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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 -19
Permanent jobs citing Banking 988 974 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.96% 5.81% 5.11%
As % of the General category 6.45% 8.23% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 411 431 906
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £60,625
25th Percentile £63,750 £41,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.93% +52.32%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% 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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 15,309 11,835 14,031
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.38% 70.57% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,277 6,191 7,857
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,934 £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 30 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 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.40%) CMS
2 4 (0.40%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.53%) Oracle Financials
2 21 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.81%) Actimize
4 8 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.20%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.10%) Finacle
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 310 (31.38%) AWS
2 161 (16.30%) GCP
3 141 (14.27%) SaaS
4 79 (8.00%) Azure
5 76 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
6 45 (4.55%) Snowflake
7 39 (3.95%) Anthropic Claude
8 22 (2.23%) GitHub
9 17 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 16 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
10 16 (1.62%) OCI
11 14 (1.42%) Serverless
12 12 (1.21%) Datadog
13 9 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 8 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.87%) Broadband
2 30 (3.04%) HTTP
3 22 (2.23%) Firewall
3 22 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.82%) LAN
5 16 (1.62%) WAN
6 15 (1.52%) Network Security
7 14 (1.42%) VLAN
8 13 (1.32%) BGP
9 10 (1.01%) OSPF
10 7 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.71%) DHCP
10 7 (0.71%) DNS
10 7 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (0.71%) VPN
11 6 (0.61%) MPLS
12 5 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.51%) Internet
12 5 (0.51%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 14 (1.42%) Power BI
5 12 (1.21%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.91%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.71%) Metadata
9 7 (0.71%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.61%) Looker
10 6 (0.61%) Tableau
11 4 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.40%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.30%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 80 (8.10%) TeamCity
2 39 (3.95%) Claude Code
3 13 (1.32%) JUnit
4 12 (1.21%) Git
5 7 (0.71%) JIRA
6 6 (0.61%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.30%) 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
1 736 (74.49%) Finance
2 385 (38.97%) Social Skills
3 241 (24.39%) Retail
4 224 (22.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 209 (21.15%) Law
6 132 (13.36%) Financial Institution
7 129 (13.06%) Back Office
8 72 (7.29%) Legal
9 69 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
9 69 (6.98%) Investment Banking
10 54 (5.47%) Front Office
11 53 (5.36%) Marketing
12 36 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.33%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.82%) Games
15 18 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.72%) Polish Language
17 16 (1.62%) French Language
18 13 (1.32%) German Language
Job Titles
1 152 (15.38%) Senior
2 149 (15.08%) Software Engineer
3 148 (14.98%) Lead
4 80 (8.10%) Architect
5 61 (6.17%) Developer
6 56 (5.67%) Analyst
7 52 (5.26%) Senior Manager
8 51 (5.16%) Java Engineer
8 51 (5.16%) Lead Software Engineer
9 47 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
10 45 (4.55%) Software Engineering Manager
10 45 (4.55%) Software Manager
11 39 (3.95%) Finance Manager
11 39 (3.95%) IT Manager
11 39 (3.95%) Product Owner
11 39 (3.95%) Team Leader
12 37 (3.74%) Enterprise Architect
13 35 (3.54%) Product Manager
14 34 (3.44%) Senior Java Engineer
15 31 (3.14%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (12.25%) Terraform
2 49 (4.96%) REST
3 47 (4.76%) LangChain
3 47 (4.76%) LangGraph
4 33 (3.34%) Spring
5 22 (2.23%) React
6 21 (2.13%) RESTful
7 16 (1.62%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.62%) OpenAPI
7 16 (1.62%) PyTorch
7 16 (1.62%) scikit-learn
7 16 (1.62%) Swagger
7 16 (1.62%) TensorFlow
8 13 (1.32%) Spring Boot
9 11 (1.11%) Node.js
10 10 (1.01%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (0.91%) CrewAI
11 9 (0.91%) Dagger
11 9 (0.91%) pydantic
11 9 (0.91%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 197 (19.94%) Product Ownership
2 146 (14.78%) Cloud Native
3 55 (5.57%) Public Cloud
4 53 (5.36%) AI Agents
4 53 (5.36%) Hedge funds
5 45 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
6 41 (4.15%) Podcast
7 37 (3.74%) Blog
8 26 (2.63%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.53%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.23%) Derivative
10 22 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (2.13%) Social Media
12 19 (1.92%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
15 16 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (1.32%) Credit Risk
18 12 (1.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.44%) Linux
2 26 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.43%) Android
4 18 (1.82%) Windows
5 6 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 241 (24.39%) Software Engineering
3 161 (16.30%) Fintech
4 151 (15.28%) AI
5 148 (14.98%) CI/CD
6 145 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (12.96%) Test Automation
8 114 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 105 (10.63%) Disruptive Innovation
10 103 (10.43%) Coaching
11 96 (9.72%) Mentoring
12 94 (9.51%) Agile
12 94 (9.51%) Machine Learning
13 91 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
14 86 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
15 84 (8.50%) Product Roadmap
16 83 (8.40%) Clean Code
17 80 (8.10%) Microservices
18 79 (8.00%) DevOps
19 76 (7.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 227 (22.98%) Java
2 128 (12.96%) Python
3 69 (6.98%) SQL
4 28 (2.83%) Go
5 22 (2.23%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.92%) C++
8 17 (1.72%) R
9 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.32%) Bash
11 12 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.01%) C
13 6 (0.61%) Rust
14 5 (0.51%) C#
14 5 (0.51%) VBA
15 4 (0.40%) Bicep
16 1 (0.10%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.10%) Perl
16 1 (0.10%) Ruby
16 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (2.73%) Degree
2 19 (1.92%) CISSP
3 17 (1.72%) CISM
4 15 (1.52%) ACCA
5 13 (1.32%) CISA
6 11 (1.11%) CIMA
7 10 (1.01%) CREST Certified
7 10 (1.01%) OSCP
8 9 (0.91%) CRISC
9 8 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.71%) ISACA
10 7 (0.71%) Security Cleared
11 6 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.51%) GCFA
12 5 (0.51%) GIAC
12 5 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.40%) CEH
13 4 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.57%) QA
2 25 (2.53%) NIST
3 23 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 22 (2.23%) COBIT
4 22 (2.23%) GDPR
5 21 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.32%) GRC
6 13 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.01%) EMIR
7 10 (1.01%) FINREP
7 10 (1.01%) MiFID
8 8 (0.81%) SOC 1
9 7 (0.71%) COREP
9 7 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.51%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.40%) SLA
13 3 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (1.21%) Docker
2 11 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 108 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 95 (9.62%) Grafana
3 22 (2.23%) Ansible
4 10 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.30%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.30%) 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 (5.87%) BT
2 50 (5.06%) Oracle
3 48 (4.86%) Databricks
4 41 (4.15%) Microsoft
5 39 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.33%) BMC
7 21 (2.13%) Google
8 20 (2.02%) Remedy
9 17 (1.72%) Cisco
10 11 (1.11%) FIS
10 11 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.11%) Splunk
11 9 (0.91%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.91%) SunGard
12 8 (0.81%) VMware
13 6 (0.61%) Xero
14 4 (0.40%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.40%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.40%) Okta