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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 191 178
Rank change year-on-year +97 -13 +333
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 560 569 850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.41% 1.68% 2.01%
As % of the General category 4.43% 2.74% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 532 524 753
10th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £70,735
25th Percentile £93,500 £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 £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year - +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 12,655 20,785 28,005
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 77.13% 61.39% 66.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,578 15,154 18,641
10th Percentile £25,087 £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 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 7 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
1 231 (41.25%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (33.93%) Apache
3 71 (12.68%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.54%) GemFire
5 2 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 53 (9.46%) Aladdin
2 32 (5.71%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 304 (54.29%) AWS
2 227 (40.54%) dbt
3 145 (25.89%) GCP
4 129 (23.04%) Amazon ECS
5 96 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
5 96 (17.14%) Serverless
6 92 (16.43%) Snowflake
7 74 (13.21%) OpenShift
8 58 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (6.79%) Dagster
10 34 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (4.46%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (4.11%) Azure
14 5 (0.89%) Figma
15 3 (0.54%) 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
1 227 (40.54%) Amazon Athena
1 227 (40.54%) Apache Iceberg
1 227 (40.54%) Dremio
2 221 (39.46%) Apache Arrow
3 192 (34.29%) Data Lake
4 172 (30.71%) Apache Ignite
5 68 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.54%) Redis
10 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (12.68%) Artifactory
2 7 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.54%) Git
4 3 (0.54%) MSTest
4 3 (0.54%) NUnit
4 3 (0.54%) 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
1 523 (93.39%) Finance
2 170 (30.36%) Banking
3 96 (17.14%) Investment Banking
4 21 (3.75%) Social Skills
5 9 (1.61%) Law
6 6 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.07%) Back Office
7 3 (0.54%) Agriculture
7 3 (0.54%) Legal
7 3 (0.54%) Retail
8 1 (0.18%) Billing
8 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 247 (44.11%) AWS Engineer
2 207 (36.96%) Python Engineer
3 199 (35.54%) Software Engineer
4 159 (28.39%) Developer
5 150 (26.79%) AWS Software Engineer
6 122 (21.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 107 (19.11%) Python Software Engineer
8 97 (17.32%) AWS DevOps
8 97 (17.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 97 (17.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 88 (15.71%) Senior
10 87 (15.54%) Java Engineer
11 84 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
12 80 (14.29%) Analyst
13 76 (13.57%) AWS Developer
14 75 (13.39%) Data Engineer
15 65 (11.61%) Business Analyst
16 59 (10.54%) Python Developer
16 59 (10.54%) Senior Software Engineer
17 56 (10.00%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (25.00%) NumPy
1 140 (25.00%) Pandas
2 138 (24.64%) SciPy
3 125 (22.32%) PySpark
4 111 (19.82%) React
5 98 (17.50%) gRPC
5 98 (17.50%) Protocol Buffers
6 90 (16.07%) Node.js
7 83 (14.82%) Kafka
8 82 (14.64%) AngularJS
9 71 (12.68%) J2EE
9 71 (12.68%) Vue
10 68 (12.14%) Redux
11 27 (4.82%) .NET
12 12 (2.14%) HTML
13 11 (1.96%) CSS
14 8 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
15 6 (1.07%) HTML5
15 6 (1.07%) jQuery
15 6 (1.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 375 (66.96%) Fixed Income
2 292 (52.14%) Derivative
3 279 (49.82%) Hedge funds
4 257 (45.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 254 (45.36%) Equities
6 44 (7.86%) Product Ownership
7 41 (7.32%) Onboarding
8 40 (7.14%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.07%) Credit Derivative
9 6 (1.07%) Market Risk
10 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.54%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.54%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.36%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.43%) Linux
1 8 (1.43%) Unix
2 3 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (88.21%) Agile
2 352 (62.86%) Asset Management
3 322 (57.50%) Investment Management
4 309 (55.18%) Software Engineering
5 146 (26.07%) Migration
6 131 (23.39%) Fintech
7 113 (20.18%) Roadmaps
8 112 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 112 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 106 (18.93%) CI/CD
10 101 (18.04%) DevOps
11 96 (17.14%) Data Management
12 95 (16.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 77 (13.75%) Data Engineering
14 71 (12.68%) Open Source
14 71 (12.68%) Performance Attribution
15 55 (9.82%) Risk Management
16 53 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (9.46%) Portfolio Management
17 45 (8.04%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 365 (65.18%) Python
2 218 (38.93%) JavaScript
3 213 (38.04%) Java
4 192 (34.29%) TypeScript
5 100 (17.86%) SQL
6 71 (12.68%) Go
7 34 (6.07%) C#
8 10 (1.79%) C++
9 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (3.75%) Degree
2 9 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.82%) MiFID
2 10 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 106 (18.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 106 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 96 (17.14%) Terraform
3 5 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (0.89%) Nagios
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 53 (9.46%) BISAM
2 38 (6.79%) Charles River
3 32 (5.71%) Calypso
3 32 (5.71%) SimCorp
4 5 (0.89%) Murex
4 5 (0.89%) Oracle
4 5 (0.89%) Solace
5 4 (0.71%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.54%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.36%) Cribl.io
7 2 (0.36%) Sophis
8 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.18%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.18%) NYFIX
8 1 (0.18%) Sun