Barclays

One Churchill Place, London, England

Founded
1690
Headquarters
One Churchill Place, London, England
Ticker
BARC / BCS
Employees
93,000 FTE (Dec 2025)
Website
home.barclays

Barclays is a London-based consumer, corporate and investment bank with 93,000 full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees at December 31, 2025. It reports five businesses plus a Head Office that provides centralized services and holds 61,600 of those FTE. In calendar 2025, five Barclays US employers submitted 852 H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs).

What Barclays does

Barclays serves individuals and small businesses through consumer banking, and larger businesses and institutions through corporate and investment banking. A three-year plan announced in February 2024 set out to make it a "Simpler, Better and More balanced bank." Group headcount was 93,000 full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees at December 31, 2025. For the full year 2025, average FTE was 93,100 and average headcount was 94,700. The registered office is 1 Churchill Place, London.

Where Barclays hires

Whippany, NJ accounts for 528 of the 852 H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs) that five Barclays US employers submitted in calendar 2025. The five are Barclays Services Corp, Barclays Services LLC, Barclays Capital Inc, Barclays Bank Delaware and Barclays Bank PLC. Two other worksite cities had 25 or more filings that year:

  • New York, NY: 228
  • Wilmington, DE: 68

The 2025 annual report names ten campuses: 1 Churchill Place in London, Radbroke, Northampton, Glasgow, Whippany, 745 7th Avenue in New York, Wilmington, Pune, Chennai and Noida. The technology careers page, viewed October 13, 2026, also lists Knutsford, Manchester, Prague and Singapore.

Job titles and levels you will see

Software Engineer is the most common title in Barclays Services Corp's 2025 LCA filings, at 23 of 536. Developer follows with 12 and Infrastructure Engineer with 10. Seniority tags show up inside titles: AVP, Senior Java Developer (9), Software Engineer - AVP (9) and Software Engineer - BA4 (9). Full Stack Developer leads Barclays Services LLC filings, 13 of 157. At Barclays Capital Inc, Vice President - Global Markets tops the list with 20 of 124. The annual report refers to Director and Managing Director corporate grades. The technology careers page groups roles into six families: Software Engineering; Architecture and Design; Change Delivery and Service Management; Cyber and Security; Infrastructure Engineering; Data Engineering and Analytics.

How Barclays is organized

Head Office held 61,600 of the 93,000 FTE at the end of 2025, about two thirds. It provides centralized services across the group. The five businesses, as Barclays names them, are Barclays UK (17,900 FTE), Barclays Investment Bank (7,200), Barclays US Consumer Bank (2,300), Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management (2,100) and Barclays UK Corporate Bank (1,900). By 2025 risk-weighted assets, the Investment Bank carried 55%, Barclays UK 24%, US Consumer Bank 8%, UK Corporate Bank 7%, Head Office 4% and Private Bank and Wealth Management 2%.

Workforce and hiring patterns

Year-end FTE was 92,400 in 2023, then 93,000 in both 2024 and 2025. Average FTE rose from 91,300 in 2024 to 93,100 in 2025. Early-career intake in 2025 was 1,595 graduates, 1,508 interns and 213 apprentices worldwide. New Jersey's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) list shows four Whippany notices since January 2025:

  • 69 workers, posted January 2025, effective April 16 to May 1, 2025
  • 78 workers, posted March 2025, effective June 23 to July 7, 2025
  • 80 workers, posted November 2025, effective February 18, 2026
  • 64 workers, posted May 2026, effective August 10 and September 10, 2026

Earlier Whippany notices covered 244 workers (posted December 2023) and 70 (posted June 2024).

Good to know before you apply

  • The technology careers page has a flexible working section but names no office days, interview stages or benefit details.
  • Experienced hires, early-careers candidates and apprentices each have their own application journey.
  • From January 1, 2026, UK paternity leave rose from two weeks to 16, per the 2025 annual report.
  • The same report says 19,000 developers have access to AI tools and almost 90% of the technology estate is in the cloud.
  • Bring campus-specific questions, from Whippany to Pune, to the discussions below.

Profile researched by RedKiosk. Updated October 2026.