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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 42 43
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -17
Permanent jobs citing Banking 961 983 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.88% 5.93% 5.16%
As % of the General category 6.34% 8.33% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 397 438 924
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £62,105
25th Percentile £62,500 £40,500 £80,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +55.39%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +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 15,156 11,794 14,222
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.26% 71.21% 62.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,192 6,231 8,036
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 28 September 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 13 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.42%) CMS
2 4 (0.42%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.50%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (0.62%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.10%) Finacle
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 308 (32.05%) AWS
2 158 (16.44%) GCP
3 134 (13.94%) SaaS
4 80 (8.32%) Azure
5 74 (7.70%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (4.68%) Amazon Bedrock
7 44 (4.58%) Snowflake
8 39 (4.06%) Anthropic Claude
9 22 (2.29%) GitHub
10 17 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
10 17 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.46%) OCI
12 14 (1.46%) Serverless
13 12 (1.25%) Datadog
14 9 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (0.83%) Amazon S3
15 8 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.04%) Broadband
2 31 (3.23%) HTTP
3 22 (2.29%) Firewall
3 22 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.87%) LAN
5 16 (1.66%) WAN
6 15 (1.56%) Network Security
7 14 (1.46%) VLAN
8 13 (1.35%) BGP
9 10 (1.04%) OSPF
10 7 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.73%) DHCP
10 7 (0.73%) DNS
10 7 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (0.73%) VPN
11 6 (0.62%) MPLS
12 5 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.52%) Internet
12 5 (0.52%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.35%) Power BI
5 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.73%) Metadata
8 7 (0.73%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.62%) Looker
9 6 (0.62%) Tableau
10 4 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 77 (8.01%) TeamCity
2 39 (4.06%) Claude Code
3 13 (1.35%) JUnit
4 12 (1.25%) Git
5 6 (0.62%) JIRA
6 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.31%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) GitLab
9 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.10%) Maven
9 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 720 (74.92%) Finance
2 367 (38.19%) Social Skills
3 224 (23.31%) Retail
4 209 (21.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (20.19%) Law
6 128 (13.32%) Financial Institution
7 124 (12.90%) Back Office
8 70 (7.28%) Legal
9 67 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
10 65 (6.76%) Investment Banking
11 52 (5.41%) Front Office
12 49 (5.10%) Marketing
13 36 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.39%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.87%) Games
17 17 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (1.56%) Polish Language
19 13 (1.35%) French Language
19 13 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (15.50%) Senior
1 149 (15.50%) Software Engineer
2 138 (14.36%) Lead
3 78 (8.12%) Architect
4 61 (6.35%) Developer
5 54 (5.62%) Analyst
6 52 (5.41%) Senior Manager
7 51 (5.31%) Lead Software Engineer
8 48 (4.99%) Java Engineer
9 47 (4.89%) Engineering Manager
10 45 (4.68%) Software Engineering Manager
10 45 (4.68%) Software Manager
11 39 (4.06%) Finance Manager
12 37 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
12 37 (3.85%) Product Owner
13 35 (3.64%) IT Manager
13 35 (3.64%) Product Manager
14 34 (3.54%) Team Leader
15 33 (3.43%) Development Engineer
15 33 (3.43%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (12.17%) Terraform
2 50 (5.20%) REST
3 47 (4.89%) LangChain
3 47 (4.89%) LangGraph
4 33 (3.43%) Spring
5 23 (2.39%) React
6 20 (2.08%) RESTful
7 16 (1.66%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 15 (1.56%) OpenAPI
8 15 (1.56%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.56%) Swagger
8 15 (1.56%) TensorFlow
9 13 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.25%) Node.js
11 10 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (0.94%) CrewAI
12 9 (0.94%) Dagger
12 9 (0.94%) pydantic
12 9 (0.94%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 193 (20.08%) Product Ownership
2 140 (14.57%) Cloud Native
3 56 (5.83%) Public Cloud
4 53 (5.52%) AI Agents
4 53 (5.52%) Hedge funds
5 45 (4.68%) Web Conferencing
6 41 (4.27%) Podcast
7 34 (3.54%) Blog
8 26 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.60%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.19%) Derivative
10 21 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.98%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
14 16 (1.66%) Social Media
15 15 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (1.35%) Credit Risk
18 12 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.54%) Linux
2 26 (2.71%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.50%) Android
4 18 (1.87%) Windows
5 6 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (25.70%) Roadmaps
2 240 (24.97%) Software Engineering
3 155 (16.13%) Fintech
4 150 (15.61%) AI
5 145 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 143 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (13.22%) Test Automation
8 107 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (10.30%) Coaching
9 99 (10.30%) Disruptive Innovation
10 97 (10.09%) Mentoring
11 93 (9.68%) Machine Learning
12 91 (9.47%) Agile
12 91 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
13 84 (8.74%) Deployment Automation
13 84 (8.74%) Product Roadmap
14 81 (8.43%) Clean Code
14 81 (8.43%) Microservices
15 80 (8.32%) DevOps
16 76 (7.91%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 222 (23.10%) Java
2 126 (13.11%) Python
3 66 (6.87%) SQL
4 27 (2.81%) Go
5 23 (2.39%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.98%) C++
8 17 (1.77%) R
9 13 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.25%) Bash
10 12 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.04%) C
12 6 (0.62%) Rust
13 5 (0.52%) C#
13 5 (0.52%) VBA
14 4 (0.42%) Bicep
15 1 (0.10%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.10%) Perl
15 1 (0.10%) Ruby
15 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (2.81%) Degree
2 19 (1.98%) CISSP
3 17 (1.77%) CISM
4 15 (1.56%) ACCA
5 13 (1.35%) CISA
6 11 (1.14%) CIMA
7 10 (1.04%) CREST Certified
7 10 (1.04%) OSCP
8 9 (0.94%) CRISC
9 8 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.73%) ISACA
10 7 (0.73%) Security Cleared
11 6 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.52%) GCFA
12 5 (0.52%) GIAC
12 5 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.42%) CCNP
13 4 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.83%) QA
2 24 (2.50%) NIST
3 23 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.29%) GDPR
4 22 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 21 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.98%) COBIT
7 13 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.25%) GRC
9 10 (1.04%) EMIR
9 10 (1.04%) FINREP
9 10 (1.04%) MiFID
10 8 (0.83%) SOC 1
11 7 (0.73%) COREP
11 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.52%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.42%) SLA
14 3 (0.31%) Basel III
14 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (1.25%) Docker
2 10 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (10.72%) Kubernetes
2 92 (9.57%) Grafana
3 22 (2.29%) Ansible
4 9 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (6.04%) BT
2 48 (4.99%) Databricks
2 48 (4.99%) Oracle
3 42 (4.37%) Microsoft
4 38 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.39%) BMC
6 21 (2.19%) Google
7 20 (2.08%) Remedy
8 17 (1.77%) Cisco
9 11 (1.14%) FIS
9 11 (1.14%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.14%) Splunk
10 9 (0.94%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.94%) Palo Alto
10 9 (0.94%) SunGard
11 8 (0.83%) VMware
12 6 (0.62%) Xero
13 4 (0.42%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.42%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.42%) Okta