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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 21 71
Rank change year-on-year -33 +50 -47
Permanent jobs citing Banking 734 1,415 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.91% 9.44% 4.00%
As % of the General category 6.98% 12.65% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 317 824 1,082
10th Percentile £45,750 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £25,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £74,870 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +26.89% -10.42% +19.40%
75th Percentile £130,000 £104,625 £122,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £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 10,518 11,190 20,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.03% 74.66% 62.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,982 6,325 15,089
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,713 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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

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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

Banking
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Banking over the 6 months to 21 May 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 13 (1.77%) SAS
2 6 (0.82%) Confluence
3 5 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.54%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (4.63%) Oracle Financials
2 16 (2.18%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.14%) Actimize
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 206 (28.07%) AWS
2 138 (18.80%) SaaS
3 112 (15.26%) GCP
4 74 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
5 71 (9.67%) Azure
6 21 (2.86%) GitHub
7 18 (2.45%) OCI
8 14 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.36%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Event Grid
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.36%) dbt
10 10 (1.36%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.09%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.09%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.95%) Figma
13 6 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.95%) HTTP
2 26 (3.54%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.41%) Firewall
4 21 (2.86%) CHAP
5 19 (2.59%) Broadband
6 16 (2.18%) LAN
6 16 (2.18%) WAN
7 15 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.77%) VLAN
9 11 (1.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (1.36%) Network Security
11 9 (1.23%) BGP
11 9 (1.23%) Unified Communications
11 9 (1.23%) WebEx
12 6 (0.82%) VPN
13 4 (0.54%) DHCP
13 4 (0.54%) DNS
14 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.23%) Looker
5 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.82%) Flink
5 6 (0.82%) Power BI
5 6 (0.82%) Tableau
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.41%) SAS EBI
9 2 (0.27%) DB2
10 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.14%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 54 (7.36%) TeamCity
2 9 (1.23%) JIRA
3 3 (0.41%) JUnit
4 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 581 (79.16%) Finance
2 265 (36.10%) Social Skills
3 198 (26.98%) Retail
4 197 (26.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (24.52%) Law
6 146 (19.89%) Financial Institution
7 127 (17.30%) Back Office
8 54 (7.36%) Investment Banking
9 51 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
10 46 (6.27%) Marketing
11 26 (3.54%) Front Office
12 22 (3.00%) Legal
12 22 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (3.00%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.59%) Polish Language
13 19 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.45%) Games
15 15 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.91%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 124 (16.89%) Senior
2 111 (15.12%) Software Engineer
3 88 (11.99%) Lead
4 70 (9.54%) Analyst
5 43 (5.86%) Developer
5 43 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
6 41 (5.59%) Product Manager
7 39 (5.31%) Product Owner
8 32 (4.36%) Development Engineer
8 32 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
8 32 (4.36%) Software Development Engineer
9 28 (3.81%) Architect
9 28 (3.81%) Software Manager
10 27 (3.68%) Java Engineer
11 26 (3.54%) Auditor
11 26 (3.54%) Engineering Manager
12 25 (3.41%) Senior Manager
13 24 (3.27%) Consultant
13 24 (3.27%) Software Engineering Manager
14 20 (2.72%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.68%) REST
2 24 (3.27%) React
3 19 (2.59%) Kafka
4 18 (2.45%) Spring
5 16 (2.18%) .NET
6 10 (1.36%) RESTful
7 9 (1.23%) XMPP
8 8 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.09%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.09%) Middleware
8 8 (1.09%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.95%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.95%) Sass
9 7 (0.95%) Swagger
10 5 (0.68%) Next.js
10 5 (0.68%) Node.js
11 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.54%) Smart Contracts
11 4 (0.54%) web3js
11 4 (0.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 152 (20.71%) Product Ownership
2 123 (16.76%) Cloud Native
3 45 (6.13%) Management Information System
3 45 (6.13%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.99%) Blog
5 28 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.86%) Credit Risk
6 21 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.59%) FPGA
8 17 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.91%) Blockchain
11 12 (1.63%) Derivative
11 12 (1.63%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.23%) Market Risk
13 9 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.72%) Linux
2 22 (3.00%) Windows
3 17 (2.32%) Android
3 17 (2.32%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.09%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (23.57%) Roadmaps
2 168 (22.89%) Software Engineering
3 153 (20.84%) Agile
4 133 (18.12%) Fintech
5 127 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (15.26%) Test Automation
7 97 (13.22%) CI/CD
8 86 (11.72%) Product Roadmap
9 82 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 80 (10.90%) Mentoring
11 74 (10.08%) DevOps
11 74 (10.08%) Risk Management
12 72 (9.81%) Microservices
13 68 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
14 65 (8.86%) Disruptive Innovation
15 64 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (8.58%) Information Security
17 60 (8.17%) Clean Code
18 58 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
18 58 (7.90%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 177 (24.11%) Java
2 92 (12.53%) Python
3 49 (6.68%) SQL
4 41 (5.59%) Go
5 28 (3.81%) TypeScript
6 24 (3.27%) C
6 24 (3.27%) C++
7 20 (2.72%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.77%) C#
9 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.95%) Rust
10 5 (0.68%) Bash
11 4 (0.54%) R
12 3 (0.41%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.41%) Perl
12 3 (0.41%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) Cypher
13 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 65 (8.86%) Degree
2 44 (5.99%) CISSP
3 41 (5.59%) CISA
4 30 (4.09%) ACCA
5 28 (3.81%) CISM
6 24 (3.27%) CIMA
7 22 (3.00%) FFIEC
8 21 (2.86%) CGEIT
8 21 (2.86%) SANS
9 19 (2.59%) CRISC
10 18 (2.45%) OSCP
11 17 (2.32%) CREST Certified
12 10 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.36%) Security Cleared
13 7 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.95%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.82%) SC Cleared
15 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.13%) NIST
2 35 (4.77%) PCI DSS
3 29 (3.95%) GDPR
4 27 (3.68%) COBIT
5 23 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (3.13%) SOC 2
6 18 (2.45%) GRC
7 16 (2.18%) QA
8 15 (2.04%) COREP
9 14 (1.91%) FINREP
10 11 (1.50%) Data Quality
10 11 (1.50%) EMIR
10 11 (1.50%) MiFID
11 10 (1.36%) IFRS
12 7 (0.95%) PMO
13 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.54%) Basel II
14 4 (0.54%) GAAP
15 3 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 18 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.04%) Docker
3 12 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.82%) vSphere
6 5 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 102 (13.90%) Terraform
2 90 (12.26%) Kubernetes
3 65 (8.86%) Grafana
4 13 (1.77%) Ansible
5 9 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.09%) Istio
7 6 (0.82%) Argo
8 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.14%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 55 (7.49%) Oracle
2 43 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.86%) Cisco
4 19 (2.59%) BT
5 14 (1.91%) Palo Alto
6 13 (1.77%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.63%) VMware
8 11 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.50%) Splunk
9 10 (1.36%) Databricks
9 10 (1.36%) Google
10 9 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.09%) Confluent
12 6 (0.82%) NetApp
12 6 (0.82%) Workday
13 5 (0.68%) SAP
14 4 (0.54%) BMC
14 4 (0.54%) Okta
14 4 (0.54%) OneLogin
15 3 (0.41%) Informatica