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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 110 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 -51
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 387 460 866
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.99% 3.07% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 3.25% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 269 404 727
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,313 £42,450
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,625 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% +6.45% -6.06%

All Process & 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 15,908 14,172 30,369
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.93% 94.63% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,376 8,351 23,666
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 7 June 2026.

Fintech salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Fintech
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 15 (3.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 121 (31.27%) AWS
2 109 (28.17%) SaaS
3 69 (17.83%) Azure
3 69 (17.83%) GCP
4 37 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (3.10%) dbt
6 10 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 8 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.07%) GitHub
9 7 (1.81%) Figma
10 5 (1.29%) Google Sheets
10 5 (1.29%) Serverless
11 4 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.78%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.03%) Firewall
2 3 (0.78%) BGP
2 3 (0.78%) DHCP
2 3 (0.78%) DNS
2 3 (0.78%) HTTP
2 3 (0.78%) Internet
2 3 (0.78%) LAN
2 3 (0.78%) OSPF
2 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.78%) SSL
2 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.78%) VPN
2 3 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.55%) Looker
5 4 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.78%) Power BI
6 3 (0.78%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.26%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.26%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (9.56%) TeamCity
2 18 (4.65%) JIRA
3 6 (1.55%) Selenium
4 5 (1.29%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.29%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.03%) JUnit
6 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.78%) Git
6 3 (0.78%) Postman
7 2 (0.52%) GitLab
7 2 (0.52%) Gradle
7 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) CMake
8 1 (0.26%) Gatling
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) TestNG
8 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 202 (52.20%) Finance
2 129 (33.33%) Banking
3 103 (26.61%) Retail
4 95 (24.55%) Law
5 93 (24.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (16.28%) Social Skills
7 60 (15.50%) Financial Institution
8 53 (13.70%) Back Office
9 28 (7.24%) Marketing
10 23 (5.94%) Games
11 19 (4.91%) Polish Language
12 14 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (3.36%) Front Office
13 13 (3.36%) Legal
13 13 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.03%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
18 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (19.12%) Software Engineer
2 69 (17.83%) Lead
3 59 (15.25%) Developer
3 59 (15.25%) Senior
4 29 (7.49%) Lead Software Engineer
4 29 (7.49%) Python Engineer
5 23 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (4.39%) Team Leader
8 16 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (4.13%) QA Engineer
9 15 (3.88%) Lead Developer
10 14 (3.62%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.62%) Marketing Specialist
10 14 (3.62%) Software Team Leader
11 13 (3.36%) Analyst
11 13 (3.36%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.10%) Architect
12 12 (3.10%) Customer Engineer
12 12 (3.10%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.53%) .NET
2 28 (7.24%) REST
3 22 (5.68%) React
4 14 (3.62%) Node.js
5 11 (2.84%) XML
6 8 (2.07%) JSON
6 8 (2.07%) Kafka
6 8 (2.07%) Redux
7 7 (1.81%) Sass
7 7 (1.81%) Spring
7 7 (1.81%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.55%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.55%) Playwright
9 5 (1.29%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.29%) OpenAPI
9 5 (1.29%) RESTful
9 5 (1.29%) Swagger
10 4 (1.03%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.03%) Pandas
10 4 (1.03%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 33 (8.53%) Blog
4 23 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.33%) Derivative
7 9 (2.33%) Equities
8 8 (2.07%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.81%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.55%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.29%) PMI
12 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.03%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.65%) Linux
2 16 (4.13%) Android
2 16 (4.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.52%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (28.42%) Software Engineering
2 76 (19.64%) Test Automation
3 71 (18.35%) Agile
4 64 (16.54%) Disruptive Innovation
5 62 (16.02%) CI/CD
6 46 (11.89%) Clean Code
7 42 (10.85%) Microservices
8 40 (10.34%) Mentoring
9 38 (9.82%) Deployment Automation
9 38 (9.82%) Roadmaps
10 37 (9.56%) Continuous Deployment
11 35 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (8.53%) AI
12 33 (8.53%) B2B
13 31 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (7.75%) Decision-Making
14 30 (7.75%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (7.24%) DevOps
16 26 (6.72%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (21.71%) Java
2 74 (19.12%) Python
3 52 (13.44%) SQL
4 37 (9.56%) C#
5 28 (7.24%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.65%) C++
8 13 (3.36%) Go
9 11 (2.84%) PHP
10 4 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.26%) Bash
12 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (8.79%) Degree
2 14 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.07%) CREST Certified
3 8 (2.07%) OSCP
4 5 (1.29%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.26%) ACCA
7 1 (0.26%) CIMA
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.26%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.75%) QA
2 14 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.29%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.78%) GDPR
5 3 (0.78%) SLA
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (2.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (15.76%) Kubernetes
2 50 (12.92%) Terraform
3 37 (9.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (3.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.84%) Databricks
3 7 (1.81%) Google
4 4 (1.03%) Xero
5 3 (0.78%) Cisco
5 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.78%) Revolut
5 3 (0.78%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.78%) Splunk
6 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Brio
7 1 (0.26%) Citrix
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.26%) VMware