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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 21 64
Rank change year-on-year -44 +43 -40
Permanent jobs citing Banking 788 1,463 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.78% 9.11% 4.00%
As % of the General category 6.42% 12.45% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 330 848 1,110
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £25,313 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +41.94%
75th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £150,000
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 12,279 11,748 20,395
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.94% 73.16% 61.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,049 6,569 14,882
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £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 £97,500
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

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 3 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 9 (1.14%) SAS
2 7 (0.89%) 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 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (4.31%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (2.54%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
5 5 (0.63%) 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 (27.66%) AWS
2 135 (17.13%) SaaS
3 115 (14.59%) GCP
4 77 (9.77%) Azure
5 71 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (2.41%) OCI
7 13 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.65%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.27%) Azure AI
9 10 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (1.27%) dbt
9 10 (1.27%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.14%) GitHub
10 9 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (1.02%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.02%) Figma
11 8 (1.02%) OpenShift
12 7 (0.89%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.68%) HTTP
2 28 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 23 (2.92%) Broadband
3 23 (2.92%) Firewall
4 17 (2.16%) LAN
4 17 (2.16%) WAN
5 15 (1.90%) CHAP
6 13 (1.65%) VLAN
7 12 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (1.40%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (1.27%) Network Security
10 9 (1.14%) BGP
10 9 (1.14%) Unified Communications
10 9 (1.14%) WebEx
11 7 (0.89%) VPN
12 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.51%) DHCP
13 4 (0.51%) DNS
14 3 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.27%) Power BI
5 9 (1.14%) Looker
6 7 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (0.89%) Tableau
7 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.51%) SAS EBI
9 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.25%) Db2
10 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.25%) Metadata
11 1 (0.13%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.13%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 57 (7.23%) TeamCity
2 4 (0.51%) Git
2 4 (0.51%) JIRA
2 4 (0.51%) JUnit
3 1 (0.13%) GitLab
3 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (0.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 653 (82.87%) Finance
2 312 (39.59%) Social Skills
3 194 (24.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 192 (24.37%) Retail
5 168 (21.32%) Law
6 140 (17.77%) Financial Institution
7 124 (15.74%) Back Office
8 64 (8.12%) Investment Banking
9 59 (7.49%) Legal
10 58 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
11 53 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (5.46%) Marketing
13 25 (3.17%) Front Office
14 23 (2.92%) Public Sector
15 20 (2.54%) Polish Language
15 20 (2.54%) Telecoms
16 17 (2.16%) Games
17 14 (1.78%) Italian Language
18 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
19 10 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (16.24%) Senior
2 114 (14.47%) Software Engineer
3 91 (11.55%) Lead
4 62 (7.87%) Analyst
5 56 (7.11%) Developer
6 49 (6.22%) Product Manager
7 44 (5.58%) Senior Manager
8 38 (4.82%) Engineering Manager
8 38 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
9 37 (4.70%) Product Owner
9 37 (4.70%) Software Manager
10 36 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 36 (4.57%) Software Engineering Manager
11 32 (4.06%) Development Engineer
11 32 (4.06%) Software Development Engineer
12 25 (3.17%) Java Engineer
13 24 (3.05%) Consultant
14 23 (2.92%) Architect
15 21 (2.66%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.54%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.85%) REST
2 24 (3.05%) React
2 24 (3.05%) Spring
3 14 (1.78%) .NET
3 14 (1.78%) Kafka
4 12 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 10 (1.27%) RESTful
6 9 (1.14%) PyTorch
6 9 (1.14%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.14%) TensorFlow
6 9 (1.14%) XMPP
7 8 (1.02%) AWS CDK
7 8 (1.02%) LangChain
7 8 (1.02%) LangGraph
8 7 (0.89%) Middleware
8 7 (0.89%) Node.js
8 7 (0.89%) OpenAPI
8 7 (0.89%) scikit-learn
8 7 (0.89%) Swagger
9 5 (0.63%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 163 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 133 (16.88%) Cloud Native
3 49 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 43 (5.46%) Management Information System
5 41 (5.20%) Blog
6 39 (4.95%) Web Conferencing
7 32 (4.06%) Podcast
8 23 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (2.54%) Security Posture
11 17 (2.16%) Credit Risk
11 17 (2.16%) Data Centre
11 17 (2.16%) FPGA
12 14 (1.78%) Derivative
12 14 (1.78%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.40%) Blockchain
14 11 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.46%) Linux
2 23 (2.92%) Windows
3 12 (1.52%) Android
3 12 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (0.25%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (25.13%) Roadmaps
2 185 (23.48%) Software Engineering
3 137 (17.39%) Agile
4 135 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (16.62%) Fintech
6 116 (14.72%) Test Automation
7 103 (13.07%) CI/CD
8 88 (11.17%) Product Roadmap
9 78 (9.90%) Coaching
9 78 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
10 77 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (9.77%) Risk Management
11 73 (9.26%) Microservices
12 72 (9.14%) AI
13 71 (9.01%) DevOps
13 71 (9.01%) Mentoring
14 67 (8.50%) Analytics
15 63 (7.99%) Clean Code
16 62 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
16 62 (7.87%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 175 (22.21%) Java
2 104 (13.20%) Python
3 59 (7.49%) SQL
4 30 (3.81%) Go
5 23 (2.92%) C++
5 23 (2.92%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.92%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.66%) C
7 14 (1.78%) C#
8 9 (1.14%) R
9 8 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.89%) Rust
11 4 (0.51%) Bash
11 4 (0.51%) VBA
12 3 (0.38%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.38%) Perl
12 3 (0.38%) Ruby
13 1 (0.13%) Cypher
13 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 63 (7.99%) Degree
2 35 (4.44%) CISSP
3 29 (3.68%) CISA
3 29 (3.68%) CISM
4 28 (3.55%) ACCA
5 24 (3.05%) CIMA
6 16 (2.03%) CREST Certified
6 16 (2.03%) OSCP
7 15 (1.90%) CGEIT
7 15 (1.90%) FFIEC
7 15 (1.90%) SANS
8 13 (1.65%) CRISC
9 11 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.27%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.89%) ISACA
13 6 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.84%) QA
2 35 (4.44%) NIST
3 29 (3.68%) GDPR
3 29 (3.68%) PCI DSS
4 28 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (3.30%) COBIT
6 24 (3.05%) SOC 2
7 17 (2.16%) Data Quality
8 16 (2.03%) GRC
9 14 (1.78%) COREP
9 14 (1.78%) FINREP
10 12 (1.52%) EMIR
10 12 (1.52%) MiFID
11 8 (1.02%) IFRS
12 7 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.89%) SOC 1
13 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.76%) PMO
14 4 (0.51%) GAAP
15 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (1.52%) Docker
3 10 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.76%) vSphere
6 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 96 (12.18%) Terraform
2 85 (10.79%) Kubernetes
3 69 (8.76%) Grafana
4 15 (1.90%) Ansible
5 9 (1.14%) 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 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 60 (7.61%) Oracle
2 50 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 25 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 23 (2.92%) BT
5 20 (2.54%) Cisco
6 16 (2.03%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.90%) BMC
8 14 (1.78%) Fortinet
8 14 (1.78%) VMware
9 13 (1.65%) Splunk
10 12 (1.52%) Remedy
11 11 (1.40%) Databricks
12 8 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.02%) Confluent
13 6 (0.76%) NetApp
13 6 (0.76%) SAP
13 6 (0.76%) Workday
14 5 (0.63%) Google
15 4 (0.51%) Informatica
15 4 (0.51%) Talend