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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 85 198
Rank change year-on-year -195 +113 +9
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 107 530 465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 3.90% 1.55%
As % of the General category 1.11% 5.45% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 87 500 423
10th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £68,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -2.22% +18.42%
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 9,654 9,717 18,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.15% 71.57% 61.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,184 6,281 14,717
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,800
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 17 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 (3.74%) Apache
1 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 57 (53.27%) AWS
2 17 (15.89%) Azure
2 17 (15.89%) GCP
3 10 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (9.35%) Amazon Kinesis
3 10 (9.35%) GitHub
3 10 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.74%) dbt
4 4 (3.74%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) Telnet
2 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Flink
2 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.74%) Apache Arrow
5 4 (3.74%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (3.74%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (3.74%) Dremio
6 2 (1.87%) 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 (7.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) GCC
2 1 (0.93%) GDB
General
1 85 (79.44%) Finance
2 33 (30.84%) Banking
3 18 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.41%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.61%) Marketing
7 4 (3.74%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (57.01%) Developer
2 47 (43.93%) Software Engineer
3 40 (37.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 37 (34.58%) Lead
5 31 (28.97%) Lead Developer
6 28 (26.17%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (26.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (14.95%) Java Engineer
8 15 (14.02%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (14.02%) Python Engineer
9 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (11.21%) React Developer
10 11 (10.28%) Analyst
10 11 (10.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (10.28%) Java Developer
10 11 (10.28%) Senior
11 10 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (42.99%) React
2 44 (41.12%) Kafka
3 42 (39.25%) Node.js
4 40 (37.38%) Redux
5 32 (29.91%) GraphQL
6 15 (14.02%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (8.41%) Vue
8 8 (7.48%) .NET
8 8 (7.48%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.67%) NumPy
9 5 (4.67%) Pandas
10 4 (3.74%) gRPC
10 4 (3.74%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.74%) Sass
10 4 (3.74%) SciPy
10 4 (3.74%) XML
10 4 (3.74%) ZeroMQ
11 3 (2.80%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.80%) XSLT
12 2 (1.87%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 62 (57.94%) Fixed Income
2 20 (18.69%) Derivative
2 20 (18.69%) Equities
3 10 (9.35%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (5.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (5.61%) Hedge funds
5 6 (5.61%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.74%) Pricing Data
7 3 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.87%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Windows
2 8 (7.48%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.61%) Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (63.55%) Investment Management
2 66 (61.68%) Agile
3 54 (50.47%) Software Engineering
4 44 (41.12%) Order Management
5 40 (37.38%) Portfolio Management
6 28 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (21.50%) Asset Management
8 20 (18.69%) DevOps
9 12 (11.21%) CI/CD
9 12 (11.21%) Coaching
9 12 (11.21%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.35%) ITIL
10 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (8.41%) Fintech
12 8 (7.48%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.48%) Line Management
13 6 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.61%) Multithreading
13 6 (5.61%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (54.21%) Python
2 57 (53.27%) Java
3 45 (42.06%) TypeScript
4 44 (41.12%) JavaScript
5 36 (33.64%) Go
6 24 (22.43%) SQL
7 15 (14.02%) C#
8 9 (8.41%) C++
9 8 (7.48%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.74%) C
11 3 (2.80%) VBA
11 3 (2.80%) VC++
12 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.41%) Degree
2 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) ACCA
4 1 (0.93%) CIMA
4 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) EMIR
2 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (5.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.35%) Argo
3 4 (3.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Charles River
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.80%) Oracle
3 1 (0.93%) Databricks
3 1 (0.93%) IBM
3 1 (0.93%) ION Trading