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 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 94 165
Rank change year-on-year -122 +71 +103
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 155 546 397
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 3.21% 1.94%
As % of the General category 1.67% 4.70% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 133 522 373
10th Percentile £80,650 £77,500 £65,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +9.76%

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 9,282 11,608 12,916
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.38% 68.14% 63.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,875 6,654 10,020
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £46,713 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% -1.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.37%

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 1 January 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 62 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (21.29%) Apache
3 7 (4.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 84 (54.19%) AWS
2 62 (40.00%) dbt
3 33 (21.29%) Snowflake
4 32 (20.65%) GCP
5 13 (8.39%) Azure
6 10 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (6.45%) GitHub
6 10 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.16%) Telnet
2 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) FTP
3 1 (0.65%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
1 62 (40.00%) Apache Arrow
1 62 (40.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 62 (40.00%) Dremio
2 34 (21.94%) Data Lake
3 33 (21.29%) Apache Ignite
4 30 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.45%) Flink
7 8 (5.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.29%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) KDB
9 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Power BI
9 1 (0.65%) Tableau
9 1 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) GCC
2 1 (0.65%) GDB
General
1 115 (74.19%) Finance
2 59 (38.06%) Banking
3 36 (23.23%) Investment Banking
4 23 (14.84%) Social Skills
5 20 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Marketing
7 5 (3.23%) Back Office
8 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (46.45%) Software Engineer
2 69 (44.52%) Developer
2 69 (44.52%) Python Engineer
3 68 (43.87%) AWS Engineer
4 62 (40.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 62 (40.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 47 (30.32%) Senior
6 38 (24.52%) Java Engineer
7 37 (23.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 37 (23.87%) Java Software Engineer
8 35 (22.58%) Python Developer
9 31 (20.00%) Senior Java Engineer
9 31 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 31 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 29 (18.71%) AWS Developer
11 18 (11.61%) Analyst
12 16 (10.32%) Lead
13 10 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (5.81%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (40.65%) NumPy
1 63 (40.65%) Pandas
2 62 (40.00%) SciPy
3 42 (27.10%) React
4 38 (24.52%) Node.js
5 34 (21.94%) gRPC
6 33 (21.29%) Protocol Buffers
7 32 (20.65%) AngularJS
7 32 (20.65%) Vue
8 22 (14.19%) Kafka
9 14 (9.03%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (5.16%) .NET
10 8 (5.16%) GraphQL
10 8 (5.16%) Redux
11 6 (3.87%) Java Concurrency
12 5 (3.23%) PyXLL
13 4 (2.58%) .NET Core
14 3 (1.94%) Sass
14 3 (1.94%) ZeroMQ
15 2 (1.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (57.42%) Fixed Income
2 76 (49.03%) Equities
3 69 (44.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (29.03%) Derivative
5 36 (23.23%) Hedge funds
6 33 (21.29%) Pricing Data
7 13 (8.39%) Algorithms
8 8 (5.16%) Product Ownership
9 7 (4.52%) Management Information System
10 5 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (1.29%) Credit Risk
12 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.65%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.74%) Windows
2 10 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.16%) Linux
4 3 (1.94%) Unix
5 2 (1.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (71.61%) Agile
2 94 (60.65%) Investment Management
3 79 (50.97%) Software Engineering
4 74 (47.74%) Asset Management
5 50 (32.26%) Order Management
6 34 (21.94%) Risk Management
7 31 (20.00%) Fintech
8 29 (18.71%) Performance Attribution
9 26 (16.77%) DevOps
10 16 (10.32%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.74%) Analytics
11 12 (7.74%) Coaching
11 12 (7.74%) Computer Science
11 12 (7.74%) Electronic Trading
12 11 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.10%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (6.45%) Low Latency
13 10 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (65.81%) Python
2 70 (45.16%) JavaScript
2 70 (45.16%) TypeScript
3 69 (44.52%) Java
4 31 (20.00%) SQL
5 29 (18.71%) C#
6 17 (10.97%) C++
7 12 (7.74%) Go
8 8 (5.16%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.58%) VBA
10 3 (1.94%) C
11 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.29%) VC++
12 1 (0.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (5.81%) Degree
2 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.29%) EMIR
2 2 (1.29%) QA
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.45%) Argo
3 4 (2.58%) Terraform
4 2 (1.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (7.74%) Charles River
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.29%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.29%) Calypso
3 2 (1.29%) ION Trading
3 2 (1.29%) Oracle
4 1 (0.65%) Databricks