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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 47
Rank change year-on-year -45 +20 -22
Permanent jobs citing Banking 817 1,244 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.58% 7.49% 4.81%
As % of the General category 5.96% 10.41% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 351 641 978
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £62,105
25th Percentile £55,625 £25,313 £82,682
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,000 £111,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -25.39% +51.47%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,288 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.95% -7.46% +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 13,711 11,945 15,039
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.09% 71.92% 61.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,666 6,617 10,029
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,150 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%

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 17 August 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 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.67%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Finacle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 234 (28.64%) AWS
2 104 (12.73%) GCP
3 98 (12.00%) SaaS
4 84 (10.28%) Azure
5 52 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (3.43%) Snowflake
7 18 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
7 18 (2.20%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (2.20%) OCI
8 16 (1.96%) GitHub
9 14 (1.71%) Power Platform
10 13 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (1.22%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
12 10 (1.22%) Serverless
13 9 (1.10%) Datadog
14 8 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.00%) Broadband
2 31 (3.79%) HTTP
3 25 (3.06%) Firewall
4 22 (2.69%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.45%) LAN
5 20 (2.45%) WAN
6 13 (1.59%) Network Security
7 12 (1.47%) VLAN
8 11 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.10%) Unified Communications
10 9 (1.10%) WebEx
11 8 (0.98%) CHAP
12 7 (0.86%) BGP
13 6 (0.73%) MPLS
13 6 (0.73%) OSPF
13 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
14 5 (0.61%) VPN
15 4 (0.49%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.35%) Power BI
5 9 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.86%) Looker
7 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
7 6 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.61%) Tableau
9 4 (0.49%) Metadata
10 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.24%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.39%) TeamCity
2 18 (2.20%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.98%) Git
4 5 (0.61%) JIRA
4 5 (0.61%) JUnit
5 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.12%) Maven
6 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 653 (79.93%) Finance
2 311 (38.07%) Social Skills
3 156 (19.09%) Retail
4 143 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (15.54%) Law
6 96 (11.75%) Financial Institution
7 91 (11.14%) Back Office
8 67 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (8.20%) Investment Banking
9 62 (7.59%) Legal
10 46 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (5.39%) Marketing
12 36 (4.41%) Front Office
13 24 (2.94%) Public Sector
14 23 (2.82%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.33%) Games
16 12 (1.47%) Polish Language
17 10 (1.22%) German Language
17 10 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.22%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 122 (14.93%) Senior
2 110 (13.46%) Software Engineer
3 96 (11.75%) Lead
4 58 (7.10%) Analyst
5 52 (6.36%) Senior Manager
6 50 (6.12%) Developer
7 45 (5.51%) Architect
8 44 (5.39%) Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.14%) Software Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.14%) Software Manager
10 39 (4.77%) Product Manager
11 36 (4.41%) Lead Software Engineer
12 34 (4.16%) Development Engineer
12 34 (4.16%) Software Development Engineer
13 27 (3.30%) IT Manager
13 27 (3.30%) Product Owner
14 25 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (2.94%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.45%) Customer Service Advisor
16 20 (2.45%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.24%) REST
2 29 (3.55%) Spring
3 28 (3.43%) LangChain
3 28 (3.43%) LangGraph
4 23 (2.82%) React
5 14 (1.71%) AngularJS
6 12 (1.47%) Kafka
6 12 (1.47%) Node.js
6 12 (1.47%) RESTful
6 12 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 11 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.35%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (1.10%) OpenAPI
9 9 (1.10%) Swagger
9 9 (1.10%) XMPP
10 8 (0.98%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.73%) Pandas
11 6 (0.73%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 153 (18.73%) Product Ownership
2 109 (13.34%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.73%) Public Cloud
4 39 (4.77%) Web Conferencing
5 35 (4.28%) Management Information System
6 34 (4.16%) Podcast
7 27 (3.30%) AI Agents
8 25 (3.06%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.69%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.45%) Blog
10 20 (2.45%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.08%) Derivative
11 17 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (1.84%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.59%) FPGA
14 12 (1.47%) Credit Risk
14 12 (1.47%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.26%) Linux
2 23 (2.82%) Windows
3 13 (1.59%) Android
3 13 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (28.52%) Roadmaps
2 190 (23.26%) Software Engineering
3 134 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (14.57%) Agile
5 108 (13.22%) Fintech
6 107 (13.10%) AI
7 99 (12.12%) CI/CD
8 98 (12.00%) Test Automation
9 86 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
10 85 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
11 83 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (9.42%) Coaching
13 76 (9.30%) Mentoring
14 75 (9.18%) DevOps
15 70 (8.57%) Machine Learning
16 64 (7.83%) Risk Management
17 63 (7.71%) Analytics
18 62 (7.59%) ITIL
19 59 (7.22%) Microservices
20 56 (6.85%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (19.22%) Java
2 107 (13.10%) Python
3 64 (7.83%) SQL
4 26 (3.18%) C++
5 25 (3.06%) Go
6 23 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.08%) C
8 15 (1.84%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.10%) R
10 8 (0.98%) C#
10 8 (0.98%) Rust
11 5 (0.61%) Bash
11 5 (0.61%) VBA
12 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.37%) Bicep
13 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.37%) Perl
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (4.77%) Degree
2 26 (3.18%) ACCA
3 24 (2.94%) CIMA
3 24 (2.94%) CISSP
4 22 (2.69%) CISM
5 18 (2.20%) CISA
6 10 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.22%) CREST Certified
6 10 (1.22%) OSCP
7 9 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.10%) CRISC
8 8 (0.98%) CGEIT
8 8 (0.98%) FFIEC
8 8 (0.98%) SANS
9 7 (0.86%) ISACA
10 6 (0.73%) CCNP
10 6 (0.73%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.61%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.75%) QA
2 28 (3.43%) NIST
3 26 (3.18%) GDPR
4 25 (3.06%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.45%) COBIT
6 19 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (2.08%) FINREP
7 17 (2.08%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.84%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.71%) COREP
10 11 (1.35%) EMIR
10 11 (1.35%) MiFID
11 10 (1.22%) GRC
11 10 (1.22%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.86%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.61%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.61%) IFRS
14 4 (0.49%) PMO
15 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 20 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (1.84%) Docker
3 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 83 (10.16%) Terraform
2 68 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 59 (7.22%) Grafana
4 22 (2.69%) Ansible
5 9 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (0.98%) Istio
7 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (6.49%) Microsoft
1 53 (6.49%) Oracle
2 49 (6.00%) BT
3 36 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 31 (3.79%) Databricks
5 23 (2.82%) BMC
6 21 (2.57%) Cisco
7 20 (2.45%) Remedy
8 17 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.84%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.59%) Splunk
10 13 (1.59%) VMware
11 11 (1.35%) FIS
12 9 (1.10%) SunGard
13 8 (0.98%) Confluent
13 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.86%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.73%) NetApp
15 6 (0.73%) Workday
16 5 (0.61%) Okta