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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Banking 965 997 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.92% 6.10% 5.11%
As % of the General category 6.38% 8.51% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 398 445 927
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £62,105
25th Percentile £62,500 £35,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +55.86%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -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 15,115 11,714 14,385
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.35% 71.62% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 6,321 8,191
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,700 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.42% -5.79% -5.00%

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 24 September 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 13 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.41%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.31%) CMS
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (2.69%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
4 9 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.62%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.10%) Finacle
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 312 (32.33%) AWS
2 156 (16.17%) GCP
3 132 (13.68%) SaaS
4 82 (8.50%) Azure
5 74 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (4.97%) Snowflake
7 42 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
8 39 (4.04%) Anthropic Claude
9 23 (2.38%) GitHub
10 18 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 17 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.66%) OCI
12 16 (1.66%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.45%) Serverless
14 12 (1.24%) Datadog
15 11 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.04%) Azure AI
16 10 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
17 9 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.01%) Broadband
2 33 (3.42%) HTTP
3 22 (2.28%) Firewall
3 22 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.87%) LAN
5 17 (1.76%) WAN
6 15 (1.55%) VLAN
7 14 (1.45%) Network Security
8 12 (1.24%) BGP
9 10 (1.04%) OSPF
10 7 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (0.73%) DHCP
10 7 (0.73%) DNS
10 7 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.62%) MPLS
11 6 (0.62%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.62%) VPN
11 6 (0.62%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (1.35%) Power BI
6 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.73%) Metadata
10 6 (0.62%) Looker
10 6 (0.62%) Tableau
11 4 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 77 (7.98%) TeamCity
2 39 (4.04%) Claude Code
3 13 (1.35%) JUnit
4 12 (1.24%) Git
5 6 (0.62%) JIRA
6 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.31%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) GitLab
9 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.10%) Maven
9 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 733 (75.96%) Finance
2 363 (37.62%) Social Skills
3 224 (23.21%) Retail
4 211 (21.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 195 (20.21%) Law
6 128 (13.26%) Financial Institution
7 123 (12.75%) Back Office
8 71 (7.36%) Legal
9 68 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
10 64 (6.63%) Investment Banking
11 50 (5.18%) Front Office
12 46 (4.77%) Marketing
13 36 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.38%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.18%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.87%) Games
16 18 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.55%) Polish Language
18 13 (1.35%) French Language
18 13 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (15.54%) Senior
2 149 (15.44%) Software Engineer
3 134 (13.89%) Lead
4 77 (7.98%) Architect
5 57 (5.91%) Analyst
6 56 (5.80%) Developer
7 54 (5.60%) Senior Manager
8 50 (5.18%) Lead Software Engineer
9 49 (5.08%) Engineering Manager
10 47 (4.87%) Software Engineering Manager
10 47 (4.87%) Software Manager
11 44 (4.56%) Java Engineer
12 39 (4.04%) Finance Manager
13 37 (3.83%) Enterprise Architect
14 35 (3.63%) Development Engineer
14 35 (3.63%) IT Manager
14 35 (3.63%) Product Manager
14 35 (3.63%) Software Development Engineer
15 34 (3.52%) Product Owner
16 31 (3.21%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (12.23%) Terraform
2 52 (5.39%) REST
3 44 (4.56%) LangChain
3 44 (4.56%) LangGraph
4 34 (3.52%) Spring
5 23 (2.38%) React
6 20 (2.07%) RESTful
7 16 (1.66%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.66%) scikit-learn
8 15 (1.55%) OpenAPI
8 15 (1.55%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.55%) Swagger
8 15 (1.55%) TensorFlow
9 13 (1.35%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.24%) Node.js
11 10 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (0.93%) Dagger
12 9 (0.93%) RxJava
13 8 (0.83%) AWS CDK
13 8 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (20.21%) Product Ownership
2 141 (14.61%) Cloud Native
3 60 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 50 (5.18%) AI Agents
4 50 (5.18%) Hedge funds
5 45 (4.66%) Web Conferencing
6 41 (4.25%) Podcast
7 34 (3.52%) Blog
8 27 (2.80%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.69%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.28%) Derivative
11 21 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (2.07%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.97%) Onboarding
14 18 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
15 16 (1.66%) Social Media
16 15 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (1.35%) Credit Risk
18 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.73%) Linux
2 26 (2.69%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.49%) Android
4 21 (2.18%) Windows
5 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.52%) Unix
7 1 (0.10%) AIX
7 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (26.63%) Roadmaps
2 243 (25.18%) Software Engineering
3 152 (15.75%) AI
3 152 (15.75%) Fintech
4 148 (15.34%) CI/CD
5 143 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (13.37%) Test Automation
7 108 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (10.26%) Disruptive Innovation
8 99 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 98 (10.16%) Agile
9 98 (10.16%) Coaching
10 97 (10.05%) Machine Learning
11 96 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
12 86 (8.91%) Product Roadmap
13 84 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
14 82 (8.50%) Microservices
15 81 (8.39%) Clean Code
15 81 (8.39%) DevOps
16 76 (7.88%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 223 (23.11%) Java
2 122 (12.64%) Python
3 73 (7.56%) SQL
4 28 (2.90%) Go
5 24 (2.49%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.07%) C++
8 14 (1.45%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.45%) R
9 13 (1.35%) Bash
10 12 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.14%) C
12 7 (0.73%) Rust
13 6 (0.62%) C#
14 5 (0.52%) VBA
15 4 (0.41%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.21%) Perl
16 2 (0.21%) Ruby
17 1 (0.10%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 27 (2.80%) Degree
2 19 (1.97%) CISSP
3 17 (1.76%) CISM
4 16 (1.66%) ACCA
5 13 (1.35%) CISA
6 12 (1.24%) CIMA
7 11 (1.14%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.14%) OSCP
8 9 (0.93%) CRISC
9 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.73%) ISACA
9 7 (0.73%) Security Cleared
10 6 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.52%) GCFA
11 5 (0.52%) GIAC
11 5 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.41%) CCNP
12 4 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.80%) QA
2 24 (2.49%) NIST
3 22 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.28%) GDPR
3 22 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 21 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.97%) COBIT
6 13 (1.35%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.24%) EMIR
7 12 (1.24%) GRC
7 12 (1.24%) MiFID
8 11 (1.14%) FINREP
9 8 (0.83%) COREP
9 8 (0.83%) SOC 1
10 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.52%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.31%) Basel III
12 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.24%) Docker
3 6 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.64%) Grafana
3 22 (2.28%) Ansible
4 9 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (6.01%) BT
2 52 (5.39%) Databricks
3 51 (5.28%) Oracle
4 46 (4.77%) Microsoft
5 38 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.38%) BMC
7 20 (2.07%) Remedy
8 18 (1.87%) Google
9 17 (1.76%) Cisco
10 12 (1.24%) Splunk
11 11 (1.14%) FIS
11 11 (1.14%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.93%) SunGard
13 9 (0.93%) VMware
14 6 (0.62%) Xero
15 4 (0.41%) HubSpot
15 4 (0.41%) Okta
15 4 (0.41%) SAP