Banking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 79 24
Rank change year-on-year +70 -55 +39
Permanent jobs citing Banking 2,230 1,269 3,871
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.46% 3.76% 9.13%
As % of the General category 19.07% 6.12% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,067 2,767
10th Percentile £23,504 £49,800 £47,447
25th Percentile £25,000 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +14.29% -9.68%
75th Percentile £93,778 £115,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £127,500 £142,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £69,018 £83,577 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.42% +11.44% +1.35%

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 11,694 20,732 28,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 75.84% 61.36% 66.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,527 15,101 18,623
10th Percentile £25,267 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Banking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Banking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Banking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Banking.

Banking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Banking over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Banking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 103 (4.62%) Confluence
2 97 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (4.17%) Apache
4 16 (0.72%) SAS
5 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.36%) NetWeaver
7 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.18%) WordPress
10 3 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.090%) CMS
11 2 (0.090%) nginx
11 2 (0.090%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.090%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.090%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 39 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.090%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (0.18%) Orchestrade
3 2 (0.090%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.090%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.045%) Endur
4 1 (0.045%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 341 (15.29%) GCP
2 313 (14.04%) AWS
3 264 (11.84%) Azure
4 99 (4.44%) dbt
5 94 (4.22%) Snowflake
6 63 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
8 47 (2.11%) Power Platform
9 42 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (1.75%) Dagster
11 38 (1.70%) GitHub
12 30 (1.35%) Serverless
13 28 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (1.21%) SaaS
15 26 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (1.12%) Amazon S3
17 24 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
18 22 (0.99%) Apigee
19 19 (0.85%) OpenShift
20 18 (0.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1,064 (47.71%) Broadband
2 23 (1.03%) Internet
3 22 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.63%) Network Security
5 13 (0.58%) Firewall
6 8 (0.36%) DKIM
6 8 (0.36%) DMARC
6 8 (0.36%) DNS
6 8 (0.36%) DNSSEC
6 8 (0.36%) HTTP
6 8 (0.36%) SMTP
6 8 (0.36%) VPN
7 6 (0.27%) LAN
7 6 (0.27%) WAN
8 5 (0.22%) DHCP
8 5 (0.22%) Multicast
8 5 (0.22%) NAS
8 5 (0.22%) SAN
8 5 (0.22%) VSAN
9 2 (0.090%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 97 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 97 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
2 97 (4.35%) Dremio
3 92 (4.13%) Data Lake
4 90 (4.04%) Apache Arrow
5 74 (3.32%) Apache Ignite
6 58 (2.60%) Big Data
7 51 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 46 (2.06%) Power BI
9 41 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 30 (1.35%) Tableau
12 26 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 25 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (0.85%) MongoDB
16 14 (0.63%) Data Hub
17 10 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (6.32%) JIRA
2 112 (5.02%) Sonatype Nexus
3 111 (4.98%) Maven
4 110 (4.93%) SonarQube
5 102 (4.57%) Git
6 101 (4.53%) Cucumber
7 94 (4.22%) GitLab
8 88 (3.95%) Selenium
9 82 (3.68%) Bitbucket
10 79 (3.54%) Jenkins
11 29 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
12 26 (1.17%) webpack
13 17 (0.76%) JUnit
14 15 (0.67%) IBM UrbanCode
15 13 (0.58%) Cypress.io
16 6 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
17 5 (0.22%) Spinnaker
17 5 (0.22%) Xcode
17 5 (0.22%) XCTest
General
1 1,060 (47.53%) Finance
2 578 (25.92%) Games
3 238 (10.67%) Social Skills
4 171 (7.67%) Front Office
5 158 (7.09%) Investment Banking
6 106 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 94 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (2.56%) Legal
9 51 (2.29%) Retail
10 23 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
11 17 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 15 (0.67%) Billing
13 15 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.49%) Law
16 10 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.36%) Marketing
18 7 (0.31%) General Ledger
19 6 (0.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 606 (27.17%) Customer Service Advisor
2 322 (14.44%) Software Engineer
3 279 (12.51%) Senior
4 132 (5.92%) Developer
5 131 (5.87%) Analyst
6 127 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
7 124 (5.56%) Lead
8 110 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 91 (4.08%) Python Engineer
10 90 (4.04%) AWS Software Engineer
11 86 (3.86%) Java Engineer
12 79 (3.54%) Architect
13 73 (3.27%) Java Software Engineer
14 61 (2.74%) Python Software Engineer
14 61 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (2.42%) Customer Service Representative
15 54 (2.42%) Senior Java Engineer
16 52 (2.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 51 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (2.24%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (7.26%) React
2 161 (7.22%) Spring Boot
3 152 (6.82%) Spring
4 118 (5.29%) Kafka
5 115 (5.16%) Redux
6 114 (5.11%) CSS
7 112 (5.02%) HTML
8 88 (3.95%) Pandas
9 87 (3.90%) JPA
10 83 (3.72%) NumPy
11 79 (3.54%) SciPy
12 76 (3.41%) gRPC
12 76 (3.41%) Hibernate
13 74 (3.32%) Protocol Buffers
14 67 (3.00%) RESTful
15 60 (2.69%) Software Packaging
16 58 (2.60%) PySpark
17 52 (2.33%) Node.js
18 45 (2.02%) .NET
19 40 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 192 (8.61%) Product Ownership
2 115 (5.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 114 (5.11%) Fixed Income
4 105 (4.71%) Derivative
5 97 (4.35%) Equities
6 93 (4.17%) Hedge funds
7 86 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 46 (2.06%) Cloud Native
10 41 (1.84%) Pricing Data
11 39 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.66%) Learning Management System
13 36 (1.61%) Credit Risk
14 32 (1.43%) Algorithms
14 32 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.30%) Mainframe
16 28 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 23 (1.03%) Hackathon
18 23 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.17%) Linux
2 54 (2.42%) Unix
3 47 (2.11%) Windows
4 22 (0.99%) Android
5 18 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.58%) zOS
7 9 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.22%) AIX
10 4 (0.18%) CentOS
11 2 (0.090%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.090%) Rocky
12 1 (0.045%) Solaris
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (32.33%) Problem-Solving
2 714 (32.02%) Customer Service
3 607 (27.22%) Agile
4 498 (22.33%) Software Engineering
5 327 (14.66%) DevOps
6 262 (11.75%) CI/CD
7 241 (10.81%) Microservices
8 211 (9.46%) Containerisation
9 201 (9.01%) Test Automation
10 185 (8.30%) Analytics
10 185 (8.30%) Fintech
11 163 (7.31%) Mentoring
12 156 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 147 (6.59%) TDD
14 140 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 139 (6.23%) Asset Management
16 137 (6.14%) SDLC
17 128 (5.74%) Mathematics
18 125 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
19 121 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 397 (17.80%) Java
2 331 (14.84%) SQL
3 313 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 305 (13.68%) Python
5 143 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 57 (2.56%) C#
7 45 (2.02%) Go
8 35 (1.57%) Bash
9 33 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 26 (1.17%) C++
11 24 (1.08%) C
12 18 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 15 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.49%) JCL
15 11 (0.49%) R
16 7 (0.31%) Groovy
16 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.27%) Perl
17 6 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 193 (8.65%) Degree
2 57 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 42 (1.88%) PhD
4 23 (1.03%) CISSP
5 17 (0.76%) CISA
6 16 (0.72%) PMP
7 11 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (0.36%) CISM
9 7 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.22%) AAT
11 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.13%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.13%) CCIE
13 3 (0.13%) OCP
13 3 (0.13%) SC Cleared
13 3 (0.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.25%) QA
2 85 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.76%) ITGC
5 13 (0.58%) GDPR
5 13 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.40%) IFRS
6 9 (0.40%) IFRS 9
7 8 (0.36%) Basel III
7 8 (0.36%) NIST
7 8 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.31%) Basel II
8 7 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.18%) COREP
9 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.18%) SLA
10 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.13%) GRC
11 2 (0.090%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.090%) PMO
System Software
1 253 (11.35%) Docker
2 14 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.22%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.13%) Firmware
7 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.045%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 268 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 94 (4.22%) Terraform
3 24 (1.08%) Istio
4 20 (0.90%) Ansible
5 11 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.45%) Grafana
6 10 (0.45%) Nagios
6 10 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.40%) CA Endevor
8 8 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Argo
10 3 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.090%) MAINVIEW
11 2 (0.090%) Puppet
11 2 (0.090%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.090%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.090%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (0.045%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.045%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,064 (47.71%) BT
2 106 (4.75%) Microsoft
3 97 (4.35%) Google
4 84 (3.77%) Solace
5 54 (2.42%) IBM
6 53 (2.38%) Oracle
7 26 (1.17%) Sun
8 18 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 16 (0.72%) VMware
10 13 (0.58%) Adobe
11 11 (0.49%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.45%) Cisco
12 10 (0.45%) SAP
13 9 (0.40%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.36%) IronPort
14 8 (0.36%) Splunk
14 8 (0.36%) Veritas
15 7 (0.31%) Confluent
15 7 (0.31%) SolarWinds
16 6 (0.27%) Apple