Banking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 73 26
Rank change year-on-year +64 -47 +32
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,014 1,313 3,066
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.86% 3.80% 8.53%
As % of the General category 19.29% 6.26% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 1,088 2,350
10th Percentile £23,504 £51,200 £46,350
25th Percentile £25,084 £69,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £92,778 £70,476
Median % change year-on-year -72.96% +31.64% -4.76%
75th Percentile £82,751 £142,500 £95,436
90th Percentile £122,500 £150,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -55.56% +20.00% +2.95%

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 15,628 20,978 23,434
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 77.05% 60.78% 65.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7,925 14,893 16,452
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £46,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Banking.

Banking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Banking over the 6 months to 2 July 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
1 184 (6.10%) Confluence
2 88 (2.92%) Apache
3 87 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.36%) SAS
4 11 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.27%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.066%) CMS
8 2 (0.066%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.066%) nginx
8 2 (0.066%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.066%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.066%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.033%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 44 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.033%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Adaptiv
2 4 (0.13%) Orchestrade
3 3 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.033%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 426 (14.13%) AWS
2 394 (13.07%) Azure
3 351 (11.65%) GCP
4 89 (2.95%) Snowflake
5 87 (2.89%) dbt
6 36 (1.19%) Power Platform
7 21 (0.70%) GitHub
8 19 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (0.63%) SaaS
9 17 (0.56%) Apigee
9 17 (0.56%) OpenShift
10 15 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (0.36%) Cloud Composer
13 11 (0.36%) Dagster
13 11 (0.36%) npm
13 11 (0.36%) PaaS
14 8 (0.27%) Adobe Analytics
14 8 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1,793 (59.49%) Broadband
2 19 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.46%) Internet
4 13 (0.43%) Network Security
5 8 (0.27%) DNS
5 8 (0.27%) Firewall
6 6 (0.20%) Multicast
6 6 (0.20%) SAN
6 6 (0.20%) VPN
7 5 (0.17%) DHCP
7 5 (0.17%) NAS
7 5 (0.17%) VSAN
8 4 (0.13%) DKIM
8 4 (0.13%) DMARC
8 4 (0.13%) DNSSEC
8 4 (0.13%) SMTP
9 3 (0.100%) LAN
9 3 (0.100%) WAN
10 2 (0.066%) SNA
10 2 (0.066%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 87 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
2 87 (2.89%) Apache Arrow
2 87 (2.89%) Apache Iceberg
2 87 (2.89%) Dremio
3 80 (2.65%) Data Lake
4 71 (2.36%) Apache Ignite
5 43 (1.43%) Big Data
6 38 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (1.19%) Power BI
8 35 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 28 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 20 (0.66%) Tableau
11 19 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (0.46%) Data Hub
12 14 (0.46%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.30%) Metadata
15 8 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
15 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 293 (9.72%) JIRA
2 272 (9.02%) Sonatype Nexus
3 271 (8.99%) Maven
3 271 (8.99%) SonarQube
4 264 (8.76%) Cucumber
5 255 (8.46%) GitLab
6 250 (8.29%) Selenium
7 247 (8.20%) Bitbucket
8 84 (2.79%) Git
9 56 (1.86%) Jenkins
10 16 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.50%) webpack
12 14 (0.46%) JUnit
13 11 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
14 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.17%) NUnit
15 5 (0.17%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.17%) Xcode
15 5 (0.17%) XCTest
General
1 1,172 (38.89%) Games
2 1,089 (36.13%) Finance
3 267 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 226 (7.50%) Investment Banking
5 219 (7.27%) Social Skills
6 153 (5.08%) Front Office
7 108 (3.58%) Retail
8 95 (3.15%) Corporate Banking
9 70 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (0.73%) Billing
10 22 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 22 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (0.66%) Legal
12 15 (0.50%) Retail Banking
13 13 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (0.40%) Law
15 6 (0.20%) Back Office
15 6 (0.20%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.17%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 1,213 (40.25%) Customer Service Advisor
2 446 (14.80%) Software Engineer
3 295 (9.79%) Senior
4 139 (4.61%) Developer
5 111 (3.68%) Lead
6 100 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 98 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
8 92 (3.05%) Analyst
9 91 (3.02%) Java Engineer
10 87 (2.89%) AWS Software Engineer
11 82 (2.72%) Customer Service Representative
11 82 (2.72%) Designer
11 82 (2.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 80 (2.65%) UX Designer
13 79 (2.62%) Senior Designer
13 79 (2.62%) Senior UX Designer
14 73 (2.42%) Architect
15 72 (2.39%) Python Engineer
16 71 (2.36%) Python Software Engineer
17 68 (2.26%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (10.45%) React
2 299 (9.92%) Spring Boot
3 291 (9.65%) Spring
4 277 (9.19%) Redux
5 273 (9.06%) Kafka
6 262 (8.69%) CSS
7 256 (8.49%) HTML
8 252 (8.36%) JPA
9 170 (5.64%) Hibernate
10 129 (4.28%) RESTful
11 105 (3.48%) Jest
11 105 (3.48%) REST
12 94 (3.12%) HTML5
13 93 (3.09%) CSS3
14 90 (2.99%) Sass
15 74 (2.46%) Pandas
16 73 (2.42%) gRPC
17 71 (2.36%) NumPy
17 71 (2.36%) Protocol Buffers
17 71 (2.36%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 341 (11.31%) Product Ownership
2 250 (8.29%) Enterprise Software
3 119 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 118 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 110 (3.65%) Derivative
6 99 (3.28%) Equities
7 89 (2.95%) Hedge funds
8 61 (2.02%) Pricing Data
9 40 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 37 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 25 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (0.70%) Credit Risk
15 19 (0.63%) Mainframe
15 19 (0.63%) Private Cloud
16 18 (0.60%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.56%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.56%) Market Risk
18 14 (0.46%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.42%) Linux
2 31 (1.03%) Unix
3 24 (0.80%) Windows
4 17 (0.56%) Android
5 14 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.27%) zOS
8 3 (0.100%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.066%) CentOS
9 2 (0.066%) Rocky
10 1 (0.033%) Solaris
10 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,321 (43.83%) Customer Service
2 1,297 (43.03%) Problem-Solving
3 704 (23.36%) Agile
4 568 (18.85%) Software Engineering
5 399 (13.24%) DevOps
6 375 (12.44%) CI/CD
7 371 (12.31%) Microservices
8 341 (11.31%) Test Automation
9 335 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 283 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 273 (9.06%) SDLC
12 255 (8.46%) Front End Development
12 255 (8.46%) Performance Optimisation
13 249 (8.26%) User Experience
14 246 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 217 (7.20%) TDD
16 203 (6.74%) Mentoring
17 168 (5.57%) Clean Code
18 167 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
19 147 (4.88%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 494 (16.39%) Java
2 415 (13.77%) SQL
3 412 (13.67%) JavaScript
4 227 (7.53%) Python
5 203 (6.74%) TypeScript
6 40 (1.33%) C#
7 32 (1.06%) C++
8 25 (0.83%) Go
9 24 (0.80%) Bash
10 16 (0.53%) C
10 16 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.30%) R
13 6 (0.20%) Groovy
14 5 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.17%) VBA
15 4 (0.13%) Swift
16 3 (0.100%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 143 (4.74%) Degree
2 20 (0.66%) Master's Degree
3 17 (0.56%) CISSP
4 15 (0.50%) CISA
4 15 (0.50%) PMI Certification
4 15 (0.50%) PMP
5 12 (0.40%) CFA
6 9 (0.30%) CISM
7 8 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.20%) PhD
10 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.13%) CCIE
11 4 (0.13%) CRISC
11 4 (0.13%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.100%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.100%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (9.06%) QA
2 202 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.40%) GDPR
4 12 (0.40%) ITGC
4 12 (0.40%) PMO
5 11 (0.36%) NIST
6 9 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.17%) GRC
8 5 (0.17%) IFRS
8 5 (0.17%) IFRS 9
8 5 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.13%) Basel II
9 4 (0.13%) Basel III
9 4 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.13%) SLA
9 4 (0.13%) SOC 1
9 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 357 (11.84%) Docker
2 13 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.17%) Firmware
3 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.100%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 361 (11.98%) Kubernetes
2 58 (1.92%) Terraform
3 21 (0.70%) Ansible
4 20 (0.66%) Istio
5 11 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.30%) Grafana
6 9 (0.30%) Nagios
6 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.100%) Argo
9 3 (0.100%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.066%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.066%) Tivoli NetView
11 1 (0.033%) Avamar
11 1 (0.033%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.033%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1,793 (59.49%) BT
2 249 (8.26%) Solace
3 80 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 65 (2.16%) Google
5 36 (1.19%) Oracle
6 27 (0.90%) Sun
7 26 (0.86%) IBM
8 15 (0.50%) Databricks
9 14 (0.46%) Adobe
9 14 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.40%) Murex
10 12 (0.40%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.33%) VMware
12 9 (0.30%) Cisco
13 8 (0.27%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.23%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.20%) Apple
15 6 (0.20%) Confluent
15 6 (0.20%) FIS
15 6 (0.20%) SAP