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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 32 61
Rank change year-on-year -25 +29 -37
Permanent jobs citing Banking 657 1,089 1,433
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 8.07% 4.77%
As % of the General category 6.82% 11.27% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 331 875 1,168
10th Percentile £42,000 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £45,000 £58,495
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% +5.08% +7.76%
75th Percentile £127,500 £102,410 £97,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £137,624
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.74% +6.18%

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 9,632 9,664 18,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.12% 71.63% 61.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,189 6,267 14,717
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,780
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 18 March 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 19 (2.89%) SAS
2 8 (1.22%) Confluence
3 7 (1.07%) Tomcat
3 7 (1.07%) WebSphere
3 7 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.76%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.61%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
1 10 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.61%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.61%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.30%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.15%) Actimize
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 179 (27.25%) AWS
2 132 (20.09%) SaaS
3 100 (15.22%) GCP
4 77 (11.72%) Amazon EKS
5 61 (9.28%) Azure
6 30 (4.57%) GitHub
7 15 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 12 (1.83%) Snowflake
10 11 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.52%) Azure Event Grid
11 10 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.22%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.22%) dbt
12 8 (1.22%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.22%) Route 53
12 8 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.96%) Broadband
1 26 (3.96%) TCP/IP
2 24 (3.65%) CHAP
3 22 (3.35%) Firewall
4 13 (1.98%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.83%) BGP
5 12 (1.83%) HTTP
5 12 (1.83%) LAN
5 12 (1.83%) VPN
5 12 (1.83%) WAN
6 11 (1.67%) VLAN
7 7 (1.07%) SSL
8 6 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (0.91%) Network Security
9 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.61%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.61%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.61%) WebEx
9 4 (0.61%) WLAN
10 1 (0.15%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.13%) Power BI
3 14 (2.13%) Tableau
4 13 (1.98%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.52%) DB2
5 10 (1.52%) Flink
6 8 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.91%) Metadata
9 4 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.61%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (0.61%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.61%) DataStage
9 4 (0.61%) Dremio
9 4 (0.61%) QlikView
9 4 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (8.22%) TeamCity
2 12 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.52%) JIRA
4 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.61%) ERwin
4 4 (0.61%) Git
4 4 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.15%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 492 (74.89%) Finance
2 223 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 186 (28.31%) Retail
4 161 (24.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (23.44%) Law
6 150 (22.83%) Financial Institution
7 120 (18.26%) Back Office
8 52 (7.91%) Investment Banking
9 40 (6.09%) Marketing
10 37 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
11 33 (5.02%) Front Office
12 25 (3.81%) Games
13 19 (2.89%) Public Sector
14 16 (2.44%) Polish Language
15 15 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.98%) Legal
16 13 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (1.37%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 101 (15.37%) Senior
2 79 (12.02%) Software Engineer
3 67 (10.20%) Analyst
4 57 (8.68%) Lead
5 40 (6.09%) Developer
6 38 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
7 37 (5.63%) Auditor
8 33 (5.02%) Architect
9 30 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
9 30 (4.57%) Product Owner
10 25 (3.81%) Customer Service Advisor
10 25 (3.81%) Java Engineer
10 25 (3.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 23 (3.50%) Internal Auditor
11 23 (3.50%) Security Auditor
12 22 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.04%) Business Analyst
13 20 (3.04%) C++ Developer
14 19 (2.89%) Consultant
14 19 (2.89%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.65%) Kafka
2 23 (3.50%) .NET
3 22 (3.35%) REST
4 14 (2.13%) React
5 13 (1.98%) RESTful
6 8 (1.22%) Middleware
7 7 (1.07%) CSS
7 7 (1.07%) HTML
7 7 (1.07%) LAPP Stack
7 7 (1.07%) LDAP
7 7 (1.07%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.07%) Sass
7 7 (1.07%) Swagger
7 7 (1.07%) WebSphere MQ
7 7 (1.07%) WPF
8 5 (0.76%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.76%) Next.js
8 5 (0.76%) Smart Contracts
8 5 (0.76%) web3js
9 4 (0.61%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 104 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.55%) Product Ownership
3 51 (7.76%) Management Information System
4 40 (6.09%) Blog
5 35 (5.33%) Data Centre
6 30 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (4.26%) Credit Risk
7 28 (4.26%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.04%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.89%) FPGA
10 19 (2.89%) Security Posture
11 18 (2.74%) Blockchain
11 18 (2.74%) Hedge funds
12 15 (2.28%) Market Risk
13 13 (1.98%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.83%) Derivative
15 7 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.39%) Linux
2 22 (3.35%) Windows
3 11 (1.67%) Android
3 11 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 11 (1.67%) Unix
4 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (18.42%) Agile
2 119 (18.11%) Roadmaps
3 111 (16.89%) Software Engineering
4 102 (15.53%) Risk Management
5 98 (14.92%) Fintech
5 98 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 95 (14.46%) CI/CD
7 91 (13.85%) Information Security
8 90 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (13.24%) Test Automation
10 86 (13.09%) Risk Assessment
11 70 (10.65%) DevOps
12 65 (9.89%) Microservices
13 62 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (8.83%) Process Improvement
15 55 (8.37%) Analytics
15 55 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (8.22%) Product Roadmap
17 53 (8.07%) Clean Code
18 52 (7.91%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 137 (20.85%) Java
2 90 (13.70%) Python
3 41 (6.24%) Go
3 41 (6.24%) SQL
4 24 (3.65%) TypeScript
5 21 (3.20%) C++
6 20 (3.04%) C
7 13 (1.98%) C#
7 13 (1.98%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.76%) Bash
8 5 (0.76%) Rust
9 4 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.46%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.46%) R
11 1 (0.15%) COBOL
11 1 (0.15%) Cypher
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) RPG
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (11.57%) CISA
1 76 (11.57%) CISSP
2 75 (11.42%) Degree
3 52 (7.91%) CRISC
4 25 (3.81%) FFIEC
5 24 (3.65%) CGEIT
5 24 (3.65%) CISM
5 24 (3.65%) SANS
6 20 (3.04%) ACCA
7 15 (2.28%) OSCP
8 14 (2.13%) CIMA
9 13 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.98%) CREST Certified
10 11 (1.67%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.52%) Security Cleared
12 9 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.22%) PMI Certification
14 7 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.87%) NIST
2 74 (11.26%) PCI DSS
3 33 (5.02%) GDPR
4 31 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (4.57%) SOC 2
6 24 (3.65%) COBIT
7 22 (3.35%) GRC
8 16 (2.44%) IFRS
9 14 (2.13%) SLA
10 11 (1.67%) Data Quality
10 11 (1.67%) QA
11 10 (1.52%) GAAP
12 8 (1.22%) COREP
13 7 (1.07%) EMIR
14 6 (0.91%) Basel II
14 6 (0.91%) MiFID
15 5 (0.76%) FINREP
15 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.61%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 15 (2.28%) Docker
2 10 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.76%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.76%) vSphere
5 4 (0.61%) Firmware
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 104 (15.83%) Terraform
2 89 (13.55%) Kubernetes
3 56 (8.52%) Grafana
4 16 (2.44%) Ansible
5 10 (1.52%) Argo
6 8 (1.22%) Istio
7 4 (0.61%) Cilium
7 4 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (4.57%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.96%) BT
3 23 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.04%) Oracle
5 17 (2.59%) Cisco
6 15 (2.28%) Databricks
7 13 (1.98%) IBM
8 12 (1.83%) Google
9 10 (1.52%) BMC
9 10 (1.52%) Informatica
9 10 (1.52%) Remedy
9 10 (1.52%) VMware
10 9 (1.37%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.22%) Confluent
11 8 (1.22%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.91%) SAP
13 6 (0.91%) Splunk