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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 46 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 -19
Permanent jobs citing Banking 972 943 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.92% 5.61% 5.17%
As % of the General category 6.39% 7.96% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 400 428 898
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £60,875
25th Percentile £63,750 £42,000 £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 15,213 11,852 13,724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.34% 70.56% 62.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,157 6,173 7,693
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £38,750 £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 £84,000
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 8 October 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 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.51%) CMS
3 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.31%) Confluence
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (2.06%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.82%) Actimize
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.10%) Finacle
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 305 (31.38%) AWS
2 163 (16.77%) GCP
3 147 (15.12%) SaaS
4 79 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
5 73 (7.51%) Azure
6 48 (4.94%) Amazon Bedrock
7 43 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
8 39 (4.01%) Snowflake
9 24 (2.47%) GitHub
10 18 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
11 17 (1.75%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.65%) OCI
13 13 (1.34%) Serverless
14 12 (1.23%) Datadog
15 10 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
16 9 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (0.82%) Amazon S3
17 8 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
18 7 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.97%) Broadband
2 26 (2.67%) HTTP
3 21 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.95%) Firewall
5 17 (1.75%) LAN
6 16 (1.65%) BGP
6 16 (1.65%) VLAN
7 15 (1.54%) WAN
8 13 (1.34%) Network Security
9 10 (1.03%) OSPF
9 10 (1.03%) VPN
10 7 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.62%) MPLS
12 5 (0.51%) DHCP
12 5 (0.51%) DNS
12 5 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.51%) Internet
12 5 (0.51%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (1.44%) Power BI
4 12 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 12 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 7 (0.72%) Metadata
7 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.62%) Tableau
9 5 (0.51%) Looker
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.41%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.21%) Big Data
12 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (8.64%) TeamCity
2 43 (4.42%) Claude Code
3 16 (1.65%) JUnit
4 12 (1.23%) Git
5 9 (0.93%) JIRA
6 7 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.41%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.10%) GitLab
8 1 (0.10%) Gradle
8 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.10%) Maven
8 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 716 (73.66%) Finance
2 380 (39.09%) Social Skills
3 242 (24.90%) Retail
4 226 (23.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 210 (21.60%) Law
6 139 (14.30%) Financial Institution
7 136 (13.99%) Back Office
8 70 (7.20%) Legal
9 67 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
10 64 (6.58%) Investment Banking
11 59 (6.07%) Front Office
12 53 (5.45%) Marketing
13 36 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (2.26%) Public Sector
15 20 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.85%) French Language
16 18 (1.85%) Games
16 18 (1.85%) Polish Language
17 17 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (16.15%) Software Engineer
2 156 (16.05%) Senior
3 146 (15.02%) Lead
4 83 (8.54%) Architect
5 66 (6.79%) Developer
6 57 (5.86%) Java Engineer
7 52 (5.35%) Analyst
8 51 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 51 (5.25%) Senior Manager
9 45 (4.63%) Engineering Manager
10 43 (4.42%) Software Engineering Manager
10 43 (4.42%) Software Manager
11 42 (4.32%) IT Manager
12 40 (4.12%) Senior Java Engineer
13 39 (4.01%) Finance Manager
13 39 (4.01%) Team Leader
14 38 (3.91%) Product Owner
15 37 (3.81%) Enterprise Architect
16 32 (3.29%) Product Manager
17 26 (2.67%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (12.45%) Terraform
2 51 (5.25%) LangChain
2 51 (5.25%) LangGraph
3 43 (4.42%) REST
4 29 (2.98%) Spring
5 26 (2.67%) RESTful
6 18 (1.85%) OpenAPI
6 18 (1.85%) React
6 18 (1.85%) Swagger
7 17 (1.75%) PyTorch
7 17 (1.75%) scikit-learn
7 17 (1.75%) TensorFlow
8 13 (1.34%) AngularJS
9 12 (1.23%) CrewAI
9 12 (1.23%) pydantic
10 11 (1.13%) Dagger
10 11 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (1.13%) RxJava
11 10 (1.03%) Node.js
11 10 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.86%) Product Ownership
2 146 (15.02%) Cloud Native
3 58 (5.97%) Hedge funds
4 57 (5.86%) AI Agents
5 50 (5.14%) Public Cloud
6 45 (4.63%) Web Conferencing
7 41 (4.22%) Podcast
8 37 (3.81%) Blog
9 27 (2.78%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.47%) Derivative
10 24 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (2.16%) Social Media
13 18 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.75%) Security Posture
15 16 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
16 15 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.54%) Onboarding
17 13 (1.34%) Credit Risk
18 12 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.09%) Linux
2 27 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 26 (2.67%) Android
4 15 (1.54%) Windows
5 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.31%) Unix
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (25.31%) Software Engineering
2 232 (23.87%) Roadmaps
3 163 (16.77%) Fintech
4 155 (15.95%) AI
5 149 (15.33%) CI/CD
6 136 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (13.37%) Test Automation
8 116 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (11.21%) Disruptive Innovation
10 104 (10.70%) Coaching
11 92 (9.47%) Machine Learning
11 92 (9.47%) Mentoring
12 89 (9.16%) Deployment Automation
13 88 (9.05%) Clean Code
14 83 (8.54%) Agile
14 83 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
15 82 (8.44%) Data Science
16 80 (8.23%) Product Roadmap
17 79 (8.13%) Microservices
18 77 (7.92%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 233 (23.97%) Java
2 142 (14.61%) Python
3 67 (6.89%) SQL
4 30 (3.09%) Go
5 23 (2.37%) TypeScript
6 20 (2.06%) R
7 19 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 16 (1.65%) C++
10 15 (1.54%) Bash
11 13 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.72%) C
12 7 (0.72%) Rust
13 5 (0.51%) C#
13 5 (0.51%) VBA
14 4 (0.41%) Bicep
15 1 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.10%) Scala
15 1 (0.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (2.47%) Degree
2 17 (1.75%) CISSP
3 15 (1.54%) CISM
4 12 (1.23%) ACCA
4 12 (1.23%) CISA
5 9 (0.93%) CRISC
6 8 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 8 (0.82%) CIMA
6 8 (0.82%) CREST Certified
6 8 (0.82%) OSCP
7 7 (0.72%) ISACA
7 7 (0.72%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.51%) GCFA
9 5 (0.51%) GIAC
9 5 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.41%) CCNP
10 4 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.86%) QA
2 26 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 25 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.47%) COBIT
5 23 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.37%) NIST
6 21 (2.16%) GDPR
7 20 (2.06%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 13 (1.34%) GRC
10 8 (0.82%) FINREP
10 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.82%) SOC 1
11 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.72%) EMIR
11 7 (0.72%) MiFID
12 5 (0.51%) COREP
12 5 (0.51%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.41%) SLA
14 3 (0.31%) Basel III
System Software
1 13 (1.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.21%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 109 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 98 (10.08%) Grafana
3 21 (2.16%) Ansible
4 13 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (5.97%) BT
2 45 (4.63%) Oracle
3 42 (4.32%) Databricks
4 40 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.19%) Microsoft
6 30 (3.09%) Google
7 22 (2.26%) BMC
8 20 (2.06%) Remedy
9 16 (1.65%) Cisco
10 10 (1.03%) FIS
10 10 (1.03%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.03%) Splunk
11 9 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.93%) SunGard
12 8 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.82%) VMware
13 6 (0.62%) Xero
14 4 (0.41%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.41%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.41%) Sage