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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,285 10,280 16,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.55% 25.33% 22.89%
As % of the General category 34.94% 38.44% 35.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,884 6,838 9,091
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,250 £102,500
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 20,849 26,740 45,322
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.67% 65.90% 63.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15,089 17,832 24,794
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 £83,750 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £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 20 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
1 385 (5.28%) Apache
2 370 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 353 (4.85%) SAS
4 127 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 125 (1.72%) Confluence
6 100 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 86 (1.18%) IIS
8 37 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 31 (0.43%) nginx
10 28 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 25 (0.34%) CMS
12 20 (0.27%) WordPress
13 5 (0.069%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.055%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.055%) Moodle
14 4 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.055%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.041%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 814 (11.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 289 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 110 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.19%) Trello
8 12 (0.16%) SPSS
9 10 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.082%) 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 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.041%) InVision
13 3 (0.041%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.027%) EViews
15 1 (0.014%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 303 (4.16%) SAP ERP
2 63 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 46 (0.63%) NEC Housing
4 45 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 43 (0.59%) SAP CO
5 43 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
6 33 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
7 27 (0.37%) NetSuite
8 25 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 22 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
10 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
11 20 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
12 16 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
13 15 (0.21%) Elite 3E
14 12 (0.16%) iTrent
15 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
16 9 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
16 9 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
16 9 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,285 (17.64%) Azure
2 1,110 (15.24%) AWS
3 570 (7.82%) Power Platform
4 524 (7.19%) GCP
5 341 (4.68%) dbt
6 335 (4.60%) Snowflake
7 333 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
8 193 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 188 (2.58%) SaaS
10 176 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 154 (2.11%) GitHub
12 111 (1.52%) Entra ID
13 103 (1.41%) Serverless
14 92 (1.26%) PowerApps
15 83 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 76 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
16 76 (1.04%) IaaS
17 72 (0.99%) Amazon S3
17 72 (0.99%) PaaS
18 69 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 778 (10.68%) Broadband
2 191 (2.62%) Firewall
3 108 (1.48%) Internet
4 98 (1.35%) DNS
5 93 (1.28%) WAN
6 84 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 82 (1.13%) VPN
8 64 (0.88%) LAN
9 63 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (0.81%) IPsec
11 56 (0.77%) SNMP
12 55 (0.75%) Network Security
13 49 (0.67%) DHCP
13 49 (0.67%) Wireless
14 39 (0.54%) SAN
15 36 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.26%) iSCSI
17 16 (0.22%) HTTP
18 14 (0.19%) HTTPS
18 14 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 477 (6.55%) Power BI
3 392 (5.38%) Data Lake
4 321 (4.41%) Dremio
5 318 (4.37%) Apache Arrow
6 317 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 308 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
8 265 (3.64%) Apache Ignite
9 169 (2.32%) MongoDB
10 142 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 142 (1.95%) Tableau
11 133 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
12 124 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
13 106 (1.46%) Big Data
14 79 (1.08%) Relational Database
15 66 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 63 (0.86%) NoSQL
17 54 (0.74%) Oracle Database
18 50 (0.69%) DB2
18 50 (0.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 249 (3.42%) JIRA
2 229 (3.14%) Git
3 140 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.07%) Visual Studio
5 61 (0.84%) GitLab
6 51 (0.70%) Maven
7 34 (0.47%) Selenium
8 32 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 30 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 29 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
11 28 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 27 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
13 25 (0.34%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.21%) JUnit
16 15 (0.21%) Subversion
17 13 (0.18%) NUnit
18 12 (0.16%) Eclipse
18 12 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2,771 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 1,269 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
3 1,013 (13.91%) Banking
4 617 (8.47%) Retail
5 610 (8.37%) Influencing Skills
6 564 (7.74%) Front Office
7 508 (6.97%) Public Sector
8 487 (6.68%) Marketing
9 483 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 414 (5.68%) Legal
11 285 (3.91%) Investment Banking
12 228 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
13 221 (3.03%) Law
14 213 (2.92%) Manufacturing
15 162 (2.22%) Back Office
16 158 (2.17%) Telecoms
17 117 (1.61%) Financial Institution
18 104 (1.43%) Electronics
19 99 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
20 94 (1.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,401 (19.23%) Analyst
2 1,347 (18.49%) Senior
3 1,009 (13.85%) Developer
4 702 (9.64%) Lead
5 688 (9.44%) Architect
6 501 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
7 467 (6.41%) Consultant
8 413 (5.67%) Software Engineer
9 391 (5.37%) Senior Analyst
10 363 (4.98%) Financial Analyst
11 325 (4.46%) Project Manager
12 270 (3.71%) Senior Developer
13 229 (3.14%) .NET Developer
14 184 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 175 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
16 167 (2.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 164 (2.25%) Python Engineer
18 157 (2.16%) IT Manager
19 155 (2.13%) Software Developer
20 152 (2.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (6.60%) .NET
2 383 (5.26%) gRPC
3 375 (5.15%) React
4 341 (4.68%) Protocol Buffers
5 302 (4.15%) AngularJS
6 300 (4.12%) Pandas
7 278 (3.82%) HTML
8 260 (3.57%) NumPy
9 251 (3.45%) SciPy
10 218 (2.99%) ASP.NET
11 184 (2.53%) Vue
12 174 (2.39%) Node.js
13 169 (2.32%) CSS
14 165 (2.26%) .NET Core
15 146 (2.00%) Kafka
16 136 (1.87%) Spring
17 128 (1.76%) .NET Framework
18 125 (1.72%) Redux
19 122 (1.67%) Web Services
20 121 (1.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 502 (6.89%) Hedge funds
2 439 (6.03%) Derivative
3 432 (5.93%) Fixed Income
4 395 (5.42%) Equities
4 395 (5.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 306 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 229 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 172 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 153 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 144 (1.98%) PMI
10 137 (1.88%) Data Centre
11 116 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 105 (1.44%) Cloud Native
13 101 (1.39%) Clustering
14 100 (1.37%) Social Media
15 90 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 88 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
16 88 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 65 (0.89%) Data Structures
18 59 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 588 (8.07%) Windows
2 415 (5.70%) Linux
3 178 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 139 (1.91%) Unix
5 72 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 55 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 54 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
8 49 (0.67%) Solaris
9 48 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 47 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 40 (0.55%) Android
12 35 (0.48%) CentOS
13 25 (0.34%) Ubuntu
14 24 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 24 (0.33%) zOS
15 14 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
16 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
17 12 (0.16%) Windows 7
18 11 (0.15%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,748 (37.72%) Agile
2 1,215 (16.68%) Mentoring
3 1,072 (14.72%) Roadmaps
4 1,007 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
5 903 (12.40%) Decision-Making
6 807 (11.08%) Software Engineering
7 713 (9.79%) Asset Management
7 713 (9.79%) Project Management
8 699 (9.60%) Actionable Insight
9 649 (8.91%) DevOps
10 636 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
11 584 (8.02%) Change Management
12 578 (7.93%) ERP
13 572 (7.85%) Business Case
14 564 (7.74%) Analytics
15 544 (7.47%) Coaching
16 519 (7.12%) Data Management
17 508 (6.97%) Investment Management
18 504 (6.92%) Budgeting
18 504 (6.92%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (17.36%) Python
2 1,178 (16.17%) SQL
3 801 (11.00%) JavaScript
4 646 (8.87%) Java
5 580 (7.96%) C#
6 571 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 218 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 138 (1.89%) Go
9 110 (1.51%) T-SQL
10 107 (1.47%) R
11 82 (1.13%) Bash
12 77 (1.06%) C++
13 65 (0.89%) PHP
14 58 (0.80%) C
15 55 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 40 (0.55%) VBA
17 36 (0.49%) Perl
18 35 (0.48%) Groovy
19 33 (0.45%) Scala
20 29 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 962 (13.21%) Degree
2 556 (7.63%) ACCA
3 512 (7.03%) CIMA
4 289 (3.97%) Security Cleared
5 196 (2.69%) PMI Certification
6 153 (2.10%) SC Cleared
7 131 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (1.55%) CISSP
9 97 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 95 (1.30%) PMP
11 88 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 79 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 55 (0.75%) DV Cleared
14 53 (0.73%) CISM
15 48 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 44 (0.60%) DBS Check
17 43 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 35 (0.48%) APMP
18 35 (0.48%) CEH
18 35 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (3.01%) QA
2 206 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 102 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (1.37%) NIST
5 97 (1.33%) SLA
6 93 (1.28%) PMO
7 74 (1.02%) GDPR
8 65 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 35 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 33 (0.45%) IFRS
11 31 (0.43%) GRC
12 27 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 27 (0.37%) NCSC
13 19 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 19 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.23%) ITGC
15 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 11 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 341 (4.68%) Docker
2 284 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 181 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 33 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 30 (0.41%) vSphere
7 28 (0.38%) RACF
7 28 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 23 (0.32%) XenApp
9 21 (0.29%) Firmware
10 18 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (0.18%) XenDesktop
12 11 (0.15%) IAG
12 11 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 10 (0.14%) OpenSSH
14 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
15 6 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
16 3 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.027%) NFS
18 1 (0.014%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 370 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 303 (4.16%) Terraform
3 150 (2.06%) Ansible
4 120 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 71 (0.97%) vCenter Server
6 67 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (0.62%) SCCM
8 31 (0.43%) Grafana
9 25 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.21%) Nmap
12 14 (0.19%) Puppet
13 12 (0.16%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.16%) VxRail
13 12 (0.16%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.15%) SCOM
15 10 (0.14%) IBM BigFix
15 10 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.14%) Nagios
15 10 (0.14%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,681 (23.07%) Microsoft
2 636 (8.73%) SAP
3 603 (8.28%) Oracle
4 309 (4.24%) Anaplan
5 304 (4.17%) Hyperion
6 214 (2.94%) VMware
7 213 (2.92%) Google
8 96 (1.32%) Cisco
9 87 (1.19%) IBM
10 80 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 79 (1.08%) Databricks
12 78 (1.07%) Citrix
12 78 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 73 (1.00%) NetApp
14 71 (0.97%) ServiceNow
15 64 (0.88%) Salesforce
16 62 (0.85%) Splunk
17 58 (0.80%) Atlassian
18 54 (0.74%) SolidFire
19 49 (0.67%) NEC