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 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 23 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +45 -44
Permanent jobs citing Banking 759 1,211 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.26% 9.09% 4.11%
As % of the General category 7.57% 12.66% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 345 932 1,083
10th Percentile £45,500 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £70,000 £44,573 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £130,000 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £139,875 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £84,335 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.72% +5.42% +7.74%

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 10,027 9,562 20,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.24% 71.79% 61.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,667 6,509 15,150
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,536
Median % change year-on-year - +8.04% -11.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -12.50%

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 20 April 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 (2.50%) SAS
2 8 (1.05%) Confluence
3 5 (0.66%) Ethereum
3 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Actimize
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 209 (27.54%) AWS
2 148 (19.50%) SaaS
3 119 (15.68%) GCP
4 83 (10.94%) Amazon EKS
5 79 (10.41%) Azure
6 32 (4.22%) GitHub
7 17 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (1.71%) OCI
10 12 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (1.45%) Snowflake
12 10 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (1.32%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.32%) Azure Event Grid
12 10 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.19%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.82%) TCP/IP
2 28 (3.69%) Firewall
3 25 (3.29%) CHAP
3 25 (3.29%) HTTP
4 20 (2.64%) Broadband
5 15 (1.98%) LAN
5 15 (1.98%) VLAN
5 15 (1.98%) WAN
6 14 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
6 14 (1.84%) Network Security
7 12 (1.58%) BGP
8 10 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (1.19%) VPN
10 8 (1.05%) Unified Communications
10 8 (1.05%) WebEx
11 4 (0.53%) DHCP
11 4 (0.53%) DNS
11 4 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (1.32%) Flink
4 9 (1.19%) Power BI
5 8 (1.05%) Tableau
6 6 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.66%) Looker
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.53%) DB2
9 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.40%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.26%) Metadata
11 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.13%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (7.91%) TeamCity
2 11 (1.45%) JIRA
3 6 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.26%) Git
5 1 (0.13%) JUnit
5 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 591 (77.87%) Finance
2 267 (35.18%) Social Skills
3 210 (27.67%) Retail
4 195 (25.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 182 (23.98%) Law
6 165 (21.74%) Financial Institution
7 137 (18.05%) Back Office
8 53 (6.98%) Investment Banking
9 52 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
10 48 (6.32%) Marketing
11 36 (4.74%) Front Office
12 24 (3.16%) Public Sector
13 22 (2.90%) Legal
14 20 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (2.64%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.50%) Games
16 18 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (2.24%) Polish Language
18 16 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (1.71%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 123 (16.21%) Senior
2 101 (13.31%) Software Engineer
3 81 (10.67%) Analyst
4 73 (9.62%) Lead
5 47 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
6 40 (5.27%) Product Owner
7 37 (4.87%) Developer
8 36 (4.74%) Auditor
9 32 (4.22%) Architect
10 28 (3.69%) Java Engineer
10 28 (3.69%) Product Manager
11 27 (3.56%) Development Engineer
11 27 (3.56%) Software Development Engineer
12 26 (3.43%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.29%) Business Analyst
14 24 (3.16%) Consultant
14 24 (3.16%) Internal Auditor
14 24 (3.16%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (3.16%) Security Auditor
15 22 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.27%) REST
2 24 (3.16%) Kafka
3 19 (2.50%) .NET
3 19 (2.50%) React
4 14 (1.84%) RESTful
5 9 (1.19%) Spring
6 8 (1.05%) Middleware
6 8 (1.05%) OpenAPI
6 8 (1.05%) Swagger
6 8 (1.05%) XMPP
7 7 (0.92%) Sass
8 5 (0.66%) Next.js
8 5 (0.66%) Smart Contracts
8 5 (0.66%) web3js
9 4 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.53%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.53%) HTML
9 4 (0.53%) Node.js
9 4 (0.53%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 128 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 127 (16.73%) Product Ownership
3 51 (6.72%) Management Information System
4 44 (5.80%) Blog
5 42 (5.53%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.95%) Data Centre
8 27 (3.56%) Onboarding
9 24 (3.16%) Credit Risk
9 24 (3.16%) Security Posture
10 22 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.50%) FPGA
12 18 (2.37%) Blockchain
13 16 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.98%) Hedge funds
15 13 (1.71%) Derivative
16 12 (1.58%) Fixed Income
17 11 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 11 (1.45%) Market Risk
18 8 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.80%) Linux
2 27 (3.56%) Windows
3 14 (1.84%) Android
3 14 (1.84%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.32%) Unix
6 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (22.66%) Roadmaps
2 151 (19.89%) Agile
3 148 (19.50%) Software Engineering
4 114 (15.02%) Fintech
4 114 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (14.62%) CI/CD
6 110 (14.49%) Risk Management
7 107 (14.10%) Test Automation
8 100 (13.18%) Information Security
9 95 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (11.20%) Risk Assessment
11 77 (10.14%) DevOps
11 77 (10.14%) Microservices
11 77 (10.14%) Product Roadmap
12 72 (9.49%) Mentoring
13 67 (8.83%) Process Improvement
14 66 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (8.56%) Cybersecurity
16 60 (7.91%) Clean Code
17 58 (7.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.53%) Java
2 92 (12.12%) Python
3 56 (7.38%) SQL
4 48 (6.32%) Go
5 25 (3.29%) TypeScript
6 24 (3.16%) C++
7 23 (3.03%) C
8 15 (1.98%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.58%) C#
10 9 (1.19%) Bash
11 8 (1.05%) Rust
12 7 (0.92%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.40%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.40%) Perl
14 3 (0.40%) R
14 3 (0.40%) Ruby
15 1 (0.13%) Cypher
15 1 (0.13%) RPG
15 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (10.67%) CISSP
2 79 (10.41%) CISA
3 73 (9.62%) Degree
4 53 (6.98%) CRISC
5 29 (3.82%) CISM
6 27 (3.56%) ACCA
7 26 (3.43%) FFIEC
8 25 (3.29%) CGEIT
8 25 (3.29%) SANS
9 21 (2.77%) OSCP
10 19 (2.50%) CIMA
10 19 (2.50%) CREST Certified
11 10 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.32%) Security Cleared
12 9 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.92%) OSCE
14 7 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (10.80%) NIST
2 75 (9.88%) PCI DSS
3 35 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (4.48%) GDPR
5 31 (4.08%) SOC 2
6 26 (3.43%) COBIT
7 22 (2.90%) GRC
8 14 (1.84%) COREP
8 14 (1.84%) EMIR
8 14 (1.84%) IFRS
9 13 (1.71%) MiFID
10 12 (1.58%) Data Quality
11 11 (1.45%) FINREP
11 11 (1.45%) QA
12 7 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.92%) SLA
13 6 (0.79%) Basel II
13 6 (0.79%) GAAP
14 5 (0.66%) PMO
14 5 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (1.84%) Docker
3 11 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.79%) vSphere
5 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 113 (14.89%) Terraform
2 100 (13.18%) Kubernetes
3 66 (8.70%) Grafana
4 16 (2.11%) Ansible
5 10 (1.32%) Argo
6 8 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.05%) Istio
7 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.53%) Cilium
8 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.13%) Control-M
9 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (5.93%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.67%) Oracle
3 21 (2.77%) Databricks
4 20 (2.64%) BT
4 20 (2.64%) Cisco
5 16 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.58%) Palo Alto
7 11 (1.45%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.45%) VMware
8 10 (1.32%) Splunk
9 9 (1.19%) Google
10 8 (1.05%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.05%) Confluent
10 8 (1.05%) SAP
11 7 (0.92%) BMC
12 6 (0.79%) Informatica
12 6 (0.79%) Remedy
13 5 (0.66%) NetApp
13 5 (0.66%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.53%) Red Hat