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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,610 3,862 4,826
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.45% 23.41% 22.67%
As % of the General category 29.93% 33.07% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 2,192 2,729
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £130,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,281 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.72% -9.60% -

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 15,404 11,680 13,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.64% 70.80% 63.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,227 6,151 7,424
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,908 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.80% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 13 October 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
1 113 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.21%) Confluence
3 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 15 (0.33%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.22%) SAS
10 6 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.087%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.043%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.043%) Hedera
13 2 (0.043%) WordPress
14 1 (0.022%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.022%) CICS
14 1 (0.022%) Moodle
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 282 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 14 (0.30%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.28%) Notion
9 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
10 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.13%) Trello
12 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 5 (0.11%) InDesign
13 4 (0.087%) Mathcad
13 4 (0.087%) Sketch
14 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
14 3 (0.065%) Productboard
14 3 (0.065%) Revit
15 2 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 55 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 39 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 31 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 30 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 30 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 29 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
6 23 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 21 (0.46%) Primavera
8 20 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
11 17 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
11 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
12 16 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
12 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 16 (0.35%) Workday HCM
13 14 (0.30%) Sage X3
14 13 (0.28%) SAP CO
14 13 (0.28%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 818 (17.74%) Azure
2 634 (13.75%) AWS
3 414 (8.98%) SaaS
4 368 (7.98%) Power Platform
5 262 (5.68%) GCP
6 170 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
7 161 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
9 89 (1.93%) GitHub
9 89 (1.93%) PaaS
10 85 (1.84%) Entra ID
11 83 (1.80%) PowerApps
12 81 (1.76%) Snowflake
13 79 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
14 65 (1.41%) Power Automate
15 64 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
16 62 (1.34%) Serverless
17 53 (1.15%) Amazon Bedrock
18 42 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.65%) LAN
2 75 (1.63%) WAN
3 65 (1.41%) Firewall
4 54 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.02%) VPN
6 42 (0.91%) Network Security
7 33 (0.72%) HTTP
8 32 (0.69%) 5G
9 30 (0.65%) DNS
10 28 (0.61%) Broadband
11 24 (0.52%) VLAN
12 23 (0.50%) BGP
13 19 (0.41%) DHCP
14 18 (0.39%) Internet
15 14 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.30%) Wireless
16 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
17 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
18 9 (0.20%) MPLS
18 9 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (5.49%) Power BI
2 102 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 76 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 58 (1.26%) Tableau
7 55 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 44 (0.95%) Metadata
10 39 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 38 (0.82%) Relational Database
12 26 (0.56%) Big Data
13 24 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (0.50%) Power Query
15 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 20 (0.43%) MySQL
17 20 (0.43%) NoSQL
17 20 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 17 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 137 (2.97%) JIRA
2 89 (1.93%) Git
3 86 (1.87%) TeamCity
4 47 (1.02%) Claude Code
5 38 (0.82%) JUnit
6 26 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.50%) Maven
8 21 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.41%) Mockito
10 11 (0.24%) Selenium
11 9 (0.20%) GitLab
12 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.17%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.15%) Postman
13 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.13%) Gatling
14 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.11%) Android Studio
16 4 (0.087%) MLflow
General
1 1,662 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 771 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
3 729 (15.81%) Banking
4 618 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 489 (10.61%) Legal
6 409 (8.87%) Retail
7 385 (8.35%) Law
8 343 (7.44%) Marketing
9 321 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
10 274 (5.94%) Public Sector
11 252 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
12 191 (4.14%) Financial Institution
13 186 (4.03%) Manufacturing
14 177 (3.84%) Back Office
15 166 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
16 160 (3.47%) Aerospace
17 116 (2.52%) Telecoms
18 89 (1.93%) Billing
19 69 (1.50%) Front Office
20 68 (1.48%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 654 (14.19%) Senior
2 515 (11.17%) Lead
3 446 (9.67%) Analyst
4 420 (9.11%) Architect
5 350 (7.59%) Developer
6 307 (6.66%) Software Engineer
7 229 (4.97%) Consultant
8 180 (3.90%) Senior Manager
9 166 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
10 133 (2.89%) Finance Manager
11 124 (2.69%) Accountant
12 118 (2.56%) IT Manager
13 104 (2.26%) Project Manager
14 98 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
15 94 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
16 92 (2.00%) Enterprise Architect
17 91 (1.97%) Business Analyst
17 91 (1.97%) Data Analyst
18 90 (1.95%) Business Manager
19 79 (1.71%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (4.47%) Terraform
2 167 (3.62%) .NET
3 131 (2.84%) React
4 112 (2.43%) REST
5 73 (1.58%) Spring
6 71 (1.54%) LangChain
6 71 (1.54%) Node.js
7 62 (1.34%) .NET Core
7 62 (1.34%) LangGraph
8 58 (1.26%) ASP.NET
9 54 (1.17%) RESTful
10 52 (1.13%) ASP.NET Core
11 50 (1.08%) XML
12 49 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
13 48 (1.04%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.04%) CSS
14 43 (0.93%) PyTorch
14 43 (0.93%) TensorFlow
15 42 (0.91%) AngularJS
16 37 (0.80%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 312 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 264 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 262 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 222 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 177 (3.84%) Web Conferencing
6 171 (3.71%) Podcast
7 162 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
8 141 (3.06%) Virtual Team
9 110 (2.39%) Blog
10 98 (2.13%) AI Agents
11 77 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
11 77 (1.67%) Hedge funds
11 77 (1.67%) Social Media
12 74 (1.61%) Public Cloud
13 72 (1.56%) Credit Risk
14 62 (1.34%) Data Centre
15 54 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 54 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 51 (1.11%) Mobile App
17 45 (0.98%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 116 (2.52%) Windows
2 91 (1.97%) Linux
3 46 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.59%) Android
5 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.26%) macOS
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Unix
10 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.022%) AIX
11 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 804 (17.44%) AI
3 781 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
4 761 (16.51%) Agile
5 754 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 707 (15.34%) Decision-Making
7 706 (15.31%) Roadmaps
8 551 (11.95%) Software Engineering
9 508 (11.02%) Mentoring
10 478 (10.37%) Analytics
11 451 (9.78%) CI/CD
12 435 (9.44%) ERP
13 377 (8.18%) Risk Management
14 376 (8.16%) Coaching
15 364 (7.90%) Project Delivery
16 362 (7.85%) Process Improvement
17 361 (7.83%) DevOps
18 355 (7.70%) Customer Service
19 331 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 326 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 650 (14.10%) SQL
2 475 (10.30%) Python
3 340 (7.38%) Java
4 236 (5.12%) C#
5 157 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 119 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 81 (1.76%) C++
8 79 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.00%) Go
10 45 (0.98%) R
11 37 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 35 (0.76%) PHP
13 34 (0.74%) Bash
14 31 (0.67%) Bicep
14 31 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.48%) C
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 21 (0.46%) Rust
17 17 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 401 (8.70%) Degree
2 388 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 297 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 269 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 220 (4.77%) ACCA
6 200 (4.34%) CIMA
7 129 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 84 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 74 (1.61%) CISSP
10 68 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (1.21%) CISM
13 48 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.89%) PMP
15 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
16 32 (0.69%) CRISC
17 30 (0.65%) CISA
18 28 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
19 27 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (5.25%) Accessibility
2 198 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 172 (3.73%) QA
4 151 (3.28%) GDPR
5 113 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 99 (2.15%) GRC
7 77 (1.67%) PMO
7 77 (1.67%) SLA
8 68 (1.48%) NIST
9 49 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 44 (0.95%) IFRS
11 40 (0.87%) SOC 2
12 34 (0.74%) GAAP
13 27 (0.59%) COBIT
14 22 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.37%) NCSC
15 17 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
17 12 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (2.45%) Docker
2 89 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.08%) Firmware
4 28 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.13%) Squid
8 6 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.087%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.043%) vSphere
12 1 (0.022%) HDFS
12 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 215 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 120 (2.60%) Grafana
3 37 (0.80%) Ansible
4 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.17%) Cilium
8 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.087%) SCCM
10 3 (0.065%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.065%) QRadar
10 3 (0.065%) SQL Sentry
11 2 (0.043%) Argo
11 2 (0.043%) CASB
11 2 (0.043%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.043%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.043%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.043%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 749 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 224 (4.86%) Oracle
3 148 (3.21%) SAP
4 113 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 103 (2.23%) Google
6 90 (1.95%) Databricks
7 74 (1.61%) Sage
8 65 (1.41%) Workday
9 54 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 38 (0.82%) HubSpot
11 37 (0.80%) VMware
12 33 (0.72%) Adobe
12 33 (0.72%) Cisco
13 32 (0.69%) Xero
14 31 (0.67%) YouTube
15 25 (0.54%) Aderant
16 24 (0.52%) BMC
16 24 (0.52%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.46%) Splunk
18 20 (0.43%) Foundry