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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 116 119
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -52
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 392 458 843
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.07% 3.14% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 3.31% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 270 408 703
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,313 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +11.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +6.45% -6.06%

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 15,672 13,856 29,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.83% 94.94% 90.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,183 8,128 23,369
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,695 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 24 May 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 15 (3.83%) Confluence
2 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 118 (30.10%) AWS
2 112 (28.57%) SaaS
3 73 (18.62%) Azure
4 69 (17.60%) GCP
5 38 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (3.06%) dbt
7 10 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (2.55%) Azure Event Grid
8 9 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.79%) Figma
11 6 (1.53%) GitHub
12 5 (1.28%) Google Sheets
12 5 (1.28%) Serverless
13 4 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (0.77%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.77%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) Firewall
2 3 (0.77%) BGP
2 3 (0.77%) DHCP
2 3 (0.77%) DNS
2 3 (0.77%) HTTP
2 3 (0.77%) Internet
2 3 (0.77%) LAN
2 3 (0.77%) OSPF
2 3 (0.77%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.77%) SSL
2 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.77%) VPN
2 3 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.53%) Looker
5 4 (1.02%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (9.69%) TeamCity
2 18 (4.59%) JIRA
3 6 (1.53%) Selenium
4 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.28%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.28%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.02%) JUnit
5 4 (1.02%) Postman
6 2 (0.51%) Git
6 2 (0.51%) Gradle
6 2 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.26%) Gatling
7 1 (0.26%) GitLab
7 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.26%) JMeter
7 1 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 211 (53.83%) Finance
2 133 (33.93%) Banking
3 105 (26.79%) Retail
4 97 (24.74%) Law
5 96 (24.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (16.07%) Financial Institution
7 60 (15.31%) Social Skills
8 55 (14.03%) Back Office
9 29 (7.40%) Marketing
10 23 (5.87%) Games
11 19 (4.85%) Polish Language
12 15 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (3.32%) Front Office
13 13 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.81%) Legal
15 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.77%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
18 1 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 81 (20.66%) Software Engineer
2 66 (16.84%) Lead
3 60 (15.31%) Developer
4 59 (15.05%) Senior
5 32 (8.16%) Python Engineer
6 29 (7.40%) Lead Software Engineer
7 26 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (4.59%) QA Engineer
8 18 (4.59%) Team Leader
9 16 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (3.83%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.83%) Marketing Specialist
10 15 (3.83%) Python Software Engineer
10 15 (3.83%) Software Team Leader
11 14 (3.57%) Analyst
11 14 (3.57%) Java Engineer
12 13 (3.32%) Java Developer
12 13 (3.32%) Lead Developer
12 13 (3.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.93%) .NET
2 29 (7.40%) REST
3 21 (5.36%) React
4 11 (2.81%) Node.js
4 11 (2.81%) XML
5 9 (2.30%) Kafka
5 9 (2.30%) Spring
5 9 (2.30%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.04%) JSON
6 8 (2.04%) Redux
7 7 (1.79%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.79%) RESTful
7 7 (1.79%) Sass
8 6 (1.53%) Playwright
9 5 (1.28%) OpenAPI
9 5 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.28%) Swagger
10 4 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.02%) PySpark
10 4 (1.02%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.18%) Product Ownership
3 33 (8.42%) Blog
4 23 (5.87%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.30%) Derivative
8 9 (2.30%) Equities
9 8 (2.04%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.53%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.28%) PMI
12 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.02%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.34%) Android
1 17 (4.34%) Apple iOS
2 16 (4.08%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 80 (20.41%) Test Automation
3 68 (17.35%) Agile
4 65 (16.58%) Disruptive Innovation
5 58 (14.80%) CI/CD
6 46 (11.73%) Clean Code
6 46 (11.73%) Microservices
7 39 (9.95%) Deployment Automation
7 39 (9.95%) Mentoring
8 38 (9.69%) Continuous Deployment
9 35 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (8.93%) Roadmaps
10 34 (8.67%) B2B
11 32 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (7.65%) Decision-Making
13 29 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (6.89%) AI
14 27 (6.89%) Analytics
14 27 (6.89%) Coaching
14 27 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (22.70%) Java
2 75 (19.13%) Python
3 51 (13.01%) SQL
4 36 (9.18%) C#
5 27 (6.89%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.57%) C++
8 12 (3.06%) Go
9 10 (2.55%) PHP
10 3 (0.77%) Bicep
11 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (8.93%) Degree
2 14 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.04%) CREST Certified
3 8 (2.04%) OSCP
4 5 (1.28%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.26%) ACCA
7 1 (0.26%) CIMA
7 1 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.42%) QA
2 13 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.28%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.77%) GDPR
5 3 (0.77%) SLA
6 2 (0.51%) NIST
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (3.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 51 (13.01%) Terraform
3 38 (9.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (2.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.55%) Databricks
3 7 (1.79%) Google
4 4 (1.02%) Xero
5 3 (0.77%) Cisco
5 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.77%) Revolut
5 3 (0.77%) SolarWinds
5 3 (0.77%) Splunk
6 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) Apple
7 1 (0.26%) Brio
7 1 (0.26%) Citrix
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.26%) SAP
7 1 (0.26%) VMware
7 1 (0.26%) Workday