Finance Jobs with Work from Home Options

Financial
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,218 10,451 15,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.38% 25.20% 22.77%
As % of the General category 34.83% 38.18% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,864 6,979 8,945
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,893 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,040 £88,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,723 27,370 43,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.37% 65.99% 63.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,077 18,217 24,304
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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
1 356 (4.93%) SAS
2 338 (4.68%) Apache
3 320 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
4 132 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 124 (1.72%) Confluence
6 104 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 78 (1.08%) IIS
8 41 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 29 (0.40%) nginx
10 25 (0.35%) CMS
11 22 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 19 (0.26%) WordPress
13 5 (0.069%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.055%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.055%) Moodle
14 4 (0.055%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.042%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.042%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 817 (11.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 294 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.19%) Trello
8 12 (0.17%) SPSS
9 11 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.083%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.069%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.069%) Sketch
12 4 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.055%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.042%) InVision
14 2 (0.028%) EViews
14 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 304 (4.21%) SAP ERP
2 66 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 63 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 45 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 43 (0.60%) SAP CO
5 43 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
6 36 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 33 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
8 27 (0.37%) NetSuite
9 24 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
10 22 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
11 20 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
11 20 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
11 20 (0.28%) PlanetPress Connect
12 14 (0.19%) Elite 3E
13 12 (0.17%) iTrent
14 11 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
15 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
15 10 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
15 10 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (17.66%) Azure
2 1,060 (14.69%) AWS
3 560 (7.76%) Power Platform
4 518 (7.18%) GCP
5 338 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
6 290 (4.02%) Snowflake
7 289 (4.00%) dbt
8 196 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 187 (2.59%) SaaS
10 179 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 157 (2.18%) GitHub
12 103 (1.43%) Serverless
13 92 (1.27%) PowerApps
14 81 (1.12%) Entra ID
14 81 (1.12%) Power Automate
15 79 (1.09%) IaaS
15 79 (1.09%) PaaS
16 78 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
17 72 (1.00%) Amazon S3
18 66 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 780 (10.81%) Broadband
2 190 (2.63%) Firewall
3 107 (1.48%) Internet
4 96 (1.33%) WAN
5 94 (1.30%) DNS
6 85 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 81 (1.12%) VPN
8 65 (0.90%) LAN
8 65 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 59 (0.82%) IPsec
10 56 (0.78%) Network Security
10 56 (0.78%) SNMP
11 49 (0.68%) Wireless
12 48 (0.67%) DHCP
13 38 (0.53%) SAN
13 38 (0.53%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.25%) iSCSI
15 17 (0.24%) HTTP
16 14 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 14 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 505 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 465 (6.44%) Power BI
3 330 (4.57%) Data Lake
4 301 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 269 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
5 269 (3.73%) Dremio
6 266 (3.69%) Apache Arrow
7 227 (3.14%) Apache Ignite
8 169 (2.34%) MongoDB
9 142 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 139 (1.93%) Tableau
11 135 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
12 124 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 94 (1.30%) Big Data
14 78 (1.08%) Relational Database
15 63 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 60 (0.83%) NoSQL
17 52 (0.72%) BigQuery
18 51 (0.71%) Oracle Database
19 49 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 258 (3.57%) JIRA
2 233 (3.23%) Git
3 140 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 79 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 64 (0.89%) GitLab
6 52 (0.72%) Maven
7 36 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 34 (0.47%) Selenium
9 31 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
10 30 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
11 28 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
12 27 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
15 15 (0.21%) JUnit
15 15 (0.21%) Subversion
16 13 (0.18%) NUnit
17 12 (0.17%) Eclipse
17 12 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 2,768 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 1,278 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
3 967 (13.40%) Banking
4 624 (8.65%) Influencing Skills
5 614 (8.51%) Retail
6 529 (7.33%) Front Office
7 498 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 493 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 471 (6.53%) Marketing
10 386 (5.35%) Legal
11 257 (3.56%) Investment Banking
12 231 (3.20%) Law
13 221 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
14 206 (2.85%) Manufacturing
15 158 (2.19%) Back Office
15 158 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 115 (1.59%) Financial Institution
17 104 (1.44%) Electronics
18 101 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
19 87 (1.21%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,392 (19.29%) Analyst
2 1,298 (17.98%) Senior
3 1,012 (14.02%) Developer
4 691 (9.57%) Lead
5 688 (9.53%) Architect
6 499 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
7 441 (6.11%) Consultant
8 389 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 363 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
10 358 (4.96%) Financial Analyst
11 326 (4.52%) Project Manager
12 272 (3.77%) Senior Developer
13 227 (3.14%) .NET Developer
14 174 (2.41%) Senior Software Engineer
15 159 (2.20%) IT Manager
16 157 (2.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 153 (2.12%) Python Developer
18 151 (2.09%) AWS Engineer
18 151 (2.09%) Python Engineer
19 147 (2.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (6.75%) .NET
2 375 (5.20%) React
3 333 (4.61%) gRPC
4 306 (4.24%) AngularJS
5 291 (4.03%) Protocol Buffers
6 282 (3.91%) HTML
7 264 (3.66%) Pandas
8 225 (3.12%) NumPy
9 219 (3.03%) ASP.NET
10 215 (2.98%) SciPy
11 181 (2.51%) Vue
12 172 (2.38%) Node.js
13 170 (2.36%) .NET Core
14 169 (2.34%) CSS
15 150 (2.08%) Kafka
16 145 (2.01%) Spring
17 128 (1.77%) .NET Framework
18 123 (1.70%) Redux
19 121 (1.68%) Spring Boot
20 119 (1.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 452 (6.26%) Hedge funds
2 402 (5.57%) Derivative
3 395 (5.47%) Fixed Income
4 356 (4.93%) Equities
5 354 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 273 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 227 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 170 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 149 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 144 (2.00%) PMI
11 140 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 117 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 106 (1.47%) Cloud Native
14 100 (1.39%) Social Media
15 94 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 92 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 86 (1.19%) Clustering
17 86 (1.19%) Virtual Team
18 65 (0.90%) Data Structures
19 60 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 586 (8.12%) Windows
2 414 (5.74%) Linux
3 178 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 129 (1.79%) Unix
5 70 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 54 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 54 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
7 50 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 43 (0.60%) Solaris
10 39 (0.54%) Android
11 34 (0.47%) CentOS
12 25 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 24 (0.33%) zOS
14 22 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 13 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
15 13 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (0.15%) Windows 8
16 11 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,721 (37.70%) Agile
2 1,224 (16.96%) Mentoring
3 1,030 (14.27%) Roadmaps
4 1,002 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
5 893 (12.37%) Decision-Making
6 780 (10.81%) Software Engineering
7 711 (9.85%) Project Management
8 706 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
9 670 (9.28%) Asset Management
10 645 (8.94%) DevOps
11 640 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
12 586 (8.12%) ERP
13 583 (8.08%) Change Management
14 575 (7.97%) Analytics
15 572 (7.92%) Business Case
16 518 (7.18%) Data Management
17 515 (7.13%) Coaching
18 504 (6.98%) Budgeting
19 503 (6.97%) Budgeting and Forecasting
20 476 (6.59%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 1,224 (16.96%) Python
2 1,139 (15.78%) SQL
3 757 (10.49%) JavaScript
4 617 (8.55%) Java
5 577 (7.99%) C#
6 536 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 189 (2.62%) PowerShell
8 123 (1.70%) Go
9 114 (1.58%) R
10 109 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 90 (1.25%) Bash
12 78 (1.08%) C++
13 64 (0.89%) PHP
14 57 (0.79%) C
15 48 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 39 (0.54%) VBA
17 38 (0.53%) Perl
18 35 (0.48%) Scala
19 34 (0.47%) Groovy
20 31 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 955 (13.23%) Degree
2 552 (7.65%) ACCA
3 511 (7.08%) CIMA
4 297 (4.11%) Security Cleared
5 191 (2.65%) PMI Certification
6 158 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 124 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (1.57%) CISSP
9 91 (1.26%) PMP
10 88 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 85 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 68 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 62 (0.86%) DV Cleared
14 54 (0.75%) CISM
15 48 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 40 (0.55%) DBS Check
16 40 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 36 (0.50%) CEH
17 36 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
18 35 (0.48%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (3.19%) QA
2 194 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 98 (1.36%) PMO
4 97 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (1.34%) NIST
4 97 (1.34%) SLA
5 75 (1.04%) GDPR
6 61 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 35 (0.48%) IFRS
8 34 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.43%) GRC
10 26 (0.36%) NCSC
11 24 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.26%) ITGC
13 18 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 17 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.17%) IFRS 9
16 12 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 346 (4.79%) Docker
2 255 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 182 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 34 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 27 (0.37%) vSphere
7 26 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (0.29%) Firmware
8 21 (0.29%) XenApp
9 15 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.17%) XenDesktop
11 11 (0.15%) IAG
11 11 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.12%) OpenSSH
13 6 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.028%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.014%) Ceph
16 1 (0.014%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 368 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 296 (4.10%) Terraform
3 152 (2.11%) Ansible
4 106 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 68 (0.94%) vCenter Server
6 67 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (0.67%) SCCM
8 32 (0.44%) Grafana
9 25 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.26%) Puppet
11 16 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.21%) Nmap
13 12 (0.17%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.17%) VxRail
13 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (0.14%) SCOM
15 9 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
15 9 (0.12%) Istio
15 9 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,649 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 635 (8.80%) SAP
3 603 (8.35%) Oracle
4 310 (4.29%) Anaplan
5 305 (4.23%) Hyperion
6 218 (3.02%) Google
7 215 (2.98%) VMware
8 96 (1.33%) Cisco
9 87 (1.21%) IBM
10 81 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 80 (1.11%) Databricks
12 79 (1.09%) Citrix
12 79 (1.09%) Palo Alto
13 74 (1.03%) NetApp
14 73 (1.01%) ServiceNow
15 66 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 64 (0.89%) Splunk
17 58 (0.80%) Atlassian
18 54 (0.75%) SolidFire
19 51 (0.71%) Dell