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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 -20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 629 977 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.86% 6.29% 5.57%
As % of the General category 6.52% 8.98% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 327 752 1,279
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,313 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £50,188 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +13.35% +1.41%
75th Percentile £130,000 £102,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £145,500 £139,875 £123,786
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -

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 9,640 10,874 17,240
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.17% 69.97% 62.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,115 6,177 13,742
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,000 £32,435
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -10.51%

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 17 February 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 18 (2.86%) SAS
2 12 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.91%) Tomcat
2 12 (1.91%) WebSphere
2 12 (1.91%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (1.59%) Apache
4 8 (1.27%) Confluence
5 7 (1.11%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (0.79%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.79%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.48%) SAP PS
4 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.32%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 177 (28.14%) AWS
2 119 (18.92%) SaaS
3 89 (14.15%) GCP
4 69 (10.97%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (7.31%) Azure
6 30 (4.77%) GitHub
7 18 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.23%) dbt
10 13 (2.07%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.59%) Route 53
11 10 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.43%) Azure Event Grid
13 7 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (0.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.88%) Broadband
2 24 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 19 (3.02%) CHAP
4 15 (2.38%) Firewall
5 13 (2.07%) SSL
6 11 (1.75%) BGP
6 11 (1.75%) HTTP
7 10 (1.59%) VPN
8 9 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (1.27%) VLAN
10 7 (1.11%) LAN
10 7 (1.11%) WAN
11 6 (0.95%) Network Security
12 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.64%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.64%) WLAN
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Firepower
13 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
13 1 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.02%) Data Lake
4 16 (2.54%) DB2
5 13 (2.07%) Power BI
5 13 (2.07%) Tableau
6 10 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (1.59%) Apache Arrow
6 10 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
6 10 (1.59%) Apache Ignite
6 10 (1.59%) Dremio
6 10 (1.59%) Flink
7 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.95%) Metadata
9 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.64%) DataStage
9 4 (0.64%) QlikView
10 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.32%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 52 (8.27%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.59%) JIRA
4 4 (0.64%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.64%) ERwin
4 4 (0.64%) Git
4 4 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.16%) JUnit
5 1 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 461 (73.29%) Finance
2 190 (30.21%) Social Skills
3 168 (26.71%) Retail
4 145 (23.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (22.42%) Law
6 139 (22.10%) Financial Institution
7 108 (17.17%) Back Office
8 55 (8.74%) Investment Banking
9 38 (6.04%) Front Office
10 30 (4.77%) Games
11 27 (4.29%) Marketing
12 25 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
13 16 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.38%) Polish Language
15 13 (2.07%) Public Sector
16 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.43%) Telecoms
18 8 (1.27%) Legal
18 8 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 101 (16.06%) Senior
2 79 (12.56%) Software Engineer
3 54 (8.59%) Analyst
4 51 (8.11%) Lead
5 41 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 37 (5.88%) Developer
7 33 (5.25%) Auditor
8 32 (5.09%) Architect
9 31 (4.93%) Customer Service Advisor
10 30 (4.77%) Java Engineer
10 30 (4.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (3.82%) Product Owner
13 20 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.18%) Internal Auditor
14 19 (3.02%) C++ Developer
15 18 (2.86%) Linux Developer
15 18 (2.86%) Linux Scripter
15 18 (2.86%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 18 (2.86%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.50%) .NET
2 19 (3.02%) REST
3 16 (2.54%) Kafka
4 12 (1.91%) LAPP Stack
4 12 (1.91%) LDAP
4 12 (1.91%) React
4 12 (1.91%) RESTful
4 12 (1.91%) WebSphere MQ
5 10 (1.59%) gRPC
5 10 (1.59%) NumPy
5 10 (1.59%) Pandas
5 10 (1.59%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (1.59%) SciPy
6 8 (1.27%) Middleware
6 8 (1.27%) WPF
7 7 (1.11%) Sass
7 7 (1.11%) Smart Contracts
7 7 (1.11%) web3js
8 6 (0.95%) OpenAPI
8 6 (0.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 92 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 77 (12.24%) Product Ownership
3 47 (7.47%) Management Information System
4 39 (6.20%) Blog
5 35 (5.56%) Data Centre
6 31 (4.93%) Public Cloud
7 30 (4.77%) Credit Risk
8 29 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (3.97%) Hedge funds
10 23 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (3.02%) Onboarding
11 19 (3.02%) Security Posture
12 18 (2.86%) Blockchain
12 18 (2.86%) Derivative
12 18 (2.86%) Fixed Income
12 18 (2.86%) FPGA
13 15 (2.38%) Market Risk
14 12 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.59%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.84%) Linux
2 24 (3.82%) Windows
3 15 (2.38%) Unix
4 13 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.75%) Android
5 11 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (17.49%) Software Engineering
2 108 (17.17%) Roadmaps
3 105 (16.69%) Agile
4 97 (15.42%) Risk Management
5 93 (14.79%) CI/CD
6 91 (14.47%) Fintech
7 86 (13.67%) Information Security
8 84 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (12.88%) Risk Assessment
10 80 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (12.56%) Test Automation
12 61 (9.70%) Microservices
13 59 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
14 55 (8.74%) Process Improvement
15 54 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (8.43%) DevOps
17 51 (8.11%) Clean Code
18 50 (7.95%) Customer Service
19 49 (7.79%) Analytics
19 49 (7.79%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 142 (22.58%) Java
2 90 (14.31%) Python
3 38 (6.04%) SQL
4 35 (5.56%) Go
5 30 (4.77%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.18%) C++
7 19 (3.02%) C
8 17 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.54%) C#
10 7 (1.11%) Rust
11 5 (0.79%) Bash
12 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.16%) COBOL
15 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.16%) RPG
15 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (11.76%) Degree
2 73 (11.61%) CISA
3 71 (11.29%) CISSP
4 52 (8.27%) CRISC
5 20 (3.18%) FFIEC
6 19 (3.02%) CGEIT
6 19 (3.02%) CISM
6 19 (3.02%) SANS
7 16 (2.54%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.38%) OSCP
9 14 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (2.07%) ACCA
10 13 (2.07%) CREST Certified
11 12 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.59%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.43%) Security Cleared
14 8 (1.27%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.11%) CIMA
15 7 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.08%) NIST
2 74 (11.76%) PCI DSS
3 32 (5.09%) GDPR
4 30 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (4.77%) SOC 2
5 20 (3.18%) COBIT
6 19 (3.02%) GRC
6 19 (3.02%) SLA
7 13 (2.07%) IFRS
7 13 (2.07%) QA
8 8 (1.27%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.11%) GAAP
10 6 (0.95%) Basel II
10 6 (0.95%) EMIR
11 5 (0.79%) MiFID
12 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.64%) PMO
12 4 (0.64%) SEPA
13 3 (0.48%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (1.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.64%) Firmware
3 4 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.32%) vSphere
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 91 (14.47%) Terraform
2 79 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 51 (8.11%) Grafana
4 17 (2.70%) Ansible
5 10 (1.59%) Argo
6 4 (0.64%) Cilium
7 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.16%) Suricata
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 37 (5.88%) BT
2 31 (4.93%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.50%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.86%) IBM
5 15 (2.38%) Databricks
6 13 (2.07%) BMC
6 13 (2.07%) Oracle
6 13 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.07%) Remedy
7 11 (1.75%) Cisco
7 11 (1.75%) Google
8 9 (1.43%) Informatica
8 9 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.27%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.95%) SAP
10 6 (0.95%) VMware
11 5 (0.79%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.48%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.48%) Ariba
12 3 (0.48%) Murex