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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -46 +20 -23
Permanent jobs citing Banking 815 1,273 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.57% 7.68% 4.81%
As % of the General category 5.94% 10.67% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 347 670 979
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £62,421
25th Percentile £56,500 £25,313 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -27.27% +49.76%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% -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 13,717 11,931 15,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.13% 72.01% 61.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,661 6,610 10,122
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 15 August 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 11 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.49%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.68%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Finacle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 235 (28.83%) AWS
2 104 (12.76%) GCP
3 98 (12.02%) SaaS
4 85 (10.43%) Azure
5 52 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (3.44%) Snowflake
7 19 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.21%) Amazon Bedrock
8 18 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.21%) OCI
9 16 (1.96%) GitHub
10 14 (1.72%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.23%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
13 10 (1.23%) Serverless
14 9 (1.10%) Datadog
15 8 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.40%) Broadband
2 31 (3.80%) HTTP
3 26 (3.19%) Firewall
4 22 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.58%) LAN
5 21 (2.58%) WAN
6 13 (1.60%) Network Security
6 13 (1.60%) VLAN
7 12 (1.47%) Cisco Firepower
8 11 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (1.23%) Unified Communications
9 10 (1.23%) WebEx
10 8 (0.98%) CHAP
11 7 (0.86%) BGP
12 6 (0.74%) MPLS
12 6 (0.74%) OSPF
12 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (0.61%) VPN
14 4 (0.49%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.35%) Power BI
5 9 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.86%) Looker
7 6 (0.74%) DynamoDB
7 6 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.61%) Tableau
9 4 (0.49%) Metadata
10 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.25%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.40%) TeamCity
2 18 (2.21%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.98%) Git
4 6 (0.74%) JIRA
5 5 (0.61%) JUnit
6 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 655 (80.37%) Finance
2 312 (38.28%) Social Skills
3 158 (19.39%) Retail
4 144 (17.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (15.58%) Law
6 96 (11.78%) Financial Institution
7 91 (11.17%) Back Office
8 67 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (8.22%) Investment Banking
9 63 (7.73%) Legal
10 46 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
11 45 (5.52%) Marketing
12 36 (4.42%) Front Office
13 25 (3.07%) Public Sector
14 24 (2.94%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.33%) Games
16 12 (1.47%) Polish Language
17 10 (1.23%) German Language
17 10 (1.23%) Italian Language
17 10 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (15.09%) Senior
2 111 (13.62%) Software Engineer
3 96 (11.78%) Lead
4 58 (7.12%) Analyst
5 52 (6.38%) Senior Manager
6 51 (6.26%) Developer
7 45 (5.52%) Architect
8 44 (5.40%) Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.15%) Software Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.15%) Software Manager
10 39 (4.79%) Product Manager
11 36 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 34 (4.17%) Development Engineer
12 34 (4.17%) Software Development Engineer
13 27 (3.31%) IT Manager
13 27 (3.31%) Product Owner
14 26 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (2.94%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.45%) Digital Product Manager
16 20 (2.45%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.26%) REST
2 29 (3.56%) Spring
3 28 (3.44%) LangChain
3 28 (3.44%) LangGraph
4 23 (2.82%) React
5 14 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 12 (1.47%) Kafka
6 12 (1.47%) Node.js
6 12 (1.47%) RESTful
6 12 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.35%) PyTorch
7 11 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.35%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (1.23%) XMPP
9 9 (1.10%) OpenAPI
9 9 (1.10%) Swagger
10 8 (0.98%) AWS CDK
11 7 (0.86%) .NET
12 6 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 153 (18.77%) Product Ownership
2 110 (13.50%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.75%) Public Cloud
4 39 (4.79%) Web Conferencing
5 35 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 34 (4.17%) Podcast
7 27 (3.31%) AI Agents
8 25 (3.07%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.70%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 20 (2.45%) Blog
12 17 (2.09%) Derivative
12 17 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.84%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.60%) FPGA
15 12 (1.47%) Credit Risk
15 12 (1.47%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.40%) Linux
2 24 (2.94%) Windows
3 13 (1.60%) Android
3 13 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (28.59%) Roadmaps
2 191 (23.44%) Software Engineering
3 135 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (14.72%) Agile
5 109 (13.37%) Fintech
6 107 (13.13%) AI
7 99 (12.15%) CI/CD
7 99 (12.15%) Test Automation
8 86 (10.55%) Product Roadmap
9 85 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
10 83 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (9.45%) Coaching
12 76 (9.33%) Mentoring
13 75 (9.20%) DevOps
14 70 (8.59%) Machine Learning
15 65 (7.98%) Risk Management
16 63 (7.73%) Analytics
17 62 (7.61%) ITIL
18 60 (7.36%) Microservices
19 56 (6.87%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (19.26%) Java
2 108 (13.25%) Python
3 65 (7.98%) SQL
4 26 (3.19%) C++
5 25 (3.07%) Go
6 23 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.09%) C
8 15 (1.84%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.10%) R
10 8 (0.98%) C#
10 8 (0.98%) Rust
11 5 (0.61%) Bash
11 5 (0.61%) VBA
12 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.37%) Bicep
13 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.37%) Perl
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 39 (4.79%) Degree
2 26 (3.19%) ACCA
3 24 (2.94%) CIMA
3 24 (2.94%) CISSP
4 22 (2.70%) CISM
5 18 (2.21%) CISA
6 10 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.23%) CREST Certified
6 10 (1.23%) OSCP
7 9 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.10%) CRISC
8 8 (0.98%) CGEIT
8 8 (0.98%) FFIEC
8 8 (0.98%) SANS
9 7 (0.86%) ISACA
10 6 (0.74%) CCNP
10 6 (0.74%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.61%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.49%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.77%) QA
2 28 (3.44%) NIST
3 26 (3.19%) GDPR
4 25 (3.07%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.45%) COBIT
6 19 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (2.09%) FINREP
7 17 (2.09%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.84%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.72%) COREP
10 11 (1.35%) EMIR
10 11 (1.35%) MiFID
11 10 (1.23%) GRC
11 10 (1.23%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.86%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.61%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.61%) IFRS
14 4 (0.49%) PMO
15 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (1.84%) Docker
3 9 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 7 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.86%) vSphere
6 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 84 (10.31%) Terraform
2 68 (8.34%) Kubernetes
3 60 (7.36%) Grafana
4 23 (2.82%) Ansible
5 10 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (0.98%) Istio
7 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.50%) Oracle
3 44 (5.40%) BT
4 36 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.80%) Databricks
6 23 (2.82%) BMC
7 22 (2.70%) Cisco
8 20 (2.45%) Remedy
9 18 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.96%) Fortinet
11 14 (1.72%) Splunk
11 14 (1.72%) VMware
12 11 (1.35%) FIS
13 9 (1.10%) SunGard
14 8 (0.98%) Confluent
14 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.86%) CheckPoint
15 7 (0.86%) NetApp
16 6 (0.74%) Workday
17 5 (0.61%) Okta