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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,546 3,920 5,171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.57% 24.29% 22.71%
As % of the General category 30.39% 33.78% 36.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,681 2,254 3,016
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,348 £48,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,840 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -6.88% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,500 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 14,960 11,606 14,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.10% 71.90% 62.57%
Number of salaries quoted 9,160 6,271 8,239
10th Percentile £32,260 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,354 £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 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% -5.83%

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 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
1 115 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 56 (1.23%) Confluence
3 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 17 (0.37%) Apache
7 14 (0.31%) CMS
8 11 (0.24%) nginx
9 10 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.20%) SAS
11 6 (0.13%) IIS
12 5 (0.11%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.066%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.044%) WordPress
15 1 (0.022%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.022%) CICS
15 1 (0.022%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.022%) Hedera
15 1 (0.022%) Moodle
15 1 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 283 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (0.55%) 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 (0.088%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.088%) Sketch
12 3 (0.066%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.066%) Productboard
13 2 (0.044%) SPSS
13 2 (0.044%) Weka
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 61 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 42 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 35 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 35 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 34 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
5 28 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 24 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
7 20 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 19 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
8 19 (0.42%) Primavera
9 18 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 17 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 17 (0.37%) Sage 50
11 15 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
11 15 (0.33%) Elite 3E
11 15 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
11 15 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 15 (0.33%) Workday HCM
12 13 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
13 12 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 856 (18.83%) Azure
2 613 (13.48%) AWS
3 393 (8.64%) SaaS
4 341 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 231 (5.08%) GCP
6 156 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
7 155 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 115 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 87 (1.91%) PaaS
11 81 (1.78%) Entra ID
12 80 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
13 79 (1.74%) GitHub
14 77 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 67 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
16 62 (1.36%) Serverless
17 59 (1.30%) Power Automate
18 56 (1.23%) Azure AI
19 53 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 52 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 78 (1.72%) LAN
2 77 (1.69%) WAN
3 56 (1.23%) Firewall
4 41 (0.90%) HTTP
5 38 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 35 (0.77%) DNS
6 35 (0.77%) Network Security
7 29 (0.64%) VPN
8 25 (0.55%) 5G
8 25 (0.55%) DHCP
9 24 (0.53%) Broadband
10 17 (0.37%) Internet
11 16 (0.35%) VLAN
12 14 (0.31%) Wireless
13 12 (0.26%) MPLS
14 11 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (0.24%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.20%) NGFW
15 9 (0.20%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (5.04%) Power BI
2 152 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 68 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 64 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.23%) Tableau
7 55 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 44 (0.97%) Metadata
9 39 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 27 (0.59%) Big Data
12 22 (0.48%) MySQL
12 22 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 21 (0.46%) Power Query
14 18 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.37%) Looker
16 16 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (2.95%) JIRA
2 95 (2.09%) Git
3 62 (1.36%) TeamCity
4 36 (0.79%) Claude Code
5 32 (0.70%) JUnit
6 23 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 23 (0.51%) Maven
7 22 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 19 (0.42%) Mockito
9 12 (0.26%) Selenium
10 9 (0.20%) GitLab
11 8 (0.18%) 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 (0.088%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,579 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 730 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
3 717 (15.77%) Banking
4 564 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 470 (10.34%) Legal
6 368 (8.10%) Retail
7 363 (7.99%) Law
8 320 (7.04%) Marketing
9 310 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
10 253 (5.57%) Public Sector
11 247 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
12 170 (3.74%) Manufacturing
13 159 (3.50%) Financial Institution
14 152 (3.34%) Aerospace
15 151 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
16 143 (3.15%) Back Office
17 100 (2.20%) Telecoms
18 96 (2.11%) Billing
19 67 (1.47%) General Ledger
20 57 (1.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 617 (13.57%) Senior
2 505 (11.11%) Lead
3 450 (9.90%) Analyst
4 400 (8.80%) Architect
5 326 (7.17%) Developer
6 279 (6.14%) Software Engineer
7 223 (4.91%) Consultant
8 163 (3.59%) Senior Manager
9 156 (3.43%) Finance Manager
10 152 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
11 144 (3.17%) Accountant
12 116 (2.55%) IT Manager
13 109 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 105 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
15 103 (2.27%) Project Manager
16 99 (2.18%) Business Analyst
17 90 (1.98%) Engineering Manager
18 89 (1.96%) Data Analyst
19 85 (1.87%) Enterprise Architect
20 82 (1.80%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (4.09%) Terraform
2 155 (3.41%) .NET
3 142 (3.12%) React
4 116 (2.55%) REST
5 72 (1.58%) Spring
6 71 (1.56%) Node.js
7 63 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 59 (1.30%) ASP.NET
9 58 (1.28%) CSS
9 58 (1.28%) LangChain
10 53 (1.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 51 (1.12%) LangGraph
12 50 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
13 49 (1.08%) .NET Framework
14 48 (1.06%) XML
15 43 (0.95%) AngularJS
16 40 (0.88%) PyTorch
16 40 (0.88%) RESTful
16 40 (0.88%) TensorFlow
17 37 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 311 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 233 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 233 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 217 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 171 (3.76%) Web Conferencing
5 166 (3.65%) Podcast
6 157 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 142 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
8 93 (2.05%) Blog
9 91 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 82 (1.80%) AI Agents
11 79 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
12 63 (1.39%) Credit Risk
12 63 (1.39%) Hedge funds
13 61 (1.34%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 54 (1.19%) Social Media
16 45 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
17 44 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
17 44 (0.97%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 122 (2.68%) Windows
2 99 (2.18%) Linux
3 46 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.48%) Android
5 19 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.26%) Unix
7 9 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.066%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.022%) AIX
12 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 816 (17.95%) Agile
3 787 (17.31%) AI
4 741 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
5 735 (16.17%) Roadmaps
6 698 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 690 (15.18%) Decision-Making
8 526 (11.57%) Software Engineering
9 485 (10.67%) Mentoring
10 453 (9.96%) ERP
11 446 (9.81%) Analytics
12 427 (9.39%) CI/CD
13 379 (8.34%) Risk Management
14 358 (7.88%) Process Improvement
15 357 (7.85%) DevOps
16 352 (7.74%) Project Delivery
17 337 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 335 (7.37%) Coaching
19 329 (7.24%) Customer Service
20 308 (6.78%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 648 (14.25%) SQL
2 420 (9.24%) Python
3 312 (6.86%) Java
4 236 (5.19%) C#
5 159 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 123 (2.71%) TypeScript
7 93 (2.05%) C++
8 84 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.08%) PHP
10 37 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 33 (0.73%) R
12 28 (0.62%) Bash
12 28 (0.62%) Bicep
13 26 (0.57%) C
14 22 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 21 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.37%) Go
16 17 (0.37%) VBA
17 15 (0.33%) Rust
17 15 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 412 (9.06%) Degree
2 380 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 291 (6.40%) SC Cleared
4 264 (5.81%) ACCA
5 258 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 237 (5.21%) CIMA
7 129 (2.84%) DV Cleared
8 73 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (1.52%) DBS Check
10 68 (1.50%) CISSP
11 52 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 50 (1.10%) CISM
12 50 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 45 (0.99%) PMP
14 39 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.73%) CISA
16 31 (0.68%) CRISC
17 27 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (0.57%) ICAEW
19 25 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (4.60%) Accessibility
2 191 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 169 (3.72%) QA
4 147 (3.23%) GDPR
5 92 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 90 (1.98%) GRC
7 80 (1.76%) SLA
8 76 (1.67%) PMO
9 61 (1.34%) NIST
10 56 (1.23%) IFRS
11 41 (0.90%) GAAP
12 32 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 27 (0.59%) COBIT
14 21 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.37%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.33%) NCSC
19 14 (0.31%) Def Stans
19 14 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (2.33%) Docker
2 95 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.08%) Firmware
4 45 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.13%) Squid
11 5 (0.11%) vSphere
12 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.022%) HDFS
13 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.022%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 188 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 93 (2.05%) Grafana
3 41 (0.90%) Ansible
4 32 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.11%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.088%) QRadar
8 4 (0.088%) SCCM
9 3 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.066%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.066%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.044%) Argo
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%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.022%) Control-M
11 1 (0.022%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 758 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 234 (5.15%) Oracle
3 147 (3.23%) SAP
4 127 (2.79%) Databricks
5 98 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 78 (1.72%) Sage
7 64 (1.41%) Google
8 63 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 62 (1.36%) Workday
10 45 (0.99%) VMware
11 42 (0.92%) Xero
12 37 (0.81%) HubSpot
13 33 (0.73%) Cisco
14 29 (0.64%) Aderant
15 26 (0.57%) Adobe
16 25 (0.55%) BMC
17 24 (0.53%) YouTube
18 21 (0.46%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.46%) IBM
19 20 (0.44%) Remedy