Front Office Jobs with Work from Home Options

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 144 496
Rank change year-on-year +47 +352 -202
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 811 760 486
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.90% 2.32% 0.62%
As % of the General category 4.76% 3.56% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 774 728 437
10th Percentile £77,500 £70,735 £60,000
25th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £148,750 £137,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% +2.50%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,022 21,367 51,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.93% 65.11% 66.05%
Number of salaries quoted 11,520 15,606 26,987
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office.

Front Office salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Front Office salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 582 (71.76%) Apache Airflow
2 571 (70.41%) Apache
3 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.49%) Eagle PACE
3 4 (0.49%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.25%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.25%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.12%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 694 (85.57%) AWS
2 576 (71.02%) dbt
3 463 (57.09%) Snowflake
4 379 (46.73%) GCP
5 106 (13.07%) Azure
6 76 (9.37%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
7 72 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (4.56%) Power Platform
9 30 (3.70%) Dagster
10 4 (0.49%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.49%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (0.49%) PaaS
10 4 (0.49%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.49%) Serverless
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.12%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.12%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.12%) BGP
2 1 (0.12%) Firewall
2 1 (0.12%) OSPF
2 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (71.02%) Dremio
2 546 (67.32%) Apache Arrow
3 540 (66.58%) Amazon Athena
4 536 (66.09%) Apache Ignite
5 525 (64.73%) Data Lake
6 37 (4.56%) Power BI
6 37 (4.56%) Tableau
7 29 (3.58%) Big Data
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.49%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.49%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.37%) KDB
11 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.12%) Flink
12 1 (0.12%) Kdb+
12 1 (0.12%) MySQL
12 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (0.74%) JIRA
2 5 (0.62%) GitLab
2 5 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.12%) Gradle
3 1 (0.12%) JUnit
3 1 (0.12%) Maven
3 1 (0.12%) Mockito
General
1 770 (94.94%) Finance
2 607 (74.85%) Banking
3 539 (66.46%) Investment Banking
4 54 (6.66%) Social Skills
5 39 (4.81%) Back Office
6 8 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.37%) Marketing
10 2 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.25%) International Banking
10 2 (0.25%) Legal
10 2 (0.25%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.12%) Automotive
11 1 (0.12%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 388 (47.84%) Software Engineer
2 267 (32.92%) Developer
3 243 (29.96%) Python Engineer
4 219 (27.00%) AWS Engineer
4 219 (27.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 218 (26.88%) Senior
6 216 (26.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 213 (26.26%) Python Software Engineer
8 201 (24.78%) Lead
9 185 (22.81%) Senior Software Engineer
10 180 (22.19%) Java Engineer
11 179 (22.07%) Java Software Engineer
12 117 (14.43%) Software Developer
13 114 (14.06%) Architect
14 110 (13.56%) Solutions Architect
14 110 (13.56%) Team Leader
15 109 (13.44%) Python Developer
16 107 (13.19%) Lead Software Engineer
16 107 (13.19%) Software Team Leader
17 106 (13.07%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (68.06%) gRPC
1 552 (68.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 540 (66.58%) Pandas
3 532 (65.60%) NumPy
3 532 (65.60%) SciPy
4 107 (13.19%) React
5 102 (12.58%) PySpark
6 97 (11.96%) Redux
7 62 (7.64%) Node.js
8 59 (7.27%) AngularJS
9 54 (6.66%) Vue
10 46 (5.67%) .NET
11 22 (2.71%) ASP.NET
11 22 (2.71%) ASP.NET Core
12 20 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
13 16 (1.97%) Material-UI
14 14 (1.73%) .NET Core
15 9 (1.11%) GraphQL
16 4 (0.49%) Flask
16 4 (0.49%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 675 (83.23%) Fixed Income
2 607 (74.85%) Equities
3 598 (73.74%) Derivative
4 592 (73.00%) Hedge funds
5 586 (72.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (8.88%) Pricing Data
7 58 (7.15%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 6 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.62%) FPGA
10 5 (0.62%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.49%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.37%) Blog
12 3 (0.37%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.37%) Equity Derivative
13 2 (0.25%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.71%) Windows
2 19 (2.34%) Linux
3 16 (1.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (86.07%) Agile
2 688 (84.83%) Asset Management
3 633 (78.05%) Software Engineering
4 515 (63.50%) Investment Management
5 209 (25.77%) Line Management
6 175 (21.58%) Greeks
7 130 (16.03%) Analytics
8 108 (13.32%) Fintech
9 73 (9.00%) Migration
10 62 (7.64%) Performance Attribution
11 47 (5.80%) Full Stack Development
12 40 (4.93%) Data Engineering
13 38 (4.69%) Business Analysis
14 35 (4.32%) Product Management
14 35 (4.32%) User Experience
15 34 (4.19%) Front End Development
16 30 (3.70%) Electronic Trading
17 29 (3.58%) Mentoring
18 23 (2.84%) Machine Learning
18 23 (2.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 714 (88.04%) Python
2 585 (72.13%) JavaScript
2 585 (72.13%) TypeScript
3 546 (67.32%) Java
4 215 (26.51%) SQL
5 48 (5.92%) C#
6 16 (1.97%) C++
7 13 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.48%) Ruby
8 12 (1.48%) Scala
9 10 (1.23%) R
10 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) Go
13 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (1.36%) Degree
2 3 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.12%) CCIE
4 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (21.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.49%) SLA
3 3 (0.37%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 7 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 79 (9.74%) Bloomberg
2 64 (7.89%) Reuters
3 13 (1.60%) Murex
4 11 (1.36%) ION Trading
5 8 (0.99%) Oracle
6 4 (0.49%) IBM
7 3 (0.37%) Algorithmics
7 3 (0.37%) Sophis
7 3 (0.37%) Trayport
8 2 (0.25%) Charles River
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco
9 1 (0.12%) Cognos
9 1 (0.12%) Juniper
9 1 (0.12%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.12%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.12%) SAP
9 1 (0.12%) Solace
9 1 (0.12%) Tradeweb