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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 47 29
Rank change year-on-year -10 -18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Banking 643 1,066 1,687
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.21% 5.44% 7.86%
As % of the General category 6.41% 8.65% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 414 835 1,408
10th Percentile £25,087 £56,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,750 £77,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% +6.03%
75th Percentile £116,875 £140,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,034 12,320 14,035
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 65.68% 62.89% 65.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,394 6,996 11,024
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £46,297
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +3.36% +0.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,388 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.69% - -

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 19 November 2025.

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 61 (9.49%) Apache
1 61 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.49%) Tomcat
2 16 (2.49%) WebSphere
2 16 (2.49%) WebSphere Application Server
3 11 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.24%) SAS
5 7 (1.09%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.31%) Confluence
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.24%) Adaptiv
2 8 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.78%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.78%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.47%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 163 (25.35%) AWS
2 69 (10.73%) Snowflake
3 63 (9.80%) dbt
4 52 (8.09%) Azure
5 44 (6.84%) SaaS
6 43 (6.69%) GCP
7 27 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (2.49%) GitHub
9 12 (1.87%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.40%) Route 53
12 7 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.93%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (0.93%) Collibra
13 6 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 105 (16.33%) Broadband
2 22 (3.42%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.80%) SSL
4 10 (1.56%) Firewall
5 7 (1.09%) VPN
6 6 (0.93%) CHAP
7 4 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (0.62%) HTTP
7 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.62%) LAN
7 4 (0.62%) Network Security
7 4 (0.62%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.62%) WAN
7 4 (0.62%) WLAN
8 3 (0.47%) BGP
8 3 (0.47%) VLAN
9 2 (0.31%) RFID
9 2 (0.31%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.16%) Internet
10 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.73%) Data Lake
2 61 (9.49%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (9.49%) Apache Arrow
2 61 (9.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 61 (9.49%) Apache Ignite
2 61 (9.49%) Dremio
3 24 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.80%) DB2
6 12 (1.87%) Power BI
6 12 (1.87%) Tableau
7 10 (1.56%) Metadata
8 9 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.62%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.62%) DataStage
10 4 (0.62%) Flink
10 4 (0.62%) QlikView
11 2 (0.31%) Power Query
11 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (2.95%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.56%) Git
3 10 (1.56%) JIRA
4 7 (1.09%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.62%) ERwin
5 4 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.16%) NUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.16%) Storybook
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 419 (65.16%) Finance
2 168 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 117 (18.20%) Investment Banking
4 95 (14.77%) Front Office
5 69 (10.73%) Games
6 63 (9.80%) Financial Institution
7 56 (8.71%) Retail
8 44 (6.84%) Law
9 40 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
10 36 (5.60%) Back Office
11 19 (2.95%) Legal
12 15 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.87%) Marketing
14 11 (1.71%) Billing
14 11 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.24%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.62%) Polish Language
17 3 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
17 3 (0.47%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 139 (21.62%) Senior
2 90 (14.00%) Software Engineer
3 72 (11.20%) Customer Service Advisor
3 72 (11.20%) Java Engineer
3 72 (11.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 71 (11.04%) Java Software Engineer
5 68 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
6 66 (10.26%) Python Engineer
7 62 (9.64%) Python Software Engineer
7 62 (9.64%) Senior Java Engineer
7 62 (9.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 61 (9.49%) AWS Software Engineer
9 51 (7.93%) Developer
10 39 (6.07%) Lead
11 34 (5.29%) Analyst
12 33 (5.13%) Architect
13 24 (3.73%) C++ Developer
14 23 (3.58%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
15 20 (3.11%) Senior Manager
16 19 (2.95%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.49%) gRPC
1 61 (9.49%) NumPy
1 61 (9.49%) Pandas
1 61 (9.49%) Protocol Buffers
1 61 (9.49%) SciPy
2 23 (3.58%) .NET
3 16 (2.49%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.49%) LDAP
3 16 (2.49%) WebSphere MQ
4 10 (1.56%) Kafka
4 10 (1.56%) REST
5 8 (1.24%) CSS
5 8 (1.24%) HTML
5 8 (1.24%) PySpark
6 7 (1.09%) Django
6 7 (1.09%) Flask
6 7 (1.09%) React
6 7 (1.09%) Smart Contracts
6 7 (1.09%) web3js
7 6 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.66%) Derivative
2 73 (11.35%) Hedge funds
3 72 (11.20%) Fixed Income
4 69 (10.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 65 (10.11%) Equities
6 61 (9.49%) Pricing Data
7 34 (5.29%) Cloud Native
8 32 (4.98%) Management Information System
9 25 (3.89%) Public Cloud
10 23 (3.58%) Data Centre
11 19 (2.95%) FPGA
12 17 (2.64%) Credit Risk
12 17 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (2.64%) Product Ownership
13 16 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.33%) Market Risk
15 14 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
16 10 (1.56%) Blockchain
16 10 (1.56%) Security Posture
17 8 (1.24%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.78%) Linux
2 26 (4.04%) Windows
3 21 (3.27%) Unix
4 17 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) AIX
6 1 (0.16%) Solaris
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (21.62%) Agile
2 124 (19.28%) Software Engineering
3 118 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (14.46%) Asset Management
5 92 (14.31%) Customer Service
6 82 (12.75%) Roadmaps
7 77 (11.98%) Risk Management
8 70 (10.89%) Investment Management
9 67 (10.42%) CI/CD
10 58 (9.02%) Fintech
11 57 (8.86%) Analytics
12 56 (8.71%) ITIL
13 55 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (8.55%) Risk Assessment
14 44 (6.84%) Information Security
15 40 (6.22%) Due Diligence
16 39 (6.07%) Decision-Making
16 39 (6.07%) Process Improvement
16 39 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 36 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 142 (22.08%) Java
2 139 (21.62%) Python
3 75 (11.66%) TypeScript
4 68 (10.58%) JavaScript
5 40 (6.22%) SQL
6 25 (3.89%) C++
7 19 (2.95%) C
7 19 (2.95%) C#
8 17 (2.64%) Go
9 9 (1.40%) Bash
10 8 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.09%) Rust
12 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.62%) R
13 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.47%) SOQL
14 1 (0.16%) COBOL
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) LookML
14 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (9.33%) Degree
2 41 (6.38%) CISA
3 35 (5.44%) CISSP
4 33 (5.13%) CRISC
5 26 (4.04%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.18%) CFA
8 14 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.18%) PMP
9 11 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.56%) CISM
11 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.24%) ACCA
13 6 (0.93%) CGEIT
13 6 (0.93%) CIMA
13 6 (0.93%) FFIEC
13 6 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.93%) SANS
14 5 (0.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.24%) NIST
2 39 (6.07%) PCI DSS
3 23 (3.58%) SLA
4 22 (3.42%) GDPR
5 19 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.18%) PMO
6 14 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 13 (2.02%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.87%) QA
9 9 (1.40%) GRC
10 8 (1.24%) COBIT
10 8 (1.24%) IFRS
11 6 (0.93%) GAAP
12 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.62%) EMIR
12 4 (0.62%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.62%) SOC 1
13 3 (0.47%) SEPA
14 2 (0.31%) Basel II
System Software
1 6 (0.93%) Firmware
2 5 (0.78%) Docker
3 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (5.75%) Terraform
2 32 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.11%) Ansible
4 15 (2.33%) Grafana
5 4 (0.62%) Argo
5 4 (0.62%) Cilium
5 4 (0.62%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.31%) Suricata
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
7 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 105 (16.33%) BT
2 38 (5.91%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.44%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.42%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.27%) Databricks
5 21 (3.27%) IBM
6 15 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.18%) BMC
7 14 (2.18%) Murex
7 14 (2.18%) Remedy
8 9 (1.40%) Oracle
9 8 (1.24%) FIS
9 8 (1.24%) Informatica
9 8 (1.24%) SAP
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco
10 6 (0.93%) Google
11 4 (0.62%) Ariba
11 4 (0.62%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.62%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.62%) Sage