
4 90 (2.85%) Salesforce
5 88 (2.79%) Databricks
6 73 (2.31%) Cisco
7 58 (1.84%) Google
8 55 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.46%) Sage
9 46 (1.46%) VMware
10 45 (1.43%) Blue Prism
11 33 (1.05%) Workday
12 31 (0.98%) CheckPoint
13 28 (0.89%) Okta
14 27 (0.86%) Meraki
15 26 (0.82%) Red Hat
16 25 (0.79%) SolarWinds
17 23 (0.73%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.67%) IBM
19 20 (0.63%) Adobe