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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 111 118
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 -49
Permanent jobs citing Fintech 414 491 827
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.98% 3.03% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 3.24% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 295 423 688
10th Percentile £45,000 £25,313 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,625 £60,000
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% +6.45% -8.82%

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 17,250 15,174 29,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.39% 93.66% 88.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,607 8,984 22,543
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

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 5 July 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 (3.86%) Confluence
2 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 142 (34.30%) AWS
2 109 (26.33%) SaaS
3 85 (20.53%) Azure
4 73 (17.63%) GCP
5 38 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (4.11%) GitHub
7 14 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (2.90%) dbt
9 9 (2.17%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.93%) Figma
10 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (1.93%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (1.69%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (1.21%) Google Sheets
12 5 (1.21%) Serverless
13 4 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Firewall
1 4 (0.97%) Internet
2 3 (0.72%) BGP
2 3 (0.72%) DHCP
2 3 (0.72%) DNS
2 3 (0.72%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) LAN
2 3 (0.72%) OSPF
2 3 (0.72%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.72%) SSL
2 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.72%) VPN
2 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (3.38%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.17%) Power BI
7 7 (1.69%) Data Vault
7 7 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 7 (1.69%) Metadata
8 6 (1.45%) Looker
8 6 (1.45%) Tableau
9 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.24%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.24%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 38 (9.18%) TeamCity
2 19 (4.59%) JIRA
3 6 (1.45%) Selenium
4 5 (1.21%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.21%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.72%) Git
5 3 (0.72%) JUnit
6 2 (0.48%) GitLab
6 2 (0.48%) Gradle
6 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.48%) Maven
6 2 (0.48%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) CMake
7 1 (0.24%) Valgrind
General
1 223 (53.86%) Finance
2 131 (31.64%) Banking
3 101 (24.40%) Retail
4 92 (22.22%) Law
5 91 (21.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (19.57%) Social Skills
7 63 (15.22%) Financial Institution
8 53 (12.80%) Back Office
9 22 (5.31%) Games
10 20 (4.83%) Polish Language
11 18 (4.35%) Marketing
12 15 (3.62%) Front Office
13 14 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
14 13 (3.14%) Legal
14 13 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.21%) Legal Technology
16 5 (1.21%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
18 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (19.08%) Software Engineer
2 78 (18.84%) Lead
3 70 (16.91%) Developer
4 65 (15.70%) Senior
5 36 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
6 33 (7.97%) Python Engineer
7 25 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (5.07%) .NET Developer
9 19 (4.59%) Team Leader
10 18 (4.35%) Architect
11 17 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.11%) Lead Developer
12 16 (3.86%) Data Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) Software Team Leader
13 15 (3.62%) QA Engineer
14 14 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.38%) Python Software Engineer
15 12 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (2.90%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.84%) .NET
2 27 (6.52%) REST
3 26 (6.28%) Node.js
4 24 (5.80%) React
5 18 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.62%) .NET Core
7 13 (3.14%) .NET Framework
7 13 (3.14%) ASP.NET
7 13 (3.14%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (3.14%) Vue
8 11 (2.66%) XML
9 9 (2.17%) Kafka
10 8 (1.93%) JSON
10 8 (1.93%) PySpark
10 8 (1.93%) Redux
10 8 (1.93%) Spring
10 8 (1.93%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.45%) Playwright
12 5 (1.21%) OpenAPI
12 5 (1.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 79 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 32 (7.73%) Blog
4 29 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (6.04%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.14%) Equities
7 12 (2.90%) Derivative
8 10 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.93%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.93%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.69%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
12 6 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.45%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.45%) PMI
13 5 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.97%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.97%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.35%) Linux
2 12 (2.90%) Android
2 12 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (28.26%) Software Engineering
2 80 (19.32%) Agile
3 71 (17.15%) Test Automation
4 70 (16.91%) CI/CD
5 62 (14.98%) Disruptive Innovation
6 58 (14.01%) Microservices
7 54 (13.04%) AI
8 50 (12.08%) Clean Code
9 47 (11.35%) Roadmaps
10 45 (10.87%) Mentoring
11 40 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (9.42%) Deployment Automation
13 38 (9.18%) Continuous Deployment
14 37 (8.94%) B2B
15 36 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (8.45%) Analytics
16 35 (8.45%) DevOps
17 33 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
18 31 (7.49%) Decision-Making
18 31 (7.49%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 86 (20.77%) Python
2 76 (18.36%) Java
3 72 (17.39%) SQL
4 55 (13.29%) C#
5 42 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 18 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.11%) C++
8 11 (2.66%) Go
8 11 (2.66%) PHP
9 10 (2.42%) Bicep
10 7 (1.69%) Scala
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 40 (9.66%) Degree
2 14 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (1.69%) SnowPro
5 6 (1.45%) CREST Certified
5 6 (1.45%) OSCP
5 6 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) ACCA
7 1 (0.24%) CIMA
7 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.00%) QA
2 23 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.21%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.97%) GDPR
7 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (5.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (17.63%) Kubernetes
2 58 (14.01%) Terraform
3 38 (9.18%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 30 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.86%) Databricks
3 8 (1.93%) Google
4 5 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.97%) Xero
6 3 (0.72%) Cisco
6 3 (0.72%) Revolut
6 3 (0.72%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.72%) Splunk
7 2 (0.48%) Foundry
7 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe
8 1 (0.24%) Apple
8 1 (0.24%) Brio
8 1 (0.24%) Citrix
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) VMware