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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 117 126
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 -50
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 435 488 633
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.95% 2.94% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.16% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 295 418 518
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £116,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% -5.88%

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 18,492 15,420 22,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.05% 92.98% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,404 9,120 16,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 2 August 2026.

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 16 (3.68%) Confluence
2 6 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (33.56%) AWS
2 102 (23.45%) SaaS
3 92 (21.15%) Azure
4 67 (15.40%) GCP
5 30 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (5.98%) GitHub
7 20 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (3.22%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (2.53%) Figma
11 10 (2.30%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.07%) Serverless
13 8 (1.84%) dbt
14 7 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (1.38%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Internet
2 4 (0.92%) Firewall
3 3 (0.69%) BGP
3 3 (0.69%) DHCP
3 3 (0.69%) DNS
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
3 3 (0.69%) LAN
3 3 (0.69%) OSPF
3 3 (0.69%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.69%) SSL
3 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.69%) VPN
3 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (3.91%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.76%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.53%) Data Vault
6 11 (2.53%) Delta Lake
6 11 (2.53%) Metadata
7 9 (2.07%) Power BI
8 6 (1.38%) Looker
8 6 (1.38%) Tableau
9 5 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.69%) Big Data
11 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.46%) DuckDB
13 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.23%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 33 (7.59%) TeamCity
2 19 (4.37%) JIRA
3 5 (1.15%) Selenium
4 4 (0.92%) Git
4 4 (0.92%) JUnit
4 4 (0.92%) SpecFlow
4 4 (0.92%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.46%) Appium
6 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.46%) Storybook
7 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.23%) CMake
7 1 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) Valgrind
General
1 234 (53.79%) Finance
2 119 (27.36%) Banking
3 89 (20.46%) Retail
3 89 (20.46%) Social Skills
4 85 (19.54%) Law
5 81 (18.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (13.79%) Financial Institution
7 48 (11.03%) Back Office
8 28 (6.44%) Marketing
9 26 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (5.52%) Games
11 20 (4.60%) Legal
12 15 (3.45%) Front Office
13 13 (2.99%) Polish Language
14 12 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.15%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
18 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
18 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (19.31%) Software Engineer
2 82 (18.85%) Lead
3 73 (16.78%) Senior
4 66 (15.17%) Developer
5 39 (8.97%) Lead Software Engineer
6 33 (7.59%) Python Engineer
7 26 (5.98%) Architect
8 24 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (4.83%) .NET Developer
9 21 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (4.83%) Team Leader
10 17 (3.91%) Lead Developer
11 16 (3.68%) Software Team Leader
12 15 (3.45%) .NET Software Engineer
12 15 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
12 15 (3.45%) Python Software Engineer
13 13 (2.99%) Graduate
14 12 (2.76%) Account Manager
14 12 (2.76%) Security Engineer
14 12 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.72%) .NET
2 32 (7.36%) Node.js
3 30 (6.90%) React
4 25 (5.75%) REST
5 20 (4.60%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.68%) .NET Core
7 15 (3.45%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.45%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (3.45%) Vue
8 12 (2.76%) PySpark
9 11 (2.53%) RESTful
10 10 (2.30%) OpenAPI
10 10 (2.30%) Swagger
10 10 (2.30%) XML
11 8 (1.84%) JSON
11 8 (1.84%) React Native
11 8 (1.84%) Redux
12 6 (1.38%) Pandas
12 6 (1.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 52 (11.95%) Blog
3 37 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (5.29%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.76%) Derivative
7 12 (2.76%) Equities
8 11 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.07%) Hedge funds
10 9 (2.07%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.84%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
13 6 (1.38%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.38%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.38%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.15%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.15%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.68%) Linux
2 14 (3.22%) Android
2 14 (3.22%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.61%) Windows
4 4 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (30.34%) Software Engineering
2 94 (21.61%) AI
3 80 (18.39%) Agile
3 80 (18.39%) CI/CD
4 62 (14.25%) Machine Learning
5 58 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 57 (13.10%) Disruptive Innovation
6 57 (13.10%) Roadmaps
7 56 (12.87%) Microservices
8 51 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (11.49%) Mentoring
10 47 (10.80%) Clean Code
11 45 (10.34%) Analytics
12 40 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (8.97%) DevOps
14 33 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 33 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (7.36%) Deployment Automation
15 32 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (7.13%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 97 (22.30%) Python
2 77 (17.70%) SQL
3 69 (15.86%) C#
4 60 (13.79%) Java
5 52 (11.95%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.75%) JavaScript
7 17 (3.91%) C++
8 14 (3.22%) Bicep
9 13 (2.99%) PHP
10 12 (2.76%) Go
11 11 (2.53%) Scala
12 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.46%) Ruby
13 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.46%) Swift
14 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.23%) Bash
14 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (9.20%) Degree
2 13 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.76%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (2.53%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.15%) PMI Certification
6 4 (0.92%) CREST Certified
6 4 (0.92%) OSCP
7 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.23%) ACCA
8 1 (0.23%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.67%) QA
2 28 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.92%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.46%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.10%) Terraform
3 34 (7.82%) Grafana
4 2 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.23%) SCCM
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.91%) Databricks
3 10 (2.30%) Google
4 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.69%) Cisco
5 3 (0.69%) Oracle
5 3 (0.69%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.69%) Splunk
5 3 (0.69%) Xero
6 2 (0.46%) Citrix
6 2 (0.46%) Foundry
6 2 (0.46%) Okta
6 2 (0.46%) Revolut
6 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.23%) Apple
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.23%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.23%) Sitebulb
7 1 (0.23%) Zscaler