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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 21 73
Rank change year-on-year -38 +52 -49
Permanent jobs citing Banking 733 1,411 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 9.72% 3.94%
As % of the General category 6.79% 12.96% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 315 807 1,057
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £69,375 £25,313 £63,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £74,870 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.89% -11.92% +21.43%
75th Percentile £130,000 £105,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £134,000 £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 10,788 10,890 20,264
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.61% 75.02% 61.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,174 5,954 15,094
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,325 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,703 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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

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 27 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 12 (1.64%) SAS
2 5 (0.68%) Confluence
2 5 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (4.77%) Oracle Financials
2 17 (2.32%) 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
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.14%) Actimize
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 208 (28.38%) AWS
2 139 (18.96%) SaaS
3 113 (15.42%) GCP
4 74 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
5 71 (9.69%) Azure
6 19 (2.59%) GitHub
6 19 (2.59%) OCI
7 13 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
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 (3.96%) HTTP
2 27 (3.68%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.41%) Firewall
4 21 (2.86%) CHAP
5 20 (2.73%) Broadband
6 16 (2.18%) LAN
6 16 (2.18%) WAN
7 15 (2.05%) 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 (0.55%) DHCP
13 4 (0.55%) DNS
14 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.23%) Looker
5 7 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.82%) Power BI
6 6 (0.82%) Tableau
7 5 (0.68%) Flink
7 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.41%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.27%) DB2
11 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.14%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 55 (7.50%) TeamCity
2 9 (1.23%) JIRA
3 4 (0.55%) JUnit
4 1 (0.14%) Git
4 1 (0.14%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.14%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 581 (79.26%) Finance
2 269 (36.70%) Social Skills
3 200 (27.29%) Retail
4 198 (27.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (24.56%) Law
6 147 (20.05%) Financial Institution
7 128 (17.46%) Back Office
8 55 (7.50%) Investment Banking
9 53 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (6.41%) Marketing
11 25 (3.41%) Front Office
12 23 (3.14%) Public Sector
13 22 (3.00%) Legal
13 22 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (2.73%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.59%) Games
15 19 (2.59%) Polish Language
16 14 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.91%) Italian Language
17 11 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (16.78%) Senior
2 113 (15.42%) Software Engineer
3 89 (12.14%) Lead
4 67 (9.14%) Analyst
5 49 (6.68%) Developer
6 46 (6.28%) Product Manager
7 42 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 38 (5.18%) Product Owner
9 33 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (4.37%) Development Engineer
10 32 (4.37%) Software Development Engineer
11 31 (4.23%) Senior Manager
12 29 (3.96%) Architect
13 28 (3.82%) Software Manager
14 27 (3.68%) Engineering Manager
14 27 (3.68%) Java Engineer
15 25 (3.41%) Auditor
15 25 (3.41%) Software Engineering Manager
16 24 (3.27%) Consultant
17 20 (2.73%) Internal Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.96%) REST
2 25 (3.41%) React
3 19 (2.59%) Kafka
3 19 (2.59%) Spring
4 16 (2.18%) .NET
5 10 (1.36%) RESTful
6 9 (1.23%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.23%) Middleware
6 9 (1.23%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.23%) XMPP
7 8 (1.09%) AWS CDK
8 7 (0.95%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.95%) Sass
8 7 (0.95%) Swagger
9 5 (0.68%) Next.js
9 5 (0.68%) Node.js
10 4 (0.55%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.55%) Smart Contracts
10 4 (0.55%) web3js
10 4 (0.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 152 (20.74%) Product Ownership
2 125 (17.05%) Cloud Native
3 46 (6.28%) Management Information System
4 45 (6.14%) Public Cloud
5 44 (6.00%) Blog
6 28 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (3.82%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.59%) Credit Risk
8 19 (2.59%) FPGA
9 17 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.91%) Blockchain
12 12 (1.64%) Derivative
12 12 (1.64%) Hedge funds
13 11 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.23%) FlexPod
14 9 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.87%) Linux
2 23 (3.14%) Windows
3 17 (2.32%) Android
3 17 (2.32%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.64%) 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
1 171 (23.33%) Roadmaps
1 171 (23.33%) Software Engineering
2 153 (20.87%) Agile
3 133 (18.14%) Fintech
4 129 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (15.55%) Test Automation
6 98 (13.37%) CI/CD
7 87 (11.87%) Product Roadmap
8 80 (10.91%) Mentoring
9 76 (10.37%) DevOps
10 74 (10.10%) Microservices
11 72 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 70 (9.55%) Risk Management
13 68 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
14 65 (8.87%) Disruptive Innovation
15 63 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 61 (8.32%) Analytics
16 61 (8.32%) Clean Code
17 58 (7.91%) AI
17 58 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 178 (24.28%) Java
2 96 (13.10%) Python
3 50 (6.82%) SQL
4 41 (5.59%) Go
5 29 (3.96%) TypeScript
6 24 (3.27%) C
6 24 (3.27%) C++
7 20 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.77%) C#
9 8 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.95%) Rust
11 5 (0.68%) Bash
12 4 (0.55%) R
13 3 (0.41%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.41%) Perl
13 3 (0.41%) Ruby
14 1 (0.14%) Cypher
14 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 65 (8.87%) Degree
2 35 (4.77%) CISSP
3 32 (4.37%) CISA
4 29 (3.96%) ACCA
5 28 (3.82%) CISM
6 24 (3.27%) CIMA
7 22 (3.00%) FFIEC
8 21 (2.86%) CGEIT
8 21 (2.86%) SANS
9 18 (2.46%) OSCP
10 17 (2.32%) CREST Certified
11 11 (1.50%) Security Cleared
12 10 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.36%) CRISC
13 7 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.82%) SC Cleared
15 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.91%) NIST
2 29 (3.96%) GDPR
3 27 (3.68%) COBIT
4 26 (3.55%) PCI DSS
5 23 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (3.14%) SOC 2
6 18 (2.46%) GRC
7 15 (2.05%) COREP
7 15 (2.05%) QA
8 14 (1.91%) FINREP
9 11 (1.50%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.50%) EMIR
9 11 (1.50%) MiFID
10 9 (1.23%) IFRS
11 7 (0.95%) PMO
12 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.55%) GAAP
14 3 (0.41%) Basel II
14 3 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 18 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (2.18%) Docker
3 12 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.09%) 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
1 103 (14.05%) Terraform
2 90 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 66 (9.00%) Grafana
4 13 (1.77%) Ansible
5 9 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.09%) Istio
7 5 (0.68%) Argo
8 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 56 (7.64%) Oracle
2 45 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.86%) Cisco
4 20 (2.73%) BT
5 14 (1.91%) Palo Alto
6 13 (1.77%) Fortinet
6 13 (1.77%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.77%) VMware
7 11 (1.50%) Splunk
8 10 (1.36%) Databricks
8 10 (1.36%) Google
9 9 (1.23%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 6 (0.82%) NetApp
11 6 (0.82%) Workday
12 5 (0.68%) BMC
12 5 (0.68%) SAP
13 4 (0.55%) Okta
13 4 (0.55%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.41%) Alteryx