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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 27 48
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 -22
Permanent jobs citing Banking 837 1,238 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.66% 7.51% 4.79%
As % of the General category 6.07% 10.46% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 357 634 978
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £62,105
25th Percentile £55,000 £25,313 £82,682
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,288 £111,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% -25.13% +51.41%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,750 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% -7.78% +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 13,791 11,833 15,151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.24% 71.76% 61.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,701 6,558 10,031
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,869 £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 £54,266 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -1.33% -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 19 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 12 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.48%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.58%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.24%) 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
1 247 (29.51%) AWS
2 111 (13.26%) GCP
3 105 (12.54%) SaaS
4 83 (9.92%) Azure
5 56 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (3.94%) Snowflake
7 21 (2.51%) Amazon Bedrock
7 21 (2.51%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.15%) OCI
9 16 (1.91%) GitHub
10 15 (1.79%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
12 12 (1.43%) Serverless
13 11 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.19%) Azure AI
14 10 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
15 9 (1.08%) Datadog
16 8 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.73%) Broadband
2 31 (3.70%) HTTP
3 24 (2.87%) Firewall
4 21 (2.51%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.27%) LAN
5 19 (2.27%) WAN
6 13 (1.55%) Network Security
7 12 (1.43%) VLAN
8 10 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.08%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.08%) WebEx
10 8 (0.96%) CHAP
11 7 (0.84%) BGP
12 6 (0.72%) MPLS
12 6 (0.72%) OSPF
12 6 (0.72%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.48%) DNS
13 4 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.43%) Power BI
6 11 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.84%) DynamoDB
7 7 (0.84%) Looker
8 6 (0.72%) Metadata
8 6 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.72%) Tableau
9 5 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.36%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (5.73%) TeamCity
2 21 (2.51%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.96%) Git
4 5 (0.60%) JIRA
4 5 (0.60%) JUnit
5 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.12%) Maven
6 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 674 (80.53%) Finance
2 320 (38.23%) Social Skills
3 167 (19.95%) Retail
4 154 (18.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 138 (16.49%) Law
6 103 (12.31%) Financial Institution
7 99 (11.83%) Back Office
8 68 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
8 68 (8.12%) Legal
9 66 (7.89%) Investment Banking
10 46 (5.50%) Marketing
10 46 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (4.30%) Front Office
12 24 (2.87%) Public Sector
13 23 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.15%) Games
15 13 (1.55%) Polish Language
16 11 (1.31%) German Language
16 11 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (15.05%) Senior
2 114 (13.62%) Software Engineer
3 98 (11.71%) Lead
4 59 (7.05%) Analyst
5 52 (6.21%) Senior Manager
6 51 (6.09%) Architect
7 48 (5.73%) Developer
8 44 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.02%) Software Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.02%) Software Manager
10 39 (4.66%) Product Manager
11 38 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
12 34 (4.06%) Development Engineer
12 34 (4.06%) Software Development Engineer
13 27 (3.23%) IT Manager
13 27 (3.23%) Product Owner
14 26 (3.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (2.99%) Data Scientist
16 22 (2.63%) Finance Manager
17 21 (2.51%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.09%) REST
2 31 (3.70%) LangChain
2 31 (3.70%) LangGraph
3 29 (3.46%) Spring
4 23 (2.75%) React
5 14 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 13 (1.55%) RESTful
7 12 (1.43%) Kafka
7 12 (1.43%) Node.js
7 12 (1.43%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.31%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.31%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.31%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.19%) OpenAPI
9 10 (1.19%) Swagger
10 9 (1.08%) XMPP
11 8 (0.96%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.72%) Pandas
12 6 (0.72%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 157 (18.76%) Product Ownership
2 118 (14.10%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.57%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.14%) Web Conferencing
5 38 (4.54%) Podcast
6 36 (4.30%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.58%) AI Agents
8 28 (3.35%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.63%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.51%) Blog
10 21 (2.51%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.03%) Derivative
11 17 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (1.79%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.55%) Credit Risk
13 13 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.43%) FPGA
15 11 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.02%) Linux
2 23 (2.75%) Windows
3 14 (1.67%) Android
3 14 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (28.20%) Roadmaps
2 194 (23.18%) Software Engineering
3 138 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (14.58%) Agile
5 116 (13.86%) Fintech
6 111 (13.26%) AI
7 105 (12.54%) CI/CD
8 103 (12.31%) Test Automation
9 87 (10.39%) Product Roadmap
10 86 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
12 80 (9.56%) Coaching
12 80 (9.56%) Mentoring
13 78 (9.32%) DevOps
14 75 (8.96%) Machine Learning
15 66 (7.89%) Analytics
16 64 (7.65%) Risk Management
17 63 (7.53%) Microservices
18 62 (7.41%) ITIL
19 60 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (19.35%) Java
2 109 (13.02%) Python
3 68 (8.12%) SQL
4 26 (3.11%) Go
5 25 (2.99%) C++
6 23 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.75%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.91%) C
8 15 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.08%) R
10 8 (0.96%) Rust
11 7 (0.84%) C#
12 5 (0.60%) Bash
12 5 (0.60%) VBA
13 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.36%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.36%) Perl
14 3 (0.36%) Ruby
15 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (4.54%) Degree
2 26 (3.11%) ACCA
3 24 (2.87%) CIMA
3 24 (2.87%) CISSP
4 22 (2.63%) CISM
5 18 (2.15%) CISA
6 11 (1.31%) CREST Certified
6 11 (1.31%) OSCP
7 10 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.08%) CRISC
9 8 (0.96%) CGEIT
9 8 (0.96%) FFIEC
9 8 (0.96%) SANS
10 7 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.84%) ISACA
10 7 (0.84%) Security Cleared
11 6 (0.72%) CCNP
12 4 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.62%) QA
2 28 (3.35%) NIST
3 26 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.11%) GDPR
4 20 (2.39%) COBIT
5 19 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.03%) FINREP
6 17 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.67%) COREP
9 11 (1.31%) EMIR
9 11 (1.31%) MiFID
10 10 (1.19%) GRC
10 10 (1.19%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.84%) SOC 1
12 5 (0.60%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.60%) IFRS
13 4 (0.48%) PMO
14 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 20 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (1.79%) Docker
3 8 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.72%) vSphere
5 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 90 (10.75%) Terraform
2 74 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 64 (7.65%) Grafana
4 22 (2.63%) Ansible
5 9 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (0.96%) Istio
7 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.36%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.33%) Oracle
3 48 (5.73%) BT
4 36 (4.30%) Databricks
4 36 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.75%) BMC
6 20 (2.39%) Cisco
6 20 (2.39%) Remedy
7 16 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.79%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.55%) Splunk
9 13 (1.55%) VMware
10 11 (1.31%) FIS
11 9 (1.08%) SunGard
12 8 (0.96%) Confluent
12 8 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.72%) Google
14 6 (0.72%) NetApp
14 6 (0.72%) Workday