Front Office Jobs with Work from Home Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 170 532
Rank change year-on-year -8 +362 -250
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 615 849 361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.82% 2.10% 0.51%
As % of the General category 2.95% 3.19% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 573 756 321
10th Percentile £75,000 £70,735 £65,000
25th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £143,750 £140,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £112,500 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% +16.67%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,835 26,651 44,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.59% 65.89% 63.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,099 17,791 24,512
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,548 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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
1 278 (45.20%) Apache Airflow
2 261 (42.44%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.98%) thinkFolio
2 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.33%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.33%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.16%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 420 (68.29%) AWS
2 256 (41.63%) dbt
3 254 (41.30%) GCP
4 210 (34.15%) Snowflake
5 125 (20.33%) Azure
6 4 (0.65%) PaaS
6 4 (0.65%) Power Automate
6 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.33%) Serverless
9 1 (0.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.16%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.33%) BGP
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) OSPF
2 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (41.95%) Apache Ignite
2 256 (41.63%) Apache Arrow
2 256 (41.63%) Dremio
3 252 (40.98%) Amazon Athena
4 214 (34.80%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.65%) Big Data
7 4 (0.65%) Power BI
7 4 (0.65%) Tableau
8 3 (0.49%) KDB
8 3 (0.49%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.33%) Kdb+
9 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.16%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (1.30%) GitLab
1 8 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.81%) JIRA
3 1 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 557 (90.57%) Finance
2 355 (57.72%) Banking
3 269 (43.74%) Investment Banking
4 106 (17.24%) Back Office
5 71 (11.54%) Social Skills
6 8 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.49%) Marketing
10 2 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.33%) Legal
11 1 (0.16%) Automotive
11 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.16%) International Banking
11 1 (0.16%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 258 (41.95%) Developer
2 236 (38.37%) Software Engineer
3 185 (30.08%) Senior
4 157 (25.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 125 (20.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 114 (18.54%) Python Developer
7 113 (18.37%) Python Engineer
7 113 (18.37%) Python Software Engineer
8 107 (17.40%) Lead
9 98 (15.93%) AWS Engineer
9 98 (15.93%) AWS Software Engineer
10 90 (14.63%) Analyst
11 80 (13.01%) Java Engineer
11 80 (13.01%) Java Software Engineer
12 72 (11.71%) Senior Developer
13 67 (10.89%) Finance Manager
14 61 (9.92%) Quantitative Developer
15 59 (9.59%) Software Developer
16 58 (9.43%) Senior Software Developer
17 57 (9.27%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (45.20%) gRPC
1 278 (45.20%) Protocol Buffers
2 255 (41.46%) Pandas
3 243 (39.51%) NumPy
3 243 (39.51%) SciPy
4 112 (18.21%) React
5 97 (15.77%) Redux
6 72 (11.71%) AngularJS
7 68 (11.06%) Vue
8 61 (9.92%) .NET
9 44 (7.15%) Node.js
10 36 (5.85%) ASP.NET
10 36 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
11 28 (4.55%) Material-UI
12 23 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
13 19 (3.09%) .NET Core
14 16 (2.60%) GraphQL
15 3 (0.49%) Angular 2
15 3 (0.49%) CSS
15 3 (0.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 427 (69.43%) Fixed Income
2 421 (68.46%) Derivative
3 417 (67.80%) Hedge funds
4 377 (61.30%) Equities
5 319 (51.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 32 (5.20%) Product Ownership
7 30 (4.88%) Pricing Data
8 11 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.46%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.30%) FPGA
10 8 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.98%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.49%) Blog
14 3 (0.49%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.49%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.49%) FMCG
15 2 (0.33%) Credit Derivative
15 2 (0.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.58%) Windows
2 21 (3.41%) Linux
3 15 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (75.45%) Asset Management
2 422 (68.62%) Agile
3 413 (67.15%) Investment Management
4 385 (62.60%) Software Engineering
5 98 (15.93%) Line Management
6 95 (15.45%) Analytics
7 92 (14.96%) Greeks
8 68 (11.06%) Mentoring
9 63 (10.24%) Fintech
10 44 (7.15%) Performance Attribution
11 41 (6.67%) Product Management
12 40 (6.50%) Quantitative Research
13 38 (6.18%) Electronic Trading
14 35 (5.69%) Full Stack Development
15 29 (4.72%) Machine Learning
16 28 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence
17 23 (3.74%) Low Latency
17 23 (3.74%) Roadmaps
18 21 (3.41%) Multithreading
19 20 (3.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 497 (80.81%) Python
2 337 (54.80%) TypeScript
3 336 (54.63%) JavaScript
4 281 (45.69%) Java
5 185 (30.08%) SQL
6 116 (18.86%) C#
7 41 (6.67%) R
8 20 (3.25%) C++
9 16 (2.60%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.11%) Ruby
10 13 (2.11%) Scala
11 1 (0.16%) C
11 1 (0.16%) Perl
11 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (2.60%) Degree
2 2 (0.33%) CCIE
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (14.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.14%) SOC 1
3 4 (0.65%) SLA
4 2 (0.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 44 (7.15%) Bloomberg
2 17 (2.76%) ION Trading
3 12 (1.95%) Oracle
4 11 (1.79%) Murex
5 9 (1.46%) IBM
6 8 (1.30%) Algorithmics
7 6 (0.98%) Charles River
8 3 (0.49%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.49%) Trayport
9 2 (0.33%) Cisco
9 2 (0.33%) Juniper
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.16%) Cognos
10 1 (0.16%) Concur
10 1 (0.16%) Databricks
10 1 (0.16%) SAP
10 1 (0.16%) Solace