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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 20 76
Rank change year-on-year -39 +56 -52
Permanent jobs citing Banking 773 1,465 1,280
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.87% 9.54% 3.70%
As % of the General category 6.65% 12.79% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 325 842 1,053
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £25,313 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £74,870 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -16.81% +24.14%
75th Percentile £127,500 £110,000 £138,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +16.67%

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 11,626 11,450 20,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.23% 74.59% 60.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,580 6,288 15,255
10th Percentile £31,975 £27,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,753 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,271 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.02% +5.84% -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 17 June 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 10 (1.29%) SAS
2 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.40%) Oracle Financials
2 18 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
4 7 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 211 (27.30%) AWS
2 129 (16.69%) SaaS
3 112 (14.49%) GCP
4 78 (10.09%) Azure
5 67 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.46%) OCI
7 13 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.29%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.29%) dbt
9 10 (1.29%) GitHub
9 10 (1.29%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (1.29%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.29%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
11 8 (1.03%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.03%) Figma
11 8 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.75%) HTTP
1 29 (3.75%) TCP/IP
2 24 (3.10%) Firewall
3 22 (2.85%) Broadband
4 18 (2.33%) CHAP
5 16 (2.07%) LAN
5 16 (2.07%) WAN
6 13 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (1.68%) VLAN
7 11 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (1.29%) Network Security
9 9 (1.16%) BGP
9 9 (1.16%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.16%) WebEx
10 6 (0.78%) VPN
11 4 (0.52%) DHCP
11 4 (0.52%) DNS
11 4 (0.52%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.16%) Looker
5 8 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.91%) Power BI
7 6 (0.78%) Tableau
8 5 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.39%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.26%) Db2
11 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.26%) Metadata
12 1 (0.13%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 53 (6.86%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) JUnit
3 2 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 633 (81.89%) Finance
2 308 (39.84%) Social Skills
3 188 (24.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 187 (24.19%) Retail
5 165 (21.35%) Law
6 137 (17.72%) Financial Institution
7 118 (15.27%) Back Office
8 58 (7.50%) Investment Banking
9 56 (7.24%) Legal
10 55 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (5.56%) Marketing
13 22 (2.85%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.72%) Front Office
15 20 (2.59%) Polish Language
15 20 (2.59%) Telecoms
16 18 (2.33%) Games
17 14 (1.81%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (16.30%) Senior
2 112 (14.49%) Software Engineer
3 83 (10.74%) Lead
4 60 (7.76%) Analyst
5 57 (7.37%) Developer
6 51 (6.60%) Product Manager
7 42 (5.43%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.92%) Product Owner
8 38 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (4.66%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
10 35 (4.53%) Software Manager
11 34 (4.40%) Software Engineering Manager
12 32 (4.14%) Development Engineer
12 32 (4.14%) Software Development Engineer
13 26 (3.36%) Architect
14 25 (3.23%) Java Engineer
15 24 (3.10%) Consultant
16 21 (2.72%) Auditor
17 20 (2.59%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.99%) REST
2 24 (3.10%) React
3 22 (2.85%) Spring
4 16 (2.07%) .NET
5 14 (1.81%) Kafka
6 11 (1.42%) AngularJS
7 10 (1.29%) RESTful
8 9 (1.16%) Middleware
8 9 (1.16%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.16%) XMPP
9 8 (1.03%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.03%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.03%) TensorFlow
10 7 (0.91%) LangChain
10 7 (0.91%) LangGraph
10 7 (0.91%) Node.js
10 7 (0.91%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.91%) Swagger
11 6 (0.78%) Sass
12 5 (0.65%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 156 (20.18%) Product Ownership
2 126 (16.30%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.08%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.69%) Management Information System
5 41 (5.30%) Blog
6 39 (5.05%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (4.14%) Podcast
8 23 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.98%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.72%) Security Posture
10 19 (2.46%) FPGA
10 19 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.20%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.94%) Credit Risk
13 13 (1.68%) Blockchain
13 13 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.55%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.29%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.56%) Linux
2 23 (2.98%) Windows
3 13 (1.68%) Android
3 13 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.16%) Unix
6 2 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (25.23%) Roadmaps
2 181 (23.42%) Software Engineering
3 145 (18.76%) Agile
4 133 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (16.69%) Fintech
6 113 (14.62%) Test Automation
7 96 (12.42%) CI/CD
8 88 (11.38%) Product Roadmap
9 76 (9.83%) Risk Management
10 75 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
11 72 (9.31%) Coaching
11 72 (9.31%) Microservices
12 69 (8.93%) Mentoring
13 67 (8.67%) AI
13 67 (8.67%) Analytics
13 67 (8.67%) DevOps
14 66 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (7.89%) Disruptive Innovation
16 60 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 59 (7.63%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.12%) Java
2 100 (12.94%) Python
3 54 (6.99%) SQL
4 33 (4.27%) Go
5 26 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 24 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.98%) C
7 23 (2.98%) C++
8 14 (1.81%) C#
9 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.91%) Rust
10 6 (0.78%) R
11 4 (0.52%) Bash
12 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.39%) Perl
12 3 (0.39%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
14 1 (0.13%) Cypher
14 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 63 (8.15%) Degree
2 36 (4.66%) CISSP
3 30 (3.88%) CISA
3 30 (3.88%) CISM
4 28 (3.62%) ACCA
5 24 (3.10%) CIMA
6 19 (2.46%) FFIEC
7 18 (2.33%) CGEIT
7 18 (2.33%) SANS
8 16 (2.07%) CREST Certified
8 16 (2.07%) OSCP
9 11 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.42%) CRISC
10 10 (1.29%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.78%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.65%) ISACA
14 5 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.95%) QA
2 37 (4.79%) NIST
3 28 (3.62%) PCI DSS
4 27 (3.49%) GDPR
5 26 (3.36%) COBIT
5 26 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.85%) SOC 2
7 15 (1.94%) GRC
8 14 (1.81%) COREP
8 14 (1.81%) FINREP
9 13 (1.68%) Data Quality
10 11 (1.42%) EMIR
10 11 (1.42%) MiFID
11 8 (1.03%) IFRS
12 6 (0.78%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.78%) PMO
13 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.65%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.52%) GAAP
14 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.55%) Docker
3 11 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.78%) vSphere
6 5 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 93 (12.03%) Terraform
2 82 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.28%) Grafana
4 13 (1.68%) Ansible
5 9 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.03%) Istio
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.39%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 57 (7.37%) Oracle
2 50 (6.47%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.85%) BT
4 20 (2.59%) Cisco
5 18 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 14 (1.81%) Splunk
7 14 (1.81%) VMware
8 13 (1.68%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.42%) Databricks
10 10 (1.29%) BMC
11 8 (1.03%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.03%) Confluent
12 7 (0.91%) Google
12 7 (0.91%) Remedy
13 6 (0.78%) NetApp
13 6 (0.78%) SAP
13 6 (0.78%) Workday
14 4 (0.52%) Okta
14 4 (0.52%) OneLogin