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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 40
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 -11
Permanent jobs citing Banking 601 886 1,612
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.80% 5.47% 6.13%
As % of the General category 6.41% 7.91% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 331 662 1,335
10th Percentile £25,087 £42,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £59,068 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +20.44% +0.82%
75th Percentile £128,750 £110,000 £95,801
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £123,249
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 9,376 11,196 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.30% 69.08% 62.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,326 12,973
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +7.46% -4.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.31%

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 31 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 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.16%) Apache
3 16 (2.66%) SAS
3 16 (2.66%) Tomcat
3 16 (2.66%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.66%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (1.33%) Confluence
5 7 (1.16%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.16%) 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%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.50%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.33%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
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 (27.95%) AWS
2 89 (14.81%) SaaS
3 69 (11.48%) GCP
4 57 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (7.65%) Azure
6 30 (4.99%) GitHub
7 27 (4.49%) Snowflake
8 23 (3.83%) dbt
9 15 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.00%) Power Platform
10 12 (2.00%) Route 53
10 12 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 10 (1.66%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
14 6 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.49%) Broadband
2 24 (3.99%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.00%) SSL
4 17 (2.83%) CHAP
5 14 (2.33%) Firewall
6 11 (1.83%) BGP
6 11 (1.83%) HTTP
7 10 (1.66%) VPN
8 8 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.16%) VLAN
10 6 (1.00%) LAN
10 6 (1.00%) Network Security
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 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (4.66%) Data Lake
3 25 (4.16%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (3.16%) Apache Arrow
4 19 (3.16%) Apache Iceberg
4 19 (3.16%) Apache Ignite
4 19 (3.16%) Dremio
5 18 (3.00%) DB2
6 12 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.00%) Power BI
6 12 (2.00%) Tableau
7 10 (1.66%) Flink
8 7 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.16%) Metadata
9 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.67%) DataStage
10 4 (0.67%) QlikView
10 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (6.49%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.66%) JIRA
4 4 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.67%) ERwin
4 4 (0.67%) Git
4 4 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 440 (73.21%) Finance
2 175 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 128 (21.30%) Retail
4 115 (19.13%) Financial Institution
5 105 (17.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (17.14%) Law
7 81 (13.48%) Back Office
8 68 (11.31%) Investment Banking
9 47 (7.82%) Front Office
10 32 (5.32%) Games
11 21 (3.49%) Marketing
12 19 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
13 18 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.00%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.83%) Polish Language
16 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.16%) Retail Banking
18 6 (1.00%) International Banking
18 6 (1.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 105 (17.47%) Senior
2 75 (12.48%) Software Engineer
3 47 (7.82%) Analyst
4 44 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
5 43 (7.15%) Lead
6 36 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (5.99%) Developer
6 36 (5.99%) Java Engineer
6 36 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
7 33 (5.49%) Customer Service Advisor
8 32 (5.32%) Architect
8 32 (5.32%) Auditor
9 27 (4.49%) Python Engineer
10 23 (3.83%) Senior Java Engineer
10 23 (3.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 22 (3.66%) Product Owner
12 21 (3.49%) Internal Auditor
13 19 (3.16%) C++ Developer
13 19 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (3.16%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.33%) .NET
2 19 (3.16%) gRPC
2 19 (3.16%) NumPy
2 19 (3.16%) Pandas
2 19 (3.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 19 (3.16%) SciPy
3 17 (2.83%) REST
4 16 (2.66%) Kafka
4 16 (2.66%) LAPP Stack
4 16 (2.66%) LDAP
4 16 (2.66%) WebSphere MQ
5 10 (1.66%) React
5 10 (1.66%) RESTful
6 7 (1.16%) Middleware
6 7 (1.16%) Smart Contracts
6 7 (1.16%) web3js
7 6 (1.00%) CSS
7 6 (1.00%) HTML
7 6 (1.00%) WPF
8 5 (0.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 64 (10.65%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 34 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 34 (5.66%) Hedge funds
5 31 (5.16%) Blog
5 31 (5.16%) Public Cloud
6 28 (4.66%) Derivative
7 27 (4.49%) Credit Risk
7 27 (4.49%) Fixed Income
8 26 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (3.16%) Equities
10 19 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 19 (3.16%) Pricing Data
11 18 (3.00%) FPGA
12 17 (2.83%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.66%) Blockchain
13 16 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.82%) Linux
2 27 (4.49%) Windows
3 19 (3.16%) Unix
4 17 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.16%) Android
5 7 (1.16%) 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
1 106 (17.64%) Software Engineering
2 102 (16.97%) Agile
3 100 (16.64%) Roadmaps
4 87 (14.48%) Risk Management
5 80 (13.31%) CI/CD
5 80 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (12.98%) Information Security
7 77 (12.81%) Risk Assessment
8 73 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (11.81%) Fintech
10 63 (10.48%) Test Automation
11 56 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
11 56 (9.32%) Process Improvement
12 51 (8.49%) Asset Management
13 50 (8.32%) Microservices
14 49 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (8.15%) Customer Service
15 48 (7.99%) DevOps
16 47 (7.82%) Analytics
16 47 (7.82%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 135 (22.46%) Java
2 101 (16.81%) Python
3 39 (6.49%) SQL
4 37 (6.16%) TypeScript
5 33 (5.49%) Go
6 24 (3.99%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.33%) C++
8 19 (3.16%) C
9 15 (2.50%) C#
10 7 (1.16%) Rust
11 5 (0.83%) Bash
12 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.67%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.17%) COBOL
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) R
13 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (11.81%) CISA
2 67 (11.15%) CISSP
3 65 (10.82%) Degree
4 50 (8.32%) CRISC
5 20 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.00%) FFIEC
6 18 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (2.83%) CGEIT
7 17 (2.83%) CISM
7 17 (2.83%) SANS
8 12 (2.00%) ACCA
8 12 (2.00%) OSCP
9 11 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.66%) CREST Certified
10 10 (1.66%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.50%) Security Cleared
12 8 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.00%) CIMA
13 6 (1.00%) PMP
14 5 (0.83%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (12.31%) NIST
2 69 (11.48%) PCI DSS
3 32 (5.32%) GDPR
4 26 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (4.16%) SOC 2
6 23 (3.83%) SLA
7 19 (3.16%) COBIT
8 15 (2.50%) GRC
9 13 (2.16%) QA
10 12 (2.00%) IFRS
11 11 (1.83%) Data Quality
12 6 (1.00%) Basel II
12 6 (1.00%) EMIR
12 6 (1.00%) GAAP
13 5 (0.83%) MiFID
13 5 (0.83%) PMO
14 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.67%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.50%) COREP
15 3 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (1.16%) 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 75 (12.48%) Terraform
2 64 (10.65%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.82%) Grafana
4 16 (2.66%) Ansible
5 10 (1.66%) 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 39 (6.49%) BT
2 37 (6.16%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.33%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.49%) IBM
5 17 (2.83%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.50%) BMC
6 15 (2.50%) Databricks
6 15 (2.50%) Remedy
7 10 (1.66%) Cisco
7 10 (1.66%) Oracle
7 10 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.50%) Google
9 8 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.33%) Informatica
10 5 (0.83%) SAP
10 5 (0.83%) VMware
11 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.67%) Sage
12 3 (0.50%) Ariba
12 3 (0.50%) Murex