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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -18
Permanent jobs citing Banking 874 1,138 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.74% 6.96% 4.93%
As % of the General category 6.20% 9.76% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 362 555 977
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £60,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £26,968 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +51.29%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £81,500 £83,288 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.15% -7.46% +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 14,093 11,654 14,928
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.31% 71.30% 61.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,818 6,521 9,283
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £43,750
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 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,284 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -8.33%

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 3 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 12 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.11%) CMS
4 1 (0.11%) Confluence
4 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (3.20%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.29%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.34%) Actimize
7 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.11%) Finacle
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 266 (30.43%) AWS
2 121 (13.84%) GCP
3 113 (12.93%) SaaS
4 83 (9.50%) Azure
5 58 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (4.46%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.09%) Amazon Bedrock
7 27 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.06%) GitHub
8 18 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.06%) OCI
9 15 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (1.49%) Serverless
12 11 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (1.26%) Datadog
13 10 (1.14%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.14%) Azure Machine Learning
14 9 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.52%) Broadband
2 33 (3.78%) HTTP
3 23 (2.63%) Firewall
4 21 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.06%) LAN
5 18 (2.06%) WAN
6 13 (1.49%) Network Security
7 12 (1.37%) VLAN
8 8 (0.92%) BGP
8 8 (0.92%) OSPF
9 7 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (0.80%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.80%) WebEx
10 6 (0.69%) CHAP
10 6 (0.69%) DHCP
10 6 (0.69%) DNS
10 6 (0.69%) MPLS
10 6 (0.69%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.37%) Power BI
6 11 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.80%) Looker
9 6 (0.69%) Metadata
9 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.69%) Tableau
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (5.95%) TeamCity
2 27 (3.09%) Claude Code
3 10 (1.14%) Git
4 7 (0.80%) JUnit
5 5 (0.57%) JIRA
6 3 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.23%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 690 (78.95%) Finance
2 322 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 179 (20.48%) Retail
4 168 (19.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 152 (17.39%) Law
6 109 (12.47%) Financial Institution
7 107 (12.24%) Back Office
8 67 (7.67%) Legal
9 66 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (7.55%) Investment Banking
10 46 (5.26%) Marketing
10 46 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (4.23%) Front Office
12 23 (2.63%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.83%) Games
15 14 (1.60%) Polish Language
16 12 (1.37%) German Language
16 12 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (15.10%) Senior
2 122 (13.96%) Software Engineer
3 109 (12.47%) Lead
4 61 (6.98%) Architect
5 53 (6.06%) Analyst
5 53 (6.06%) Senior Manager
6 47 (5.38%) Engineering Manager
7 45 (5.15%) Developer
7 45 (5.15%) Software Engineering Manager
7 45 (5.15%) Software Manager
8 41 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
9 38 (4.35%) Product Manager
10 36 (4.12%) Development Engineer
10 36 (4.12%) Software Development Engineer
11 31 (3.55%) IT Manager
12 30 (3.43%) Product Owner
13 28 (3.20%) Enterprise Architect
13 28 (3.20%) Finance Manager
14 26 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (2.86%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (10.98%) Terraform
2 53 (6.06%) REST
3 36 (4.12%) LangChain
3 36 (4.12%) LangGraph
4 32 (3.66%) Spring
5 23 (2.63%) React
6 15 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 15 (1.72%) RESTful
7 14 (1.60%) scikit-learn
8 13 (1.49%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.49%) TensorFlow
9 12 (1.37%) Node.js
9 12 (1.37%) OpenAPI
9 12 (1.37%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.37%) Swagger
10 10 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (1.14%) Kafka
11 8 (0.92%) AWS CDK
12 7 (0.80%) XMPP
13 6 (0.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 173 (19.79%) Product Ownership
2 125 (14.30%) Cloud Native
3 59 (6.75%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.92%) Web Conferencing
5 38 (4.35%) Podcast
6 36 (4.12%) AI Agents
7 33 (3.78%) Hedge funds
8 32 (3.66%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.75%) Blog
10 22 (2.52%) Fixed Income
11 19 (2.17%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.95%) Derivative
13 17 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
14 15 (1.72%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.49%) Credit Risk
15 13 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 11 (1.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.12%) Linux
2 19 (2.17%) Windows
3 16 (1.83%) Android
4 14 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.69%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (29.06%) Roadmaps
2 209 (23.91%) Software Engineering
3 134 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (14.19%) AI
5 120 (13.73%) Fintech
6 117 (13.39%) Agile
6 117 (13.39%) CI/CD
7 111 (12.70%) Test Automation
8 94 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
9 92 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
10 90 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (9.84%) Mentoring
12 84 (9.61%) Coaching
12 84 (9.61%) Machine Learning
13 77 (8.81%) DevOps
14 67 (7.67%) Deployment Automation
15 66 (7.55%) Microservices
15 66 (7.55%) Risk Management
16 64 (7.32%) Data Science
17 63 (7.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 174 (19.91%) Java
2 108 (12.36%) Python
3 69 (7.89%) SQL
4 25 (2.86%) Go
5 24 (2.75%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.63%) C++
6 23 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.60%) C
9 8 (0.92%) R
9 8 (0.92%) Rust
10 7 (0.80%) C#
10 7 (0.80%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.57%) Bash
11 5 (0.57%) VBA
12 4 (0.46%) Bicep
13 3 (0.34%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.34%) Perl
13 3 (0.34%) Ruby
14 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (4.00%) Degree
2 22 (2.52%) CISSP
3 21 (2.40%) ACCA
4 20 (2.29%) CISM
5 19 (2.17%) CIMA
6 16 (1.83%) CISA
7 11 (1.26%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.26%) OSCP
8 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.03%) CRISC
9 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.80%) ISACA
10 6 (0.69%) CCNP
10 6 (0.69%) CGEIT
10 6 (0.69%) FFIEC
10 6 (0.69%) SANS
10 6 (0.69%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.38%) QA
2 25 (2.86%) NIST
3 24 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.75%) GDPR
4 18 (2.06%) COBIT
4 18 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.83%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.60%) FINREP
8 13 (1.49%) GRC
9 12 (1.37%) EMIR
9 12 (1.37%) MiFID
10 11 (1.26%) COREP
11 10 (1.14%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.80%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.46%) PMO
15 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (1.60%) Docker
3 7 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.46%) vSphere
6 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.78%) Grafana
3 23 (2.63%) Ansible
4 7 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (0.69%) Istio
6 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.34%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (6.52%) BT
2 49 (5.61%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.61%) Oracle
3 43 (4.92%) Databricks
4 36 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.63%) BMC
6 20 (2.29%) Remedy
7 18 (2.06%) Cisco
8 13 (1.49%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.26%) FIS
10 10 (1.14%) Splunk
10 10 (1.14%) VMware
11 9 (1.03%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.03%) SunGard
12 8 (0.92%) Google
13 6 (0.69%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.69%) Confluent
14 5 (0.57%) Okta
14 5 (0.57%) SAP