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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 47 44
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Banking 1,000 931 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.98% 5.63% 5.33%
As % of the General category 6.45% 7.95% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 409 423 880
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £46,875 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £106,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.00% +50.55%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +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 15,504 11,718 12,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.67% 70.88% 62.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,296 6,190 7,465
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,709 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.80% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% -3.33%

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

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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 15 October 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 12 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.50%) CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.30%) Confluence
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.20%) SAS
5 1 (0.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (1.70%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.80%) Actimize
4 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.20%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.10%) Finacle
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 319 (31.90%) AWS
2 175 (17.50%) GCP
3 157 (15.70%) SaaS
4 86 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
4 86 (8.60%) Azure
5 51 (5.10%) Amazon Bedrock
6 43 (4.30%) Anthropic Claude
7 39 (3.90%) Snowflake
8 22 (2.20%) GitHub
9 19 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (1.70%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
11 16 (1.60%) OCI
12 12 (1.20%) Datadog
12 12 (1.20%) Serverless
13 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.90%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (0.90%) Google Workspace
14 9 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.80%) Broadband
2 25 (2.50%) HTTP
3 24 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.10%) VLAN
5 20 (2.00%) BGP
6 19 (1.90%) Firewall
7 18 (1.80%) LAN
8 16 (1.60%) WAN
9 14 (1.40%) VPN
10 13 (1.30%) Network Security
11 10 (1.00%) OSPF
12 7 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
13 6 (0.60%) MPLS
14 5 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
14 5 (0.50%) Internet
14 5 (0.50%) Unified Communications
14 5 (0.50%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (1.40%) Power BI
5 13 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.70%) Metadata
8 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.60%) Tableau
10 5 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.40%) Looker
11 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.30%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.20%) Big Data
13 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 92 (9.20%) TeamCity
2 43 (4.30%) Claude Code
3 19 (1.90%) JUnit
4 12 (1.20%) Git
5 9 (0.90%) JIRA
6 8 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.50%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.20%) Gradle
10 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.10%) GitLab
10 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.10%) Maven
10 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 732 (73.20%) Finance
2 386 (38.60%) Social Skills
3 256 (25.60%) Retail
4 237 (23.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 223 (22.30%) Law
6 146 (14.60%) Financial Institution
7 142 (14.20%) Back Office
8 69 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (6.90%) Legal
9 65 (6.50%) Investment Banking
10 61 (6.10%) Front Office
11 58 (5.80%) Marketing
12 37 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.40%) Retail Banking
14 22 (2.20%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 20 (2.00%) French Language
17 18 (1.80%) Games
17 18 (1.80%) Polish Language
18 16 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (17.50%) Software Engineer
2 161 (16.10%) Senior
3 147 (14.70%) Lead
4 89 (8.90%) Architect
5 69 (6.90%) Developer
6 61 (6.10%) Java Engineer
7 54 (5.40%) Lead Software Engineer
8 51 (5.10%) Analyst
8 51 (5.10%) Senior Manager
9 45 (4.50%) Senior Java Engineer
10 44 (4.40%) Engineering Manager
10 44 (4.40%) IT Manager
11 42 (4.20%) Software Engineering Manager
11 42 (4.20%) Software Manager
12 39 (3.90%) Finance Manager
12 39 (3.90%) Team Leader
13 38 (3.80%) Product Owner
14 37 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
15 31 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.90%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (12.90%) Terraform
2 55 (5.50%) LangChain
2 55 (5.50%) LangGraph
3 42 (4.20%) REST
4 32 (3.20%) RESTful
5 29 (2.90%) Spring
6 20 (2.00%) OpenAPI
6 20 (2.00%) Swagger
7 18 (1.80%) PyTorch
7 18 (1.80%) React
7 18 (1.80%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.80%) TensorFlow
8 15 (1.50%) CrewAI
8 15 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (1.50%) pydantic
9 13 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 13 (1.30%) Dagger
9 13 (1.30%) RxJava
10 12 (1.20%) XML
11 10 (1.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 197 (19.70%) Product Ownership
2 153 (15.30%) Cloud Native
3 61 (6.10%) Hedge funds
4 60 (6.00%) AI Agents
5 51 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 46 (4.60%) Web Conferencing
7 43 (4.30%) Blog
8 41 (4.10%) Podcast
9 26 (2.60%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.40%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.30%) Derivative
12 22 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (2.20%) Social Media
13 18 (1.80%) Mobile Banking
13 18 (1.80%) Security Posture
14 17 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
15 15 (1.50%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.40%) Credit Risk
17 13 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.00%) Linux
2 29 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 28 (2.80%) Android
4 14 (1.40%) Windows
5 6 (0.60%) macOS
6 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (26.50%) Software Engineering
2 235 (23.50%) Roadmaps
3 177 (17.70%) Fintech
4 168 (16.80%) AI
5 157 (15.70%) CI/CD
6 145 (14.50%) Test Automation
7 140 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (12.10%) Disruptive Innovation
9 119 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 105 (10.50%) Coaching
11 100 (10.00%) Machine Learning
12 98 (9.80%) Clean Code
13 94 (9.40%) Deployment Automation
14 93 (9.30%) Mentoring
15 90 (9.00%) Data Science
16 84 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
17 82 (8.20%) Agile
18 81 (8.10%) Microservices
19 79 (7.90%) Stakeholder Management
20 78 (7.80%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 252 (25.20%) Java
2 158 (15.80%) Python
3 69 (6.90%) SQL
4 40 (4.00%) Go
5 30 (3.00%) TypeScript
6 27 (2.70%) Kotlin
7 23 (2.30%) R
8 19 (1.90%) Bash
9 18 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.60%) C++
11 14 (1.40%) Rust
12 12 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.70%) C
14 5 (0.50%) C#
14 5 (0.50%) VBA
15 4 (0.40%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) Swift
17 1 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (2.50%) Degree
2 16 (1.60%) CISSP
3 14 (1.40%) Azure Certification
3 14 (1.40%) CISM
4 13 (1.30%) CISA
5 11 (1.10%) CRISC
6 9 (0.90%) ACCA
7 7 (0.70%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) CIMA
8 6 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.60%) CREST Certified
8 6 (0.60%) GCFA
8 6 (0.60%) GIAC
8 6 (0.60%) ISACA
8 6 (0.60%) OSCP
9 5 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) CCNP
10 4 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.90%) QA
2 29 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 27 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.50%) COBIT
6 21 (2.10%) NIST
7 20 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 20 (2.00%) GDPR
8 19 (1.90%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.40%) GRC
10 10 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.70%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.60%) FINREP
13 5 (0.50%) EMIR
13 5 (0.50%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.50%) MiFID
13 5 (0.50%) SLA
14 3 (0.30%) Basel III
14 3 (0.30%) COREP
System Software
1 15 (1.50%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 117 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 107 (10.70%) Grafana
3 22 (2.20%) Ansible
4 17 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.30%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (5.80%) BT
2 46 (4.60%) Google
3 42 (4.20%) Databricks
4 40 (4.00%) Oracle
5 39 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 31 (3.10%) Microsoft
7 22 (2.20%) BMC
8 21 (2.10%) Remedy
9 17 (1.70%) Cisco
10 12 (1.20%) Splunk
11 11 (1.10%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.00%) FIS
13 9 (0.90%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.90%) SunGard
13 9 (0.90%) VMware
14 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.60%) Xero
16 4 (0.40%) CheckPoint
16 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.40%) HubSpot