Hybrid/Remote Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 423 410
Rank change year-on-year +58 -13 +119
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 9 17 76
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.10% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.099% 0.15% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 62
10th Percentile £66,750 £79,160 £57,988
25th Percentile £77,000 £83,525 £58,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £94,637 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% +34.09% -0.02%
75th Percentile £118,750 £98,474 £84,764
90th Percentile - - £137,913
UK median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.86% +9.88% +12.58%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Retail 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 9,061 11,259 13,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.27% 68.80% 62.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,747 6,354 10,558
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,407 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,888 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.98% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,158
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.17% -6.20%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Retail Banking
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Retail Banking salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Retail 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Alation
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Composer
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 4 (44.44%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
1 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) DataStage
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) QlikView
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) ER Studio
1 4 (44.44%) ERwin
1 4 (44.44%) PowerDesigner
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Banking
3 4 (44.44%) Retail
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Data Architect
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Architect
2 4 (44.44%) GCP Data Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (44.44%) Reinsurance
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
2 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (44.44%) AI
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Data Management
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Data Science
3 4 (44.44%) Data Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (44.44%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) DBS Check
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
1 4 (44.44%) Google
1 4 (44.44%) IBM
1 4 (44.44%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft