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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 84 137
Rank change year-on-year -55 +53 +258
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 370 782 619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.28% 3.36% 2.47%
As % of the General category 3.18% 5.37% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 345 761 600
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £136,563
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +4.88%

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 11,630 14,556 16,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 71.82% 62.55% 65.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,320 8,408 13,080
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,365 £45,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,213 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.20% -7.98% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Front Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Front Office

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 16 September 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
1 183 (49.46%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (23.78%) Apache
3 7 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (8.92%) Aladdin
1 33 (8.92%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 238 (64.32%) AWS
2 183 (49.46%) dbt
3 127 (34.32%) GCP
4 88 (23.78%) Snowflake
5 20 (5.41%) Azure
6 6 (1.62%) GitHub
7 3 (0.81%) Figma
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) FTP
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (49.46%) Amazon Athena
1 183 (49.46%) Apache Arrow
1 183 (49.46%) Apache Iceberg
1 183 (49.46%) Dremio
2 109 (29.46%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (23.78%) Apache Ignite
3 88 (23.78%) Data Lake
4 21 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.89%) MySQL
6 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.27%) KDB
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Git
1 7 (1.89%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 308 (83.24%) Finance
2 132 (35.68%) Banking
3 94 (25.41%) Investment Banking
4 30 (8.11%) Social Skills
5 8 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.35%) Back Office
7 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.54%) Legal
8 2 (0.54%) Marketing
9 1 (0.27%) Billing
9 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 237 (64.05%) Software Engineer
2 191 (51.62%) Developer
3 183 (49.46%) AWS Engineer
3 183 (49.46%) AWS Software Engineer
4 159 (42.97%) Python Engineer
4 159 (42.97%) Python Software Engineer
5 145 (39.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 119 (32.16%) Java Engineer
6 119 (32.16%) Java Software Engineer
7 112 (30.27%) Senior
8 95 (25.68%) AWS Developer
9 90 (24.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 88 (23.78%) Senior Java Engineer
10 88 (23.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 80 (21.62%) Python Developer
12 44 (11.89%) Analyst
13 36 (9.73%) Business Analyst
14 33 (8.92%) Business Manager
14 33 (8.92%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 33 (8.92%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (50.00%) NumPy
1 185 (50.00%) Pandas
2 183 (49.46%) SciPy
3 149 (40.27%) React
4 132 (35.68%) Node.js
5 117 (31.62%) AngularJS
6 111 (30.00%) Vue
7 88 (23.78%) gRPC
7 88 (23.78%) Protocol Buffers
8 50 (13.51%) Redux
9 29 (7.84%) Kafka
10 25 (6.76%) .NET
11 24 (6.49%) GraphQL
12 9 (2.43%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (2.43%) REST
13 7 (1.89%) NHibernate
14 6 (1.62%) HTML
14 6 (1.62%) JSON
14 6 (1.62%) Web Services
14 6 (1.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 276 (74.59%) Fixed Income
2 222 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 216 (58.38%) Equities
4 159 (42.97%) Derivative
5 138 (37.30%) Hedge funds
6 88 (23.78%) Pricing Data
7 33 (8.92%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.62%) BYOD
10 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.54%) Credit Risk
13 1 (0.27%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.27%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.27%) Market Risk
13 1 (0.27%) State Machine
13 1 (0.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.89%) Linux
2 6 (1.62%) Windows
3 3 (0.81%) Unix
4 2 (0.54%) Solaris
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (83.78%) Agile
2 267 (72.16%) Investment Management
3 249 (67.30%) Software Engineering
4 241 (65.14%) Asset Management
5 124 (33.51%) Order Management
6 122 (32.97%) Fintech
7 113 (30.54%) Risk Management
8 95 (25.68%) Performance Attribution
9 59 (15.95%) Portfolio Management
10 40 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 34 (9.19%) Business Analysis
12 33 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (8.92%) Data Mapping
13 25 (6.76%) Analytics
14 23 (6.22%) TDD
15 22 (5.95%) People Management
16 16 (4.32%) Software Delivery
16 16 (4.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (4.32%) User Experience
17 15 (4.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 260 (70.27%) Python
2 237 (64.05%) JavaScript
2 237 (64.05%) TypeScript
3 180 (48.65%) Java
4 58 (15.68%) SQL
5 57 (15.41%) C#
6 24 (6.49%) Go
7 20 (5.41%) C++
8 3 (0.81%) VBA
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Clojure
10 1 (0.27%) Groovy
10 1 (0.27%) Rust
10 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (3.24%) Degree
2 5 (1.35%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.62%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.54%) QA
3 1 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.81%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (9.73%) Calypso
2 34 (9.19%) Charles River
3 33 (8.92%) BISAM
3 33 (8.92%) SimCorp
4 6 (1.62%) Trayport
5 5 (1.35%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.27%) Murex
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle
7 1 (0.27%) Reuters
7 1 (0.27%) Solace