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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 46 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 -18
Permanent jobs citing Banking 996 924 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.99% 5.60% 5.21%
As % of the General category 6.47% 7.91% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 405 419 879
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £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 15,404 11,680 13,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.64% 70.80% 63.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,227 6,151 7,424
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,908 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.80% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
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

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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 13 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 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.50%) CMS
3 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.30%) Confluence
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.01%) Oracle ERP
1 20 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 19 (1.91%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (0.80%) Actimize
3 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.30%) 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
1 319 (32.03%) AWS
2 175 (17.57%) GCP
3 154 (15.46%) SaaS
4 86 (8.63%) Amazon EKS
5 84 (8.43%) Azure
6 51 (5.12%) Amazon Bedrock
7 43 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
8 39 (3.92%) Snowflake
9 23 (2.31%) GitHub
10 17 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 17 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (1.71%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.41%) OCI
12 12 (1.20%) Datadog
12 12 (1.20%) Serverless
13 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.90%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.82%) Broadband
2 26 (2.61%) HTTP
3 25 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.11%) VLAN
5 20 (2.01%) BGP
5 20 (2.01%) Firewall
6 18 (1.81%) LAN
7 16 (1.61%) WAN
8 14 (1.41%) VPN
9 13 (1.31%) Network Security
10 10 (1.00%) OSPF
11 7 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
12 6 (0.60%) MPLS
13 5 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.50%) DHCP
13 5 (0.50%) DNS
13 5 (0.50%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (1.41%) Power BI
5 12 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.70%) Metadata
8 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.60%) Tableau
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.40%) Looker
10 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.30%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 92 (9.24%) TeamCity
2 43 (4.32%) Claude Code
3 19 (1.91%) JUnit
4 12 (1.20%) Git
5 9 (0.90%) JIRA
6 8 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.50%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.20%) Gradle
10 1 (0.10%) GitLab
10 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.10%) Maven
10 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 729 (73.19%) Finance
2 386 (38.76%) Social Skills
3 255 (25.60%) Retail
4 237 (23.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 223 (22.39%) Law
6 146 (14.66%) Financial Institution
7 142 (14.26%) Back Office
8 69 (6.93%) Legal
9 66 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
10 65 (6.53%) Investment Banking
11 61 (6.12%) Front Office
12 57 (5.72%) Marketing
13 35 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (2.21%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.11%) Telecoms
16 20 (2.01%) French Language
16 20 (2.01%) Retail Banking
17 18 (1.81%) Games
17 18 (1.81%) Polish Language
18 17 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (17.57%) Software Engineer
2 160 (16.06%) Senior
3 148 (14.86%) Lead
4 87 (8.73%) Architect
5 69 (6.93%) Developer
6 60 (6.02%) Java Engineer
7 54 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
8 51 (5.12%) Analyst
8 51 (5.12%) Senior Manager
9 44 (4.42%) Engineering Manager
9 44 (4.42%) IT Manager
9 44 (4.42%) Senior Java Engineer
10 42 (4.22%) Software Engineering Manager
10 42 (4.22%) Software Manager
11 39 (3.92%) Finance Manager
11 39 (3.92%) Product Owner
11 39 (3.92%) Team Leader
12 37 (3.71%) Enterprise Architect
13 30 (3.01%) Product Manager
14 29 (2.91%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (13.05%) Terraform
2 55 (5.52%) LangChain
2 55 (5.52%) LangGraph
3 43 (4.32%) REST
4 32 (3.21%) RESTful
5 29 (2.91%) Spring
6 20 (2.01%) OpenAPI
6 20 (2.01%) Swagger
7 18 (1.81%) PyTorch
7 18 (1.81%) React
7 18 (1.81%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.81%) TensorFlow
8 15 (1.51%) CrewAI
8 15 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (1.51%) pydantic
9 13 (1.31%) AngularJS
9 13 (1.31%) Dagger
9 13 (1.31%) RxJava
10 12 (1.20%) XML
11 10 (1.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 198 (19.88%) Product Ownership
2 152 (15.26%) Cloud Native
3 61 (6.12%) Hedge funds
4 60 (6.02%) AI Agents
5 52 (5.22%) Public Cloud
6 46 (4.62%) Web Conferencing
7 43 (4.32%) Blog
8 41 (4.12%) Podcast
9 27 (2.71%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.41%) Derivative
11 23 (2.31%) Management Information System
12 22 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (2.21%) Social Media
13 21 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.81%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
16 16 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
16 16 (1.61%) Onboarding
17 14 (1.41%) Credit Risk
18 13 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.01%) Linux
2 29 (2.91%) Apple iOS
3 28 (2.81%) Android
4 15 (1.51%) Windows
5 6 (0.60%) macOS
6 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (26.61%) Software Engineering
2 235 (23.59%) Roadmaps
3 177 (17.77%) Fintech
4 166 (16.67%) AI
5 156 (15.66%) CI/CD
6 143 (14.36%) Test Automation
7 138 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (12.15%) Disruptive Innovation
9 118 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 105 (10.54%) Coaching
11 99 (9.94%) Machine Learning
12 98 (9.84%) Clean Code
13 94 (9.44%) Deployment Automation
13 94 (9.44%) Mentoring
14 89 (8.94%) Data Science
15 84 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
16 80 (8.03%) Agile
16 80 (8.03%) Product Roadmap
17 79 (7.93%) Microservices
18 77 (7.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 251 (25.20%) Java
2 156 (15.66%) Python
3 67 (6.73%) SQL
4 39 (3.92%) Go
5 29 (2.91%) TypeScript
6 26 (2.61%) Kotlin
7 23 (2.31%) R
8 19 (1.91%) Bash
9 18 (1.81%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.61%) C++
11 13 (1.31%) Rust
12 12 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.70%) C
14 5 (0.50%) C#
14 5 (0.50%) VBA
15 4 (0.40%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) Swift
17 1 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (2.21%) Degree
2 15 (1.51%) CISSP
3 14 (1.41%) Azure Certification
4 13 (1.31%) CISM
5 10 (1.00%) ACCA
5 10 (1.00%) CISA
6 8 (0.80%) CRISC
7 7 (0.70%) CIMA
7 7 (0.70%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.60%) CREST Certified
8 6 (0.60%) GCFA
8 6 (0.60%) GIAC
8 6 (0.60%) ISACA
8 6 (0.60%) OSCP
9 5 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.40%) CCNP
10 4 (0.40%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.92%) QA
2 29 (2.91%) PCI DSS
3 27 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.51%) COBIT
4 25 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.11%) NIST
6 20 (2.01%) GDPR
7 19 (1.91%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.91%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.41%) GRC
9 10 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.70%) FINREP
10 7 (0.70%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.60%) EMIR
11 6 (0.60%) MiFID
12 5 (0.50%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.40%) COREP
13 4 (0.40%) SLA
14 3 (0.30%) Basel III
System Software
1 15 (1.51%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 107 (10.74%) Grafana
3 22 (2.21%) Ansible
4 17 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.30%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (5.82%) BT
2 45 (4.52%) Google
3 42 (4.22%) Databricks
4 40 (4.02%) Oracle
5 39 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.91%) Microsoft
7 22 (2.21%) BMC
8 21 (2.11%) Remedy
9 17 (1.71%) Cisco
10 12 (1.20%) Splunk
11 11 (1.10%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.00%) FIS
13 9 (0.90%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.90%) SunGard
13 9 (0.90%) VMware
14 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.60%) Xero
16 4 (0.40%) Apple
16 4 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
16 4 (0.40%) HubSpot