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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,302 3,499 7,061
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.48% 26.18% 21.82%
As % of the General category 32.90% 36.48% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,160 2,594 4,915
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,329 £37,022
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,772
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 £86,250
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% -7.41%

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 10,036 9,591 20,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.17% 71.75% 61.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,682 6,526 15,095
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,385
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,265 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.60% +10.98% -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 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 77 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.18%) Confluence
3 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.42%) SAS
5 11 (0.33%) JBoss
6 9 (0.27%) CMS
6 9 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.12%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.12%) IIS
12 2 (0.061%) nginx
12 2 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.030%) Camunda
13 1 (0.030%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.030%) WordPress
Applications
1 225 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
7 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.15%) Sketch
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.030%) SPSS
10 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (1.94%) Oracle Financials
2 59 (1.79%) NetSuite
3 52 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
4 48 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
5 42 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
6 39 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 34 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
8 30 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
9 29 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
10 27 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
11 17 (0.51%) Elite 3E
11 17 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
12 16 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
12 16 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 742 (22.47%) Azure
2 456 (13.81%) AWS
3 314 (9.51%) SaaS
4 238 (7.21%) Power Platform
5 187 (5.66%) GCP
6 155 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 143 (4.33%) GitHub
8 126 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
9 115 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 113 (3.42%) Snowflake
11 102 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 99 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
13 74 (2.24%) Entra ID
14 68 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
14 68 (2.06%) Azure Machine Learning
15 67 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
16 58 (1.76%) Azure AI
17 51 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
18 46 (1.39%) dbt
19 37 (1.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.73%) Firewall
2 52 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 45 (1.36%) VPN
4 42 (1.27%) WAN
5 40 (1.21%) DNS
6 38 (1.15%) DHCP
7 31 (0.94%) HTTP
8 26 (0.79%) CHAP
8 26 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.76%) Network Security
10 20 (0.61%) BGP
11 17 (0.51%) Wireless
12 15 (0.45%) Broadband
12 15 (0.45%) VLAN
13 14 (0.42%) LAN
13 14 (0.42%) MPLS
14 13 (0.39%) Internet
15 9 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (5.63%) Power BI
2 181 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 72 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (2.18%) Tableau
4 60 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 56 (1.70%) Data Lake
6 48 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 42 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 28 (0.85%) Big Data
10 23 (0.70%) Metadata
11 22 (0.67%) MySQL
11 22 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 19 (0.58%) NoSQL
13 17 (0.51%) DB2
14 16 (0.48%) SAP BW
15 15 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 13 (0.39%) Delta Lake
16 13 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 120 (3.63%) JIRA
2 72 (2.18%) Git
3 41 (1.24%) TeamCity
4 37 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
5 35 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 29 (0.88%) Selenium
7 19 (0.58%) 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%) Subversion
14 8 (0.24%) Storybook
15 7 (0.21%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
17 5 (0.15%) ERwin
18 4 (0.12%) ER Studio
18 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,075 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 583 (17.66%) Banking
3 507 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (9.45%) Retail
5 311 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (7.66%) Law
7 249 (7.54%) Public Sector
8 248 (7.51%) Legal
9 238 (7.21%) Marketing
10 186 (5.63%) Financial Institution
11 132 (4.00%) Back Office
12 127 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (3.21%) Manufacturing
14 94 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
15 92 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
16 85 (2.57%) Front Office
17 77 (2.33%) Telecoms
18 45 (1.36%) Billing
19 39 (1.18%) Advertising
20 38 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 582 (17.63%) Senior
2 401 (12.14%) Analyst
3 261 (7.90%) Developer
4 255 (7.72%) Lead
5 223 (6.75%) Software Engineer
6 175 (5.30%) Architect
7 170 (5.15%) Consultant
8 123 (3.73%) Finance Manager
9 109 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 101 (3.06%) Accountant
10 101 (3.06%) Senior Manager
11 90 (2.73%) Project Manager
12 84 (2.54%) Data Engineer
12 84 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
13 80 (2.42%) C# Developer
13 80 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
14 76 (2.30%) Financial Analyst
15 75 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
16 74 (2.24%) Software Developer
17 71 (2.15%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (3.76%) React
2 121 (3.66%) .NET
3 114 (3.45%) REST
4 69 (2.09%) Node.js
5 68 (2.06%) Kafka
6 61 (1.85%) SOAP
7 60 (1.82%) RESTful
8 55 (1.67%) GraphQL
9 49 (1.48%) JSON
10 45 (1.36%) CSS
10 45 (1.36%) Spring
11 43 (1.30%) Redux
12 41 (1.24%) OAuth
13 33 (1.00%) Middleware
14 32 (0.97%) HTML
15 31 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
16 30 (0.91%) jQuery
16 30 (0.91%) XML
17 25 (0.76%) AngularJS
18 22 (0.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 212 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 132 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 128 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 94 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 69 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 67 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (1.91%) Fixed Income
9 59 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 58 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 57 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 55 (1.67%) Blog
12 55 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.39%) Security Posture
14 41 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (1.15%) Low-Code
16 34 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
17 32 (0.97%) Driving Licence
18 28 (0.85%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 119 (3.60%) Windows
2 98 (2.97%) Linux
3 43 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 27 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 27 (0.82%) Unix
5 19 (0.58%) Android
6 15 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.061%) CentOS
10 2 (0.061%) Oracle Linux
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
1 816 (24.71%) Agile
2 532 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 532 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
3 439 (13.29%) AI
4 436 (13.20%) Roadmaps
5 391 (11.84%) Decision-Making
6 379 (11.48%) DevOps
7 377 (11.42%) CI/CD
8 370 (11.21%) Analytics
9 351 (10.63%) Mentoring
10 348 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 344 (10.42%) Software Engineering
12 337 (10.21%) Coaching
13 334 (10.12%) ERP
14 285 (8.63%) Risk Management
15 283 (8.57%) Project Management
16 249 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
17 240 (7.27%) Test Automation
18 220 (6.66%) Fintech
19 210 (6.36%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 543 (16.44%) SQL
2 339 (10.27%) Python
3 331 (10.02%) Java
4 198 (6.00%) C#
5 125 (3.79%) TypeScript
6 110 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 88 (2.67%) Go
8 86 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 80 (2.42%) C++
10 72 (2.18%) PHP
11 38 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 28 (0.85%) C
12 28 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 22 (0.67%) Bicep
15 19 (0.58%) Rust
16 18 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.51%) Bash
18 15 (0.45%) T-SQL
19 13 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 389 (11.78%) Degree
2 268 (8.12%) ACCA
3 220 (6.66%) CIMA
4 191 (5.78%) Security Cleared
5 153 (4.63%) CISSP
6 110 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 99 (3.00%) CISA
8 79 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 71 (2.15%) CISM
10 66 (2.00%) CRISC
11 56 (1.70%) DV Cleared
12 48 (1.45%) PMI Certification
13 38 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 38 (1.15%) SANS
14 31 (0.94%) Azure Certification
14 31 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
15 27 (0.82%) AAT
15 27 (0.82%) PMP
16 26 (0.79%) FFIEC
16 26 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (3.91%) NIST
2 124 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 115 (3.48%) GDPR
4 113 (3.42%) QA
5 97 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 76 (2.30%) PCI DSS
7 70 (2.12%) IFRS
8 64 (1.94%) GRC
9 60 (1.82%) Accessibility
10 46 (1.39%) PMO
11 40 (1.21%) GAAP
12 34 (1.03%) SLA
13 32 (0.97%) COBIT
14 29 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
15 26 (0.79%) SOC 2
16 19 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.48%) MiFID
18 15 (0.45%) P3O
19 14 (0.42%) EMIR
20 12 (0.36%) COREP
System Software
1 99 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 72 (2.18%) Docker
3 71 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.48%) Firmware
6 14 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (5.94%) Terraform
2 141 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.61%) Grafana
4 39 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (0.97%) Ansible
6 30 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.36%) Argo
8 11 (0.33%) Prometheus
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%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.091%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.091%) Puppet
15 2 (0.061%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 530 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 215 (6.51%) Oracle
3 143 (4.33%) SAP
4 133 (4.03%) Databricks
5 86 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 62 (1.88%) Google
6 62 (1.88%) Sage
7 49 (1.48%) VMware
8 45 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.09%) Cisco
10 29 (0.88%) Workday
11 27 (0.82%) Xero
12 25 (0.76%) Okta
13 21 (0.64%) Adobe
13 21 (0.64%) HubSpot
13 21 (0.64%) IBM
14 17 (0.51%) Atlassian
15 16 (0.48%) Aderant
15 16 (0.48%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.45%) Splunk