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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,230 10,394 15,654
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.38% 25.20% 22.80%
As % of the General category 34.83% 38.25% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,874 6,955 8,971
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,100 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £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 20,760 27,174 43,297
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.40% 65.89% 63.07%
Number of salaries quoted 15,090 18,144 24,392
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £82,548 £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 10 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 (4.92%) SAS
2 339 (4.69%) Apache
3 320 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
4 132 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 124 (1.72%) Confluence
6 104 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 79 (1.09%) IIS
8 41 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.41%) 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 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 818 (11.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 294 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.44%) 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 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.041%) InVision
14 2 (0.028%) EViews
14 2 (0.028%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 304 (4.20%) SAP ERP
2 67 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 63 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 45 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 43 (0.59%) SAP CO
5 43 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
6 37 (0.51%) 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 1,278 (17.68%) Azure
2 1,062 (14.69%) AWS
3 563 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 518 (7.16%) GCP
5 340 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
6 290 (4.01%) Snowflake
7 289 (4.00%) dbt
8 196 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
9 187 (2.59%) SaaS
10 179 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 156 (2.16%) GitHub
12 103 (1.42%) Serverless
13 93 (1.29%) PowerApps
14 83 (1.15%) Entra ID
15 82 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 81 (1.12%) IaaS
17 80 (1.11%) PaaS
18 78 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
19 72 (1.00%) Amazon S3
20 66 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 780 (10.79%) Broadband
2 191 (2.64%) Firewall
3 107 (1.48%) Internet
4 97 (1.34%) DNS
5 94 (1.30%) WAN
6 85 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 81 (1.12%) VPN
8 66 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
9 64 (0.89%) LAN
10 59 (0.82%) IPsec
11 56 (0.77%) Network Security
11 56 (0.77%) SNMP
12 50 (0.69%) DHCP
13 49 (0.68%) Wireless
14 39 (0.54%) SAN
15 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.25%) iSCSI
17 17 (0.24%) HTTP
18 14 (0.19%) HTTPS
18 14 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 468 (6.47%) Power BI
3 330 (4.56%) Data Lake
4 301 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
5 269 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
5 269 (3.72%) Dremio
6 266 (3.68%) Apache Arrow
7 227 (3.14%) Apache Ignite
8 170 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 142 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 140 (1.94%) Tableau
11 136 (1.88%) 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 61 (0.84%) NoSQL
17 52 (0.72%) BigQuery
17 52 (0.72%) Oracle Database
18 49 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 259 (3.58%) JIRA
2 232 (3.21%) Git
3 140 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 63 (0.87%) 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 (0.41%) 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 2,775 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 1,283 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
3 969 (13.40%) Banking
4 624 (8.63%) Influencing Skills
5 613 (8.48%) Retail
6 532 (7.36%) Front Office
7 498 (6.89%) Public Sector
8 494 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 471 (6.51%) Marketing
10 389 (5.38%) Legal
11 256 (3.54%) Investment Banking
12 232 (3.21%) Law
13 221 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
14 205 (2.84%) Manufacturing
15 160 (2.21%) Back Office
16 156 (2.16%) Telecoms
17 115 (1.59%) Financial Institution
18 103 (1.42%) Electronics
19 100 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
20 87 (1.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,395 (19.29%) Analyst
2 1,302 (18.01%) Senior
3 1,011 (13.98%) Developer
4 691 (9.56%) Lead
5 689 (9.53%) Architect
6 500 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 442 (6.11%) Consultant
8 390 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 365 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
10 361 (4.99%) Financial Analyst
11 326 (4.51%) Project Manager
12 271 (3.75%) Senior Developer
13 227 (3.14%) .NET Developer
14 173 (2.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 158 (2.19%) IT Manager
16 157 (2.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 153 (2.12%) Python Developer
18 152 (2.10%) Python Engineer
19 151 (2.09%) AWS Engineer
20 147 (2.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (6.74%) .NET
2 375 (5.19%) React
3 333 (4.61%) gRPC
4 306 (4.23%) AngularJS
5 291 (4.02%) Protocol Buffers
6 282 (3.90%) HTML
7 264 (3.65%) Pandas
8 225 (3.11%) NumPy
9 219 (3.03%) ASP.NET
10 215 (2.97%) SciPy
11 181 (2.50%) Vue
12 172 (2.38%) Node.js
13 170 (2.35%) .NET Core
14 169 (2.34%) CSS
15 150 (2.07%) Kafka
16 145 (2.01%) Spring
17 128 (1.77%) .NET Framework
18 123 (1.70%) Redux
19 121 (1.67%) Spring Boot
20 119 (1.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 454 (6.28%) Hedge funds
2 404 (5.59%) Derivative
3 397 (5.49%) Fixed Income
4 358 (4.95%) Equities
5 357 (4.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 273 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 229 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 171 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 149 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 144 (1.99%) PMI
11 140 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 118 (1.63%) Onboarding
13 106 (1.47%) Cloud Native
14 100 (1.38%) Social Media
15 94 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 92 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 87 (1.20%) Clustering
18 86 (1.19%) Virtual Team
19 65 (0.90%) Data Structures
20 60 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 585 (8.09%) Windows
2 414 (5.73%) Linux
3 178 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 132 (1.83%) Unix
5 72 (1.00%) 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 (0.59%) Solaris
10 39 (0.54%) Android
11 35 (0.48%) CentOS
12 25 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 24 (0.33%) zOS
14 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
15 14 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
16 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
17 12 (0.17%) Windows 7
17 12 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
18 11 (0.15%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,725 (37.69%) Agile
2 1,224 (16.93%) Mentoring
3 1,030 (14.25%) Roadmaps
4 1,006 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
5 895 (12.38%) Decision-Making
6 780 (10.79%) Software Engineering
7 712 (9.85%) Project Management
8 706 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
9 671 (9.28%) Asset Management
10 645 (8.92%) DevOps
11 642 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
12 586 (8.11%) ERP
13 585 (8.09%) Change Management
14 578 (7.99%) Analytics
15 572 (7.91%) Business Case
16 518 (7.16%) Data Management
17 514 (7.11%) Coaching
18 503 (6.96%) Budgeting
18 503 (6.96%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 478 (6.61%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (16.97%) Python
2 1,146 (15.85%) SQL
3 757 (10.47%) JavaScript
4 617 (8.53%) Java
5 577 (7.98%) C#
6 536 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 190 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 124 (1.72%) Go
9 114 (1.58%) R
10 109 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 89 (1.23%) Bash
12 76 (1.05%) C++
13 64 (0.89%) PHP
14 57 (0.79%) C
15 48 (0.66%) 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
1 957 (13.24%) Degree
2 553 (7.65%) ACCA
3 511 (7.07%) CIMA
4 299 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 191 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 159 (2.20%) SC Cleared
7 124 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (1.56%) CISSP
9 91 (1.26%) PMP
10 88 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 68 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 62 (0.86%) DV Cleared
14 54 (0.75%) CISM
15 48 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 41 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 36 (0.50%) CEH
17 36 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
18 35 (0.48%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (3.20%) QA
2 195 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 100 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (1.36%) NIST
5 97 (1.34%) PMO
5 97 (1.34%) SLA
6 75 (1.04%) GDPR
7 62 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 35 (0.48%) IFRS
9 34 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.43%) GRC
11 26 (0.36%) NCSC
12 25 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.25%) ITGC
14 18 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
16 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 12 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 346 (4.79%) Docker
2 258 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 184 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 34 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 28 (0.39%) vSphere
7 27 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (0.30%) Firmware
9 21 (0.29%) XenApp
10 16 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 11 (0.15%) IAG
12 11 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 9 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
13 9 (0.12%) OpenSSH
14 6 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.028%) Apache Flume
17 1 (0.014%) Ceph
17 1 (0.014%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 369 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 296 (4.09%) Terraform
3 152 (2.10%) Ansible
4 107 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 69 (0.95%) vCenter Server
6 66 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (0.65%) SCCM
8 32 (0.44%) Grafana
9 25 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.25%) 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 11 (0.15%) SCOM
15 9 (0.12%) Istio
15 9 (0.12%) Nagios
15 9 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,653 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 635 (8.78%) SAP
3 606 (8.38%) Oracle
4 310 (4.29%) Anaplan
5 305 (4.22%) Hyperion
6 218 (3.02%) Google
7 217 (3.00%) VMware
8 97 (1.34%) Cisco
9 87 (1.20%) 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 (1.02%) NetApp
14 72 (1.00%) ServiceNow
15 66 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 64 (0.89%) Splunk
17 58 (0.80%) Atlassian
18 54 (0.75%) SolidFire
19 52 (0.72%) Dell