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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 128 128
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -49
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 483 408 578
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.02% 2.51% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.69% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 289 343 445
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £116,500
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 19,520 15,159 20,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.55% 93.09% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,031 8,684 12,914
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,867 £35,341
25th Percentile £44,852 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 13 September 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 14 (2.90%) Confluence
2 8 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 150 (31.06%) AWS
2 108 (22.36%) SaaS
3 88 (18.22%) Azure
4 72 (14.91%) GCP
5 32 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (5.80%) GitHub
7 20 (4.14%) GitHub Copilot
8 19 (3.93%) Snowflake
9 17 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (3.31%) Azure Databricks
10 16 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (3.31%) Power Platform
11 13 (2.69%) Figma
12 12 (2.48%) Serverless
13 10 (2.07%) dbt
14 9 (1.86%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) BGP
1 3 (0.62%) DHCP
1 3 (0.62%) DNS
1 3 (0.62%) Firewall
1 3 (0.62%) HTTP
1 3 (0.62%) LAN
1 3 (0.62%) NetScaler
1 3 (0.62%) OSPF
1 3 (0.62%) SD-WAN
1 3 (0.62%) SSL
1 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.62%) VPN
1 3 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (3.52%) MongoDB
3 16 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (3.31%) Data Vault
3 16 (3.31%) Delta Lake
3 16 (3.31%) Metadata
4 14 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.69%) Power BI
6 12 (2.48%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.45%) Looker
8 6 (1.24%) Tableau
9 5 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.83%) Big Data
10 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.41%) DuckDB
12 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.21%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (7.66%) TeamCity
2 17 (3.52%) JIRA
3 6 (1.24%) Git
4 5 (1.04%) GitLab
4 5 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.04%) JUnit
5 4 (0.83%) Storybook
6 3 (0.62%) Appium
7 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.21%) CMake
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) Valgrind
General
1 267 (55.28%) Finance
2 132 (27.33%) Banking
3 128 (26.50%) Social Skills
4 115 (23.81%) Law
5 106 (21.95%) Retail
6 101 (20.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (13.46%) Financial Institution
8 61 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (10.77%) Back Office
10 49 (10.14%) Marketing
11 29 (6.00%) Legal
12 21 (4.35%) Games
13 13 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.66%) Polish Language
15 6 (1.24%) Front Office
16 5 (1.04%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.83%) French Language
17 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (17.39%) Senior
2 83 (17.18%) Software Engineer
3 82 (16.98%) Lead
4 65 (13.46%) Developer
5 37 (7.66%) Architect
5 37 (7.66%) Lead Software Engineer
6 27 (5.59%) Team Leader
7 26 (5.38%) Python Engineer
8 23 (4.76%) .NET Developer
9 21 (4.35%) Software Team Leader
10 20 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) .NET Software Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) C# Software Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.90%) Lead Developer
15 13 (2.69%) Graduate
15 13 (2.69%) Security Engineer
16 12 (2.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.11%) Terraform
2 50 (10.35%) .NET
3 26 (5.38%) React
4 24 (4.97%) Node.js
5 19 (3.93%) AngularJS
6 17 (3.52%) PySpark
6 17 (3.52%) REST
6 17 (3.52%) RESTful
7 15 (3.11%) .NET Core
7 15 (3.11%) OpenAPI
7 15 (3.11%) Swagger
8 14 (2.90%) .NET Framework
8 14 (2.90%) ASP.NET
8 14 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (2.90%) Vue
9 10 (2.07%) React Native
10 7 (1.45%) Next.js
10 7 (1.45%) XML
11 6 (1.24%) CSS
11 6 (1.24%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 91 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 75 (15.53%) Blog
3 44 (9.11%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.90%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.90%) Credit Risk
8 13 (2.69%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.66%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.24%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.24%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.24%) Replication
12 5 (1.04%) PKI
12 5 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 18 (3.73%) Android
3 16 (3.31%) Linux
4 11 (2.28%) Windows
5 8 (1.66%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (29.61%) Software Engineering
2 127 (26.29%) AI
3 94 (19.46%) CI/CD
4 91 (18.84%) Machine Learning
5 76 (15.73%) Disruptive Innovation
6 70 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (14.49%) Roadmaps
7 64 (13.25%) Agile
8 63 (13.04%) Analytics
9 62 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (10.97%) Test Automation
11 52 (10.77%) Microservices
12 50 (10.35%) Clean Code
13 48 (9.94%) Mentoring
14 43 (8.90%) DevOps
14 43 (8.90%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (7.66%) Coaching
16 37 (7.66%) Decision-Making
17 36 (7.45%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 112 (23.19%) Python
2 88 (18.22%) SQL
3 72 (14.91%) C#
4 65 (13.46%) Java
5 46 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.93%) Bicep
7 18 (3.73%) JavaScript
8 17 (3.52%) C++
9 16 (3.31%) Go
9 16 (3.31%) Scala
10 14 (2.90%) PHP
11 7 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.24%) Bash
13 4 (0.83%) Rust
13 4 (0.83%) Swift
14 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.41%) Ruby
14 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.21%) Haskell
15 1 (0.21%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 37 (7.66%) Degree
2 16 (3.31%) Azure Certification
2 16 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (3.31%) SnowPro
3 13 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.83%) CISA
4 4 (0.83%) CISM
4 4 (0.83%) CISSP
4 4 (0.83%) CREST Certified
4 4 (0.83%) CRISC
4 4 (0.83%) OSCP
4 4 (0.83%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.41%) GCFA
5 2 (0.41%) GIAC
5 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.21%) ACCA
6 1 (0.21%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.59%) QA
3 12 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.45%) GDPR
6 5 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.62%) NIST
8 3 (0.62%) SLA
9 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (7.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 79 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.70%) Grafana
3 7 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.62%) SCCM
4 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 55 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.35%) Databricks
3 15 (3.11%) Google
4 4 (0.83%) Okta
4 4 (0.83%) Splunk
5 3 (0.62%) Cisco
5 3 (0.62%) Citrix
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle
5 3 (0.62%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.62%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.62%) VMware
5 3 (0.62%) Zscaler
6 2 (0.41%) Foundry
6 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.41%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (0.41%) Sitebulb
6 2 (0.41%) Xero
7 1 (0.21%) Braze
7 1 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud