Front Office Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 193 179
Rank change year-on-year +121 -14 +342
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 561 561 840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.75% 1.66% 1.96%
As % of the General category 5.00% 2.70% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 533 516 741
10th Percentile £82,000 £72,500 £70,735
25th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £140,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £113,750 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -1.09% +6.98% +2.38%

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 11,213 20,749 28,261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 74.98% 61.32% 66.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,478 15,144 18,802
10th Percentile £25,267 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Front Office over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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
1 230 (41.00%) Apache Airflow
2 191 (34.05%) Apache
3 71 (12.66%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.53%) GemFire
5 2 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 49 (8.73%) Aladdin
2 28 (4.99%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 309 (55.08%) AWS
2 226 (40.29%) dbt
3 147 (26.20%) GCP
4 131 (23.35%) Amazon ECS
5 98 (17.47%) AWS Lambda
5 98 (17.47%) Serverless
6 91 (16.22%) Snowflake
7 74 (13.19%) OpenShift
8 60 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (6.95%) Dagster
10 34 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.81%) Amazon S3
12 26 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (4.28%) Azure
14 5 (0.89%) Figma
15 3 (0.53%) SaaS
16 2 (0.36%) Apigee
16 2 (0.36%) npm
16 2 (0.36%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (40.29%) Amazon Athena
1 226 (40.29%) Apache Iceberg
1 226 (40.29%) Dremio
2 219 (39.04%) Apache Arrow
3 192 (34.22%) Data Lake
4 173 (30.84%) Apache Ignite
5 68 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.60%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.53%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.53%) Redis
10 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.36%) Big Data
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (12.66%) Artifactory
2 7 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.53%) Git
4 3 (0.53%) MSTest
4 3 (0.53%) NUnit
4 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.36%) Ant
5 2 (0.36%) Babel
5 2 (0.36%) webpack
6 1 (0.18%) git-flow
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Gradle
6 1 (0.18%) JIRA
6 1 (0.18%) JUnit
6 1 (0.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 522 (93.05%) Finance
2 171 (30.48%) Banking
3 95 (16.93%) Investment Banking
4 21 (3.74%) Social Skills
5 9 (1.60%) Law
6 7 (1.25%) Back Office
7 6 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.53%) Agriculture
8 3 (0.53%) Legal
8 3 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.18%) Billing
9 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 247 (44.03%) AWS Engineer
2 208 (37.08%) Python Engineer
3 201 (35.83%) Software Engineer
4 160 (28.52%) Developer
5 148 (26.38%) AWS Software Engineer
6 123 (21.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 105 (18.72%) Python Software Engineer
8 99 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
8 99 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 99 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 89 (15.86%) Senior
10 86 (15.33%) Java Engineer
11 83 (14.80%) Java Software Engineer
12 76 (13.55%) Analyst
12 76 (13.55%) Data Engineer
13 75 (13.37%) AWS Developer
14 61 (10.87%) Business Analyst
15 58 (10.34%) Finance Manager
15 58 (10.34%) Python Developer
15 58 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (24.78%) NumPy
1 139 (24.78%) Pandas
2 137 (24.42%) SciPy
3 126 (22.46%) PySpark
4 112 (19.96%) React
5 99 (17.65%) gRPC
5 99 (17.65%) Protocol Buffers
6 91 (16.22%) Node.js
7 83 (14.80%) Kafka
8 81 (14.44%) AngularJS
9 72 (12.83%) Redux
10 71 (12.66%) J2EE
11 70 (12.48%) Vue
12 27 (4.81%) .NET
13 12 (2.14%) HTML
14 11 (1.96%) CSS
15 9 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (1.07%) HTML5
16 6 (1.07%) jQuery
16 6 (1.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 371 (66.13%) Fixed Income
2 287 (51.16%) Derivative
3 274 (48.84%) Hedge funds
4 252 (44.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 249 (44.39%) Equities
6 44 (7.84%) Product Ownership
7 39 (6.95%) Pricing Data
8 38 (6.77%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.07%) Credit Derivative
9 6 (1.07%) Market Risk
10 5 (0.89%) Cloud Native
10 5 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.53%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.60%) Linux
1 9 (1.60%) Unix
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (88.24%) Agile
2 351 (62.57%) Asset Management
3 319 (56.86%) Investment Management
4 314 (55.97%) Software Engineering
5 146 (26.02%) Migration
6 135 (24.06%) Fintech
7 113 (20.14%) Roadmaps
8 112 (19.96%) Data Governance
8 112 (19.96%) Regulatory Compliance
9 108 (19.25%) CI/CD
10 103 (18.36%) DevOps
11 97 (17.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 96 (17.11%) Data Management
13 78 (13.90%) Data Engineering
14 71 (12.66%) Open Source
15 70 (12.48%) Performance Attribution
16 53 (9.45%) Risk Management
17 50 (8.91%) Portfolio Management
18 49 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
19 46 (8.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 367 (65.42%) Python
2 220 (39.22%) JavaScript
3 214 (38.15%) Java
4 192 (34.22%) TypeScript
5 99 (17.65%) SQL
6 71 (12.66%) Go
7 33 (5.88%) C#
8 10 (1.78%) C++
9 4 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (4.10%) Degree
2 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.80%) MiFID
2 10 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 108 (19.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 108 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 98 (17.47%) Terraform
3 5 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (0.89%) Nagios
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (8.73%) BISAM
2 34 (6.06%) Charles River
3 28 (4.99%) Calypso
3 28 (4.99%) SimCorp
4 6 (1.07%) Oracle
5 5 (0.89%) Murex
5 5 (0.89%) Solace
6 4 (0.71%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.53%) Sophis
7 3 (0.53%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.36%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.18%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.18%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.18%) Sun