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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 82 162
Rank change year-on-year -91 +80 +179
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 272 676 463
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.70% 3.39% 2.11%
As % of the General category 2.51% 5.44% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 248 655 445
10th Percentile £89,250 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £135,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £152,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - +7.32%

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 10,820 12,426 14,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 67.57% 62.28% 65.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,367 7,065 11,371
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,733 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +2.16%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

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 7 November 2025.

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
1 130 (47.79%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (23.90%) Apache
3 7 (2.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Aladdin
1 7 (2.57%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.37%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 173 (63.60%) AWS
2 130 (47.79%) dbt
3 83 (30.51%) GCP
4 65 (23.90%) Snowflake
5 22 (8.09%) Azure
6 9 (3.31%) GitHub
7 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) FTP
2 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (47.79%) Amazon Athena
1 130 (47.79%) Apache Arrow
1 130 (47.79%) Apache Iceberg
1 130 (47.79%) Dremio
2 72 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (23.90%) Apache Ignite
3 65 (23.90%) Data Lake
4 24 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.57%) MySQL
6 4 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.10%) Flink
8 1 (0.37%) KDB
8 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (2.57%) JIRA
2 6 (2.21%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) GCC
3 1 (0.37%) GDB
3 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 214 (78.68%) Finance
2 99 (36.40%) Banking
3 70 (25.74%) Investment Banking
4 30 (11.03%) Social Skills
5 8 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.84%) Back Office
6 5 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 167 (61.40%) Software Engineer
2 149 (54.78%) Developer
3 133 (48.90%) AWS Engineer
4 130 (47.79%) AWS Software Engineer
5 121 (44.49%) Python Engineer
6 118 (43.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 101 (37.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 87 (31.99%) Senior
9 84 (30.88%) Java Engineer
10 83 (30.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 65 (23.90%) AWS Developer
12 64 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
13 63 (23.16%) Senior Java Engineer
13 63 (23.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 62 (22.79%) Python Developer
15 29 (10.66%) Lead
16 24 (8.82%) Analyst
17 21 (7.72%) C# Developer
17 21 (7.72%) Java Developer
18 19 (6.99%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (48.53%) NumPy
1 132 (48.53%) Pandas
2 130 (47.79%) SciPy
3 104 (38.24%) React
4 95 (34.93%) Node.js
5 81 (29.78%) AngularJS
6 77 (28.31%) Vue
7 66 (24.26%) gRPC
8 65 (23.90%) Protocol Buffers
9 36 (13.24%) Redux
10 33 (12.13%) Kafka
11 24 (8.82%) GraphQL
12 17 (6.25%) .NET
13 12 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
14 9 (3.31%) REST
15 7 (2.57%) NHibernate
15 7 (2.57%) XML
16 6 (2.21%) Java Concurrency
16 6 (2.21%) JSON
16 6 (2.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 185 (68.01%) Fixed Income
2 160 (58.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 155 (56.99%) Equities
4 96 (35.29%) Derivative
5 84 (30.88%) Hedge funds
6 65 (23.90%) Pricing Data
7 11 (4.04%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.21%) BYOD
11 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.74%) Credit Risk
13 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.37%) Grid Computing
13 1 (0.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.31%) Linux
2 5 (1.84%) Windows
3 3 (1.10%) Unix
4 2 (0.74%) Solaris
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (79.78%) Agile
2 181 (66.54%) Investment Management
3 172 (63.24%) Software Engineering
4 154 (56.62%) Asset Management
5 98 (36.03%) Order Management
6 82 (30.15%) Risk Management
7 81 (29.78%) Fintech
8 65 (23.90%) Performance Attribution
9 32 (11.76%) Portfolio Management
10 30 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (8.09%) Analytics
12 21 (7.72%) DevOps
13 18 (6.62%) Microservices
14 16 (5.88%) TDD
15 15 (5.51%) CI/CD
16 14 (5.15%) Low Latency
17 13 (4.78%) Electronic Trading
17 13 (4.78%) Mathematics
17 13 (4.78%) People Management
18 12 (4.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 185 (68.01%) Python
2 168 (61.76%) JavaScript
2 168 (61.76%) TypeScript
3 132 (48.53%) Java
4 48 (17.65%) C#
5 34 (12.50%) SQL
6 24 (8.82%) Go
7 20 (7.35%) C++
8 4 (1.47%) VBA
9 2 (0.74%) Scala
9 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) Clojure
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) Rust
10 1 (0.37%) VC++
Qualifications
1 12 (4.41%) Degree
2 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.84%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.10%) PhD
5 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.74%) QA
3 1 (0.37%) EMIR
3 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (2.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.10%) Argo
2 3 (1.10%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (4.04%) Charles River
2 10 (3.68%) Calypso
3 7 (2.57%) BISAM
3 7 (2.57%) SimCorp
4 6 (2.21%) Trayport
5 5 (1.84%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.37%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.37%) Murex
7 1 (0.37%) Reuters
7 1 (0.37%) Solace