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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,384 4,144 5,562
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 21.57% 20.95% 25.73%
As % of the General category 32.49% 33.43% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,202 2,621 4,379
10th Percentile £35,525 £41,250 £42,488
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +1.71%

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 10,414 12,395 14,217
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 66.39% 62.67% 65.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 7,037 11,143
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,108 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +2.57% +1.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

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 13 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
1 127 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 69 (2.04%) Apache
4 57 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 51 (1.51%) Confluence
6 12 (0.35%) CMS
7 11 (0.33%) SAS
7 11 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.30%) IIS
8 10 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.24%) Appian
11 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.21%) WordPress
12 6 (0.18%) JBoss
12 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
13 5 (0.15%) HCL Notes
13 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.089%) HCL Domino
14 3 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 370 (10.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
8 6 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.18%) Civil 3D
9 5 (0.15%) Trello
10 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.089%) Sketch
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.059%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.059%) Elementor
13 1 (0.030%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 62 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 61 (1.80%) Unit4 Business World
3 44 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 42 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
5 38 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
6 36 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 35 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
8 30 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
8 30 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
9 22 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
9 22 (0.65%) SAP FI
10 21 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
11 19 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
12 18 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
12 18 (0.53%) SAP CO
12 18 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
13 17 (0.50%) Sage 200
14 16 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
15 14 (0.41%) Sage CRM
16 13 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 673 (19.89%) Azure
2 470 (13.89%) AWS
3 389 (11.50%) Power Platform
4 251 (7.42%) SaaS
5 205 (6.06%) GCP
6 178 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 170 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
8 153 (4.52%) dbt
9 139 (4.11%) Snowflake
10 137 (4.05%) GitHub
11 98 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
12 87 (2.57%) Entra ID
13 74 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 57 (1.68%) Power Automate
15 51 (1.51%) PowerApps
16 48 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
17 47 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
18 43 (1.27%) OCI
19 42 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 40 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.28%) Firewall
2 64 (1.89%) Wireless
3 59 (1.74%) LAN
4 58 (1.71%) WAN
5 46 (1.36%) VPN
6 45 (1.33%) Network Security
7 39 (1.15%) SD-WAN
7 39 (1.15%) Wireshark
8 33 (0.98%) TCP/IP
9 27 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
10 18 (0.53%) Internet
11 15 (0.44%) DNS
11 15 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.33%) DHCP
12 11 (0.33%) VLAN
13 10 (0.30%) BGP
14 9 (0.27%) Junos
14 9 (0.27%) SSL
14 9 (0.27%) WLAN
15 8 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (8.57%) Power BI
2 153 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 124 (3.66%) Apache Iceberg
4 121 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
4 121 (3.58%) Apache Arrow
4 121 (3.58%) Dremio
5 107 (3.16%) Data Lake
6 104 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 99 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 82 (2.42%) Tableau
9 64 (1.89%) Apache Ignite
10 56 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 48 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 43 (1.27%) MySQL
13 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.03%) MongoDB
15 31 (0.92%) Metadata
16 25 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
17 24 (0.71%) Big Data
18 22 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 135 (3.99%) JIRA
2 68 (2.01%) Git
3 50 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
5 25 (0.74%) Selenium
6 21 (0.62%) Postman
7 20 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 20 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.50%) GitLab
8 17 (0.50%) SoapUI
9 16 (0.47%) WebDriver
10 15 (0.44%) ER Studio
11 14 (0.41%) ERwin
12 12 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.24%) webpack
14 6 (0.18%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.15%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.15%) JMeter
15 5 (0.15%) JUnit
General
1 1,200 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 553 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
3 399 (11.79%) Banking
4 290 (8.57%) Marketing
5 203 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 201 (5.94%) Retail
7 199 (5.88%) Front Office
8 194 (5.73%) Public Sector
9 191 (5.64%) Legal
10 144 (4.26%) Manufacturing
11 132 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
12 129 (3.81%) Financial Institution
13 121 (3.58%) Telecoms
14 113 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
15 111 (3.28%) Law
16 94 (2.78%) Investment Banking
17 92 (2.72%) Back Office
18 84 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
19 65 (1.92%) Electronics
20 46 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 512 (15.13%) Senior
2 483 (14.27%) Analyst
3 386 (11.41%) Developer
4 260 (7.68%) Software Engineer
5 241 (7.12%) Lead
6 213 (6.29%) Consultant
7 146 (4.31%) Architect
8 131 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
9 129 (3.81%) Python Engineer
10 127 (3.75%) Financial Analyst
11 121 (3.58%) AWS Software Engineer
12 117 (3.46%) Python Software Engineer
13 107 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 106 (3.13%) Java Engineer
15 97 (2.87%) Accountant
16 96 (2.84%) Java Software Engineer
17 94 (2.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 90 (2.66%) Senior Software Engineer
19 88 (2.60%) Administrator
20 85 (2.51%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (4.99%) React
2 167 (4.93%) .NET
3 140 (4.14%) Pandas
4 128 (3.78%) NumPy
5 121 (3.58%) SciPy
6 119 (3.52%) Node.js
7 112 (3.31%) AngularJS
8 82 (2.42%) Vue
9 81 (2.39%) REST
9 81 (2.39%) RESTful
10 72 (2.13%) CSS
11 65 (1.92%) gRPC
12 64 (1.89%) SOAP
13 62 (1.83%) HTML
13 62 (1.83%) Protocol Buffers
14 52 (1.54%) Kafka
15 47 (1.39%) Spring
16 46 (1.36%) ASP.NET
17 43 (1.27%) GraphQL
18 40 (1.18%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 174 (5.14%) Fixed Income
2 165 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 162 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 159 (4.70%) e-Learning
5 157 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
6 144 (4.26%) Equities
7 131 (3.87%) Product Ownership
8 111 (3.28%) Onboarding
9 110 (3.25%) Cloud Native
10 87 (2.57%) Hedge funds
11 85 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 85 (2.51%) Derivative
12 68 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.92%) Pricing Data
14 60 (1.77%) Data Centre
15 59 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
16 43 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 39 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 38 (1.12%) Security Posture
19 37 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 186 (5.50%) Linux
2 115 (3.40%) Windows
3 51 (1.51%) Unix
4 36 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
6 21 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.33%) Android
8 11 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.15%) VMS
11 3 (0.089%) CentOS
12 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.030%) MVS
13 1 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
13 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (28.22%) Agile
2 612 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
3 547 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 428 (12.65%) Asset Management
5 409 (12.09%) AI
6 393 (11.61%) Analytics
6 393 (11.61%) Software Engineering
7 387 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
8 384 (11.35%) Decision-Making
9 360 (10.64%) DevOps
10 357 (10.55%) ERP
11 353 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 334 (9.87%) Roadmaps
13 328 (9.69%) Project Management
14 325 (9.60%) Mentoring
15 307 (9.07%) Coaching
16 292 (8.63%) Risk Management
17 289 (8.54%) CI/CD
18 239 (7.06%) Fintech
19 209 (6.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 558 (16.49%) SQL
2 481 (14.21%) Python
3 322 (9.52%) Java
4 276 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 240 (7.09%) TypeScript
6 154 (4.55%) C#
7 98 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 93 (2.75%) C++
9 56 (1.65%) PHP
10 54 (1.60%) C
11 50 (1.48%) Bash
12 49 (1.45%) Go
13 46 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 38 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 27 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 24 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.56%) R
18 17 (0.50%) Bicep
18 17 (0.50%) Scala
18 17 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 440 (13.00%) Degree
2 264 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 252 (7.45%) ACCA
4 217 (6.41%) SC Cleared
5 199 (5.88%) CIMA
6 87 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 84 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 81 (2.39%) CISSP
9 70 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (1.86%) CCNP
11 54 (1.60%) DBS Check
12 47 (1.39%) CISM
13 46 (1.36%) AAT
13 46 (1.36%) Master's Degree
14 38 (1.12%) PMI Certification
15 37 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 37 (1.09%) CCNA
15 37 (1.09%) CEH
16 33 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (3.81%) QA
2 122 (3.61%) NIST
3 118 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 108 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 101 (2.98%) GDPR
6 100 (2.96%) Accessibility
7 71 (2.10%) PMO
8 57 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 45 (1.33%) GRC
9 45 (1.33%) IFRS
10 39 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 37 (1.09%) GAAP
12 26 (0.77%) SLA
13 23 (0.68%) COBIT
14 21 (0.62%) SOC 2
15 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.35%) SEPA
17 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
18 10 (0.30%) ITGC
19 9 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 88 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.45%) Docker
3 40 (1.18%) Firmware
4 33 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
6 28 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.18%) NFS
8 6 (0.18%) vSphere
9 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 151 (4.46%) Terraform
2 80 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 56 (1.65%) Ansible
4 51 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 39 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.86%) Grafana
7 13 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 13 (0.38%) SCCM
8 8 (0.24%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.12%) Argo
11 4 (0.12%) Cilium
12 3 (0.089%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.089%) Control-M
12 3 (0.089%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.089%) QRadar
13 2 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.059%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 600 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 183 (5.41%) SAP
3 163 (4.82%) Oracle
4 128 (3.78%) Cisco
5 76 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.04%) Databricks
7 64 (1.89%) Google
8 59 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.68%) Sage
10 52 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 50 (1.48%) VMware
12 48 (1.42%) Workday
13 45 (1.33%) Blue Prism
14 36 (1.06%) Sparx
14 36 (1.06%) Xero
15 30 (0.89%) Palo Alto
15 30 (0.89%) SolarWinds
16 29 (0.86%) CheckPoint
16 29 (0.86%) Meraki
17 26 (0.77%) IBM