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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,884 4,153 6,132
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.92% 25.20% 21.07%
As % of the General category 30.12% 34.82% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,590 2,519 4,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,335 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,367 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.71% +2.10% -3.70%

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 12,894 11,926 17,804
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.50% 72.35% 61.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,337 6,669 12,568
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,959 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 22 July 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
1 111 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.08%) Confluence
3 30 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.28%) Apache
4 11 (0.28%) CMS
4 11 (0.28%) SAS
5 10 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.23%) nginx
7 6 (0.15%) IIS
7 6 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.10%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.077%) JBoss
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.026%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.026%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.026%) WordPress
Applications
1 245 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.26%) CorelDRAW
7 9 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.10%) Sketch
10 3 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.077%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.077%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.077%) Productboard
11 2 (0.051%) Simulink
11 2 (0.051%) SPSS
12 1 (0.026%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 64 (1.65%) NetSuite
2 55 (1.42%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 30 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 30 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.57%) Elite 3E
8 20 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
8 20 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
9 17 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
10 16 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
10 16 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
11 14 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
12 13 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
12 13 (0.33%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
13 12 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 11 (0.28%) SAP CO
14 11 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 845 (21.76%) Azure
2 572 (14.73%) AWS
3 357 (9.19%) SaaS
4 298 (7.67%) Power Platform
5 210 (5.41%) GCP
6 167 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 130 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (2.32%) Snowflake
10 78 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
11 72 (1.85%) Entra ID
12 68 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 66 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
13 66 (1.70%) PaaS
14 63 (1.62%) Azure AI
15 60 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
16 52 (1.34%) PowerApps
17 51 (1.31%) GitHub
18 40 (1.03%) Power Automate
19 39 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.21%) WAN
2 78 (2.01%) LAN
3 72 (1.85%) Firewall
4 50 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.06%) HTTP
6 39 (1.00%) DNS
6 39 (1.00%) Network Security
7 38 (0.98%) VPN
8 31 (0.80%) DHCP
9 21 (0.54%) Broadband
10 19 (0.49%) BGP
11 18 (0.46%) VLAN
11 18 (0.46%) Wireless
12 17 (0.44%) MPLS
12 17 (0.44%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (0.28%) CHAP
14 11 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.28%) Internet
15 10 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (4.79%) Power BI
2 166 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 73 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 59 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 56 (1.44%) Tableau
6 51 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 37 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.70%) Big Data
10 27 (0.70%) Relational Database
11 26 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.59%) MySQL
13 22 (0.57%) Metadata
13 22 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.44%) Db2
14 17 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.44%) SAP BW
15 16 (0.41%) Power Query
16 14 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 107 (2.75%) JIRA
2 72 (1.85%) Git
3 50 (1.29%) TeamCity
4 22 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.46%) JUnit
6 17 (0.44%) Selenium
7 13 (0.33%) Maven
8 11 (0.28%) Mockito
9 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.18%) GitLab
11 6 (0.15%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.13%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.13%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.13%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.10%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,284 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 666 (17.15%) Banking
3 507 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (10.53%) Legal
5 341 (8.78%) Retail
6 339 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 313 (8.06%) Law
8 214 (5.51%) Marketing
9 210 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
10 207 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
11 197 (5.07%) Public Sector
12 164 (4.22%) Financial Institution
13 139 (3.58%) Back Office
14 128 (3.30%) Manufacturing
15 111 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
16 75 (1.93%) Front Office
17 73 (1.88%) Telecoms
18 65 (1.67%) Billing
19 54 (1.39%) Investment Banking
20 45 (1.16%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 562 (14.47%) Senior
2 398 (10.25%) Analyst
3 391 (10.07%) Lead
4 356 (9.17%) Developer
5 305 (7.85%) Architect
6 258 (6.64%) Software Engineer
7 212 (5.46%) Consultant
8 154 (3.96%) Finance Manager
8 154 (3.96%) Senior Manager
9 132 (3.40%) Accountant
10 116 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (2.45%) IT Manager
12 94 (2.42%) Project Manager
13 93 (2.39%) Engineering Manager
14 92 (2.37%) Business Analyst
15 88 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
16 83 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
17 80 (2.06%) Graduate
17 80 (2.06%) Support Analyst
18 72 (1.85%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (4.15%) .NET
2 156 (4.02%) React
3 115 (2.96%) REST
4 102 (2.63%) Node.js
5 64 (1.65%) CSS
6 63 (1.62%) .NET Core
7 58 (1.49%) Kafka
8 57 (1.47%) ASP.NET
9 55 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
10 54 (1.39%) Spring
11 47 (1.21%) .NET Framework
12 41 (1.06%) Redux
13 39 (1.00%) AngularJS
13 39 (1.00%) GraphQL
13 39 (1.00%) jQuery
14 36 (0.93%) HTML
14 36 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
15 35 (0.90%) RESTful
16 34 (0.88%) PyTorch
16 34 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 252 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 225 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 159 (4.09%) Virtual Team
4 149 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 148 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 143 (3.68%) Web Conferencing
7 135 (3.48%) Podcast
8 87 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.19%) Public Cloud
10 74 (1.91%) Data Centre
11 71 (1.83%) Fixed Income
12 65 (1.67%) Data Structures
13 60 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
14 48 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 47 (1.21%) Driving Licence
16 45 (1.16%) Blog
17 43 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
18 42 (1.08%) Credit Risk
19 40 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
19 40 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.37%) Windows
2 115 (2.96%) Linux
3 43 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.46%) Unix
5 14 (0.36%) Android
5 14 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.026%) AIX
9 1 (0.026%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (21.16%) Agile
2 648 (16.68%) Roadmaps
3 632 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 574 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
5 505 (13.00%) AI
6 463 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 462 (11.89%) Decision-Making
8 445 (11.46%) Software Engineering
9 415 (10.68%) Mentoring
10 385 (9.91%) ERP
11 375 (9.65%) Analytics
12 352 (9.06%) CI/CD
13 332 (8.55%) DevOps
14 303 (7.80%) Risk Management
15 300 (7.72%) Project Management
16 287 (7.39%) Project Delivery
17 269 (6.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 251 (6.46%) Process Improvement
19 240 (6.18%) Coaching
20 238 (6.13%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 574 (14.78%) SQL
2 393 (10.12%) Python
3 321 (8.26%) Java
4 247 (6.36%) C#
5 171 (4.40%) JavaScript
6 150 (3.86%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.45%) C++
8 75 (1.93%) PowerShell
9 70 (1.80%) PHP
10 63 (1.62%) Go
11 28 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.70%) C
13 26 (0.67%) Bicep
14 22 (0.57%) Bash
14 22 (0.57%) R
15 19 (0.49%) VBA
16 14 (0.36%) Rust
17 13 (0.33%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.31%) VBScript
19 11 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 347 (8.93%) Degree
2 257 (6.62%) ACCA
3 217 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 216 (5.56%) CIMA
5 136 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 133 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 84 (2.16%) CISSP
8 80 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 54 (1.39%) CISM
11 45 (1.16%) PMP
12 43 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 38 (0.98%) CISA
14 37 (0.95%) DV Cleared
15 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 32 (0.82%) CRISC
17 28 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 25 (0.64%) AAT
18 25 (0.64%) DBS Check
19 21 (0.54%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (4.07%) QA
2 136 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 134 (3.45%) GDPR
4 97 (2.50%) GRC
5 93 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 79 (2.03%) NIST
7 70 (1.80%) IFRS
8 67 (1.73%) PMO
9 61 (1.57%) Accessibility
10 57 (1.47%) SLA
11 47 (1.21%) GAAP
12 39 (1.00%) PCI DSS
13 31 (0.80%) COBIT
14 26 (0.67%) SOC 2
15 23 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
16 20 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 15 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.39%) FINREP
18 14 (0.36%) COREP
18 14 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 93 (2.39%) Docker
2 90 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.33%) Firmware
8 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.13%) Squid
10 5 (0.13%) vSphere
11 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.026%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 172 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 164 (4.22%) Terraform
3 62 (1.60%) Grafana
4 43 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (0.95%) Ansible
6 8 (0.21%) Istio
7 6 (0.15%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.13%) Endace
8 5 (0.13%) QRadar
8 5 (0.13%) SCCM
8 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.10%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.077%) Argo
10 3 (0.077%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.077%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.051%) CASB
11 2 (0.051%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 710 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 231 (5.95%) Oracle
3 139 (3.58%) SAP
4 116 (2.99%) Databricks
5 79 (2.03%) Salesforce
6 66 (1.70%) Sage
7 63 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 56 (1.44%) Google
9 45 (1.16%) Cisco
10 41 (1.06%) VMware
11 37 (0.95%) Workday
11 37 (0.95%) Xero
12 29 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 28 (0.72%) IBM
14 27 (0.70%) Adobe
15 26 (0.67%) Aderant
16 21 (0.54%) BMC
17 20 (0.51%) Splunk
18 19 (0.49%) OpenAI
19 18 (0.46%) iManage