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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 49 29
Rank change year-on-year -20 -20 +13
Permanent jobs citing Banking 623 1,035 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.95% 5.26% 7.93%
As % of the General category 5.92% 8.40% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 419 815 1,449
10th Percentile £25,087 £58,867 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,625 £77,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £117,500
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 10,527 12,322 14,354
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 66.83% 62.62% 65.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,405 6,976 11,239
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +0.80% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

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 12 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 61 (9.79%) Apache
1 61 (9.79%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.57%) Tomcat
2 16 (2.57%) WebSphere
2 16 (2.57%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.28%) SAS
5 7 (1.12%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.28%) Adaptiv
2 8 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.80%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.80%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.48%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (26.00%) AWS
2 69 (11.08%) Snowflake
3 63 (10.11%) dbt
4 53 (8.51%) Azure
5 44 (7.06%) GCP
5 44 (7.06%) SaaS
6 26 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (2.25%) GitHub
8 11 (1.77%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.44%) Route 53
11 8 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.96%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 118 (18.94%) Broadband
2 22 (3.53%) TCP/IP
3 18 (2.89%) SSL
4 10 (1.61%) Firewall
5 7 (1.12%) VPN
6 4 (0.64%) CHAP
6 4 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.64%) LAN
6 4 (0.64%) Network Security
6 4 (0.64%) NX-OS
6 4 (0.64%) WAN
6 4 (0.64%) WLAN
7 3 (0.48%) BGP
7 3 (0.48%) HTTP
7 3 (0.48%) VLAN
8 2 (0.32%) RFID
8 2 (0.32%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.16%) Internet
9 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.91%) Data Lake
2 61 (9.79%) Amazon Athena
2 61 (9.79%) Apache Arrow
2 61 (9.79%) Apache Iceberg
2 61 (9.79%) Apache Ignite
2 61 (9.79%) Dremio
3 25 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.89%) DB2
6 11 (1.77%) Power BI
6 11 (1.77%) Tableau
7 10 (1.61%) Metadata
8 9 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.64%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.64%) DataStage
10 4 (0.64%) QlikView
11 3 (0.48%) Flink
12 2 (0.32%) Power Query
12 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (3.05%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.61%) Git
4 9 (1.44%) JIRA
5 7 (1.12%) 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
1 391 (62.76%) Finance
2 164 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 116 (18.62%) Investment Banking
4 95 (15.25%) Front Office
5 72 (11.56%) Games
6 61 (9.79%) Financial Institution
7 55 (8.83%) Retail
8 43 (6.90%) Law
9 40 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
10 37 (5.94%) Back Office
11 19 (3.05%) Legal
12 14 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.93%) Billing
14 11 (1.77%) Marketing
14 11 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.64%) Polish Language
17 2 (0.32%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (22.15%) Senior
2 90 (14.45%) Software Engineer
3 76 (12.20%) Customer Service Advisor
4 72 (11.56%) Java Engineer
5 71 (11.40%) Java Software Engineer
5 71 (11.40%) Senior Software Engineer
6 67 (10.75%) AWS Engineer
7 65 (10.43%) Python Engineer
8 62 (9.95%) Python Software Engineer
8 62 (9.95%) Senior Java Engineer
8 62 (9.95%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 61 (9.79%) AWS Software Engineer
10 54 (8.67%) Developer
11 38 (6.10%) Lead
12 34 (5.46%) Architect
13 32 (5.14%) Analyst
14 24 (3.85%) C++ Developer
15 23 (3.69%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
16 19 (3.05%) Linux Scripter
16 19 (3.05%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (9.79%) gRPC
1 61 (9.79%) NumPy
1 61 (9.79%) Pandas
1 61 (9.79%) Protocol Buffers
1 61 (9.79%) SciPy
2 23 (3.69%) .NET
3 16 (2.57%) LAPP Stack
3 16 (2.57%) LDAP
3 16 (2.57%) WebSphere MQ
4 10 (1.61%) PySpark
5 9 (1.44%) Django
5 9 (1.44%) Flask
5 9 (1.44%) Kafka
5 9 (1.44%) REST
6 8 (1.28%) CSS
6 8 (1.28%) HTML
6 8 (1.28%) React
7 7 (1.12%) Smart Contracts
7 7 (1.12%) web3js
8 6 (0.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.04%) Derivative
2 73 (11.72%) Hedge funds
3 72 (11.56%) Fixed Income
4 70 (11.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 66 (10.59%) Equities
6 61 (9.79%) Pricing Data
7 34 (5.46%) Cloud Native
8 31 (4.98%) Management Information System
9 24 (3.85%) Public Cloud
10 23 (3.69%) Data Centre
11 19 (3.05%) FPGA
12 17 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (2.57%) Credit Risk
13 16 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (2.57%) Product Ownership
14 14 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (2.25%) Market Risk
15 12 (1.93%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.44%) Blockchain
16 9 (1.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.03%) Linux
2 26 (4.17%) Windows
3 21 (3.37%) Unix
4 17 (2.73%) 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 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (21.83%) Agile
2 124 (19.90%) Software Engineering
3 122 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (15.57%) Customer Service
5 93 (14.93%) Asset Management
6 70 (11.24%) Investment Management
7 68 (10.91%) CI/CD
8 59 (9.47%) Fintech
9 56 (8.99%) Roadmaps
10 55 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (8.83%) ITIL
11 54 (8.67%) Analytics
12 50 (8.03%) Risk Management
13 39 (6.26%) Decision-Making
14 37 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (5.62%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (5.62%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (5.30%) Microservices
17 32 (5.14%) Low Latency
18 31 (4.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 140 (22.47%) Java
1 140 (22.47%) Python
2 76 (12.20%) TypeScript
3 69 (11.08%) JavaScript
4 39 (6.26%) SQL
5 25 (4.01%) C++
6 19 (3.05%) C
6 19 (3.05%) C#
7 17 (2.73%) Go
8 9 (1.44%) Bash
9 8 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.12%) Rust
11 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.64%) R
12 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.48%) SOQL
13 1 (0.16%) COBOL
13 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.16%) LookML
13 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (9.95%) Degree
2 26 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (3.21%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.41%) PMI Certification
5 14 (2.25%) CFA
5 14 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.25%) PMP
6 13 (2.09%) CISA
6 13 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.61%) CISM
8 9 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.44%) CRISC
9 7 (1.12%) ACCA
9 7 (1.12%) CISSP
10 6 (0.96%) CIMA
10 6 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.80%) OSCP
12 4 (0.64%) CGEIT
12 4 (0.64%) FFIEC
12 4 (0.64%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.33%) NIST
2 23 (3.69%) SLA
3 21 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (3.21%) GDPR
5 16 (2.57%) SOC 2
6 14 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.25%) PMO
7 13 (2.09%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.93%) QA
9 11 (1.77%) GRC
10 7 (1.12%) IFRS
11 6 (0.96%) COBIT
11 6 (0.96%) GAAP
11 6 (0.96%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.96%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.48%) EMIR
13 3 (0.48%) SEPA
14 2 (0.32%) MiFID
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 (5.94%) Terraform
2 31 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.21%) Ansible
4 15 (2.41%) Grafana
5 6 (0.96%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.64%) Cilium
7 3 (0.48%) Argo
8 2 (0.32%) Suricata
9 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.16%) SCCM
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 118 (18.94%) BT
2 37 (5.94%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.53%) Databricks
4 22 (3.53%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.37%) IBM
6 15 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.25%) Murex
8 13 (2.09%) BMC
8 13 (2.09%) Remedy
9 8 (1.28%) FIS
9 8 (1.28%) Oracle
9 8 (1.28%) SAP
10 7 (1.12%) Informatica
11 6 (0.96%) Cisco
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