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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 53 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 -5
Permanent jobs citing Banking 576 879 1,585
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.72% 5.36% 6.62%
As % of the General category 6.23% 7.75% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 331 659 1,313
10th Percentile £25,087 £42,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,253 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +20.80% -0.02%
75th Percentile £122,500 £113,979 £96,539
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £123,749
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 9,244 11,335 14,944
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.73% 69.13% 62.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,849 6,415 11,763
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.50% +8.23% -11.15%

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 22 January 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 26 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.17%) Apache
3 16 (2.78%) Tomcat
3 16 (2.78%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
4 15 (2.60%) SAS
5 8 (1.39%) Confluence
6 7 (1.22%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.87%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.87%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.52%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.35%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.17%) Actimize
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.17%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (26.22%) AWS
2 64 (11.11%) SaaS
3 51 (8.85%) GCP
4 47 (8.16%) Azure
5 40 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 30 (5.21%) GitHub
8 26 (4.51%) dbt
9 15 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.08%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.56%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.56%) Route 53
13 7 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.04%) Azure Event Grid
14 6 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.81%) Broadband
2 20 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.13%) SSL
4 16 (2.78%) CHAP
5 15 (2.60%) Firewall
6 11 (1.91%) HTTP
7 8 (1.39%) BGP
7 8 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (1.22%) VPN
9 6 (1.04%) LAN
9 6 (1.04%) Network Security
9 6 (1.04%) WAN
10 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.69%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.69%) VLAN
10 4 (0.69%) WLAN
11 2 (0.35%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.17%) Internet
12 1 (0.17%) MPLS
12 1 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.73%) Data Lake
2 24 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (4.17%) Apache Arrow
2 24 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 24 (4.17%) Apache Ignite
2 24 (4.17%) Dremio
2 24 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.13%) DB2
5 12 (2.08%) Power BI
5 12 (2.08%) Tableau
6 10 (1.74%) Flink
6 10 (1.74%) Metadata
7 9 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.69%) DataStage
9 4 (0.69%) QlikView
10 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.34%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.26%) JIRA
4 5 (0.87%) Git
5 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.69%) ERwin
5 4 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 417 (72.40%) Finance
2 165 (28.65%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.32%) Retail
4 86 (14.93%) Financial Institution
5 74 (12.85%) Investment Banking
6 71 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (11.81%) Law
8 56 (9.72%) Back Office
9 51 (8.85%) Front Office
10 31 (5.38%) Games
11 22 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (3.65%) Marketing
13 16 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (2.08%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.22%) Retail Banking
18 6 (1.04%) Polish Language
19 5 (0.87%) International Banking
19 5 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 104 (18.06%) Senior
2 67 (11.63%) Software Engineer
3 45 (7.81%) Analyst
4 44 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
5 39 (6.77%) Lead
6 37 (6.42%) Java Engineer
7 36 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 35 (6.08%) Developer
9 32 (5.56%) Customer Service Advisor
9 32 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 31 (5.38%) Auditor
11 30 (5.21%) Architect
12 25 (4.34%) Senior Java Engineer
12 25 (4.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 24 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
13 24 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (3.47%) Internal Auditor
14 20 (3.47%) Product Owner
15 18 (3.13%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.17%) gRPC
1 24 (4.17%) NumPy
1 24 (4.17%) Pandas
1 24 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
1 24 (4.17%) SciPy
2 18 (3.13%) .NET
3 16 (2.78%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.78%) LDAP
3 16 (2.78%) REST
3 16 (2.78%) WebSphere MQ
4 15 (2.60%) Kafka
5 9 (1.56%) React
6 7 (1.22%) CSS
6 7 (1.22%) HTML
6 7 (1.22%) Smart Contracts
6 7 (1.22%) web3js
7 6 (1.04%) Middleware
7 6 (1.04%) RESTful
8 5 (0.87%) Next.js
9 4 (0.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 45 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 41 (7.12%) Management Information System
4 39 (6.77%) Hedge funds
5 33 (5.73%) Derivative
6 32 (5.56%) Fixed Income
7 31 (5.38%) Data Centre
7 31 (5.38%) Public Cloud
8 25 (4.34%) Credit Risk
9 24 (4.17%) Equities
9 24 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (4.17%) Pricing Data
10 20 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (2.95%) FPGA
12 17 (2.95%) Security Posture
13 16 (2.78%) Blog
13 16 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.60%) Blockchain
15 12 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.81%) Linux
2 28 (4.86%) Windows
3 20 (3.47%) Unix
4 17 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.04%) Android
5 6 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (17.71%) Agile
2 96 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 95 (16.49%) Software Engineering
4 83 (14.41%) Risk Management
5 75 (13.02%) Risk Assessment
5 75 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 73 (12.67%) Information Security
7 70 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (11.81%) CI/CD
9 58 (10.07%) Asset Management
10 56 (9.72%) Process Improvement
11 55 (9.55%) Cybersecurity
12 53 (9.20%) Fintech
13 47 (8.16%) Customer Service
13 47 (8.16%) Due Diligence
13 47 (8.16%) ITIL
14 46 (7.99%) Test Automation
15 45 (7.81%) Analytics
15 45 (7.81%) Business Continuity
15 45 (7.81%) Business Continuity Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (20.14%) Java
2 101 (17.53%) Python
3 41 (7.12%) TypeScript
4 38 (6.60%) SQL
5 28 (4.86%) Go
5 28 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.30%) C++
7 18 (3.13%) C
8 12 (2.08%) C#
9 7 (1.22%) Rust
10 6 (1.04%) Bash
11 5 (0.87%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.17%) COBOL
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) R
13 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (11.81%) CISA
2 64 (11.11%) CISSP
2 64 (11.11%) Degree
3 49 (8.51%) CRISC
4 20 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
6 17 (2.95%) CISM
6 17 (2.95%) FFIEC
7 16 (2.78%) CGEIT
7 16 (2.78%) SANS
8 11 (1.91%) ACCA
8 11 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.91%) OSCP
9 10 (1.74%) Security Cleared
10 9 (1.56%) CREST Certified
11 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.22%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.04%) CIMA
13 6 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.19%) NIST
2 62 (10.76%) PCI DSS
3 32 (5.56%) GDPR
4 23 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (3.99%) SLA
5 18 (3.13%) COBIT
6 17 (2.95%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.43%) Data Quality
7 14 (2.43%) GRC
7 14 (2.43%) QA
8 11 (1.91%) IFRS
9 6 (1.04%) Basel II
9 6 (1.04%) EMIR
9 6 (1.04%) GAAP
10 5 (0.87%) MiFID
11 4 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.69%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.69%) PMO
12 3 (0.52%) COREP
12 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.69%) Firmware
3 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (9.55%) Terraform
2 47 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.65%) Grafana
4 17 (2.95%) Ansible
5 10 (1.74%) Argo
6 4 (0.69%) Cilium
7 2 (0.35%) Suricata
8 1 (0.17%) Control-M
8 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.17%) SCCM
8 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (7.81%) BT
2 39 (6.77%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.51%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.65%) IBM
5 18 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.78%) BMC
6 16 (2.78%) Remedy
7 15 (2.60%) Databricks
8 11 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.74%) Cisco
9 10 (1.74%) Google
10 9 (1.56%) Oracle
11 8 (1.39%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.39%) Informatica
12 5 (0.87%) SAP
12 5 (0.87%) VMware
13 4 (0.69%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.69%) Sage
14 3 (0.52%) Ariba
14 3 (0.52%) Murex