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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 46
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 -20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 979 940 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.95% 5.60% 5.16%
As % of the General category 6.44% 7.92% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 401 427 888
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £44,375 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.93% +52.32%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -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 15,208 11,863 13,608
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.36% 70.65% 62.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,139 6,216 7,609
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 9 October 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 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.51%) CMS
3 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.31%) Confluence
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (2.04%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.82%) Actimize
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.20%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.10%) Finacle
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 307 (31.36%) AWS
2 166 (16.96%) GCP
3 150 (15.32%) SaaS
4 81 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
5 77 (7.87%) Azure
6 48 (4.90%) Amazon Bedrock
7 43 (4.39%) Anthropic Claude
8 39 (3.98%) Snowflake
9 23 (2.35%) GitHub
10 17 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 17 (1.74%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (1.63%) OCI
12 13 (1.33%) Serverless
13 12 (1.23%) Datadog
14 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.82%) Amazon S3
16 8 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.92%) Broadband
2 25 (2.55%) HTTP
3 22 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.94%) Firewall
5 17 (1.74%) BGP
5 17 (1.74%) LAN
5 17 (1.74%) VLAN
6 15 (1.53%) WAN
7 13 (1.33%) Network Security
8 11 (1.12%) VPN
9 10 (1.02%) OSPF
10 7 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.61%) MPLS
12 5 (0.51%) DHCP
12 5 (0.51%) DNS
12 5 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.51%) Internet
12 5 (0.51%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (1.43%) Power BI
4 12 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 9 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 7 (0.72%) Metadata
6 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.61%) Tableau
8 4 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.41%) Looker
8 4 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 86 (8.78%) TeamCity
2 43 (4.39%) Claude Code
3 18 (1.84%) JUnit
4 12 (1.23%) Git
5 9 (0.92%) JIRA
6 7 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.41%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.10%) GitLab
8 1 (0.10%) Gradle
8 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.10%) Maven
8 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 719 (73.44%) Finance
2 382 (39.02%) Social Skills
3 248 (25.33%) Retail
4 230 (23.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 216 (22.06%) Law
6 142 (14.50%) Financial Institution
7 140 (14.30%) Back Office
8 70 (7.15%) Legal
9 67 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
10 64 (6.54%) Investment Banking
11 58 (5.92%) Front Office
12 54 (5.52%) Marketing
13 36 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (2.15%) Public Sector
15 20 (2.04%) French Language
15 20 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.84%) Games
16 18 (1.84%) Polish Language
17 16 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (1.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 161 (16.45%) Software Engineer
2 159 (16.24%) Senior
3 145 (14.81%) Lead
4 86 (8.78%) Architect
5 66 (6.74%) Developer
6 58 (5.92%) Java Engineer
7 52 (5.31%) Senior Manager
8 51 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 50 (5.11%) Analyst
10 45 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
11 43 (4.39%) IT Manager
11 43 (4.39%) Software Engineering Manager
11 43 (4.39%) Software Manager
12 41 (4.19%) Senior Java Engineer
13 39 (3.98%) Finance Manager
13 39 (3.98%) Team Leader
14 38 (3.88%) Product Owner
15 37 (3.78%) Enterprise Architect
16 32 (3.27%) Product Manager
17 29 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (12.56%) Terraform
2 52 (5.31%) LangChain
2 52 (5.31%) LangGraph
3 42 (4.29%) REST
4 29 (2.96%) RESTful
4 29 (2.96%) Spring
5 20 (2.04%) OpenAPI
5 20 (2.04%) Swagger
6 18 (1.84%) PyTorch
6 18 (1.84%) React
6 18 (1.84%) scikit-learn
6 18 (1.84%) TensorFlow
7 13 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 13 (1.33%) Dagger
7 13 (1.33%) RxJava
8 12 (1.23%) CrewAI
8 12 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (1.23%) pydantic
8 12 (1.23%) XML
9 10 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 196 (20.02%) Product Ownership
2 149 (15.22%) Cloud Native
3 58 (5.92%) Hedge funds
4 57 (5.82%) AI Agents
5 49 (5.01%) Public Cloud
6 46 (4.70%) Web Conferencing
7 41 (4.19%) Podcast
8 39 (3.98%) Blog
9 27 (2.76%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.45%) Derivative
10 24 (2.45%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.15%) Social Media
13 19 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.74%) Security Posture
15 16 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
16 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
17 14 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 13 (1.33%) Credit Risk
18 13 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.96%) Apple iOS
1 29 (2.96%) Linux
2 28 (2.86%) Android
3 14 (1.43%) Windows
4 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.10%) AIX
6 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.10%) Solaris
6 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (25.74%) Software Engineering
2 233 (23.80%) Roadmaps
3 170 (17.36%) Fintech
4 160 (16.34%) AI
5 152 (15.53%) CI/CD
6 135 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 116 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 115 (11.75%) Disruptive Innovation
9 104 (10.62%) Coaching
10 96 (9.81%) Machine Learning
11 93 (9.50%) Mentoring
12 92 (9.40%) Clean Code
13 91 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
14 86 (8.78%) Data Science
15 83 (8.48%) Agile
15 83 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
16 81 (8.27%) Product Roadmap
17 79 (8.07%) Microservices
18 77 (7.87%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 238 (24.31%) Java
2 147 (15.02%) Python
3 65 (6.64%) SQL
4 34 (3.47%) Go
5 26 (2.66%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.15%) Kotlin
7 20 (2.04%) R
8 19 (1.94%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.63%) Bash
9 16 (1.63%) C++
10 13 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.02%) Rust
12 7 (0.72%) C
13 5 (0.51%) C#
13 5 (0.51%) VBA
14 4 (0.41%) Bicep
15 1 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.10%) Scala
15 1 (0.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (2.25%) Degree
2 17 (1.74%) CISSP
3 15 (1.53%) CISM
4 11 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 11 (1.12%) CISA
5 10 (1.02%) ACCA
6 9 (0.92%) CRISC
7 8 (0.82%) CREST Certified
7 8 (0.82%) OSCP
8 7 (0.72%) CIMA
8 7 (0.72%) ISACA
8 7 (0.72%) Security Cleared
9 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.51%) GCFA
10 5 (0.51%) GIAC
10 5 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.41%) CEH
11 4 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.03%) QA
2 27 (2.76%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.76%) PCI DSS
3 25 (2.55%) COBIT
4 24 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.35%) NIST
6 21 (2.15%) GDPR
7 20 (2.04%) Data Quality
8 17 (1.74%) SOC 2
9 14 (1.43%) GRC
10 9 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.82%) SOC 1
12 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.72%) FINREP
13 6 (0.61%) EMIR
13 6 (0.61%) MiFID
14 5 (0.51%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.41%) COREP
15 4 (0.41%) SLA
16 3 (0.31%) Basel III
System Software
1 13 (1.33%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 111 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 100 (10.21%) Grafana
3 21 (2.15%) Ansible
4 14 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (5.92%) BT
2 43 (4.39%) Oracle
3 42 (4.29%) Databricks
4 40 (4.09%) ServiceNow
5 35 (3.58%) Google
6 30 (3.06%) Microsoft
7 22 (2.25%) BMC
8 20 (2.04%) Remedy
9 16 (1.63%) Cisco
10 10 (1.02%) FIS
10 10 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.02%) Splunk
11 9 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.92%) SunGard
12 8 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.82%) VMware
13 6 (0.61%) Xero
14 4 (0.41%) Apple
14 4 (0.41%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.41%) HubSpot