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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,094 3,836 5,670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.91% 23.40% 23.26%
As % of the General category 33.34% 33.90% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,872 2,448 4,458
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,066
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.43% -7.05%

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 9,280 11,317 15,211
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.71% 69.03% 62.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,858 6,402 11,974
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,717 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.86%

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 23 January 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 66 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (1.62%) Confluence
3 40 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (1.07%) Apache
5 18 (0.58%) SAS
6 17 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 11 (0.36%) JBoss
9 10 (0.32%) CMS
10 8 (0.26%) Ethereum
10 8 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.13%) HCL Notes
14 3 (0.097%) HCL Domino
14 3 (0.097%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.097%) WordPress
15 2 (0.065%) nginx
Applications
1 264 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.16%) Sketch
7 5 (0.16%) Trello
8 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.065%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.065%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.032%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 63 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
2 58 (1.87%) Oracle Payables
3 47 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
4 45 (1.45%) NetSuite
5 43 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 41 (1.33%) Unit4 Business World
7 40 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
7 40 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
8 28 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
9 26 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
10 19 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
10 19 (0.61%) SAP FI
11 16 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
11 16 (0.52%) SAP CO
11 16 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.45%) Hyperion Planning
13 12 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
13 12 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
13 12 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 12 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 765 (24.73%) Azure
2 408 (13.19%) AWS
3 330 (10.67%) Power Platform
4 265 (8.56%) SaaS
5 240 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
6 205 (6.63%) GitHub
7 175 (5.66%) GCP
8 147 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
9 124 (4.01%) Snowflake
10 108 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 108 (3.49%) Entra ID
11 103 (3.33%) dbt
12 87 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
13 82 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
14 71 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
15 59 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 58 (1.87%) OCI
17 49 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
19 44 (1.42%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (2.62%) Firewall
2 59 (1.91%) WAN
3 47 (1.52%) SD-WAN
3 47 (1.52%) VPN
4 45 (1.45%) LAN
5 44 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 43 (1.39%) Wireless
7 36 (1.16%) Wireshark
8 31 (1.00%) DNS
9 26 (0.84%) DHCP
10 23 (0.74%) Network Security
11 18 (0.58%) Internet
12 16 (0.52%) CHAP
13 12 (0.39%) VLAN
14 10 (0.32%) HTTP
15 9 (0.29%) BGP
15 9 (0.29%) SSL
16 8 (0.26%) Telnet
17 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
17 7 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (7.60%) Power BI
2 124 (4.01%) SQL Server
3 112 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 98 (3.17%) Tableau
5 85 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 54 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 53 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 46 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
10 43 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
10 43 (1.39%) Apache Arrow
10 43 (1.39%) Dremio
11 36 (1.16%) Metadata
12 31 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (0.97%) MySQL
14 27 (0.87%) Big Data
15 26 (0.84%) Apache Ignite
16 25 (0.81%) MongoDB
17 20 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 20 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 160 (5.17%) JIRA
2 70 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
3 69 (2.23%) Git
4 62 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 39 (1.26%) Selenium
6 36 (1.16%) Postman
7 28 (0.90%) SoapUI
8 27 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 25 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (0.74%) WebDriver
11 18 (0.58%) ERwin
12 17 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.52%) ER Studio
13 16 (0.52%) GitLab
14 11 (0.36%) Storybook
15 9 (0.29%) Subversion
16 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.19%) Cucumber
18 5 (0.16%) JMeter
18 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,074 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 540 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
3 428 (13.83%) Banking
4 252 (8.14%) Marketing
5 214 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 210 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 209 (6.76%) Retail
8 165 (5.33%) Legal
9 164 (5.30%) Financial Institution
10 144 (4.65%) Law
11 107 (3.46%) Telecoms
12 104 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
13 100 (3.23%) Manufacturing
14 94 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
15 93 (3.01%) Back Office
16 85 (2.75%) Front Office
17 75 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
18 57 (1.84%) Electronics
19 52 (1.68%) Billing
19 52 (1.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 548 (17.71%) Senior
2 442 (14.29%) Analyst
3 258 (8.34%) Developer
4 206 (6.66%) Lead
5 174 (5.62%) Software Engineer
6 158 (5.11%) Consultant
7 138 (4.46%) Architect
8 102 (3.30%) Business Analyst
9 93 (3.01%) Data Engineer
10 83 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
11 81 (2.62%) Financial Analyst
12 74 (2.39%) Project Manager
13 72 (2.33%) Finance Manager
13 72 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
14 64 (2.07%) Software Developer
15 63 (2.04%) Python Engineer
15 63 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
16 62 (2.00%) Accountant
16 62 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
17 60 (1.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (5.17%) .NET
2 99 (3.20%) REST
3 97 (3.14%) SOAP
4 93 (3.01%) RESTful
5 88 (2.84%) React
6 56 (1.81%) JSON
7 52 (1.68%) Node.js
7 52 (1.68%) Pandas
8 51 (1.65%) OAuth
9 48 (1.55%) NumPy
10 46 (1.49%) Spring
11 44 (1.42%) AngularJS
12 43 (1.39%) SciPy
13 42 (1.36%) HTML
14 36 (1.16%) CSS
14 36 (1.16%) Middleware
15 35 (1.13%) Kafka
16 32 (1.03%) OAuth2
16 32 (1.03%) XML
17 29 (0.94%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 177 (5.72%) Cloud Native
3 151 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 124 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
5 123 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 76 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 71 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.17%) e-Learning
9 67 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 66 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 60 (1.94%) Fixed Income
12 56 (1.81%) Security Posture
13 53 (1.71%) Equities
14 46 (1.49%) Blog
15 44 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 42 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
17 38 (1.23%) Virtual Team
18 34 (1.10%) Public Cloud
19 33 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (4.27%) Linux
2 108 (3.49%) Windows
3 45 (1.45%) Unix
4 39 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.58%) Android
8 11 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.065%) CentOS
11 2 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (27.54%) Agile
2 539 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
3 538 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 466 (15.06%) AI
5 459 (14.84%) Coaching
6 448 (14.48%) Asset Management
7 439 (14.19%) DevOps
8 412 (13.32%) Analytics
9 409 (13.22%) Roadmaps
10 399 (12.90%) CI/CD
11 358 (11.57%) Decision-Making
12 326 (10.54%) Mentoring
13 323 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 311 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
15 310 (10.02%) ERP
15 310 (10.02%) Software Engineering
16 278 (8.99%) Risk Management
17 277 (8.95%) Project Management
18 236 (7.63%) Test Automation
19 194 (6.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 585 (18.91%) SQL
2 411 (13.28%) Python
3 295 (9.53%) Java
4 155 (5.01%) C#
5 152 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 132 (4.27%) TypeScript
7 125 (4.04%) PowerShell
8 69 (2.23%) C++
9 55 (1.78%) PHP
10 53 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 39 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.23%) Bash
12 38 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 37 (1.20%) Go
14 33 (1.07%) C
15 32 (1.03%) Bicep
16 28 (0.90%) Apex Code
17 20 (0.65%) Scala
17 20 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 403 (13.03%) Degree
2 203 (6.56%) ACCA
3 187 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 162 (5.24%) CIMA
5 140 (4.52%) CISSP
6 133 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 88 (2.84%) CISA
8 73 (2.36%) CISM
9 70 (2.26%) DV Cleared
10 69 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 63 (2.04%) CRISC
12 61 (1.97%) DBS Check
13 43 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
14 40 (1.29%) ISTQB
15 38 (1.23%) PMI Certification
16 35 (1.13%) AAT
16 35 (1.13%) Azure Certification
17 30 (0.97%) CCNP
18 28 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 24 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (4.91%) NIST
2 131 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 121 (3.91%) QA
4 119 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 113 (3.65%) GDPR
6 75 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 72 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 69 (2.23%) GRC
9 53 (1.71%) PMO
10 49 (1.58%) IFRS
11 32 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 31 (1.00%) COBIT
12 31 (1.00%) GAAP
12 31 (1.00%) SLA
13 22 (0.71%) SOC 2
14 21 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.42%) P3O
16 11 (0.36%) SEPA
16 11 (0.36%) WCAG
17 9 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 108 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.10%) Docker
3 39 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 25 (0.81%) Firmware
6 17 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.16%) NFS
9 5 (0.16%) vSphere
10 4 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.032%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 229 (7.40%) Terraform
2 112 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 56 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 53 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (1.49%) Ansible
6 41 (1.33%) Grafana
7 16 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.39%) SCCM
9 10 (0.32%) Argo
10 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (0.23%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.19%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 4 (0.13%) Cilium
14 4 (0.13%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.13%) QRadar
15 2 (0.065%) Kibana
15 2 (0.065%) Puppet
15 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 532 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 165 (5.33%) Oracle
3 134 (4.33%) SAP
4 93 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 87 (2.81%) Databricks
6 85 (2.75%) Cisco
7 58 (1.87%) Google
8 53 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 49 (1.58%) VMware
10 45 (1.45%) Blue Prism
11 44 (1.42%) Sage
12 37 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 34 (1.10%) Workday
14 32 (1.03%) CheckPoint
15 28 (0.90%) Meraki
15 28 (0.90%) SolarWinds
16 27 (0.87%) Okta
16 27 (0.87%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.74%) IBM
18 18 (0.58%) Ab Initio