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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,314 3,485 7,169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.65% 26.24% 22.04%
As % of the General category 33.12% 36.51% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,150 2,582 4,967
10th Percentile £34,225 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,893
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -5.55%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +15.19% -7.59%

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 10,005 9,545 20,207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.31% 71.88% 62.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,644 6,488 15,204
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,250 £31,630
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -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 19 April 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 75 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.18%) Confluence
3 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.45%) SAS
5 12 (0.36%) JBoss
6 10 (0.30%) CMS
6 10 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) Apache
8 6 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.091%) IIS
12 2 (0.060%) nginx
12 2 (0.060%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.060%) WordPress
13 1 (0.030%) Camunda
13 1 (0.030%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 220 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
5 11 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.15%) Sketch
7 3 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
9 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 67 (2.02%) Oracle Financials
2 60 (1.81%) NetSuite
3 55 (1.66%) Oracle Payables
4 50 (1.51%) Oracle Assets
5 43 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
6 42 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 37 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 30 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
9 29 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
10 27 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (0.51%) Elite 3E
11 17 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
12 16 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
13 15 (0.45%) SAP FI
14 14 (0.42%) SAP CO
14 14 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
15 12 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
15 12 (0.36%) SAP ERP
16 10 (0.30%) Hyperion Planning
16 10 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 759 (22.90%) Azure
2 465 (14.03%) AWS
3 327 (9.87%) SaaS
4 240 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 197 (5.94%) GCP
6 164 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 154 (4.65%) GitHub
8 126 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (3.56%) Snowflake
10 116 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 108 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 99 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
13 74 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
14 73 (2.20%) Entra ID
15 72 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
16 70 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
17 57 (1.72%) Azure AI
18 56 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (1.45%) dbt
20 38 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.81%) Firewall
2 53 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 47 (1.42%) VPN
4 42 (1.27%) WAN
5 40 (1.21%) DNS
6 38 (1.15%) DHCP
7 31 (0.94%) HTTP
8 26 (0.78%) Network Security
8 26 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.75%) CHAP
10 21 (0.63%) BGP
11 17 (0.51%) Wireless
12 16 (0.48%) VLAN
13 14 (0.42%) LAN
13 14 (0.42%) MPLS
14 13 (0.39%) Internet
15 11 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
16 9 (0.27%) Broadband
16 9 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
16 9 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (5.67%) Power BI
2 181 (5.46%) SQL Server
3 75 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (2.08%) Tableau
5 61 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 53 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 50 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.84%) Big Data
11 25 (0.75%) Metadata
12 24 (0.72%) MySQL
13 23 (0.69%) Relational Database
14 20 (0.60%) NoSQL
15 17 (0.51%) DB2
16 15 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 13 (0.39%) Delta Lake
17 13 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
18 12 (0.36%) MongoDB
19 11 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 121 (3.65%) JIRA
2 74 (2.23%) Git
3 48 (1.45%) TeamCity
4 39 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
5 38 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 29 (0.88%) Selenium
7 19 (0.57%) Postman
8 16 (0.48%) WebDriver
9 15 (0.45%) SoapUI
10 14 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.36%) GitLab
13 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Storybook
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 7 (0.21%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.18%) ERwin
15 6 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
16 4 (0.12%) ER Studio
16 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,075 (32.44%) Social Skills
2 589 (17.77%) Banking
3 513 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 321 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 317 (9.57%) Retail
6 261 (7.88%) Law
7 251 (7.57%) Public Sector
8 247 (7.45%) Legal
9 239 (7.21%) Marketing
10 198 (5.97%) Financial Institution
11 143 (4.32%) Back Office
12 125 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
13 104 (3.14%) Manufacturing
14 94 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
15 93 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
16 86 (2.60%) Front Office
17 76 (2.29%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.39%) Billing
19 39 (1.18%) Advertising
20 38 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 588 (17.74%) Senior
2 396 (11.95%) Analyst
3 262 (7.91%) Developer
4 258 (7.79%) Lead
5 221 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 179 (5.40%) Architect
7 167 (5.04%) Consultant
8 123 (3.71%) Finance Manager
9 108 (3.26%) Business Analyst
10 101 (3.05%) Senior Manager
11 100 (3.02%) Accountant
12 90 (2.72%) Project Manager
13 85 (2.56%) Data Engineer
13 85 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
14 81 (2.44%) C# Developer
15 79 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
16 78 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
17 73 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
17 73 (2.20%) Software Developer
18 71 (2.14%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (3.68%) .NET
1 122 (3.68%) React
2 117 (3.53%) REST
3 69 (2.08%) Kafka
3 69 (2.08%) Node.js
4 63 (1.90%) SOAP
5 62 (1.87%) RESTful
6 57 (1.72%) GraphQL
7 51 (1.54%) JSON
8 46 (1.39%) Spring
9 44 (1.33%) CSS
10 43 (1.30%) OAuth
10 43 (1.30%) Redux
11 35 (1.06%) Middleware
12 31 (0.94%) HTML
13 30 (0.91%) jQuery
13 30 (0.91%) XML
14 25 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
15 24 (0.72%) AngularJS
16 22 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 228 (6.88%) Cloud Native
2 216 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 132 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 124 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 97 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 71 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 66 (1.99%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.87%) Fixed Income
10 59 (1.78%) Blog
11 58 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 58 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 57 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 52 (1.57%) Data Structures
14 48 (1.45%) Security Posture
15 40 (1.21%) Low-Code
16 39 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
18 32 (0.97%) Driving Licence
19 29 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 121 (3.65%) Windows
2 101 (3.05%) Linux
3 43 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 28 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.81%) Unix
6 20 (0.60%) Android
7 15 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.060%) CentOS
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.030%) AIX
11 1 (0.030%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.030%) VMS
11 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (24.86%) Agile
2 538 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
3 529 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
4 449 (13.55%) AI
5 438 (13.22%) Roadmaps
6 397 (11.98%) CI/CD
7 396 (11.95%) Decision-Making
8 392 (11.83%) DevOps
9 379 (11.44%) Analytics
10 357 (10.77%) Mentoring
11 352 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 348 (10.50%) Coaching
12 348 (10.50%) Software Engineering
13 325 (9.81%) ERP
14 288 (8.69%) Risk Management
15 280 (8.45%) Project Management
16 250 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
17 247 (7.45%) Test Automation
18 224 (6.76%) Asset Management
19 223 (6.73%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 554 (16.72%) SQL
2 346 (10.44%) Python
3 336 (10.14%) Java
4 198 (5.97%) C#
5 121 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 112 (3.38%) JavaScript
7 90 (2.72%) Go
7 90 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 80 (2.41%) C++
9 74 (2.23%) PHP
10 39 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 31 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (0.84%) C
13 24 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 24 (0.72%) Bicep
14 21 (0.63%) Bash
15 18 (0.54%) Rust
15 18 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 17 (0.51%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 396 (11.95%) Degree
2 269 (8.12%) ACCA
3 221 (6.67%) CIMA
4 192 (5.79%) Security Cleared
5 152 (4.59%) CISSP
6 110 (3.32%) SC Cleared
7 97 (2.93%) CISA
8 80 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.08%) CISM
10 66 (1.99%) CRISC
11 57 (1.72%) DV Cleared
12 50 (1.51%) PMI Certification
13 37 (1.12%) DBS Check
13 37 (1.12%) SANS
14 35 (1.06%) Azure Certification
15 31 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (0.84%) AAT
17 27 (0.81%) PMP
18 26 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
19 25 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (3.98%) NIST
2 128 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 115 (3.47%) QA
4 114 (3.44%) GDPR
5 105 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.38%) PCI DSS
7 70 (2.11%) IFRS
8 66 (1.99%) GRC
9 60 (1.81%) Accessibility
10 48 (1.45%) PMO
11 39 (1.18%) GAAP
12 37 (1.12%) SLA
13 31 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
14 30 (0.91%) COBIT
14 30 (0.91%) SOC 2
15 20 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.48%) MiFID
16 16 (0.48%) P3O
17 15 (0.45%) EMIR
18 11 (0.33%) COREP
System Software
1 97 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 74 (2.23%) Docker
3 72 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.48%) Firmware
6 14 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.030%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 215 (6.49%) Terraform
2 151 (4.56%) Kubernetes
3 61 (1.84%) Grafana
4 40 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (1.06%) Ansible
6 30 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.36%) Argo
9 8 (0.24%) Istio
10 7 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 6 (0.18%) QRadar
12 5 (0.15%) Endace
12 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.15%) SCCM
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.12%) Cilium
13 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.091%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 536 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 212 (6.40%) Oracle
3 138 (4.16%) SAP
4 136 (4.10%) Databricks
5 88 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 62 (1.87%) Google
6 62 (1.87%) Sage
7 49 (1.48%) VMware
8 44 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.09%) Cisco
10 29 (0.88%) Workday
11 26 (0.78%) Xero
12 25 (0.75%) Okta
13 21 (0.63%) Adobe
13 21 (0.63%) HubSpot
13 21 (0.63%) IBM
14 16 (0.48%) Aderant
14 16 (0.48%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.48%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.48%) Splunk