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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,565 3,881 4,864
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.35% 23.36% 22.53%
As % of the General category 29.85% 33.01% 35.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 2,209 2,770
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 £96,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £130,000 £142,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,312 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% -9.55% -

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 15,294 11,758 13,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.48% 70.76% 62.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 6,192 7,537
10th Percentile £31,645 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £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 £84,964
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 11 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
1 112 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.16%) Confluence
3 29 (0.64%) 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 5 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.11%) IIS
11 4 (0.088%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.044%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.044%) Hedera
12 2 (0.044%) WordPress
13 1 (0.022%) CICS
13 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.022%) Moodle
Applications
1 281 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 14 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
8 10 (0.22%) Notion
9 7 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.13%) Trello
11 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.11%) InDesign
12 4 (0.088%) Mathcad
12 4 (0.088%) Sketch
13 3 (0.066%) Acrobat
13 3 (0.066%) Productboard
13 3 (0.066%) Revit
14 2 (0.044%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 52 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 38 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 31 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 30 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 29 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
5 29 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
6 22 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 21 (0.46%) Primavera
8 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.42%) 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 13 (0.28%) Sage X3
14 12 (0.26%) Actimize
14 12 (0.26%) SAP CO
14 12 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 812 (17.79%) Azure
2 623 (13.65%) AWS
3 408 (8.94%) SaaS
4 362 (7.93%) Power Platform
5 256 (5.61%) GCP
6 168 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 155 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
8 115 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (1.95%) GitHub
9 89 (1.95%) PaaS
10 85 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (1.80%) Entra ID
12 81 (1.77%) Snowflake
13 80 (1.75%) PowerApps
14 79 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
15 64 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
16 62 (1.36%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.31%) Serverless
18 53 (1.16%) Amazon Bedrock
19 42 (0.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (1.66%) LAN
2 75 (1.64%) WAN
3 63 (1.38%) Firewall
4 49 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 44 (0.96%) VPN
6 40 (0.88%) Network Security
7 32 (0.70%) HTTP
8 31 (0.68%) 5G
9 30 (0.66%) DNS
10 26 (0.57%) Broadband
11 23 (0.50%) VLAN
12 20 (0.44%) BGP
13 19 (0.42%) DHCP
13 19 (0.42%) Internet
14 14 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.31%) Wireless
15 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
16 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
17 9 (0.20%) NGFW
17 9 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (5.45%) Power BI
2 103 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 75 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 57 (1.25%) Tableau
7 53 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 52 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
9 44 (0.96%) Metadata
10 39 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 38 (0.83%) Relational Database
12 26 (0.57%) Big Data
13 23 (0.50%) Power Query
14 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
15 21 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 20 (0.44%) MySQL
16 20 (0.44%) NoSQL
16 20 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 132 (2.89%) JIRA
2 87 (1.91%) Git
3 82 (1.80%) TeamCity
4 46 (1.01%) Claude Code
5 37 (0.81%) JUnit
6 25 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 23 (0.50%) Maven
8 21 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
9 19 (0.42%) Mockito
10 11 (0.24%) Selenium
11 9 (0.20%) GitLab
12 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
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%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,646 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 763 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
3 720 (15.77%) Banking
4 607 (13.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 489 (10.71%) Legal
6 405 (8.87%) Retail
7 381 (8.35%) Law
8 338 (7.40%) Marketing
9 319 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
10 270 (5.91%) Public Sector
11 251 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
12 187 (4.10%) Financial Institution
13 181 (3.96%) Manufacturing
14 173 (3.79%) Back Office
15 164 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
16 160 (3.50%) Aerospace
17 114 (2.50%) Telecoms
18 88 (1.93%) Billing
19 68 (1.49%) Front Office
19 68 (1.49%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 649 (14.22%) Senior
2 513 (11.24%) Lead
3 445 (9.75%) Analyst
4 416 (9.11%) Architect
5 346 (7.58%) Developer
6 300 (6.57%) Software Engineer
7 225 (4.93%) Consultant
8 178 (3.90%) Senior Manager
9 164 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
10 132 (2.89%) Finance Manager
11 124 (2.72%) Accountant
12 118 (2.58%) IT Manager
13 103 (2.26%) Project Manager
14 98 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
15 96 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
16 92 (2.02%) Enterprise Architect
17 91 (1.99%) Business Analyst
18 90 (1.97%) Data Analyst
19 89 (1.95%) Business Manager
20 79 (1.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (4.42%) Terraform
2 166 (3.64%) .NET
3 131 (2.87%) React
4 109 (2.39%) REST
5 73 (1.60%) Spring
6 71 (1.56%) LangChain
6 71 (1.56%) Node.js
7 62 (1.36%) .NET Core
7 62 (1.36%) LangGraph
8 58 (1.27%) ASP.NET
9 53 (1.16%) RESTful
10 52 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 50 (1.10%) XML
12 49 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
13 48 (1.05%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.05%) CSS
14 43 (0.94%) PyTorch
14 43 (0.94%) TensorFlow
15 41 (0.90%) AngularJS
16 36 (0.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 309 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 261 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 256 (5.61%) Cloud Native
4 218 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 177 (3.88%) Web Conferencing
6 171 (3.75%) Podcast
7 161 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
8 140 (3.07%) Virtual Team
9 107 (2.34%) Blog
10 97 (2.12%) AI Agents
11 77 (1.69%) Hedge funds
11 77 (1.69%) Social Media
12 75 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
13 72 (1.58%) Public Cloud
14 71 (1.56%) Credit Risk
15 62 (1.36%) Data Centre
16 54 (1.18%) Data Structures
17 51 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
18 50 (1.10%) Mobile App
19 44 (0.96%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 114 (2.50%) Windows
2 89 (1.95%) Linux
3 45 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 25 (0.55%) Android
5 24 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.22%) macOS
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.11%) Unix
10 3 (0.066%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.022%) AIX
11 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 794 (17.39%) AI
3 765 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
4 757 (16.58%) Agile
5 747 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 701 (15.36%) Decision-Making
7 695 (15.22%) Roadmaps
8 544 (11.92%) Software Engineering
9 498 (10.91%) Mentoring
10 473 (10.36%) Analytics
11 442 (9.68%) CI/CD
12 432 (9.46%) ERP
13 378 (8.28%) Risk Management
14 371 (8.13%) Coaching
15 362 (7.93%) Process Improvement
16 359 (7.86%) Project Delivery
17 356 (7.80%) DevOps
18 353 (7.73%) Customer Service
19 329 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 320 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 643 (14.09%) SQL
2 466 (10.21%) Python
3 328 (7.19%) Java
4 233 (5.10%) C#
5 153 (3.35%) JavaScript
6 117 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 80 (1.75%) C++
8 78 (1.71%) PowerShell
9 44 (0.96%) R
10 41 (0.90%) Go
11 37 (0.81%) PHP
11 37 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 33 (0.72%) Bash
13 31 (0.68%) Bicep
14 29 (0.64%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.48%) C
15 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
16 20 (0.44%) Rust
17 16 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 398 (8.72%) Degree
2 386 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 296 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 269 (5.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 218 (4.78%) ACCA
6 198 (4.34%) CIMA
7 128 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 82 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 72 (1.58%) CISSP
10 66 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 57 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (1.18%) CISM
13 47 (1.03%) PMI Certification
14 40 (0.88%) PMP
15 39 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (0.70%) CRISC
17 30 (0.66%) CISA
17 30 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
19 26 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 194 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.72%) QA
4 150 (3.29%) GDPR
5 109 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 98 (2.15%) GRC
7 76 (1.66%) PMO
7 76 (1.66%) SLA
8 66 (1.45%) NIST
9 46 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 44 (0.96%) IFRS
11 37 (0.81%) 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 (0.31%) Def Stans
17 12 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (2.43%) Docker
2 88 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.10%) Firmware
4 29 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.31%) 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 (0.088%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.044%) vSphere
12 1 (0.022%) HDFS
12 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 209 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 116 (2.54%) Grafana
3 37 (0.81%) Ansible
4 31 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.13%) Cilium
8 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.088%) SCCM
10 3 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.066%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.066%) QRadar
10 3 (0.066%) SQL Sentry
11 2 (0.044%) Argo
11 2 (0.044%) CASB
11 2 (0.044%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.044%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 2 (0.044%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.044%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.022%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 740 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 223 (4.88%) Oracle
3 144 (3.15%) SAP
4 107 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 98 (2.15%) Google
6 90 (1.97%) Databricks
7 71 (1.56%) Sage
8 65 (1.42%) Workday
9 54 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 38 (0.83%) HubSpot
10 38 (0.83%) VMware
11 33 (0.72%) Cisco
12 31 (0.68%) Adobe
12 31 (0.68%) Xero
12 31 (0.68%) YouTube
13 25 (0.55%) Aderant
14 24 (0.53%) BMC
14 24 (0.53%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.44%) Foundry
15 20 (0.44%) IFS