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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 108 98
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 -28
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 285 513 729
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.87% 3.13% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.33% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 232 441 639
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £60,000
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 £134,500 £130,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +3.23%

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 13,279 15,397 21,384
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.01% 94.02% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,444 9,059 17,420
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £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 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -7.26%

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 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 24 (8.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.05%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.70%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.70%) 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 88 (30.88%) AWS
2 70 (24.56%) SaaS
3 49 (17.19%) GCP
4 48 (16.84%) Azure
5 23 (8.07%) dbt
6 14 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (2.46%) GitHub
8 6 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (2.11%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.75%) Azure Event Grid
9 5 (1.75%) Figma
10 4 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.40%) Intacct
10 4 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.40%) Workato
11 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) AMQP
1 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (7.02%) Apache Arrow
2 20 (7.02%) Apache Iceberg
2 20 (7.02%) Dremio
3 11 (3.86%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.11%) Power BI
6 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.40%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.70%) 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 10 (3.51%) TeamCity
2 9 (3.16%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.75%) Postman
3 5 (1.75%) Selenium
4 3 (1.05%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.35%) Appium
6 1 (0.35%) Gatling
6 1 (0.35%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) Gradle
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) JUnit
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) NUnit
6 1 (0.35%) Storybook
6 1 (0.35%) TestNG
General
1 174 (61.05%) Finance
2 59 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 51 (17.89%) Banking
4 35 (12.28%) Financial Institution
5 34 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (11.93%) Retail
6 28 (9.82%) Law
7 26 (9.12%) Marketing
8 24 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (7.02%) Front Office
10 16 (5.61%) Back Office
11 10 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.75%) Polish Language
14 4 (1.40%) Automotive
15 3 (1.05%) Games
15 3 (1.05%) Multimedia
15 3 (1.05%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (24.21%) Software Engineer
2 52 (18.25%) Developer
3 46 (16.14%) Senior
4 38 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 34 (11.93%) Python Software Engineer
6 24 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (8.07%) AWS Developer
7 23 (8.07%) AWS Software Engineer
7 23 (8.07%) Lead
8 21 (7.37%) Python Developer
9 20 (7.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 18 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (5.26%) Marketing Specialist
12 13 (4.56%) Analyst
12 13 (4.56%) Java Engineer
13 12 (4.21%) Product Manager
14 11 (3.86%) Product Owner
14 11 (3.86%) QA Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.86%) QA Engineer
15 10 (3.51%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.79%) React
2 30 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 30 (10.53%) Node.js
3 27 (9.47%) Vue
4 25 (8.77%) .NET
5 21 (7.37%) Pandas
6 20 (7.02%) NumPy
6 20 (7.02%) SciPy
7 15 (5.26%) Spring
8 14 (4.91%) Spring Boot
9 13 (4.56%) Kafka
10 12 (4.21%) REST
11 9 (3.16%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.16%) .NET Framework
11 9 (3.16%) Next.js
11 9 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.11%) ASP.NET
12 6 (2.11%) Middleware
13 5 (1.75%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 27 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.37%) Equities
4 20 (7.02%) Fixed Income
4 20 (7.02%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.61%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.91%) Blog
7 13 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.51%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.11%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.75%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.40%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.40%) Insider Threat
11 4 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.05%) Learning Management System
12 3 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.91%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Android
2 7 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.11%) Windows
4 4 (1.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 66 (23.16%) Agile
3 47 (16.49%) CI/CD
4 41 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (12.28%) Test Automation
6 34 (11.93%) AI
6 34 (11.93%) Microservices
7 31 (10.88%) Decision-Making
8 30 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (10.18%) Risk Management
10 26 (9.12%) Asset Management
11 25 (8.77%) Analytics
12 24 (8.42%) B2B
12 24 (8.42%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (8.07%) Computer Science
13 23 (8.07%) Investment Management
13 23 (8.07%) Order Management
14 21 (7.37%) DevOps
14 21 (7.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (7.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (21.05%) Python
2 51 (17.89%) Java
3 43 (15.09%) TypeScript
4 39 (13.68%) SQL
5 37 (12.98%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.02%) C#
7 9 (3.16%) C++
7 9 (3.16%) Go
8 8 (2.81%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.75%) PHP
10 2 (0.70%) C
10 2 (0.70%) Rust
11 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (9.12%) Degree
2 9 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.46%) CREST Certified
3 7 (2.46%) OSCP
4 6 (2.11%) ACCA
4 6 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.11%) CIMA
5 4 (1.40%) CISA
5 4 (1.40%) OSCE
6 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.35%) PhD
7 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.07%) QA
2 6 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.75%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.40%) EU AI Act
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) PMO
5 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (7.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.61%) Terraform
3 11 (3.86%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (3.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.11%) Google
3 4 (1.40%) Concur
3 4 (1.40%) Databricks
3 4 (1.40%) Sage
4 3 (1.05%) Solace
5 2 (0.70%) Adobe
5 2 (0.70%) CyberSource
5 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.70%) Solarflare
6 1 (0.35%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.35%) Brio
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