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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 61
Rank change year-on-year -28 +36 -37
Permanent jobs citing Banking 679 1,140 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.03% 8.82% 4.56%
As % of the General category 7.07% 12.26% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 337 917 1,135
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £45,000 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,780 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% +1.04% +7.76%
75th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £145,500 £140,000 £137,913
UK median annual salary £90,000 £83,577 £79,632
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.95% +6.18%

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 9,598 9,295 18,928
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.91% 71.93% 61.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,259 6,315 14,862
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 26 March 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 19 (2.80%) SAS
2 8 (1.18%) Confluence
3 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
3 6 (0.88%) WebSphere
3 6 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (0.74%) Ethereum
5 4 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.06%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Actimize
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 182 (26.80%) AWS
2 139 (20.47%) SaaS
3 104 (15.32%) GCP
4 78 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
5 67 (9.87%) Azure
6 31 (4.57%) GitHub
7 15 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.06%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.06%) Snowflake
9 11 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (1.47%) Azure Event Grid
11 9 (1.33%) dbt
11 9 (1.33%) OCI
12 8 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.18%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (1.18%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.18%) Route 53
12 8 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.83%) TCP/IP
2 24 (3.53%) CHAP
2 24 (3.53%) Firewall
3 23 (3.39%) Broadband
4 14 (2.06%) LAN
4 14 (2.06%) WAN
5 13 (1.91%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (1.91%) HTTP
6 12 (1.77%) BGP
6 12 (1.77%) VPN
7 11 (1.62%) VLAN
8 9 (1.33%) Network Security
9 6 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.88%) SSL
10 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.59%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.59%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.59%) WebEx
10 4 (0.59%) WLAN
11 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 22 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.06%) Data Lake
3 14 (2.06%) Power BI
3 14 (2.06%) Tableau
4 10 (1.47%) Flink
5 8 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.18%) DB2
6 7 (1.03%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.88%) Metadata
8 4 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Arrow
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.59%) DataStage
8 4 (0.59%) Dremio
8 4 (0.59%) QlikView
8 4 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 55 (8.10%) TeamCity
2 11 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.62%) JIRA
3 4 (0.59%) ER Studio
3 4 (0.59%) ERwin
3 4 (0.59%) Git
3 4 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.15%) JUnit
4 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 515 (75.85%) Finance
2 235 (34.61%) Social Skills
3 194 (28.57%) Retail
4 170 (25.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 162 (23.86%) Law
6 155 (22.83%) Financial Institution
7 127 (18.70%) Back Office
8 53 (7.81%) Investment Banking
9 43 (6.33%) Marketing
10 41 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
11 36 (5.30%) Front Office
12 22 (3.24%) Games
13 19 (2.80%) Public Sector
14 18 (2.65%) Legal
14 18 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (2.50%) Polish Language
16 16 (2.36%) Telecoms
17 15 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.62%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 107 (15.76%) Senior
2 82 (12.08%) Software Engineer
3 70 (10.31%) Analyst
4 58 (8.54%) Lead
5 41 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (5.74%) Developer
7 37 (5.45%) Auditor
8 36 (5.30%) Architect
9 32 (4.71%) Product Owner
10 30 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (3.68%) Java Engineer
11 25 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (3.39%) Internal Auditor
12 23 (3.39%) Security Auditor
13 22 (3.24%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.24%) Customer Service Advisor
13 22 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.09%) Consultant
14 21 (3.09%) Product Manager
15 20 (2.95%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.53%) Kafka
1 24 (3.53%) REST
2 23 (3.39%) .NET
3 14 (2.06%) React
4 13 (1.91%) RESTful
5 8 (1.18%) Middleware
6 7 (1.03%) CSS
6 7 (1.03%) HTML
6 7 (1.03%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.03%) Sass
6 7 (1.03%) Swagger
7 6 (0.88%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (0.88%) LDAP
7 6 (0.88%) WebSphere MQ
7 6 (0.88%) WPF
8 5 (0.74%) Next.js
8 5 (0.74%) Smart Contracts
8 5 (0.74%) web3js
9 4 (0.59%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.59%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 110 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 92 (13.55%) Product Ownership
3 54 (7.95%) Management Information System
4 41 (6.04%) Blog
5 36 (5.30%) Data Centre
6 32 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (4.12%) Public Cloud
8 27 (3.98%) Credit Risk
9 21 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.95%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.95%) Security Posture
11 19 (2.80%) FPGA
11 19 (2.80%) Hedge funds
12 18 (2.65%) Blockchain
13 14 (2.06%) Market Risk
14 13 (1.91%) Derivative
14 13 (1.91%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (1.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.33%) Linux
2 22 (3.24%) Windows
3 12 (1.77%) Unix
4 11 (1.62%) Android
4 11 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (19.29%) Agile
2 129 (19.00%) Roadmaps
3 114 (16.79%) Software Engineering
4 105 (15.46%) Fintech
5 102 (15.02%) Risk Management
6 100 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 97 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 92 (13.55%) Information Security
8 92 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (13.25%) Test Automation
10 86 (12.67%) Risk Assessment
11 70 (10.31%) DevOps
12 66 (9.72%) Microservices
13 60 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
14 59 (8.69%) Process Improvement
15 57 (8.39%) Product Roadmap
16 56 (8.25%) Analytics
17 55 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (7.95%) Clean Code
19 52 (7.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 141 (20.77%) Java
2 93 (13.70%) Python
3 47 (6.92%) SQL
4 42 (6.19%) Go
5 24 (3.53%) TypeScript
6 22 (3.24%) C++
7 21 (3.09%) C
8 13 (1.91%) C#
8 13 (1.91%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.88%) Bash
9 6 (0.88%) Rust
10 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.15%) Perl
12 1 (0.15%) RPG
12 1 (0.15%) Ruby
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (11.93%) Degree
2 76 (11.19%) CISA
2 76 (11.19%) CISSP
3 52 (7.66%) CRISC
4 25 (3.68%) FFIEC
5 24 (3.53%) CGEIT
5 24 (3.53%) CISM
5 24 (3.53%) SANS
6 22 (3.24%) ACCA
7 16 (2.36%) CIMA
7 16 (2.36%) OSCP
8 14 (2.06%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.77%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.47%) Security Cleared
13 7 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.03%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.49%) NIST
2 74 (10.90%) PCI DSS
3 33 (4.86%) GDPR
4 31 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (4.42%) SOC 2
6 24 (3.53%) COBIT
7 22 (3.24%) GRC
8 15 (2.21%) IFRS
9 13 (1.91%) Data Quality
9 13 (1.91%) SLA
10 10 (1.47%) QA
11 9 (1.33%) COREP
11 9 (1.33%) EMIR
11 9 (1.33%) GAAP
12 8 (1.18%) MiFID
13 6 (0.88%) Basel II
13 6 (0.88%) FINREP
14 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (2.21%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.74%) VMware NSX
3 5 (0.74%) vSphere
4 4 (0.59%) Firmware
4 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 107 (15.76%) Terraform
2 91 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 57 (8.39%) Grafana
4 17 (2.50%) Ansible
5 10 (1.47%) Argo
6 8 (1.18%) Istio
7 4 (0.59%) Cilium
7 4 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (4.57%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.98%) Oracle
3 23 (3.39%) BT
4 20 (2.95%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.80%) Cisco
6 17 (2.50%) Databricks
7 12 (1.77%) Google
7 12 (1.77%) IBM
8 11 (1.62%) CheckPoint
9 10 (1.47%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.47%) Informatica
9 10 (1.47%) VMware
10 9 (1.33%) BMC
10 9 (1.33%) Remedy
11 8 (1.18%) Confluent
11 8 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.03%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.88%) SAP
13 6 (0.88%) Splunk