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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 81 167
Rank change year-on-year -97 +86 +149
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 213 675 413
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.41% 3.50% 1.98%
As % of the General category 2.23% 5.39% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 190 650 393
10th Percentile £96,750 £77,500 £65,250
25th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £112,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +7.14% +16.02%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £155,000
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 9,550 12,533 13,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 63.19% 64.94% 65.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,106 7,286 10,709
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,729 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,313 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 December 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 98 (46.01%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (24.88%) Apache
3 7 (3.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 136 (63.85%) AWS
2 98 (46.01%) dbt
3 56 (26.29%) GCP
4 53 (24.88%) Snowflake
5 18 (8.45%) Azure
6 9 (4.23%) GitHub
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) Telnet
2 3 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.94%) FTP
4 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (46.01%) Amazon Athena
1 98 (46.01%) Apache Arrow
1 98 (46.01%) Apache Iceberg
1 98 (46.01%) Dremio
2 53 (24.88%) Apache Ignite
2 53 (24.88%) Data Lake
3 48 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.45%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.76%) MySQL
6 6 (2.82%) Flink
7 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.47%) KDB
8 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.47%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.63%) JIRA
2 3 (1.41%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) GCC
3 1 (0.47%) GDB
General
1 167 (78.40%) Finance
2 78 (36.62%) Banking
3 56 (26.29%) Investment Banking
4 25 (11.74%) Social Skills
5 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.35%) Back Office
7 4 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 127 (59.62%) Software Engineer
2 112 (52.58%) Developer
3 104 (48.83%) AWS Engineer
4 100 (46.95%) Python Engineer
5 98 (46.01%) AWS Software Engineer
6 94 (44.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 73 (34.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 71 (33.33%) Senior
9 64 (30.05%) Java Engineer
10 63 (29.58%) Java Software Engineer
11 52 (24.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 51 (23.94%) Senior Java Engineer
12 51 (23.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 48 (22.54%) Python Developer
14 45 (21.13%) AWS Developer
15 23 (10.80%) Lead
16 18 (8.45%) Lead Developer
17 17 (7.98%) Analyst
18 16 (7.51%) C# Developer
19 15 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (46.01%) NumPy
1 98 (46.01%) Pandas
1 98 (46.01%) SciPy
2 74 (34.74%) React
3 72 (33.80%) Node.js
4 55 (25.82%) AngularJS
5 54 (25.35%) gRPC
5 54 (25.35%) Vue
6 53 (24.88%) Protocol Buffers
7 35 (16.43%) Kafka
8 28 (13.15%) Redux
9 24 (11.27%) GraphQL
10 14 (6.57%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (5.63%) .NET
12 6 (2.82%) Java Concurrency
13 5 (2.35%) PyXLL
13 5 (2.35%) REST
14 4 (1.88%) .NET Core
14 4 (1.88%) NHibernate
14 4 (1.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (67.61%) Fixed Income
2 117 (54.93%) Equities
3 114 (53.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 65 (30.52%) Derivative
5 58 (27.23%) Hedge funds
6 53 (24.88%) Pricing Data
7 12 (5.63%) Algorithms
8 8 (3.76%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.41%) BYOD
11 3 (1.41%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.94%) Credit Risk
13 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.47%) Grid Computing
13 1 (0.47%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.69%) Windows
2 9 (4.23%) Linux
3 7 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (77.46%) Agile
2 143 (67.14%) Investment Management
3 132 (61.97%) Software Engineering
4 111 (52.11%) Asset Management
5 81 (38.03%) Order Management
6 54 (25.35%) Risk Management
7 53 (24.88%) Fintech
8 45 (21.13%) Performance Attribution
9 24 (11.27%) Portfolio Management
10 23 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (9.86%) DevOps
12 15 (7.04%) CI/CD
13 14 (6.57%) Analytics
14 13 (6.10%) Electronic Trading
15 12 (5.63%) Low Latency
15 12 (5.63%) Microservices
16 11 (5.16%) Computer Science
17 10 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (4.69%) High Availability
17 10 (4.69%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 145 (68.08%) Python
2 126 (59.15%) JavaScript
2 126 (59.15%) TypeScript
3 106 (49.77%) Java
4 37 (17.37%) C#
5 28 (13.15%) SQL
6 24 (11.27%) Go
7 17 (7.98%) C++
8 5 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.88%) VBA
10 2 (0.94%) C
10 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) VC++
Qualifications
1 8 (3.76%) Degree
2 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.94%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) EMIR
System Software
1 3 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.82%) Argo
3 3 (1.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (4.23%) Charles River
2 3 (1.41%) Bloomberg
2 3 (1.41%) Calypso
2 3 (1.41%) Trayport
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.47%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.47%) Murex
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle
4 1 (0.47%) Solace