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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 52 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 +12
Permanent jobs citing Banking 626 1,055 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.12% 5.31% 7.84%
As % of the General category 6.37% 8.32% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 397 850 1,385
10th Percentile £25,087 £52,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,250 £76,727 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £94,637 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +26.18% +6.03%
75th Percentile £117,500 £122,500 £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 9,823 12,675 13,790
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 64.67% 63.74% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,300 7,327 10,857
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 25 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 57 (9.11%) Apache
1 57 (9.11%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.56%) Tomcat
2 16 (2.56%) WebSphere
2 16 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 11 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.28%) SAS
5 7 (1.12%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.32%) Confluence
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.96%) Adaptiv
4 5 (0.80%) SAP CO
4 5 (0.80%) SAP FI
4 5 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.48%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 163 (26.04%) AWS
2 65 (10.38%) Snowflake
3 59 (9.42%) dbt
4 51 (8.15%) Azure
5 44 (7.03%) SaaS
6 42 (6.71%) GCP
7 28 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (3.04%) GitHub
9 13 (2.08%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.44%) Route 53
12 6 (0.96%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (0.96%) Serverless
13 5 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 84 (13.42%) Broadband
2 22 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.88%) SSL
4 11 (1.76%) Firewall
5 7 (1.12%) VPN
6 6 (0.96%) CHAP
6 6 (0.96%) HTTP
7 5 (0.80%) LAN
7 5 (0.80%) Network Security
7 5 (0.80%) WAN
8 4 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.64%) NX-OS
8 4 (0.64%) WLAN
9 3 (0.48%) BGP
9 3 (0.48%) VLAN
10 2 (0.32%) RFID
10 2 (0.32%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.16%) Internet
11 1 (0.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.22%) Data Lake
2 57 (9.11%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (9.11%) Apache Arrow
2 57 (9.11%) Apache Iceberg
2 57 (9.11%) Apache Ignite
2 57 (9.11%) Dremio
3 24 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.88%) DB2
6 13 (2.08%) Power BI
7 12 (1.92%) Tableau
8 9 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.44%) Metadata
9 6 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.80%) Flink
11 4 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.64%) DataStage
11 4 (0.64%) QlikView
12 2 (0.32%) Power Query
12 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (3.04%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.60%) Git
4 8 (1.28%) JIRA
5 6 (0.96%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.64%) ERwin
6 4 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.16%) NUnit
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.16%) Storybook
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 426 (68.05%) Finance
2 157 (25.08%) Social Skills
3 113 (18.05%) Investment Banking
4 88 (14.06%) Front Office
5 62 (9.90%) Games
6 60 (9.58%) Financial Institution
7 57 (9.11%) Retail
8 42 (6.71%) Law
9 40 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (5.59%) Back Office
11 33 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
12 17 (2.72%) Legal
13 16 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.08%) Marketing
16 11 (1.76%) Billing
17 8 (1.28%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.64%) Polish Language
18 4 (0.64%) Public Sector
19 3 (0.48%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 138 (22.04%) Senior
2 86 (13.74%) Software Engineer
3 69 (11.02%) Senior Software Engineer
4 68 (10.86%) Java Engineer
5 67 (10.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 65 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
7 63 (10.06%) Customer Service Advisor
7 63 (10.06%) Python Engineer
8 58 (9.27%) Python Software Engineer
8 58 (9.27%) Senior Java Engineer
8 58 (9.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 57 (9.11%) AWS Software Engineer
10 49 (7.83%) Developer
11 35 (5.59%) Lead
12 34 (5.43%) Analyst
13 31 (4.95%) Architect
14 23 (3.67%) C++ Developer
15 22 (3.51%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
16 19 (3.04%) Linux Scripter
16 19 (3.04%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.11%) gRPC
1 57 (9.11%) NumPy
1 57 (9.11%) Pandas
1 57 (9.11%) Protocol Buffers
1 57 (9.11%) SciPy
2 21 (3.35%) .NET
3 16 (2.56%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.56%) LDAP
3 16 (2.56%) WebSphere MQ
4 13 (2.08%) Kafka
5 12 (1.92%) REST
6 8 (1.28%) CSS
6 8 (1.28%) HTML
7 7 (1.12%) Django
7 7 (1.12%) Flask
7 7 (1.12%) PySpark
7 7 (1.12%) Smart Contracts
7 7 (1.12%) web3js
8 6 (0.96%) React
8 6 (0.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.02%) Derivative
1 69 (11.02%) Hedge funds
2 68 (10.86%) Fixed Income
3 63 (10.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 60 (9.58%) Equities
5 57 (9.11%) Pricing Data
6 33 (5.27%) Cloud Native
7 31 (4.95%) Management Information System
8 28 (4.47%) Public Cloud
9 25 (3.99%) Data Centre
10 19 (3.04%) FPGA
10 19 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (3.04%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.56%) Credit Risk
11 16 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.92%) Market Risk
14 10 (1.60%) Blockchain
14 10 (1.60%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.83%) Linux
2 27 (4.31%) Windows
3 20 (3.19%) Unix
4 17 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.16%) AIX
6 1 (0.16%) Solaris
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (20.93%) Agile
2 119 (19.01%) Software Engineering
3 109 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (16.45%) Roadmaps
5 89 (14.22%) Asset Management
6 87 (13.90%) Risk Management
7 80 (12.78%) Customer Service
8 69 (11.02%) Risk Assessment
9 68 (10.86%) CI/CD
10 66 (10.54%) Investment Management
11 60 (9.58%) Information Security
12 55 (8.79%) Process Improvement
13 54 (8.63%) Due Diligence
13 54 (8.63%) Fintech
14 53 (8.47%) ITIL
15 52 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (8.15%) Analytics
17 45 (7.19%) Business Continuity
17 45 (7.19%) Business Continuity Management
17 45 (7.19%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (21.88%) Java
2 133 (21.25%) Python
3 70 (11.18%) TypeScript
4 63 (10.06%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.71%) SQL
6 23 (3.67%) C++
7 19 (3.04%) C
8 18 (2.88%) C#
9 17 (2.72%) Go
10 9 (1.44%) Bash
11 8 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.12%) Rust
13 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.48%) R
15 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.16%) COBOL
15 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.16%) LookML
15 1 (0.16%) Perl
15 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (9.58%) Degree
2 56 (8.95%) CISA
3 51 (8.15%) CISSP
4 49 (7.83%) CRISC
5 24 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.76%) PMP
10 10 (1.60%) CFA
10 10 (1.60%) CISM
11 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.28%) ACCA
13 6 (0.96%) CGEIT
13 6 (0.96%) CIMA
13 6 (0.96%) FFIEC
13 6 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.96%) SANS
14 5 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.02%) NIST
2 55 (8.79%) PCI DSS
3 23 (3.67%) SLA
4 22 (3.51%) GDPR
5 19 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.24%) SOC 2
7 13 (2.08%) Data Quality
7 13 (2.08%) PMO
7 13 (2.08%) QA
8 9 (1.44%) GRC
9 8 (1.28%) COBIT
9 8 (1.28%) IFRS
10 6 (0.96%) GAAP
11 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.64%) EMIR
11 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.64%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.64%) SOC 1
12 3 (0.48%) MiFID
12 3 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (0.96%) Firmware
2 5 (0.80%) Docker
3 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (5.91%) Terraform
2 33 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.19%) Ansible
4 14 (2.24%) Grafana
5 5 (0.80%) Argo
6 4 (0.64%) Cilium
6 4 (0.64%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.32%) Suricata
8 1 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 84 (13.42%) BT
2 39 (6.23%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.43%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.51%) Databricks
4 22 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.35%) IBM
6 15 (2.40%) BMC
6 15 (2.40%) Remedy
7 14 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.76%) Murex
9 8 (1.28%) Oracle
9 8 (1.28%) SAP
10 7 (1.12%) Informatica
11 6 (0.96%) Cisco
11 6 (0.96%) FIS
11 6 (0.96%) Google
12 4 (0.64%) Ariba
12 4 (0.64%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.64%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.64%) Sage