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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 21 75
Rank change year-on-year -39 +54 -51
Permanent jobs citing Banking 745 1,440 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.83% 9.54% 3.76%
As % of the General category 6.63% 12.75% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 306 819 1,045
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £25,313 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £74,870 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.89% -16.81% +27.50%
75th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £131,250 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -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 11,237 11,291 20,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.74% 74.80% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7,311 6,202 15,177
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,273 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 9 June 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 11 (1.48%) SAS
2 7 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.54%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.40%) Confluence
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (4.56%) Oracle Financials
2 17 (2.28%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.21%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 214 (28.72%) AWS
2 133 (17.85%) SaaS
3 115 (15.44%) GCP
4 74 (9.93%) Azure
5 70 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.55%) OCI
7 13 (1.74%) GitHub
7 13 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (1.34%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.34%) dbt
9 10 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.21%) Azure Event Grid
10 9 (1.21%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.07%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.07%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.03%) HTTP
2 29 (3.89%) TCP/IP
3 24 (3.22%) Firewall
4 21 (2.82%) Broadband
4 21 (2.82%) CHAP
5 15 (2.01%) LAN
5 15 (2.01%) WAN
6 14 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (1.74%) VLAN
8 11 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (1.34%) Network Security
10 9 (1.21%) BGP
10 9 (1.21%) Unified Communications
10 9 (1.21%) WebEx
11 5 (0.67%) VPN
12 4 (0.54%) DHCP
12 4 (0.54%) DNS
13 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.21%) Looker
5 7 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.81%) Power BI
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.67%) Tableau
8 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.40%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.27%) Db2
10 2 (0.27%) Flink
10 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (7.25%) TeamCity
2 7 (0.94%) JIRA
3 4 (0.54%) JUnit
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 599 (80.40%) Finance
2 279 (37.45%) Social Skills
3 194 (26.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 193 (25.91%) Retail
5 173 (23.22%) Law
6 147 (19.73%) Financial Institution
7 122 (16.38%) Back Office
8 57 (7.65%) Investment Banking
9 53 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
10 45 (6.04%) Marketing
11 22 (2.95%) Front Office
11 22 (2.95%) Legal
11 22 (2.95%) Public Sector
12 21 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.68%) Telecoms
14 19 (2.55%) Games
14 19 (2.55%) Polish Language
15 14 (1.88%) Italian Language
16 13 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (16.91%) Senior
2 115 (15.44%) Software Engineer
3 87 (11.68%) Lead
4 64 (8.59%) Analyst
5 53 (7.11%) Developer
6 51 (6.85%) Product Manager
7 40 (5.37%) Senior Manager
8 39 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (5.10%) Product Owner
10 35 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (4.56%) Engineering Manager
12 33 (4.43%) Development Engineer
12 33 (4.43%) Software Development Engineer
12 33 (4.43%) Software Manager
13 32 (4.30%) Software Engineering Manager
14 27 (3.62%) Java Engineer
15 26 (3.49%) Architect
16 24 (3.22%) Auditor
16 24 (3.22%) Consultant
17 21 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.38%) REST
2 24 (3.22%) React
3 22 (2.95%) Spring
4 15 (2.01%) .NET
4 15 (2.01%) Kafka
5 10 (1.34%) AngularJS
5 10 (1.34%) RESTful
6 9 (1.21%) Middleware
6 9 (1.21%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.21%) XMPP
7 8 (1.07%) AWS CDK
8 7 (0.94%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.94%) Sass
8 7 (0.94%) Swagger
9 6 (0.81%) LangChain
9 6 (0.81%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.67%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.67%) Node.js
10 5 (0.67%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 158 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 126 (16.91%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.44%) Public Cloud
4 45 (6.04%) Management Information System
5 44 (5.91%) Blog
6 27 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 20 (2.68%) FPGA
10 19 (2.55%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.28%) Credit Risk
11 17 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.88%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.48%) Derivative
14 11 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
14 11 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.48%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.21%) FlexPod
15 9 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.91%) Linux
2 24 (3.22%) Windows
3 16 (2.15%) Android
3 16 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.07%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (25.64%) Roadmaps
2 180 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 149 (20.00%) Agile
4 132 (17.72%) Fintech
4 132 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (15.57%) Test Automation
6 97 (13.02%) CI/CD
7 89 (11.95%) Product Roadmap
8 75 (10.07%) Risk Management
8 75 (10.07%) Technical Leadership
9 74 (9.93%) Mentoring
10 71 (9.53%) Microservices
11 70 (9.40%) DevOps
12 67 (8.99%) AI
12 67 (8.99%) Analytics
13 66 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 64 (8.59%) Disruptive Innovation
15 62 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (8.05%) Clean Code
17 58 (7.79%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 180 (24.16%) Java
2 99 (13.29%) Python
3 48 (6.44%) SQL
4 38 (5.10%) Go
5 28 (3.76%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.36%) C
6 25 (3.36%) C++
7 23 (3.09%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.74%) C#
9 8 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.94%) Rust
11 5 (0.67%) Bash
11 5 (0.67%) R
12 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.40%) Perl
12 3 (0.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.13%) Cypher
13 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (8.32%) Degree
2 35 (4.70%) CISSP
3 31 (4.16%) CISA
4 29 (3.89%) CISM
5 28 (3.76%) ACCA
6 24 (3.22%) CIMA
7 22 (2.95%) FFIEC
8 21 (2.82%) CGEIT
8 21 (2.82%) SANS
9 17 (2.28%) CREST Certified
9 17 (2.28%) OSCP
10 10 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.34%) Security Cleared
11 9 (1.21%) CRISC
12 7 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.81%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.97%) NIST
2 28 (3.76%) GDPR
3 27 (3.62%) COBIT
4 26 (3.49%) PCI DSS
5 22 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.95%) SOC 2
6 15 (2.01%) GRC
7 14 (1.88%) COREP
7 14 (1.88%) FINREP
7 14 (1.88%) QA
8 12 (1.61%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.48%) EMIR
9 11 (1.48%) MiFID
10 8 (1.07%) IFRS
11 7 (0.94%) PMO
12 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.54%) GAAP
14 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.40%) SOC 1
System Software
1 18 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (1.74%) Docker
3 12 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.81%) vSphere
6 5 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (13.29%) Terraform
2 85 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 65 (8.72%) Grafana
4 12 (1.61%) Ansible
5 9 (1.21%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.07%) Istio
7 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.27%) Argo
9 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 56 (7.52%) Oracle
2 49 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.82%) BT
4 20 (2.68%) Cisco
5 15 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.88%) Palo Alto
6 14 (1.88%) VMware
7 12 (1.61%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.61%) Splunk
8 10 (1.34%) Databricks
9 9 (1.21%) Google
10 8 (1.07%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.07%) Confluent
11 7 (0.94%) BMC
12 6 (0.81%) NetApp
12 6 (0.81%) SAP
12 6 (0.81%) Workday
13 4 (0.54%) Okta
13 4 (0.54%) OneLogin
13 4 (0.54%) Remedy