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 27 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 -18
Permanent jobs citing Banking 966 990 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 5.97% 5.15%
As % of the General category 6.35% 8.37% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 398 442 922
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £62,144
25th Percentile £62,500 £40,000 £81,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +55.39%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +20.00%

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 15,211 11,824 14,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.37% 71.25% 62.63%
Number of salaries quoted 9,239 6,285 8,050
10th Percentile £32,227 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 27 September 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 13 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.41%) CMS
2 4 (0.41%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.48%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.97%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.62%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.10%) Finacle
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 312 (32.30%) AWS
2 160 (16.56%) GCP
3 134 (13.87%) SaaS
4 84 (8.70%) Azure
5 74 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
6 46 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 45 (4.66%) Amazon Bedrock
8 39 (4.04%) Anthropic Claude
9 22 (2.28%) GitHub
10 17 (1.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 17 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.45%) OCI
12 14 (1.45%) Serverless
13 12 (1.24%) Datadog
14 9 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.83%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.00%) Broadband
2 31 (3.21%) HTTP
3 22 (2.28%) Firewall
3 22 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.86%) LAN
5 16 (1.66%) Network Security
5 16 (1.66%) WAN
6 14 (1.45%) VLAN
7 13 (1.35%) BGP
8 10 (1.04%) OSPF
9 7 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.72%) DHCP
9 7 (0.72%) DNS
9 7 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
9 7 (0.72%) VPN
10 6 (0.62%) MPLS
11 5 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.52%) Internet
11 5 (0.52%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.35%) Power BI
5 12 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.72%) Metadata
8 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.62%) Looker
9 6 (0.62%) Tableau
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 77 (7.97%) TeamCity
2 39 (4.04%) Claude Code
3 13 (1.35%) JUnit
4 12 (1.24%) Git
5 6 (0.62%) JIRA
6 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.31%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) GitLab
9 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.10%) Maven
9 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 726 (75.16%) Finance
2 367 (37.99%) Social Skills
3 224 (23.19%) Retail
4 209 (21.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (20.08%) Law
6 128 (13.25%) Financial Institution
7 124 (12.84%) Back Office
8 70 (7.25%) Legal
9 68 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
10 65 (6.73%) Investment Banking
11 52 (5.38%) Front Office
12 49 (5.07%) Marketing
13 36 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.38%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.86%) Games
17 17 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (1.55%) Polish Language
19 13 (1.35%) French Language
19 13 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (15.53%) Senior
1 150 (15.53%) Software Engineer
2 138 (14.29%) Lead
3 78 (8.07%) Architect
4 60 (6.21%) Developer
5 55 (5.69%) Analyst
6 53 (5.49%) Senior Manager
7 51 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
8 48 (4.97%) Engineering Manager
8 48 (4.97%) Java Engineer
9 46 (4.76%) Software Engineering Manager
9 46 (4.76%) Software Manager
10 38 (3.93%) Finance Manager
11 37 (3.83%) Enterprise Architect
11 37 (3.83%) Product Owner
12 35 (3.62%) IT Manager
12 35 (3.62%) Product Manager
13 33 (3.42%) Development Engineer
13 33 (3.42%) Software Development Engineer
13 33 (3.42%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (12.11%) Terraform
2 50 (5.18%) REST
3 47 (4.87%) LangChain
3 47 (4.87%) LangGraph
4 33 (3.42%) Spring
5 23 (2.38%) React
6 20 (2.07%) RESTful
7 16 (1.66%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 15 (1.55%) OpenAPI
8 15 (1.55%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.55%) Swagger
8 15 (1.55%) TensorFlow
9 13 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.24%) Node.js
11 10 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (0.93%) CrewAI
12 9 (0.93%) Dagger
12 9 (0.93%) pydantic
12 9 (0.93%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 194 (20.08%) Product Ownership
2 141 (14.60%) Cloud Native
3 57 (5.90%) Public Cloud
4 53 (5.49%) AI Agents
4 53 (5.49%) Hedge funds
5 45 (4.66%) Web Conferencing
6 41 (4.24%) Podcast
7 34 (3.52%) Blog
8 27 (2.80%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.59%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.17%) Derivative
10 21 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.07%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 18 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.66%) Social Media
14 15 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (1.35%) Credit Risk
17 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.62%) Linux
2 26 (2.69%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.48%) Android
4 19 (1.97%) Windows
5 6 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.41%) Unix
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (26.09%) Roadmaps
2 243 (25.16%) Software Engineering
3 154 (15.94%) Fintech
4 152 (15.73%) AI
5 147 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 144 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (13.15%) Test Automation
8 107 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (10.25%) Disruptive Innovation
9 99 (10.25%) Mentoring
10 98 (10.14%) Coaching
11 95 (9.83%) Machine Learning
12 94 (9.73%) Agile
13 93 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
14 85 (8.80%) Product Roadmap
15 84 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
16 82 (8.49%) Microservices
17 81 (8.39%) Clean Code
17 81 (8.39%) DevOps
18 76 (7.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 224 (23.19%) Java
2 126 (13.04%) Python
3 68 (7.04%) SQL
4 28 (2.90%) Go
5 24 (2.48%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.07%) C++
8 17 (1.76%) R
9 14 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.35%) Bash
11 12 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.14%) C
13 7 (0.72%) Rust
14 6 (0.62%) C#
15 5 (0.52%) VBA
16 4 (0.41%) Bicep
17 2 (0.21%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.21%) Perl
17 2 (0.21%) Ruby
18 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (2.90%) Degree
2 19 (1.97%) CISSP
3 17 (1.76%) CISM
4 16 (1.66%) ACCA
5 13 (1.35%) CISA
6 12 (1.24%) CIMA
7 11 (1.14%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.14%) OSCP
8 9 (0.93%) CRISC
9 8 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.72%) ISACA
10 7 (0.72%) Security Cleared
11 6 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.52%) GCFA
12 5 (0.52%) GIAC
12 5 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CCNP
13 4 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.80%) QA
2 24 (2.48%) NIST
3 23 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.28%) GDPR
4 22 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 21 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.97%) COBIT
7 13 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.24%) GRC
9 11 (1.14%) FINREP
10 10 (1.04%) EMIR
10 10 (1.04%) MiFID
11 8 (0.83%) COREP
11 8 (0.83%) SOC 1
12 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.52%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.41%) SLA
15 3 (0.31%) Basel III
15 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (1.24%) Docker
1 12 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.21%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (10.66%) Kubernetes
2 92 (9.52%) Grafana
3 22 (2.28%) Ansible
4 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (6.00%) BT
2 50 (5.18%) Databricks
3 48 (4.97%) Oracle
4 44 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 38 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.38%) BMC
7 21 (2.17%) Google
8 20 (2.07%) Remedy
9 17 (1.76%) Cisco
10 11 (1.14%) FIS
10 11 (1.14%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.14%) Splunk
11 9 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.93%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.93%) SunGard
12 8 (0.83%) VMware
13 6 (0.62%) Xero
14 4 (0.41%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.41%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.41%) Okta