Hybrid/Remote Financial Institution Job Trends

Financial Institution
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 390 455
Rank change year-on-year +160 +65 -60
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 175 38 117
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the General category 1.66% 0.34% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51 28 97
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £65,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -9.38% +23.08%
75th Percentile £122,500 £83,188 £100,000
90th Percentile - £137,875 £122,861
UK median annual salary £85,000 £84,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +1.19% +10.16% +1.67%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Financial Institution 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 10,518 11,190 20,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.03% 74.66% 62.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,982 6,325 15,089
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,713 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Financial Institution and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Financial Institution
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Financial Institution.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Financial Institution salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Financial Institution
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 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 115 (65.71%) SaaS
2 52 (29.71%) AWS
3 42 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
4 41 (23.43%) GCP
5 7 (4.00%) Figma
6 4 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.71%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (1.71%) Route 53
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Azure
8 1 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.00%) CHAP
2 3 (1.71%) BGP
2 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.71%) VLAN
2 3 (1.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.29%) NoSQL
1 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.57%) Big Data
3 1 (0.57%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.57%) DB2
3 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (20.57%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.29%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 175 (100.00%) Finance
2 146 (83.43%) Banking
3 116 (66.29%) Law
4 114 (65.14%) Retail
5 110 (62.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (59.43%) Back Office
7 54 (30.86%) Social Skills
8 19 (10.86%) Polish Language
9 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (6.86%) Marketing
10 6 (3.43%) Legal
10 6 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.86%) Brand Awareness
12 3 (1.71%) Front Office
12 3 (1.71%) International Banking
13 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (24.00%) Software Engineer
2 30 (17.14%) Lead
3 26 (14.86%) Senior
4 21 (12.00%) Analyst
4 21 (12.00%) Auditor
5 20 (11.43%) Internal Auditor
5 20 (11.43%) Security Auditor
6 15 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Software Team Leader
7 13 (7.43%) Team Leader
8 12 (6.86%) Designer
8 12 (6.86%) Java Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.00%) Information Analyst
12 7 (4.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.86%) REST
2 10 (5.71%) RESTful
3 7 (4.00%) .NET
3 7 (4.00%) OpenAPI
3 7 (4.00%) Swagger
4 5 (2.86%) XML
5 4 (2.29%) RxJava
6 3 (1.71%) Dagger
6 3 (1.71%) Retrofit
7 2 (1.14%) Spring
7 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.14%) XSLT
8 1 (0.57%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.57%) CSS
8 1 (0.57%) HTML
8 1 (0.57%) JDBC
8 1 (0.57%) JMS
8 1 (0.57%) JSP
8 1 (0.57%) SOAP
8 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 46 (26.29%) Product Ownership
3 29 (16.57%) Management Information System
4 22 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (10.29%) Onboarding
6 14 (8.00%) Blog
7 10 (5.71%) Blockchain
8 9 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (4.57%) Data Centre
10 7 (4.00%) Algorithms
11 6 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (3.43%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.71%) PMI
12 3 (1.71%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.71%) Web Conferencing
13 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
14 1 (0.57%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.14%) Android
1 9 (5.14%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.57%) AIX
3 1 (0.57%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.00%) Fintech
2 51 (29.14%) Software Engineering
2 51 (29.14%) Test Automation
3 47 (26.86%) CI/CD
4 43 (24.57%) Microservices
5 39 (22.29%) Clean Code
6 37 (21.14%) Information Security
7 36 (20.57%) Continuous Deployment
7 36 (20.57%) Deployment Automation
7 36 (20.57%) Risk Management
8 32 (18.29%) Mentoring
9 30 (17.14%) Analytics
9 30 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (16.57%) Coaching
11 28 (16.00%) Agile
11 28 (16.00%) Project Management
11 28 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
12 26 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (14.29%) Disruptive Innovation
13 25 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.29%) Java
2 16 (9.14%) SQL
3 14 (8.00%) Python
4 10 (5.71%) Go
5 3 (1.71%) C#
6 2 (1.14%) C++
6 2 (1.14%) VBA
6 2 (1.14%) VC++
7 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (16.00%) CISA
1 28 (16.00%) CISSP
2 21 (12.00%) CGEIT
2 21 (12.00%) CISM
2 21 (12.00%) FFIEC
2 21 (12.00%) SANS
3 13 (7.43%) Degree
4 7 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (4.00%) CRISC
5 4 (2.29%) ACCA
6 3 (1.71%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.71%) OSCP
6 3 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.57%) APMP
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) NIST
2 21 (12.00%) COBIT
2 21 (12.00%) GDPR
3 18 (10.29%) SOC 2
4 16 (9.14%) PCI DSS
5 10 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (4.00%) GRC
7 6 (3.43%) QA
8 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
8 5 (2.86%) IFRS
9 3 (1.71%) PMO
9 3 (1.71%) PSD2
10 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.57%) GAAP
11 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (27.43%) Terraform
2 43 (24.57%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (5.71%) Oracle
2 8 (4.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.86%) HubSpot
3 5 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.14%) Planview
5 2 (1.14%) SAP
5 2 (1.14%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.57%) Citrix
6 1 (0.57%) Splunk