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 15 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 35 61
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 -37
Permanent jobs citing Banking 648 1,065 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.84% 7.68% 4.78%
As % of the General category 6.70% 10.76% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 324 847 1,168
10th Percentile £42,000 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £45,000 £58,495
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £79,726 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% +6.30% +7.14%
75th Percentile £128,125 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £137,624
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.74% +6.18%

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 9,672 9,901 18,415
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.34% 71.37% 61.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,219 6,295 14,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,800
25th Percentile £40,625 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,958 £75,531
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 15 March 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 19 (2.93%) SAS
2 8 (1.23%) Confluence
2 8 (1.23%) Tomcat
2 8 (1.23%) WebSphere
2 8 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.77%) Apache
4 5 (0.77%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
1 10 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.31%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.15%) Actimize
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 173 (26.70%) AWS
2 132 (20.37%) SaaS
3 93 (14.35%) GCP
4 71 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
5 54 (8.33%) Azure
6 30 (4.63%) GitHub
7 15 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (2.16%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.01%) Snowflake
10 11 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.54%) Azure Event Grid
11 10 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (1.39%) dbt
13 8 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.23%) Route 53
13 8 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (0.93%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 26 (4.01%) Broadband
3 23 (3.55%) CHAP
4 21 (3.24%) Firewall
5 12 (1.85%) BGP
5 12 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (1.85%) VPN
6 11 (1.70%) HTTP
6 11 (1.70%) LAN
6 11 (1.70%) WAN
7 10 (1.54%) VLAN
8 8 (1.23%) SSL
9 6 (0.93%) Network Security
10 5 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.62%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.62%) WLAN
12 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.46%) WebEx
13 1 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.16%) Data Lake
3 14 (2.16%) Power BI
3 14 (2.16%) Tableau
4 11 (1.70%) DB2
5 10 (1.54%) Flink
6 8 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.93%) Metadata
9 5 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.77%) Apache Arrow
9 5 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (0.77%) Apache Ignite
9 5 (0.77%) Dremio
10 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.62%) DataStage
10 4 (0.62%) QlikView
10 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (8.33%) TeamCity
2 12 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.54%) JIRA
4 4 (0.62%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.62%) ERwin
4 4 (0.62%) Git
4 4 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.15%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 484 (74.69%) Finance
2 220 (33.95%) Social Skills
3 185 (28.55%) Retail
4 161 (24.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (23.77%) Law
6 149 (22.99%) Financial Institution
7 120 (18.52%) Back Office
8 54 (8.33%) Investment Banking
9 39 (6.02%) Marketing
10 36 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
11 35 (5.40%) Front Office
12 25 (3.86%) Games
13 18 (2.78%) Public Sector
14 16 (2.47%) Polish Language
15 15 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (2.01%) Legal
17 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
18 10 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
19 9 (1.39%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 99 (15.28%) Senior
2 78 (12.04%) Software Engineer
3 65 (10.03%) Analyst
4 54 (8.33%) Lead
5 42 (6.48%) Developer
6 38 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 36 (5.56%) Auditor
8 33 (5.09%) Architect
9 29 (4.48%) Product Owner
10 26 (4.01%) Java Engineer
10 26 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 25 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (3.86%) Customer Service Advisor
12 22 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (3.40%) Internal Auditor
12 22 (3.40%) Security Auditor
13 21 (3.24%) C++ Developer
14 20 (3.09%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
14 20 (3.09%) Linux Developer
14 20 (3.09%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.70%) .NET
2 21 (3.24%) REST
3 18 (2.78%) Kafka
4 13 (2.01%) React
4 13 (2.01%) RESTful
5 8 (1.23%) LAPP Stack
5 8 (1.23%) LDAP
5 8 (1.23%) Middleware
5 8 (1.23%) WebSphere MQ
5 8 (1.23%) WPF
6 7 (1.08%) CSS
6 7 (1.08%) HTML
6 7 (1.08%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.08%) Sass
6 7 (1.08%) Swagger
7 6 (0.93%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.77%) gRPC
8 5 (0.77%) Pandas
8 5 (0.77%) Smart Contracts
8 5 (0.77%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 104 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 87 (13.43%) Product Ownership
3 51 (7.87%) Management Information System
4 40 (6.17%) Blog
5 35 (5.40%) Data Centre
6 30 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (4.32%) Credit Risk
7 28 (4.32%) Public Cloud
8 21 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.09%) FPGA
10 19 (2.93%) Hedge funds
10 19 (2.93%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.93%) Security Posture
11 18 (2.78%) Blockchain
12 15 (2.31%) Market Risk
13 14 (2.16%) Fixed Income
14 13 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.85%) Derivative
16 8 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.64%) Linux
2 22 (3.40%) Windows
3 12 (1.85%) Unix
4 11 (1.70%) Android
4 11 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (18.67%) Agile
2 117 (18.06%) Roadmaps
3 110 (16.98%) Software Engineering
4 101 (15.59%) Risk Management
5 98 (15.12%) Fintech
5 98 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 95 (14.66%) CI/CD
7 90 (13.89%) Information Security
8 89 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (13.12%) Risk Assessment
9 85 (13.12%) Test Automation
10 64 (9.88%) Microservices
11 63 (9.72%) DevOps
12 60 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
13 57 (8.80%) Process Improvement
14 55 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (8.33%) Analytics
16 53 (8.18%) Clean Code
16 53 (8.18%) Product Roadmap
17 52 (8.02%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 138 (21.30%) Java
2 85 (13.12%) Python
3 40 (6.17%) SQL
4 35 (5.40%) Go
5 24 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 22 (3.40%) C++
7 21 (3.24%) C
8 14 (2.16%) C#
9 13 (2.01%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.77%) Bash
10 5 (0.77%) Rust
11 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.15%) COBOL
13 1 (0.15%) Cypher
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) RPG
13 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (11.57%) CISA
1 75 (11.57%) CISSP
1 75 (11.57%) Degree
2 52 (8.02%) CRISC
3 24 (3.70%) FFIEC
4 23 (3.55%) CGEIT
4 23 (3.55%) CISM
4 23 (3.55%) SANS
5 19 (2.93%) ACCA
6 15 (2.31%) OSCP
7 13 (2.01%) CIMA
7 13 (2.01%) CREST Certified
8 12 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.54%) Security Cleared
10 9 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (11.88%) NIST
2 74 (11.42%) PCI DSS
3 32 (4.94%) GDPR
4 31 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (4.63%) SOC 2
6 23 (3.55%) COBIT
7 22 (3.40%) GRC
8 16 (2.47%) IFRS
9 15 (2.31%) SLA
10 11 (1.70%) Data Quality
10 11 (1.70%) QA
11 10 (1.54%) GAAP
12 7 (1.08%) COREP
13 6 (0.93%) Basel II
14 5 (0.77%) EMIR
14 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.62%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.62%) FINREP
15 4 (0.62%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (1.39%) Docker
1 9 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.77%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.62%) Firmware
3 4 (0.62%) vSphere
4 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 98 (15.12%) Terraform
2 83 (12.81%) Kubernetes
3 55 (8.49%) Grafana
4 16 (2.47%) Ansible
5 10 (1.54%) Argo
6 4 (0.62%) Cilium
7 3 (0.46%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.15%) Control-M
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (4.32%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.01%) BT
3 24 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.09%) Oracle
5 16 (2.47%) Cisco
6 15 (2.31%) Databricks
7 14 (2.16%) IBM
8 12 (1.85%) Google
9 10 (1.54%) BMC
9 10 (1.54%) Informatica
9 10 (1.54%) Remedy
10 9 (1.39%) CheckPoint
10 9 (1.39%) VMware
11 8 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.08%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.93%) SAP
14 5 (0.77%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.77%) Splunk
15 4 (0.62%) Alteryx