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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,363 4,207 5,312
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 22.02% 21.40% 25.37%
As % of the General category 34.36% 33.18% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 2,726 4,235
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £46,750 £52,500 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £118,750 £130,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.18% +2.84% +0.80%

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 9,787 12,680 13,638
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 64.08% 64.51% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,260 7,358 10,756
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% - +0.16%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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
1 110 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.84%) Apache
4 49 (1.46%) Confluence
4 49 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.39%) CMS
6 13 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 11 (0.33%) SAS
8 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.24%) Ethereum
9 8 (0.24%) JBoss
10 7 (0.21%) Appian
10 7 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.089%) HCL Domino
13 3 (0.089%) nginx
Applications
1 347 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 161 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
7 9 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.15%) Trello
9 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.089%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.089%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.089%) Sketch
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.059%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.059%) Elementor
12 1 (0.030%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 61 (1.81%) Unit4 Business World
2 50 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 48 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 47 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
5 40 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 40 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 37 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
7 31 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
8 27 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
8 27 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
8 27 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 21 (0.62%) SAP FI
10 18 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
12 16 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
12 16 (0.48%) SAP CO
12 16 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
13 14 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
14 13 (0.39%) Workday HCM
15 12 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 738 (21.94%) Azure
2 472 (14.04%) AWS
3 376 (11.18%) Power Platform
4 255 (7.58%) SaaS
5 212 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
6 200 (5.95%) GCP
7 178 (5.29%) GitHub
8 167 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
9 151 (4.49%) dbt
10 146 (4.34%) Snowflake
11 99 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
12 97 (2.88%) Entra ID
13 84 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 60 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.72%) Power Automate
17 51 (1.52%) OCI
18 48 (1.43%) PowerApps
19 45 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 45 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.35%) Firewall
2 56 (1.67%) WAN
2 56 (1.67%) Wireless
3 55 (1.64%) LAN
4 44 (1.31%) Network Security
5 43 (1.28%) VPN
6 41 (1.22%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.16%) Wireshark
8 36 (1.07%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.62%) DNS
10 19 (0.56%) Internet
11 18 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
12 16 (0.48%) DHCP
13 10 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.27%) SSL
14 9 (0.27%) VLAN
14 9 (0.27%) WLAN
15 8 (0.24%) BGP
15 8 (0.24%) Intranet
16 7 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (8.24%) Power BI
2 150 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 110 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (3.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 103 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
5 103 (3.06%) Apache Arrow
5 103 (3.06%) Dremio
6 100 (2.97%) Data Lake
7 87 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
8 86 (2.56%) Tableau
9 56 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
10 54 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 49 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 43 (1.28%) MySQL
13 34 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (0.98%) MongoDB
15 32 (0.95%) Metadata
16 27 (0.80%) Big Data
17 22 (0.65%) Power Query
18 21 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 143 (4.25%) JIRA
2 70 (2.08%) Git
3 59 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
4 58 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.83%) Selenium
6 24 (0.71%) Postman
7 21 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 20 (0.59%) SoapUI
9 19 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.51%) GitLab
10 17 (0.51%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.45%) ERwin
12 14 (0.42%) ER Studio
13 13 (0.39%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.24%) Storybook
15 7 (0.21%) Subversion
16 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.18%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.18%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 1,165 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 564 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 431 (12.82%) Banking
4 297 (8.83%) Marketing
5 207 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 203 (6.04%) Retail
7 200 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 177 (5.26%) Front Office
9 171 (5.08%) Legal
10 132 (3.93%) Financial Institution
10 132 (3.93%) Manufacturing
10 132 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
11 131 (3.90%) Telecoms
12 119 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
13 116 (3.45%) Law
14 86 (2.56%) Back Office
15 84 (2.50%) Investment Banking
16 78 (2.32%) Electronics
17 77 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
18 50 (1.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 544 (16.18%) Senior
2 458 (13.62%) Analyst
3 377 (11.21%) Developer
4 234 (6.96%) Software Engineer
5 228 (6.78%) Lead
6 212 (6.30%) Consultant
7 142 (4.22%) Architect
8 127 (3.78%) Financial Analyst
9 116 (3.45%) Python Engineer
10 115 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
11 103 (3.06%) AWS Software Engineer
11 103 (3.06%) Python Software Engineer
12 97 (2.88%) Accountant
13 96 (2.85%) Business Analyst
14 92 (2.74%) Java Engineer
15 87 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
16 82 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
17 80 (2.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 79 (2.35%) Project Manager
19 74 (2.20%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (5.03%) .NET
2 159 (4.73%) React
3 122 (3.63%) Pandas
4 109 (3.24%) Node.js
4 109 (3.24%) NumPy
5 103 (3.06%) SciPy
6 97 (2.88%) AngularJS
6 97 (2.88%) REST
7 96 (2.85%) RESTful
8 81 (2.41%) SOAP
9 70 (2.08%) CSS
10 69 (2.05%) Vue
11 57 (1.69%) gRPC
11 57 (1.69%) HTML
12 54 (1.61%) Kafka
12 54 (1.61%) Protocol Buffers
13 51 (1.52%) GraphQL
14 47 (1.40%) JSON
15 46 (1.37%) Spring
16 43 (1.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 151 (4.49%) Management Information System
2 150 (4.46%) Fixed Income
3 143 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 143 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
4 140 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 136 (4.04%) Cloud Native
6 122 (3.63%) Equities
7 119 (3.54%) e-Learning
8 112 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 86 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 73 (2.17%) Hedge funds
11 70 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 70 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
12 68 (2.02%) Derivative
13 67 (1.99%) Data Centre
14 53 (1.58%) Pricing Data
15 40 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.19%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.07%) Security Posture
17 33 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.88%) Linux
2 117 (3.48%) Windows
3 48 (1.43%) Unix
4 36 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
7 16 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.42%) Android
9 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.18%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.059%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) MVS
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 959 (28.52%) Agile
2 592 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
3 534 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 462 (13.74%) Asset Management
5 441 (13.11%) AI
6 399 (11.86%) DevOps
7 395 (11.75%) Analytics
8 381 (11.33%) Roadmaps
9 378 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
10 375 (11.15%) Software Engineering
11 374 (11.12%) Decision-Making
12 367 (10.91%) Coaching
13 354 (10.53%) ERP
14 345 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 335 (9.96%) CI/CD
16 323 (9.60%) Mentoring
17 313 (9.31%) Risk Management
18 289 (8.59%) Project Management
19 224 (6.66%) Fintech
20 211 (6.27%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 570 (16.95%) SQL
2 470 (13.98%) Python
3 324 (9.63%) Java
4 254 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 220 (6.54%) TypeScript
6 167 (4.97%) C#
7 110 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 83 (2.47%) C++
9 69 (2.05%) PHP
10 50 (1.49%) Bash
11 49 (1.46%) Go
12 46 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 44 (1.31%) C
13 44 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 32 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 23 (0.68%) T-SQL
16 22 (0.65%) Bicep
17 20 (0.59%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.54%) VBA
19 17 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 428 (12.73%) Degree
2 268 (7.97%) ACCA
3 231 (6.87%) Security Cleared
4 213 (6.33%) CIMA
5 182 (5.41%) SC Cleared
6 126 (3.75%) CISSP
7 86 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 73 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.93%) CISA
10 60 (1.78%) CRISC
11 56 (1.67%) DBS Check
12 54 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
12 54 (1.61%) CISM
13 49 (1.46%) AAT
14 46 (1.37%) CCNP
15 39 (1.16%) Master's Degree
16 38 (1.13%) CEH
17 37 (1.10%) Azure Certification
18 33 (0.98%) CCNA
18 33 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (4.85%) NIST
2 131 (3.90%) QA
3 114 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 113 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (3.24%) GDPR
6 93 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 91 (2.71%) Accessibility
8 59 (1.75%) PMO
9 51 (1.52%) GRC
10 46 (1.37%) IFRS
11 41 (1.22%) GAAP
12 37 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.92%) SLA
14 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
14 20 (0.59%) COBIT
15 19 (0.56%) SOC 2
16 12 (0.36%) SEPA
17 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
18 10 (0.30%) WCAG
19 9 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 98 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 57 (1.69%) Docker
3 36 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.98%) Firmware
5 28 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
7 13 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.18%) NFS
9 6 (0.18%) vSphere
10 3 (0.089%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.059%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 173 (5.14%) Terraform
2 89 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 59 (1.75%) Ansible
4 53 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (0.95%) Grafana
7 16 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 13 (0.39%) SCCM
9 6 (0.18%) Argo
9 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.12%) Cilium
10 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 4 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.089%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.089%) QRadar
12 2 (0.059%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.059%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 2 (0.059%) Suricata
Vendors
1 589 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 175 (5.20%) SAP
3 167 (4.97%) Oracle
4 111 (3.30%) Cisco
5 80 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 74 (2.20%) Databricks
7 61 (1.81%) Google
8 59 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 50 (1.49%) VMware
10 49 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 46 (1.37%) Workday
12 45 (1.34%) Blue Prism
13 40 (1.19%) Sage
14 35 (1.04%) Xero
15 30 (0.89%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.86%) CheckPoint
16 29 (0.86%) Meraki
16 29 (0.86%) SolarWinds
17 27 (0.80%) Sparx
18 26 (0.77%) IBM