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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 -29
Permanent jobs citing Banking 627 957 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.81% 6.47% 5.15%
As % of the General category 6.50% 9.13% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 323 738 1,205
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,313 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £49,338 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +13.35% +0.82%
75th Percentile £126,250 £100,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £125,000
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 9,639 10,483 17,628
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.61% 70.83% 61.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,095 6,190 14,072
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,250 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Banking over the 6 months to 1 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 18 (2.87%) SAS
2 10 (1.59%) Tomcat
2 10 (1.59%) WebSphere
2 10 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.28%) Confluence
4 6 (0.96%) Apache
4 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (0.80%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.80%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.48%) SAP PS
4 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) Adaptiv
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 171 (27.27%) AWS
2 120 (19.14%) SaaS
3 89 (14.19%) GCP
4 69 (11.00%) Amazon EKS
5 51 (8.13%) Azure
6 30 (4.78%) GitHub
7 15 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.23%) Snowflake
9 13 (2.07%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.59%) Azure Event Grid
11 10 (1.59%) dbt
11 10 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.59%) Route 53
11 10 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.96%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.58%) Broadband
2 24 (3.83%) TCP/IP
3 21 (3.35%) CHAP
4 18 (2.87%) Firewall
5 12 (1.91%) VPN
6 11 (1.75%) BGP
6 11 (1.75%) HTTP
7 10 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.59%) LAN
7 10 (1.59%) SSL
7 10 (1.59%) WAN
8 9 (1.44%) VLAN
9 6 (0.96%) Network Security
10 4 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.64%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.64%) WLAN
11 2 (0.32%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.32%) WebEx
12 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (3.99%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.39%) Data Lake
4 13 (2.07%) DB2
4 13 (2.07%) Power BI
4 13 (2.07%) Tableau
5 10 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.59%) Flink
6 7 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
7 6 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (0.96%) Apache Ignite
7 6 (0.96%) Dremio
7 6 (0.96%) Metadata
8 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.64%) DataStage
8 4 (0.64%) QlikView
9 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.32%) Looker
Development Applications
1 52 (8.29%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.59%) JIRA
4 4 (0.64%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.64%) ERwin
4 4 (0.64%) Git
4 4 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.16%) JUnit
5 1 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 460 (73.37%) Finance
2 198 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 169 (26.95%) Retail
4 145 (23.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (22.49%) Law
6 140 (22.33%) Financial Institution
7 108 (17.22%) Back Office
8 50 (7.97%) Investment Banking
9 33 (5.26%) Front Office
10 28 (4.47%) Games
10 28 (4.47%) Marketing
11 27 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.39%) Polish Language
13 14 (2.23%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.59%) Legal
15 10 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (15.15%) Senior
2 76 (12.12%) Software Engineer
3 57 (9.09%) Analyst
4 53 (8.45%) Lead
5 39 (6.22%) Developer
6 38 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 33 (5.26%) Architect
7 33 (5.26%) Auditor
8 29 (4.63%) Customer Service Advisor
9 26 (4.15%) Java Engineer
9 26 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 25 (3.99%) Product Owner
11 24 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.19%) Internal Auditor
13 20 (3.19%) Security Auditor
14 19 (3.03%) C++ Developer
15 18 (2.87%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
15 18 (2.87%) Linux Developer
15 18 (2.87%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.83%) .NET
2 20 (3.19%) REST
3 16 (2.55%) Kafka
4 12 (1.91%) React
4 12 (1.91%) RESTful
5 10 (1.59%) LAPP Stack
5 10 (1.59%) LDAP
5 10 (1.59%) WebSphere MQ
6 8 (1.28%) Middleware
6 8 (1.28%) WPF
7 7 (1.12%) CSS
7 7 (1.12%) HTML
7 7 (1.12%) Sass
8 6 (0.96%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.96%) gRPC
8 6 (0.96%) NumPy
8 6 (0.96%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (0.96%) SciPy
8 6 (0.96%) Smart Contracts
8 6 (0.96%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 78 (12.44%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.81%) Management Information System
4 39 (6.22%) Blog
5 36 (5.74%) Data Centre
6 30 (4.78%) Public Cloud
7 29 (4.63%) Credit Risk
7 29 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (3.35%) Hedge funds
10 20 (3.19%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.87%) Blockchain
11 18 (2.87%) FPGA
11 18 (2.87%) Security Posture
12 15 (2.39%) Market Risk
13 14 (2.23%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.91%) Derivative
14 12 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.70%) Linux
2 22 (3.51%) Windows
3 13 (2.07%) Unix
4 11 (1.75%) Android
4 11 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (17.38%) Roadmaps
2 108 (17.22%) Software Engineering
3 104 (16.59%) Agile
4 98 (15.63%) Risk Management
5 93 (14.83%) CI/CD
6 91 (14.51%) Fintech
6 91 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 88 (14.04%) Information Security
8 83 (13.24%) Risk Assessment
9 82 (13.08%) Test Automation
10 81 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (9.89%) Microservices
12 58 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
12 58 (9.25%) Process Improvement
13 57 (9.09%) DevOps
14 53 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (8.13%) Clean Code
16 50 (7.97%) Business Continuity
17 49 (7.81%) Analytics
17 49 (7.81%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 134 (21.37%) Java
2 84 (13.40%) Python
3 39 (6.22%) SQL
4 34 (5.42%) Go
5 25 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.19%) C++
7 19 (3.03%) C
8 15 (2.39%) C#
9 13 (2.07%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.96%) Rust
11 5 (0.80%) Bash
12 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.32%) R
14 1 (0.16%) COBOL
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) RPG
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (11.96%) Degree
2 73 (11.64%) CISA
2 73 (11.64%) CISSP
3 52 (8.29%) CRISC
4 22 (3.51%) FFIEC
5 21 (3.35%) CGEIT
5 21 (3.35%) CISM
5 21 (3.35%) SANS
6 17 (2.71%) ACCA
7 15 (2.39%) OSCP
8 14 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.07%) CREST Certified
10 12 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.75%) CIMA
11 11 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.44%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.44%) Security Cleared
13 8 (1.28%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (12.44%) NIST
2 74 (11.80%) PCI DSS
3 34 (5.42%) GDPR
4 31 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (4.78%) SOC 2
6 21 (3.35%) COBIT
7 20 (3.19%) GRC
8 17 (2.71%) SLA
9 14 (2.23%) IFRS
10 13 (2.07%) QA
11 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.28%) GAAP
12 6 (0.96%) Basel II
13 5 (0.80%) COREP
13 5 (0.80%) EMIR
14 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.64%) MiFID
14 4 (0.64%) PMO
15 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.12%) Docker
1 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.64%) Firmware
2 4 (0.64%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.48%) vSphere
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 92 (14.67%) Terraform
2 78 (12.44%) Kubernetes
3 52 (8.29%) Grafana
4 17 (2.71%) Ansible
5 10 (1.59%) Argo
6 4 (0.64%) Cilium
7 2 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (5.58%) BT
2 28 (4.47%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 16 (2.55%) IBM
5 15 (2.39%) Databricks
6 14 (2.23%) Cisco
6 14 (2.23%) Oracle
7 12 (1.91%) BMC
7 12 (1.91%) Remedy
8 11 (1.75%) Google
9 10 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.44%) Informatica
10 9 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.28%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.12%) VMware
13 6 (0.96%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.96%) SAP
14 4 (0.64%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.64%) Splunk
15 3 (0.48%) Concur
352 hybrid/remote Banking jobs