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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 118 118
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 -52
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 396 474 869
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.00% 3.10% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.27% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 278 408 728
10th Percentile £43,875 £25,313 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,625 £59,313
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% -6.63%

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 16,218 14,474 30,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.95% 94.61% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,673 8,396 23,766
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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% -8.73%
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% -9.69%

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 14 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 (4.04%) 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 1 (0.25%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 128 (32.32%) AWS
2 106 (26.77%) SaaS
3 74 (18.69%) Azure
4 70 (17.68%) GCP
5 36 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (3.03%) dbt
7 11 (2.78%) GitHub
8 9 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
9 8 (2.02%) Figma
10 7 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.26%) Google Sheets
11 5 (1.26%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.26%) Serverless
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.01%) Snowflake
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 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.52%) Looker
6 5 (1.26%) Power BI
7 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.01%) Tableau
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.76%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.76%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.76%) Metadata
9 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.25%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 36 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 19 (4.80%) JIRA
3 6 (1.52%) 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 (0.51%) GitLab
7 2 (0.51%) Gradle
7 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.51%) Maven
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
1 209 (52.78%) Finance
2 131 (33.08%) Banking
3 101 (25.51%) Retail
4 93 (23.48%) Law
5 91 (22.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (17.42%) Social Skills
7 60 (15.15%) Financial Institution
8 52 (13.13%) Back Office
9 25 (6.31%) Marketing
10 24 (6.06%) Games
11 20 (5.05%) Polish Language
12 14 (3.54%) Front Office
13 13 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (3.28%) Legal
13 13 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.52%) 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 74 (18.69%) Software Engineer
2 72 (18.18%) Lead
3 64 (16.16%) Developer
4 59 (14.90%) Senior
5 32 (8.08%) Python Engineer
6 31 (7.83%) Lead Software Engineer
7 23 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (4.29%) Team Leader
10 16 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (4.04%) QA Engineer
11 15 (3.79%) Lead Developer
12 14 (3.54%) Architect
12 14 (3.54%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.54%) Software Team Leader
13 13 (3.28%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.28%) Python Software Engineer
13 13 (3.28%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.03%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.03%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.34%) .NET
2 28 (7.07%) REST
3 23 (5.81%) React
4 17 (4.29%) Node.js
5 11 (2.78%) XML
6 10 (2.53%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.27%) Kafka
8 8 (2.02%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.02%) JSON
8 8 (2.02%) Redux
8 8 (2.02%) Spring
8 8 (2.02%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.77%) .NET Framework
10 6 (1.52%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (1.52%) Playwright
10 6 (1.52%) Sass
10 6 (1.52%) Vue
11 5 (1.26%) OpenAPI
11 5 (1.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.34%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.08%) Blog
4 26 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.53%) Derivative
6 10 (2.53%) Equities
6 10 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.02%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.52%) PMI
10 6 (1.52%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.01%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.55%) Linux
2 15 (3.79%) Android
2 15 (3.79%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.51%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.03%) Software Engineering
2 77 (19.44%) Agile
3 75 (18.94%) Test Automation
4 65 (16.41%) CI/CD
5 62 (15.66%) Disruptive Innovation
6 47 (11.87%) Microservices
7 46 (11.62%) Clean Code
8 41 (10.35%) AI
8 41 (10.35%) Mentoring
8 41 (10.35%) Roadmaps
9 37 (9.34%) Deployment Automation
10 36 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
11 35 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (8.33%) B2B
14 32 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (7.58%) Analytics
15 30 (7.58%) Decision-Making
15 30 (7.58%) DevOps
15 30 (7.58%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (20.71%) Java
2 81 (20.45%) Python
3 58 (14.65%) SQL
4 41 (10.35%) C#
5 31 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.29%) C++
8 13 (3.28%) Go
9 11 (2.78%) PHP
10 6 (1.52%) Bicep
11 3 (0.76%) Scala
12 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (9.34%) Degree
2 14 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.02%) CREST Certified
3 8 (2.02%) OSCP
4 6 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.76%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.25%) ACCA
7 1 (0.25%) CIMA
7 1 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.58%) QA
2 17 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.52%) 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 (0.51%) NIST
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (4.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 52 (13.13%) Terraform
3 36 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.28%) Databricks
3 7 (1.77%) 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 (0.51%) 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