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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 69 193
Rank change year-on-year -213 +124 +5
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 106 555 502
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 4.27% 1.58%
As % of the General category 1.08% 5.95% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 81 527 458
10th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £112,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.17% +10.58%
75th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £143,750
90th Percentile - £152,500 £162,500
UK median annual salary £112,500 £112,500 £112,500
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 9,837 9,329 19,516
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.76% 71.70% 61.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,544 6,431 15,137
10th Percentile £30,325 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,976
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,639 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +7.32% -9.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

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 11 April 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:

Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.00%) AWS
2 17 (16.04%) GCP
3 16 (15.09%) Azure
4 10 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (9.43%) Amazon Kinesis
4 10 (9.43%) GitHub
4 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) Telnet
2 4 (3.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) Flink
2 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.94%) MySQL
5 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) GCC
2 1 (0.94%) GDB
General
1 86 (81.13%) Finance
2 36 (33.96%) Banking
3 20 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.66%) Marketing
7 5 (4.72%) Legal
8 4 (3.77%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (58.49%) Developer
2 43 (40.57%) Software Engineer
3 40 (37.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 34 (32.08%) Lead
5 30 (28.30%) Lead Developer
6 28 (26.42%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (26.42%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (11.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 12 (11.32%) React Developer
8 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 11 (10.38%) Java Developer
8 11 (10.38%) Java Engineer
8 11 (10.38%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (10.38%) Python Engineer
9 10 (9.43%) Analyst
9 10 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (8.49%) C# Developer
10 9 (8.49%) Front Office Developer
11 8 (7.55%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (43.40%) React
2 43 (40.57%) Kafka
3 42 (39.62%) Node.js
4 40 (37.74%) Redux
5 32 (30.19%) GraphQL
6 14 (13.21%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (8.49%) Vue
8 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.60%) .NET
10 4 (3.77%) Sass
10 4 (3.77%) XML
10 4 (3.77%) ZeroMQ
11 3 (2.83%) XSLT
12 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
13 1 (0.94%) .NET Framework
13 1 (0.94%) Java Concurrency
13 1 (0.94%) NumPy
13 1 (0.94%) Pandas
13 1 (0.94%) PySpark
13 1 (0.94%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 57 (53.77%) Fixed Income
2 18 (16.98%) Equities
3 15 (14.15%) Derivative
4 8 (7.55%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (5.66%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.89%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Windows
2 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.66%) Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) Investment Management
2 58 (54.72%) Agile
3 50 (47.17%) Software Engineering
4 40 (37.74%) Order Management
4 40 (37.74%) Portfolio Management
5 28 (26.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (15.09%) Asset Management
6 16 (15.09%) DevOps
7 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.26%) ITIL
9 12 (11.32%) Fintech
10 11 (10.38%) Coaching
11 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
13 8 (7.55%) Line Management
13 8 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (6.60%) Computer Science
15 6 (5.66%) Data Pipeline
15 6 (5.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (53.77%) Python
2 51 (48.11%) Java
3 41 (38.68%) TypeScript
4 40 (37.74%) JavaScript
5 36 (33.96%) Go
6 28 (26.42%) SQL
7 17 (16.04%) C#
8 9 (8.49%) C++
9 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.77%) C
11 3 (2.83%) VBA
11 3 (2.83%) VC++
Qualifications
1 13 (12.26%) Degree
2 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.89%) ACCA
4 2 (1.89%) CIMA
5 1 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) EMIR
2 3 (2.83%) MiFID
3 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.43%) Argo
3 4 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Charles River
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.83%) Oracle
3 1 (0.94%) Databricks
3 1 (0.94%) IBM
3 1 (0.94%) ION Trading