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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 20 75
Rank change year-on-year -39 +55 -51
Permanent jobs citing Banking 769 1,471 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.84% 9.55% 3.73%
As % of the General category 6.59% 12.82% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 322 850 1,065
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £25,313 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £74,870 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.54% -16.81% +24.14%
75th Percentile £127,500 £110,000 £138,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +16.67%

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 11,662 11,478 20,909
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.27% 74.48% 60.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,598 6,320 15,312
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,500 £31,638
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 18 June 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 9 (1.17%) SAS
2 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.42%) Oracle Financials
2 19 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.17%) Oracle Applications
4 8 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 209 (27.18%) AWS
2 128 (16.64%) SaaS
3 110 (14.30%) GCP
4 78 (10.14%) Azure
5 66 (8.58%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.47%) OCI
7 13 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.30%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.30%) dbt
9 10 (1.30%) GitHub
9 10 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (1.30%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.17%) Azure Event Grid
11 8 (1.04%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.04%) Figma
11 8 (1.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.77%) HTTP
1 29 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 24 (3.12%) Firewall
3 22 (2.86%) Broadband
4 17 (2.21%) CHAP
5 16 (2.08%) LAN
5 16 (2.08%) WAN
6 13 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (1.69%) VLAN
7 11 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (1.30%) Network Security
9 9 (1.17%) BGP
9 9 (1.17%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.17%) WebEx
10 6 (0.78%) VPN
11 4 (0.52%) DHCP
11 4 (0.52%) DNS
11 4 (0.52%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.17%) Looker
5 8 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.91%) Power BI
7 6 (0.78%) Tableau
8 5 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.65%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.39%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.26%) Db2
11 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.26%) Metadata
12 1 (0.13%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.13%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 52 (6.76%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) JUnit
3 2 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 632 (82.18%) Finance
2 305 (39.66%) Social Skills
3 185 (24.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 184 (23.93%) Retail
5 162 (21.07%) Law
6 135 (17.56%) Financial Institution
7 117 (15.21%) Back Office
8 58 (7.54%) Investment Banking
9 56 (7.28%) Legal
10 55 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (6.89%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (5.59%) Marketing
13 22 (2.86%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.73%) Front Office
15 20 (2.60%) Polish Language
15 20 (2.60%) Telecoms
16 18 (2.34%) Games
17 14 (1.82%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (16.25%) Senior
2 112 (14.56%) Software Engineer
3 83 (10.79%) Lead
4 58 (7.54%) Analyst
4 58 (7.54%) Developer
5 50 (6.50%) Product Manager
6 42 (5.46%) Senior Manager
7 38 (4.94%) Product Owner
7 38 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 36 (4.68%) Engineering Manager
9 35 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
9 35 (4.55%) Software Manager
10 34 (4.42%) Software Engineering Manager
11 32 (4.16%) Development Engineer
11 32 (4.16%) Software Development Engineer
12 26 (3.38%) Architect
13 25 (3.25%) Java Engineer
14 24 (3.12%) Consultant
15 20 (2.60%) Auditor
15 20 (2.60%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.02%) REST
2 24 (3.12%) React
3 22 (2.86%) Spring
4 16 (2.08%) .NET
5 14 (1.82%) Kafka
6 12 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 10 (1.30%) RESTful
8 9 (1.17%) Middleware
8 9 (1.17%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.17%) XMPP
9 8 (1.04%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.04%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.04%) TensorFlow
10 7 (0.91%) LangChain
10 7 (0.91%) LangGraph
10 7 (0.91%) Node.js
10 7 (0.91%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.91%) Swagger
11 5 (0.65%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 155 (20.16%) Product Ownership
2 125 (16.25%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.11%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.46%) Management Information System
5 40 (5.20%) Blog
6 39 (5.07%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (4.16%) Podcast
8 23 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.60%) Security Posture
10 19 (2.47%) FPGA
10 19 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.21%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.82%) Credit Risk
13 13 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.56%) Blockchain
14 12 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.56%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.30%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.59%) Linux
2 23 (2.99%) Windows
3 12 (1.56%) Android
3 12 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.17%) Unix
5 2 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (25.36%) Roadmaps
2 181 (23.54%) Software Engineering
3 143 (18.60%) Agile
4 133 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (16.51%) Fintech
6 111 (14.43%) Test Automation
7 95 (12.35%) CI/CD
8 88 (11.44%) Product Roadmap
9 75 (9.75%) Technical Leadership
10 74 (9.62%) Risk Management
11 72 (9.36%) Coaching
11 72 (9.36%) Microservices
12 69 (8.97%) Mentoring
13 67 (8.71%) AI
13 67 (8.71%) DevOps
14 66 (8.58%) Analytics
14 66 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (7.80%) ERP
16 59 (7.67%) Disruptive Innovation
17 58 (7.54%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 170 (22.11%) Java
2 99 (12.87%) Python
3 54 (7.02%) SQL
4 32 (4.16%) Go
5 25 (3.25%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.99%) C
6 23 (2.99%) C++
6 23 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.82%) C#
8 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.91%) Rust
9 6 (0.78%) R
10 4 (0.52%) Bash
11 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
11 3 (0.39%) Perl
11 3 (0.39%) Ruby
12 2 (0.26%) VBA
13 1 (0.13%) Cypher
13 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 62 (8.06%) Degree
2 34 (4.42%) CISSP
3 29 (3.77%) CISM
4 28 (3.64%) ACCA
4 28 (3.64%) CISA
5 24 (3.12%) CIMA
6 18 (2.34%) FFIEC
7 17 (2.21%) CGEIT
7 17 (2.21%) SANS
8 15 (1.95%) CREST Certified
8 15 (1.95%) OSCP
9 11 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.30%) CRISC
10 10 (1.30%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.78%) SC Cleared
14 5 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.65%) ISACA
14 5 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.98%) QA
2 36 (4.68%) NIST
3 27 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 26 (3.38%) GDPR
5 25 (3.25%) COBIT
5 25 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.73%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.82%) COREP
7 14 (1.82%) FINREP
7 14 (1.82%) GRC
8 13 (1.69%) Data Quality
9 11 (1.43%) EMIR
9 11 (1.43%) MiFID
10 8 (1.04%) IFRS
11 6 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.78%) PMO
12 5 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.65%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.52%) GAAP
13 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.56%) Docker
3 11 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.04%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.78%) vSphere
6 5 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 92 (11.96%) Terraform
2 80 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 63 (8.19%) Grafana
4 13 (1.69%) Ansible
5 9 (1.17%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.04%) Istio
7 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.39%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 58 (7.54%) Oracle
2 50 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 22 (2.86%) BT
4 20 (2.60%) Cisco
5 19 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 15 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 14 (1.82%) Splunk
7 14 (1.82%) VMware
8 13 (1.69%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.43%) BMC
9 11 (1.43%) Databricks
10 8 (1.04%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.04%) Confluent
10 8 (1.04%) Remedy
11 7 (0.91%) Google
12 6 (0.78%) NetApp
12 6 (0.78%) SAP
12 6 (0.78%) Workday
13 4 (0.52%) Okta
13 4 (0.52%) OneLogin