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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,940 4,151 5,775
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.03% 25.15% 21.30%
As % of the General category 30.31% 34.67% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,592 2,504 3,735
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,335 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -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 13,001 11,973 16,582
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.51% 72.53% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,356 6,713 11,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,821 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,746 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,084
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -9.86%

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 27 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
1 113 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.09%) Confluence
3 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.41%) Apache
5 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.28%) CMS
6 11 (0.28%) nginx
6 11 (0.28%) SAS
7 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.15%) IIS
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.10%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.051%) JBoss
10 2 (0.051%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.025%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.025%) WordPress
Applications
1 250 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.25%) CorelDRAW
8 6 (0.15%) Simulink
9 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.13%) Trello
10 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.10%) Sketch
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.076%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.076%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.076%) Productboard
12 2 (0.051%) Mathcad
12 2 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 64 (1.62%) NetSuite
2 55 (1.40%) Oracle Financials
3 31 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 29 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
6 24 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.56%) Elite 3E
8 20 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
9 19 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
10 17 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
11 16 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
11 16 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
12 14 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 13 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
13 13 (0.33%) SAP ERP
14 11 (0.28%) SAP CO
14 11 (0.28%) SAP FI
14 11 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 868 (22.03%) Azure
2 575 (14.59%) AWS
3 342 (8.68%) SaaS
4 299 (7.59%) Power Platform
5 206 (5.23%) GCP
6 170 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
7 138 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (2.34%) Snowflake
10 79 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
11 72 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 70 (1.78%) PaaS
13 67 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 63 (1.60%) Azure AI
15 58 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
15 58 (1.47%) GitHub
16 57 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 54 (1.37%) PowerApps
18 43 (1.09%) Serverless
19 42 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 83 (2.11%) WAN
2 78 (1.98%) LAN
3 71 (1.80%) Firewall
4 45 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 41 (1.04%) HTTP
6 40 (1.02%) Network Security
7 38 (0.96%) DNS
8 33 (0.84%) VPN
9 29 (0.74%) DHCP
10 21 (0.53%) Broadband
11 18 (0.46%) Wireless
12 17 (0.43%) MPLS
13 16 (0.41%) BGP
14 15 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.38%) VLAN
15 12 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (0.28%) CHAP
16 11 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (0.28%) Internet
17 10 (0.25%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (4.75%) Power BI
2 172 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 72 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 61 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 56 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (1.37%) Tableau
7 44 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.69%) Big Data
10 27 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 26 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.61%) Metadata
12 24 (0.61%) MySQL
13 23 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.43%) Db2
14 17 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.43%) Power Query
14 17 (0.43%) SAP BW
15 16 (0.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 113 (2.87%) JIRA
2 76 (1.93%) Git
3 43 (1.09%) TeamCity
4 21 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.53%) JUnit
5 18 (0.46%) Selenium
6 15 (0.38%) Maven
7 13 (0.33%) Mockito
8 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.15%) GitLab
10 6 (0.15%) Postman
10 6 (0.15%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.13%) Gatling
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.13%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.10%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,291 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 645 (16.37%) Banking
3 514 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (10.61%) Legal
5 355 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 323 (8.20%) Retail
7 295 (7.49%) Law
8 226 (5.74%) Marketing
9 214 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
10 211 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
11 189 (4.80%) Public Sector
12 144 (3.65%) Financial Institution
13 131 (3.32%) Manufacturing
14 120 (3.05%) Back Office
15 117 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
16 77 (1.95%) Front Office
16 77 (1.95%) Telecoms
17 69 (1.75%) Billing
18 54 (1.37%) Investment Banking
19 50 (1.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 565 (14.34%) Senior
2 403 (10.23%) Lead
3 402 (10.20%) Analyst
4 358 (9.09%) Developer
5 305 (7.74%) Architect
6 259 (6.57%) Software Engineer
7 215 (5.46%) Consultant
8 155 (3.93%) Finance Manager
9 145 (3.68%) Senior Manager
10 129 (3.27%) Accountant
11 114 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
12 98 (2.49%) IT Manager
13 95 (2.41%) Project Manager
14 93 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
14 93 (2.36%) Engineering Manager
15 92 (2.34%) Business Analyst
16 87 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
17 81 (2.06%) Graduate
18 79 (2.01%) Support Analyst
19 72 (1.83%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (4.19%) React
2 160 (4.06%) .NET
3 121 (3.07%) REST
4 104 (2.64%) Node.js
5 65 (1.65%) CSS
6 63 (1.60%) .NET Core
7 59 (1.50%) ASP.NET
8 57 (1.45%) Kafka
9 55 (1.40%) ASP.NET Core
9 55 (1.40%) Spring
10 47 (1.19%) .NET Framework
11 41 (1.04%) AngularJS
11 41 (1.04%) Redux
12 40 (1.02%) GraphQL
13 39 (0.99%) jQuery
14 38 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
15 36 (0.91%) HTML
16 34 (0.86%) PyTorch
16 34 (0.86%) TensorFlow
17 32 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 254 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 212 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 160 (4.06%) Virtual Team
4 152 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 152 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 144 (3.65%) Web Conferencing
6 136 (3.45%) Podcast
7 94 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 87 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 72 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 72 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 65 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 60 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 53 (1.35%) Blog
13 49 (1.24%) Driving Licence
14 48 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
15 43 (1.09%) Credit Risk
16 41 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
17 40 (1.02%) Derivative
18 39 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 135 (3.43%) Windows
2 115 (2.92%) Linux
3 45 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.46%) Unix
5 15 (0.38%) Android
6 14 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.30%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.025%) AIX
10 1 (0.025%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.025%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.025%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (21.50%) Agile
2 651 (16.52%) Roadmaps
3 644 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 594 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
5 548 (13.91%) AI
6 474 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 468 (11.88%) Decision-Making
8 450 (11.42%) Software Engineering
9 408 (10.36%) Mentoring
10 396 (10.05%) Analytics
11 393 (9.97%) ERP
12 351 (8.91%) CI/CD
13 335 (8.50%) DevOps
14 312 (7.92%) Risk Management
15 300 (7.61%) Project Management
16 292 (7.41%) Project Delivery
17 281 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 269 (6.83%) Process Improvement
19 247 (6.27%) CRM
20 242 (6.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 593 (15.05%) SQL
2 401 (10.18%) Python
3 308 (7.82%) Java
4 247 (6.27%) C#
5 179 (4.54%) JavaScript
6 154 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 99 (2.51%) C++
8 79 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 70 (1.78%) PHP
10 61 (1.55%) Go
11 30 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.69%) C
13 26 (0.66%) Bicep
14 23 (0.58%) Bash
14 23 (0.58%) R
15 19 (0.48%) VBA
16 14 (0.36%) Rust
16 14 (0.36%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.28%) VB.NET
17 11 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 363 (9.21%) Degree
2 256 (6.50%) ACCA
3 251 (6.37%) Security Cleared
4 217 (5.51%) CIMA
5 171 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 159 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 85 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 82 (2.08%) CISSP
9 56 (1.42%) CISM
9 56 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 48 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 46 (1.17%) PMP
12 43 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 37 (0.94%) CISA
14 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.76%) CRISC
16 29 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.66%) DBS Check
18 24 (0.61%) AAT
19 22 (0.56%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (3.91%) QA
2 147 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 140 (3.55%) GDPR
4 93 (2.36%) GRC
5 91 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 89 (2.26%) Accessibility
7 79 (2.01%) NIST
8 68 (1.73%) PMO
9 67 (1.70%) IFRS
10 56 (1.42%) SLA
11 49 (1.24%) GAAP
12 34 (0.86%) PCI DSS
13 32 (0.81%) COBIT
14 24 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
15 21 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 18 (0.46%) SOC 2
17 15 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.38%) FINREP
17 15 (0.38%) MiFID
18 14 (0.36%) COREP
System Software
1 98 (2.49%) Docker
2 91 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.46%) Firmware
6 17 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.15%) Squid
11 5 (0.13%) vSphere
12 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.025%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 169 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 154 (3.91%) Terraform
3 56 (1.42%) Grafana
4 43 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (0.96%) Ansible
6 8 (0.20%) Istio
7 6 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.13%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.10%) Endace
9 4 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.10%) QRadar
9 4 (0.10%) SCCM
9 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.076%) Argo
10 3 (0.076%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.051%) CASB
11 2 (0.051%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.051%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 721 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 235 (5.96%) Oracle
3 139 (3.53%) SAP
4 119 (3.02%) Databricks
5 83 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 68 (1.73%) Sage
7 63 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.40%) Google
9 44 (1.12%) Cisco
10 43 (1.09%) Workday
11 42 (1.07%) VMware
12 36 (0.91%) Xero
13 31 (0.79%) HubSpot
14 27 (0.69%) Adobe
14 27 (0.69%) IBM
15 26 (0.66%) Aderant
16 21 (0.53%) BMC
17 19 (0.48%) FIS
17 19 (0.48%) Splunk
18 18 (0.46%) iManage