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 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 45 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -19
Permanent jobs citing Banking 622 950 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 6.06% 5.65%
As % of the General category 6.51% 8.71% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 332 726 1,296
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £51,698 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +16.90% +1.41%
75th Percentile £130,000 £102,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £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 9,551 10,910 17,140
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.16% 69.54% 62.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,059 6,251 13,636
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,435
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £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 £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 13 February 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 18 (2.89%) SAS
2 16 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.25%) Apache
4 12 (1.93%) Tomcat
4 12 (1.93%) WebSphere
4 12 (1.93%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.29%) Confluence
6 7 (1.13%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (0.80%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.80%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.48%) SAP PS
4 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.32%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Actimize
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 174 (27.97%) AWS
2 111 (17.85%) SaaS
3 83 (13.34%) GCP
4 65 (10.45%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (7.23%) Azure
6 30 (4.82%) GitHub
7 22 (3.54%) Snowflake
8 18 (2.89%) dbt
9 15 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (2.09%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (1.61%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (1.61%) Route 53
11 10 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (1.29%) Azure Event Grid
14 7 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (0.96%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.95%) Broadband
2 24 (3.86%) TCP/IP
3 19 (3.05%) CHAP
4 14 (2.25%) Firewall
5 13 (2.09%) SSL
6 11 (1.77%) BGP
6 11 (1.77%) HTTP
7 10 (1.61%) VPN
8 8 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.13%) VLAN
10 6 (0.96%) LAN
10 6 (0.96%) Network Security
10 6 (0.96%) WAN
11 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.64%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.64%) WLAN
12 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.16%) MPLS
12 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 15 (2.41%) DB2
5 14 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (2.25%) Apache Arrow
5 14 (2.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 14 (2.25%) Apache Ignite
5 14 (2.25%) Dremio
6 13 (2.09%) Power BI
6 13 (2.09%) Tableau
7 10 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.61%) Flink
8 7 (1.13%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.96%) Metadata
10 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.64%) DataStage
10 4 (0.64%) QlikView
11 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (7.88%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.45%) JIRA
4 4 (0.64%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.64%) ERwin
4 4 (0.64%) Git
4 4 (0.64%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.16%) JUnit
5 1 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 458 (73.63%) Finance
2 188 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 155 (24.92%) Retail
4 133 (21.38%) Financial Institution
4 133 (21.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (20.90%) Law
6 100 (16.08%) Back Office
7 59 (9.49%) Investment Banking
8 42 (6.75%) Front Office
9 30 (4.82%) Games
10 24 (3.86%) Marketing
11 23 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
12 17 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (2.09%) Polish Language
14 12 (1.93%) Public Sector
15 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.13%) Legal
18 6 (0.96%) International Banking
18 6 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (16.40%) Senior
2 80 (12.86%) Software Engineer
3 54 (8.68%) Analyst
4 49 (7.88%) Lead
5 43 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 36 (5.79%) Developer
7 34 (5.47%) Java Engineer
7 34 (5.47%) Java Software Engineer
8 33 (5.31%) Auditor
9 32 (5.14%) Architect
9 32 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.98%) Customer Service Advisor
11 24 (3.86%) Product Owner
12 22 (3.54%) Python Engineer
13 20 (3.22%) Internal Auditor
13 20 (3.22%) Senior Java Engineer
13 20 (3.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 19 (3.05%) C++ Developer
14 19 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (2.89%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.38%) .NET
2 18 (2.89%) REST
3 16 (2.57%) Kafka
4 14 (2.25%) gRPC
4 14 (2.25%) NumPy
4 14 (2.25%) Pandas
4 14 (2.25%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (2.25%) SciPy
5 12 (1.93%) LAPP Stack
5 12 (1.93%) LDAP
5 12 (1.93%) RESTful
5 12 (1.93%) WebSphere MQ
6 11 (1.77%) React
7 8 (1.29%) Middleware
7 8 (1.29%) WPF
8 7 (1.13%) Smart Contracts
8 7 (1.13%) web3js
9 6 (0.96%) OpenAPI
9 6 (0.96%) Sass
9 6 (0.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 84 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 75 (12.06%) Product Ownership
3 47 (7.56%) Management Information System
4 38 (6.11%) Blog
5 35 (5.63%) Data Centre
6 31 (4.98%) Public Cloud
7 30 (4.82%) Credit Risk
8 29 (4.66%) Hedge funds
9 28 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (3.54%) Derivative
10 22 (3.54%) Fixed Income
10 22 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.89%) Blockchain
11 18 (2.89%) FPGA
12 17 (2.73%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.73%) Security Posture
13 15 (2.41%) Market Risk
14 14 (2.25%) Equities
14 14 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (2.25%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.75%) Linux
2 23 (3.70%) Windows
3 15 (2.41%) Unix
4 13 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.45%) Android
5 9 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (17.85%) Software Engineering
2 106 (17.04%) Roadmaps
3 104 (16.72%) Agile
4 95 (15.27%) Risk Management
5 89 (14.31%) CI/CD
6 84 (13.50%) Fintech
6 84 (13.50%) Information Security
7 83 (13.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 81 (13.02%) Risk Assessment
9 77 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (11.90%) Test Automation
11 57 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
11 57 (9.16%) Microservices
12 56 (9.00%) Process Improvement
13 53 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (8.20%) DevOps
15 49 (7.88%) Analytics
15 49 (7.88%) Customer Service
15 49 (7.88%) Due Diligence
16 48 (7.72%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 141 (22.67%) Java
2 92 (14.79%) Python
3 37 (5.95%) SQL
4 33 (5.31%) Go
4 33 (5.31%) TypeScript
5 20 (3.22%) C++
5 20 (3.22%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.05%) C
7 16 (2.57%) C#
8 7 (1.13%) Rust
9 5 (0.80%) Bash
10 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.16%) COBOL
13 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (11.74%) CISA
2 72 (11.58%) Degree
3 71 (11.41%) CISSP
4 52 (8.36%) CRISC
5 20 (3.22%) FFIEC
6 19 (3.05%) CGEIT
6 19 (3.05%) CISM
6 19 (3.05%) SANS
7 16 (2.57%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (2.09%) ACCA
9 13 (2.09%) OSCP
10 12 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.77%) CREST Certified
12 10 (1.61%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.45%) Security Cleared
14 8 (1.29%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.13%) CIMA
15 7 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.22%) NIST
2 74 (11.90%) PCI DSS
3 32 (5.14%) GDPR
4 30 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (4.82%) SOC 2
5 20 (3.22%) COBIT
6 19 (3.05%) SLA
7 18 (2.89%) GRC
8 14 (2.25%) QA
9 13 (2.09%) IFRS
10 8 (1.29%) Data Quality
11 7 (1.13%) GAAP
12 6 (0.96%) Basel II
12 6 (0.96%) EMIR
13 5 (0.80%) MiFID
14 4 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.64%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.64%) PMO
15 3 (0.48%) PSD2
15 3 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (1.13%) Docker
2 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.64%) Firmware
3 4 (0.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (13.83%) Terraform
2 75 (12.06%) Kubernetes
3 46 (7.40%) Grafana
4 16 (2.57%) Ansible
5 10 (1.61%) Argo
6 4 (0.64%) Cilium
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.16%) Suricata
7 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 37 (5.95%) BT
2 33 (5.31%) ServiceNow
3 22 (3.54%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.73%) IBM
5 15 (2.41%) Databricks
6 14 (2.25%) BMC
6 14 (2.25%) Remedy
7 13 (2.09%) Oracle
7 13 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.61%) Cisco
8 10 (1.61%) Google
9 9 (1.45%) Informatica
9 9 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.29%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.96%) SAP
12 5 (0.80%) VMware
13 4 (0.64%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.48%) Alteryx
14 3 (0.48%) Ariba
14 3 (0.48%) Murex