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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 48 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 -20 +12
Permanent jobs citing Banking 634 1,073 1,677
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.15% 5.41% 8.02%
As % of the General category 6.45% 8.41% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 400 856 1,403
10th Percentile £25,087 £52,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £62,563 £75,992 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% +6.03%
75th Percentile £115,625 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% 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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,822 12,754 13,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 64.26% 64.26% 65.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,304 7,389 10,752
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,667 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 28 November 2025.

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 53 (8.36%) Apache
1 53 (8.36%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.52%) Tomcat
2 16 (2.52%) WebSphere
2 16 (2.52%) WebSphere Application Server
3 11 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.26%) SAS
5 7 (1.10%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.47%) Confluence
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.95%) Adaptiv
4 5 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.47%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 160 (25.24%) AWS
2 61 (9.62%) Snowflake
3 55 (8.68%) dbt
4 52 (8.20%) Azure
5 47 (7.41%) SaaS
6 42 (6.62%) GCP
7 28 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.00%) GitHub
9 13 (2.05%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.42%) Route 53
12 6 (0.95%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.95%) Serverless
13 5 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 84 (13.25%) Broadband
2 22 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.84%) SSL
4 11 (1.74%) Firewall
5 7 (1.10%) VPN
6 6 (0.95%) CHAP
6 6 (0.95%) HTTP
7 5 (0.79%) LAN
7 5 (0.79%) Network Security
7 5 (0.79%) WAN
8 4 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.63%) NX-OS
8 4 (0.63%) WLAN
9 3 (0.47%) BGP
9 3 (0.47%) VLAN
10 2 (0.32%) RFID
10 2 (0.32%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.16%) Internet
11 1 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.46%) Data Lake
2 53 (8.36%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (8.36%) Apache Arrow
2 53 (8.36%) Apache Iceberg
2 53 (8.36%) Apache Ignite
2 53 (8.36%) Dremio
3 24 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.84%) DB2
6 13 (2.05%) Power BI
7 12 (1.89%) Tableau
8 9 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.42%) Metadata
9 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.79%) Flink
11 4 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.63%) DataStage
11 4 (0.63%) QlikView
12 2 (0.32%) Power Query
12 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (3.00%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.58%) Git
4 9 (1.42%) JIRA
5 5 (0.79%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.63%) ERwin
6 4 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.16%) NUnit
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.16%) Storybook
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 431 (67.98%) Finance
2 162 (25.55%) Social Skills
3 108 (17.03%) Investment Banking
4 82 (12.93%) Front Office
5 63 (9.94%) Financial Institution
6 62 (9.78%) Games
7 60 (9.46%) Retail
8 46 (7.26%) Law
9 43 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (5.99%) Back Office
11 33 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
12 18 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.68%) Legal
14 15 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.05%) Marketing
16 11 (1.74%) Billing
17 8 (1.26%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.63%) Polish Language
18 4 (0.63%) Public Sector
19 3 (0.47%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 139 (21.92%) Senior
2 83 (13.09%) Software Engineer
3 66 (10.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 64 (10.09%) Java Engineer
5 63 (9.94%) Customer Service Advisor
5 63 (9.94%) Java Software Engineer
6 61 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
7 59 (9.31%) Python Engineer
8 54 (8.52%) Python Software Engineer
8 54 (8.52%) Senior Java Engineer
8 54 (8.52%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 53 (8.36%) AWS Software Engineer
10 49 (7.73%) Developer
11 38 (5.99%) Analyst
12 36 (5.68%) Lead
13 32 (5.05%) Architect
14 23 (3.63%) C++ Developer
15 22 (3.47%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
16 20 (3.15%) Auditor
17 19 (3.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.36%) gRPC
1 53 (8.36%) NumPy
1 53 (8.36%) Pandas
1 53 (8.36%) Protocol Buffers
1 53 (8.36%) SciPy
2 21 (3.31%) .NET
3 16 (2.52%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.52%) LDAP
3 16 (2.52%) WebSphere MQ
4 13 (2.05%) Kafka
5 12 (1.89%) REST
6 8 (1.26%) CSS
6 8 (1.26%) HTML
7 7 (1.10%) Django
7 7 (1.10%) Flask
7 7 (1.10%) PySpark
7 7 (1.10%) Smart Contracts
7 7 (1.10%) web3js
8 6 (0.95%) React
8 6 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.25%) Hedge funds
2 64 (10.09%) Fixed Income
3 63 (9.94%) Derivative
4 59 (9.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 56 (8.83%) Equities
6 53 (8.36%) Pricing Data
7 34 (5.36%) Cloud Native
8 32 (5.05%) Management Information System
9 29 (4.57%) Public Cloud
10 26 (4.10%) Data Centre
11 24 (3.79%) Product Ownership
12 20 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 19 (3.00%) FPGA
14 18 (2.84%) Credit Risk
15 16 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
16 14 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (2.05%) Market Risk
18 10 (1.58%) Blockchain
18 10 (1.58%) Onboarding
18 10 (1.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.73%) Linux
2 27 (4.26%) Windows
3 20 (3.15%) Unix
4 17 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) AIX
6 1 (0.16%) Solaris
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (19.87%) Agile
2 115 (18.14%) Software Engineering
3 111 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (16.88%) Roadmaps
5 89 (14.04%) Risk Management
6 87 (13.72%) Asset Management
7 80 (12.62%) Customer Service
8 71 (11.20%) Risk Assessment
9 68 (10.73%) CI/CD
10 62 (9.78%) Investment Management
11 61 (9.62%) Information Security
12 55 (8.68%) Process Improvement
13 54 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (8.52%) Due Diligence
13 54 (8.52%) Fintech
13 54 (8.52%) ITIL
14 53 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 51 (8.04%) Analytics
16 45 (7.10%) Operations Management
16 45 (7.10%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (20.66%) Java
2 128 (20.19%) Python
3 66 (10.41%) TypeScript
4 59 (9.31%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.62%) SQL
6 23 (3.63%) C++
7 19 (3.00%) C
8 17 (2.68%) C#
8 17 (2.68%) Go
9 9 (1.42%) Bash
10 8 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.10%) Rust
12 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.32%) R
14 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.16%) COBOL
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) SOQL
14 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (9.62%) Degree
2 57 (8.99%) CISA
3 52 (8.20%) CISSP
4 50 (7.89%) CRISC
5 24 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (3.15%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.74%) PMP
10 10 (1.58%) CFA
10 10 (1.58%) CISM
11 9 (1.42%) ACCA
11 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.95%) CGEIT
12 6 (0.95%) CIMA
12 6 (0.95%) FFIEC
12 6 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.95%) SANS
13 5 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.88%) NIST
2 56 (8.83%) PCI DSS
3 23 (3.63%) SLA
4 22 (3.47%) GDPR
5 20 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.37%) SOC 2
7 13 (2.05%) Data Quality
7 13 (2.05%) QA
8 12 (1.89%) PMO
9 10 (1.58%) GRC
10 9 (1.42%) IFRS
11 8 (1.26%) COBIT
12 6 (0.95%) GAAP
13 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.63%) EMIR
13 4 (0.63%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.63%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.63%) SOC 1
14 3 (0.47%) COREP
14 3 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (0.95%) Firmware
2 5 (0.79%) Docker
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (5.84%) Terraform
2 33 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.31%) Ansible
4 14 (2.21%) Grafana
5 5 (0.79%) Argo
6 4 (0.63%) Cilium
6 4 (0.63%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.32%) Suricata
8 1 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 84 (13.25%) BT
2 39 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.47%) Databricks
4 22 (3.47%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.31%) IBM
6 16 (2.52%) BMC
6 16 (2.52%) Remedy
7 14 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.74%) Murex
9 8 (1.26%) SAP
10 7 (1.10%) Informatica
10 7 (1.10%) Oracle
11 6 (0.95%) Cisco
11 6 (0.95%) FIS
11 6 (0.95%) Google
12 4 (0.63%) Ariba
12 4 (0.63%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.63%) Sage