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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 78 206
Rank change year-on-year -207 +128 +6
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 108 532 467
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 4.12% 1.52%
As % of the General category 1.13% 5.72% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 87 504 426
10th Percentile £79,300 £80,000 £71,875
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -2.22% +15.38%
75th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £152,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +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 9,598 9,295 18,928
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.91% 71.93% 61.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,259 6,315 14,862
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 26 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 4 (3.70%) Apache
1 4 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 57 (52.78%) AWS
2 17 (15.74%) GCP
3 15 (13.89%) Azure
4 10 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (9.26%) Amazon Kinesis
4 10 (9.26%) GitHub
4 10 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.70%) dbt
5 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) Telnet
2 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.26%) Flink
2 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.70%) Apache Arrow
5 4 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (3.70%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (3.70%) Dremio
6 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) GCC
2 1 (0.93%) GDB
General
1 86 (79.63%) Finance
2 36 (33.33%) Banking
3 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.96%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.26%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.56%) Marketing
7 5 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.78%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Back Office
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (55.56%) Developer
2 47 (43.52%) Software Engineer
3 40 (37.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 37 (34.26%) Lead
5 31 (28.70%) Lead Developer
6 28 (25.93%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (25.93%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (14.81%) Java Engineer
8 15 (13.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (13.89%) Python Engineer
9 12 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (11.11%) React Developer
10 11 (10.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (10.19%) Java Developer
11 10 (9.26%) Analyst
11 10 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (9.26%) Senior
11 10 (9.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (7.41%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (42.59%) React
2 44 (40.74%) Kafka
3 42 (38.89%) Node.js
4 40 (37.04%) Redux
5 32 (29.63%) GraphQL
6 15 (13.89%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (8.33%) Vue
8 8 (7.41%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.48%) .NET
10 5 (4.63%) NumPy
10 5 (4.63%) Pandas
11 4 (3.70%) gRPC
11 4 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (3.70%) Sass
11 4 (3.70%) SciPy
11 4 (3.70%) XML
11 4 (3.70%) ZeroMQ
12 3 (2.78%) XSLT
13 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
13 2 (1.85%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 61 (56.48%) Fixed Income
2 20 (18.52%) Derivative
2 20 (18.52%) Equities
3 10 (9.26%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (6.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (6.48%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.70%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.85%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.33%) Windows
2 8 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.48%) Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (62.04%) Investment Management
2 64 (59.26%) Agile
3 54 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 42 (38.89%) Order Management
5 40 (37.04%) Portfolio Management
6 28 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (19.44%) Asset Management
8 18 (16.67%) DevOps
9 12 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 11 (10.19%) Coaching
10 11 (10.19%) Fintech
10 11 (10.19%) ITIL
11 10 (9.26%) Mentoring
11 10 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (9.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (7.41%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.41%) Line Management
13 6 (5.56%) Front End Development
13 6 (5.56%) Multithreading
13 6 (5.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (54.63%) Python
2 57 (52.78%) Java
3 45 (41.67%) TypeScript
4 44 (40.74%) JavaScript
5 36 (33.33%) Go
6 24 (22.22%) SQL
7 14 (12.96%) C#
8 9 (8.33%) C++
9 8 (7.41%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.70%) C
11 3 (2.78%) VBA
11 3 (2.78%) VC++
12 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.85%) ACCA
4 2 (1.85%) CIMA
5 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) EMIR
2 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) GRC
2 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.26%) Argo
3 4 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.33%) Charles River
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (0.93%) Databricks
3 1 (0.93%) IBM
3 1 (0.93%) ION Trading