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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 35 58
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -34
Permanent jobs citing Banking 632 1,052 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 7.49% 4.86%
As % of the General category 6.61% 10.50% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 323 834 1,191
10th Percentile £35,500 £25,281 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £47,231 £58,326
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.59% +4.29%
75th Percentile £127,500 £102,410 £96,539
90th Percentile £142,000 £140,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +9.68% +3.33%

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 9,561 10,018 18,393
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.76% 71.29% 61.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,067 6,310 14,684
10th Percentile £29,800 £31,725 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £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 £78,750 £83,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £99,273 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.38%

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 9 March 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 19 (3.01%) SAS
2 9 (1.42%) Tomcat
2 9 (1.42%) WebSphere
2 9 (1.42%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.27%) Confluence
4 6 (0.95%) Apache
5 5 (0.79%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
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
5 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Actimize
7 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 174 (27.53%) AWS
2 120 (18.99%) SaaS
3 91 (14.40%) GCP
4 70 (11.08%) Amazon EKS
5 52 (8.23%) Azure
6 30 (4.75%) GitHub
7 15 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.22%) Snowflake
9 11 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (1.58%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (1.58%) Azure Event Grid
10 10 (1.58%) dbt
10 10 (1.58%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.42%) Route 53
11 9 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.95%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.43%) Broadband
2 25 (3.96%) TCP/IP
3 21 (3.32%) CHAP
4 20 (3.16%) Firewall
5 12 (1.90%) BGP
5 12 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.90%) VPN
6 11 (1.74%) HTTP
6 11 (1.74%) LAN
6 11 (1.74%) WAN
7 10 (1.58%) VLAN
8 9 (1.42%) SSL
9 6 (0.95%) Network Security
10 5 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.63%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.63%) WLAN
12 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.47%) WebEx
13 1 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.37%) Data Lake
3 14 (2.22%) Power BI
3 14 (2.22%) Tableau
4 12 (1.90%) DB2
5 10 (1.58%) Flink
6 9 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.95%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
8 6 (0.95%) Dremio
8 6 (0.95%) Metadata
9 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.63%) DataStage
9 4 (0.63%) QlikView
9 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 52 (8.23%) TeamCity
2 13 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.58%) JIRA
4 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.63%) ERwin
4 4 (0.63%) Git
4 4 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.16%) JUnit
5 1 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 468 (74.05%) Finance
2 203 (32.12%) Social Skills
3 171 (27.06%) Retail
4 147 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (22.31%) Law
6 140 (22.15%) Financial Institution
7 107 (16.93%) Back Office
8 52 (8.23%) Investment Banking
9 36 (5.70%) Front Office
10 31 (4.91%) Marketing
11 30 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
12 26 (4.11%) Games
13 16 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (2.53%) Public Sector
14 15 (2.37%) Polish Language
15 12 (1.90%) Legal
15 12 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (15.82%) Senior
2 77 (12.18%) Software Engineer
3 60 (9.49%) Analyst
4 53 (8.39%) Lead
5 41 (6.49%) Developer
6 38 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
7 34 (5.38%) Auditor
8 33 (5.22%) Architect
9 27 (4.27%) Java Engineer
9 27 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
10 26 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (4.11%) Customer Service Advisor
10 26 (4.11%) Product Owner
11 22 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (3.16%) C++ Developer
12 20 (3.16%) Internal Auditor
12 20 (3.16%) Security Auditor
13 19 (3.01%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
13 19 (3.01%) Linux Developer
13 19 (3.01%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.80%) .NET
2 20 (3.16%) REST
3 18 (2.85%) Kafka
4 13 (2.06%) React
5 12 (1.90%) RESTful
6 9 (1.42%) LAPP Stack
6 9 (1.42%) LDAP
6 9 (1.42%) WebSphere MQ
7 8 (1.27%) Middleware
7 8 (1.27%) WPF
8 7 (1.11%) CSS
8 7 (1.11%) HTML
8 7 (1.11%) Sass
9 6 (0.95%) .NET Core
9 6 (0.95%) gRPC
9 6 (0.95%) NumPy
9 6 (0.95%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.95%) Pandas
9 6 (0.95%) Protocol Buffers
9 6 (0.95%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 94 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 80 (12.66%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.75%) Management Information System
4 40 (6.33%) Blog
5 36 (5.70%) Data Centre
6 29 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (4.59%) Public Cloud
7 28 (4.43%) Credit Risk
8 22 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (3.32%) Onboarding
10 20 (3.16%) Hedge funds
11 19 (3.01%) FPGA
11 19 (3.01%) Security Posture
12 17 (2.69%) Blockchain
13 15 (2.37%) Fixed Income
13 15 (2.37%) Market Risk
14 13 (2.06%) Derivative
14 13 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.80%) Linux
2 22 (3.48%) Windows
3 13 (2.06%) Unix
4 11 (1.74%) Android
4 11 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (17.25%) Agile
1 109 (17.25%) Roadmaps
2 108 (17.09%) Software Engineering
3 99 (15.66%) Risk Management
4 94 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 93 (14.72%) CI/CD
5 93 (14.72%) Fintech
6 88 (13.92%) Information Security
7 83 (13.13%) Risk Assessment
8 82 (12.97%) Test Automation
9 80 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (9.81%) Microservices
11 60 (9.49%) DevOps
12 59 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
13 57 (9.02%) Process Improvement
14 53 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (8.07%) Clean Code
16 50 (7.91%) Analytics
16 50 (7.91%) Business Continuity
17 48 (7.59%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 137 (21.68%) Java
2 88 (13.92%) Python
3 39 (6.17%) SQL
4 35 (5.54%) Go
5 25 (3.96%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.32%) C++
7 20 (3.16%) C
8 15 (2.37%) C#
9 14 (2.22%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.79%) Bash
10 5 (0.79%) Rust
11 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.16%) COBOL
13 1 (0.16%) Cypher
13 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.16%) RPG
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (11.55%) CISA
1 73 (11.55%) CISSP
1 73 (11.55%) Degree
2 52 (8.23%) CRISC
3 22 (3.48%) FFIEC
4 21 (3.32%) CGEIT
4 21 (3.32%) CISM
4 21 (3.32%) SANS
5 18 (2.85%) ACCA
6 15 (2.37%) OSCP
7 13 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.06%) CREST Certified
8 12 (1.90%) CIMA
9 11 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.58%) Security Cleared
11 9 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (12.34%) NIST
2 74 (11.71%) PCI DSS
3 34 (5.38%) GDPR
4 31 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (4.75%) SOC 2
6 21 (3.32%) COBIT
7 20 (3.16%) GRC
8 16 (2.53%) SLA
9 15 (2.37%) IFRS
10 12 (1.90%) QA
11 10 (1.58%) Data Quality
12 9 (1.42%) GAAP
13 6 (0.95%) Basel II
13 6 (0.95%) COREP
14 5 (0.79%) EMIR
15 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.63%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.63%) MiFID
15 4 (0.63%) PMO
15 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.42%) Docker
1 9 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.79%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.63%) Firmware
3 4 (0.63%) vSphere
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (15.03%) Terraform
2 80 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 53 (8.39%) Grafana
4 17 (2.69%) Ansible
5 10 (1.58%) Argo
6 4 (0.63%) Cilium
7 3 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.16%) Control-M
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (4.43%) BT
1 28 (4.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 18 (2.85%) Oracle
4 16 (2.53%) Cisco
5 15 (2.37%) Databricks
5 15 (2.37%) IBM
6 11 (1.74%) BMC
6 11 (1.74%) Google
6 11 (1.74%) Remedy
7 10 (1.58%) Informatica
8 9 (1.42%) CheckPoint
8 9 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.42%) VMware
9 7 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.95%) SAP
11 5 (0.79%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.79%) Splunk
12 4 (0.63%) Alteryx