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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 20 74
Rank change year-on-year -33 +54 -50
Permanent jobs citing Banking 739 1,516 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.00% 10.42% 3.85%
As % of the General category 7.20% 14.03% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 327 901 1,062
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £35,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,500 £75,000 £83,038
Median % change year-on-year +27.33% -9.68% +18.63%
75th Percentile £130,000 £104,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £83,577
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.29% +11.44%

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 10,264 10,803 20,165
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.60% 74.27% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,811 6,473 15,093
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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

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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 12 May 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 14 (1.89%) SAS
2 7 (0.95%) Confluence
3 6 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.54%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.92%) Oracle Financials
2 13 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 188 (25.44%) AWS
2 118 (15.97%) SaaS
3 97 (13.13%) GCP
4 74 (10.01%) Azure
5 64 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (3.25%) GitHub
7 16 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
7 16 (2.17%) OCI
8 12 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.35%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.35%) Azure Event Grid
10 10 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (1.35%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.08%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.08%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.95%) dbt
12 7 (0.95%) Figma
12 7 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.06%) HTTP
2 26 (3.52%) Firewall
2 26 (3.52%) TCP/IP
3 23 (3.11%) CHAP
4 17 (2.30%) Broadband
4 17 (2.30%) LAN
4 17 (2.30%) WAN
5 15 (2.03%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (1.76%) VLAN
7 11 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
7 11 (1.49%) Network Security
8 9 (1.22%) BGP
8 9 (1.22%) Unified Communications
8 9 (1.22%) WebEx
9 6 (0.81%) VPN
10 4 (0.54%) DHCP
10 4 (0.54%) DNS
10 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.95%) Flink
4 7 (0.95%) Power BI
5 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 6 (0.81%) Looker
5 6 (0.81%) Tableau
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.41%) SAS EBI
8 2 (0.27%) DB2
9 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.14%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 43 (5.82%) TeamCity
2 10 (1.35%) JIRA
3 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.14%) JUnit
4 1 (0.14%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 582 (78.76%) Finance
2 261 (35.32%) Social Skills
3 171 (23.14%) Retail
4 168 (22.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (20.84%) Law
6 130 (17.59%) Financial Institution
7 110 (14.88%) Back Office
8 55 (7.44%) Investment Banking
9 49 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
10 46 (6.22%) Marketing
11 27 (3.65%) Front Office
12 24 (3.25%) Public Sector
13 21 (2.84%) Legal
13 21 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.84%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (2.17%) Games
16 15 (2.03%) Polish Language
17 14 (1.89%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 119 (16.10%) Senior
2 100 (13.53%) Software Engineer
3 81 (10.96%) Lead
4 74 (10.01%) Analyst
5 41 (5.55%) Developer
6 40 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 39 (5.28%) Product Manager
7 39 (5.28%) Product Owner
8 33 (4.47%) Development Engineer
8 33 (4.47%) Software Development Engineer
9 30 (4.06%) Auditor
10 28 (3.79%) Architect
10 28 (3.79%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (3.25%) Consultant
12 23 (3.11%) Java Engineer
13 22 (2.98%) Internal Auditor
13 22 (2.98%) Security Auditor
13 22 (2.98%) Senior Manager
13 22 (2.98%) Software Manager
14 20 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.22%) REST
2 23 (3.11%) React
3 21 (2.84%) Kafka
4 17 (2.30%) .NET
5 15 (2.03%) Spring
6 9 (1.22%) RESTful
6 9 (1.22%) XMPP
7 8 (1.08%) Middleware
8 7 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 7 (0.95%) AWS CDK
8 7 (0.95%) Sass
8 7 (0.95%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.81%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.81%) Swagger
10 5 (0.68%) Next.js
10 5 (0.68%) Node.js
11 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.54%) Smart Contracts
11 4 (0.54%) web3js
11 4 (0.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 138 (18.67%) Product Ownership
2 109 (14.75%) Cloud Native
3 46 (6.22%) Management Information System
4 45 (6.09%) Public Cloud
5 38 (5.14%) Blog
6 27 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 24 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (3.11%) Credit Risk
8 23 (3.11%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.84%) Security Posture
10 19 (2.57%) FPGA
11 18 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (2.03%) Blockchain
14 12 (1.62%) Derivative
14 12 (1.62%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (1.35%) Market Risk
17 9 (1.22%) Mobile App
17 9 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.55%) Linux
2 22 (2.98%) Windows
3 14 (1.89%) Android
3 14 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.08%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Solaris
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (26.52%) Roadmaps
2 153 (20.70%) Agile
3 148 (20.03%) Software Engineering
4 120 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (15.43%) Fintech
6 104 (14.07%) Risk Management
7 98 (13.26%) Test Automation
8 94 (12.72%) Information Security
9 89 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 84 (11.37%) CI/CD
11 80 (10.83%) Product Roadmap
12 76 (10.28%) Risk Assessment
13 73 (9.88%) Mentoring
14 70 (9.47%) DevOps
15 66 (8.93%) Process Improvement
15 66 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
16 62 (8.39%) Microservices
17 61 (8.25%) Product Management
18 59 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 162 (21.92%) Java
2 90 (12.18%) Python
3 51 (6.90%) SQL
4 39 (5.28%) Go
5 27 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 24 (3.25%) C
6 24 (3.25%) C++
7 19 (2.57%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.76%) C#
9 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.95%) Rust
10 5 (0.68%) Bash
11 4 (0.54%) R
12 3 (0.41%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.41%) Perl
12 3 (0.41%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) Cypher
13 1 (0.14%) RPG
13 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (10.55%) CISSP
2 75 (10.15%) CISA
3 64 (8.66%) Degree
4 51 (6.90%) CRISC
5 30 (4.06%) ACCA
6 29 (3.92%) CISM
7 24 (3.25%) FFIEC
8 23 (3.11%) CGEIT
8 23 (3.11%) CIMA
8 23 (3.11%) SANS
9 17 (2.30%) OSCP
10 16 (2.17%) CREST Certified
11 10 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.35%) Security Cleared
12 7 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (0.95%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.81%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.42%) NIST
2 65 (8.80%) PCI DSS
3 29 (3.92%) GDPR
4 26 (3.52%) COBIT
5 22 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.98%) SOC 2
6 18 (2.44%) GRC
7 16 (2.17%) COREP
8 14 (1.89%) QA
9 13 (1.76%) FINREP
10 12 (1.62%) EMIR
10 12 (1.62%) MiFID
11 11 (1.49%) Data Quality
11 11 (1.49%) IFRS
12 6 (0.81%) PMO
13 5 (0.68%) Basel II
13 5 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.54%) GAAP
15 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.03%) Docker
3 11 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.81%) vSphere
5 5 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 89 (12.04%) Terraform
2 77 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 54 (7.31%) Grafana
4 14 (1.89%) Ansible
5 9 (1.22%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.08%) Istio
7 7 (0.95%) Argo
8 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.14%) Control-M
10 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 49 (6.63%) Oracle
2 42 (5.68%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.84%) Cisco
4 17 (2.30%) BT
5 14 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 13 (1.76%) Databricks
6 13 (1.76%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.49%) Splunk
8 11 (1.49%) VMware
9 9 (1.22%) CheckPoint
9 9 (1.22%) Google
10 8 (1.08%) Confluent
11 6 (0.81%) BMC
11 6 (0.81%) NetApp
11 6 (0.81%) Workday
12 5 (0.68%) SAP
13 4 (0.54%) Informatica
13 4 (0.54%) Okta
13 4 (0.54%) OneLogin