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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 104 109
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -36
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 348 517 819
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 3.29% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 3.47% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 256 447 723
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £121,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% +3.23%

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 13,967 14,891 25,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.23% 94.81% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,062 8,864 21,322
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 15 February 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 17 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.44%) Confluence
3 3 (0.86%) Apache
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.29%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 13 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.29%) Quorum
1 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 106 (30.46%) AWS
2 99 (28.45%) SaaS
3 70 (20.11%) GCP
4 55 (15.80%) Azure
5 32 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (5.75%) dbt
7 9 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (2.59%) Figma
8 8 (2.30%) Azure Event Grid
9 7 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.01%) GitHub
10 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.15%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.15%) Intacct
10 4 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.15%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.15%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) AMQP
1 1 (0.29%) Internet
1 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (4.02%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (4.02%) Apache Iceberg
2 14 (4.02%) Dremio
3 12 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.87%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.44%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.15%) Power BI
8 3 (0.86%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.29%) MySQL
10 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (8.05%) TeamCity
2 10 (2.87%) Cypress.io
3 8 (2.30%) Selenium
4 7 (2.01%) JIRA
4 7 (2.01%) Postman
5 3 (0.86%) Git
5 3 (0.86%) Gradle
5 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.86%) Maven
5 3 (0.86%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.86%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.57%) JUnit
6 2 (0.57%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.29%) Appium
7 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.29%) Gatling
7 1 (0.29%) JMeter
7 1 (0.29%) NUnit
7 1 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 216 (62.07%) Finance
2 90 (25.86%) Banking
3 77 (22.13%) Retail
4 72 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (19.54%) Law
6 62 (17.82%) Social Skills
7 59 (16.95%) Financial Institution
8 38 (10.92%) Back Office
9 30 (8.62%) Marketing
10 19 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (5.17%) Front Office
12 15 (4.31%) Polish Language
13 13 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (2.01%) Games
16 4 (1.15%) Automotive
17 3 (0.86%) Legal
17 3 (0.86%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.86%) Public Sector
18 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (23.56%) Software Engineer
2 59 (16.95%) Developer
3 55 (15.80%) Senior
4 40 (11.49%) Lead
5 36 (10.34%) Python Engineer
6 29 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
7 24 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (5.17%) Analyst
8 18 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (5.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 18 (5.17%) QA Engineer
9 17 (4.89%) AWS Developer
9 17 (4.89%) AWS Software Engineer
9 17 (4.89%) Python Developer
10 16 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (4.31%) Java Engineer
11 15 (4.31%) Marketing Specialist
11 15 (4.31%) QA Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.74%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (12.64%) React
2 32 (9.20%) .NET
3 26 (7.47%) Node.js
4 23 (6.61%) REST
5 22 (6.32%) AngularJS
6 20 (5.75%) Spring
7 19 (5.46%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.46%) Vue
8 16 (4.60%) Kafka
9 14 (4.02%) NumPy
9 14 (4.02%) Pandas
9 14 (4.02%) SciPy
10 10 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.30%) .NET Core
11 8 (2.30%) Next.js
12 7 (2.01%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.01%) Sass
13 5 (1.44%) ASP.NET
13 5 (1.44%) JSON
13 5 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.66%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.33%) Blog
3 27 (7.76%) Product Ownership
4 25 (7.18%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (5.46%) Equities
7 18 (5.17%) Fixed Income
8 13 (3.74%) Mobile App
9 8 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.44%) Derivative
12 4 (1.15%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.15%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.15%) Insider Threat
12 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
13 3 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.31%) Linux
2 11 (3.16%) Android
2 11 (3.16%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.72%) Windows
4 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (31.90%) Software Engineering
2 73 (20.98%) Agile
3 67 (19.25%) Test Automation
4 65 (18.68%) CI/CD
5 44 (12.64%) Disruptive Innovation
6 42 (12.07%) Microservices
7 39 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (10.06%) AI
9 35 (10.06%) B2B
9 35 (10.06%) Decision-Making
10 33 (9.48%) Clean Code
11 29 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 29 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 28 (8.05%) Continuous Deployment
12 28 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (7.18%) DevOps
13 25 (7.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (6.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.85%) Java
2 62 (17.82%) Python
3 45 (12.93%) SQL
4 43 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 39 (11.21%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.46%) C#
7 11 (3.16%) Go
8 8 (2.30%) C++
8 8 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.44%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.29%) Bash
10 1 (0.29%) C
10 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.29%) Rust
10 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.62%) Degree
2 10 (2.87%) CREST Certified
2 10 (2.87%) OSCP
3 8 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.72%) ACCA
4 6 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.72%) CIMA
5 4 (1.15%) OSCE
6 2 (0.57%) CISA
6 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.20%) QA
2 10 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.44%) GDPR
6 4 (1.15%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.57%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (5.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.63%) Terraform
3 29 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (2.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.30%) Google
3 7 (2.01%) Databricks
4 5 (1.44%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.15%) Concur
5 4 (1.15%) Revolut
5 4 (1.15%) Sage
6 3 (0.86%) Solace
7 2 (0.57%) Adobe
7 2 (0.57%) CyberSource
7 2 (0.57%) Xero
8 1 (0.29%) Brio
8 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.29%) SAP
8 1 (0.29%) Solarflare
8 1 (0.29%) Splunk
8 1 (0.29%) VMware
8 1 (0.29%) Workday