Hybrid/Remote Banking Job Trends

Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 -25 0
Permanent jobs citing Banking 563 858 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 5.21% 7.20%
As % of the General category 6.14% 7.57% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 326 644 1,285
10th Percentile £25,087 £43,290 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,253 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +17.59% +2.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £123,749
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,164 11,340 13,419
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.24% 68.87% 62.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,822 6,411 10,434
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.45%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Banking job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Banking
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Banking over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Banking salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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 31 (5.51%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (5.15%) Apache
3 16 (2.84%) Tomcat
3 16 (2.84%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.84%) WebSphere Application Server
4 14 (2.49%) SAS
5 8 (1.42%) Confluence
6 7 (1.24%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.89%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.89%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.89%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.53%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.36%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.18%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (27.18%) AWS
2 60 (10.66%) SaaS
3 48 (8.53%) GCP
4 45 (7.99%) Azure
5 38 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (6.57%) Snowflake
7 31 (5.51%) dbt
8 30 (5.33%) GitHub
9 15 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.13%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.60%) Route 53
13 6 (1.07%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.17%) Broadband
2 21 (3.73%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.20%) SSL
4 15 (2.66%) Firewall
5 14 (2.49%) CHAP
6 11 (1.95%) HTTP
7 8 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (1.24%) BGP
8 7 (1.24%) VPN
9 5 (0.89%) LAN
9 5 (0.89%) Network Security
9 5 (0.89%) WAN
10 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.71%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.71%) WLAN
11 3 (0.53%) VLAN
12 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.18%) Internet
13 1 (0.18%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.75%) Data Lake
2 29 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (5.15%) Apache Arrow
2 29 (5.15%) Apache Iceberg
2 29 (5.15%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (5.15%) Dremio
3 24 (4.26%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.20%) DB2
6 12 (2.13%) Power BI
6 12 (2.13%) Tableau
7 10 (1.78%) Flink
7 10 (1.78%) Metadata
8 9 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.89%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.71%) DataStage
10 4 (0.71%) QlikView
11 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (4.09%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.31%) JIRA
4 5 (0.89%) Git
5 4 (0.71%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.71%) ERwin
5 4 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 409 (72.65%) Finance
2 157 (27.89%) Social Skills
3 87 (15.45%) Retail
4 79 (14.03%) Investment Banking
5 78 (13.85%) Financial Institution
6 65 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (10.83%) Law
8 56 (9.95%) Front Office
9 52 (9.24%) Back Office
10 32 (5.68%) Games
11 21 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (3.73%) Marketing
12 16 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.78%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.24%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.07%) Legal
17 5 (0.89%) International Banking
18 4 (0.71%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 108 (19.18%) Senior
2 69 (12.26%) Software Engineer
3 48 (8.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 43 (7.64%) Analyst
5 41 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
5 41 (7.28%) Java Engineer
6 40 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
7 38 (6.75%) Lead
8 37 (6.57%) Python Engineer
9 36 (6.39%) Developer
10 33 (5.86%) Customer Service Advisor
11 30 (5.33%) Architect
11 30 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (5.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 29 (5.15%) Auditor
12 29 (5.15%) AWS Software Engineer
12 29 (5.15%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (3.37%) C++ Developer
14 18 (3.20%) Internal Auditor
14 18 (3.20%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.15%) gRPC
1 29 (5.15%) NumPy
1 29 (5.15%) Pandas
1 29 (5.15%) Protocol Buffers
1 29 (5.15%) SciPy
2 17 (3.02%) .NET
3 16 (2.84%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.84%) LDAP
3 16 (2.84%) WebSphere MQ
4 15 (2.66%) Kafka
4 15 (2.66%) REST
5 9 (1.60%) React
6 7 (1.24%) CSS
6 7 (1.24%) HTML
6 7 (1.24%) Smart Contracts
6 7 (1.24%) web3js
7 6 (1.07%) Middleware
7 6 (1.07%) RESTful
8 5 (0.89%) Next.js
9 4 (0.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.82%) Hedge funds
1 44 (7.82%) Product Ownership
2 42 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 40 (7.10%) Management Information System
4 38 (6.75%) Derivative
5 37 (6.57%) Fixed Income
6 31 (5.51%) Public Cloud
7 30 (5.33%) Data Centre
8 29 (5.15%) Equities
8 29 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 29 (5.15%) Pricing Data
9 24 (4.26%) Credit Risk
10 20 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.20%) FPGA
12 16 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (2.66%) Blog
13 15 (2.66%) Security Posture
14 14 (2.49%) Blockchain
15 11 (1.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.17%) Linux
2 28 (4.97%) Windows
3 20 (3.55%) Unix
4 17 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.89%) Android
5 5 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (18.29%) Agile
2 97 (17.23%) Software Engineering
3 95 (16.87%) Roadmaps
4 80 (14.21%) Risk Management
5 73 (12.97%) Risk Assessment
6 70 (12.43%) Information Security
6 70 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 68 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (11.72%) CI/CD
9 63 (11.19%) Asset Management
10 55 (9.77%) Process Improvement
11 50 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (8.35%) Customer Service
12 47 (8.35%) Due Diligence
12 47 (8.35%) Fintech
13 46 (8.17%) ITIL
14 45 (7.99%) Business Continuity
14 45 (7.99%) Business Continuity Management
14 45 (7.99%) Operations Management
14 45 (7.99%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (21.14%) Java
2 104 (18.47%) Python
3 46 (8.17%) TypeScript
4 38 (6.75%) SQL
5 33 (5.86%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.80%) Go
7 20 (3.55%) C++
8 19 (3.37%) C
9 12 (2.13%) C#
10 7 (1.24%) Rust
11 6 (1.07%) Bash
11 6 (1.07%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) R
13 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (11.72%) CISA
2 62 (11.01%) CISSP
2 62 (11.01%) Degree
3 49 (8.70%) CRISC
4 20 (3.55%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (2.66%) CISM
6 15 (2.66%) FFIEC
7 14 (2.49%) CGEIT
7 14 (2.49%) SANS
8 11 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.78%) ACCA
10 9 (1.60%) OSCP
10 9 (1.60%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.42%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.24%) CREST Certified
13 6 (1.07%) CIMA
13 6 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.07%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.14%) NIST
2 62 (11.01%) PCI DSS
3 29 (5.15%) GDPR
4 23 (4.09%) SLA
5 22 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.02%) SOC 2
7 16 (2.84%) COBIT
8 14 (2.49%) Data Quality
8 14 (2.49%) QA
9 13 (2.31%) GRC
10 10 (1.78%) IFRS
11 6 (1.07%) Basel II
11 6 (1.07%) GAAP
12 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.71%) EMIR
12 4 (0.71%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.71%) PMO
13 3 (0.53%) COREP
13 3 (0.53%) MiFID
13 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.42%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.71%) Firmware
3 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (9.41%) Terraform
2 44 (7.82%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.37%) Grafana
4 17 (3.02%) Ansible
5 10 (1.78%) Argo
6 4 (0.71%) Cilium
7 2 (0.36%) Suricata
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.18%) SCCM
8 1 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 46 (8.17%) BT
2 39 (6.93%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.73%) IBM
5 18 (3.20%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.84%) BMC
6 16 (2.84%) Remedy
7 15 (2.66%) Databricks
8 12 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.78%) Google
10 9 (1.60%) Cisco
11 8 (1.42%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.42%) Informatica
12 6 (1.07%) Oracle
13 5 (0.89%) SAP
13 5 (0.89%) VMware
14 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.71%) Sage
15 3 (0.53%) Murex
15 3 (0.53%) Sitecore