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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,249 4,020 5,343
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.23% 24.36% 22.06%
As % of the General category 30.24% 34.14% 35.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,602 2,411 3,275
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,018 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -4.80% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £98,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £68,825
% change year-on-year +3.85% -5.56% -0.90%

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 14,049 11,776 14,906
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.28% 71.35% 61.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,830 6,607 9,448
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,652 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
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 29 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 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.22%) Confluence
3 26 (0.61%) 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 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.094%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.024%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.024%) CICS
13 1 (0.024%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 253 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.40%) Simulink
6 15 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.28%) 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 (0.094%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.094%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.094%) Sketch
12 3 (0.071%) Productboard
13 2 (0.047%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.047%) InDesign
13 2 (0.047%) SPSS
13 2 (0.047%) Weka
14 1 (0.024%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 64 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 50 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 30 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 24 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
6 23 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
7 20 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 20 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
8 18 (0.42%) Elite 3E
9 16 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
9 16 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
10 15 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
10 15 (0.35%) Primavera
10 15 (0.35%) Workday HCM
11 14 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 13 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
12 13 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
13 11 (0.26%) Sage 50
13 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
14 9 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 869 (20.45%) Azure
2 608 (14.31%) AWS
3 349 (8.21%) SaaS
4 319 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 219 (5.15%) GCP
6 150 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
7 144 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 112 (2.64%) Snowflake
9 105 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (2.00%) PaaS
11 76 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
12 69 (1.62%) Entra ID
13 68 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 67 (1.58%) Azure AI
14 67 (1.58%) GitHub
15 66 (1.55%) PowerApps
16 60 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
17 57 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
17 57 (1.34%) Serverless
18 52 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.88%) LAN
2 78 (1.84%) WAN
3 61 (1.44%) Firewall
4 41 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 40 (0.94%) HTTP
5 40 (0.94%) Network Security
6 37 (0.87%) DNS
7 30 (0.71%) VPN
8 28 (0.66%) DHCP
9 21 (0.49%) Broadband
10 16 (0.38%) VLAN
10 16 (0.38%) Wireless
11 14 (0.33%) MPLS
12 13 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.26%) Ethernet
14 10 (0.24%) BGP
14 10 (0.24%) NGFW
14 10 (0.24%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.19%) Internet
15 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (5.01%) Power BI
2 178 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 66 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.29%) Tableau
7 47 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 43 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (0.92%) Metadata
11 35 (0.82%) Relational Database
12 27 (0.64%) Big Data
13 24 (0.56%) MySQL
14 21 (0.49%) NoSQL
15 20 (0.47%) Power Query
15 20 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 16 (0.38%) Looker
16 16 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (0.35%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 134 (3.15%) JIRA
2 88 (2.07%) Git
3 46 (1.08%) TeamCity
4 27 (0.64%) JUnit
5 25 (0.59%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 22 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
7 21 (0.49%) Maven
8 17 (0.40%) Mockito
9 13 (0.31%) Selenium
10 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.16%) GitLab
10 7 (0.16%) Postman
10 7 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.14%) Gatling
11 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.094%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.094%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.094%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,414 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 697 (16.40%) Banking
3 608 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 507 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 423 (9.96%) Legal
6 323 (7.60%) Retail
7 321 (7.55%) Law
8 270 (6.35%) Marketing
9 254 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
10 237 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
11 206 (4.85%) Public Sector
12 152 (3.58%) Manufacturing
13 147 (3.46%) Aerospace
14 146 (3.44%) Financial Institution
15 125 (2.94%) Back Office
15 125 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
16 82 (1.93%) Billing
17 75 (1.77%) Telecoms
18 56 (1.32%) Front Office
19 54 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 584 (13.74%) Senior
2 466 (10.97%) Lead
3 434 (10.21%) Analyst
4 359 (8.45%) Architect
5 333 (7.84%) Developer
6 269 (6.33%) Software Engineer
7 215 (5.06%) Consultant
8 159 (3.74%) Finance Manager
9 150 (3.53%) Senior Manager
10 130 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
11 121 (2.85%) Accountant
12 111 (2.61%) IT Manager
13 110 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
14 109 (2.57%) Project Manager
15 102 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
15 102 (2.40%) Business Analyst
16 97 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
17 84 (1.98%) Data Analyst
18 78 (1.84%) Support Analyst
19 77 (1.81%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (4.17%) Terraform
2 155 (3.65%) .NET
3 149 (3.51%) React
4 115 (2.71%) REST
5 81 (1.91%) Node.js
6 66 (1.55%) .NET Core
6 66 (1.55%) Spring
7 63 (1.48%) CSS
8 60 (1.41%) ASP.NET
9 54 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 50 (1.18%) .NET Framework
10 50 (1.18%) LangChain
11 43 (1.01%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.01%) LangGraph
12 41 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
13 38 (0.89%) PyTorch
13 38 (0.89%) TensorFlow
14 34 (0.80%) jQuery
14 34 (0.80%) Kafka
14 34 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 291 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 216 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 201 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 171 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 162 (3.81%) Virtual Team
6 156 (3.67%) Web Conferencing
7 146 (3.44%) Podcast
8 122 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
9 95 (2.24%) Blog
10 94 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 65 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 61 (1.44%) AI Agents
12 61 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 54 (1.27%) Credit Risk
13 54 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 54 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 49 (1.15%) Hedge funds
15 46 (1.08%) Driving Licence
16 44 (1.04%) Fixed Income
17 42 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.11%) Windows
2 112 (2.64%) Linux
3 45 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.45%) Android
5 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.38%) Unix
6 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.071%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.047%) 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
1 868 (20.43%) Agile
2 747 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 722 (16.99%) Roadmaps
4 666 (15.67%) AI
5 656 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
6 571 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 568 (13.37%) Decision-Making
8 506 (11.91%) Software Engineering
9 429 (10.10%) Mentoring
10 419 (9.86%) Analytics
11 411 (9.67%) ERP
12 392 (9.23%) CI/CD
13 357 (8.40%) Risk Management
14 349 (8.21%) DevOps
15 345 (8.12%) Project Delivery
16 320 (7.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 301 (7.08%) Project Management
18 298 (7.01%) Process Improvement
19 282 (6.64%) Machine Learning
20 278 (6.54%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 632 (14.87%) SQL
2 420 (9.88%) Python
3 299 (7.04%) Java
4 247 (5.81%) C#
5 162 (3.81%) JavaScript
6 134 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 105 (2.47%) C++
8 85 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 65 (1.53%) PHP
10 36 (0.85%) Go
11 30 (0.71%) C
12 28 (0.66%) Bash
13 26 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.59%) R
15 24 (0.56%) Bicep
16 22 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.42%) Rust
18 17 (0.40%) Kotlin
19 16 (0.38%) VBA
20 15 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 419 (9.86%) Degree
2 343 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 264 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 251 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 242 (5.70%) ACCA
6 213 (5.01%) CIMA
7 134 (3.15%) DV Cleared
8 84 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (1.58%) CISSP
10 54 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 49 (1.15%) CISM
11 49 (1.15%) PMP
12 45 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 30 (0.71%) CISA
15 29 (0.68%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 28 (0.66%) CRISC
17 24 (0.56%) ICAEW
18 21 (0.49%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (4.12%) Accessibility
1 175 (4.12%) Data Quality
2 160 (3.77%) QA
3 141 (3.32%) GDPR
4 91 (2.14%) GRC
5 89 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 78 (1.84%) SLA
7 72 (1.69%) PMO
8 65 (1.53%) NIST
9 59 (1.39%) IFRS
10 48 (1.13%) GAAP
11 30 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.66%) COBIT
13 22 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.38%) MiFID
17 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
18 13 (0.31%) Def Stans
18 13 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 107 (2.52%) Docker
2 96 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 50 (1.18%) Firmware
5 40 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.16%) 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
1 177 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 71 (1.67%) Grafana
3 43 (1.01%) Ansible
4 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.19%) Istio
7 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
7 5 (0.12%) SCCM
7 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.094%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.094%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.094%) QRadar
8 4 (0.094%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.071%) Argo
9 3 (0.071%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.047%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.047%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.047%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.047%) Puppet
10 2 (0.047%) Salt
Vendors
1 725 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.06%) Oracle
3 139 (3.27%) SAP
4 132 (3.11%) Databricks
5 91 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 63 (1.48%) Sage
7 62 (1.46%) Google
8 56 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 49 (1.15%) Workday
10 48 (1.13%) VMware
11 40 (0.94%) Cisco
11 40 (0.94%) Xero
12 32 (0.75%) Aderant
12 32 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 28 (0.66%) IBM
14 25 (0.59%) BMC
15 21 (0.49%) Splunk
16 20 (0.47%) Remedy
17 19 (0.45%) Adobe
17 19 (0.45%) Veeam