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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,712 4,145 6,965
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.82% 25.64% 21.01%
As % of the General category 30.19% 35.13% 34.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 2,538 4,752
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +10.40% -7.41%

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 12,296 11,800 20,238
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.03% 72.99% 61.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,065 6,605 14,734
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,728
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 4 July 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
1 108 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.05%) Confluence
3 32 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.38%) SAS
5 12 (0.32%) CMS
6 6 (0.16%) IIS
7 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.13%) JBoss
8 4 (0.11%) Apache
8 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.081%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.054%) nginx
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.027%) WordPress
Applications
1 221 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.27%) CorelDRAW
7 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.081%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.081%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.081%) Productboard
10 2 (0.054%) SPSS
10 2 (0.054%) Trello
11 1 (0.027%) Notion
11 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 61 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 58 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 29 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 27 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 25 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
8 23 (0.62%) Elite 3E
9 19 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
10 17 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
11 14 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
11 14 (0.38%) SAP ERP
12 13 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
13 12 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 12 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
14 9 (0.24%) SAP CO
14 9 (0.24%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 771 (20.77%) Azure
2 540 (14.55%) AWS
3 342 (9.21%) SaaS
4 267 (7.19%) Power Platform
5 194 (5.23%) GCP
6 149 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
7 114 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
8 106 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (2.05%) Snowflake
10 73 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 64 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (1.70%) Azure AI
13 62 (1.67%) Azure Machine Learning
14 50 (1.35%) PaaS
15 45 (1.21%) GitHub
16 43 (1.16%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
18 37 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (1.94%) Firewall
2 48 (1.29%) WAN
3 46 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 40 (1.08%) VPN
5 39 (1.05%) Network Security
6 38 (1.02%) HTTP
7 35 (0.94%) DNS
8 34 (0.92%) LAN
9 32 (0.86%) DHCP
10 21 (0.57%) Broadband
11 20 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.51%) BGP
12 19 (0.51%) MPLS
13 18 (0.48%) VLAN
13 18 (0.48%) Wireless
14 15 (0.40%) CHAP
15 13 (0.35%) Cisco Firepower
15 13 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (4.71%) Power BI
2 167 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (1.54%) Tableau
5 49 (1.32%) MongoDB
6 48 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 33 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (0.67%) Big Data
11 25 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 25 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (0.62%) MySQL
13 20 (0.54%) Metadata
14 18 (0.48%) Db2
15 15 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.40%) SAP BW
16 12 (0.32%) Looker
16 12 (0.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 97 (2.61%) JIRA
2 63 (1.70%) Git
3 46 (1.24%) TeamCity
4 18 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.43%) Selenium
6 15 (0.40%) JUnit
7 11 (0.30%) Maven
8 10 (0.27%) Mockito
9 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.16%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.16%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.13%) GitLab
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.11%) Postman
12 3 (0.081%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.054%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.054%) Yeoman
General
1 1,213 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 652 (17.56%) Banking
3 490 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 402 (10.83%) Legal
5 334 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 324 (8.73%) Retail
7 283 (7.62%) Law
8 211 (5.68%) Marketing
9 205 (5.52%) Public Sector
10 197 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
11 165 (4.45%) Financial Institution
12 147 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
13 132 (3.56%) Back Office
14 116 (3.13%) Manufacturing
15 109 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
16 68 (1.83%) Front Office
17 66 (1.78%) Telecoms
18 55 (1.48%) Billing
19 53 (1.43%) Investment Banking
20 44 (1.19%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 546 (14.71%) Senior
2 384 (10.34%) Analyst
3 353 (9.51%) Lead
4 340 (9.16%) Developer
5 256 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 243 (6.55%) Architect
7 194 (5.23%) Consultant
8 149 (4.01%) Finance Manager
8 149 (4.01%) Senior Manager
9 118 (3.18%) Accountant
10 107 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (2.48%) Project Manager
12 91 (2.45%) Business Analyst
13 90 (2.42%) IT Manager
14 89 (2.40%) Engineering Manager
15 78 (2.10%) Graduate
16 77 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
17 75 (2.02%) Support Analyst
18 72 (1.94%) Azure Engineer
19 69 (1.86%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (4.20%) .NET
2 151 (4.07%) React
3 112 (3.02%) REST
4 96 (2.59%) Node.js
5 61 (1.64%) CSS
6 55 (1.48%) .NET Core
6 55 (1.48%) Kafka
7 54 (1.45%) Spring
8 48 (1.29%) ASP.NET
9 46 (1.24%) ASP.NET Core
10 42 (1.13%) Redux
11 40 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 40 (1.08%) GraphQL
12 39 (1.05%) jQuery
13 36 (0.97%) AngularJS
13 36 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
14 34 (0.92%) HTML
15 32 (0.86%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.86%) TensorFlow
16 30 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 243 (6.55%) Product Ownership
2 220 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 157 (4.23%) Virtual Team
4 145 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 144 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 141 (3.80%) Web Conferencing
7 133 (3.58%) Podcast
8 81 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 78 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 75 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 67 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 64 (1.72%) Fixed Income
13 55 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.19%) Driving Licence
15 44 (1.19%) Security Posture
16 43 (1.16%) Blog
17 39 (1.05%) Credit Risk
18 36 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 118 (3.18%) Windows
2 104 (2.80%) Linux
3 34 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.48%) Unix
5 14 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.27%) Android
7 9 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.027%) AIX
10 1 (0.027%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (21.26%) Agile
2 577 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 567 (15.27%) Roadmaps
4 549 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 460 (12.39%) AI
6 436 (11.75%) Decision-Making
7 422 (11.37%) Software Engineering
8 419 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 390 (10.51%) Mentoring
10 372 (10.02%) ERP
11 364 (9.81%) Analytics
12 334 (9.00%) CI/CD
13 326 (8.78%) DevOps
14 303 (8.16%) Project Management
15 281 (7.57%) Risk Management
16 264 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 238 (6.41%) Coaching
18 223 (6.01%) CRM
18 223 (6.01%) Fintech
19 218 (5.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 557 (15.01%) SQL
2 370 (9.97%) Python
3 313 (8.43%) Java
4 245 (6.60%) C#
5 158 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 140 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 89 (2.40%) C++
8 72 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 69 (1.86%) PHP
10 66 (1.78%) Go
11 27 (0.73%) Bicep
11 27 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 25 (0.67%) C
13 21 (0.57%) R
14 19 (0.51%) Bash
15 17 (0.46%) Rust
16 16 (0.43%) VBA
17 12 (0.32%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.32%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 362 (9.75%) Degree
2 255 (6.87%) ACCA
3 213 (5.74%) CIMA
3 213 (5.74%) Security Cleared
4 121 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 120 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 107 (2.88%) CISSP
7 83 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (1.75%) CISM
9 54 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 49 (1.32%) CISA
11 45 (1.21%) DV Cleared
12 41 (1.10%) PMP
13 40 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 32 (0.86%) CRISC
15 31 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
15 31 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 29 (0.78%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.75%) AAT
17 28 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (4.31%) QA
2 136 (3.66%) GDPR
3 135 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 109 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 89 (2.40%) NIST
6 71 (1.91%) IFRS
7 65 (1.75%) PMO
8 60 (1.62%) GRC
9 52 (1.40%) SLA
10 47 (1.27%) Accessibility
11 44 (1.19%) GAAP
12 41 (1.10%) PCI DSS
13 33 (0.89%) COBIT
14 27 (0.73%) SOC 2
15 22 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
16 18 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.40%) MiFID
19 14 (0.38%) COREP
19 14 (0.38%) FINREP
System Software
1 90 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.21%) Docker
3 64 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.19%) Firmware
7 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.054%) Squid
11 1 (0.027%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 157 (4.23%) Terraform
2 154 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.48%) Grafana
4 45 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (0.84%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) Istio
7 7 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.13%) Endace
9 5 (0.13%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.13%) QRadar
9 5 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.13%) SCCM
10 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.081%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.081%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.054%) Argo
12 2 (0.054%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 627 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 230 (6.20%) Oracle
3 133 (3.58%) SAP
4 109 (2.94%) Databricks
5 85 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 70 (1.89%) Sage
7 60 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 51 (1.37%) Google
9 45 (1.21%) Cisco
10 37 (1.00%) Xero
11 36 (0.97%) VMware
12 33 (0.89%) Workday
13 27 (0.73%) Adobe
14 26 (0.70%) Aderant
15 22 (0.59%) HubSpot
15 22 (0.59%) IBM
16 20 (0.54%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.54%) Splunk
17 18 (0.48%) iManage
18 17 (0.46%) Okta