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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 22 63
Rank change year-on-year -43 +41 -40
Permanent jobs citing Banking 800 1,447 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.77% 8.82% 4.02%
As % of the General category 6.34% 12.14% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 336 830 1,078
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £25,313 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £77,500 £100,094
Median % change year-on-year +14.52% -22.57% +41.82%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +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 12,617 11,921 20,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.51% 72.66% 61.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,220 6,677 14,546
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,266
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +7.21% -11.20%
75th Percentile £79,127 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 9 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 8 (1.00%) SAS
2 7 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.25%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (1.13%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 225 (28.13%) AWS
2 137 (17.13%) SaaS
3 118 (14.75%) GCP
4 78 (9.75%) Azure
5 72 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.38%) OCI
7 13 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.63%) Power Platform
7 13 (1.63%) Snowflake
8 11 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.25%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.25%) dbt
10 9 (1.13%) GitHub
11 8 (1.00%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.00%) Figma
11 8 (1.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (1.00%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.75%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.63%) TCP/IP
2 28 (3.50%) HTTP
3 24 (3.00%) Broadband
3 24 (3.00%) Firewall
4 18 (2.25%) LAN
4 18 (2.25%) WAN
5 15 (1.88%) CHAP
6 13 (1.63%) VLAN
7 12 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (1.38%) Cisco Firepower
8 11 (1.38%) Network Security
9 10 (1.25%) BGP
10 9 (1.13%) Unified Communications
10 9 (1.13%) WebEx
11 8 (1.00%) VPN
12 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.50%) DHCP
13 4 (0.50%) DNS
13 4 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.25%) Power BI
5 9 (1.13%) Looker
6 8 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.88%) Tableau
8 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.50%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.50%) SAS EBI
10 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.25%) Db2
11 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.25%) Metadata
12 1 (0.13%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.13%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 59 (7.38%) TeamCity
2 5 (0.63%) Git
3 4 (0.50%) JIRA
3 4 (0.50%) JUnit
4 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.13%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.13%) Maven
5 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 663 (82.88%) Finance
2 318 (39.75%) Social Skills
3 199 (24.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 197 (24.63%) Retail
5 173 (21.63%) Law
6 141 (17.63%) Financial Institution
7 127 (15.88%) Back Office
8 68 (8.50%) Investment Banking
9 62 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
10 60 (7.50%) Legal
11 53 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (5.50%) Marketing
13 28 (3.50%) Front Office
14 24 (3.00%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.63%) Polish Language
15 21 (2.63%) Telecoms
16 18 (2.25%) Games
17 14 (1.75%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.38%) German Language
Job Titles
1 126 (15.75%) Senior
2 114 (14.25%) Software Engineer
3 94 (11.75%) Lead
4 65 (8.13%) Analyst
5 55 (6.88%) Developer
6 48 (6.00%) Product Manager
7 44 (5.50%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.75%) Engineering Manager
8 38 (4.75%) Lead Software Engineer
9 37 (4.63%) Software Manager
10 36 (4.50%) Software Engineering Manager
11 35 (4.38%) Product Owner
12 34 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (3.88%) Development Engineer
13 31 (3.88%) Software Development Engineer
14 29 (3.63%) Architect
15 25 (3.13%) Java Engineer
16 24 (3.00%) Consultant
17 22 (2.75%) Data Scientist
18 20 (2.50%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.63%) REST
2 25 (3.13%) React
3 24 (3.00%) Spring
4 14 (1.75%) Kafka
5 13 (1.63%) .NET
6 12 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 11 (1.38%) LangChain
7 11 (1.38%) LangGraph
7 11 (1.38%) RESTful
8 9 (1.13%) PyTorch
8 9 (1.13%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.13%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.13%) XMPP
9 8 (1.00%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.00%) OpenAPI
9 8 (1.00%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.00%) Swagger
10 7 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.88%) Node.js
11 6 (0.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 161 (20.13%) Product Ownership
2 136 (17.00%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 42 (5.25%) Blog
6 39 (4.88%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (4.00%) Podcast
8 23 (2.88%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.63%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (2.25%) Credit Risk
10 18 (2.25%) Fixed Income
11 17 (2.13%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.13%) FPGA
12 15 (1.88%) Derivative
13 13 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.50%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.38%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.75%) Linux
2 23 (2.88%) Windows
3 12 (1.50%) Android
3 12 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.13%) Unix
5 2 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (25.25%) Roadmaps
2 186 (23.25%) Software Engineering
3 139 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (17.13%) Agile
5 133 (16.63%) Fintech
6 117 (14.63%) Test Automation
7 106 (13.25%) CI/CD
8 88 (11.00%) Product Roadmap
9 81 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (9.88%) Coaching
11 78 (9.75%) AI
12 77 (9.63%) Risk Management
12 77 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
13 73 (9.13%) Microservices
14 72 (9.00%) DevOps
15 71 (8.88%) Mentoring
16 69 (8.63%) Analytics
17 65 (8.13%) Clean Code
17 65 (8.13%) Deployment Automation
18 64 (8.00%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 176 (22.00%) Java
2 107 (13.38%) Python
3 62 (7.75%) SQL
4 30 (3.75%) Go
5 26 (3.25%) C++
6 24 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.63%) C
9 14 (1.75%) C#
10 10 (1.25%) R
11 9 (1.13%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.88%) Rust
13 5 (0.63%) VBA
14 4 (0.50%) Bash
15 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.38%) Perl
15 3 (0.38%) Ruby
16 1 (0.13%) Cypher
16 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 62 (7.75%) Degree
2 35 (4.38%) CISSP
3 29 (3.63%) CISA
3 29 (3.63%) CISM
4 28 (3.50%) ACCA
5 24 (3.00%) CIMA
6 16 (2.00%) CREST Certified
6 16 (2.00%) OSCP
7 15 (1.88%) CGEIT
7 15 (1.88%) FFIEC
7 15 (1.88%) SANS
8 13 (1.63%) CRISC
9 11 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.25%) Security Cleared
11 9 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.00%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.88%) ISACA
14 6 (0.75%) CCNP
14 6 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.75%) QA
2 35 (4.38%) NIST
3 30 (3.75%) GDPR
4 29 (3.63%) PCI DSS
5 28 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (3.25%) COBIT
7 24 (3.00%) SOC 2
8 18 (2.25%) Data Quality
9 16 (2.00%) GRC
10 14 (1.75%) COREP
10 14 (1.75%) FINREP
11 13 (1.63%) EMIR
11 13 (1.63%) MiFID
12 8 (1.00%) IFRS
13 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.88%) SOC 1
14 6 (0.75%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.63%) PMO
16 4 (0.50%) GAAP
16 4 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (1.63%) Docker
3 10 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 100 (12.50%) Terraform
2 87 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 72 (9.00%) Grafana
4 17 (2.13%) Ansible
5 9 (1.13%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.00%) Istio
7 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.38%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.25%) 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
Vendors
1 60 (7.50%) Oracle
2 50 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.25%) ServiceNow
4 24 (3.00%) BT
5 21 (2.63%) Cisco
6 17 (2.13%) BMC
6 17 (2.13%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.88%) Fortinet
7 15 (1.88%) VMware
8 14 (1.75%) Databricks
8 14 (1.75%) Remedy
9 13 (1.63%) Splunk
10 9 (1.13%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.00%) Confluent
12 6 (0.75%) FIS
12 6 (0.75%) NetApp
12 6 (0.75%) SAP
12 6 (0.75%) Workday
13 5 (0.63%) Google
13 5 (0.63%) SunGard