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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 21 64
Rank change year-on-year -40 +43 -40
Permanent jobs citing Banking 782 1,452 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.83% 9.29% 3.95%
As % of the General category 6.53% 12.53% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 327 834 1,096
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £25,313 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.92% +31.04%
75th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -11.11% +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 11,974 11,585 20,494
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.60% 74.14% 61.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,859 6,406 14,974
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,154 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,212
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

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 27 June 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 (1.02%) SAS
2 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.35%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (1.15%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 218 (27.88%) AWS
2 135 (17.26%) SaaS
3 115 (14.71%) GCP
4 78 (9.97%) Azure
5 71 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.43%) OCI
7 13 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (1.53%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.28%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (1.28%) dbt
10 10 (1.28%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (1.15%) GitHub
11 9 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (1.02%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (1.02%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (1.02%) Figma
12 8 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.71%) HTTP
2 28 (3.58%) TCP/IP
3 23 (2.94%) Firewall
4 21 (2.69%) Broadband
5 17 (2.17%) CHAP
6 16 (2.05%) LAN
6 16 (2.05%) WAN
7 13 (1.66%) VLAN
8 12 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (1.41%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (1.28%) Network Security
11 9 (1.15%) Unified Communications
11 9 (1.15%) WebEx
12 8 (1.02%) BGP
13 6 (0.77%) VPN
14 4 (0.51%) DHCP
14 4 (0.51%) DNS
14 4 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
15 3 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.32%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.15%) Looker
5 9 (1.15%) Power BI
6 6 (0.77%) Tableau
7 5 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.64%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.51%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.38%) SAS EBI
10 2 (0.26%) Db2
10 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.26%) Metadata
11 1 (0.13%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.13%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 57 (7.29%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.51%) JIRA
2 4 (0.51%) JUnit
3 2 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 650 (83.12%) Finance
2 308 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 193 (24.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 191 (24.42%) Retail
5 168 (21.48%) Law
6 142 (18.16%) Financial Institution
7 124 (15.86%) Back Office
8 62 (7.93%) Investment Banking
9 58 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (7.42%) Legal
10 53 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (5.37%) Marketing
12 25 (3.20%) Front Office
13 22 (2.81%) Public Sector
14 20 (2.56%) Polish Language
15 19 (2.43%) Telecoms
16 17 (2.17%) Games
17 14 (1.79%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
19 10 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (16.24%) Senior
2 115 (14.71%) Software Engineer
3 90 (11.51%) Lead
4 61 (7.80%) Analyst
5 56 (7.16%) Developer
6 49 (6.27%) Product Manager
7 44 (5.63%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.86%) Engineering Manager
8 38 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
9 37 (4.73%) Product Owner
9 37 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (4.73%) Software Manager
10 36 (4.60%) Software Engineering Manager
11 32 (4.09%) Development Engineer
11 32 (4.09%) Software Development Engineer
12 25 (3.20%) Java Engineer
13 24 (3.07%) Architect
13 24 (3.07%) Consultant
14 20 (2.56%) Auditor
14 20 (2.56%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.91%) REST
2 24 (3.07%) React
2 24 (3.07%) Spring
3 15 (1.92%) .NET
4 14 (1.79%) Kafka
5 12 (1.53%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.28%) RESTful
7 9 (1.15%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.15%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.15%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.15%) XMPP
8 8 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.02%) LangChain
8 8 (1.02%) LangGraph
9 7 (0.90%) Middleware
9 7 (0.90%) Node.js
9 7 (0.90%) OpenAPI
9 7 (0.90%) Swagger
10 5 (0.64%) Sass
10 5 (0.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 163 (20.84%) Product Ownership
2 134 (17.14%) Cloud Native
3 49 (6.27%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 41 (5.24%) Blog
6 39 (4.99%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (4.09%) Podcast
8 23 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (2.56%) Security Posture
11 18 (2.30%) FPGA
12 16 (2.05%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.79%) Credit Risk
14 13 (1.66%) Fixed Income
14 13 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.53%) Blockchain
15 12 (1.53%) Derivative
16 11 (1.41%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.63%) Linux
2 23 (2.94%) Windows
3 12 (1.53%) Android
3 12 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (25.32%) Roadmaps
2 186 (23.79%) Software Engineering
3 140 (17.90%) Agile
4 137 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (16.75%) Fintech
6 118 (15.09%) Test Automation
7 103 (13.17%) CI/CD
8 88 (11.25%) Product Roadmap
9 78 (9.97%) Coaching
9 78 (9.97%) Risk Management
9 78 (9.97%) Technical Leadership
10 77 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 74 (9.46%) Microservices
12 71 (9.08%) DevOps
12 71 (9.08%) Mentoring
13 70 (8.95%) AI
14 66 (8.44%) Analytics
15 63 (8.06%) Clean Code
16 62 (7.93%) Deployment Automation
16 62 (7.93%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 176 (22.51%) Java
2 98 (12.53%) Python
3 56 (7.16%) SQL
4 30 (3.84%) Go
5 24 (3.07%) C++
6 23 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 23 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.81%) C
8 14 (1.79%) C#
9 8 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.90%) R
10 7 (0.90%) Rust
11 4 (0.51%) Bash
12 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.38%) Perl
12 3 (0.38%) Ruby
12 3 (0.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.13%) Cypher
13 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 63 (8.06%) Degree
2 37 (4.73%) CISSP
3 31 (3.96%) CISA
3 31 (3.96%) CISM
4 28 (3.58%) ACCA
5 24 (3.07%) CIMA
6 18 (2.30%) FFIEC
7 17 (2.17%) CGEIT
7 17 (2.17%) SANS
8 16 (2.05%) CREST Certified
8 16 (2.05%) OSCP
9 13 (1.66%) CRISC
10 11 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.28%) Security Cleared
12 8 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.90%) ISACA
14 6 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.88%) QA
2 38 (4.86%) NIST
3 30 (3.84%) PCI DSS
4 29 (3.71%) GDPR
4 29 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (3.58%) COBIT
6 24 (3.07%) SOC 2
7 17 (2.17%) GRC
8 15 (1.92%) Data Quality
9 14 (1.79%) COREP
9 14 (1.79%) FINREP
10 11 (1.41%) EMIR
10 11 (1.41%) MiFID
11 8 (1.02%) IFRS
12 7 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.90%) SOC 1
13 6 (0.77%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.77%) PMO
14 4 (0.51%) GAAP
14 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.53%) Docker
3 10 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.77%) vSphere
6 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 96 (12.28%) Terraform
2 85 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.82%) Grafana
4 14 (1.79%) Ansible
5 9 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (1.02%) Istio
7 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.38%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 59 (7.54%) Oracle
2 50 (6.39%) Microsoft
3 23 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 21 (2.69%) BT
5 19 (2.43%) Cisco
6 15 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 14 (1.79%) Splunk
8 13 (1.66%) BMC
8 13 (1.66%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.66%) VMware
9 11 (1.41%) Databricks
10 10 (1.28%) Remedy
11 8 (1.02%) Confluent
12 7 (0.90%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.77%) NetApp
13 6 (0.77%) SAP
13 6 (0.77%) Workday
14 5 (0.64%) Google
15 4 (0.51%) Okta
15 4 (0.51%) OneLogin