Hybrid/Remote Fintech Job Trends

Financial Technology (FinTech)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Fintech skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 119 91
Rank change year-on-year -36 -28 -31
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 335 532 792
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.07% 2.63% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.99% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 281 435 727
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - +17.24%
75th Percentile £132,500 £108,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £120,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Fintech falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,184 17,775 22,099
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.66% 87.96% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,293 10,730 17,884
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

Fintech
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Fintech job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Fintech
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Fintech
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Fintech over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Fintech salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 77 (22.99%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.99%) IIS
4 4 (1.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.48%) AWS
2 103 (30.75%) GCP
3 79 (23.58%) dbt
4 60 (17.91%) SaaS
5 44 (13.13%) Azure
6 17 (5.07%) GitHub
7 16 (4.78%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (1.79%) Azure Event Grid
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.49%) PaaS
11 4 (1.19%) Intacct
11 4 (1.19%) Workato
12 3 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.90%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.60%) Snowflake
13 2 (0.60%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) Firewall
1 1 (0.30%) HTTP
1 1 (0.30%) Internet
1 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (27.46%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (22.69%) Amazon Athena
3 75 (22.39%) Apache Arrow
3 75 (22.39%) Apache Iceberg
3 75 (22.39%) Dremio
4 22 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.07%) Data Hub
5 17 (5.07%) SQL CLR
6 16 (4.78%) Power BI
7 14 (4.18%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.09%) Metadata
10 7 (2.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.49%) MySQL
12 3 (0.90%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.90%) Tableau
13 2 (0.60%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (3.28%) Git
2 8 (2.39%) Selenium
3 6 (1.79%) Cypress.io
3 6 (1.79%) JIRA
4 4 (1.19%) PHPUnit
5 3 (0.90%) Appium
6 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.60%) GitLab
6 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.60%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) NUnit
7 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.30%) Storybook
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.30%) Xcode
7 1 (0.30%) XCUITest
General
1 252 (75.22%) Finance
2 93 (27.76%) Front Office
3 83 (24.78%) Social Skills
4 52 (15.52%) Banking
5 40 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (9.55%) Financial Institution
7 23 (6.87%) Back Office
8 22 (6.57%) Marketing
9 16 (4.78%) Legal
10 13 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.28%) Law
12 10 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.79%) Retail
15 4 (1.19%) Advertising
15 4 (1.19%) Mandarin Language
16 2 (0.60%) Automotive
16 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.30%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 126 (37.61%) Developer
2 119 (35.52%) Software Engineer
3 89 (26.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 75 (22.39%) AWS Developer
4 75 (22.39%) AWS Engineer
4 75 (22.39%) AWS Software Engineer
5 65 (19.40%) Python Engineer
5 65 (19.40%) Python Software Engineer
6 59 (17.61%) Python Developer
7 51 (15.22%) Senior
8 22 (6.57%) Java Engineer
9 21 (6.27%) Lead
10 20 (5.97%) Java Developer
10 20 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (4.78%) Java Software Developer
11 16 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.88%) Analyst
14 12 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (3.28%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (37.01%) React
2 99 (29.55%) Node.js
3 92 (27.46%) AngularJS
4 91 (27.16%) Vue
5 76 (22.69%) Pandas
6 75 (22.39%) NumPy
6 75 (22.39%) SciPy
7 33 (9.85%) .NET
8 21 (6.27%) .NET Core
8 21 (6.27%) .NET Framework
9 17 (5.07%) Entity Framework
9 17 (5.07%) REST
10 14 (4.18%) Redux
11 12 (3.58%) Kafka
11 12 (3.58%) Spring Boot
12 11 (3.28%) Middleware
12 11 (3.28%) RESTful
12 11 (3.28%) Spring
13 10 (2.99%) CSS
13 10 (2.99%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (28.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 93 (27.76%) Equities
3 90 (26.87%) Fixed Income
4 19 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.37%) Private Cloud
6 15 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 9 (2.69%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.39%) Blog
10 7 (2.09%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.09%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.79%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.49%) Augmented Reality
12 5 (1.49%) Derivative
13 4 (1.19%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.48%) Linux
1 15 (4.48%) Windows
2 10 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.60%) Android
4 2 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.27%) Agile
2 146 (43.58%) Software Engineering
3 96 (28.66%) Asset Management
4 93 (27.76%) Risk Management
5 91 (27.16%) Investment Management
6 75 (22.39%) Order Management
6 75 (22.39%) Performance Attribution
7 56 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (12.24%) AI
8 41 (12.24%) Analytics
9 39 (11.64%) Decision-Making
9 39 (11.64%) Microservices
10 35 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (10.45%) TDD
11 34 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (9.85%) Roadmaps
13 29 (8.66%) CI/CD
13 29 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (8.06%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (8.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (34.63%) JavaScript
2 115 (34.33%) TypeScript
3 106 (31.64%) Python
4 63 (18.81%) SQL
5 44 (13.13%) Java
6 31 (9.25%) C#
7 10 (2.99%) PHP
7 10 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.09%) Go
9 6 (1.79%) C++
10 4 (1.19%) C
10 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.19%) Swift
11 3 (0.90%) VBA
12 2 (0.60%) Bash
12 2 (0.60%) Ruby
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.30%) LookML
13 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (9.85%) Degree
2 9 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.19%) CISA
5 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.60%) ACCA
6 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.60%) CIMA
6 2 (0.60%) CISSP
6 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.30%) CEH
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.30%) MCSA
7 1 (0.30%) MCSE
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
7 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.48%) QA
2 5 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (1.49%) SLA
3 4 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (0.90%) GAAP
5 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.60%) PMO
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (7.16%) Docker
2 17 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.09%) Failover Clustering
2 7 (2.09%) Terraform
3 3 (0.90%) Control-M
4 2 (0.60%) Ansible
4 2 (0.60%) Grafana
4 2 (0.60%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) logstash
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.07%) VMware
3 9 (2.69%) Google
4 5 (1.49%) Oracle
5 4 (1.19%) Concur
5 4 (1.19%) Sage
5 4 (1.19%) Solace
6 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.90%) Calypso
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe
7 2 (0.60%) Ahrefs
7 2 (0.60%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.60%) Screaming Frog
7 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.60%) Solarflare
8 1 (0.30%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.30%) CyberSource
8 1 (0.30%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.30%) Revolut