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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,353 4,077 7,019
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.20% 28.19% 21.59%
As % of the General category 32.66% 38.07% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,211 2,629 4,864
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,335 £37,000
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% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.93% +13.60% -7.41%

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 10,266 10,708 20,112
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.71% 74.04% 61.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,845 6,532 15,077
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 10 May 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 83 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.16%) Confluence
3 30 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.42%) SAS
5 9 (0.27%) CMS
5 9 (0.27%) JBoss
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.15%) Apache
9 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.060%) nginx
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.030%) Camunda
11 1 (0.030%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 200 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 3 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.089%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.089%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.060%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.060%) Productboard
11 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 68 (2.03%) Oracle Financials
2 51 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 49 (1.46%) Oracle Payables
4 45 (1.34%) Oracle Assets
5 43 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
6 33 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
7 31 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
8 28 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
9 27 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
9 27 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
10 17 (0.51%) Elite 3E
11 16 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
11 16 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
11 16 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 15 (0.45%) SAP ERP
13 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
15 11 (0.33%) SAP FI
16 10 (0.30%) SAP CO
16 10 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 740 (22.07%) Azure
2 453 (13.51%) AWS
3 276 (8.23%) SaaS
4 218 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 173 (5.16%) GCP
6 144 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 114 (3.40%) GitHub
9 105 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 92 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
11 90 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 81 (2.42%) Entra ID
13 71 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
15 60 (1.79%) Azure AI
16 57 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
18 39 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
19 37 (1.10%) dbt
20 36 (1.07%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.97%) Firewall
2 50 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 45 (1.34%) VPN
4 44 (1.31%) WAN
5 41 (1.22%) DNS
6 39 (1.16%) DHCP
7 36 (1.07%) HTTP
8 29 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 28 (0.84%) Network Security
10 27 (0.81%) CHAP
11 19 (0.57%) BGP
11 19 (0.57%) LAN
11 19 (0.57%) MPLS
12 18 (0.54%) Wireless
13 16 (0.48%) Broadband
14 15 (0.45%) VLAN
15 13 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
16 12 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (0.36%) Internet
17 11 (0.33%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 152 (4.53%) Power BI
3 67 (2.00%) Tableau
4 63 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 48 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (0.81%) Big Data
10 25 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 25 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 22 (0.66%) MongoDB
12 21 (0.63%) Metadata
13 18 (0.54%) MySQL
14 17 (0.51%) DB2
15 16 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 14 (0.42%) Delta Lake
16 14 (0.42%) SAP BW
17 13 (0.39%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 117 (3.49%) JIRA
2 70 (2.09%) Git
3 32 (0.95%) TeamCity
4 31 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
5 28 (0.84%) Selenium
6 20 (0.60%) Postman
7 16 (0.48%) WebDriver
8 15 (0.45%) SoapUI
9 14 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.27%) GitLab
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
12 6 (0.18%) Storybook
12 6 (0.18%) Subversion
13 5 (0.15%) Maven
13 5 (0.15%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.12%) ER Studio
14 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,047 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 586 (17.48%) Banking
3 462 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 303 (9.04%) Legal
5 300 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 290 (8.65%) Retail
7 236 (7.04%) Public Sector
8 228 (6.80%) Law
9 227 (6.77%) Marketing
10 162 (4.83%) Financial Institution
11 140 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
12 116 (3.46%) Back Office
13 105 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
14 98 (2.92%) Manufacturing
15 91 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
16 76 (2.27%) Front Office
17 71 (2.12%) Telecoms
18 39 (1.16%) Billing
18 39 (1.16%) Investment Banking
19 36 (1.07%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 573 (17.09%) Senior
2 388 (11.57%) Analyst
3 286 (8.53%) Developer
4 275 (8.20%) Lead
5 216 (6.44%) Software Engineer
6 180 (5.37%) Architect
7 174 (5.19%) Consultant
8 131 (3.91%) Finance Manager
9 113 (3.37%) Senior Manager
10 106 (3.16%) Accountant
11 103 (3.07%) Business Analyst
12 88 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
13 84 (2.51%) C# Developer
13 84 (2.51%) Project Manager
14 81 (2.42%) Data Engineer
15 76 (2.27%) Software Developer
16 75 (2.24%) Graduate
17 71 (2.12%) Graduate Developer
17 71 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
18 70 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (3.97%) .NET
2 127 (3.79%) React
3 114 (3.40%) REST
4 70 (2.09%) Node.js
5 62 (1.85%) Kafka
6 53 (1.58%) SOAP
7 51 (1.52%) GraphQL
7 51 (1.52%) RESTful
8 47 (1.40%) CSS
9 43 (1.28%) JSON
9 43 (1.28%) Redux
10 41 (1.22%) Spring
11 37 (1.10%) HTML
12 35 (1.04%) OAuth
13 32 (0.95%) jQuery
14 31 (0.92%) .NET Core
14 31 (0.92%) Middleware
15 28 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
16 27 (0.81%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 199 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 130 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 124 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 117 (3.49%) Virtual Team
6 75 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 70 (2.09%) Web Conferencing
8 64 (1.91%) Podcast
9 62 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 62 (1.85%) Public Cloud
10 61 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 60 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 57 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 47 (1.40%) Blog
14 46 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
15 45 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 42 (1.25%) Security Posture
17 35 (1.04%) Low-Code
18 34 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
18 34 (1.01%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 123 (3.67%) Windows
2 102 (3.04%) Linux
3 42 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.81%) Unix
5 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.45%) Android
8 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.089%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.060%) CentOS
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
12 1 (0.030%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.030%) VMS
12 1 (0.030%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (23.98%) Agile
2 492 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
3 479 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 475 (14.17%) Roadmaps
5 409 (12.20%) AI
6 363 (10.83%) DevOps
7 358 (10.68%) Mentoring
8 350 (10.44%) Analytics
9 349 (10.41%) CI/CD
10 347 (10.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 338 (10.08%) Decision-Making
12 337 (10.05%) ERP
13 331 (9.87%) Software Engineering
14 305 (9.10%) Coaching
15 283 (8.44%) Project Management
16 277 (8.26%) Risk Management
17 212 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 211 (6.29%) Test Automation
19 206 (6.14%) Process Improvement
20 204 (6.08%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 548 (16.34%) SQL
2 335 (9.99%) Python
3 321 (9.57%) Java
4 213 (6.35%) C#
5 126 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 121 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 82 (2.45%) C++
7 82 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 81 (2.42%) Go
9 69 (2.06%) PHP
10 37 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.86%) C
12 24 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.60%) Bicep
14 18 (0.54%) Rust
15 16 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 15 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.42%) R
18 13 (0.39%) Bash
19 12 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 361 (10.77%) Degree
2 255 (7.61%) ACCA
3 210 (6.26%) CIMA
4 188 (5.61%) Security Cleared
5 150 (4.47%) CISSP
6 108 (3.22%) SC Cleared
7 99 (2.95%) CISA
8 83 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 78 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 69 (2.06%) CISM
11 66 (1.97%) CRISC
12 55 (1.64%) DV Cleared
13 49 (1.46%) PMI Certification
14 40 (1.19%) DBS Check
15 39 (1.16%) SANS
16 30 (0.89%) Azure Certification
17 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
17 29 (0.86%) PMP
18 27 (0.81%) CGEIT
18 27 (0.81%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (3.91%) QA
2 127 (3.79%) NIST
3 119 (3.55%) GDPR
4 115 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 87 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 68 (2.03%) IFRS
8 57 (1.70%) GRC
9 56 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 49 (1.46%) PMO
11 40 (1.19%) GAAP
11 40 (1.19%) SLA
12 33 (0.98%) COBIT
13 21 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 19 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.45%) MiFID
16 14 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.42%) P3O
17 13 (0.39%) COREP
17 13 (0.39%) FINREP
System Software
1 108 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.27%) Docker
3 71 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
4 51 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.39%) Firmware
7 12 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.15%) vSphere
10 4 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 175 (5.22%) Terraform
2 133 (3.97%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (1.31%) Grafana
5 31 (0.92%) Ansible
6 25 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.27%) Argo
7 9 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.24%) Istio
9 7 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.15%) Endace
10 5 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 5 (0.15%) SCCM
11 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.12%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.089%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.089%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.089%) Puppet
12 3 (0.089%) QRadar
13 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 554 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 232 (6.92%) Oracle
3 136 (4.06%) SAP
4 130 (3.88%) Databricks
5 88 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 59 (1.76%) Sage
7 55 (1.64%) Google
8 53 (1.58%) VMware
9 41 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 39 (1.16%) Cisco
11 30 (0.89%) Workday
11 30 (0.89%) Xero
12 24 (0.72%) Okta
13 23 (0.69%) Adobe
13 23 (0.69%) HubSpot
14 21 (0.63%) IBM
15 19 (0.57%) Aderant
16 18 (0.54%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.42%) Atlassian
18 13 (0.39%) CheckPoint