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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 102 121
Rank change year-on-year -25 +19 -53
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 382 505 832
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.07% 3.49% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 3.67% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 273 455 692
10th Percentile £42,000 £25,313 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,850 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +13.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 15,256 13,742 29,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,828 8,906 23,443
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,354 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 10 May 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 (3.93%) Confluence
2 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.26%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.26%) Quorum
1 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 111 (29.06%) AWS
2 101 (26.44%) SaaS
3 76 (19.90%) Azure
4 60 (15.71%) GCP
5 31 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (2.62%) Azure Event Grid
7 9 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (2.36%) dbt
8 6 (1.57%) Figma
8 6 (1.57%) GitHub
8 6 (1.57%) Serverless
9 5 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.31%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.05%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) Firewall
2 3 (0.79%) BGP
2 3 (0.79%) DHCP
2 3 (0.79%) DNS
2 3 (0.79%) HTTP
2 3 (0.79%) Internet
2 3 (0.79%) LAN
2 3 (0.79%) OSPF
2 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.79%) SSL
2 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.79%) VPN
2 3 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.26%) AMQP
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.05%) Looker
5 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (8.12%) TeamCity
2 18 (4.71%) JIRA
3 8 (2.09%) Selenium
4 6 (1.57%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.57%) Postman
5 5 (1.31%) SpecFlow
5 5 (1.31%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.79%) Git
6 3 (0.79%) Gradle
6 3 (0.79%) Maven
7 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.52%) JUnit
7 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.26%) Gatling
8 1 (0.26%) GitLab
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 204 (53.40%) Finance
2 114 (29.84%) Banking
3 86 (22.51%) Retail
4 78 (20.42%) Law
5 77 (20.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 61 (15.97%) Social Skills
7 50 (13.09%) Financial Institution
8 43 (11.26%) Back Office
9 29 (7.59%) Marketing
10 23 (6.02%) Games
11 18 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (3.93%) Polish Language
13 13 (3.40%) Front Office
13 13 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (2.36%) Legal
15 4 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.79%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 76 (19.90%) Software Engineer
2 63 (16.49%) Lead
3 62 (16.23%) Developer
4 54 (14.14%) Senior
5 31 (8.12%) Python Engineer
6 26 (6.81%) Lead Software Engineer
7 24 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (5.50%) QA Engineer
9 17 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) Analyst
10 15 (3.93%) Marketing Specialist
10 15 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) Python Software Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) QA Automation Engineer
10 15 (3.93%) Team Leader
11 14 (3.66%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.66%) Java Engineer
11 14 (3.66%) Software Developer
12 13 (3.40%) Java Developer
12 13 (3.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.42%) .NET
2 27 (7.07%) REST
3 24 (6.28%) React
4 13 (3.40%) Node.js
5 11 (2.88%) Spring
6 10 (2.62%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.36%) JSON
7 9 (2.36%) Kafka
7 9 (2.36%) XML
8 8 (2.09%) Redux
9 7 (1.83%) Sass
10 6 (1.57%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.57%) Playwright
10 6 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.57%) RESTful
11 5 (1.31%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.31%) SOAP
12 4 (1.05%) Pandas
12 4 (1.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.66%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 27 (7.07%) Blog
4 23 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.88%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.36%) Derivative
7 9 (2.36%) Equities
8 8 (2.09%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.57%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.31%) PMI
12 4 (1.05%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.05%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.19%) Linux
2 13 (3.40%) Android
2 13 (3.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (27.23%) Software Engineering
2 75 (19.63%) Test Automation
3 66 (17.28%) Agile
4 52 (13.61%) CI/CD
4 52 (13.61%) Disruptive Innovation
5 41 (10.73%) Microservices
6 36 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (8.90%) Clean Code
7 34 (8.90%) Mentoring
8 33 (8.64%) B2B
9 32 (8.38%) Decision-Making
10 31 (8.12%) Continuous Deployment
10 31 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (8.12%) Deployment Automation
11 30 (7.85%) Roadmaps
12 26 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (6.54%) AI
13 25 (6.54%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (6.28%) Analytics
14 24 (6.28%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.73%) Java
2 74 (19.37%) Python
3 53 (13.87%) SQL
4 37 (9.69%) C#
5 28 (7.33%) TypeScript
6 24 (6.28%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.93%) C++
8 12 (3.14%) Go
8 12 (3.14%) PHP
9 3 (0.79%) Bicep
10 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.26%) Bash
11 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 33 (8.64%) Degree
2 14 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.83%) CREST Certified
3 7 (1.83%) OSCP
4 5 (1.31%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.79%) ACCA
5 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.79%) CIMA
6 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.64%) QA
2 13 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.31%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.79%) SLA
6 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.52%) GDPR
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (3.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.52%) Terraform
3 31 (8.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (2.62%) Databricks
2 9 (2.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.09%) Google
4 4 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.05%) Revolut
4 4 (1.05%) Xero
5 3 (0.79%) Cisco
5 3 (0.79%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.79%) Splunk
6 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) Brio
7 1 (0.26%) Citrix
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.26%) SAP
7 1 (0.26%) VMware
7 1 (0.26%) Workday