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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 28 46
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 -20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 869 1,222 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.75% 7.38% 4.89%
As % of the General category 6.23% 10.35% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 367 617 998
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,084 £60,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £25,313 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -25.00% +49.66%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -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 13,945 11,811 15,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.22% 71.37% 61.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,777 6,569 9,830
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,800 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -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 25 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 12 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.23%) Actimize
7 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.12%) Finacle
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 262 (30.15%) AWS
2 119 (13.69%) GCP
3 111 (12.77%) SaaS
4 86 (9.90%) Azure
5 58 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (4.14%) Snowflake
7 24 (2.76%) Amazon Bedrock
7 24 (2.76%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.07%) OCI
9 17 (1.96%) GitHub
10 15 (1.73%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (1.50%) Serverless
12 11 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (1.27%) Datadog
13 10 (1.15%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 9 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.44%) Broadband
2 32 (3.68%) HTTP
3 25 (2.88%) Firewall
4 22 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.19%) LAN
5 19 (2.19%) WAN
6 13 (1.50%) Network Security
7 12 (1.38%) VLAN
8 9 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (0.92%) BGP
9 8 (0.92%) CHAP
9 8 (0.92%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.92%) WebEx
10 7 (0.81%) OSPF
11 6 (0.69%) MPLS
11 6 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.58%) DHCP
12 5 (0.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.38%) Power BI
6 11 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.81%) Looker
8 7 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.69%) Metadata
9 6 (0.69%) Tableau
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.35%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.23%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 50 (5.75%) TeamCity
2 24 (2.76%) Claude Code
3 9 (1.04%) Git
4 6 (0.69%) JUnit
5 5 (0.58%) JIRA
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.12%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.12%) GitLab
7 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 693 (79.75%) Finance
2 327 (37.63%) Social Skills
3 177 (20.37%) Retail
4 165 (18.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 148 (17.03%) Law
6 109 (12.54%) Financial Institution
7 105 (12.08%) Back Office
8 69 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (7.83%) Legal
10 66 (7.59%) Investment Banking
11 48 (5.52%) Marketing
12 46 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (4.26%) Front Office
14 24 (2.76%) Public Sector
15 23 (2.65%) Telecoms
16 18 (2.07%) Games
17 14 (1.61%) Polish Language
18 12 (1.38%) German Language
18 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (14.73%) Senior
2 118 (13.58%) Software Engineer
3 102 (11.74%) Lead
4 58 (6.67%) Analyst
5 56 (6.44%) Architect
6 53 (6.10%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.64%) Developer
8 46 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
9 44 (5.06%) Software Engineering Manager
9 44 (5.06%) Software Manager
10 39 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 39 (4.49%) Product Manager
11 35 (4.03%) Development Engineer
11 35 (4.03%) Software Development Engineer
12 29 (3.34%) IT Manager
13 28 (3.22%) Product Owner
14 25 (2.88%) Data Scientist
14 25 (2.88%) Finance Manager
14 25 (2.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (2.76%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (11.05%) Terraform
2 52 (5.98%) REST
3 35 (4.03%) LangChain
3 35 (4.03%) LangGraph
4 31 (3.57%) Spring
5 23 (2.65%) React
6 15 (1.73%) AngularJS
7 14 (1.61%) RESTful
8 13 (1.50%) Node.js
8 13 (1.50%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.38%) Kafka
9 12 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 12 (1.38%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.38%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.27%) OpenAPI
10 11 (1.27%) Swagger
11 10 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (0.92%) AWS CDK
12 8 (0.92%) XMPP
13 6 (0.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 165 (18.99%) Product Ownership
2 124 (14.27%) Cloud Native
3 57 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.95%) Web Conferencing
5 38 (4.37%) Podcast
6 34 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.80%) AI Agents
8 30 (3.45%) Hedge funds
9 23 (2.65%) Blog
9 23 (2.65%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.07%) Derivative
12 17 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 16 (1.84%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.50%) Credit Risk
14 13 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.38%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.38%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.60%) Linux
2 22 (2.53%) Windows
3 15 (1.73%) Android
4 14 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.81%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (28.31%) Roadmaps
2 202 (23.25%) Software Engineering
3 140 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (14.38%) Agile
5 119 (13.69%) Fintech
6 117 (13.46%) AI
7 112 (12.89%) CI/CD
8 107 (12.31%) Test Automation
9 90 (10.36%) Product Roadmap
10 89 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
11 88 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 83 (9.55%) Coaching
12 83 (9.55%) Mentoring
13 82 (9.44%) DevOps
14 80 (9.21%) Machine Learning
15 67 (7.71%) Risk Management
16 66 (7.59%) Analytics
17 65 (7.48%) Microservices
18 64 (7.36%) Deployment Automation
19 63 (7.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 170 (19.56%) Java
2 110 (12.66%) Python
3 69 (7.94%) SQL
4 27 (3.11%) Go
5 25 (2.88%) C++
6 24 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.65%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.84%) C
8 16 (1.84%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.04%) R
10 8 (0.92%) Rust
11 7 (0.81%) C#
12 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.58%) Bash
13 5 (0.58%) VBA
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
15 3 (0.35%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.35%) Perl
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
16 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 36 (4.14%) Degree
2 24 (2.76%) CISSP
3 23 (2.65%) ACCA
4 22 (2.53%) CISM
5 21 (2.42%) CIMA
6 18 (2.07%) CISA
7 11 (1.27%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.27%) OSCP
8 10 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.04%) CRISC
10 8 (0.92%) CGEIT
10 8 (0.92%) FFIEC
10 8 (0.92%) SANS
11 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.81%) ISACA
11 7 (0.81%) Security Cleared
12 6 (0.69%) CCNP
13 4 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.41%) QA
2 28 (3.22%) NIST
3 26 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.99%) GDPR
4 20 (2.30%) COBIT
5 19 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.84%) FINREP
8 13 (1.50%) COREP
9 12 (1.38%) EMIR
9 12 (1.38%) GRC
10 11 (1.27%) MiFID
11 10 (1.15%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.81%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.58%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.58%) IFRS
14 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (1.84%) Docker
3 8 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.58%) vSphere
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 67 (7.71%) Grafana
3 23 (2.65%) Ansible
4 8 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
4 8 (0.92%) Istio
5 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.35%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (6.44%) BT
2 53 (6.10%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.10%) Oracle
3 39 (4.49%) Databricks
4 36 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.65%) BMC
6 20 (2.30%) Cisco
6 20 (2.30%) Remedy
7 15 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.38%) Splunk
9 12 (1.38%) VMware
10 11 (1.27%) FIS
11 9 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.04%) SunGard
12 8 (0.92%) Confluent
13 7 (0.81%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.81%) Google
14 6 (0.69%) Workday
15 5 (0.58%) Okta