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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 41 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -16
Permanent jobs citing Banking 973 992 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.94% 6.02% 5.11%
As % of the General category 6.42% 8.43% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 399 440 930
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,087 £62,105
25th Percentile £62,500 £29,242 £81,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +55.86%
75th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +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 15,167 11,766 14,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.38% 71.37% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,235 6,295 8,225
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.14% -5.00%

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 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 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.41%) CMS
2 4 (0.41%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) Confluence
4 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (2.57%) Oracle Financials
2 22 (2.26%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (2.06%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
5 8 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.62%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.21%) Sage 50
9 1 (0.10%) Finacle
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 313 (32.17%) AWS
2 157 (16.14%) GCP
3 134 (13.77%) SaaS
4 83 (8.53%) Azure
5 74 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (4.93%) Snowflake
7 42 (4.32%) Amazon Bedrock
8 39 (4.01%) Anthropic Claude
9 23 (2.36%) GitHub
10 18 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 18 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (1.75%) OCI
12 16 (1.64%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.44%) Serverless
14 12 (1.23%) Datadog
15 11 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.03%) Azure AI
16 10 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
17 9 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.96%) Broadband
2 33 (3.39%) HTTP
3 23 (2.36%) Firewall
4 22 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.95%) LAN
6 17 (1.75%) WAN
7 16 (1.64%) Network Security
8 15 (1.54%) VLAN
9 13 (1.34%) BGP
10 10 (1.03%) OSPF
11 7 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.72%) DHCP
11 7 (0.72%) DNS
11 7 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (0.72%) VPN
12 6 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.62%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.62%) MPLS
12 6 (0.62%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.62%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.34%) Power BI
5 12 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.92%) DynamoDB
7 8 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.72%) Metadata
9 6 (0.62%) Looker
9 6 (0.62%) Tableau
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.31%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 77 (7.91%) TeamCity
2 39 (4.01%) Claude Code
3 13 (1.34%) JUnit
4 12 (1.23%) Git
5 6 (0.62%) JIRA
6 5 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.31%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) GitLab
9 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.10%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.10%) Maven
9 1 (0.10%) SonarQube
General
1 737 (75.75%) Finance
2 368 (37.82%) Social Skills
3 225 (23.12%) Retail
4 211 (21.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (19.94%) Law
6 129 (13.26%) Financial Institution
7 124 (12.74%) Back Office
8 71 (7.30%) Legal
9 69 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
10 66 (6.78%) Investment Banking
11 51 (5.24%) Front Office
12 47 (4.83%) Marketing
13 36 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (2.47%) Public Sector
15 22 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.85%) Games
16 18 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.54%) Polish Language
18 13 (1.34%) French Language
18 13 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (15.31%) Senior
1 149 (15.31%) Software Engineer
2 137 (14.08%) Lead
3 78 (8.02%) Architect
4 58 (5.96%) Analyst
5 57 (5.86%) Developer
6 53 (5.45%) Senior Manager
7 50 (5.14%) Lead Software Engineer
8 49 (5.04%) Engineering Manager
9 47 (4.83%) Software Engineering Manager
9 47 (4.83%) Software Manager
10 44 (4.52%) Java Engineer
11 38 (3.91%) Finance Manager
12 37 (3.80%) Enterprise Architect
12 37 (3.80%) Product Owner
13 35 (3.60%) Development Engineer
13 35 (3.60%) IT Manager
13 35 (3.60%) Product Manager
13 35 (3.60%) Software Development Engineer
14 33 (3.39%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (12.13%) Terraform
2 52 (5.34%) REST
3 44 (4.52%) LangChain
3 44 (4.52%) LangGraph
4 34 (3.49%) Spring
5 23 (2.36%) React
6 20 (2.06%) RESTful
7 16 (1.64%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.64%) scikit-learn
8 15 (1.54%) OpenAPI
8 15 (1.54%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.54%) Swagger
8 15 (1.54%) TensorFlow
9 13 (1.34%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.23%) Node.js
11 10 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (0.92%) Dagger
12 9 (0.92%) RxJava
13 8 (0.82%) AWS CDK
13 8 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 198 (20.35%) Product Ownership
2 141 (14.49%) Cloud Native
3 60 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 50 (5.14%) AI Agents
4 50 (5.14%) Hedge funds
5 45 (4.62%) Web Conferencing
6 41 (4.21%) Podcast
7 34 (3.49%) Blog
8 27 (2.77%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.26%) Derivative
11 21 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (2.06%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.95%) Onboarding
14 18 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
15 16 (1.64%) Social Media
16 15 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (1.34%) Credit Risk
18 12 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.70%) Linux
2 26 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.47%) Android
4 21 (2.16%) Windows
5 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.51%) Unix
7 1 (0.10%) AIX
7 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (26.62%) Roadmaps
2 243 (24.97%) Software Engineering
3 154 (15.83%) Fintech
4 153 (15.72%) AI
5 148 (15.21%) CI/CD
6 146 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (13.16%) Test Automation
8 110 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 100 (10.28%) Mentoring
10 99 (10.17%) Disruptive Innovation
11 98 (10.07%) Agile
11 98 (10.07%) Coaching
12 97 (9.97%) Machine Learning
13 96 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
14 87 (8.94%) Product Roadmap
15 84 (8.63%) Deployment Automation
16 82 (8.43%) Microservices
17 81 (8.32%) Clean Code
17 81 (8.32%) DevOps
18 76 (7.81%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 223 (22.92%) Java
2 124 (12.74%) Python
3 73 (7.50%) SQL
4 28 (2.88%) Go
5 24 (2.47%) TypeScript
6 23 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.06%) C++
8 14 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.44%) R
9 13 (1.34%) Bash
10 12 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.13%) C
12 7 (0.72%) Rust
13 6 (0.62%) C#
14 5 (0.51%) VBA
15 4 (0.41%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.21%) Perl
16 2 (0.21%) Ruby
17 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (2.98%) Degree
2 19 (1.95%) CISSP
3 17 (1.75%) CISM
4 16 (1.64%) ACCA
5 13 (1.34%) CISA
6 12 (1.23%) CIMA
7 11 (1.13%) CREST Certified
7 11 (1.13%) OSCP
8 9 (0.92%) CRISC
9 8 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.72%) ISACA
10 7 (0.72%) Security Cleared
11 6 (0.62%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.51%) GCFA
12 5 (0.51%) GIAC
12 5 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.41%) AAT
13 4 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.76%) QA
2 24 (2.47%) NIST
3 23 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.26%) GDPR
4 22 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 21 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.95%) COBIT
7 13 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 12 (1.23%) GRC
9 11 (1.13%) EMIR
9 11 (1.13%) FINREP
9 11 (1.13%) MiFID
10 8 (0.82%) COREP
10 8 (0.82%) SOC 1
11 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.51%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.41%) SLA
14 3 (0.31%) Basel III
14 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.23%) Docker
3 6 (0.62%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 93 (9.56%) Grafana
3 23 (2.36%) Ansible
4 9 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.31%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (5.96%) BT
2 52 (5.34%) Databricks
2 52 (5.34%) Oracle
3 47 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 38 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 23 (2.36%) BMC
6 20 (2.06%) Remedy
7 18 (1.85%) Cisco
7 18 (1.85%) Google
8 12 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 12 (1.23%) Splunk
9 11 (1.13%) FIS
10 10 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.92%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.92%) SunGard
11 9 (0.92%) VMware
12 6 (0.62%) Xero
13 4 (0.41%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.41%) Okta
13 4 (0.41%) SAP