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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -48
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 420 494 746
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.95% 2.99% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.21% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 296 426 618
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £46,775
25th Percentile £59,375 £45,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 17,840 15,385 26,987
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 93.27% 88.57%
Number of salaries quoted 12,995 9,114 20,352
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,867 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

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 19 July 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 15 (3.57%) Confluence
2 5 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (34.05%) AWS
2 106 (25.24%) SaaS
3 85 (20.24%) Azure
4 72 (17.14%) GCP
5 36 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (4.76%) GitHub
7 16 (3.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 13 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.62%) dbt
10 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.14%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.14%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.90%) Figma
12 5 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (1.19%) Google Sheets
12 5 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.19%) Internet
2 4 (0.95%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) BGP
3 3 (0.71%) DHCP
3 3 (0.71%) DNS
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
3 3 (0.71%) LAN
3 3 (0.71%) OSPF
3 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.71%) SSL
3 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.71%) VPN
3 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.14%) Power BI
7 8 (1.90%) Data Vault
7 8 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 8 (1.90%) Metadata
8 6 (1.43%) Looker
8 6 (1.43%) Tableau
9 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.24%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.24%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (8.81%) TeamCity
2 18 (4.29%) JIRA
3 6 (1.43%) Selenium
4 5 (1.19%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.19%) WebDriver
5 4 (0.95%) JUnit
6 3 (0.71%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.71%) Git
7 2 (0.48%) GitLab
7 2 (0.48%) Gradle
7 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.48%) Maven
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Valgrind
General
1 219 (52.14%) Finance
2 131 (31.19%) Banking
3 104 (24.76%) Retail
4 95 (22.62%) Law
5 93 (22.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (20.48%) Social Skills
7 65 (15.48%) Financial Institution
8 55 (13.10%) Back Office
9 24 (5.71%) Games
10 19 (4.52%) Polish Language
11 15 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.57%) Front Office
11 15 (3.57%) Marketing
12 14 (3.33%) Legal
13 13 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.19%) Legal Technology
16 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 83 (19.76%) Lead
2 82 (19.52%) Software Engineer
3 70 (16.67%) Developer
4 67 (15.95%) Senior
5 40 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
6 33 (7.86%) Python Engineer
7 25 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (5.48%) .NET Developer
9 22 (5.24%) Architect
10 20 (4.76%) Team Leader
11 19 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.05%) Lead Developer
13 16 (3.81%) Software Team Leader
14 14 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) QA Engineer
15 13 (3.10%) .NET Software Engineer
15 13 (3.10%) C# Software Engineer
16 12 (2.86%) Graduate
16 12 (2.86%) Security Engineer
16 12 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.86%) .NET
2 28 (6.67%) Node.js
3 27 (6.43%) REST
4 25 (5.95%) React
5 20 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 17 (4.05%) .NET Core
7 15 (3.57%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.57%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (3.57%) Vue
8 11 (2.62%) XML
9 9 (2.14%) PySpark
10 8 (1.90%) JSON
10 8 (1.90%) Kafka
10 8 (1.90%) OpenAPI
10 8 (1.90%) Redux
10 8 (1.90%) RESTful
10 8 (1.90%) Spring
10 8 (1.90%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 77 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 34 (8.10%) Blog
4 30 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.86%) Derivative
6 12 (2.86%) Equities
7 10 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.14%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.90%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.43%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.19%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.19%) PMI
13 4 (0.95%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.29%) Linux
2 11 (2.62%) Android
2 11 (2.62%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.43%) Windows
4 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (29.76%) Software Engineering
2 77 (18.33%) Agile
3 72 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 67 (15.95%) Test Automation
5 65 (15.48%) Disruptive Innovation
6 59 (14.05%) Microservices
7 58 (13.81%) AI
8 52 (12.38%) Roadmaps
9 51 (12.14%) Clean Code
10 46 (10.95%) Mentoring
11 40 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (9.29%) DevOps
13 38 (9.05%) Deployment Automation
14 37 (8.81%) Continuous Deployment
14 37 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (8.33%) Machine Learning
16 33 (7.86%) Analytics
16 33 (7.86%) B2B
17 30 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.19%) Python
2 73 (17.38%) Java
3 71 (16.90%) SQL
4 65 (15.48%) C#
5 44 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.57%) C++
8 12 (2.86%) Go
9 11 (2.62%) Bicep
9 11 (2.62%) PHP
10 8 (1.90%) Scala
11 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.24%) Bash
12 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.24%) Ruby
12 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (9.52%) Degree
2 13 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.90%) SnowPro
5 5 (1.19%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.19%) OSCP
5 5 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.24%) ACCA
7 1 (0.24%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.90%) QA
2 23 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.43%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.19%) GDPR
7 4 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.71%) NIST
8 3 (0.71%) SLA
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (6.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (17.62%) Kubernetes
2 60 (14.29%) Terraform
3 37 (8.81%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.57%) Databricks
3 10 (2.38%) Google
4 5 (1.19%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.95%) Xero
6 3 (0.71%) Cisco
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle
6 3 (0.71%) Revolut
6 3 (0.71%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.71%) Splunk
7 2 (0.48%) Foundry
7 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe
8 1 (0.24%) Apple
8 1 (0.24%) Citrix
8 1 (0.24%) Okta
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) VMware