Finance Jobs with Work from Home Options

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 5,966 8,336 18,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.36% 25.40% 23.40%
As % of the General category 35.05% 39.01% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,735 5,977 10,060
10th Percentile £37,250 £42,278 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +6.84% +4.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% +3.08%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,022 21,367 51,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.93% 65.11% 66.05%
Number of salaries quoted 11,520 15,606 26,987
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance.

Finance salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Finance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 674 (11.30%) Apache
2 655 (10.98%) Apache Airflow
3 323 (5.41%) SAS
4 107 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 73 (1.22%) Confluence
6 68 (1.14%) IIS
7 54 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 31 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 31 (0.52%) nginx
9 29 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.22%) CMS
11 10 (0.17%) WordPress
12 4 (0.067%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.050%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.034%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.034%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.034%) MTS
14 2 (0.034%) OpenEdge
14 2 (0.034%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.017%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 716 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 210 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.067%) SPSS
7 4 (0.067%) Trello
8 3 (0.050%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.050%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.034%) Sketch
10 1 (0.017%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.017%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.017%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.017%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.017%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.017%) Revit
10 1 (0.017%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 303 (5.08%) SAP ERP
2 89 (1.49%) NEC Housing
3 47 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 46 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 31 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
6 28 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 26 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 25 (0.42%) SAP CO
8 25 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
9 22 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
10 21 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
11 15 (0.25%) Elite 3E
12 13 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
13 12 (0.20%) iTrent
14 11 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
14 11 (0.18%) Sage 200
15 10 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
15 10 (0.17%) Sage 50
16 9 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
16 9 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (20.67%) AWS
2 950 (15.92%) Azure
3 646 (10.83%) dbt
4 545 (9.14%) Snowflake
5 477 (8.00%) GCP
6 387 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 234 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 155 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (2.41%) SaaS
10 131 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
11 122 (2.04%) Entra ID
12 91 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
13 90 (1.51%) GitHub
14 81 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
15 78 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
16 74 (1.24%) Amazon S3
17 69 (1.16%) Serverless
18 65 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
18 65 (1.09%) PowerApps
19 57 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 774 (12.97%) Broadband
2 141 (2.36%) Firewall
3 93 (1.56%) Internet
4 84 (1.41%) VPN
5 59 (0.99%) DNS
5 59 (0.99%) IPsec
6 58 (0.97%) WAN
7 54 (0.91%) SNMP
8 52 (0.87%) TCP/IP
9 49 (0.82%) Network Security
10 43 (0.72%) LAN
11 42 (0.70%) Wireless
12 36 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (0.45%) DHCP
14 23 (0.39%) SAN
15 20 (0.34%) BGP
16 17 (0.28%) OSPF
16 17 (0.28%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
18 13 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (11.21%) Data Lake
2 633 (10.61%) Dremio
3 600 (10.06%) Apache Arrow
4 597 (10.01%) Amazon Athena
5 535 (8.97%) Apache Ignite
6 325 (5.45%) Power BI
7 268 (4.49%) SQL Server
8 153 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 153 (2.56%) Tableau
9 114 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 102 (1.71%) Big Data
11 94 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
12 87 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
13 56 (0.94%) Relational Database
14 53 (0.89%) DB2
14 53 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 51 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 50 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 45 (0.75%) Metadata
18 44 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 181 (3.03%) Git
2 142 (2.38%) JIRA
3 66 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 66 (1.11%) Visual Studio
4 40 (0.67%) GitLab
5 32 (0.54%) TeamCity
6 29 (0.49%) Selenium
7 26 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 25 (0.42%) Maven
9 22 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
10 21 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 11 (0.18%) JMeter
12 11 (0.18%) JUnit
12 11 (0.18%) MSBuild
12 11 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 11 (0.18%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.17%) Postman
14 9 (0.15%) IntelliJ
14 9 (0.15%) NUnit
General
1 2,232 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 1,049 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
3 943 (15.81%) Banking
4 770 (12.91%) Front Office
5 573 (9.60%) Influencing Skills
6 546 (9.15%) Investment Banking
7 431 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 400 (6.70%) Marketing
9 368 (6.17%) Retail
10 358 (6.00%) Public Sector
11 326 (5.46%) Legal
12 177 (2.97%) Manufacturing
13 174 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
14 160 (2.68%) Law
15 125 (2.10%) Local Government
16 110 (1.84%) Telecoms
17 92 (1.54%) Police
18 89 (1.49%) Back Office
19 83 (1.39%) Financial Institution
20 73 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,163 (19.49%) Senior
2 1,147 (19.23%) Analyst
3 831 (13.93%) Developer
4 639 (10.71%) Architect
5 632 (10.59%) Lead
6 542 (9.08%) Software Engineer
7 496 (8.31%) Solutions Architect
8 381 (6.39%) Senior Analyst
9 350 (5.87%) Consultant
10 308 (5.16%) Financial Analyst
11 298 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
12 274 (4.59%) Python Engineer
13 240 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 233 (3.91%) Project Manager
15 220 (3.69%) AWS Software Engineer
16 218 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
17 217 (3.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 211 (3.54%) Senior Developer
19 207 (3.47%) Java Engineer
20 190 (3.18%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 652 (10.93%) gRPC
2 606 (10.16%) Protocol Buffers
3 560 (9.39%) Pandas
4 543 (9.10%) NumPy
5 533 (8.93%) SciPy
6 357 (5.98%) .NET
7 275 (4.61%) React
8 201 (3.37%) AngularJS
9 178 (2.98%) HTML
10 141 (2.36%) Node.js
11 128 (2.15%) PySpark
12 127 (2.13%) REST
13 119 (1.99%) ASP.NET
14 115 (1.93%) CSS
15 114 (1.91%) Redux
16 110 (1.84%) Vue
16 110 (1.84%) Web Services
17 107 (1.79%) Kafka
18 106 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
19 101 (1.69%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 669 (11.21%) Fixed Income
2 667 (11.18%) Hedge funds
3 636 (10.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 618 (10.36%) Derivative
5 613 (10.27%) Equities
6 232 (3.89%) Management Information System
7 193 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 124 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 121 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 96 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 92 (1.54%) Clustering
12 89 (1.49%) PMI
13 84 (1.41%) Cloud Native
14 76 (1.27%) Mobile App
15 74 (1.24%) Pricing Data
16 71 (1.19%) Public Cloud
17 65 (1.09%) Social Media
18 54 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
19 53 (0.89%) NHS
20 50 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 463 (7.76%) Windows
2 321 (5.38%) Linux
3 130 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 108 (1.81%) Unix
5 63 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 54 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
7 49 (0.82%) Solaris
8 39 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 29 (0.49%) CentOS
11 24 (0.40%) zOS
12 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
13 21 (0.35%) Ubuntu
14 17 (0.28%) Windows Vista
15 16 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
16 15 (0.25%) Android
17 14 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
18 13 (0.22%) Windows 7
19 12 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
20 11 (0.18%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,503 (41.95%) Agile
2 958 (16.06%) Software Engineering
3 947 (15.87%) Mentoring
4 856 (14.35%) Asset Management
5 843 (14.13%) Roadmaps
6 822 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
7 770 (12.91%) Decision-Making
8 651 (10.91%) Actionable Insight
9 609 (10.21%) Investment Management
10 571 (9.57%) Project Management
11 529 (8.87%) Business Case
12 517 (8.67%) Budgeting
13 501 (8.40%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 496 (8.31%) Change Management
15 481 (8.06%) ERP
16 478 (8.01%) Strategic Roadmap
17 474 (7.95%) Analytics
18 466 (7.81%) DevOps
19 452 (7.58%) Coaching
20 442 (7.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,268 (21.25%) Python
2 938 (15.72%) SQL
3 894 (14.98%) JavaScript
4 791 (13.26%) Java
5 721 (12.09%) TypeScript
6 424 (7.11%) C#
7 244 (4.09%) PowerShell
8 127 (2.13%) Go
9 86 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 64 (1.07%) C++
11 58 (0.97%) Bash
12 53 (0.89%) R
13 49 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 43 (0.72%) PHP
15 37 (0.62%) Bicep
16 32 (0.54%) C
17 29 (0.49%) Perl
18 27 (0.45%) VBA
19 26 (0.44%) Ruby
20 23 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 746 (12.50%) Degree
2 561 (9.40%) ACCA
3 500 (8.38%) CIMA
4 269 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 139 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 128 (2.15%) SC Cleared
8 85 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 81 (1.36%) CISSP
9 81 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 79 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 74 (1.24%) PMP
12 67 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 67 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 50 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 40 (0.67%) CISM
15 28 (0.47%) APMP
15 28 (0.47%) CRISC
16 27 (0.45%) CISA
16 27 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 168 (2.82%) QA
3 102 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 95 (1.59%) SLA
5 77 (1.29%) PMO
6 75 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 53 (0.89%) NIST
8 44 (0.74%) GDPR
9 34 (0.57%) IFRS
10 26 (0.44%) GRC
11 25 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.39%) NCSC
13 20 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 19 (0.32%) ITGC
15 18 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.25%) ISO 9001
17 10 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 9 (0.15%) GAAP
18 9 (0.15%) SOC 2
19 7 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 246 (4.12%) Docker
2 238 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 152 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.84%) RACF
5 43 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (0.67%) XenApp
7 34 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 31 (0.52%) vSphere
9 25 (0.42%) XenDesktop
10 24 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 24 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 15 (0.25%) OpenSSH
12 11 (0.18%) IAG
13 8 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.12%) Firmware
15 6 (0.10%) Forefront TMG
15 6 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.034%) NFS
17 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 267 (4.48%) Terraform
2 250 (4.19%) Kubernetes
3 133 (2.23%) Ansible
4 130 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 75 (1.26%) vCenter Server
6 49 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (0.54%) Grafana
8 21 (0.35%) SCCM
9 15 (0.25%) IBM BigFix
9 15 (0.25%) PowerCLI
10 12 (0.20%) Nagios
11 8 (0.13%) Kibana
11 8 (0.13%) SCOM
11 8 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.12%) MIIS
12 7 (0.12%) PaperCut
13 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.10%) Rundeck
13 6 (0.10%) WSUS
13 6 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,331 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 564 (9.45%) Oracle
3 544 (9.12%) SAP
4 307 (5.15%) Hyperion
5 304 (5.10%) Anaplan
6 178 (2.98%) VMware
7 99 (1.66%) Google
8 92 (1.54%) NEC
9 76 (1.27%) Red Hat
10 74 (1.24%) Bloomberg
11 70 (1.17%) Cisco
11 70 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 70 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 66 (1.11%) Citrix
13 65 (1.09%) Reuters
14 63 (1.06%) NetApp
15 60 (1.01%) Salesforce
16 56 (0.94%) Databricks
17 54 (0.91%) SolidFire
18 53 (0.89%) CyberArk