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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 103 103
Rank change year-on-year -36 0 -37
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 300 573 645
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.98% 3.00% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.31% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 246 475 592
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £51,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £131,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% - +13.33%

All Process and 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 13,659 17,335 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.20% 90.79% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 10,457 15,949
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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

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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 2 December 2025.

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 48 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 12 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.67%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.33%) Quorum
1 1 (0.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 113 (37.67%) AWS
2 69 (23.00%) GCP
3 58 (19.33%) SaaS
4 48 (16.00%) dbt
5 41 (13.67%) Azure
6 11 (3.67%) GitHub
7 8 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.67%) PaaS
10 4 (1.33%) Azure Event Grid
10 4 (1.33%) Figma
10 4 (1.33%) Intacct
10 4 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.33%) Workato
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.00%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.67%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) AMQP
1 1 (0.33%) HTTP
1 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.67%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.33%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (15.00%) Apache Arrow
3 45 (15.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 45 (15.00%) Dremio
4 15 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.33%) Power BI
8 5 (1.67%) Data Hub
8 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.67%) SQL CLR
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
10 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.67%) Looker
10 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.67%) Redis
10 2 (0.67%) Tableau
11 1 (0.33%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 8 (2.67%) Selenium
3 5 (1.67%) Git
4 4 (1.33%) Postman
5 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.00%) JIRA
5 3 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.67%) Appium
6 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.67%) GitLab
6 2 (0.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) NUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Storybook
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.33%) Xcode
7 1 (0.33%) XCUITest
General
1 212 (70.67%) Finance
2 76 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 53 (17.67%) Front Office
4 50 (16.67%) Banking
5 38 (12.67%) Financial Institution
6 34 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (6.00%) Law
8 18 (6.00%) Retail
9 17 (5.67%) Back Office
9 17 (5.67%) Marketing
10 10 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.00%) Legal
12 4 (1.33%) Automotive
12 4 (1.33%) Polish Language
13 3 (1.00%) Advertising
13 3 (1.00%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (29.67%) Software Engineer
2 82 (27.33%) Developer
3 51 (17.00%) Senior
4 50 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 49 (16.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 49 (16.33%) Python Software Engineer
6 47 (15.67%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (15.33%) AWS Software Engineer
8 45 (15.00%) AWS Developer
9 41 (13.67%) Python Developer
10 21 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (5.67%) Lead
12 13 (4.33%) Analyst
13 12 (4.00%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.00%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.33%) Architect
14 10 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 9 (3.00%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.00%) Java Software Engineer
16 8 (2.67%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.33%) React
2 63 (21.00%) Node.js
3 59 (19.67%) AngularJS
4 57 (19.00%) Vue
5 46 (15.33%) Pandas
6 45 (15.00%) NumPy
6 45 (15.00%) SciPy
7 30 (10.00%) .NET
8 17 (5.67%) REST
9 16 (5.33%) .NET Core
9 16 (5.33%) Spring
10 15 (5.00%) .NET Framework
10 15 (5.00%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.67%) Kafka
12 11 (3.67%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.67%) Next.js
13 9 (3.00%) Middleware
14 8 (2.67%) ASP.NET
14 8 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (2.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (17.67%) Equities
3 49 (16.33%) Fixed Income
4 19 (6.33%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.00%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 9 (3.00%) Blog
9 7 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.00%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.67%) Augmented Reality
11 5 (1.67%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.33%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.33%) Insider Threat
12 4 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.67%) Linux
2 13 (4.33%) Windows
3 6 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Android
7 2 (0.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (38.00%) Software Engineering
2 106 (35.33%) Agile
3 59 (19.67%) Risk Management
4 56 (18.67%) Asset Management
5 51 (17.00%) Investment Management
6 46 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (15.00%) Order Management
7 45 (15.00%) Performance Attribution
8 41 (13.67%) AI
9 39 (13.00%) CI/CD
9 39 (13.00%) Microservices
10 35 (11.67%) Decision-Making
11 32 (10.67%) Roadmaps
12 31 (10.33%) Analytics
13 29 (9.67%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (8.33%) TDD
15 25 (8.33%) Test Automation
16 24 (8.00%) DevOps
17 23 (7.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.67%) Python
2 75 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 68 (22.67%) JavaScript
4 43 (14.33%) SQL
5 39 (13.00%) Java
6 30 (10.00%) C#
7 9 (3.00%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.67%) Go
9 7 (2.33%) PHP
10 5 (1.67%) C++
11 4 (1.33%) Swift
11 4 (1.33%) VBA
12 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.67%) Bash
13 2 (0.67%) C
13 2 (0.67%) Rust
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.33%) Ruby
14 1 (0.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (11.00%) Degree
2 10 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.00%) ACCA
3 6 (2.00%) CIMA
3 6 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.33%) CISA
4 4 (1.33%) CREST Certified
4 4 (1.33%) OSCE
4 4 (1.33%) OSCP
5 2 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.67%) QA
2 6 (2.00%) GDPR
2 6 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.33%) EU AI Act
4 4 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 21 (7.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.67%) Terraform
3 4 (1.33%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Ansible
4 3 (1.00%) Control-M
5 1 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (5.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.67%) Google
3 6 (2.00%) VMware
4 4 (1.33%) Concur
4 4 (1.33%) Sage
4 4 (1.33%) Solace
5 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.00%) Calypso
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe
6 2 (0.67%) Ahrefs
6 2 (0.67%) CyberSource
6 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.67%) Revolut
6 2 (0.67%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (0.67%) Solarflare
7 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) Splunk