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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,612 4,045 7,176
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.75% 26.00% 20.76%
As % of the General category 30.43% 34.98% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,430 2,465 4,907
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,118 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,195 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.45% +10.71% -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 11,870 11,564 20,890
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.34% 74.32% 60.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,754 6,393 15,266
10th Percentile £32,261 £27,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,250
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 23 June 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
1 100 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.05%) Confluence
3 32 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.42%) SAS
5 11 (0.30%) CMS
6 6 (0.17%) IIS
7 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.083%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.055%) Apache
10 2 (0.055%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.028%) WordPress
Applications
1 207 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.17%) CorelDRAW
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
9 3 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.083%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.083%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.083%) Productboard
10 2 (0.055%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.055%) SPSS
11 1 (0.028%) Notion
11 1 (0.028%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
2 54 (1.50%) NetSuite
3 34 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 28 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 28 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 25 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
7 24 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
8 20 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.53%) Elite 3E
10 18 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
10 18 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
11 15 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
12 14 (0.39%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 9 (0.25%) SAP CO
14 9 (0.25%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
15 8 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 725 (20.07%) Azure
2 518 (14.34%) AWS
3 324 (8.97%) SaaS
4 245 (6.78%) Power Platform
5 189 (5.23%) GCP
6 134 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
7 108 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
8 107 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (2.02%) Entra ID
11 72 (1.99%) Snowflake
12 63 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (1.74%) Azure AI
12 63 (1.74%) Azure Machine Learning
13 44 (1.22%) GitHub
14 40 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 40 (1.11%) PaaS
15 38 (1.05%) PowerApps
16 34 (0.94%) Serverless
17 31 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.77%) Firewall
2 46 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.08%) HTTP
4 38 (1.05%) VPN
5 36 (1.00%) Network Security
6 35 (0.97%) WAN
7 34 (0.94%) DNS
8 33 (0.91%) DHCP
9 22 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.58%) Broadband
11 19 (0.53%) BGP
11 19 (0.53%) MPLS
12 17 (0.47%) CHAP
12 17 (0.47%) LAN
13 16 (0.44%) VLAN
14 15 (0.42%) Wireless
15 13 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
16 12 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (4.54%) Power BI
2 162 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 61 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (1.61%) Tableau
5 45 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 26 (0.72%) Big Data
9 26 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (0.69%) Relational Database
10 25 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 22 (0.61%) MySQL
11 22 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (0.55%) Metadata
13 18 (0.50%) Db2
14 15 (0.42%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.39%) NoSQL
15 14 (0.39%) SAP BW
16 12 (0.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (2.77%) JIRA
2 64 (1.77%) Git
3 45 (1.25%) TeamCity
4 23 (0.64%) Selenium
5 16 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.42%) JUnit
7 12 (0.33%) Postman
8 11 (0.30%) Maven
9 10 (0.28%) Mockito
9 10 (0.28%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.17%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.14%) GitLab
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (0.14%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.11%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.083%) Cucumber
General
1 1,165 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 644 (17.83%) Banking
3 483 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 402 (11.13%) Legal
5 335 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 322 (8.91%) Retail
7 259 (7.17%) Law
8 216 (5.98%) Marketing
9 204 (5.65%) Public Sector
10 186 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
11 164 (4.54%) Financial Institution
12 130 (3.60%) Back Office
13 128 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
14 112 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
15 106 (2.93%) Manufacturing
16 63 (1.74%) Front Office
16 63 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 51 (1.41%) Billing
18 46 (1.27%) Investment Banking
19 44 (1.22%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 549 (15.20%) Senior
2 381 (10.55%) Analyst
3 336 (9.30%) Lead
4 328 (9.08%) Developer
5 256 (7.09%) Software Engineer
6 222 (6.15%) Architect
7 184 (5.09%) Consultant
8 150 (4.15%) Finance Manager
9 145 (4.01%) Senior Manager
10 112 (3.10%) Accountant
11 101 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (2.57%) Business Analyst
13 89 (2.46%) Engineering Manager
14 88 (2.44%) Project Manager
15 82 (2.27%) IT Manager
16 80 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
17 78 (2.16%) Graduate
18 71 (1.97%) Systems Manager
19 69 (1.91%) Lead Software Engineer
19 69 (1.91%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (4.07%) .NET
2 142 (3.93%) React
3 108 (2.99%) REST
4 86 (2.38%) Node.js
5 57 (1.58%) CSS
6 54 (1.50%) Spring
7 53 (1.47%) Kafka
8 50 (1.38%) .NET Core
9 42 (1.16%) Redux
10 38 (1.05%) ASP.NET
10 38 (1.05%) GraphQL
10 38 (1.05%) jQuery
11 37 (1.02%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
13 34 (0.94%) HTML
14 33 (0.91%) AngularJS
15 32 (0.89%) .NET Framework
15 32 (0.89%) PyTorch
15 32 (0.89%) TensorFlow
16 30 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 246 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 211 (5.84%) Cloud Native
3 156 (4.32%) Virtual Team
4 141 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 141 (3.90%) Web Conferencing
5 134 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 133 (3.68%) Podcast
7 81 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 80 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 73 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 66 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 57 (1.58%) Fixed Income
12 52 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 43 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 42 (1.16%) Blog
15 42 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 41 (1.14%) Driving Licence
17 37 (1.02%) Credit Risk
18 34 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 113 (3.13%) Windows
2 100 (2.77%) Linux
3 32 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.50%) Unix
5 16 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.25%) Android
6 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.028%) AIX
9 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.028%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (21.76%) Agile
2 551 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 548 (15.17%) Roadmaps
4 524 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
5 443 (12.26%) AI
6 420 (11.63%) Decision-Making
7 415 (11.49%) Software Engineering
8 394 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 375 (10.38%) Mentoring
10 361 (9.99%) ERP
11 358 (9.91%) Analytics
12 323 (8.94%) CI/CD
13 316 (8.75%) DevOps
14 306 (8.47%) Project Management
15 260 (7.20%) Risk Management
15 260 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 236 (6.53%) Coaching
17 216 (5.98%) Fintech
18 215 (5.95%) Customer Service
19 206 (5.70%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 538 (14.89%) SQL
2 358 (9.91%) Python
3 318 (8.80%) Java
4 234 (6.48%) C#
5 153 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 134 (3.71%) TypeScript
7 86 (2.38%) C++
8 69 (1.91%) PHP
9 68 (1.88%) Go
10 65 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 28 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 27 (0.75%) C
13 24 (0.66%) Bicep
14 18 (0.50%) R
15 17 (0.47%) Bash
15 17 (0.47%) Rust
16 14 (0.39%) VBA
17 12 (0.33%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.33%) VB.NET
17 12 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 372 (10.30%) Degree
2 253 (7.00%) ACCA
3 211 (5.84%) CIMA
4 200 (5.54%) Security Cleared
5 124 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 112 (3.10%) SC Cleared
7 106 (2.93%) CISSP
8 81 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (1.91%) CISM
10 54 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 52 (1.44%) CISA
12 44 (1.22%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 39 (1.08%) PMP
14 31 (0.86%) CRISC
15 30 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.83%) SANS
16 29 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.72%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (4.65%) QA
2 129 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 126 (3.49%) GDPR
4 104 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (2.35%) NIST
6 71 (1.97%) IFRS
7 65 (1.80%) PMO
8 48 (1.33%) SLA
9 46 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 46 (1.27%) GRC
10 42 (1.16%) GAAP
11 37 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 36 (1.00%) COBIT
13 26 (0.72%) SOC 2
14 20 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
15 18 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.42%) MiFID
18 14 (0.39%) COREP
18 14 (0.39%) FINREP
System Software
1 92 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.10%) Docker
3 64 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.14%) Firmware
7 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.14%) vSphere
8 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 148 (4.10%) Terraform
2 146 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.47%) Grafana
4 46 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.80%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) Istio
7 7 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.14%) Endace
9 5 (0.14%) QRadar
9 5 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 5 (0.14%) SCCM
10 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.083%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.083%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.055%) Argo
12 2 (0.055%) Salt
Vendors
1 583 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 226 (6.26%) Oracle
3 131 (3.63%) SAP
4 113 (3.13%) Databricks
5 86 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 70 (1.94%) Sage
7 52 (1.44%) Google
7 52 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 42 (1.16%) Cisco
9 36 (1.00%) VMware
9 36 (1.00%) Xero
10 28 (0.78%) Workday
11 27 (0.75%) Adobe
12 22 (0.61%) Aderant
13 20 (0.55%) HubSpot
14 19 (0.53%) IBM
14 19 (0.53%) Splunk
15 18 (0.50%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.44%) IFS
17 15 (0.42%) Okta
1,572 hybrid/remote Finance jobs