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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 24 49
Rank change year-on-year -47 +25 -26
Permanent jobs citing Banking 799 1,378 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.58% 8.30% 4.65%
As % of the General category 5.98% 11.44% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 329 767 967
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £25,313 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,810 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% -28.35% +52.29%
75th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £133,000 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 13,352 12,044 15,384
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.86% 72.52% 61.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8,552 6,755 10,486
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 August 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 10 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
2 4 (0.50%) SAS
3 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 32 (4.01%) Oracle Financials
2 19 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
3 18 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (1.13%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 235 (29.41%) AWS
2 119 (14.89%) SaaS
3 114 (14.27%) GCP
4 79 (9.89%) Azure
5 61 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (2.75%) Snowflake
7 18 (2.25%) OCI
8 17 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (1.88%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.50%) Amazon Bedrock
10 12 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (1.50%) GitHub
11 11 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (1.25%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (1.00%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (1.00%) OpenShift
14 7 (0.88%) Datadog
14 7 (0.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.76%) Broadband
2 31 (3.88%) HTTP
3 24 (3.00%) Firewall
4 23 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.25%) LAN
5 18 (2.25%) WAN
6 12 (1.50%) Cisco Firepower
7 11 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.25%) CHAP
8 10 (1.25%) Network Security
8 10 (1.25%) Unified Communications
8 10 (1.25%) VLAN
8 10 (1.25%) WebEx
9 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (0.63%) VPN
11 4 (0.50%) BGP
11 4 (0.50%) DHCP
11 4 (0.50%) DNS
12 3 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.50%) Power BI
4 11 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.13%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.13%) Looker
6 6 (0.75%) Tableau
7 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.38%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.38%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.38%) Metadata
8 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.38%) SAS EBI
9 2 (0.25%) Db2
9 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (6.51%) TeamCity
2 12 (1.50%) Claude Code
3 8 (1.00%) Git
4 5 (0.63%) JIRA
4 5 (0.63%) JUnit
5 3 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.13%) Maven
6 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 651 (81.48%) Finance
2 304 (38.05%) Social Skills
3 175 (21.90%) Retail
4 170 (21.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 148 (18.52%) Law
6 112 (14.02%) Financial Institution
7 108 (13.52%) Back Office
8 68 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (8.26%) Investment Banking
10 61 (7.63%) Legal
11 53 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (5.51%) Marketing
13 31 (3.88%) Front Office
14 20 (2.50%) Public Sector
15 19 (2.38%) Games
15 19 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.88%) Polish Language
17 14 (1.75%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.50%) German Language
19 11 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (15.27%) Senior
2 115 (14.39%) Software Engineer
3 98 (12.27%) Lead
4 65 (8.14%) Analyst
5 50 (6.26%) Senior Manager
6 49 (6.13%) Developer
7 44 (5.51%) Engineering Manager
8 43 (5.38%) Product Manager
9 42 (5.26%) Software Engineering Manager
9 42 (5.26%) Software Manager
10 40 (5.01%) Lead Software Engineer
11 38 (4.76%) Architect
12 34 (4.26%) Development Engineer
12 34 (4.26%) Software Development Engineer
13 28 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 27 (3.38%) Product Owner
15 24 (3.00%) Consultant
15 24 (3.00%) Data Scientist
16 21 (2.63%) Java Engineer
16 21 (2.63%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.63%) REST
2 27 (3.38%) Spring
3 24 (3.00%) React
4 22 (2.75%) LangChain
4 22 (2.75%) LangGraph
5 12 (1.50%) AngularJS
5 12 (1.50%) Kafka
5 12 (1.50%) scikit-learn
6 11 (1.38%) PyTorch
6 11 (1.38%) RESTful
6 11 (1.38%) TensorFlow
7 10 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (1.25%) XMPP
8 9 (1.13%) Node.js
8 9 (1.13%) OpenAPI
8 9 (1.13%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.13%) Swagger
9 8 (1.00%) AWS CDK
10 7 (0.88%) .NET
11 6 (0.75%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 158 (19.77%) Product Ownership
2 123 (15.39%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.88%) Public Cloud
4 39 (4.88%) Web Conferencing
5 37 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.01%) Podcast
7 26 (3.25%) Blog
8 22 (2.75%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.38%) AI Agents
10 19 (2.38%) Hedge funds
11 16 (2.00%) Derivative
11 16 (2.00%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.75%) Credit Risk
12 14 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.75%) FPGA
13 13 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.63%) Linux
2 24 (3.00%) Windows
3 14 (1.75%) Android
3 14 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.13%) Unix
6 2 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (28.91%) Roadmaps
2 193 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 141 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (15.64%) Agile
5 120 (15.02%) Fintech
6 107 (13.39%) Test Automation
7 104 (13.02%) CI/CD
8 98 (12.27%) AI
9 92 (11.51%) Product Roadmap
10 86 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
11 81 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (9.76%) Coaching
13 75 (9.39%) Mentoring
14 72 (9.01%) DevOps
15 70 (8.76%) Risk Management
16 64 (8.01%) Analytics
16 64 (8.01%) Microservices
17 63 (7.88%) Machine Learning
18 62 (7.76%) Deployment Automation
19 59 (7.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 165 (20.65%) Java
2 103 (12.89%) Python
3 59 (7.38%) SQL
4 27 (3.38%) C++
4 27 (3.38%) Go
5 24 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.75%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.25%) C
8 12 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.25%) R
10 9 (1.13%) C#
11 8 (1.00%) Rust
12 5 (0.63%) Bash
12 5 (0.63%) VBA
13 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.38%) Perl
13 3 (0.38%) Ruby
14 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.13%) RPG
14 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (6.51%) Degree
2 28 (3.50%) CISSP
3 27 (3.38%) ACCA
4 25 (3.13%) CIMA
5 24 (3.00%) CISM
6 22 (2.75%) CISA
7 12 (1.50%) CREST Certified
7 12 (1.50%) OSCP
8 11 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.38%) CRISC
9 10 (1.25%) CGEIT
9 10 (1.25%) FFIEC
9 10 (1.25%) SANS
10 9 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.88%) ISACA
11 7 (0.88%) Security Cleared
12 6 (0.75%) CCNP
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.76%) QA
2 32 (4.01%) NIST
3 27 (3.38%) GDPR
4 23 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.75%) COBIT
5 22 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.75%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.88%) FINREP
6 15 (1.88%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.75%) COREP
8 13 (1.63%) GRC
9 11 (1.38%) EMIR
9 11 (1.38%) MiFID
10 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.88%) SOC 1
11 6 (0.75%) IFRS
12 5 (0.63%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.50%) GAAP
13 4 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (1.63%) Docker
3 9 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 7 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.88%) vSphere
6 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (11.26%) Terraform
2 77 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.51%) Grafana
4 21 (2.63%) Ansible
5 10 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.00%) Istio
7 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.38%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Argo
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (6.88%) Oracle
2 51 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.76%) BT
4 32 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.00%) Databricks
6 21 (2.63%) BMC
7 19 (2.38%) Cisco
8 18 (2.25%) Palo Alto
8 18 (2.25%) Remedy
9 16 (2.00%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.75%) Splunk
10 14 (1.75%) VMware
11 10 (1.25%) FIS
12 9 (1.13%) SunGard
13 8 (1.00%) Confluent
14 7 (0.88%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.88%) NetApp
15 6 (0.75%) Google
15 6 (0.75%) SAP
15 6 (0.75%) Workday