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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 30 46
Rank change year-on-year -38 +16 -20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 852 1,219 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 7.36% 4.87%
As % of the General category 6.14% 10.30% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 365 615 992
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 £120,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £139,000 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.42% -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 13,875 11,833 15,135
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.29% 71.44% 61.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,761 6,544 9,924
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,087
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.36% -4.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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 22 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 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.47%) 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 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.52%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.47%) 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
1 255 (29.93%) AWS
2 114 (13.38%) GCP
3 105 (12.32%) SaaS
4 86 (10.09%) Azure
5 56 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (3.87%) Snowflake
7 21 (2.46%) Amazon Bedrock
7 21 (2.46%) Anthropic Claude
8 19 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.11%) OCI
10 17 (2.00%) GitHub
11 15 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (1.53%) Serverless
13 11 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (1.29%) Datadog
14 10 (1.17%) Azure AI
14 10 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
15 9 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.87%) Broadband
2 32 (3.76%) HTTP
3 26 (3.05%) Firewall
4 22 (2.58%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.35%) LAN
5 20 (2.35%) WAN
6 13 (1.53%) Network Security
6 13 (1.53%) VLAN
7 10 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.06%) Unified Communications
8 9 (1.06%) WebEx
9 8 (0.94%) BGP
9 8 (0.94%) CHAP
10 7 (0.82%) OSPF
11 6 (0.70%) MPLS
11 6 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.59%) DHCP
12 5 (0.59%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.93%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (1.41%) Power BI
6 11 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.82%) Looker
8 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.70%) Metadata
9 6 (0.70%) Tableau
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.35%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (5.63%) TeamCity
2 21 (2.46%) Claude Code
3 9 (1.06%) Git
4 6 (0.70%) JUnit
5 5 (0.59%) 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
1 683 (80.16%) Finance
2 322 (37.79%) Social Skills
3 168 (19.72%) Retail
4 155 (18.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 138 (16.20%) Law
6 104 (12.21%) Financial Institution
7 99 (11.62%) Back Office
8 68 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (7.75%) Investment Banking
9 66 (7.75%) Legal
10 47 (5.52%) Marketing
11 46 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (4.23%) Front Office
13 25 (2.93%) Public Sector
14 24 (2.82%) Telecoms
15 18 (2.11%) Games
16 13 (1.53%) Polish Language
17 11 (1.29%) German Language
17 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (15.14%) Senior
2 117 (13.73%) Software Engineer
3 101 (11.85%) Lead
4 57 (6.69%) Analyst
5 53 (6.22%) Senior Manager
6 52 (6.10%) Architect
7 49 (5.75%) Developer
8 46 (5.40%) Engineering Manager
9 44 (5.16%) Software Engineering Manager
9 44 (5.16%) Software Manager
10 39 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
10 39 (4.58%) Product Manager
11 35 (4.11%) Development Engineer
11 35 (4.11%) Software Development Engineer
12 29 (3.40%) IT Manager
13 28 (3.29%) Product Owner
14 26 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (2.93%) Data Scientist
16 22 (2.58%) Finance Manager
17 21 (2.46%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (10.92%) Terraform
2 52 (6.10%) REST
3 32 (3.76%) LangChain
3 32 (3.76%) LangGraph
4 31 (3.64%) Spring
5 23 (2.70%) React
6 15 (1.76%) AngularJS
7 13 (1.53%) Node.js
7 13 (1.53%) RESTful
7 13 (1.53%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.41%) Kafka
8 12 (1.41%) PyTorch
8 12 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 12 (1.41%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.17%) OpenAPI
9 10 (1.17%) Swagger
10 9 (1.06%) XMPP
11 8 (0.94%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.70%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 162 (19.01%) Product Ownership
2 120 (14.08%) Cloud Native
3 57 (6.69%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.05%) Web Conferencing
5 38 (4.46%) Podcast
6 34 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.52%) AI Agents
8 27 (3.17%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.58%) Fixed Income
10 21 (2.46%) Blog
10 21 (2.46%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.00%) Derivative
11 17 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.88%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.53%) Credit Risk
14 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.41%) FPGA
15 11 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.81%) Linux
2 23 (2.70%) Windows
3 15 (1.76%) Android
4 14 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.82%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (28.40%) Roadmaps
2 199 (23.36%) Software Engineering
3 140 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (14.44%) Agile
5 115 (13.50%) Fintech
6 113 (13.26%) AI
7 109 (12.79%) CI/CD
8 105 (12.32%) Test Automation
9 89 (10.45%) Product Roadmap
9 89 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
10 87 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (9.51%) Coaching
11 81 (9.51%) Mentoring
12 80 (9.39%) DevOps
13 76 (8.92%) Machine Learning
14 67 (7.86%) Risk Management
15 66 (7.75%) Analytics
16 64 (7.51%) Microservices
17 63 (7.39%) ITIL
18 62 (7.28%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 167 (19.60%) Java
2 111 (13.03%) Python
3 69 (8.10%) SQL
4 26 (3.05%) Go
5 25 (2.93%) C++
6 24 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.88%) C
8 16 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.06%) R
10 8 (0.94%) Rust
11 7 (0.82%) C#
12 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.59%) Bash
13 5 (0.59%) VBA
14 4 (0.47%) Bicep
15 3 (0.35%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.35%) Perl
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
16 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (4.23%) Degree
2 24 (2.82%) CISSP
3 23 (2.70%) ACCA
4 22 (2.58%) CISM
5 21 (2.46%) CIMA
6 18 (2.11%) CISA
7 11 (1.29%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.29%) OSCP
8 10 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.06%) CRISC
10 8 (0.94%) CGEIT
10 8 (0.94%) FFIEC
10 8 (0.94%) SANS
11 7 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.82%) ISACA
11 7 (0.82%) Security Cleared
12 6 (0.70%) CCNP
13 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.52%) QA
2 28 (3.29%) NIST
3 26 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.05%) GDPR
4 20 (2.35%) COBIT
5 19 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.88%) FINREP
8 13 (1.53%) COREP
9 12 (1.41%) GRC
10 11 (1.29%) EMIR
10 11 (1.29%) MiFID
11 10 (1.17%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.82%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.59%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.59%) IFRS
14 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (1.88%) Docker
3 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.70%) vSphere
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (8.69%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.63%) Grafana
3 24 (2.82%) Ansible
4 9 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
5 8 (0.94%) Istio
6 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.35%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (6.34%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.22%) Oracle
3 50 (5.87%) BT
4 36 (4.23%) Databricks
4 36 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.70%) BMC
6 21 (2.46%) Cisco
7 20 (2.35%) Remedy
8 16 (1.88%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.76%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.53%) Splunk
10 13 (1.53%) VMware
11 11 (1.29%) FIS
12 9 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.06%) SunGard
13 8 (0.94%) Confluent
14 7 (0.82%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.70%) Google
15 6 (0.70%) NetApp
15 6 (0.70%) Workday