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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 28 45
Rank change year-on-year -37 +17 -19
Permanent jobs citing Banking 867 1,224 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.73% 7.40% 4.89%
As % of the General category 6.20% 10.37% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 363 620 1,001
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,084 £61,250
25th Percentile £56,375 £25,313 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -25.00% +50.17%
75th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -10.81% +23.33%

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 13,995 11,802 15,217
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.21% 71.32% 61.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,804 6,603 9,806
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £78,750 £81,120
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
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

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 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 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.46%) 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 30 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.34%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 19 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.46%) 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
1 264 (30.45%) AWS
2 120 (13.84%) GCP
3 112 (12.92%) SaaS
4 83 (9.57%) Azure
5 59 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (4.15%) Snowflake
7 24 (2.77%) Amazon Bedrock
7 24 (2.77%) Anthropic Claude
8 18 (2.08%) GitHub
8 18 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.08%) OCI
9 16 (1.85%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (1.50%) Serverless
12 11 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (1.27%) Datadog
13 10 (1.15%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 9 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.46%) Broadband
2 32 (3.69%) HTTP
3 24 (2.77%) Firewall
4 21 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.08%) LAN
5 18 (2.08%) WAN
6 13 (1.50%) Network Security
7 12 (1.38%) VLAN
8 9 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (0.92%) BGP
9 8 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (0.92%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.92%) WebEx
10 7 (0.81%) OSPF
11 6 (0.69%) CHAP
11 6 (0.69%) MPLS
11 6 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.58%) DHCP
12 5 (0.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (1.50%) Power BI
6 11 (1.27%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.81%) Looker
8 7 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.81%) Tableau
9 6 (0.69%) Metadata
10 5 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.35%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.23%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 51 (5.88%) TeamCity
2 24 (2.77%) Claude Code
3 9 (1.04%) Git
4 7 (0.81%) JUnit
5 5 (0.58%) JIRA
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.23%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.12%) GitLab
8 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 691 (79.70%) Finance
2 321 (37.02%) Social Skills
3 178 (20.53%) Retail
4 167 (19.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 150 (17.30%) Law
6 109 (12.57%) Financial Institution
7 106 (12.23%) Back Office
8 69 (7.96%) Investment Banking
9 68 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (7.84%) Legal
10 48 (5.54%) Marketing
11 46 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (4.50%) Front Office
13 24 (2.77%) Public Sector
14 23 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.96%) Games
16 14 (1.61%) Polish Language
17 12 (1.38%) German Language
17 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (14.88%) Senior
2 119 (13.73%) Software Engineer
3 106 (12.23%) Lead
4 56 (6.46%) Analyst
5 55 (6.34%) Architect
6 53 (6.11%) Senior Manager
7 48 (5.54%) Developer
8 47 (5.42%) Engineering Manager
9 45 (5.19%) Software Engineering Manager
9 45 (5.19%) Software Manager
10 40 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
11 39 (4.50%) Product Manager
12 35 (4.04%) Development Engineer
12 35 (4.04%) Software Development Engineer
13 30 (3.46%) IT Manager
14 27 (3.11%) Product Owner
15 25 (2.88%) Data Scientist
15 25 (2.88%) Finance Manager
15 25 (2.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (2.77%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (11.19%) Terraform
2 53 (6.11%) REST
3 35 (4.04%) LangChain
3 35 (4.04%) LangGraph
4 32 (3.69%) Spring
5 24 (2.77%) React
6 15 (1.73%) AngularJS
7 14 (1.61%) RESTful
8 13 (1.50%) Node.js
8 13 (1.50%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.38%) Kafka
9 12 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 12 (1.38%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.38%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.27%) OpenAPI
10 11 (1.27%) Swagger
11 10 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (0.92%) AWS CDK
12 8 (0.92%) XMPP
13 6 (0.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 166 (19.15%) Product Ownership
2 125 (14.42%) Cloud Native
3 58 (6.69%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.96%) Web Conferencing
5 38 (4.38%) Podcast
6 33 (3.81%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.69%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.46%) Hedge funds
9 23 (2.65%) Blog
9 23 (2.65%) Fixed Income
10 20 (2.31%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.08%) Derivative
12 17 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 16 (1.85%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.50%) Credit Risk
14 13 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (1.27%) FPGA
15 11 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.50%) Linux
2 22 (2.54%) Windows
3 16 (1.85%) Android
4 14 (1.61%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.81%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (28.37%) Roadmaps
2 205 (23.64%) Software Engineering
3 138 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (13.84%) Agile
4 120 (13.84%) Fintech
5 119 (13.73%) AI
6 114 (13.15%) CI/CD
7 109 (12.57%) Test Automation
8 91 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
9 90 (10.38%) Product Roadmap
10 89 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (9.80%) Mentoring
12 84 (9.69%) Coaching
13 80 (9.23%) DevOps
13 80 (9.23%) Machine Learning
14 66 (7.61%) Microservices
14 66 (7.61%) Risk Management
15 65 (7.50%) Deployment Automation
16 64 (7.38%) Analytics
17 62 (7.15%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.84%) Java
2 111 (12.80%) Python
3 70 (8.07%) SQL
4 27 (3.11%) Go
5 25 (2.88%) TypeScript
6 24 (2.77%) C++
6 24 (2.77%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.73%) C
9 9 (1.04%) R
10 8 (0.92%) Rust
11 7 (0.81%) C#
11 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.58%) Bash
12 5 (0.58%) VBA
13 4 (0.46%) Bicep
14 3 (0.35%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.35%) Perl
14 3 (0.35%) Ruby
15 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (4.04%) Degree
2 22 (2.54%) ACCA
2 22 (2.54%) CISSP
3 20 (2.31%) CIMA
3 20 (2.31%) CISM
4 16 (1.85%) CISA
5 11 (1.27%) CREST Certified
5 11 (1.27%) OSCP
6 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.04%) CRISC
7 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 7 (0.81%) ISACA
7 7 (0.81%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.69%) CCNP
8 6 (0.69%) CGEIT
8 6 (0.69%) FFIEC
8 6 (0.69%) SANS
9 4 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.42%) QA
2 26 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.00%) NIST
3 24 (2.77%) GDPR
4 19 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.08%) COBIT
6 17 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.73%) FINREP
9 12 (1.38%) COREP
9 12 (1.38%) EMIR
9 12 (1.38%) GRC
9 12 (1.38%) MiFID
10 10 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.81%) SOC 1
12 5 (0.58%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.46%) IFRS
13 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (1.85%) Docker
3 8 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.58%) vSphere
6 4 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 79 (9.11%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.84%) Grafana
3 23 (2.65%) Ansible
4 8 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
4 8 (0.92%) Istio
5 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.35%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.12%) Argo
7 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (6.46%) BT
2 52 (6.00%) Oracle
3 51 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 40 (4.61%) Databricks
5 36 (4.15%) ServiceNow
6 23 (2.65%) BMC
7 20 (2.31%) Remedy
8 19 (2.19%) Cisco
9 14 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.38%) Splunk
10 12 (1.38%) VMware
11 11 (1.27%) FIS
12 9 (1.04%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.04%) SunGard
13 8 (0.92%) Confluent
14 7 (0.81%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.81%) Google
15 5 (0.58%) NetApp
15 5 (0.58%) SAP