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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 54 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 -24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Banking 547 860 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.62% 5.22% 7.20%
As % of the General category 6.00% 7.60% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 321 648 1,264
10th Percentile £25,087 £43,542 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,253 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% +17.59% +2.50%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,677 £123,749
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -

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 9,115 11,321 13,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.37% 68.74% 62.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,798 6,399 10,211
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £47,000 £46,007
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,313 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%

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 9 January 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 30 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (5.30%) Apache
3 16 (2.93%) Tomcat
3 16 (2.93%) WebSphere
3 16 (2.93%) WebSphere Application Server
4 12 (2.19%) SAS
5 8 (1.46%) Confluence
6 7 (1.28%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.91%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.91%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.55%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.37%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.18%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (27.06%) AWS
2 57 (10.42%) SaaS
3 45 (8.23%) GCP
4 44 (8.04%) Azure
5 37 (6.76%) Snowflake
6 36 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (5.67%) dbt
8 30 (5.48%) GitHub
9 15 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.01%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.65%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.65%) Route 53
13 6 (1.10%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.41%) Broadband
2 21 (3.84%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.29%) SSL
4 13 (2.38%) Firewall
5 12 (2.19%) CHAP
6 11 (2.01%) HTTP
7 7 (1.28%) VPN
8 6 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.91%) BGP
9 5 (0.91%) LAN
9 5 (0.91%) Network Security
9 5 (0.91%) WAN
10 4 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.73%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.73%) WLAN
11 3 (0.55%) VLAN
12 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.18%) Internet
13 1 (0.18%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.76%) Data Lake
2 29 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (5.30%) Apache Arrow
2 29 (5.30%) Apache Iceberg
2 29 (5.30%) Apache Ignite
2 29 (5.30%) Dremio
3 22 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.29%) DB2
6 11 (2.01%) Power BI
6 11 (2.01%) Tableau
7 10 (1.83%) Flink
8 9 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.65%) Metadata
9 6 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.73%) DataStage
10 4 (0.73%) QlikView
11 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (3.84%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.38%) JIRA
4 5 (0.91%) Git
5 4 (0.73%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.73%) ERwin
5 4 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.18%) Storybook
General
1 397 (72.58%) Finance
2 151 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 80 (14.63%) Retail
4 77 (14.08%) Investment Banking
5 73 (13.35%) Financial Institution
6 58 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (10.24%) Law
8 55 (10.05%) Front Office
9 49 (8.96%) Back Office
10 32 (5.85%) Games
11 20 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
12 19 (3.47%) Marketing
13 16 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.28%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.91%) International Banking
16 5 (0.91%) Legal
16 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.73%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 106 (19.38%) Senior
2 67 (12.25%) Software Engineer
3 47 (8.59%) Senior Software Engineer
4 42 (7.68%) Analyst
5 41 (7.50%) Java Engineer
6 40 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
6 40 (7.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 37 (6.76%) Lead
8 36 (6.58%) Python Engineer
9 33 (6.03%) Customer Service Advisor
9 33 (6.03%) Developer
10 30 (5.48%) Architect
10 30 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
10 30 (5.48%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 29 (5.30%) AWS Software Engineer
11 29 (5.30%) Python Software Engineer
12 26 (4.75%) Auditor
13 19 (3.47%) C++ Developer
14 18 (3.29%) Linux Scripter
14 18 (3.29%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.30%) gRPC
1 29 (5.30%) NumPy
1 29 (5.30%) Pandas
1 29 (5.30%) Protocol Buffers
1 29 (5.30%) SciPy
2 16 (2.93%) .NET
2 16 (2.93%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (2.93%) LDAP
2 16 (2.93%) WebSphere MQ
3 15 (2.74%) Kafka
3 15 (2.74%) REST
4 8 (1.46%) React
5 7 (1.28%) CSS
5 7 (1.28%) HTML
5 7 (1.28%) Smart Contracts
5 7 (1.28%) web3js
6 6 (1.10%) RESTful
7 5 (0.91%) Middleware
7 5 (0.91%) Next.js
8 4 (0.73%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.68%) Hedge funds
2 39 (7.13%) Management Information System
2 39 (7.13%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.95%) Derivative
4 37 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 37 (6.76%) Fixed Income
5 31 (5.67%) Public Cloud
6 29 (5.30%) Equities
6 29 (5.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (5.30%) Pricing Data
7 28 (5.12%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.02%) Credit Risk
9 19 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (3.29%) FPGA
11 17 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (2.38%) Blockchain
13 13 (2.38%) Security Posture
14 12 (2.19%) Blog
15 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.23%) Linux
2 28 (5.12%) Windows
3 20 (3.66%) Unix
4 17 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.91%) Android
5 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (17.92%) Agile
2 97 (17.73%) Roadmaps
3 94 (17.18%) Software Engineering
4 75 (13.71%) Risk Management
5 72 (13.16%) Risk Assessment
6 69 (12.61%) Information Security
7 67 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (11.52%) Asset Management
8 63 (11.52%) CI/CD
8 63 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (10.05%) Process Improvement
10 47 (8.59%) Customer Service
10 47 (8.59%) Due Diligence
11 46 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (8.41%) ITIL
12 45 (8.23%) Business Continuity
12 45 (8.23%) Business Continuity Management
12 45 (8.23%) Operations Management
12 45 (8.23%) Supply Chain Management
13 43 (7.86%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 115 (21.02%) Java
2 101 (18.46%) Python
3 45 (8.23%) TypeScript
4 35 (6.40%) SQL
5 32 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 28 (5.12%) Go
7 20 (3.66%) C++
8 19 (3.47%) C
9 11 (2.01%) C#
10 7 (1.28%) Rust
11 6 (1.10%) Bash
11 6 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) LookML
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) R
13 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (11.70%) CISA
2 60 (10.97%) CISSP
3 59 (10.79%) Degree
4 50 (9.14%) CRISC
5 20 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.56%) CISM
8 13 (2.38%) FFIEC
9 12 (2.19%) CGEIT
9 12 (2.19%) SANS
10 11 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.83%) ACCA
12 8 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.46%) OSCP
13 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.10%) CIMA
14 6 (1.10%) CREST Certified
14 6 (1.10%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.10%) Security Cleared
15 4 (0.73%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.53%) NIST
2 61 (11.15%) PCI DSS
3 26 (4.75%) GDPR
4 23 (4.20%) SLA
5 22 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.11%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.56%) COBIT
7 14 (2.56%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.38%) GRC
8 13 (2.38%) QA
9 10 (1.83%) IFRS
10 6 (1.10%) Basel II
10 6 (1.10%) GAAP
11 5 (0.91%) PMO
12 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.73%) EMIR
12 4 (0.73%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.55%) COREP
13 3 (0.55%) MiFID
13 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (1.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.73%) Firmware
3 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (9.14%) Terraform
2 42 (7.68%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.11%) Ansible
3 17 (3.11%) Grafana
4 10 (1.83%) Argo
5 4 (0.73%) Cilium
6 2 (0.37%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.37%) Suricata
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 46 (8.41%) BT
2 39 (7.13%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 20 (3.66%) IBM
5 18 (3.29%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.93%) BMC
6 16 (2.93%) Remedy
7 15 (2.74%) Databricks
8 12 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.83%) Google
10 7 (1.28%) Cisco
10 7 (1.28%) Informatica
11 6 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 5 (0.91%) Oracle
12 5 (0.91%) SAP
13 4 (0.73%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.73%) Sage
14 3 (0.55%) Ariba
14 3 (0.55%) Murex
14 3 (0.55%) Sitecore