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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 122 113
Rank change year-on-year -230 -9 +20
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 90 459 829
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 2.78% 2.60%
As % of the General category 0.71% 3.84% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 68 422 790
10th Percentile £86,275 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £87,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £125,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £148,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%

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 12,670 11,938 19,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.35% 72.40% 61.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,228 6,684 14,109
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,825 £31,773
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £79,127 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 15 July 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 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) AWS
2 16 (17.78%) GCP
3 15 (16.67%) Azure
4 5 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.22%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.11%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.11%) SaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Serverless
7 1 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 71 (78.89%) Finance
2 28 (31.11%) Banking
3 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Back Office
8 1 (1.11%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (61.11%) Developer
2 42 (46.67%) Software Engineer
3 41 (45.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 33 (36.67%) Lead
5 28 (31.11%) Lead Developer
5 28 (31.11%) Lead Software Developer
5 28 (31.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (14.44%) Analyst
6 13 (14.44%) React Developer
7 12 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 12 (13.33%) Java Developer
8 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) Java Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (8.89%) C# Developer
9 8 (8.89%) Front Office Developer
9 8 (8.89%) Java Software Developer
9 8 (8.89%) Support Analyst
10 6 (6.67%) Business Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (48.89%) React
2 42 (46.67%) Node.js
3 41 (45.56%) Redux
4 33 (36.67%) Kafka
5 32 (35.56%) GraphQL
6 12 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.89%) Vue
9 6 (6.67%) REST
10 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.33%) Flask
10 3 (3.33%) LangChain
10 3 (3.33%) LangGraph
10 3 (3.33%) Semantic Kernel
11 2 (2.22%) .NET
11 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (2.22%) Pandas
12 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
12 1 (1.11%) XML
12 1 (1.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 51 (56.67%) Fixed Income
2 16 (17.78%) Equities
3 12 (13.33%) Hedge funds
4 10 (11.11%) Derivative
5 8 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.44%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Unix
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (54.44%) Agile
2 47 (52.22%) Software Engineering
3 44 (48.89%) Investment Management
4 41 (45.56%) Portfolio Management
5 33 (36.67%) Order Management
6 31 (34.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (16.67%) Fintech
8 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 8 (8.89%) Asset Management
11 8 (8.89%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.89%) Line Management
11 8 (8.89%) Regulatory Change
12 7 (7.78%) Business Analysis
12 7 (7.78%) DevOps
13 6 (6.67%) Functional Testing
13 6 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
13 6 (6.67%) Release Management
13 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Python
2 44 (48.89%) JavaScript
3 43 (47.78%) TypeScript
4 41 (45.56%) Java
5 32 (35.56%) Go
6 19 (21.11%) SQL
7 11 (12.22%) C#
8 7 (7.78%) C++
9 5 (5.56%) Tcl
10 1 (1.11%) VBA
10 1 (1.11%) VC++
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (2.22%) ACCA
2 2 (2.22%) CIMA
3 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) EMIR
2 3 (3.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) FIS
2 6 (6.67%) SunGard
3 5 (5.56%) IBM
3 5 (5.56%) Sybase
3 5 (5.56%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.11%) Murex
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle
5 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.11%) Solace