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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Banking 905 1,096 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.78% 6.76% 5.06%
As % of the General category 6.24% 9.44% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 373 521 956
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £26,968 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +51.72%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +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 14,492 11,615 14,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.53% 71.60% 62.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,041 6,432 8,633
10th Percentile £32,261 £28,750 £34,781
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,250 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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

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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 10 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 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.20%) Oracle Financials
2 21 (2.32%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 7 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.44%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.22%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.11%) Finacle
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 281 (31.05%) AWS
2 128 (14.14%) GCP
3 118 (13.04%) SaaS
4 85 (9.39%) Azure
5 60 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (4.64%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.31%) Amazon Bedrock
7 30 (3.31%) Anthropic Claude
8 19 (2.10%) GitHub
9 18 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (1.99%) OCI
10 15 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (1.55%) Serverless
12 12 (1.33%) Datadog
13 11 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.10%) Azure AI
14 10 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
15 9 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.30%) Broadband
2 34 (3.76%) HTTP
3 25 (2.76%) Firewall
4 23 (2.54%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.21%) LAN
5 20 (2.21%) WAN
6 14 (1.55%) VLAN
7 13 (1.44%) Network Security
8 10 (1.10%) BGP
8 10 (1.10%) OSPF
9 8 (0.88%) DHCP
9 8 (0.88%) DNS
10 7 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
10 7 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (0.77%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.77%) WebEx
11 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.54%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.33%) Power BI
6 11 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.99%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.77%) Looker
8 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.66%) Metadata
9 6 (0.66%) Tableau
10 4 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (5.97%) TeamCity
2 30 (3.31%) Claude Code
3 12 (1.33%) Git
4 8 (0.88%) JUnit
5 5 (0.55%) JIRA
6 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.33%) Android Studio
7 3 (0.33%) Jenkins
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
1 710 (78.45%) Finance
2 334 (36.91%) Social Skills
3 191 (21.10%) Retail
4 178 (19.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (17.79%) Law
6 112 (12.38%) Back Office
7 110 (12.15%) Financial Institution
8 67 (7.40%) Legal
9 66 (7.29%) Investment Banking
10 62 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
11 49 (5.41%) Marketing
12 46 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (4.20%) Front Office
14 24 (2.65%) Public Sector
14 24 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.88%) Games
16 15 (1.66%) Polish Language
17 13 (1.44%) German Language
17 13 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (15.36%) Senior
2 129 (14.25%) Software Engineer
3 117 (12.93%) Lead
4 66 (7.29%) Architect
5 54 (5.97%) Senior Manager
6 52 (5.75%) Analyst
7 49 (5.41%) Engineering Manager
8 47 (5.19%) Software Engineering Manager
8 47 (5.19%) Software Manager
9 46 (5.08%) Developer
10 43 (4.75%) Lead Software Engineer
11 38 (4.20%) Product Manager
12 37 (4.09%) Development Engineer
12 37 (4.09%) Software Development Engineer
13 34 (3.76%) Product Owner
14 31 (3.43%) Enterprise Architect
14 31 (3.43%) Finance Manager
14 31 (3.43%) IT Manager
15 27 (2.98%) Java Engineer
16 26 (2.87%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (11.16%) Terraform
2 54 (5.97%) REST
3 38 (4.20%) LangChain
3 38 (4.20%) LangGraph
4 34 (3.76%) Spring
5 23 (2.54%) React
6 16 (1.77%) AngularJS
6 16 (1.77%) RESTful
6 16 (1.77%) scikit-learn
7 15 (1.66%) PyTorch
7 15 (1.66%) TensorFlow
8 13 (1.44%) Node.js
8 13 (1.44%) OpenAPI
8 13 (1.44%) Spring Boot
8 13 (1.44%) Swagger
9 10 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.10%) Kafka
10 8 (0.88%) AWS CDK
11 7 (0.77%) XMPP
12 6 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 186 (20.55%) Product Ownership
2 132 (14.59%) Cloud Native
3 62 (6.85%) Public Cloud
4 42 (4.64%) Web Conferencing
5 39 (4.31%) AI Agents
6 38 (4.20%) Podcast
7 36 (3.98%) Hedge funds
8 31 (3.43%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.65%) Blog
10 22 (2.43%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.21%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
13 17 (1.88%) Derivative
13 17 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.66%) Security Posture
15 14 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (1.44%) Credit Risk
16 13 (1.44%) Data Centre
17 12 (1.33%) Social Media
18 11 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.09%) Linux
2 20 (2.21%) Windows
3 18 (1.99%) Android
4 16 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.66%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) AIX
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (29.06%) Roadmaps
2 220 (24.31%) Software Engineering
3 135 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (14.36%) AI
5 125 (13.81%) CI/CD
6 124 (13.70%) Fintech
7 116 (12.82%) Agile
7 116 (12.82%) Test Automation
8 99 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
9 95 (10.50%) Product Roadmap
10 91 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (9.94%) Machine Learning
12 88 (9.72%) Mentoring
13 86 (9.50%) Coaching
14 79 (8.73%) DevOps
15 71 (7.85%) Deployment Automation
16 69 (7.62%) Data Science
16 69 (7.62%) Microservices
17 65 (7.18%) Disruptive Innovation
18 64 (7.07%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (20.44%) Java
2 113 (12.49%) Python
3 71 (7.85%) SQL
4 26 (2.87%) Go
5 25 (2.76%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.54%) C++
6 23 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.55%) C
9 10 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 8 (0.88%) R
10 8 (0.88%) Rust
11 7 (0.77%) C#
12 6 (0.66%) Bash
13 5 (0.55%) VBA
14 4 (0.44%) Bicep
15 3 (0.33%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.33%) Perl
15 3 (0.33%) Ruby
16 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (3.76%) Degree
2 21 (2.32%) ACCA
3 20 (2.21%) CISSP
4 18 (1.99%) CIMA
4 18 (1.99%) CISM
5 14 (1.55%) CISA
6 11 (1.22%) CREST Certified
6 11 (1.22%) OSCP
7 9 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (0.99%) CRISC
8 8 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.77%) ISACA
10 6 (0.66%) CCNP
10 6 (0.66%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CEH
12 4 (0.44%) CGEIT
12 4 (0.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.30%) QA
2 24 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.54%) NIST
4 22 (2.43%) GDPR
5 18 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.77%) COBIT
8 13 (1.44%) FINREP
8 13 (1.44%) MiFID
9 12 (1.33%) EMIR
9 12 (1.33%) GRC
10 10 (1.10%) COREP
10 10 (1.10%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.77%) SOC 1
12 5 (0.55%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.44%) PMO
14 3 (0.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 18 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (1.66%) Docker
3 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.44%) vSphere
6 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 71 (7.85%) Grafana
3 25 (2.76%) Ansible
4 7 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (0.66%) Istio
6 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.33%) Norton AntiVirus
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 (6.30%) BT
2 51 (5.64%) Oracle
3 48 (5.30%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.08%) Databricks
5 36 (3.98%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.54%) BMC
7 20 (2.21%) Cisco
7 20 (2.21%) Remedy
8 13 (1.44%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.22%) FIS
10 10 (1.10%) Splunk
10 10 (1.10%) VMware
11 9 (0.99%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.99%) SunGard
12 7 (0.77%) Google
13 6 (0.66%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.66%) Confluent
14 5 (0.55%) Okta
14 5 (0.55%) Xero