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 10 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 107 179
Rank change year-on-year -121 +72 +65
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 137 517 404
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 3.14% 1.88%
As % of the General category 1.50% 4.57% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 115 493 381
10th Percentile £78,700 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £141,250 £138,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +11.39%

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 9,110 11,325 13,383
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.50% 68.74% 62.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,786 6,411 10,407
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.75% -3.55%

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 10 January 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 55 (40.15%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (21.17%) Apache
3 6 (4.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.64%) AWS
2 55 (40.15%) dbt
3 29 (21.17%) Snowflake
4 27 (19.71%) GCP
5 13 (9.49%) Azure
6 10 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (7.30%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (7.30%) GitHub
6 10 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.73%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) Telnet
2 5 (3.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (40.15%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (40.15%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (40.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 55 (40.15%) Dremio
2 30 (21.90%) Data Lake
3 29 (21.17%) Apache Ignite
4 27 (19.71%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (10.22%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.30%) Flink
7 7 (5.11%) MySQL
8 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.73%) KDB
9 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.73%) Power BI
9 1 (0.73%) Tableau
9 1 (0.73%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (10.22%) JIRA
2 1 (0.73%) GCC
2 1 (0.73%) GDB
General
1 98 (71.53%) Finance
2 55 (40.15%) Banking
3 32 (23.36%) Investment Banking
4 21 (15.33%) Social Skills
5 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Marketing
7 4 (2.92%) Back Office
7 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (45.26%) Python Engineer
2 61 (44.53%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (42.34%) Developer
4 57 (41.61%) Software Engineer
5 55 (40.15%) AWS Software Engineer
5 55 (40.15%) Python Software Engineer
6 43 (31.39%) Senior
7 32 (23.36%) Java Engineer
8 31 (22.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 31 (22.63%) Python Developer
9 27 (19.71%) Senior Java Engineer
9 27 (19.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 27 (19.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 26 (18.98%) AWS Developer
10 26 (18.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 17 (12.41%) Analyst
12 10 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (7.30%) Lead
12 10 (7.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (6.57%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (40.88%) NumPy
1 56 (40.88%) Pandas
2 55 (40.15%) SciPy
3 31 (22.63%) React
4 30 (21.90%) gRPC
5 29 (21.17%) Protocol Buffers
6 27 (19.71%) AngularJS
6 27 (19.71%) Node.js
6 27 (19.71%) Vue
7 15 (10.95%) FIX Protocol
8 13 (9.49%) Kafka
9 8 (5.84%) .NET
10 6 (4.38%) Java Concurrency
11 5 (3.65%) PyXLL
12 4 (2.92%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.92%) Sass
12 4 (2.92%) ZeroMQ
13 2 (1.46%) CSS
13 2 (1.46%) XML
13 2 (1.46%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 74 (54.01%) Fixed Income
2 68 (49.64%) Equities
3 60 (43.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 41 (29.93%) Derivative
5 31 (22.63%) Hedge funds
6 29 (21.17%) Pricing Data
7 14 (10.22%) Algorithms
8 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
9 6 (4.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (4.38%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.46%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.73%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.73%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.03%) Windows
2 10 (7.30%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.11%) Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (68.61%) Agile
2 79 (57.66%) Investment Management
3 67 (48.91%) Asset Management
4 64 (46.72%) Software Engineering
5 39 (28.47%) Order Management
6 30 (21.90%) Risk Management
7 27 (19.71%) Fintech
8 26 (18.98%) DevOps
8 26 (18.98%) Performance Attribution
9 16 (11.68%) CI/CD
10 13 (9.49%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.76%) Analytics
11 12 (8.76%) Coaching
12 11 (8.03%) Electronic Trading
13 10 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (7.30%) Low Latency
13 10 (7.30%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (7.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (6.57%) Mathematics
14 9 (6.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (64.96%) Python
2 56 (40.88%) Java
3 55 (40.15%) JavaScript
3 55 (40.15%) TypeScript
4 30 (21.90%) SQL
5 28 (20.44%) C#
6 17 (12.41%) C++
7 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.92%) C
8 4 (2.92%) Go
9 3 (2.19%) VBA
10 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.46%) VC++
11 1 (0.73%) Rust
11 1 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (7.30%) Degree
2 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.65%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.46%) EMIR
2 2 (1.46%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.30%) Argo
3 4 (2.92%) Terraform
4 1 (0.73%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (8.76%) Charles River
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.46%) ION Trading
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle
4 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.73%) Calypso
4 1 (0.73%) Databricks