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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 22 63
Rank change year-on-year -44 +41 -40
Permanent jobs citing Banking 804 1,446 1,271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.77% 8.74% 3.98%
As % of the General category 6.34% 12.08% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 333 829 1,046
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £25,313 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -26.19% +48.78%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £156,250
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 12,681 11,973 19,570
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.40% 72.39% 61.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,277 6,714 14,105
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £31,762
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,375 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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

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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 13 July 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 8 (1.00%) SAS
2 7 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.23%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 231 (28.73%) AWS
2 139 (17.29%) SaaS
3 122 (15.17%) GCP
4 79 (9.83%) Azure
5 73 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.36%) OCI
7 13 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.62%) Snowflake
8 12 (1.49%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.24%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.24%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (1.24%) dbt
11 9 (1.12%) GitHub
12 8 (1.00%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (1.00%) Figma
12 8 (1.00%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.00%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.61%) HTTP
1 29 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 25 (3.11%) Broadband
3 24 (2.99%) Firewall
4 18 (2.24%) LAN
4 18 (2.24%) WAN
5 13 (1.62%) CHAP
5 13 (1.62%) VLAN
6 12 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
7 11 (1.37%) Network Security
8 10 (1.24%) BGP
9 9 (1.12%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.12%) WebEx
10 8 (1.00%) VPN
11 6 (0.75%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.50%) DNS
12 4 (0.50%) MPLS
12 4 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.12%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.12%) Looker
4 9 (1.12%) Power BI
5 8 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.75%) Tableau
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.50%) SAS EBI
9 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.25%) Db2
10 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.12%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (7.46%) TeamCity
2 5 (0.62%) Git
2 5 (0.62%) JUnit
3 4 (0.50%) JIRA
4 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.12%) GitLab
5 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.12%) Maven
5 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 665 (82.71%) Finance
2 319 (39.68%) Social Skills
3 202 (25.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 202 (25.12%) Retail
4 178 (22.14%) Law
5 141 (17.54%) Financial Institution
6 128 (15.92%) Back Office
7 68 (8.46%) Investment Banking
8 62 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
9 60 (7.46%) Legal
10 53 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (5.47%) Marketing
12 28 (3.48%) Front Office
13 24 (2.99%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.61%) Polish Language
14 21 (2.61%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.36%) Games
16 14 (1.74%) Italian Language
17 12 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (1.37%) German Language
Job Titles
1 125 (15.55%) Senior
2 117 (14.55%) Software Engineer
3 97 (12.06%) Lead
4 65 (8.08%) Analyst
5 52 (6.47%) Developer
6 48 (5.97%) Product Manager
7 45 (5.60%) Senior Manager
8 40 (4.98%) Engineering Manager
8 40 (4.98%) Lead Software Engineer
9 39 (4.85%) Software Manager
10 38 (4.73%) Software Engineering Manager
11 34 (4.23%) Product Owner
12 33 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.98%) Development Engineer
13 32 (3.98%) Software Development Engineer
14 29 (3.61%) Architect
15 25 (3.11%) Java Engineer
16 24 (2.99%) Consultant
17 22 (2.74%) Data Scientist
18 21 (2.61%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.72%) REST
2 25 (3.11%) React
2 25 (3.11%) Spring
3 14 (1.74%) Kafka
4 12 (1.49%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.49%) LangChain
4 12 (1.49%) LangGraph
4 12 (1.49%) RESTful
5 11 (1.37%) .NET
6 10 (1.24%) PyTorch
6 10 (1.24%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.12%) OpenAPI
7 9 (1.12%) scikit-learn
7 9 (1.12%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.12%) Swagger
7 9 (1.12%) XMPP
8 8 (1.00%) AWS CDK
9 7 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.87%) Middleware
9 7 (0.87%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 166 (20.65%) Product Ownership
2 137 (17.04%) Cloud Native
3 50 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 44 (5.47%) Blog
5 41 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 39 (4.85%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (3.98%) Podcast
8 23 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 22 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (2.61%) Security Posture
10 21 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.36%) Fixed Income
12 17 (2.11%) Credit Risk
12 17 (2.11%) Data Centre
12 17 (2.11%) FPGA
13 15 (1.87%) Derivative
14 13 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.24%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.85%) Linux
2 23 (2.86%) Windows
3 13 (1.62%) Android
3 13 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.12%) Unix
6 2 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (26.00%) Roadmaps
2 192 (23.88%) Software Engineering
3 140 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
4 136 (16.92%) Fintech
5 132 (16.42%) Agile
6 118 (14.68%) Test Automation
7 110 (13.68%) CI/CD
8 91 (11.32%) Product Roadmap
9 84 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (10.07%) Technical Leadership
11 79 (9.83%) Coaching
12 78 (9.70%) AI
13 73 (9.08%) DevOps
13 73 (9.08%) Microservices
13 73 (9.08%) Risk Management
14 72 (8.96%) Mentoring
15 69 (8.58%) Disruptive Innovation
16 68 (8.46%) Clean Code
17 67 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
18 66 (8.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 182 (22.64%) Java
2 106 (13.18%) Python
3 59 (7.34%) SQL
4 32 (3.98%) Go
5 27 (3.36%) C++
6 24 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.61%) C
9 13 (1.62%) C#
10 10 (1.24%) R
11 9 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.00%) Rust
13 5 (0.62%) VBA
14 4 (0.50%) Bash
15 3 (0.37%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.37%) Perl
15 3 (0.37%) Ruby
16 1 (0.12%) Cypher
16 1 (0.12%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 60 (7.46%) Degree
2 33 (4.10%) CISSP
3 28 (3.48%) ACCA
4 27 (3.36%) CISA
4 27 (3.36%) CISM
5 24 (2.99%) CIMA
6 16 (1.99%) CREST Certified
6 16 (1.99%) OSCP
7 13 (1.62%) CGEIT
7 13 (1.62%) CRISC
7 13 (1.62%) FFIEC
7 13 (1.62%) SANS
8 11 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.24%) Security Cleared
10 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.87%) ISACA
13 6 (0.75%) CCNP
13 6 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.72%) QA
2 34 (4.23%) NIST
3 29 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.61%) PCI DSS
4 28 (3.48%) GDPR
5 25 (3.11%) SOC 2
6 24 (2.99%) COBIT
7 18 (2.24%) Data Quality
8 16 (1.99%) GRC
9 14 (1.74%) COREP
9 14 (1.74%) FINREP
10 13 (1.62%) EMIR
10 13 (1.62%) MiFID
11 8 (1.00%) IFRS
12 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.87%) SOC 1
13 5 (0.62%) PMO
14 4 (0.50%) GAAP
14 4 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.49%) Docker
3 10 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 102 (12.69%) Terraform
2 89 (11.07%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.08%) Grafana
4 17 (2.11%) Ansible
5 9 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.00%) Istio
7 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (7.46%) Oracle
2 49 (6.09%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.36%) ServiceNow
4 25 (3.11%) BT
5 21 (2.61%) Cisco
6 17 (2.11%) BMC
6 17 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.87%) Fortinet
7 15 (1.87%) VMware
8 14 (1.74%) Databricks
8 14 (1.74%) Remedy
9 13 (1.62%) Splunk
10 9 (1.12%) CheckPoint
11 8 (1.00%) Confluent
12 7 (0.87%) FIS
13 6 (0.75%) NetApp
13 6 (0.75%) SAP
13 6 (0.75%) SunGard
13 6 (0.75%) Workday
14 5 (0.62%) Google