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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 20 73
Rank change year-on-year -39 +53 -49
Permanent jobs citing Banking 746 1,450 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.79% 9.59% 3.78%
As % of the General category 6.56% 12.78% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 302 828 1,069
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,313 £25,313 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £74,870 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.89% -16.81% +27.50%
75th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £137,913
90th Percentile £132,250 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £86,600
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.62% +15.47%

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 11,373 11,345 20,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.75% 75.01% 60.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,402 6,227 15,265
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £40,931 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £95,880
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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

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 12 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 10 (1.34%) SAS
2 7 (0.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.54%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (4.56%) Oracle Financials
2 18 (2.41%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (1.21%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
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
1 217 (29.09%) AWS
2 132 (17.69%) SaaS
3 115 (15.42%) GCP
4 77 (10.32%) Azure
5 70 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.55%) OCI
7 13 (1.74%) GitHub
7 13 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (1.34%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.34%) dbt
9 10 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.21%) Azure Event Grid
10 9 (1.21%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.07%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.07%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.02%) HTTP
1 30 (4.02%) TCP/IP
2 25 (3.35%) Firewall
3 20 (2.68%) Broadband
3 20 (2.68%) CHAP
4 16 (2.14%) LAN
4 16 (2.14%) WAN
5 14 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (1.74%) VLAN
7 11 (1.47%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (1.34%) BGP
8 10 (1.34%) Network Security
9 9 (1.21%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.21%) WebEx
10 6 (0.80%) VPN
11 4 (0.54%) DHCP
11 4 (0.54%) DNS
11 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.21%) Looker
5 7 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.80%) Power BI
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.67%) Tableau
8 4 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.40%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.27%) Db2
10 2 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.27%) Flink
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (7.24%) TeamCity
2 5 (0.67%) JIRA
3 4 (0.54%) JUnit
4 1 (0.13%) 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
1 605 (81.10%) Finance
2 278 (37.27%) Social Skills
3 193 (25.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 193 (25.87%) Retail
4 171 (22.92%) Law
5 144 (19.30%) Financial Institution
6 121 (16.22%) Back Office
7 58 (7.77%) Investment Banking
8 55 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
9 45 (6.03%) Marketing
10 23 (3.08%) Front Office
10 23 (3.08%) Legal
10 23 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.55%) Polish Language
13 18 (2.41%) Games
14 14 (1.88%) Italian Language
15 13 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (17.02%) Senior
2 115 (15.42%) Software Engineer
3 85 (11.39%) Lead
4 60 (8.04%) Analyst
5 56 (7.51%) Developer
6 50 (6.70%) Product Manager
7 41 (5.50%) Senior Manager
8 39 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (5.09%) Product Owner
10 35 (4.69%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (4.56%) Software Manager
12 33 (4.42%) Development Engineer
12 33 (4.42%) Software Development Engineer
12 33 (4.42%) Software Engineering Manager
13 26 (3.49%) Architect
13 26 (3.49%) Java Engineer
14 24 (3.22%) Consultant
15 23 (3.08%) Auditor
16 20 (2.68%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.37%) REST
2 27 (3.62%) React
3 22 (2.95%) Spring
4 16 (2.14%) .NET
5 15 (2.01%) Kafka
6 11 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 10 (1.34%) RESTful
8 9 (1.21%) Middleware
8 9 (1.21%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.21%) XMPP
9 8 (1.07%) AWS CDK
10 7 (0.94%) LangChain
10 7 (0.94%) LangGraph
10 7 (0.94%) Node.js
10 7 (0.94%) OpenAPI
10 7 (0.94%) Sass
10 7 (0.94%) Swagger
11 6 (0.80%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.80%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 158 (21.18%) Product Ownership
2 128 (17.16%) Cloud Native
3 48 (6.43%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.90%) Blog
4 44 (5.90%) Management Information System
5 26 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 23 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 20 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.68%) FPGA
9 18 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.88%) Credit Risk
12 13 (1.74%) Blockchain
13 12 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.61%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
15 10 (1.34%) Derivative
16 9 (1.21%) Fixed Income
16 9 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.90%) Linux
2 23 (3.08%) Windows
3 16 (2.14%) Android
3 16 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (26.01%) Roadmaps
2 181 (24.26%) Software Engineering
3 151 (20.24%) Agile
4 134 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (17.83%) Fintech
6 118 (15.82%) Test Automation
7 98 (13.14%) CI/CD
8 89 (11.93%) Product Roadmap
9 76 (10.19%) Risk Management
9 76 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
10 72 (9.65%) Mentoring
10 72 (9.65%) Microservices
11 69 (9.25%) DevOps
12 68 (9.12%) AI
12 68 (9.12%) Analytics
13 65 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 64 (8.58%) Disruptive Innovation
15 62 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
16 60 (8.04%) Clean Code
17 59 (7.91%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 180 (24.13%) Java
2 99 (13.27%) Python
3 50 (6.70%) SQL
4 37 (4.96%) Go
5 28 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.35%) JavaScript
7 24 (3.22%) C
7 24 (3.22%) C++
8 14 (1.88%) C#
9 7 (0.94%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.94%) Rust
10 5 (0.67%) R
11 4 (0.54%) Bash
12 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.40%) Perl
12 3 (0.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.13%) Cypher
13 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (8.45%) Degree
2 36 (4.83%) CISSP
3 31 (4.16%) CISM
4 30 (4.02%) CISA
5 28 (3.75%) ACCA
6 24 (3.22%) CIMA
7 21 (2.82%) FFIEC
8 20 (2.68%) CGEIT
8 20 (2.68%) SANS
9 17 (2.28%) CREST Certified
9 17 (2.28%) OSCP
10 11 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.34%) Security Cleared
12 9 (1.21%) CRISC
13 7 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.80%) SC Cleared
15 5 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.09%) NIST
2 28 (3.75%) GDPR
2 28 (3.75%) PCI DSS
3 27 (3.62%) COBIT
4 24 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.95%) SOC 2
6 14 (1.88%) COREP
6 14 (1.88%) FINREP
6 14 (1.88%) GRC
6 14 (1.88%) QA
7 12 (1.61%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.47%) EMIR
8 11 (1.47%) MiFID
9 8 (1.07%) IFRS
10 7 (0.94%) PMO
11 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.54%) GAAP
12 4 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 18 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (1.74%) Docker
3 12 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.80%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 98 (13.14%) Terraform
2 85 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 65 (8.71%) Grafana
4 13 (1.74%) Ansible
5 9 (1.21%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.07%) Istio
7 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.27%) Argo
9 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 57 (7.64%) Oracle
2 50 (6.70%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.82%) Cisco
4 20 (2.68%) BT
5 17 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.01%) Palo Alto
6 15 (2.01%) VMware
7 14 (1.88%) Splunk
8 13 (1.74%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.34%) Databricks
10 9 (1.21%) BMC
10 9 (1.21%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.07%) Confluent
11 8 (1.07%) Google
12 6 (0.80%) NetApp
12 6 (0.80%) Remedy
12 6 (0.80%) SAP
12 6 (0.80%) Workday
13 4 (0.54%) Okta
13 4 (0.54%) OneLogin