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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 163 81
Rank change year-on-year -193 -82 +60
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 106 312 731
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.89% 3.40%
As % of the General category 0.69% 2.67% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 75 286 712
10th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £130,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £147,000 £147,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +4.65%

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 15,348 11,699 13,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.58% 70.79% 62.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 6,155 7,508
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.80% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 12 October 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 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.25%) AWS
2 22 (20.75%) Azure
3 17 (16.04%) GCP
4 15 (14.15%) Amazon Bedrock
5 12 (11.32%) Microsoft Copilot
6 11 (10.38%) GitHub
7 10 (9.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (6.60%) Anthropic Claude
8 7 (6.60%) ChatGPT
9 6 (5.66%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.72%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.89%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.94%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.94%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.94%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.83%) Power BI
3 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.89%) Tableau
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.94%) Big Data
4 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.94%) DuckDB
4 1 (0.94%) HBase
4 1 (0.94%) Metadata
4 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Claude Code
2 6 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (65.09%) Finance
2 61 (57.55%) Banking
3 47 (44.34%) Social Skills
4 20 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (16.98%) Investment Banking
6 15 (14.15%) Marketing
7 9 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (6.60%) Retail
9 6 (5.66%) Back Office
9 6 (5.66%) Law
10 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (39.62%) Developer
2 34 (32.08%) Software Engineer
3 26 (24.53%) Python Engineer
4 25 (23.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 25 (23.58%) Python Software Engineer
5 23 (21.70%) Lead
6 22 (20.75%) Python Developer
7 18 (16.98%) Analyst
8 15 (14.15%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 15 (14.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (14.15%) Senior
8 15 (14.15%) Software Developer
9 11 (10.38%) Support Analyst
10 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
10 10 (9.43%) Lead Developer
10 10 (9.43%) Lead Python Developer
10 10 (9.43%) Lead Software Developer
10 10 (9.43%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (8.49%) Business Support Analyst
12 8 (7.55%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.98%) LangChain
1 18 (16.98%) LangGraph
2 15 (14.15%) CrewAI
2 15 (14.15%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (14.15%) pydantic
3 6 (5.66%) React
3 6 (5.66%) REST
4 4 (3.77%) .NET
4 4 (3.77%) Kafka
5 3 (2.83%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.83%) Flask
5 3 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.83%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (2.83%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.89%) Blazor
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.89%) Pandas
6 2 (1.89%) Playwright
6 2 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (29.25%) Hedge funds
2 27 (25.47%) Fixed Income
3 19 (17.92%) AI Agents
3 19 (17.92%) Derivative
4 17 (16.04%) Equities
5 13 (12.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (6.60%) Equity Derivative
6 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
7 5 (4.72%) Credit Derivative
7 5 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.83%) DTCC
8 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.83%) OTC Derivatives
8 3 (2.83%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.34%) Software Engineering
2 33 (31.13%) Investment Management
3 32 (30.19%) AI
4 21 (19.81%) Asset Management
5 17 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (14.15%) LLM
6 15 (14.15%) Pair Programming
7 14 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.21%) Project Delivery
8 12 (11.32%) Agile
8 12 (11.32%) Functional Testing
9 11 (10.38%) Analytics
9 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
10 10 (9.43%) Business Analysis
10 10 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (9.43%) Quantitative Research
11 9 (8.49%) Performance Monitoring
11 9 (8.49%) Release Management
12 8 (7.55%) Pricing Analytics
Programming Languages
1 51 (48.11%) Python
2 19 (17.92%) Java
3 17 (16.04%) R
4 16 (15.09%) SQL
5 10 (9.43%) C++
6 9 (8.49%) C#
7 5 (4.72%) Tcl
8 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (5.66%) Degree
2 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) EMIR
1 3 (2.83%) SLA
2 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (14.15%) Google
2 9 (8.49%) FIS
2 9 (8.49%) SunGard
3 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.72%) IBM
4 5 (4.72%) Sybase
4 5 (4.72%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.83%) Databricks
5 3 (2.83%) Solace
6 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.94%) Charles River
7 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.94%) Murex
7 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow