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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 43 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +27
Permanent jobs citing Banking 1,045 1,197 1,931
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.41% 5.11% 7.86%
As % of the General category 8.92% 8.15% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 483 950 1,674
10th Percentile £25,087 £62,105 £46,075
25th Percentile £32,500 £81,563 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +51.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £94,688
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,710 14,683 16,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 71.85% 62.64% 65.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,361 8,485 12,826
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,331 £45,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,875
UK median annual salary £53,700 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% -6.67% -

Banking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Banking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Banking
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Banking over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Banking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 159 (15.22%) Confluence
2 90 (8.61%) Apache
3 89 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.86%) Tomcat
4 9 (0.86%) WebSphere
4 9 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (0.29%) SAS
6 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.096%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 22 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.096%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Adaptiv
2 6 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.096%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.096%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.096%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.096%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.096%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.096%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 388 (37.13%) AWS
2 296 (28.33%) Azure
3 207 (19.81%) GCP
4 91 (8.71%) Snowflake
5 90 (8.61%) dbt
6 15 (1.44%) Power Platform
7 10 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (0.86%) Apigee
9 8 (0.77%) OpenShift
10 6 (0.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (0.57%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.48%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (0.48%) SaaS
11 5 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 202 (19.33%) Broadband
2 19 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.05%) SSL
4 8 (0.77%) Firewall
5 5 (0.48%) VPN
6 4 (0.38%) Network Security
7 2 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) LAN
7 2 (0.19%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.19%) RFID
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 2 (0.19%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.19%) WLAN
8 1 (0.096%) BGP
8 1 (0.096%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.096%) MPLS
8 1 (0.096%) Multicast
8 1 (0.096%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.096%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (24.78%) SQL Server
2 90 (8.61%) Data Lake
3 89 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
3 89 (8.52%) Apache Arrow
3 89 (8.52%) Apache Iceberg
3 89 (8.52%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (8.52%) Dremio
4 25 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.44%) Power BI
6 11 (1.05%) DB2
7 10 (0.96%) NoSQL
8 8 (0.77%) Tableau
9 6 (0.57%) Data Hub
10 5 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.48%) Metadata
11 3 (0.29%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.19%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 258 (24.69%) JIRA
2 257 (24.59%) Maven
2 257 (24.59%) SonarQube
3 256 (24.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 248 (23.73%) GitLab
5 247 (23.64%) Bitbucket
5 247 (23.64%) Cucumber
5 247 (23.64%) Selenium
6 24 (2.30%) Git
7 18 (1.72%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.96%) JUnit
9 3 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.29%) Postman
10 2 (0.19%) Xcode
10 2 (0.19%) XCTest
11 1 (0.096%) NUnit
11 1 (0.096%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.096%) Storybook
11 1 (0.096%) Subversion
11 1 (0.096%) Visual Studio
General
1 726 (69.47%) Finance
2 258 (24.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 227 (21.72%) Investment Banking
4 152 (14.55%) Social Skills
5 133 (12.73%) Front Office
6 107 (10.24%) Games
7 95 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
7 95 (9.09%) Retail
8 48 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.82%) Legal
11 18 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.44%) Billing
13 12 (1.15%) Law
14 9 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.77%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.48%) Back Office
16 5 (0.48%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.29%) Electronics
17 3 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 379 (36.27%) Software Engineer
2 265 (25.36%) Senior
3 111 (10.62%) Customer Service Advisor
4 104 (9.95%) Senior Software Engineer
5 95 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 94 (9.00%) AWS Engineer
7 92 (8.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 92 (8.80%) Python Engineer
7 92 (8.80%) Python Software Engineer
8 90 (8.61%) Senior Java Engineer
9 89 (8.52%) AWS Software Engineer
9 89 (8.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 85 (8.13%) Developer
11 80 (7.66%) Designer
11 80 (7.66%) UX Designer
12 79 (7.56%) Senior Designer
12 79 (7.56%) Senior UX Designer
13 30 (2.87%) Senior Developer
14 29 (2.78%) Senior Manager
15 28 (2.68%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (25.55%) React
2 264 (25.26%) Redux
3 262 (25.07%) Kafka
3 262 (25.07%) Spring Boot
4 261 (24.98%) Spring
5 252 (24.11%) HTML
6 251 (24.02%) CSS
7 248 (23.73%) JPA
8 167 (15.98%) Hibernate
9 103 (9.86%) RESTful
10 96 (9.19%) REST
11 94 (9.00%) HTML5
12 93 (8.90%) CSS3
13 90 (8.61%) gRPC
13 90 (8.61%) Jest
13 90 (8.61%) Sass
14 89 (8.52%) NumPy
14 89 (8.52%) Pandas
14 89 (8.52%) Protocol Buffers
14 89 (8.52%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 259 (24.78%) Product Ownership
2 248 (23.73%) Enterprise Software
3 109 (10.43%) Derivative
3 109 (10.43%) Fixed Income
4 107 (10.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 100 (9.57%) Equities
6 94 (9.00%) Hedge funds
7 89 (8.52%) Pricing Data
8 19 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 17 (1.63%) FPGA
10 16 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.24%) Credit Risk
13 12 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.86%) Data Centre
16 9 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.86%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.45%) Linux
2 28 (2.68%) Unix
3 17 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (1.63%) Windows
4 2 (0.19%) Android
4 2 (0.19%) Solaris
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.096%) AIX
5 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (52.44%) Agile
2 399 (38.18%) Software Engineering
3 292 (27.94%) CI/CD
4 289 (27.66%) DevOps
5 279 (26.70%) Microservices
6 272 (26.03%) Test Automation
7 264 (25.26%) Containerisation
8 260 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 255 (24.40%) SDLC
10 252 (24.11%) Front End Development
11 250 (23.92%) Performance Optimisation
12 225 (21.53%) User Experience
13 205 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 180 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
15 173 (16.56%) TDD
16 158 (15.12%) Clean Code
17 145 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
18 134 (12.82%) Customer Service
19 123 (11.77%) Mentoring
20 119 (11.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 411 (39.33%) Java
2 371 (35.50%) JavaScript
3 293 (28.04%) SQL
4 201 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 177 (16.94%) Python
6 27 (2.58%) C++
7 18 (1.72%) C#
7 18 (1.72%) Go
8 17 (1.63%) C
9 12 (1.15%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.05%) Bash
11 4 (0.38%) R
12 3 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.29%) Bicep
12 3 (0.29%) Rust
12 3 (0.29%) SOQL
13 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.19%) Perl
13 2 (0.19%) Scala
14 1 (0.096%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 42 (4.02%) Degree
2 19 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (1.63%) CISA
4 16 (1.53%) Master's Degree
4 16 (1.53%) PMI Certification
4 16 (1.53%) PMP
5 14 (1.34%) CFA
6 11 (1.05%) CISSP
7 10 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.86%) CISM
9 8 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.77%) CRISC
10 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.38%) PhD
11 4 (0.38%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.29%) CCIE
13 2 (0.19%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.19%) CCNP
13 2 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (24.88%) QA
2 192 (18.37%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.11%) NIST
4 14 (1.34%) GDPR
4 14 (1.34%) PMO
5 11 (1.05%) SLA
6 10 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.96%) ITGC
6 10 (0.96%) NIST 800
7 9 (0.86%) GRC
8 8 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.77%) SOC 1
8 8 (0.77%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.19%) COBIT
10 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.19%) SEPA
11 1 (0.096%) EMIR
11 1 (0.096%) MiFID
System Software
1 272 (26.03%) Docker
2 6 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 278 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.30%) Terraform
3 14 (1.34%) Ansible
4 13 (1.24%) Istio
5 8 (0.77%) RSA Archer
6 5 (0.48%) Grafana
6 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.38%) Nagios
8 2 (0.19%) Suricata
9 1 (0.096%) SCCM
Vendors
1 247 (23.64%) Solace
2 202 (19.33%) BT
3 34 (3.25%) Microsoft
4 22 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.01%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.44%) Databricks
7 14 (1.34%) Murex
8 11 (1.05%) IBM
9 10 (0.96%) Google
10 9 (0.86%) Oracle
10 9 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.77%) FIS
12 6 (0.57%) BMC
12 6 (0.57%) Remedy
13 4 (0.38%) Cisco
13 4 (0.38%) Confluent
13 4 (0.38%) Sage
13 4 (0.38%) SAP
13 4 (0.38%) SolarWinds
14 3 (0.29%) Sitecore