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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 7,246 10,359 15,890
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.52% 25.29% 22.75%
As % of the General category 34.90% 38.31% 36.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 6,916 9,021
10th Percentile £37,000 £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 £88,569 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,250 £104,806
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 20,762 27,042 44,107
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.65% 66.01% 63.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15,064 18,006 24,541
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 £82,949 £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 14 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
1 362 (5.00%) Apache
2 356 (4.91%) SAS
3 346 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
4 130 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 124 (1.71%) Confluence
6 101 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 83 (1.15%) IIS
8 41 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 31 (0.43%) nginx
10 25 (0.35%) CMS
10 25 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.26%) WordPress
12 5 (0.069%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.055%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.055%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.055%) Moodle
13 4 (0.055%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.041%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 816 (11.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.28%) 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%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 304 (4.20%) SAP ERP
2 65 (0.90%) 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 41 (0.57%) NEC Housing
7 33 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
8 27 (0.37%) NetSuite
9 23 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
10 22 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
11 20 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
11 20 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
12 18 (0.25%) PlanetPress Connect
13 14 (0.19%) Elite 3E
14 12 (0.17%) iTrent
15 10 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
15 10 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
16 9 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
16 9 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (17.60%) Azure
2 1,089 (15.03%) AWS
3 559 (7.71%) Power Platform
4 527 (7.27%) GCP
5 336 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
6 313 (4.32%) dbt
7 311 (4.29%) Snowflake
8 192 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 186 (2.57%) SaaS
10 177 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 155 (2.14%) GitHub
12 101 (1.39%) Serverless
13 90 (1.24%) PowerApps
14 83 (1.15%) Entra ID
15 81 (1.12%) Power Automate
16 77 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
16 77 (1.06%) IaaS
17 76 (1.05%) PaaS
18 72 (0.99%) Amazon S3
19 65 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 780 (10.76%) Broadband
2 190 (2.62%) Firewall
3 106 (1.46%) Internet
4 96 (1.32%) DNS
5 94 (1.30%) WAN
6 84 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 81 (1.12%) VPN
8 66 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
9 64 (0.88%) LAN
10 59 (0.81%) IPsec
11 56 (0.77%) SNMP
12 55 (0.76%) Network Security
13 50 (0.69%) DHCP
14 49 (0.68%) Wireless
15 38 (0.52%) SAN
16 37 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.25%) iSCSI
18 17 (0.23%) HTTP
19 14 (0.19%) HTTPS
19 14 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 465 (6.42%) Power BI
3 363 (5.01%) Data Lake
4 311 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 293 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
5 293 (4.04%) Dremio
6 290 (4.00%) Apache Arrow
7 247 (3.41%) Apache Ignite
8 170 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 142 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 139 (1.92%) Tableau
11 134 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
12 124 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
13 99 (1.37%) Big Data
14 79 (1.09%) Relational Database
15 63 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 62 (0.86%) NoSQL
17 54 (0.75%) Oracle Database
18 53 (0.73%) BigQuery
19 50 (0.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 253 (3.49%) JIRA
2 234 (3.23%) Git
3 140 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 79 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 61 (0.84%) GitLab
6 52 (0.72%) Maven
7 34 (0.47%) Selenium
7 34 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 31 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 30 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
10 28 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 28 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
11 27 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 15 (0.21%) JUnit
14 15 (0.21%) Subversion
15 13 (0.18%) NUnit
16 12 (0.17%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 2,774 (38.28%) Social Skills
2 1,277 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
3 982 (13.55%) Banking
4 624 (8.61%) Influencing Skills
5 613 (8.46%) Retail
6 546 (7.54%) Front Office
7 502 (6.93%) Public Sector
8 486 (6.71%) Marketing
9 483 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 389 (5.37%) Legal
11 270 (3.73%) Investment Banking
12 233 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
13 223 (3.08%) Law
14 210 (2.90%) Manufacturing
15 160 (2.21%) Back Office
16 157 (2.17%) Telecoms
17 114 (1.57%) Financial Institution
18 104 (1.44%) Electronics
19 99 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
20 89 (1.23%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,386 (19.13%) Analyst
2 1,312 (18.11%) Senior
3 1,013 (13.98%) Developer
4 698 (9.63%) Lead
5 688 (9.49%) Architect
6 502 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
7 462 (6.38%) Consultant
8 402 (5.55%) Software Engineer
9 361 (4.98%) Financial Analyst
9 361 (4.98%) Senior Analyst
10 325 (4.49%) Project Manager
11 271 (3.74%) Senior Developer
12 228 (3.15%) .NET Developer
13 177 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
14 163 (2.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 162 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
16 158 (2.18%) Python Engineer
17 156 (2.15%) IT Manager
18 154 (2.13%) Python Developer
19 150 (2.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (6.69%) .NET
2 377 (5.20%) React
3 359 (4.95%) gRPC
4 317 (4.37%) Protocol Buffers
5 308 (4.25%) AngularJS
6 281 (3.88%) HTML
6 281 (3.88%) Pandas
7 242 (3.34%) NumPy
8 233 (3.22%) SciPy
9 218 (3.01%) ASP.NET
10 184 (2.54%) Vue
11 175 (2.42%) Node.js
12 169 (2.33%) .NET Core
12 169 (2.33%) CSS
13 149 (2.06%) Kafka
14 145 (2.00%) Spring
15 127 (1.75%) .NET Framework
16 125 (1.73%) Redux
17 121 (1.67%) REST
18 120 (1.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 474 (6.54%) Hedge funds
2 418 (5.77%) Derivative
3 413 (5.70%) Fixed Income
4 374 (5.16%) Equities
5 372 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 274 (3.78%) Management Information System
7 229 (3.16%) Product Ownership
8 171 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 150 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 144 (1.99%) PMI
11 140 (1.93%) Data Centre
12 115 (1.59%) Onboarding
13 106 (1.46%) Cloud Native
14 100 (1.38%) Social Media
15 94 (1.30%) Clustering
16 91 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
16 91 (1.26%) Mobile App
17 88 (1.21%) Virtual Team
18 67 (0.92%) Data Structures
19 59 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 582 (8.03%) Windows
2 414 (5.71%) Linux
3 176 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 134 (1.85%) Unix
5 72 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 55 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 54 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
8 49 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 46 (0.63%) Solaris
10 45 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 40 (0.55%) Android
12 35 (0.48%) CentOS
13 25 (0.35%) Ubuntu
14 24 (0.33%) zOS
15 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
16 14 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
17 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
18 12 (0.17%) Windows 7
18 12 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
19 11 (0.15%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,729 (37.66%) Agile
2 1,223 (16.88%) Mentoring
3 1,052 (14.52%) Roadmaps
4 999 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 898 (12.39%) Decision-Making
6 797 (11.00%) Software Engineering
7 714 (9.85%) Project Management
8 698 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
9 690 (9.52%) Asset Management
10 644 (8.89%) DevOps
11 641 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
12 582 (8.03%) ERP
13 581 (8.02%) Change Management
14 576 (7.95%) Analytics
15 572 (7.89%) Business Case
16 518 (7.15%) Data Management
17 517 (7.13%) Coaching
18 503 (6.94%) Budgeting
18 503 (6.94%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 493 (6.80%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 1,244 (17.17%) Python
2 1,142 (15.76%) SQL
3 780 (10.76%) JavaScript
4 635 (8.76%) Java
5 576 (7.95%) C#
6 554 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 190 (2.62%) PowerShell
8 132 (1.82%) Go
9 112 (1.55%) R
10 108 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 86 (1.19%) Bash
12 75 (1.04%) C++
13 64 (0.88%) PHP
14 57 (0.79%) C
15 51 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 39 (0.54%) VBA
17 37 (0.51%) Perl
18 34 (0.47%) Groovy
18 34 (0.47%) Scala
19 30 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 963 (13.29%) Degree
2 553 (7.63%) ACCA
3 511 (7.05%) CIMA
4 291 (4.02%) Security Cleared
5 194 (2.68%) PMI Certification
6 158 (2.18%) SC Cleared
7 126 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 113 (1.56%) CISSP
9 96 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 94 (1.30%) PMP
11 87 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 79 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 55 (0.76%) DV Cleared
14 54 (0.75%) CISM
15 48 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 42 (0.58%) DBS Check
16 42 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 36 (0.50%) CEH
18 35 (0.48%) APMP
18 35 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (3.22%) QA
2 203 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 100 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (1.35%) NIST
5 95 (1.31%) SLA
6 94 (1.30%) PMO
7 74 (1.02%) GDPR
8 59 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 35 (0.48%) IFRS
10 34 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 31 (0.43%) GRC
12 26 (0.36%) NCSC
13 25 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 18 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 18 (0.25%) ITGC
15 18 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 16 (0.22%) NIST 800
17 13 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 12 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 345 (4.76%) Docker
2 254 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 182 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 33 (0.46%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.014%) NFS
Systems Management
1 374 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 298 (4.11%) Terraform
3 151 (2.08%) Ansible
4 113 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 69 (0.95%) vCenter Server
6 67 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 46 (0.63%) SCCM
8 31 (0.43%) Grafana
9 25 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 16 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (0.22%) Puppet
11 15 (0.21%) Nmap
12 12 (0.17%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.17%) VxRail
12 12 (0.17%) ZABBIX
13 11 (0.15%) SCOM
14 10 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
15 9 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
15 9 (0.12%) Istio
15 9 (0.12%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1,648 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 636 (8.78%) SAP
3 606 (8.36%) Oracle
4 309 (4.26%) Anaplan
5 305 (4.21%) Hyperion
6 218 (3.01%) Google
7 214 (2.95%) VMware
8 96 (1.32%) Cisco
9 87 (1.20%) IBM
10 80 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 79 (1.09%) Databricks
12 78 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.06%) Citrix
14 73 (1.01%) NetApp
15 71 (0.98%) ServiceNow
16 66 (0.91%) Salesforce
17 63 (0.87%) Splunk
18 58 (0.80%) Atlassian
19 54 (0.75%) SolidFire
20 50 (0.69%) Dell