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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 52 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 -7
Permanent jobs citing Banking 599 894 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.83% 5.46% 6.37%
As % of the General category 6.43% 7.91% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 324 677 1,343
10th Percentile £25,087 £42,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +20.44% -0.23%
75th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £95,801
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £123,749
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +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 9,321 11,306 15,839
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.59% 69.11% 62.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,876 6,393 12,535
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,375 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -12.00%

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 25 January 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 21 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.17%) Apache
3 16 (2.67%) Tomcat
3 16 (2.67%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 15 (2.50%) SAS
5 8 (1.34%) Confluence
6 7 (1.17%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.50%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.33%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.17%) Actimize
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.17%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (28.05%) AWS
2 86 (14.36%) SaaS
3 69 (11.52%) GCP
4 55 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (7.85%) Azure
6 30 (5.01%) GitHub
7 27 (4.51%) Snowflake
8 23 (3.84%) dbt
9 15 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.00%) Power Platform
10 12 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (1.84%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.84%) Route 53
12 10 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.35%) Broadband
2 22 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.01%) SSL
4 16 (2.67%) CHAP
5 15 (2.50%) Firewall
6 11 (1.84%) HTTP
7 10 (1.67%) BGP
8 9 (1.50%) VPN
9 8 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.00%) LAN
10 6 (1.00%) Network Security
10 6 (1.00%) VLAN
10 6 (1.00%) WAN
11 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.67%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.67%) WLAN
12 2 (0.33%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.17%) MPLS
13 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.67%) Data Lake
3 25 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (3.17%) Apache Arrow
4 19 (3.17%) Apache Iceberg
4 19 (3.17%) Apache Ignite
4 19 (3.17%) Dremio
5 18 (3.01%) DB2
6 12 (2.00%) Power BI
6 12 (2.00%) Tableau
7 11 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.67%) Flink
9 8 (1.34%) Metadata
10 7 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.67%) DataStage
12 4 (0.67%) QlikView
12 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (6.34%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.84%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.67%) ERwin
4 4 (0.67%) Git
4 4 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 436 (72.79%) Finance
2 173 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 125 (20.87%) Retail
4 110 (18.36%) Financial Institution
5 102 (17.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 100 (16.69%) Law
7 78 (13.02%) Back Office
8 67 (11.19%) Investment Banking
9 47 (7.85%) Front Office
10 31 (5.18%) Games
11 22 (3.67%) Marketing
12 20 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
13 18 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.00%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.67%) Polish Language
17 8 (1.34%) Telecoms
18 7 (1.17%) Legal
18 7 (1.17%) Retail Banking
19 5 (0.83%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (17.20%) Senior
2 73 (12.19%) Software Engineer
3 46 (7.68%) Analyst
4 43 (7.18%) Lead
5 42 (7.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 36 (6.01%) Java Engineer
7 35 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
7 35 (5.84%) Developer
7 35 (5.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 33 (5.51%) Architect
9 32 (5.34%) Customer Service Advisor
10 31 (5.18%) Auditor
11 27 (4.51%) Python Engineer
12 22 (3.67%) Senior Java Engineer
12 22 (3.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 20 (3.34%) Internal Auditor
13 20 (3.34%) Product Owner
14 19 (3.17%) AWS Software Engineer
14 19 (3.17%) Python Software Engineer
15 18 (3.01%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.17%) .NET
1 19 (3.17%) gRPC
1 19 (3.17%) NumPy
1 19 (3.17%) Pandas
1 19 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
1 19 (3.17%) SciPy
2 17 (2.84%) Kafka
3 16 (2.67%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.67%) LDAP
3 16 (2.67%) REST
3 16 (2.67%) WebSphere MQ
4 11 (1.84%) React
5 10 (1.67%) RESTful
6 7 (1.17%) CSS
6 7 (1.17%) HTML
6 7 (1.17%) Middleware
6 7 (1.17%) Smart Contracts
6 7 (1.17%) web3js
7 6 (1.00%) WPF
8 5 (0.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.18%) Management Information System
4 34 (5.68%) Hedge funds
5 33 (5.51%) Data Centre
6 31 (5.18%) Public Cloud
7 30 (5.01%) Blog
8 28 (4.67%) Derivative
9 27 (4.51%) Fixed Income
10 26 (4.34%) Credit Risk
11 24 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (3.17%) Equities
13 19 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (3.17%) Pricing Data
14 17 (2.84%) FPGA
14 17 (2.84%) Security Posture
15 16 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (2.50%) Blockchain
16 15 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.68%) Linux
2 27 (4.51%) Windows
3 19 (3.17%) Unix
4 17 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.17%) Android
5 7 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (17.36%) Software Engineering
2 100 (16.69%) Agile
2 100 (16.69%) Roadmaps
3 86 (14.36%) Risk Management
4 81 (13.52%) CI/CD
5 77 (12.85%) Information Security
6 76 (12.69%) Risk Assessment
7 75 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 70 (11.69%) Fintech
8 70 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (10.18%) Test Automation
10 56 (9.35%) Process Improvement
11 55 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (8.85%) Asset Management
13 49 (8.18%) Customer Service
13 49 (8.18%) Microservices
14 48 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (8.01%) DevOps
15 47 (7.85%) Due Diligence
15 47 (7.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 133 (22.20%) Java
2 99 (16.53%) Python
3 40 (6.68%) SQL
4 38 (6.34%) TypeScript
5 31 (5.18%) Go
6 25 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 19 (3.17%) C++
8 18 (3.01%) C
9 15 (2.50%) C#
10 7 (1.17%) Rust
11 5 (0.83%) Bash
11 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.17%) COBOL
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) R
13 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (11.69%) CISA
2 66 (11.02%) CISSP
3 64 (10.68%) Degree
4 50 (8.35%) CRISC
5 20 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (2.84%) FFIEC
8 16 (2.67%) CGEIT
8 16 (2.67%) CISM
8 16 (2.67%) SANS
9 12 (2.00%) ACCA
9 12 (2.00%) OSCP
10 11 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.67%) CREST Certified
12 9 (1.50%) Security Cleared
13 8 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.34%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.00%) CIMA
15 5 (0.83%) PMP
15 5 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (12.52%) NIST
2 68 (11.35%) PCI DSS
3 31 (5.18%) GDPR
4 26 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (4.01%) SOC 2
6 23 (3.84%) SLA
7 18 (3.01%) COBIT
8 15 (2.50%) GRC
9 14 (2.34%) QA
10 12 (2.00%) Data Quality
10 12 (2.00%) IFRS
11 6 (1.00%) Basel II
11 6 (1.00%) EMIR
11 6 (1.00%) GAAP
12 5 (0.83%) MiFID
13 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.67%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.67%) PMO
14 3 (0.50%) COREP
14 3 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (1.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.67%) Firmware
3 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (12.35%) Terraform
2 63 (10.52%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.68%) Grafana
4 16 (2.67%) Ansible
5 10 (1.67%) Argo
6 4 (0.67%) Cilium
7 2 (0.33%) Suricata
8 1 (0.17%) Control-M
8 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 44 (7.35%) BT
2 38 (6.34%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.34%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.51%) IBM
5 17 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.67%) BMC
6 16 (2.67%) Remedy
7 15 (2.50%) Databricks
8 10 (1.67%) Cisco
8 10 (1.67%) Google
8 10 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.50%) Oracle
10 8 (1.34%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.34%) Informatica
11 5 (0.83%) SAP
11 5 (0.83%) VMware
12 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.67%) Sage
13 3 (0.50%) Ariba
13 3 (0.50%) Murex