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 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,085 3,501 6,396
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.16% 26.83% 20.91%
As % of the General category 31.94% 37.36% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,970 2,509 4,866
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,256 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -4.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £126,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -9.19%

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 9,659 9,370 18,829
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.85% 71.82% 61.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,217 6,277 14,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 24 March 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 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.13%) Confluence
3 33 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.58%) SAS
5 13 (0.42%) JBoss
5 13 (0.42%) WebSphere
6 12 (0.39%) CMS
7 11 (0.36%) Apache
7 11 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.19%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.097%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.097%) WordPress
13 2 (0.065%) IIS
13 2 (0.065%) nginx
13 2 (0.065%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 234 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
6 10 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.097%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.097%) Trello
10 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 58 (1.88%) NetSuite
2 56 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
3 48 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
4 45 (1.46%) Oracle Assets
5 42 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
6 40 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 33 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
8 29 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
8 29 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
9 24 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
10 16 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
10 16 (0.52%) SAP FI
11 15 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
11 15 (0.49%) SAP CO
11 15 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
12 12 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
13 11 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
13 11 (0.36%) Elite 3E
14 10 (0.32%) Hyperion Planning
14 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 716 (23.21%) Azure
2 437 (14.17%) AWS
3 295 (9.56%) SaaS
4 257 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 188 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
6 180 (5.83%) GCP
7 163 (5.28%) GitHub
8 136 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
9 109 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 94 (3.05%) Snowflake
11 91 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
12 78 (2.53%) Entra ID
13 74 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 71 (2.30%) GitHub Copilot
15 70 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
16 57 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
17 54 (1.75%) dbt
18 43 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
19 39 (1.26%) OCI
20 37 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.14%) Firewall
2 51 (1.65%) VPN
3 49 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 47 (1.52%) WAN
5 35 (1.13%) DNS
6 33 (1.07%) DHCP
7 32 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.84%) Network Security
9 24 (0.78%) CHAP
10 22 (0.71%) Wireless
11 21 (0.68%) LAN
12 17 (0.55%) BGP
13 16 (0.52%) HTTP
14 15 (0.49%) VLAN
15 13 (0.42%) Internet
15 13 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
16 12 (0.39%) Wireshark
17 11 (0.36%) MPLS
18 10 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
18 10 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (6.39%) Power BI
2 128 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 91 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (2.50%) Tableau
5 53 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 52 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 51 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 46 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (0.94%) Big Data
11 25 (0.81%) Metadata
12 21 (0.68%) MySQL
13 20 (0.65%) DB2
14 19 (0.62%) Relational Database
15 18 (0.58%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 15 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (0.42%) MongoDB
18 12 (0.39%) BigQuery
18 12 (0.39%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 120 (3.89%) JIRA
2 64 (2.07%) Git
3 49 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
5 44 (1.43%) TeamCity
6 34 (1.10%) Selenium
7 23 (0.75%) Postman
8 19 (0.62%) SoapUI
8 19 (0.62%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.39%) ERwin
11 12 (0.39%) GitLab
12 10 (0.32%) ER Studio
13 9 (0.29%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.29%) Storybook
13 9 (0.29%) Subversion
14 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
15 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,037 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 510 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
3 505 (16.37%) Banking
4 296 (9.59%) Retail
5 289 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (7.97%) Public Sector
7 230 (7.46%) Law
8 229 (7.42%) Marketing
9 218 (7.07%) Legal
10 205 (6.65%) Financial Institution
11 141 (4.57%) Back Office
12 121 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
13 100 (3.24%) Manufacturing
14 97 (3.14%) Telecoms
15 87 (2.82%) Front Office
15 87 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
16 83 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
17 46 (1.49%) Electronics
18 38 (1.23%) General Ledger
18 38 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 572 (18.54%) Senior
2 386 (12.51%) Analyst
3 253 (8.20%) Lead
4 251 (8.14%) Developer
5 204 (6.61%) Software Engineer
6 162 (5.25%) Architect
7 159 (5.15%) Consultant
8 97 (3.14%) Business Analyst
9 92 (2.98%) Project Manager
10 91 (2.95%) Finance Manager
11 90 (2.92%) Senior Manager
12 87 (2.82%) Data Engineer
13 75 (2.43%) Accountant
14 74 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
14 74 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
16 66 (2.14%) Financial Analyst
17 65 (2.11%) IT Manager
18 63 (2.04%) C# Developer
19 59 (1.91%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (4.08%) .NET
2 114 (3.70%) React
3 104 (3.37%) REST
4 80 (2.59%) RESTful
5 75 (2.43%) SOAP
6 69 (2.24%) Kafka
6 69 (2.24%) Node.js
7 58 (1.88%) GraphQL
8 54 (1.75%) JSON
9 46 (1.49%) OAuth
10 43 (1.39%) Redux
11 38 (1.23%) Spring
12 35 (1.13%) Middleware
13 34 (1.10%) CSS
14 33 (1.07%) HTML
15 29 (0.94%) XML
16 25 (0.81%) .NET Core
17 24 (0.78%) AngularJS
17 24 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
18 23 (0.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 188 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 125 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 121 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 98 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
6 72 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 66 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (2.04%) Blog
9 61 (1.98%) Fixed Income
10 58 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 57 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
12 49 (1.59%) Security Posture
13 44 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 41 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
17 38 (1.23%) Low-Code
18 37 (1.20%) Public Cloud
19 31 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 30 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 119 (3.86%) Windows
2 103 (3.34%) Linux
3 39 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.91%) Unix
5 26 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.62%) Android
7 15 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.065%) CentOS
10 2 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.032%) AIX
11 1 (0.032%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.032%) VMS
11 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (25.28%) Agile
2 520 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 507 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
4 408 (13.23%) AI
5 401 (13.00%) DevOps
6 396 (12.84%) Analytics
7 393 (12.74%) CI/CD
8 391 (12.67%) Coaching
9 367 (11.90%) Roadmaps
10 363 (11.77%) Decision-Making
11 357 (11.57%) Mentoring
12 337 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 311 (10.08%) Software Engineering
14 280 (9.08%) ERP
14 280 (9.08%) Project Management
15 272 (8.82%) Asset Management
16 271 (8.78%) Risk Management
17 260 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
18 244 (7.91%) Test Automation
19 219 (7.10%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 513 (16.63%) SQL
2 352 (11.41%) Python
3 317 (10.28%) Java
4 181 (5.87%) C#
5 114 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 111 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 90 (2.92%) PowerShell
8 86 (2.79%) Go
9 69 (2.24%) C++
10 63 (2.04%) PHP
11 47 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 32 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 27 (0.88%) C
14 26 (0.84%) Apex Code
15 24 (0.78%) Bicep
15 24 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.71%) Bash
17 15 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.49%) Rust
18 13 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 386 (12.51%) Degree
2 220 (7.13%) ACCA
3 179 (5.80%) CIMA
4 176 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 151 (4.89%) CISSP
6 103 (3.34%) SC Cleared
7 95 (3.08%) CISA
8 72 (2.33%) CISM
9 69 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 66 (2.14%) CRISC
11 56 (1.82%) DV Cleared
12 47 (1.52%) PMI Certification
13 44 (1.43%) DBS Check
14 39 (1.26%) Azure Certification
15 35 (1.13%) AAT
16 34 (1.10%) SANS
17 26 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
18 24 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.78%) FFIEC
18 24 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (4.51%) NIST
2 120 (3.89%) QA
3 114 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 111 (3.60%) GDPR
5 110 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 71 (2.30%) GRC
8 64 (2.07%) IFRS
9 56 (1.82%) Accessibility
10 44 (1.43%) PMO
11 35 (1.13%) GAAP
12 34 (1.10%) SLA
13 30 (0.97%) COBIT
14 29 (0.94%) SOC 2
15 27 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.55%) P3O
18 11 (0.36%) SEPA
19 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
20 8 (0.26%) EMIR
System Software
1 94 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 73 (2.37%) Docker
3 38 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.68%) Firmware
6 18 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.032%) vCloud
11 1 (0.032%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 216 (7.00%) Terraform
2 135 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 56 (1.82%) Grafana
4 43 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (1.10%) Ansible
7 12 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.36%) Argo
9 8 (0.26%) Istio
10 7 (0.23%) SCCM
11 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.16%) Endace
11 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) Cilium
12 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.13%) QRadar
13 2 (0.065%) Puppet
13 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 494 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.71%) Oracle
3 126 (4.08%) SAP
4 99 (3.21%) Databricks
5 88 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 63 (2.04%) Google
7 52 (1.69%) Cisco
8 50 (1.62%) Sage
9 45 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 43 (1.39%) VMware
11 27 (0.88%) Workday
12 26 (0.84%) IBM
13 25 (0.81%) Okta
14 21 (0.68%) Adobe
14 21 (0.68%) HubSpot
15 20 (0.65%) CheckPoint
16 16 (0.52%) Ab Initio
16 16 (0.52%) Meraki
17 14 (0.45%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.45%) Xero