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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 107 100
Rank change year-on-year -33 -7 -30
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 301 572 634
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 3.02% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.31% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 249 475 581
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +9.38% +8.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £136,250 £118,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,253 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.16% +0.30% +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 13,829 17,295 19,528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.19% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,452 15,784
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,346
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 £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £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

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 6 December 2025.

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 48 (15.95%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 12 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.66%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.33%) Quorum
1 1 (0.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 114 (37.87%) AWS
2 69 (22.92%) GCP
3 61 (20.27%) SaaS
4 48 (15.95%) dbt
5 42 (13.95%) Azure
6 10 (3.32%) GitHub
7 9 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.66%) PaaS
10 4 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
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%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (1.00%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) AMQP
1 1 (0.33%) HTTP
1 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.27%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.28%) Amazon Athena
3 45 (14.95%) Apache Arrow
3 45 (14.95%) Apache Iceberg
3 45 (14.95%) Dremio
4 15 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.65%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.33%) Power BI
8 5 (1.66%) Data Hub
8 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.66%) SQL CLR
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
10 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) Looker
10 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.66%) Redis
10 2 (0.66%) Tableau
11 1 (0.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (3.32%) Cypress.io
2 7 (2.33%) Selenium
3 4 (1.33%) Git
3 4 (1.33%) Postman
3 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.00%) JIRA
5 2 (0.66%) Appium
5 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.66%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) NUnit
6 1 (0.33%) Storybook
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.33%) Xcode
6 1 (0.33%) XCUITest
General
1 210 (69.77%) Finance
2 73 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 53 (17.61%) Front Office
4 47 (15.61%) Banking
5 36 (11.96%) Financial Institution
6 33 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.31%) Retail
9 18 (5.98%) Back Office
10 17 (5.65%) Law
11 16 (5.32%) Marketing
12 10 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.33%) Automotive
13 4 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.33%) Legal
13 4 (1.33%) Polish Language
14 3 (1.00%) Advertising
14 3 (1.00%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (30.56%) Software Engineer
2 82 (27.24%) Developer
3 53 (17.61%) Python Engineer
4 52 (17.28%) Python Software Engineer
5 51 (16.94%) Senior
6 49 (16.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 47 (15.61%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (15.28%) AWS Developer
8 46 (15.28%) AWS Software Engineer
9 41 (13.62%) Python Developer
10 20 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.98%) Lead
12 12 (3.99%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.99%) Analyst
12 12 (3.99%) Java Engineer
13 11 (3.65%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.32%) Architect
14 10 (3.32%) Java Developer
15 9 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (2.99%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (25.91%) React
2 62 (20.60%) Node.js
3 59 (19.60%) AngularJS
4 57 (18.94%) Vue
5 46 (15.28%) Pandas
6 45 (14.95%) NumPy
6 45 (14.95%) SciPy
7 29 (9.63%) .NET
8 17 (5.65%) REST
8 17 (5.65%) Spring
9 16 (5.32%) .NET Core
9 16 (5.32%) Spring Boot
10 15 (4.98%) .NET Framework
11 14 (4.65%) Kafka
12 11 (3.65%) Entity Framework
13 10 (3.32%) Next.js
14 9 (2.99%) Middleware
15 8 (2.66%) ASP.NET
15 8 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 53 (17.61%) Equities
3 49 (16.28%) Fixed Income
4 19 (6.31%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.32%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.99%) Blog
8 7 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.99%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.66%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.66%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.33%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.33%) Insider Threat
11 4 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.65%) Linux
2 13 (4.32%) Windows
3 6 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Android
7 2 (0.66%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (38.87%) Software Engineering
2 105 (34.88%) Agile
3 58 (19.27%) Risk Management
4 56 (18.60%) Asset Management
5 51 (16.94%) Investment Management
6 45 (14.95%) Order Management
6 45 (14.95%) Performance Attribution
6 45 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.29%) CI/CD
8 39 (12.96%) AI
8 39 (12.96%) Microservices
9 32 (10.63%) Analytics
9 32 (10.63%) Decision-Making
10 30 (9.97%) Roadmaps
11 29 (9.63%) Collaborative Culture
11 29 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (8.31%) DevOps
12 25 (8.31%) TDD
12 25 (8.31%) Test Automation
13 23 (7.64%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 80 (26.58%) Python
2 75 (24.92%) TypeScript
3 68 (22.59%) JavaScript
4 44 (14.62%) SQL
5 41 (13.62%) Java
6 30 (9.97%) C#
7 9 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.66%) Go
9 7 (2.33%) PHP
10 5 (1.66%) C++
11 4 (1.33%) Swift
11 4 (1.33%) VBA
12 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.66%) Bash
13 2 (0.66%) C
13 2 (0.66%) 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 (10.96%) Degree
2 10 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.99%) ACCA
3 6 (1.99%) CIMA
3 6 (1.99%) 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 (0.66%) 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 18 (5.98%) QA
2 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.66%) GDPR
3 5 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.33%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.00%) SLA
6 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.66%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (6.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.99%) Terraform
3 5 (1.66%) 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 18 (5.98%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.33%) Google
3 6 (1.99%) 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 (0.66%) Adobe
6 2 (0.66%) Ahrefs
6 2 (0.66%) CyberSource
6 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.66%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.66%) Revolut
6 2 (0.66%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (0.66%) Solarflare
7 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) Splunk
7 1 (0.33%) Workday