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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 26 47
Rank change year-on-year -46 +21 -24
Permanent jobs citing Banking 805 1,271 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.54% 7.65% 4.80%
As % of the General category 5.90% 10.62% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 345 667 981
10th Percentile £33,400 £25,000 £62,105
25th Percentile £57,500 £25,313 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -27.27% +50.22%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +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 13,654 11,963 15,210
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.12% 72.03% 61.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,633 6,606 10,206
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.21% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 14 August 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 11 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.73%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.36%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.25%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Finacle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 234 (29.07%) AWS
2 104 (12.92%) GCP
3 98 (12.17%) SaaS
4 84 (10.43%) Azure
5 52 (6.46%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (3.48%) Snowflake
7 19 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.24%) Amazon Bedrock
8 18 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.24%) OCI
9 16 (1.99%) GitHub
10 14 (1.74%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
12 11 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.24%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
13 10 (1.24%) Serverless
14 9 (1.12%) Datadog
15 8 (0.99%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (0.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.97%) Broadband
2 31 (3.85%) HTTP
3 26 (3.23%) Firewall
4 22 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.36%) LAN
5 19 (2.36%) WAN
6 12 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
7 11 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (1.37%) Network Security
7 11 (1.37%) VLAN
8 10 (1.24%) Unified Communications
8 10 (1.24%) WebEx
9 8 (0.99%) CHAP
10 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.62%) BGP
11 5 (0.62%) VPN
12 4 (0.50%) DHCP
12 4 (0.50%) DNS
12 4 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.37%) Power BI
4 9 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.87%) Looker
6 6 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 6 (0.75%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.62%) Tableau
8 4 (0.50%) Metadata
9 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.25%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.47%) TeamCity
2 18 (2.24%) Claude Code
3 8 (0.99%) Git
4 5 (0.62%) JIRA
4 5 (0.62%) JUnit
5 3 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.12%) Maven
6 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 651 (80.87%) Finance
2 308 (38.26%) Social Skills
3 156 (19.38%) Retail
4 144 (17.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (15.78%) Law
6 96 (11.93%) Financial Institution
7 90 (11.18%) Back Office
8 67 (8.32%) Investment Banking
9 66 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
10 61 (7.58%) Legal
11 46 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (5.34%) Marketing
13 35 (4.35%) Front Office
14 23 (2.86%) Public Sector
15 22 (2.73%) Telecoms
16 19 (2.36%) Games
17 12 (1.49%) Polish Language
18 10 (1.24%) German Language
18 10 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (1.24%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 122 (15.16%) Senior
2 111 (13.79%) Software Engineer
3 96 (11.93%) Lead
4 58 (7.20%) Analyst
5 51 (6.34%) Developer
5 51 (6.34%) Senior Manager
6 45 (5.59%) Architect
7 44 (5.47%) Engineering Manager
8 42 (5.22%) Software Engineering Manager
8 42 (5.22%) Software Manager
9 39 (4.84%) Product Manager
10 36 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
11 34 (4.22%) Development Engineer
11 34 (4.22%) Software Development Engineer
12 27 (3.35%) IT Manager
12 27 (3.35%) Product Owner
13 26 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (2.98%) Data Scientist
15 20 (2.48%) Digital Product Manager
15 20 (2.48%) Senior Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.34%) REST
2 29 (3.60%) Spring
3 28 (3.48%) LangChain
3 28 (3.48%) LangGraph
4 23 (2.86%) React
5 14 (1.74%) AngularJS
6 12 (1.49%) Kafka
6 12 (1.49%) Node.js
6 12 (1.49%) RESTful
6 12 (1.49%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.37%) PyTorch
7 11 (1.37%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.37%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.24%) FIX Protocol
8 10 (1.24%) XMPP
9 9 (1.12%) OpenAPI
9 9 (1.12%) Swagger
10 8 (0.99%) AWS CDK
11 7 (0.87%) .NET
12 6 (0.75%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 153 (19.01%) Product Ownership
2 110 (13.66%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.83%) Public Cloud
4 37 (4.60%) Web Conferencing
5 35 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 32 (3.98%) Podcast
7 27 (3.35%) AI Agents
8 25 (3.11%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.73%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.61%) Onboarding
11 20 (2.48%) Blog
12 17 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.99%) Derivative
14 15 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
14 15 (1.86%) Security Posture
15 13 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (1.61%) FPGA
16 12 (1.49%) Credit Risk
17 10 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
17 10 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.47%) Linux
2 24 (2.98%) Windows
3 13 (1.61%) Android
3 13 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.99%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) AIX
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (28.94%) Roadmaps
2 191 (23.73%) Software Engineering
3 133 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
4 119 (14.78%) Agile
5 109 (13.54%) Fintech
6 107 (13.29%) AI
7 99 (12.30%) CI/CD
7 99 (12.30%) Test Automation
8 86 (10.68%) Product Roadmap
9 85 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
10 83 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (9.57%) Coaching
12 75 (9.32%) Mentoring
13 74 (9.19%) DevOps
14 70 (8.70%) Machine Learning
15 65 (8.07%) Risk Management
16 63 (7.83%) Analytics
17 62 (7.70%) ITIL
18 60 (7.45%) Microservices
19 56 (6.96%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (19.50%) Java
2 106 (13.17%) Python
3 64 (7.95%) SQL
4 26 (3.23%) C++
5 25 (3.11%) Go
6 23 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.11%) C
8 15 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.12%) R
10 8 (0.99%) C#
10 8 (0.99%) Rust
11 5 (0.62%) Bash
11 5 (0.62%) VBA
12 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.37%) Bicep
13 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.37%) Perl
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 38 (4.72%) Degree
2 26 (3.23%) ACCA
3 24 (2.98%) CIMA
3 24 (2.98%) CISSP
4 22 (2.73%) CISM
5 18 (2.24%) CISA
6 10 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.24%) CREST Certified
6 10 (1.24%) OSCP
7 9 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.12%) CRISC
8 8 (0.99%) CGEIT
8 8 (0.99%) FFIEC
8 8 (0.99%) SANS
9 7 (0.87%) ISACA
10 6 (0.75%) CCNP
10 6 (0.75%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.71%) QA
2 28 (3.48%) NIST
3 26 (3.23%) GDPR
4 24 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.48%) COBIT
6 19 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (2.11%) FINREP
7 17 (2.11%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.86%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.74%) COREP
10 11 (1.37%) EMIR
10 11 (1.37%) MiFID
11 10 (1.24%) GRC
11 10 (1.24%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.87%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.62%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.62%) IFRS
14 4 (0.50%) PMO
15 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (1.86%) Docker
3 9 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (0.87%) vSphere
6 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 84 (10.43%) Terraform
2 68 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 60 (7.45%) Grafana
4 23 (2.86%) Ansible
5 10 (1.24%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (0.99%) Istio
7 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.12%) Argo
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.58%) Oracle
3 40 (4.97%) BT
4 36 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.85%) Databricks
6 23 (2.86%) BMC
7 20 (2.48%) Cisco
7 20 (2.48%) Remedy
8 18 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.99%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.74%) Splunk
10 14 (1.74%) VMware
11 11 (1.37%) FIS
12 9 (1.12%) SunGard
13 8 (0.99%) Confluent
13 8 (0.99%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.87%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.87%) NetApp
15 6 (0.75%) Workday
16 5 (0.62%) Okta