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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 64
Rank change year-on-year -28 +39 -40
Permanent jobs citing Banking 688 1,140 1,398
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.08% 8.86% 4.53%
As % of the General category 7.15% 12.30% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 339 911 1,138
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% +8.00%
75th Percentile £128,750 £102,410 £100,000
90th Percentile £144,000 £140,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.74% +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 9,620 9,265 19,041
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.00% 72.03% 61.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,329 6,320 14,910
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,800 £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 28 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 (2.76%) SAS
2 8 (1.16%) Confluence
3 6 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.87%) Tomcat
3 6 (0.87%) WebSphere
3 6 (0.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (0.73%) Ethereum
5 4 (0.58%) Apache
6 3 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.03%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.87%) 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
1 189 (27.47%) AWS
2 139 (20.20%) SaaS
3 106 (15.41%) GCP
4 78 (11.34%) Amazon EKS
5 71 (10.32%) Azure
6 31 (4.51%) GitHub
7 16 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.03%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.45%) Azure Event Grid
12 9 (1.31%) dbt
12 9 (1.31%) OCI
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.16%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (1.16%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.16%) Route 53
13 8 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.78%) TCP/IP
2 25 (3.63%) Firewall
3 24 (3.49%) CHAP
4 23 (3.34%) Broadband
5 15 (2.18%) LAN
5 15 (2.18%) WAN
6 14 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
6 14 (2.03%) HTTP
7 12 (1.74%) BGP
7 12 (1.74%) VLAN
7 12 (1.74%) VPN
8 10 (1.45%) Network Security
9 7 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.87%) SSL
11 5 (0.73%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.73%) WebEx
12 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.58%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.58%) WLAN
13 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 22 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.03%) Data Lake
3 14 (2.03%) Power BI
3 14 (2.03%) Tableau
4 10 (1.45%) Flink
5 8 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.16%) DB2
6 7 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.87%) Metadata
8 5 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.58%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (0.58%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.58%) DataStage
9 4 (0.58%) Dremio
9 4 (0.58%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 55 (7.99%) TeamCity
2 11 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.60%) JIRA
3 4 (0.58%) ER Studio
3 4 (0.58%) ERwin
3 4 (0.58%) Git
3 4 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.15%) JUnit
4 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 524 (76.16%) Finance
2 233 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 195 (28.34%) Retail
4 170 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 162 (23.55%) Law
6 155 (22.53%) Financial Institution
7 127 (18.46%) Back Office
8 54 (7.85%) Investment Banking
9 44 (6.40%) Marketing
10 42 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
11 37 (5.38%) Front Office
12 22 (3.20%) Games
13 20 (2.91%) Public Sector
14 18 (2.62%) Legal
14 18 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (2.47%) Polish Language
15 17 (2.47%) Telecoms
16 15 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.60%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 108 (15.70%) Senior
2 84 (12.21%) Software Engineer
3 72 (10.47%) Analyst
4 60 (8.72%) Lead
5 41 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (5.67%) Developer
7 37 (5.38%) Auditor
8 36 (5.23%) Architect
9 32 (4.65%) Product Owner
10 30 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (3.63%) Java Engineer
11 25 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (3.34%) Business Analyst
12 23 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (3.34%) Internal Auditor
12 23 (3.34%) Security Auditor
13 22 (3.20%) Customer Service Advisor
14 21 (3.05%) Consultant
14 21 (3.05%) Product Manager
15 20 (2.91%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.63%) REST
2 24 (3.49%) Kafka
3 23 (3.34%) .NET
4 14 (2.03%) React
5 13 (1.89%) RESTful
6 8 (1.16%) Middleware
7 7 (1.02%) CSS
7 7 (1.02%) HTML
7 7 (1.02%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.02%) Sass
7 7 (1.02%) Swagger
8 6 (0.87%) LAPP Stack
8 6 (0.87%) LDAP
8 6 (0.87%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (0.73%) Next.js
9 5 (0.73%) Smart Contracts
9 5 (0.73%) web3js
9 5 (0.73%) WPF
9 5 (0.73%) XMPP
10 4 (0.58%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 111 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 96 (13.95%) Product Ownership
3 55 (7.99%) Management Information System
4 41 (5.96%) Blog
5 36 (5.23%) Data Centre
6 32 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (4.51%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.78%) Credit Risk
9 22 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (3.05%) Onboarding
10 21 (3.05%) Security Posture
11 19 (2.76%) FPGA
11 19 (2.76%) Hedge funds
12 18 (2.62%) Blockchain
13 14 (2.03%) Derivative
14 13 (1.89%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.89%) Market Risk
14 13 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.54%) Linux
2 25 (3.63%) Windows
3 12 (1.74%) Unix
4 11 (1.60%) Android
4 11 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (19.77%) Roadmaps
2 135 (19.62%) Agile
3 119 (17.30%) Software Engineering
4 105 (15.26%) Fintech
5 102 (14.83%) Risk Management
6 100 (14.53%) CI/CD
6 100 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 94 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (13.52%) Information Security
9 91 (13.23%) Test Automation
10 86 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
11 71 (10.32%) DevOps
12 67 (9.74%) Microservices
13 61 (8.87%) Cybersecurity
13 61 (8.87%) Process Improvement
14 59 (8.58%) Product Roadmap
15 56 (8.14%) Analytics
15 56 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (7.85%) Clean Code
16 54 (7.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.08%) Java
2 95 (13.81%) Python
3 51 (7.41%) SQL
4 43 (6.25%) Go
5 25 (3.63%) TypeScript
6 23 (3.34%) C++
7 22 (3.20%) C
8 14 (2.03%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.89%) C#
10 7 (1.02%) Bash
10 7 (1.02%) Rust
11 5 (0.73%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.44%) R
14 2 (0.29%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.29%) Perl
14 2 (0.29%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.15%) RPG
15 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (11.92%) Degree
2 76 (11.05%) CISA
2 76 (11.05%) CISSP
3 52 (7.56%) CRISC
4 25 (3.63%) FFIEC
5 24 (3.49%) CGEIT
5 24 (3.49%) CISM
5 24 (3.49%) SANS
6 23 (3.34%) ACCA
7 17 (2.47%) CIMA
7 17 (2.47%) OSCP
8 15 (2.18%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.60%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.45%) Security Cleared
13 7 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.34%) NIST
2 74 (10.76%) PCI DSS
3 33 (4.80%) GDPR
4 31 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (4.36%) SOC 2
6 24 (3.49%) COBIT
7 22 (3.20%) GRC
8 15 (2.18%) IFRS
9 14 (2.03%) Data Quality
10 13 (1.89%) SLA
11 10 (1.45%) COREP
11 10 (1.45%) QA
12 9 (1.31%) EMIR
12 9 (1.31%) GAAP
13 8 (1.16%) MiFID
14 7 (1.02%) FINREP
15 6 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.87%) Basel II
16 5 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (2.18%) Docker
2 12 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.87%) vSphere
5 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.58%) Firmware
7 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 108 (15.70%) Terraform
2 91 (13.23%) Kubernetes
3 58 (8.43%) Grafana
4 18 (2.62%) Ansible
5 10 (1.45%) Argo
6 8 (1.16%) Istio
7 5 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.58%) Cilium
9 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.15%) Control-M
10 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 34 (4.94%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.92%) Oracle
3 23 (3.34%) BT
4 20 (2.91%) Cisco
5 19 (2.76%) Databricks
6 18 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.74%) Google
7 12 (1.74%) IBM
8 11 (1.60%) CheckPoint
8 11 (1.60%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.60%) VMware
9 10 (1.45%) Informatica
10 9 (1.31%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.16%) BMC
11 8 (1.16%) Confluent
11 8 (1.16%) Remedy
12 7 (1.02%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.02%) Splunk
13 6 (0.87%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.87%) SAP