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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 24 50
Rank change year-on-year -46 +26 -27
Permanent jobs citing Banking 803 1,352 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.61% 8.19% 4.64%
As % of the General category 6.03% 11.29% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 332 744 967
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £25,313 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,810 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.85% -28.35% +51.72%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 13,317 11,978 15,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.79% 72.59% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 6,695 10,479
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,103
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 4 August 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 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (3.86%) Oracle Financials
2 19 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
2 19 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 238 (29.64%) AWS
2 119 (14.82%) SaaS
3 114 (14.20%) GCP
4 79 (9.84%) Azure
5 61 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (3.11%) Snowflake
7 18 (2.24%) OCI
8 17 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (1.87%) Amazon Bedrock
9 15 (1.87%) Anthropic Claude
9 15 (1.87%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.49%) GitHub
11 11 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (1.25%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (1.00%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (1.00%) OpenShift
14 7 (0.87%) Datadog
14 7 (0.87%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.73%) Broadband
2 31 (3.86%) HTTP
3 24 (2.99%) Firewall
4 23 (2.86%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.24%) LAN
5 18 (2.24%) WAN
6 12 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
7 11 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.25%) Network Security
8 10 (1.25%) Unified Communications
8 10 (1.25%) VLAN
8 10 (1.25%) WebEx
9 9 (1.12%) CHAP
10 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.62%) VPN
12 4 (0.50%) BGP
12 4 (0.50%) DHCP
12 4 (0.50%) DNS
13 3 (0.37%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.49%) Power BI
4 11 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.12%) Looker
6 6 (0.75%) Tableau
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.37%) Metadata
8 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.37%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.37%) SAS EBI
9 2 (0.25%) Db2
9 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (6.48%) TeamCity
2 15 (1.87%) Claude Code
3 8 (1.00%) Git
4 5 (0.62%) JIRA
4 5 (0.62%) JUnit
5 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.12%) Maven
6 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 655 (81.57%) Finance
2 303 (37.73%) Social Skills
3 175 (21.79%) Retail
4 170 (21.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 148 (18.43%) Law
6 111 (13.82%) Financial Institution
7 108 (13.45%) Back Office
8 70 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (8.34%) Investment Banking
10 61 (7.60%) Legal
11 53 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
12 44 (5.48%) Marketing
13 32 (3.99%) Front Office
14 20 (2.49%) Public Sector
15 19 (2.37%) Games
15 19 (2.37%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.87%) Polish Language
17 14 (1.74%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.49%) German Language
19 11 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (15.32%) Senior
2 115 (14.32%) Software Engineer
3 99 (12.33%) Lead
4 64 (7.97%) Analyst
5 51 (6.35%) Senior Manager
6 49 (6.10%) Developer
7 44 (5.48%) Engineering Manager
8 42 (5.23%) Software Engineering Manager
8 42 (5.23%) Software Manager
9 41 (5.11%) Architect
9 41 (5.11%) Product Manager
10 40 (4.98%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (4.23%) Development Engineer
11 34 (4.23%) Software Development Engineer
12 28 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (3.24%) Product Owner
14 24 (2.99%) Consultant
14 24 (2.99%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.74%) IT Manager
16 21 (2.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.60%) REST
2 27 (3.36%) Spring
3 25 (3.11%) LangChain
3 25 (3.11%) LangGraph
4 24 (2.99%) React
5 12 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 12 (1.49%) Kafka
5 12 (1.49%) scikit-learn
6 11 (1.37%) PyTorch
6 11 (1.37%) RESTful
6 11 (1.37%) TensorFlow
7 10 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
7 10 (1.25%) XMPP
8 9 (1.12%) Node.js
8 9 (1.12%) OpenAPI
8 9 (1.12%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.12%) Swagger
9 8 (1.00%) AWS CDK
10 7 (0.87%) .NET
11 6 (0.75%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 155 (19.30%) Product Ownership
2 123 (15.32%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.85%) Public Cloud
4 39 (4.86%) Web Conferencing
5 36 (4.48%) Management Information System
6 32 (3.99%) Podcast
7 26 (3.24%) Blog
8 22 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.74%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.74%) Hedge funds
8 22 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.99%) Derivative
10 16 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.74%) FPGA
12 13 (1.62%) Credit Risk
12 13 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.60%) Linux
2 24 (2.99%) Windows
3 14 (1.74%) Android
3 14 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.12%) Unix
6 2 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (29.14%) Roadmaps
2 194 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 141 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
4 124 (15.44%) Agile
5 120 (14.94%) Fintech
6 108 (13.45%) Test Automation
7 105 (13.08%) CI/CD
8 101 (12.58%) AI
9 92 (11.46%) Product Roadmap
10 86 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
11 82 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 78 (9.71%) Coaching
13 75 (9.34%) Mentoring
14 72 (8.97%) DevOps
15 69 (8.59%) Risk Management
16 66 (8.22%) Machine Learning
17 64 (7.97%) Analytics
17 64 (7.97%) Microservices
18 62 (7.72%) Deployment Automation
19 59 (7.35%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 165 (20.55%) Java
2 103 (12.83%) Python
3 60 (7.47%) SQL
4 27 (3.36%) C++
4 27 (3.36%) Go
5 24 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.24%) C
8 12 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.25%) R
10 9 (1.12%) C#
11 8 (1.00%) Rust
12 5 (0.62%) Bash
12 5 (0.62%) VBA
13 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.37%) Perl
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.12%) RPG
14 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (6.35%) Degree
2 27 (3.36%) ACCA
2 27 (3.36%) CISSP
3 25 (3.11%) CIMA
4 23 (2.86%) CISM
5 21 (2.62%) CISA
6 12 (1.49%) CREST Certified
6 12 (1.49%) OSCP
7 11 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.37%) CRISC
8 9 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.12%) CGEIT
8 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.12%) FFIEC
8 9 (1.12%) SANS
9 7 (0.87%) ISACA
9 7 (0.87%) Security Cleared
10 6 (0.75%) CCNP
11 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.73%) QA
2 31 (3.86%) NIST
3 26 (3.24%) GDPR
4 23 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.74%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.74%) PCI DSS
6 21 (2.62%) COBIT
7 15 (1.87%) FINREP
7 15 (1.87%) SOC 2
8 14 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.74%) COREP
9 13 (1.62%) GRC
10 11 (1.37%) EMIR
10 11 (1.37%) MiFID
11 7 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.87%) SOC 1
12 6 (0.75%) IFRS
13 5 (0.62%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.50%) GAAP
14 4 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (1.62%) Docker
3 9 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.87%) vSphere
6 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (11.21%) Terraform
2 77 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.47%) Grafana
4 21 (2.62%) Ansible
5 10 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.00%) Istio
7 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (6.72%) Oracle
2 51 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.73%) BT
4 34 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.36%) Databricks
6 22 (2.74%) BMC
7 19 (2.37%) Cisco
7 19 (2.37%) Remedy
8 18 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.99%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.74%) Splunk
10 14 (1.74%) VMware
11 10 (1.25%) FIS
12 9 (1.12%) SunGard
13 8 (1.00%) Confluent
14 7 (0.87%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.87%) NetApp
15 6 (0.75%) Google
15 6 (0.75%) SAP
15 6 (0.75%) Workday