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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 122 128
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 -51
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 447 453 612
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 2.73% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.94% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 289 383 500
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £86,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +8.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £102,563
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 18,835 15,419 21,621
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.48% 92.96% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,574 8,935 15,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 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 14 (3.13%) Confluence
2 8 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 136 (30.43%) AWS
2 95 (21.25%) SaaS
3 93 (20.81%) Azure
4 55 (12.30%) GCP
5 28 (6.26%) GitHub
6 23 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (3.80%) Snowflake
9 16 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (3.36%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.91%) Figma
12 10 (2.24%) dbt
12 10 (2.24%) Serverless
13 9 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.01%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) Firewall
1 4 (0.89%) Internet
2 3 (0.67%) BGP
2 3 (0.67%) DHCP
2 3 (0.67%) DNS
2 3 (0.67%) HTTP
2 3 (0.67%) LAN
2 3 (0.67%) NetScaler
2 3 (0.67%) OSPF
2 3 (0.67%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.67%) SSL
2 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.67%) VPN
2 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (3.58%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (3.13%) Data Vault
5 14 (3.13%) Delta Lake
5 14 (3.13%) Metadata
6 13 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.68%) Power BI
8 7 (1.57%) Looker
9 6 (1.34%) Tableau
10 5 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.89%) Big Data
11 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.89%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.45%) DuckDB
13 1 (0.22%) Mixpanel
13 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.22%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.82%) TeamCity
2 17 (3.80%) JIRA
3 6 (1.34%) Git
4 5 (1.12%) GitLab
5 4 (0.89%) JUnit
5 4 (0.89%) Storybook
6 3 (0.67%) Appium
6 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.67%) Selenium
7 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.45%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.22%) CMake
8 1 (0.22%) Valgrind
General
1 243 (54.36%) Finance
2 109 (24.38%) Banking
3 96 (21.48%) Social Skills
4 77 (17.23%) Law
4 77 (17.23%) Retail
5 72 (16.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (11.63%) Financial Institution
7 42 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
8 41 (9.17%) Back Office
8 41 (9.17%) Marketing
9 23 (5.15%) Legal
10 22 (4.92%) Games
11 11 (2.46%) Front Office
11 11 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.01%) Polish Language
13 8 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.12%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (17.45%) Senior
2 77 (17.23%) Lead
2 77 (17.23%) Software Engineer
3 62 (13.87%) Developer
4 33 (7.38%) Architect
4 33 (7.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 30 (6.71%) Python Engineer
6 22 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (4.70%) .NET Developer
7 21 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (4.47%) Team Leader
9 16 (3.58%) .NET Software Engineer
9 16 (3.58%) C# Software Engineer
9 16 (3.58%) Data Architect
10 15 (3.36%) Software Team Leader
11 13 (2.91%) Graduate
11 13 (2.91%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (2.68%) Lead Developer
12 12 (2.68%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.96%) .NET
2 29 (6.49%) Node.js
2 29 (6.49%) React
3 21 (4.70%) REST
4 20 (4.47%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.58%) .NET Core
6 15 (3.36%) .NET Framework
6 15 (3.36%) ASP.NET
6 15 (3.36%) ASP.NET Core
6 15 (3.36%) PySpark
6 15 (3.36%) Vue
7 12 (2.68%) RESTful
8 10 (2.24%) OpenAPI
8 10 (2.24%) React Native
8 10 (2.24%) Swagger
9 8 (1.79%) XML
10 7 (1.57%) Next.js
11 6 (1.34%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.34%) JSON
11 6 (1.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.99%) Blog
3 34 (7.61%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.13%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.91%) Credit Risk
8 11 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.01%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.79%) Derivative
11 8 (1.79%) Equities
12 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.34%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.34%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.58%) Apple iOS
1 16 (3.58%) Linux
2 15 (3.36%) Android
3 9 (2.01%) Windows
4 6 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (28.19%) Software Engineering
2 117 (26.17%) AI
3 86 (19.24%) Machine Learning
4 81 (18.12%) CI/CD
5 72 (16.11%) Agile
6 65 (14.54%) Roadmaps
7 60 (13.42%) Analytics
7 60 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (10.96%) Disruptive Innovation
8 49 (10.96%) Microservices
8 49 (10.96%) Test Automation
9 47 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (9.84%) Mentoring
11 40 (8.95%) Clean Code
12 38 (8.50%) DevOps
13 37 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (8.05%) Full-Stack Development
15 35 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (7.16%) Product Roadmap
17 30 (6.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 107 (23.94%) Python
2 91 (20.36%) SQL
3 69 (15.44%) C#
4 51 (11.41%) TypeScript
5 48 (10.74%) Java
6 21 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.03%) C++
8 17 (3.80%) Bicep
9 14 (3.13%) PHP
9 14 (3.13%) Scala
10 11 (2.46%) Go
11 5 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.67%) Swift
13 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.45%) Ruby
13 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.22%) Bash
14 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (7.61%) Degree
2 15 (3.36%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (3.13%) SnowPro
4 13 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.67%) CREST Certified
6 3 (0.67%) OSCP
7 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.22%) ACCA
8 1 (0.22%) CIMA
8 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.49%) QA
3 11 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.79%) GDPR
6 6 (1.34%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.45%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) MiFID
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (7.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (13.65%) Kubernetes
2 54 (12.08%) Terraform
3 28 (6.26%) Grafana
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.67%) SCCM
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.70%) Databricks
3 13 (2.91%) Google
4 4 (0.89%) Citrix
4 4 (0.89%) Okta
4 4 (0.89%) VMware
5 3 (0.67%) Cisco
5 3 (0.67%) Oracle
5 3 (0.67%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.67%) Splunk
5 3 (0.67%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.45%) Foundry
6 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.45%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (0.45%) Sitebulb
6 2 (0.45%) Xero
7 1 (0.22%) Apple
7 1 (0.22%) Braze
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat