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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 23 72
Rank change year-on-year -27 +49 -48
Permanent jobs citing Banking 751 1,210 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.14% 8.99% 3.95%
As % of the General category 7.43% 12.45% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 341 928 1,078
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £43,290 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £130,000 £102,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £139,125 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

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 10,103 9,715 20,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.70% 72.20% 61.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,730 6,480 15,144
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 1 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 (1.86%) SAS
2 8 (1.07%) Confluence
3 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.80%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 25 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (3.46%) Oracle Financials
2 11 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) Actimize
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 190 (25.30%) AWS
2 129 (17.18%) SaaS
3 100 (13.32%) GCP
4 77 (10.25%) Azure
5 70 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (3.60%) GitHub
7 17 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (2.00%) OCI
9 12 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (1.46%) Snowflake
11 10 (1.33%) Azure AI
11 10 (1.33%) Azure Event Grid
11 10 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.20%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.07%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (1.07%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (1.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.86%) HTTP
2 27 (3.60%) CHAP
2 27 (3.60%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.33%) Firewall
4 17 (2.26%) Broadband
5 15 (2.00%) LAN
5 15 (2.00%) WAN
6 14 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (1.73%) VLAN
8 11 (1.46%) Network Security
9 10 (1.33%) BGP
9 10 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.07%) Unified Communications
10 8 (1.07%) WebEx
11 7 (0.93%) VPN
12 4 (0.53%) DHCP
12 4 (0.53%) DNS
13 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.20%) Power BI
5 8 (1.07%) Flink
5 8 (1.07%) Tableau
6 7 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.80%) Looker
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.40%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.27%) DB2
11 2 (0.27%) Metadata
11 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.13%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.13%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 48 (6.39%) TeamCity
2 11 (1.46%) JIRA
3 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.13%) JUnit
4 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 590 (78.56%) Finance
2 264 (35.15%) Social Skills
3 183 (24.37%) Retail
4 177 (23.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 163 (21.70%) Law
6 143 (19.04%) Financial Institution
7 118 (15.71%) Back Office
8 54 (7.19%) Investment Banking
9 50 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
10 49 (6.52%) Marketing
11 31 (4.13%) Front Office
12 25 (3.33%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.93%) Legal
14 21 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (2.66%) Telecoms
16 18 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (2.13%) Games
17 16 (2.13%) Polish Language
18 14 (1.86%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 122 (16.25%) Senior
2 99 (13.18%) Software Engineer
3 79 (10.52%) Lead
4 77 (10.25%) Analyst
5 43 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 41 (5.46%) Developer
7 39 (5.19%) Product Owner
8 36 (4.79%) Auditor
9 34 (4.53%) Product Manager
10 31 (4.13%) Development Engineer
10 31 (4.13%) Software Development Engineer
11 29 (3.86%) Architect
12 26 (3.46%) Internal Auditor
12 26 (3.46%) Security Auditor
13 25 (3.33%) Consultant
13 25 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
14 24 (3.20%) Java Engineer
15 23 (3.06%) Business Analyst
16 22 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.86%) REST
2 22 (2.93%) Kafka
3 21 (2.80%) React
4 18 (2.40%) .NET
5 12 (1.60%) Spring
6 10 (1.33%) RESTful
7 8 (1.07%) Middleware
7 8 (1.07%) XMPP
8 7 (0.93%) Sass
9 6 (0.80%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.80%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.80%) Smart Contracts
9 6 (0.80%) Spring Boot
9 6 (0.80%) Swagger
9 6 (0.80%) web3js
10 5 (0.67%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.67%) Next.js
11 4 (0.53%) ADO
11 4 (0.53%) Node.js
11 4 (0.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 130 (17.31%) Product Ownership
2 113 (15.05%) Cloud Native
3 50 (6.66%) Management Information System
4 45 (5.99%) Public Cloud
5 40 (5.33%) Blog
6 27 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (3.20%) Credit Risk
8 24 (3.20%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.93%) Security Posture
10 19 (2.53%) Blockchain
10 19 (2.53%) FPGA
10 19 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (2.00%) Hedge funds
13 12 (1.60%) Derivative
14 11 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.46%) Market Risk
15 10 (1.33%) Fixed Income
16 9 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.19%) Linux
2 21 (2.80%) Windows
3 14 (1.86%) Android
3 14 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.07%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (25.03%) Roadmaps
2 154 (20.51%) Agile
3 145 (19.31%) Software Engineering
4 120 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (15.31%) Fintech
6 113 (15.05%) Risk Management
7 101 (13.45%) Information Security
7 101 (13.45%) Test Automation
8 92 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 87 (11.58%) CI/CD
10 85 (11.32%) Risk Assessment
11 78 (10.39%) Product Roadmap
12 73 (9.72%) Mentoring
13 72 (9.59%) DevOps
14 68 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
14 68 (9.05%) Process Improvement
15 65 (8.66%) Microservices
16 60 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (7.99%) Product Management
17 59 (7.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 162 (21.57%) Java
2 91 (12.12%) Python
3 54 (7.19%) SQL
4 44 (5.86%) Go
5 27 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 24 (3.20%) C
6 24 (3.20%) C++
7 16 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.60%) C#
9 9 (1.20%) Rust
10 7 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.80%) Bash
12 4 (0.53%) R
13 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.40%) Perl
13 3 (0.40%) Ruby
14 1 (0.13%) Cypher
14 1 (0.13%) RPG
14 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (11.32%) CISSP
2 82 (10.92%) CISA
3 69 (9.19%) Degree
4 54 (7.19%) CRISC
5 33 (4.39%) CISM
6 30 (3.99%) ACCA
7 28 (3.73%) FFIEC
8 27 (3.60%) CGEIT
8 27 (3.60%) SANS
9 22 (2.93%) CIMA
10 18 (2.40%) OSCP
11 16 (2.13%) CREST Certified
12 11 (1.46%) Security Cleared
13 10 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.93%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.80%) SC Cleared
16 5 (0.67%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.19%) NIST
2 70 (9.32%) PCI DSS
3 34 (4.53%) GDPR
4 30 (3.99%) COBIT
5 25 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (3.20%) SOC 2
7 20 (2.66%) GRC
8 15 (2.00%) COREP
9 14 (1.86%) IFRS
10 12 (1.60%) Data Quality
10 12 (1.60%) EMIR
10 12 (1.60%) FINREP
10 12 (1.60%) MiFID
10 12 (1.60%) QA
11 6 (0.80%) Basel II
11 6 (0.80%) GAAP
12 5 (0.67%) PMO
12 5 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.00%) Docker
3 11 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.80%) vSphere
5 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 94 (12.52%) Terraform
2 84 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 57 (7.59%) Grafana
4 13 (1.73%) Ansible
5 8 (1.07%) Argo
5 8 (1.07%) Cisco CUCM
5 8 (1.07%) Istio
6 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.13%) Cilium
8 1 (0.13%) Control-M
8 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 47 (6.26%) Oracle
2 43 (5.73%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.66%) Cisco
4 17 (2.26%) BT
5 16 (2.13%) Databricks
6 12 (1.60%) Palo Alto
6 12 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.46%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.46%) VMware
8 10 (1.33%) Splunk
9 9 (1.20%) Google
10 8 (1.07%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.07%) Confluent
11 7 (0.93%) BMC
11 7 (0.93%) SAP
12 6 (0.80%) Informatica
12 6 (0.80%) Workday
13 5 (0.67%) NetApp
14 4 (0.53%) Remedy
14 4 (0.53%) Salesforce