Finance Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,661 6,316 12,022
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.12% 21.57% 25.63%
As % of the General category 35.60% 34.98% 37.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,536 4,748 8,584
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,270 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,066 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -3.61% +3.85%
75th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £71,200 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +9.54% -6.40% +6.84%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 13,091 18,054 31,657
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 73.36% 61.66% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,625 13,659 21,508
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,138 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.10% +1.97%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Finance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Finance.

Finance salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Finance over the 6 months to 18 February 2025.

Finance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 234 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
2 214 (4.59%) Apache
3 115 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 109 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 76 (1.63%) Oracle Application Server
6 66 (1.42%) Confluence
7 61 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 49 (1.05%) SAS
9 29 (0.62%) nginx
10 24 (0.51%) Jupyter
11 20 (0.43%) Mule
12 17 (0.36%) IIS
13 15 (0.32%) Apache Solr
13 15 (0.32%) OpenEdge
14 8 (0.17%) CMS
14 8 (0.17%) NetWeaver
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.13%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.086%) CICS
17 4 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 259 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.15%) Trello
8 6 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.11%) Sketch
10 4 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.043%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.043%) InDesign
11 2 (0.043%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.021%) 1Password
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Simulink
12 1 (0.021%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 88 (1.89%) NEC Housing
2 67 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
3 47 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 41 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.88%) Sage 200
5 37 (0.79%) Sage 50
6 28 (0.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 25 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
8 23 (0.49%) Aladdin
9 19 (0.41%) SAP Business One
10 15 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
11 13 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.28%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 13 (0.28%) SAP ERP
12 12 (0.26%) NetSuite
12 12 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
13 11 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
13 11 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
13 11 (0.24%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 745 (15.98%) AWS
2 665 (14.27%) Azure
3 398 (8.54%) GCP
4 234 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 217 (4.66%) dbt
6 183 (3.93%) Serverless
7 155 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 149 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
9 143 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
10 142 (3.05%) SaaS
11 129 (2.77%) Snowflake
12 107 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
13 99 (2.12%) OpenShift
14 95 (2.04%) GitHub
15 84 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
16 82 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
17 69 (1.48%) Amazon S3
18 65 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
19 59 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
20 51 (1.09%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 794 (17.03%) Broadband
2 82 (1.76%) Firewall
3 80 (1.72%) DNS
4 56 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 53 (1.14%) DHCP
6 35 (0.75%) HTTP
6 35 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 33 (0.71%) Network Security
8 30 (0.64%) Internet
9 27 (0.58%) WAN
10 25 (0.54%) Unified Communications
11 23 (0.49%) LAN
12 22 (0.47%) VPN
13 20 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
14 19 (0.41%) SAN
15 18 (0.39%) IPsec
16 14 (0.30%) BGP
17 12 (0.26%) VSAN
18 11 (0.24%) SD-WAN
18 11 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 212 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
2 212 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 209 (4.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 209 (4.48%) Dremio
4 198 (4.25%) Apache Ignite
5 194 (4.16%) Power BI
6 187 (4.01%) Apache Arrow
7 178 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
8 139 (2.98%) Big Data
9 126 (2.70%) Tableau
10 108 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
11 91 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 82 (1.76%) NoSQL
13 76 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 70 (1.50%) MySQL
15 68 (1.46%) Oracle Database
16 63 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 60 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 59 (1.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 173 (3.71%) Git
2 147 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 96 (2.06%) JIRA
4 73 (1.57%) Artifactory
5 48 (1.03%) GitLab
6 35 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
7 34 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 33 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 32 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 31 (0.67%) Maven
10 31 (0.67%) webpack
11 23 (0.49%) Selenium
12 21 (0.45%) JUnit
13 20 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (0.36%) Mockito
14 17 (0.36%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.34%) IntelliJ
15 16 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
16 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
16 15 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,256 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 853 (18.30%) Banking
3 613 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 499 (10.71%) Front Office
5 331 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 273 (5.86%) Legal
7 215 (4.61%) Retail
8 183 (3.93%) Public Sector
9 166 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 163 (3.50%) Marketing
11 155 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 128 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 123 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 119 (2.55%) Investment Banking
14 119 (2.55%) Law
15 109 (2.34%) Local Government
16 90 (1.93%) Games
17 87 (1.87%) Police
18 78 (1.67%) Military
19 67 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 804 (17.25%) Senior
2 615 (13.19%) Analyst
3 467 (10.02%) Developer
4 422 (9.05%) Software Engineer
5 342 (7.34%) Sales Representative
6 340 (7.29%) Lead
7 246 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
8 237 (5.08%) Python Engineer
9 232 (4.98%) Project Manager
10 211 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
11 201 (4.31%) Consultant
12 196 (4.21%) Architect
13 171 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
14 145 (3.11%) Financial Analyst
15 144 (3.09%) Data Engineer
16 135 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
17 126 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
18 121 (2.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 116 (2.49%) AWS Software Engineer
20 114 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (5.26%) .NET
2 241 (5.17%) React
3 189 (4.05%) Node.js
4 152 (3.26%) HTML
5 148 (3.18%) Pandas
6 141 (3.03%) NumPy
7 139 (2.98%) Kafka
8 138 (2.96%) PySpark
9 135 (2.90%) SciPy
10 133 (2.85%) gRPC
11 132 (2.83%) CSS
12 130 (2.79%) Protocol Buffers
13 126 (2.70%) Redux
14 119 (2.55%) AngularJS
15 86 (1.85%) Spring Boot
16 79 (1.69%) Spring
17 74 (1.59%) .NET Framework
17 74 (1.59%) jQuery
18 71 (1.52%) J2EE
19 69 (1.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 792 (16.99%) Social Media
2 356 (7.64%) Xbox
3 331 (7.10%) Fixed Income
4 249 (5.34%) Hedge funds
5 242 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 234 (5.02%) Derivative
7 207 (4.44%) Equities
8 174 (3.73%) Product Ownership
9 171 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
10 159 (3.41%) Management Information System
11 88 (1.89%) Algorithms
12 81 (1.74%) Cyberattack
13 79 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 70 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
15 69 (1.48%) Data Centre
16 59 (1.27%) Cloud Native
16 59 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
17 56 (1.20%) Credit Risk
18 52 (1.12%) Mobile App
18 52 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 250 (5.36%) Windows
2 221 (4.74%) Linux
3 80 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 68 (1.46%) Unix
5 29 (0.62%) Android
6 27 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.49%) Windows Vista
9 19 (0.41%) AIX
10 15 (0.32%) Solaris
11 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.26%) CentOS
13 11 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.24%) Ubuntu
13 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
14 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.15%) VMS
15 7 (0.15%) zOS
16 6 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,375 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1,355 (29.07%) Agile
3 781 (16.76%) Software Engineering
4 661 (14.18%) DevOps
5 655 (14.05%) Analytics
6 499 (10.71%) Customer Service
7 471 (10.11%) Mentoring
8 417 (8.95%) CI/CD
9 416 (8.93%) Project Management
10 398 (8.54%) Asset Management
11 377 (8.09%) Fintech
11 377 (8.09%) Roadmaps
12 347 (7.44%) Migration
13 318 (6.82%) Investment Management
14 315 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
15 310 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 298 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 291 (6.24%) Visualisation
18 255 (5.47%) ITIL
19 253 (5.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 828 (17.76%) SQL
2 794 (17.03%) Python
3 487 (10.45%) JavaScript
4 479 (10.28%) Java
5 284 (6.09%) TypeScript
6 269 (5.77%) C#
7 144 (3.09%) PowerShell
8 117 (2.51%) Go
9 97 (2.08%) PL/SQL
10 95 (2.04%) C++
11 68 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 66 (1.42%) Bash
13 54 (1.16%) PHP
14 51 (1.09%) C
15 43 (0.92%) Scala
16 41 (0.88%) Kotlin
17 36 (0.77%) VBA
18 28 (0.60%) R
18 28 (0.60%) VB.NET
19 26 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 609 (13.07%) Degree
2 247 (5.30%) DBS Check
3 170 (3.65%) Security Cleared
4 109 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 97 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 84 (1.80%) Numerate Degree
7 79 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 67 (1.44%) CISSP
9 52 (1.12%) ACCA
10 49 (1.05%) PMP
11 47 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 46 (0.99%) CISA
12 46 (0.99%) PhD
12 46 (0.99%) SC Cleared
13 44 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (0.60%) CIMA
14 28 (0.60%) CISM
15 26 (0.56%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.56%) CCAB
16 25 (0.54%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (3.65%) Accessibility
2 114 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 113 (2.42%) QA
4 77 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (1.46%) GDPR
6 56 (1.20%) MiFID
7 51 (1.09%) SLA
8 45 (0.97%) NIST
8 45 (0.97%) PMO
9 38 (0.82%) ITGC
10 30 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 19 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.34%) GRC
14 14 (0.30%) COBIT
15 12 (0.26%) IFRS
15 12 (0.26%) NCSC
16 11 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
17 10 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 9 (0.19%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 332 (7.12%) Docker
2 109 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.58%) vSphere
5 18 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.21%) Firmware
8 10 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.17%) XenApp
10 7 (0.15%) NDS
10 7 (0.15%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 7 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.086%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.064%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.043%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 351 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 273 (5.86%) Terraform
3 123 (2.64%) Ansible
4 40 (0.86%) Progress Chef
5 38 (0.82%) SCCM
6 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (0.64%) Grafana
7 30 (0.64%) Puppet
8 29 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.32%) Istio
9 15 (0.32%) Nagios
10 10 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.19%) CA Endevor
12 8 (0.17%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.15%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 6 (0.13%) CASB
14 6 (0.13%) SCOM
14 6 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (0.11%) linkerd
16 4 (0.086%) Argo
Vendors
1 680 (14.59%) Sun
2 512 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 279 (5.99%) Oracle
4 175 (3.75%) SAP
5 149 (3.20%) Google
6 95 (2.04%) VMware
7 92 (1.97%) NEC
8 82 (1.76%) Cisco
9 75 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 68 (1.46%) IBM
11 57 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 51 (1.09%) Databricks
13 48 (1.03%) Citrix
13 48 (1.03%) Red Hat
14 46 (0.99%) Sage
15 35 (0.75%) Apple
16 32 (0.69%) Ariba
17 31 (0.67%) Atlassian
18 28 (0.60%) OpenText
19 23 (0.49%) BISAM