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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 47 28
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 +11
Permanent jobs citing Banking 602 1,065 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.93% 5.58% 8.05%
As % of the General category 6.23% 8.50% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 378 845 1,379
10th Percentile £25,087 £50,100 £46,306
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +24.14% +2.49%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £95,063
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,662 12,532 13,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 63.04% 65.69% 65.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,193 7,303 10,497
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,920 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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

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 5 December 2025.

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 50 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (8.14%) Apache
3 16 (2.66%) Tomcat
3 16 (2.66%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.66%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.50%) SAS
6 7 (1.16%) Ethereum
7 5 (0.83%) Confluence
8 3 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.66%) Adaptiv
5 3 (0.50%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.17%) Actimize
7 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.17%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (25.91%) AWS
2 57 (9.47%) Snowflake
3 51 (8.47%) dbt
4 50 (8.31%) SaaS
5 47 (7.81%) Azure
6 41 (6.81%) GCP
7 30 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (3.82%) GitHub
9 13 (2.16%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.50%) Route 53
13 7 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (11.96%) Broadband
2 22 (3.65%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.99%) SSL
4 10 (1.66%) Firewall
5 8 (1.33%) HTTP
6 7 (1.16%) VPN
7 6 (1.00%) CHAP
8 5 (0.83%) LAN
8 5 (0.83%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) WAN
9 4 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.66%) NX-OS
9 4 (0.66%) WLAN
10 3 (0.50%) BGP
10 3 (0.50%) VLAN
11 2 (0.33%) RFID
11 2 (0.33%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.17%) Internet
12 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (9.47%) Data Lake
2 49 (8.14%) Amazon Athena
2 49 (8.14%) Apache Arrow
2 49 (8.14%) Apache Iceberg
2 49 (8.14%) Apache Ignite
2 49 (8.14%) Dremio
3 23 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.99%) DB2
6 13 (2.16%) Power BI
7 12 (1.99%) Tableau
8 9 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.50%) Metadata
9 6 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.00%) Flink
10 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.66%) DataStage
10 4 (0.66%) QlikView
11 2 (0.33%) Power Query
11 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (3.16%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.83%) JIRA
4 9 (1.50%) Git
5 5 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.66%) ERwin
6 4 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 416 (69.10%) Finance
2 152 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 103 (17.11%) Investment Banking
4 75 (12.46%) Front Office
5 63 (10.47%) Retail
6 60 (9.97%) Financial Institution
7 50 (8.31%) Games
8 46 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (7.64%) Law
9 40 (6.64%) Back Office
10 27 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.33%) Marketing
13 12 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.99%) Legal
14 8 (1.33%) Billing
14 8 (1.33%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.83%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.66%) Polish Language
17 3 (0.50%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (21.76%) Senior
2 82 (13.62%) Software Engineer
3 64 (10.63%) Senior Software Engineer
4 60 (9.97%) Java Engineer
5 59 (9.80%) Java Software Engineer
6 58 (9.63%) AWS Engineer
7 57 (9.47%) Python Engineer
8 52 (8.64%) Customer Service Advisor
9 50 (8.31%) Python Software Engineer
9 50 (8.31%) Senior Java Engineer
9 50 (8.31%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 49 (8.14%) AWS Software Engineer
11 42 (6.98%) Developer
12 38 (6.31%) Analyst
13 33 (5.48%) Lead
14 31 (5.15%) Architect
15 22 (3.65%) C++ Developer
16 21 (3.49%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
17 20 (3.32%) Auditor
18 19 (3.16%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.14%) gRPC
1 49 (8.14%) NumPy
1 49 (8.14%) Pandas
1 49 (8.14%) Protocol Buffers
1 49 (8.14%) SciPy
2 18 (2.99%) .NET
3 16 (2.66%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.66%) LDAP
3 16 (2.66%) WebSphere MQ
4 13 (2.16%) Kafka
4 13 (2.16%) REST
5 7 (1.16%) CSS
5 7 (1.16%) HTML
5 7 (1.16%) Smart Contracts
5 7 (1.16%) web3js
6 6 (1.00%) RESTful
7 4 (0.66%) Django
7 4 (0.66%) PySpark
7 4 (0.66%) WPF
7 4 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.97%) Fixed Income
1 60 (9.97%) Hedge funds
2 57 (9.47%) Derivative
3 53 (8.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 51 (8.47%) Equities
5 49 (8.14%) Pricing Data
6 35 (5.81%) Cloud Native
7 32 (5.32%) Management Information System
8 30 (4.98%) Public Cloud
9 27 (4.49%) Product Ownership
10 26 (4.32%) Data Centre
11 20 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (3.16%) Credit Risk
12 19 (3.16%) FPGA
13 16 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (1.83%) Market Risk
15 11 (1.83%) Security Posture
16 10 (1.66%) Blockchain
16 10 (1.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.14%) Linux
2 27 (4.49%) Windows
3 20 (3.32%) Unix
4 17 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Solaris
6 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (18.77%) Agile
2 111 (18.44%) Software Engineering
3 105 (17.44%) Roadmaps
4 96 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (13.79%) Asset Management
6 80 (13.29%) Risk Management
7 69 (11.46%) Risk Assessment
8 67 (11.13%) Customer Service
9 65 (10.80%) CI/CD
10 61 (10.13%) Information Security
11 58 (9.63%) Investment Management
12 55 (9.14%) Process Improvement
13 51 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 50 (8.31%) Due Diligence
15 49 (8.14%) ITIL
16 48 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (7.97%) Fintech
17 45 (7.48%) Business Continuity
17 45 (7.48%) Business Continuity Management
17 45 (7.48%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (20.76%) Java
2 122 (20.27%) Python
3 61 (10.13%) TypeScript
4 52 (8.64%) JavaScript
5 41 (6.81%) SQL
6 22 (3.65%) C++
7 19 (3.16%) C
8 18 (2.99%) Go
9 13 (2.16%) C#
10 9 (1.50%) Bash
10 9 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.16%) Rust
12 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.33%) R
14 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.17%) COBOL
14 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) SOQL
14 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (10.30%) Degree
2 56 (9.30%) CISA
3 52 (8.64%) CISSP
4 50 (8.31%) CRISC
5 21 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.66%) ACCA
9 10 (1.66%) CISM
10 8 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.16%) PMP
12 6 (1.00%) CFA
12 6 (1.00%) CGEIT
12 6 (1.00%) CIMA
12 6 (1.00%) FFIEC
12 6 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.00%) OSCP
12 6 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.46%) NIST
2 56 (9.30%) PCI DSS
3 23 (3.82%) GDPR
3 23 (3.82%) SLA
4 21 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.49%) SOC 2
6 14 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 13 (2.16%) QA
8 11 (1.83%) GRC
8 11 (1.83%) PMO
9 10 (1.66%) IFRS
10 8 (1.33%) COBIT
11 6 (1.00%) GAAP
12 4 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.66%) Basel II
12 4 (0.66%) EMIR
12 4 (0.66%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.66%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.66%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.50%) COREP
System Software
1 6 (1.00%) Docker
1 6 (1.00%) Firmware
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (6.31%) Terraform
2 36 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.49%) Ansible
4 15 (2.49%) Grafana
5 6 (1.00%) Argo
6 4 (0.66%) Cilium
6 4 (0.66%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.33%) Suricata
8 1 (0.17%) Control-M
8 1 (0.17%) SCCM
8 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 72 (11.96%) BT
2 38 (6.31%) ServiceNow
3 31 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.65%) Red Hat
5 20 (3.32%) IBM
6 19 (3.16%) Databricks
7 16 (2.66%) BMC
7 16 (2.66%) Remedy
8 14 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.33%) SAP
10 7 (1.16%) Informatica
10 7 (1.16%) Murex
11 6 (1.00%) Google
11 6 (1.00%) Oracle
12 5 (0.83%) Cisco
13 4 (0.66%) Ariba
13 4 (0.66%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.66%) FIS
13 4 (0.66%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.66%) Sage