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 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,596 3,926 5,177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.58% 23.70% 22.79%
As % of the General category 30.32% 33.29% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,679 2,231 2,949
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,348 £47,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -8.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -

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 15,156 11,794 14,222
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.26% 71.21% 62.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,192 6,231 8,036
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
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 28 September 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
1 113 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.13%) Confluence
3 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 14 (0.30%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.13%) IIS
12 3 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.044%) Hedera
13 2 (0.044%) WordPress
14 1 (0.022%) CICS
14 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
14 1 (0.022%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.022%) Moodle
14 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 288 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.37%) Simulink
7 12 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.22%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.13%) Trello
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.11%) InDesign
11 4 (0.087%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.087%) Sketch
12 3 (0.065%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.065%) Notion
12 3 (0.065%) Productboard
13 2 (0.044%) SPSS
13 2 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 58 (1.26%) NetSuite
2 39 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
3 35 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 34 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 33 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 30 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
7 24 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
9 19 (0.41%) Primavera
10 18 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
12 16 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
12 16 (0.35%) Elite 3E
12 16 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
14 13 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
15 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 833 (18.12%) Azure
2 618 (13.45%) AWS
3 398 (8.66%) SaaS
4 349 (7.59%) Power Platform
5 237 (5.16%) GCP
6 158 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
6 158 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 114 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (2.13%) Snowflake
9 87 (1.89%) PaaS
10 84 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 82 (1.78%) GitHub
12 80 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
13 77 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 72 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
15 60 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 60 (1.31%) Serverless
16 58 (1.26%) Anthropic Claude
17 47 (1.02%) Amazon Bedrock
18 39 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.70%) LAN
2 77 (1.68%) WAN
3 59 (1.28%) Firewall
4 43 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 39 (0.85%) HTTP
6 36 (0.78%) DNS
6 36 (0.78%) Network Security
7 33 (0.72%) VPN
8 26 (0.57%) DHCP
9 25 (0.54%) 5G
9 25 (0.54%) Broadband
10 18 (0.39%) Internet
10 18 (0.39%) VLAN
11 15 (0.33%) Wireless
12 12 (0.26%) BGP
12 12 (0.26%) Ethernet
12 12 (0.26%) MPLS
13 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (5.13%) Power BI
2 127 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 66 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 57 (1.24%) Tableau
6 53 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 44 (0.96%) Metadata
8 40 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (0.83%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.59%) Big Data
12 22 (0.48%) MySQL
12 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 20 (0.44%) NoSQL
14 20 (0.44%) Power Query
15 18 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.39%) Looker
16 17 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 131 (2.85%) JIRA
2 90 (1.96%) Git
3 67 (1.46%) TeamCity
4 42 (0.91%) Claude Code
5 33 (0.72%) JUnit
6 23 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 23 (0.50%) Maven
7 22 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.41%) Mockito
9 12 (0.26%) Selenium
10 9 (0.20%) GitLab
11 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.15%) Postman
12 7 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.13%) Gatling
13 6 (0.13%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.13%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.087%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.087%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,615 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 745 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
3 720 (15.67%) Banking
4 583 (12.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 488 (10.62%) Legal
6 381 (8.29%) Retail
7 375 (8.16%) Law
8 330 (7.18%) Marketing
9 325 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
10 267 (5.81%) Public Sector
11 250 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
12 181 (3.94%) Manufacturing
13 166 (3.61%) Financial Institution
14 157 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
15 155 (3.37%) Aerospace
16 153 (3.33%) Back Office
17 105 (2.28%) Telecoms
18 94 (2.05%) Billing
19 69 (1.50%) General Ledger
20 61 (1.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 635 (13.82%) Senior
2 512 (11.14%) Lead
3 445 (9.68%) Analyst
4 405 (8.81%) Architect
5 329 (7.16%) Developer
6 284 (6.18%) Software Engineer
7 232 (5.05%) Consultant
8 168 (3.66%) Senior Manager
9 152 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
10 149 (3.24%) Finance Manager
11 144 (3.13%) Accountant
12 116 (2.52%) IT Manager
13 107 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
14 106 (2.31%) Project Manager
15 104 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
16 97 (2.11%) Business Analyst
17 88 (1.91%) Data Analyst
17 88 (1.91%) Enterprise Architect
18 80 (1.74%) Business Manager
18 80 (1.74%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (4.05%) Terraform
2 157 (3.42%) .NET
3 140 (3.05%) React
4 112 (2.44%) REST
5 71 (1.54%) Node.js
5 71 (1.54%) Spring
6 62 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 61 (1.33%) LangChain
8 59 (1.28%) ASP.NET
9 54 (1.17%) LangGraph
10 53 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
10 53 (1.15%) CSS
11 52 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
12 49 (1.07%) .NET Framework
13 48 (1.04%) XML
14 43 (0.94%) RESTful
15 41 (0.89%) AngularJS
16 40 (0.87%) PyTorch
16 40 (0.87%) TensorFlow
17 37 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 306 (6.66%) Product Ownership
2 246 (5.35%) Management Information System
3 237 (5.16%) Cloud Native
4 218 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 174 (3.79%) Web Conferencing
6 169 (3.68%) Podcast
7 152 (3.31%) Virtual Team
8 149 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
9 97 (2.11%) Blog
10 87 (1.89%) AI Agents
11 84 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 77 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
13 70 (1.52%) Hedge funds
14 65 (1.41%) Credit Risk
15 63 (1.37%) Data Centre
16 61 (1.33%) Social Media
17 56 (1.22%) Data Structures
18 44 (0.96%) Driving Licence
19 43 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
20 42 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.70%) Windows
2 99 (2.15%) Linux
3 49 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.50%) Android
5 19 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.24%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.065%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.022%) AIX
11 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.022%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 788 (17.15%) Agile
3 786 (17.10%) AI
4 757 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
5 724 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 714 (15.54%) Roadmaps
7 703 (15.30%) Decision-Making
8 528 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 489 (10.64%) Mentoring
10 457 (9.94%) Analytics
11 450 (9.79%) ERP
12 431 (9.38%) CI/CD
13 381 (8.29%) Risk Management
14 372 (8.09%) Process Improvement
15 363 (7.90%) Project Delivery
16 358 (7.79%) DevOps
17 349 (7.59%) Coaching
18 338 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 335 (7.29%) Customer Service
20 321 (6.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 637 (13.86%) SQL
2 428 (9.31%) Python
3 312 (6.79%) Java
4 234 (5.09%) C#
5 155 (3.37%) JavaScript
6 120 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 88 (1.91%) C++
8 83 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 45 (0.98%) PHP
10 37 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 37 (0.81%) R
11 29 (0.63%) Bash
12 28 (0.61%) Bicep
13 25 (0.54%) C
14 22 (0.48%) Go
14 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.37%) VBA
17 14 (0.30%) Rust
17 14 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 416 (9.05%) Degree
2 389 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 297 (6.46%) SC Cleared
4 264 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 255 (5.55%) ACCA
6 231 (5.03%) CIMA
7 130 (2.83%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 70 (1.52%) CISSP
10 67 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 52 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 52 (1.13%) CISM
12 50 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 43 (0.94%) PMP
14 40 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.72%) CISA
16 32 (0.70%) CRISC
17 28 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
19 25 (0.54%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 192 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 171 (3.72%) QA
4 152 (3.31%) GDPR
5 98 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 92 (2.00%) GRC
7 81 (1.76%) PMO
8 79 (1.72%) SLA
9 63 (1.37%) NIST
10 54 (1.17%) IFRS
11 38 (0.83%) GAAP
12 35 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.59%) COBIT
14 24 (0.52%) SOC 2
15 21 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
16 18 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.33%) NCSC
19 14 (0.30%) Def Stans
20 12 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (2.33%) Docker
2 97 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.09%) Firmware
4 36 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.13%) Squid
11 5 (0.11%) vSphere
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.022%) HDFS
13 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 194 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 99 (2.15%) Grafana
3 40 (0.87%) Ansible
4 32 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.087%) QRadar
8 4 (0.087%) SCCM
9 3 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.065%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.065%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.044%) CASB
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.044%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.044%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.022%) Control-M
11 1 (0.022%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 754 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 236 (5.13%) Oracle
3 149 (3.24%) SAP
4 110 (2.39%) Databricks
5 99 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 76 (1.65%) Sage
7 71 (1.54%) Google
8 66 (1.44%) Workday
9 62 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 45 (0.98%) VMware
11 41 (0.89%) Xero
12 37 (0.81%) HubSpot
13 34 (0.74%) Cisco
14 29 (0.63%) Aderant
15 27 (0.59%) Adobe
16 25 (0.54%) BMC
17 24 (0.52%) YouTube
18 22 (0.48%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.46%) IBM
19 21 (0.46%) Splunk