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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 28 47
Rank change year-on-year -39 +19 -21
Permanent jobs citing Banking 844 1,237 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.68% 7.47% 4.83%
As % of the General category 6.11% 10.45% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 363 633 984
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £62,105
25th Percentile £56,250 £25,313 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £83,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% -24.55% +49.76%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £137,250 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £83,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% -7.78% +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 13,808 11,842 15,103
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.23% 71.51% 61.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,705 6,564 9,979
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.36% -4.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,563 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.80% -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 20 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 12 (1.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.24%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.55%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.07%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.24%) Actimize
7 2 (0.24%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.24%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.12%) Finacle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 251 (29.74%) AWS
2 112 (13.27%) GCP
3 105 (12.44%) SaaS
4 83 (9.83%) Azure
5 56 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (3.91%) Snowflake
7 21 (2.49%) Amazon Bedrock
7 21 (2.49%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.13%) OCI
9 17 (2.01%) GitHub
10 15 (1.78%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (1.54%) Serverless
12 11 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (1.30%) Datadog
13 10 (1.18%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
14 8 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.69%) Broadband
2 32 (3.79%) HTTP
3 24 (2.84%) Firewall
4 21 (2.49%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.25%) LAN
5 19 (2.25%) WAN
6 13 (1.54%) Network Security
7 12 (1.42%) VLAN
8 10 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.18%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.07%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.07%) WebEx
10 8 (0.95%) CHAP
11 7 (0.83%) BGP
12 6 (0.71%) MPLS
12 6 (0.71%) OSPF
12 6 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.47%) DNS
13 4 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.42%) Power BI
6 11 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.83%) Looker
8 7 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.71%) Metadata
9 6 (0.71%) Tableau
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.36%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.24%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (5.69%) TeamCity
2 21 (2.49%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.95%) Git
4 6 (0.71%) JUnit
5 5 (0.59%) JIRA
6 3 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 680 (80.57%) Finance
2 324 (38.39%) Social Skills
3 167 (19.79%) Retail
4 155 (18.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 138 (16.35%) Law
6 104 (12.32%) Financial Institution
7 99 (11.73%) Back Office
8 69 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (8.06%) Legal
10 66 (7.82%) Investment Banking
11 46 (5.45%) Marketing
11 46 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (4.38%) Front Office
13 24 (2.84%) Public Sector
14 23 (2.73%) Telecoms
15 18 (2.13%) Games
16 13 (1.54%) Polish Language
17 11 (1.30%) German Language
17 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (15.05%) Senior
2 115 (13.63%) Software Engineer
3 101 (11.97%) Lead
4 58 (6.87%) Analyst
5 52 (6.16%) Architect
5 52 (6.16%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.81%) Developer
7 44 (5.21%) Engineering Manager
8 42 (4.98%) Software Engineering Manager
8 42 (4.98%) Software Manager
9 39 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
9 39 (4.62%) Product Manager
10 35 (4.15%) Development Engineer
10 35 (4.15%) Software Development Engineer
11 29 (3.44%) IT Manager
12 28 (3.32%) Product Owner
13 26 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (2.96%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.61%) Finance Manager
16 21 (2.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (10.78%) Terraform
2 52 (6.16%) REST
3 31 (3.67%) LangChain
3 31 (3.67%) LangGraph
4 30 (3.55%) Spring
5 23 (2.73%) React
6 15 (1.78%) AngularJS
7 13 (1.54%) Node.js
7 13 (1.54%) RESTful
8 12 (1.42%) Kafka
8 12 (1.42%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.42%) Spring Boot
9 11 (1.30%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.30%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (1.18%) OpenAPI
10 10 (1.18%) Swagger
11 9 (1.07%) XMPP
12 8 (0.95%) AWS CDK
13 6 (0.71%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 159 (18.84%) Product Ownership
2 119 (14.10%) Cloud Native
3 56 (6.64%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.09%) Web Conferencing
5 38 (4.50%) Podcast
6 36 (4.27%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.55%) AI Agents
8 27 (3.20%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.61%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.49%) Blog
10 21 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.01%) Derivative
11 17 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (1.78%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.54%) Credit Risk
14 12 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.42%) FPGA
15 11 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.86%) Linux
2 23 (2.73%) Windows
3 15 (1.78%) Android
4 14 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.83%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (28.08%) Roadmaps
2 195 (23.10%) Software Engineering
3 139 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (14.45%) Agile
5 115 (13.63%) Fintech
6 112 (13.27%) AI
7 106 (12.56%) CI/CD
8 103 (12.20%) Test Automation
9 88 (10.43%) Product Roadmap
10 87 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
12 81 (9.60%) Coaching
12 81 (9.60%) Mentoring
13 79 (9.36%) DevOps
14 75 (8.89%) Machine Learning
15 66 (7.82%) Analytics
16 65 (7.70%) Risk Management
17 64 (7.58%) Microservices
18 63 (7.46%) ITIL
19 61 (7.23%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 165 (19.55%) Java
2 109 (12.91%) Python
3 69 (8.18%) SQL
4 26 (3.08%) Go
5 25 (2.96%) C++
6 24 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.90%) C
8 16 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.07%) R
10 8 (0.95%) Rust
11 7 (0.83%) C#
12 6 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.59%) Bash
13 5 (0.59%) VBA
14 3 (0.36%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.36%) Perl
14 3 (0.36%) Ruby
15 1 (0.12%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 38 (4.50%) Degree
2 26 (3.08%) ACCA
3 24 (2.84%) CIMA
3 24 (2.84%) CISSP
4 22 (2.61%) CISM
5 18 (2.13%) CISA
6 11 (1.30%) CREST Certified
6 11 (1.30%) OSCP
7 10 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.07%) CRISC
9 8 (0.95%) CGEIT
9 8 (0.95%) FFIEC
9 8 (0.95%) SANS
10 7 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.83%) ISACA
10 7 (0.83%) Security Cleared
11 6 (0.71%) CCNP
12 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.57%) QA
2 28 (3.32%) NIST
3 26 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.08%) GDPR
4 20 (2.37%) COBIT
5 19 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.01%) FINREP
6 17 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.66%) COREP
9 12 (1.42%) GRC
10 11 (1.30%) EMIR
10 11 (1.30%) MiFID
11 10 (1.18%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.83%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.59%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.59%) IFRS
14 4 (0.47%) PMO
15 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 20 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (1.90%) Docker
3 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.71%) vSphere
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.70%) Grafana
3 23 (2.73%) Ansible
4 9 (1.07%) Cisco CUCM
5 8 (0.95%) Istio
6 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.36%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.28%) Oracle
3 48 (5.69%) BT
4 36 (4.27%) Databricks
4 36 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.73%) BMC
6 20 (2.37%) Cisco
6 20 (2.37%) Remedy
7 16 (1.90%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.54%) Splunk
9 13 (1.54%) VMware
10 11 (1.30%) FIS
11 9 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.07%) SunGard
12 8 (0.95%) Confluent
13 7 (0.83%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.71%) Google
14 6 (0.71%) NetApp
14 6 (0.71%) Workday