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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 80 150
Rank change year-on-year -87 +70 +205
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 296 705 501
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.81% 3.49% 2.19%
As % of the General category 2.57% 5.62% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 270 687 483
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £103,500 £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 £135,625
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £151,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £112,500 £108,750
% change year-on-year +2.22% +3.45% +6.10%

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 11,523 12,544 15,127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 70.62% 62.10% 66.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,168 7,214 11,866
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,123 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% -1.67% -

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 23 October 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
1 148 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (24.66%) Apache
3 7 (2.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 15 (5.07%) Aladdin
1 15 (5.07%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.34%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 192 (64.86%) AWS
2 148 (50.00%) dbt
3 95 (32.09%) GCP
4 73 (24.66%) Snowflake
5 21 (7.09%) Azure
6 7 (2.36%) GitHub
7 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.01%) FTP
2 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 148 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
1 148 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 148 (50.00%) Dremio
2 84 (28.38%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (24.66%) Apache Ignite
3 73 (24.66%) Data Lake
4 20 (6.76%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.36%) MySQL
6 4 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) Flink
7 1 (0.34%) KDB
7 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.34%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (2.36%) JIRA
2 6 (2.03%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 238 (80.41%) Finance
2 103 (34.80%) Banking
3 78 (26.35%) Investment Banking
4 26 (8.78%) Social Skills
5 7 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.69%) Back Office
6 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 187 (63.18%) Software Engineer
2 160 (54.05%) Developer
3 149 (50.34%) AWS Engineer
4 148 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 133 (44.93%) Python Engineer
6 132 (44.59%) Python Software Engineer
7 113 (38.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 96 (32.43%) Java Engineer
9 95 (32.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 95 (32.09%) Senior
10 75 (25.34%) AWS Developer
11 72 (24.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 71 (23.99%) Senior Java Engineer
12 71 (23.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 68 (22.97%) Python Developer
14 31 (10.47%) Lead
15 27 (9.12%) Analyst
16 26 (8.78%) Java Developer
17 22 (7.43%) Java Software Developer
18 20 (6.76%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (50.68%) NumPy
1 150 (50.68%) Pandas
2 148 (50.00%) SciPy
3 116 (39.19%) React
4 107 (36.15%) Node.js
5 91 (30.74%) AngularJS
6 87 (29.39%) Vue
7 74 (25.00%) gRPC
8 73 (24.66%) Protocol Buffers
9 38 (12.84%) Redux
10 32 (10.81%) Kafka
11 24 (8.11%) GraphQL
12 16 (5.41%) .NET
13 12 (4.05%) FIX Protocol
14 9 (3.04%) REST
15 7 (2.36%) NHibernate
16 6 (2.03%) Java Concurrency
16 6 (2.03%) JSON
16 6 (2.03%) Web Services
16 6 (2.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (71.28%) Fixed Income
2 181 (61.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 175 (59.12%) Equities
4 116 (39.19%) Derivative
5 100 (33.78%) Hedge funds
6 73 (24.66%) Pricing Data
7 15 (5.07%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.38%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.03%) BYOD
11 6 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.68%) Credit Risk
14 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.34%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.70%) Linux
2 5 (1.69%) Windows
3 3 (1.01%) Unix
4 2 (0.68%) Solaris
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (81.76%) Agile
2 207 (69.93%) Investment Management
3 192 (64.86%) Software Engineering
4 182 (61.49%) Asset Management
5 108 (36.49%) Order Management
6 93 (31.42%) Fintech
6 93 (31.42%) Risk Management
7 75 (25.34%) Performance Attribution
8 40 (13.51%) Portfolio Management
9 30 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (8.11%) Analytics
11 19 (6.42%) DevOps
12 18 (6.08%) Microservices
13 17 (5.74%) Business Analysis
13 17 (5.74%) TDD
14 15 (5.07%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (5.07%) Data Mapping
14 15 (5.07%) Low Latency
14 15 (5.07%) Mathematics
14 15 (5.07%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 206 (69.59%) Python
2 188 (63.51%) JavaScript
2 188 (63.51%) TypeScript
3 147 (49.66%) Java
4 48 (16.22%) C#
5 40 (13.51%) SQL
6 24 (8.11%) Go
7 20 (6.76%) C++
8 3 (1.01%) VBA
9 2 (0.68%) Scala
9 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) Clojure
10 1 (0.34%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (4.73%) Degree
2 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.69%) PhD
5 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (2.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (0.34%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (6.42%) Charles River
2 18 (6.08%) Calypso
3 15 (5.07%) BISAM
3 15 (5.07%) SimCorp
4 6 (2.03%) Trayport
5 5 (1.69%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.34%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.34%) Murex
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle
6 1 (0.34%) Reuters
6 1 (0.34%) Solace