Hybrid/Remote Front Office Job Trends

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 90 210
Rank change year-on-year -181 +120 +1
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 119 518 441
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 3.59% 1.54%
As % of the General category 1.23% 5.06% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 98 493 405
10th Percentile £81,025 £80,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £148,750 £138,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £154,000
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £111,250
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.12% +5.95%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Front Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,650 10,242 17,686
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.47% 70.99% 61.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,116 6,063 14,112
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -8.71%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front Office and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Front Office job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Front Office
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Front Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Front Office

Front Office
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Front Office over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Front Office salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Front Office
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 13 (10.92%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.04%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 65 (54.62%) AWS
2 24 (20.17%) GCP
3 19 (15.97%) Azure
4 13 (10.92%) dbt
5 10 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.40%) Amazon Kinesis
5 10 (8.40%) GitHub
5 10 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.04%) Snowflake
7 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.72%) Telnet
2 5 (4.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.92%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (10.92%) Apache Arrow
2 13 (10.92%) Apache Iceberg
2 13 (10.92%) Dremio
3 10 (8.40%) Flink
4 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.04%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.84%) KDB
8 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.84%) MySQL
8 1 (0.84%) Power BI
8 1 (0.84%) Tableau
8 1 (0.84%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (6.72%) JIRA
2 1 (0.84%) GCC
2 1 (0.84%) GDB
General
1 96 (80.67%) Finance
2 33 (27.73%) Banking
3 19 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.40%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.04%) Marketing
7 4 (3.36%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Retail
9 1 (0.84%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (59.66%) Developer
2 55 (46.22%) Software Engineer
3 47 (39.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 37 (31.09%) Lead
5 31 (26.05%) Lead Developer
6 28 (23.53%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (23.53%) Lead Software Engineer
7 24 (20.17%) Python Engineer
8 19 (15.97%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (14.29%) Java Engineer
9 17 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
10 16 (13.45%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (12.61%) Senior
12 13 (10.92%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (10.08%) Analyst
13 12 (10.08%) React Developer
14 11 (9.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (9.24%) Java Developer
14 11 (9.24%) Python Developer
15 10 (8.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (43.70%) React
2 48 (40.34%) Node.js
3 45 (37.82%) Kafka
4 40 (33.61%) Redux
5 32 (26.89%) GraphQL
6 16 (13.45%) AngularJS
6 16 (13.45%) FIX Protocol
6 16 (13.45%) Vue
7 14 (11.76%) NumPy
7 14 (11.76%) Pandas
8 13 (10.92%) SciPy
9 10 (8.40%) .NET
10 7 (5.88%) gRPC
11 6 (5.04%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (4.20%) .NET Core
13 4 (3.36%) Java Concurrency
13 4 (3.36%) Sass
13 4 (3.36%) XML
13 4 (3.36%) ZeroMQ
14 3 (2.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 70 (58.82%) Fixed Income
2 30 (25.21%) Equities
3 23 (19.33%) Derivative
4 14 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (10.92%) Algorithms
6 8 (6.72%) Hedge funds
6 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
7 7 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (5.04%) Pricing Data
9 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.84%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (0.84%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Windows
1 8 (6.72%) Windows Server
2 6 (5.04%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (65.55%) Agile
1 78 (65.55%) Investment Management
2 63 (52.94%) Software Engineering
3 52 (43.70%) Order Management
4 40 (33.61%) Portfolio Management
5 33 (27.73%) Asset Management
6 28 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (17.65%) DevOps
8 15 (12.61%) Fintech
9 13 (10.92%) Mentoring
9 13 (10.92%) Risk Management
10 12 (10.08%) CI/CD
10 12 (10.08%) Coaching
11 10 (8.40%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (6.72%) ITIL
12 8 (6.72%) Line Management
12 8 (6.72%) Low Latency
13 7 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 68 (57.14%) Python
2 60 (50.42%) Java
3 53 (44.54%) JavaScript
3 53 (44.54%) TypeScript
4 36 (30.25%) Go
5 25 (21.01%) SQL
6 18 (15.13%) C#
7 10 (8.40%) C++
8 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.36%) C
10 3 (2.52%) VBA
10 3 (2.52%) VC++
11 1 (0.84%) Rust
11 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (8.40%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.84%) ACCA
4 1 (0.84%) CIMA
4 1 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.52%) EMIR
2 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.84%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.40%) Argo
3 4 (3.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) Charles River
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle
3 2 (1.68%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.84%) Databricks
4 1 (0.84%) IBM