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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 23 54
Rank change year-on-year -47 +31 -31
Permanent jobs citing Banking 778 1,381 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.55% 8.39% 4.44%
As % of the General category 5.97% 11.55% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 329 773 976
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £25,313 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £78,810 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -28.35% +55.85%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 13,033 11,954 16,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.54% 72.62% 61.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,390 6,690 11,272
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,679 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,751
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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

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 29 July 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%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
2 4 (0.51%) SAS
3 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 32 (4.11%) Oracle Financials
2 19 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
3 18 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 227 (29.18%) AWS
2 117 (15.04%) SaaS
3 111 (14.27%) GCP
4 81 (10.41%) Azure
5 59 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (2.83%) Snowflake
7 18 (2.31%) OCI
8 16 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
10 12 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.41%) GitHub
12 10 (1.29%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
12 10 (1.29%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (1.03%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (1.03%) OpenShift
14 7 (0.90%) dbt
15 6 (0.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.86%) HTTP
2 25 (3.21%) Broadband
3 24 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.96%) Firewall
5 17 (2.19%) LAN
5 17 (2.19%) WAN
6 11 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (1.29%) CHAP
7 10 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.29%) Network Security
8 9 (1.16%) Unified Communications
8 9 (1.16%) VLAN
8 9 (1.16%) WebEx
9 6 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (0.64%) VPN
11 4 (0.51%) BGP
11 4 (0.51%) DHCP
11 4 (0.51%) DNS
12 3 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.54%) Power BI
5 11 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.16%) Looker
7 6 (0.77%) Tableau
8 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.39%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.39%) Metadata
9 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.39%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.26%) Db2
10 2 (0.26%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 50 (6.43%) TeamCity
2 12 (1.54%) Claude Code
3 8 (1.03%) Git
4 5 (0.64%) JIRA
4 5 (0.64%) JUnit
5 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.13%) Maven
6 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 645 (82.90%) Finance
2 303 (38.95%) Social Skills
3 172 (22.11%) Retail
4 168 (21.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (18.51%) Law
6 110 (14.14%) Financial Institution
7 106 (13.62%) Back Office
8 67 (8.61%) Investment Banking
9 66 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
10 59 (7.58%) Legal
11 53 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (5.40%) Marketing
13 31 (3.98%) Front Office
14 19 (2.44%) Games
14 19 (2.44%) Public Sector
15 18 (2.31%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.93%) Polish Language
17 14 (1.80%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.54%) German Language
19 11 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (15.68%) Senior
2 112 (14.40%) Software Engineer
3 97 (12.47%) Lead
4 65 (8.35%) Analyst
5 50 (6.43%) Developer
6 49 (6.30%) Senior Manager
7 43 (5.53%) Product Manager
8 42 (5.40%) Engineering Manager
9 40 (5.14%) Software Engineering Manager
9 40 (5.14%) Software Manager
10 38 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
11 37 (4.76%) Architect
12 33 (4.24%) Development Engineer
12 33 (4.24%) Software Development Engineer
13 29 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 27 (3.47%) Product Owner
15 24 (3.08%) Consultant
15 24 (3.08%) Data Scientist
16 21 (2.70%) Java Engineer
17 20 (2.57%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.68%) REST
2 26 (3.34%) Spring
3 23 (2.96%) React
4 22 (2.83%) LangChain
4 22 (2.83%) LangGraph
5 12 (1.54%) AngularJS
5 12 (1.54%) Kafka
5 12 (1.54%) scikit-learn
6 11 (1.41%) PyTorch
6 11 (1.41%) TensorFlow
7 10 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (1.29%) RESTful
8 9 (1.16%) OpenAPI
8 9 (1.16%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.16%) Swagger
8 9 (1.16%) XMPP
9 8 (1.03%) .NET
9 8 (1.03%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.03%) Node.js
10 6 (0.77%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 154 (19.79%) Product Ownership
2 122 (15.68%) Cloud Native
3 53 (6.81%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.01%) Web Conferencing
5 36 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.11%) Podcast
7 26 (3.34%) Blog
8 22 (2.83%) Fixed Income
9 20 (2.57%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.44%) Hedge funds
10 19 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.31%) AI Agents
12 16 (2.06%) Derivative
12 16 (2.06%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.93%) Credit Risk
13 15 (1.93%) FPGA
14 14 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (1.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.78%) Linux
2 23 (2.96%) Windows
3 13 (1.67%) Android
3 13 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.54%) 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
1 226 (29.05%) Roadmaps
2 188 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 140 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
4 126 (16.20%) Agile
5 117 (15.04%) Fintech
6 105 (13.50%) Test Automation
7 100 (12.85%) CI/CD
8 98 (12.60%) AI
9 90 (11.57%) Product Roadmap
10 84 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
11 79 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (9.90%) Coaching
13 71 (9.13%) DevOps
13 71 (9.13%) Mentoring
14 68 (8.74%) Risk Management
15 64 (8.23%) Analytics
16 63 (8.10%) Machine Learning
16 63 (8.10%) Microservices
17 59 (7.58%) Deployment Automation
18 57 (7.33%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 162 (20.82%) Java
2 101 (12.98%) Python
3 59 (7.58%) SQL
4 28 (3.60%) C++
4 28 (3.60%) Go
5 23 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 21 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.44%) C
8 11 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.29%) C#
9 10 (1.29%) R
10 8 (1.03%) Rust
11 5 (0.64%) Bash
11 5 (0.64%) VBA
12 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.39%) Perl
12 3 (0.39%) Ruby
13 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (6.68%) Degree
2 28 (3.60%) CISSP
3 27 (3.47%) ACCA
4 25 (3.21%) CIMA
5 24 (3.08%) CISM
6 22 (2.83%) CISA
7 12 (1.54%) CREST Certified
7 12 (1.54%) OSCP
8 11 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.41%) CRISC
9 10 (1.29%) CGEIT
9 10 (1.29%) FFIEC
9 10 (1.29%) SANS
10 9 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.90%) ISACA
11 7 (0.90%) Security Cleared
12 6 (0.77%) CCNP
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.91%) QA
2 32 (4.11%) NIST
3 26 (3.34%) GDPR
4 23 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.83%) PCI DSS
6 21 (2.70%) COBIT
7 15 (1.93%) FINREP
7 15 (1.93%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.80%) COREP
9 12 (1.54%) GRC
10 11 (1.41%) EMIR
10 11 (1.41%) MiFID
11 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.90%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.77%) IFRS
13 5 (0.64%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.51%) GAAP
14 4 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (1.67%) Docker
3 8 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.77%) vSphere
5 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 86 (11.05%) Terraform
2 76 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.23%) Grafana
4 19 (2.44%) Ansible
5 9 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.03%) Istio
7 4 (0.51%) 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%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (7.07%) Oracle
2 51 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.86%) ServiceNow
4 25 (3.21%) BT
5 24 (3.08%) Databricks
6 21 (2.70%) BMC
7 18 (2.31%) Cisco
7 18 (2.31%) Remedy
8 17 (2.19%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.93%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.67%) Splunk
10 13 (1.67%) VMware
11 10 (1.29%) FIS
12 9 (1.16%) SunGard
13 8 (1.03%) Confluent
14 7 (0.90%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.77%) Google
15 6 (0.77%) NetApp
15 6 (0.77%) SAP
15 6 (0.77%) Workday