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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 21 73
Rank change year-on-year -39 +52 -49
Permanent jobs citing Banking 781 1,473 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.84% 9.47% 3.79%
As % of the General category 6.58% 12.74% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 324 854 1,078
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £25,313 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £74,870 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.87% -16.81% +24.60%
75th Percentile £127,500 £110,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,610
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.69% +16.81%

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 11,870 11,564 20,890
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.34% 74.32% 60.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,754 6,393 15,266
10th Percentile £32,261 £27,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 23 June 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 9 (1.15%) SAS
2 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.35%) Oracle Financials
2 19 (2.43%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.15%) Oracle Applications
4 8 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 218 (27.91%) AWS
2 134 (17.16%) SaaS
3 115 (14.72%) GCP
4 78 (9.99%) Azure
5 70 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.43%) OCI
7 13 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.28%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.28%) dbt
9 10 (1.28%) GitHub
9 10 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (1.28%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.02%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
11 8 (1.02%) Figma
11 8 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.84%) HTTP
2 29 (3.71%) TCP/IP
3 23 (2.94%) Broadband
3 23 (2.94%) Firewall
4 17 (2.18%) CHAP
5 16 (2.05%) LAN
5 16 (2.05%) WAN
6 13 (1.66%) VLAN
7 12 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (1.28%) Network Security
10 9 (1.15%) Unified Communications
10 9 (1.15%) WebEx
11 8 (1.02%) BGP
12 6 (0.77%) VPN
13 4 (0.51%) DHCP
13 4 (0.51%) DNS
13 4 (0.51%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.15%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.15%) Looker
5 8 (1.02%) Power BI
6 6 (0.77%) Tableau
7 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.38%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.26%) Db2
10 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.26%) Metadata
11 1 (0.13%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.13%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 56 (7.17%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.51%) JIRA
2 4 (0.51%) JUnit
3 2 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 644 (82.46%) Finance
2 305 (39.05%) Social Skills
3 192 (24.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 190 (24.33%) Retail
5 167 (21.38%) Law
6 140 (17.93%) Financial Institution
7 123 (15.75%) Back Office
8 59 (7.55%) Investment Banking
9 58 (7.43%) Legal
10 56 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (5.38%) Marketing
13 22 (2.82%) Front Office
13 22 (2.82%) Public Sector
14 20 (2.56%) Polish Language
15 19 (2.43%) Games
15 19 (2.43%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.79%) Italian Language
17 12 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (16.01%) Senior
2 116 (14.85%) Software Engineer
3 88 (11.27%) Lead
4 60 (7.68%) Analyst
5 58 (7.43%) Developer
6 50 (6.40%) Product Manager
7 42 (5.38%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.87%) Engineering Manager
8 38 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
8 38 (4.87%) Product Owner
8 38 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (4.74%) Software Manager
10 36 (4.61%) Software Engineering Manager
11 33 (4.23%) Development Engineer
11 33 (4.23%) Software Development Engineer
12 25 (3.20%) Architect
12 25 (3.20%) Java Engineer
13 24 (3.07%) Consultant
14 20 (2.56%) Auditor
14 20 (2.56%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.04%) REST
2 24 (3.07%) React
2 24 (3.07%) Spring
3 15 (1.92%) .NET
4 14 (1.79%) Kafka
5 12 (1.54%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.28%) RESTful
7 9 (1.15%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.15%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.15%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.15%) XMPP
8 8 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.02%) LangChain
8 8 (1.02%) LangGraph
8 8 (1.02%) Middleware
9 7 (0.90%) Node.js
9 7 (0.90%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.90%) Swagger
10 5 (0.64%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 163 (20.87%) Product Ownership
2 132 (16.90%) Cloud Native
3 50 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.76%) Management Information System
5 41 (5.25%) Blog
6 39 (4.99%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (4.10%) Podcast
8 23 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (2.56%) Security Posture
12 19 (2.43%) FPGA
13 16 (2.05%) Data Centre
14 14 (1.79%) Credit Risk
15 13 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (1.54%) Blockchain
16 12 (1.54%) Hedge funds
17 11 (1.41%) Derivative
17 11 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.51%) Linux
2 23 (2.94%) Windows
3 12 (1.54%) Android
3 12 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (25.48%) Roadmaps
2 187 (23.94%) Software Engineering
3 143 (18.31%) Agile
4 137 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 130 (16.65%) Fintech
6 117 (14.98%) Test Automation
7 102 (13.06%) CI/CD
8 89 (11.40%) Product Roadmap
9 79 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
10 77 (9.86%) Risk Management
11 75 (9.60%) Coaching
12 74 (9.48%) Microservices
13 72 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 72 (9.22%) Mentoring
14 70 (8.96%) AI
15 69 (8.83%) DevOps
16 66 (8.45%) Analytics
17 62 (7.94%) Clean Code
17 62 (7.94%) Disruptive Innovation
18 61 (7.81%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 177 (22.66%) Java
2 100 (12.80%) Python
3 55 (7.04%) SQL
4 31 (3.97%) Go
5 24 (3.07%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.94%) C
6 23 (2.94%) C++
6 23 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.79%) C#
8 8 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.90%) Rust
10 6 (0.77%) R
11 4 (0.51%) Bash
12 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.38%) Perl
12 3 (0.38%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
14 1 (0.13%) Cypher
14 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 64 (8.19%) Degree
2 37 (4.74%) CISSP
3 31 (3.97%) CISA
3 31 (3.97%) CISM
4 28 (3.59%) ACCA
5 24 (3.07%) CIMA
6 18 (2.30%) FFIEC
7 17 (2.18%) CGEIT
7 17 (2.18%) SANS
8 16 (2.05%) CREST Certified
8 16 (2.05%) OSCP
9 13 (1.66%) CRISC
10 11 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.28%) Security Cleared
12 8 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.90%) ISACA
14 6 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.89%) QA
2 38 (4.87%) NIST
3 30 (3.84%) PCI DSS
4 29 (3.71%) GDPR
4 29 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (3.46%) COBIT
6 24 (3.07%) SOC 2
7 16 (2.05%) GRC
8 14 (1.79%) COREP
8 14 (1.79%) Data Quality
8 14 (1.79%) FINREP
9 11 (1.41%) EMIR
9 11 (1.41%) MiFID
10 8 (1.02%) IFRS
11 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.90%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.77%) PMO
13 4 (0.51%) GAAP
13 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.54%) Docker
3 10 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.77%) vSphere
6 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 96 (12.29%) Terraform
2 84 (10.76%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.71%) Grafana
4 14 (1.79%) Ansible
5 9 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.02%) Istio
7 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.38%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 58 (7.43%) Oracle
2 50 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 23 (2.94%) BT
4 20 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.43%) Cisco
6 15 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 14 (1.79%) Splunk
8 13 (1.66%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.66%) VMware
9 11 (1.41%) BMC
9 11 (1.41%) Databricks
10 8 (1.02%) Confluent
10 8 (1.02%) Remedy
11 7 (0.90%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.77%) Google
12 6 (0.77%) NetApp
12 6 (0.77%) SAP
12 6 (0.77%) Workday
13 4 (0.51%) Okta
13 4 (0.51%) OneLogin