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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 103 100
Rank change year-on-year -39 -3 -31
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 282 518 691
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.86% 3.15% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.36% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 235 447 605
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £135,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +6.67%

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 13,245 15,409 20,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.79% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,423 9,065 16,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,781 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 27 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.71%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.71%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.35%) Quorum
1 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 87 (30.85%) AWS
2 68 (24.11%) SaaS
3 48 (17.02%) Azure
3 48 (17.02%) GCP
4 25 (8.87%) dbt
5 11 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (2.48%) GitHub
7 6 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (2.13%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.77%) Azure Event Grid
9 4 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.42%) Figma
9 4 (1.42%) Intacct
9 4 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.42%) Workato
10 3 (1.06%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) AMQP
1 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
2 23 (8.16%) Apache Arrow
2 23 (8.16%) Apache Iceberg
2 23 (8.16%) Dremio
3 13 (4.61%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.13%) Power BI
6 5 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.06%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.35%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (3.19%) Cypress.io
2 7 (2.48%) TeamCity
3 5 (1.77%) Postman
3 5 (1.77%) Selenium
4 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) JIRA
4 2 (0.71%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.35%) Appium
5 1 (0.35%) Gatling
5 1 (0.35%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Gradle
5 1 (0.35%) JMeter
5 1 (0.35%) JUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Maven
5 1 (0.35%) NUnit
5 1 (0.35%) Storybook
5 1 (0.35%) TestNG
General
1 175 (62.06%) Finance
2 58 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.96%) Banking
4 34 (12.06%) Financial Institution
5 29 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (9.93%) Retail
7 26 (9.22%) Marketing
8 24 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (8.51%) Front Office
9 22 (7.80%) Law
10 15 (5.32%) Back Office
11 10 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.42%) Automotive
13 4 (1.42%) Polish Language
14 3 (1.06%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.71%) Games
15 2 (0.71%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (24.82%) Software Engineer
2 55 (19.50%) Developer
3 47 (16.67%) Senior
4 41 (14.54%) Python Engineer
5 37 (13.12%) Python Software Engineer
6 27 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (9.22%) AWS Developer
7 26 (9.22%) AWS Software Engineer
8 24 (8.51%) Python Developer
9 23 (8.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 22 (7.80%) Lead
11 18 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (5.32%) Marketing Specialist
13 12 (4.26%) Analyst
13 12 (4.26%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) .NET Developer
14 11 (3.90%) Product Manager
14 11 (3.90%) QA Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) QA Engineer
15 10 (3.55%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.02%) React
2 34 (12.06%) AngularJS
2 34 (12.06%) Node.js
3 32 (11.35%) Vue
4 27 (9.57%) .NET
5 24 (8.51%) Pandas
6 23 (8.16%) NumPy
6 23 (8.16%) SciPy
7 15 (5.32%) Spring
8 14 (4.96%) REST
8 14 (4.96%) Spring Boot
9 12 (4.26%) Kafka
10 10 (3.55%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.55%) .NET Framework
11 9 (3.19%) Next.js
11 9 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.48%) ASP.NET
13 6 (2.13%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (2.13%) Entity Framework
13 6 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.51%) Equities
3 23 (8.16%) Fixed Income
4 18 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.32%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.90%) Blog
8 10 (3.55%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.13%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.77%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.42%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.42%) Insider Threat
12 3 (1.06%) Learning Management System
12 3 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.26%) Linux
2 7 (2.48%) Windows
3 6 (2.13%) Android
3 6 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.04%) Software Engineering
2 66 (23.40%) Agile
3 45 (15.96%) CI/CD
4 40 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (12.06%) Microservices
6 33 (11.70%) AI
7 32 (11.35%) Decision-Making
7 32 (11.35%) Risk Management
8 31 (10.99%) Test Automation
9 30 (10.64%) Asset Management
10 27 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (9.22%) Investment Management
12 25 (8.87%) Order Management
13 24 (8.51%) Analytics
13 24 (8.51%) Collaborative Culture
14 23 (8.16%) B2B
14 23 (8.16%) Performance Attribution
15 22 (7.80%) Computer Science
16 21 (7.45%) Full-Stack Development
17 20 (7.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.63%) Python
2 47 (16.67%) Java
2 47 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 41 (14.54%) JavaScript
4 39 (13.83%) SQL
5 23 (8.16%) C#
6 8 (2.84%) Go
6 8 (2.84%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.48%) C++
8 5 (1.77%) PHP
9 2 (0.71%) C
9 2 (0.71%) Rust
9 2 (0.71%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (8.51%) Degree
2 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.13%) ACCA
3 6 (2.13%) CIMA
3 6 (2.13%) CREST Certified
3 6 (2.13%) OSCP
4 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.42%) CISA
5 4 (1.42%) OSCE
6 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.80%) QA
2 6 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.77%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.42%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.71%) PMO
5 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 21 (7.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (9.93%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.26%) Terraform
3 8 (2.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Control-M
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.13%) Google
3 4 (1.42%) Concur
3 4 (1.42%) Databricks
3 4 (1.42%) Sage
4 3 (1.06%) Solace
5 2 (0.71%) Adobe
5 2 (0.71%) CyberSource
5 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.71%) Solarflare
6 1 (0.35%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.35%) Calypso
6 1 (0.35%) Revolut
6 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.35%) SAP
6 1 (0.35%) Splunk
6 1 (0.35%) VMware
6 1 (0.35%) Workday