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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,174 4,047 5,345
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.29% 24.37% 21.71%
As % of the General category 30.44% 33.88% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 2,392 3,374
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £37,605
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £91,436 £98,474 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -0.04%

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 13,711 11,945 15,039
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.09% 71.92% 61.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,666 6,617 10,029
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,150 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%

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 17 August 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
1 110 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.29%) Confluence
3 29 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.41%) Apache
5 16 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.26%) nginx
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.22%) CMS
9 8 (0.19%) SAS
10 6 (0.14%) IIS
11 4 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.096%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.024%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.024%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.024%) JBoss
13 1 (0.024%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.024%) WordPress
Applications
1 257 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.41%) Simulink
6 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.29%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.24%) CorelDRAW
9 6 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.096%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.096%) Mathcad
11 4 (0.096%) Sketch
12 3 (0.072%) Productboard
13 2 (0.048%) InDesign
13 2 (0.048%) SPSS
14 1 (0.024%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.024%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 67 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 51 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
3 33 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 28 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
6 25 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
7 21 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
9 19 (0.46%) Elite 3E
10 17 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
12 15 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
12 15 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
12 15 (0.36%) Primavera
13 14 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 14 (0.34%) Workday HCM
14 13 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
15 12 (0.29%) SAP ERP
16 10 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
16 10 (0.24%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 884 (21.18%) Azure
2 600 (14.37%) AWS
3 333 (7.98%) SaaS
4 313 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 210 (5.03%) GCP
6 160 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
7 146 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
8 109 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (2.56%) Snowflake
10 81 (1.94%) PaaS
11 77 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 73 (1.75%) Entra ID
13 68 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 66 (1.58%) Azure AI
15 65 (1.56%) GitHub
16 61 (1.46%) PowerApps
17 57 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
18 54 (1.29%) Serverless
19 52 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
20 47 (1.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 80 (1.92%) LAN
1 80 (1.92%) WAN
2 63 (1.51%) Firewall
3 42 (1.01%) Network Security
3 42 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 39 (0.93%) HTTP
5 38 (0.91%) DNS
6 30 (0.72%) VPN
7 29 (0.69%) DHCP
8 21 (0.50%) Broadband
9 15 (0.36%) MPLS
9 15 (0.36%) VLAN
9 15 (0.36%) Wireless
10 13 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
11 11 (0.26%) Ethernet
11 11 (0.26%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.24%) Internet
12 10 (0.24%) NGFW
13 8 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (4.84%) Power BI
2 181 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 69 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 64 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 59 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.34%) Tableau
7 43 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 43 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (0.86%) Metadata
10 33 (0.79%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.67%) Big Data
12 26 (0.62%) MySQL
13 21 (0.50%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 19 (0.46%) Power Query
15 18 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (0.38%) Looker
16 16 (0.38%) Oracle Database
16 16 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 137 (3.28%) JIRA
2 87 (2.08%) Git
3 39 (0.93%) TeamCity
4 25 (0.60%) JUnit
5 23 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 22 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.46%) Maven
8 17 (0.41%) Mockito
9 16 (0.38%) Selenium
10 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.17%) GitLab
10 7 (0.17%) Postman
10 7 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.14%) Gatling
11 6 (0.14%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.096%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.096%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,362 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 653 (15.64%) Banking
3 569 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 460 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 435 (10.42%) Legal
6 304 (7.28%) Retail
7 289 (6.92%) Law
8 264 (6.32%) Marketing
9 245 (5.87%) Organisational Skills
10 215 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
11 209 (5.01%) Public Sector
12 149 (3.57%) Manufacturing
13 144 (3.45%) Aerospace
14 131 (3.14%) Financial Institution
15 112 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
16 111 (2.66%) Back Office
17 81 (1.94%) Billing
18 80 (1.92%) Telecoms
19 65 (1.56%) Front Office
20 54 (1.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 585 (14.02%) Senior
2 456 (10.92%) Lead
3 422 (10.11%) Analyst
4 346 (8.29%) Developer
5 340 (8.15%) Architect
6 267 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 218 (5.22%) Consultant
8 163 (3.91%) Finance Manager
9 151 (3.62%) Senior Manager
10 121 (2.90%) Accountant
11 120 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
12 111 (2.66%) Project Manager
13 108 (2.59%) IT Manager
14 100 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
14 100 (2.40%) Business Analyst
15 99 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
16 95 (2.28%) Engineering Manager
17 82 (1.96%) Graduate
18 78 (1.87%) Data Analyst
19 74 (1.77%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (3.86%) React
2 158 (3.79%) .NET
3 117 (2.80%) REST
4 90 (2.16%) Node.js
5 68 (1.63%) CSS
6 67 (1.61%) .NET Core
7 61 (1.46%) Spring
8 60 (1.44%) ASP.NET
9 54 (1.29%) ASP.NET Core
10 50 (1.20%) .NET Framework
11 44 (1.05%) AngularJS
12 42 (1.01%) LangChain
13 41 (0.98%) Kafka
14 39 (0.93%) jQuery
15 36 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
15 36 (0.86%) PyTorch
15 36 (0.86%) TensorFlow
16 35 (0.84%) HTML
16 35 (0.84%) LangGraph
17 32 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 269 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 205 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 181 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 163 (3.91%) Virtual Team
5 159 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 149 (3.57%) Web Conferencing
7 141 (3.38%) Podcast
8 114 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 94 (2.25%) Blog
10 91 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 71 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 61 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
14 58 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
15 53 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 53 (1.27%) Fixed Income
16 51 (1.22%) Credit Risk
17 50 (1.20%) Driving Licence
18 45 (1.08%) Hedge funds
19 41 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 137 (3.28%) Windows
2 120 (2.87%) Linux
3 45 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.46%) Unix
5 17 (0.41%) Android
6 16 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.072%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.024%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (21.15%) Agile
2 718 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 697 (16.70%) Roadmaps
4 643 (15.40%) AI
5 640 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
6 536 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 522 (12.51%) Decision-Making
8 494 (11.84%) Software Engineering
9 425 (10.18%) Mentoring
10 423 (10.13%) Analytics
11 404 (9.68%) ERP
12 377 (9.03%) CI/CD
13 352 (8.43%) DevOps
14 340 (8.15%) Risk Management
15 328 (7.86%) Project Delivery
16 309 (7.40%) Project Management
17 308 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 294 (7.04%) Process Improvement
19 272 (6.52%) Machine Learning
20 266 (6.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 627 (15.02%) SQL
2 418 (10.01%) Python
3 295 (7.07%) Java
4 254 (6.09%) C#
5 169 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 143 (3.43%) TypeScript
7 113 (2.71%) C++
8 84 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 72 (1.72%) PHP
10 43 (1.03%) Go
11 32 (0.77%) C
12 27 (0.65%) Bash
12 27 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 24 (0.57%) Bicep
13 24 (0.57%) R
14 22 (0.53%) MATLAB
15 19 (0.46%) VBA
16 18 (0.43%) Rust
17 14 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 417 (9.99%) Degree
2 355 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 271 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 250 (5.99%) ACCA
5 249 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 216 (5.17%) CIMA
7 134 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 88 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 75 (1.80%) CISSP
10 52 (1.25%) CISM
11 50 (1.20%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.17%) PMP
13 45 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 33 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 32 (0.77%) CISA
16 29 (0.69%) CRISC
16 29 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.57%) ICAEW
19 23 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 168 (4.02%) QA
3 163 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 146 (3.50%) GDPR
5 91 (2.18%) GRC
6 90 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 75 (1.80%) PMO
8 73 (1.75%) NIST
9 72 (1.72%) SLA
10 63 (1.51%) IFRS
11 49 (1.17%) GAAP
12 30 (0.72%) COBIT
12 30 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 22 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 17 (0.41%) MiFID
16 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 15 (0.36%) FINREP
17 14 (0.34%) COREP
17 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (2.56%) Docker
2 100 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 49 (1.17%) Firmware
5 42 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.14%) Squid
10 6 (0.14%) vSphere
11 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 168 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 162 (3.88%) Terraform
3 58 (1.39%) Grafana
4 44 (1.05%) Ansible
5 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.19%) Istio
7 7 (0.17%) SCCM
8 6 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.12%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.096%) QRadar
10 4 (0.096%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.072%) Argo
11 3 (0.072%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.048%) CASB
12 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.048%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.048%) Puppet
Vendors
1 732 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 222 (5.32%) Oracle
3 145 (3.47%) SAP
4 128 (3.07%) Databricks
5 90 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 66 (1.58%) Google
6 66 (1.58%) Sage
7 59 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.17%) Workday
9 48 (1.15%) VMware
10 43 (1.03%) Cisco
11 37 (0.89%) Xero
12 33 (0.79%) HubSpot
13 30 (0.72%) Aderant
13 30 (0.72%) IBM
14 25 (0.60%) BMC
15 22 (0.53%) Adobe
16 21 (0.50%) Splunk
17 20 (0.48%) Remedy
18 19 (0.46%) Veeam