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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 34 44
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Banking 914 1,096 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 6.75% 5.08%
As % of the General category 6.32% 9.41% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 374 524 955
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £62,263
25th Percentile £62,500 £26,968 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +51.72%
75th Percentile £129,375 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
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 14,471 11,641 14,615
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.52% 71.72% 62.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,988 6,430 8,649
10th Percentile £32,428 £28,750 £34,874
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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

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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 12 September 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 13 (1.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (3.06%) Oracle Financials
2 21 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 7 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.55%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.22%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.11%) Finacle
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 295 (32.28%) AWS
2 142 (15.54%) GCP
3 118 (12.91%) SaaS
4 88 (9.63%) Azure
5 67 (7.33%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (4.60%) Snowflake
7 33 (3.61%) Amazon Bedrock
8 30 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
9 19 (2.08%) GitHub
10 18 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (1.97%) OCI
11 15 (1.64%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 14 (1.53%) Serverless
13 12 (1.31%) Datadog
14 11 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.09%) Azure AI
15 10 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
16 9 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.24%) Broadband
2 34 (3.72%) HTTP
3 24 (2.63%) Firewall
4 22 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.19%) LAN
5 20 (2.19%) WAN
6 14 (1.53%) Network Security
6 14 (1.53%) VLAN
7 10 (1.09%) BGP
7 10 (1.09%) OSPF
8 7 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (0.77%) DHCP
8 7 (0.77%) DNS
8 7 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (0.77%) Unified Communications
8 7 (0.77%) WebEx
9 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.31%) Power BI
5 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.98%) DynamoDB
7 7 (0.77%) Looker
7 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.66%) Metadata
8 6 (0.66%) Tableau
9 4 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (6.89%) TeamCity
2 30 (3.28%) Claude Code
3 12 (1.31%) Git
4 9 (0.98%) JUnit
5 5 (0.55%) JIRA
6 4 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.33%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 711 (77.79%) Finance
2 337 (36.87%) Social Skills
3 198 (21.66%) Retail
4 185 (20.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 169 (18.49%) Law
6 112 (12.25%) Financial Institution
7 111 (12.14%) Back Office
8 67 (7.33%) Legal
9 66 (7.22%) Investment Banking
10 63 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (5.14%) Marketing
12 42 (4.60%) Front Office
12 42 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.63%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.52%) Public Sector
15 17 (1.86%) Games
16 14 (1.53%) Polish Language
17 13 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (1.31%) French Language
Job Titles
1 141 (15.43%) Senior
2 140 (15.32%) Software Engineer
3 123 (13.46%) Lead
4 68 (7.44%) Architect
5 54 (5.91%) Analyst
5 54 (5.91%) Senior Manager
6 50 (5.47%) Developer
7 49 (5.36%) Engineering Manager
8 47 (5.14%) Lead Software Engineer
8 47 (5.14%) Software Engineering Manager
8 47 (5.14%) Software Manager
9 37 (4.05%) Development Engineer
9 37 (4.05%) Product Manager
9 37 (4.05%) Software Development Engineer
10 34 (3.72%) Product Owner
11 31 (3.39%) Enterprise Architect
11 31 (3.39%) Finance Manager
11 31 (3.39%) IT Manager
12 30 (3.28%) Java Engineer
13 27 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (12.04%) Terraform
2 53 (5.80%) REST
3 41 (4.49%) LangChain
3 41 (4.49%) LangGraph
4 34 (3.72%) Spring
5 24 (2.63%) React
6 17 (1.86%) RESTful
7 16 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.75%) scikit-learn
8 15 (1.64%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.64%) TensorFlow
9 14 (1.53%) OpenAPI
9 14 (1.53%) Swagger
10 13 (1.42%) Node.js
10 13 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (1.09%) Kafka
12 8 (0.88%) AWS CDK
13 7 (0.77%) XMPP
14 6 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 190 (20.79%) Product Ownership
2 136 (14.88%) Cloud Native
3 62 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 42 (4.60%) AI Agents
4 42 (4.60%) Web Conferencing
5 39 (4.27%) Hedge funds
6 38 (4.16%) Podcast
7 30 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 28 (3.06%) Blog
9 23 (2.52%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.19%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.97%) Derivative
11 18 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.86%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.42%) Credit Risk
13 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
13 13 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.42%) Social Media
14 12 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.16%) Linux
2 20 (2.19%) Windows
3 19 (2.08%) Android
4 18 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.66%) Unix
7 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (28.34%) Roadmaps
2 232 (25.38%) Software Engineering
3 136 (14.88%) AI
4 134 (14.66%) CI/CD
4 134 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (14.55%) Fintech
6 124 (13.57%) Test Automation
7 110 (12.04%) Agile
8 98 (10.72%) Technical Leadership
9 93 (10.18%) Mentoring
10 92 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (9.96%) Machine Learning
11 91 (9.96%) Product Roadmap
12 90 (9.85%) Coaching
13 82 (8.97%) DevOps
14 78 (8.53%) Deployment Automation
15 76 (8.32%) Disruptive Innovation
16 74 (8.10%) Microservices
17 70 (7.66%) Clean Code
17 70 (7.66%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 197 (21.55%) Java
2 120 (13.13%) Python
3 73 (7.99%) SQL
4 28 (3.06%) Go
5 25 (2.74%) TypeScript
6 24 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.52%) C++
8 15 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.53%) C
10 11 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.20%) R
11 8 (0.88%) Bash
11 8 (0.88%) Rust
12 7 (0.77%) C#
13 5 (0.55%) VBA
14 4 (0.44%) Bicep
15 3 (0.33%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.33%) Perl
15 3 (0.33%) Ruby
16 1 (0.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (3.50%) Degree
2 20 (2.19%) ACCA
2 20 (2.19%) CISSP
3 18 (1.97%) CISM
4 17 (1.86%) CIMA
5 14 (1.53%) CISA
6 11 (1.20%) CREST Certified
6 11 (1.20%) OSCP
7 9 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (0.98%) CRISC
8 8 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.77%) ISACA
10 6 (0.66%) CCNP
10 6 (0.66%) Security Cleared
11 5 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CEH
12 4 (0.44%) CGEIT
12 4 (0.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.36%) QA
2 24 (2.63%) NIST
3 23 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.41%) GDPR
5 18 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.75%) COBIT
7 13 (1.42%) EMIR
7 13 (1.42%) FINREP
7 13 (1.42%) MiFID
8 11 (1.20%) GRC
9 10 (1.09%) COREP
9 10 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.77%) SOC 1
11 5 (0.55%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.44%) PMO
13 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (1.75%) Docker
3 6 (0.66%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.44%) vSphere
6 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 90 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 79 (8.64%) Grafana
3 25 (2.74%) Ansible
4 7 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (0.66%) Istio
6 5 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.33%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (6.24%) BT
2 50 (5.47%) Oracle
3 47 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.03%) Databricks
5 36 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.52%) BMC
7 20 (2.19%) Cisco
7 20 (2.19%) Remedy
8 13 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.20%) FIS
9 11 (1.20%) Google
9 11 (1.20%) Splunk
10 10 (1.09%) VMware
11 9 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.98%) SunGard
12 6 (0.66%) CheckPoint
12 6 (0.66%) Confluent
13 5 (0.55%) Xero
14 4 (0.44%) Workday