Hybrid/Remote Retail Banking Contract Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 275 332
Rank change year-on-year -20 +57 +53
Contract jobs citing Retail Banking 29 39 42
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.46% 0.55% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 21
10th Percentile £441 £457 £463
25th Percentile £509 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +14.29% -9.91%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £650
90th Percentile - £673 £788
UK median daily rate £545 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -14.51% +6.25% +9.09%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,343 7,092 10,078
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 60.82% 58.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 4,353 6,791
10th Percentile £331 £313 £323
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 153 254
10th Percentile £15.69 £18.50 £17.67
25th Percentile £21.08 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £41.50 £33.54 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +23.73% -28.17% -11.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £62.34
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail Banking and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail Banking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Retail Banking daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Retail Banking
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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.45%) SaaS
2 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Metadata
1 3 (10.34%) Tableau
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.79%) Gradle
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.90%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 29 (100.00%) Banking
2 20 (68.97%) Finance
3 13 (44.83%) Corporate Banking
4 12 (41.38%) Investment Banking
4 12 (41.38%) Retail
5 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
6 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Analyst
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.90%) IT Risk Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Junior
5 2 (6.90%) Risk Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) React
3 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) CSS3
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) HTML5
4 1 (3.45%) LESS
4 1 (3.45%) NLTK
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (3.45%) Playwright
4 1 (3.45%) Sass
4 1 (3.45%) SpaCy
4 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) PMI
3 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Wealth Management
2 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
4 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (24.14%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Project Management
7 5 (17.24%) AI
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
8 4 (13.79%) Analytics
8 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 4 (13.79%) Microservices
8 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Scrum
8 4 (13.79%) Trunk-Based Development
9 3 (10.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
3 7 (24.14%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) SQL
5 4 (13.79%) Rust
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.45%) MBA
1 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.45%) PMP
1 1 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Basel III
3 1 (3.45%) IFRS
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Ansible
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle
1 1 (3.45%) Planview
1 1 (3.45%) Workday