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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 117 120
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -53
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 397 483 873
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 3.12% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.30% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 280 416 728
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £59,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% +6.45% -8.82%

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 16,563 14,642 30,856
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.97% 94.49% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,008 8,523 23,828
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 21 June 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 16 (4.03%) Confluence
2 5 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (33.00%) AWS
2 107 (26.95%) SaaS
3 75 (18.89%) Azure
4 69 (17.38%) GCP
5 36 (9.07%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (3.02%) dbt
7 12 (3.02%) GitHub
8 9 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.02%) Azure Event Grid
9 8 (2.02%) Figma
10 6 (1.51%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.26%) Google Sheets
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.26%) Serverless
11 5 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.01%) Firewall
2 3 (0.76%) BGP
2 3 (0.76%) DHCP
2 3 (0.76%) DNS
2 3 (0.76%) HTTP
2 3 (0.76%) Internet
2 3 (0.76%) LAN
2 3 (0.76%) OSPF
2 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.76%) SSL
2 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.76%) VPN
2 3 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.02%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.51%) Looker
6 6 (1.51%) Power BI
7 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.01%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.01%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.01%) Metadata
7 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.01%) Tableau
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.25%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 36 (9.07%) TeamCity
2 19 (4.79%) JIRA
3 6 (1.51%) Selenium
4 5 (1.26%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.26%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.01%) JUnit
6 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.76%) Git
6 3 (0.76%) Postman
7 2 (0.50%) GitLab
7 2 (0.50%) Gradle
7 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Gatling
8 1 (0.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.25%) TestNG
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 213 (53.65%) Finance
2 128 (32.24%) Banking
3 98 (24.69%) Retail
4 90 (22.67%) Law
5 89 (22.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (17.88%) Social Skills
7 61 (15.37%) Financial Institution
8 52 (13.10%) Back Office
9 24 (6.05%) Games
10 23 (5.79%) Marketing
11 20 (5.04%) Polish Language
12 14 (3.53%) Front Office
13 13 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (3.27%) Legal
13 13 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.26%) Legal Technology
16 4 (1.01%) Public Sector
17 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (19.14%) Lead
1 76 (19.14%) Software Engineer
2 63 (15.87%) Developer
3 57 (14.36%) Senior
4 35 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
5 34 (8.56%) Python Engineer
6 23 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (4.53%) Team Leader
8 17 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (4.03%) QA Engineer
10 15 (3.78%) Architect
10 15 (3.78%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.78%) Lead Developer
10 15 (3.78%) Software Team Leader
11 14 (3.53%) .NET Developer
11 14 (3.53%) Python Software Engineer
12 13 (3.27%) Java Developer
12 13 (3.27%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.02%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.08%) .NET
2 27 (6.80%) REST
3 22 (5.54%) React
4 21 (5.29%) Node.js
5 12 (3.02%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.77%) XML
7 10 (2.52%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.27%) Kafka
9 8 (2.02%) .NET Framework
9 8 (2.02%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.02%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (2.02%) JSON
9 8 (2.02%) Redux
9 8 (2.02%) Spring
9 8 (2.02%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.02%) Vue
10 6 (1.51%) Playwright
11 5 (1.26%) OpenAPI
11 5 (1.26%) Sass
11 5 (1.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.82%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.81%) Blog
4 28 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (6.05%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.77%) Derivative
6 11 (2.77%) Equities
7 10 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.02%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.76%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.76%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.51%) PMI
12 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.28%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Android
2 12 (3.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (28.72%) Software Engineering
2 78 (19.65%) Agile
3 71 (17.88%) Test Automation
4 66 (16.62%) CI/CD
5 60 (15.11%) Disruptive Innovation
6 51 (12.85%) Microservices
7 47 (11.84%) Clean Code
8 46 (11.59%) AI
9 44 (11.08%) Roadmaps
10 42 (10.58%) Mentoring
11 39 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (9.32%) Deployment Automation
13 36 (9.07%) Continuous Deployment
13 36 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.82%) B2B
15 32 (8.06%) Analytics
15 32 (8.06%) Decision-Making
15 32 (8.06%) DevOps
15 32 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.91%) Python
2 78 (19.65%) Java
3 60 (15.11%) SQL
4 45 (11.34%) C#
5 34 (8.56%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.28%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.03%) C++
8 11 (2.77%) Go
8 11 (2.77%) PHP
9 7 (1.76%) Bicep
10 4 (1.01%) Scala
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (9.32%) Degree
2 14 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.51%) Azure Certification
3 6 (1.51%) CREST Certified
3 6 (1.51%) OSCP
3 6 (1.51%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.01%) SnowPro
5 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.25%) ACCA
6 1 (0.25%) CIMA
6 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.30%) QA
2 20 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.26%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
5 3 (0.76%) SLA
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (4.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 53 (13.35%) Terraform
3 36 (9.07%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 21 (5.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.53%) Databricks
3 7 (1.76%) Google
4 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.01%) Xero
5 3 (0.76%) Cisco
5 3 (0.76%) Revolut
5 3 (0.76%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.76%) Splunk
6 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe
7 1 (0.25%) Apple
7 1 (0.25%) Brio
7 1 (0.25%) Citrix
7 1 (0.25%) Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.25%) VMware