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 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 141 83
Rank change year-on-year -230 -58 +50
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 87 374 784
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 2.30% 3.36%
As % of the General category 0.59% 3.20% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 54 349 763
10th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £95,625 £100,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £127,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £128,438 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £134,250 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +6.98%

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 14,812 11,680 14,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.95% 71.90% 62.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,119 6,362 8,449
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%

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 17 September 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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) AWS
2 11 (12.64%) Azure
3 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (5.75%) Copilot Studio
4 5 (5.75%) GitHub
4 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.60%) GCP
5 4 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.30%) Rubrik
7 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.15%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) Power BI
2 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.15%) Big Data
3 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.15%) DuckDB
3 1 (1.15%) HBase
3 1 (1.15%) Metadata
3 1 (1.15%) Redis
3 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (64.37%) Finance
2 47 (54.02%) Banking
3 30 (34.48%) Social Skills
4 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (19.54%) Investment Banking
6 13 (14.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.90%) Legal
8 5 (5.75%) Back Office
8 5 (5.75%) Law
8 5 (5.75%) Retail
9 3 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.45%) Marketing
10 1 (1.15%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 23 (26.44%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) Analyst
3 15 (17.24%) Senior
4 13 (14.94%) Lead
4 13 (14.94%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Python Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Support Analyst
6 10 (11.49%) Python Software Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) Business Support Analyst
7 9 (10.34%) Front Office Developer
8 8 (9.20%) C# Developer
8 8 (9.20%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) AWS Software Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Product Owner
9 6 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Business Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (6.90%) LangChain
2 6 (6.90%) LangGraph
2 6 (6.90%) React
2 6 (6.90%) REST
3 4 (4.60%) Kafka
4 3 (3.45%) .NET
4 3 (3.45%) CrewAI
4 3 (3.45%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.45%) Flask
4 3 (3.45%) pydantic
4 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.45%) Semantic Kernel
4 3 (3.45%) WebSockets
5 2 (2.30%) Blazor
5 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.30%) Pandas
5 2 (2.30%) Playwright
5 2 (2.30%) RESTful
6 1 (1.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Fixed Income
2 16 (18.39%) Hedge funds
3 11 (12.64%) Equities
4 10 (11.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (10.34%) Derivative
6 7 (8.05%) AI Agents
7 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
8 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
9 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (3.45%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (2.30%) DTCC
11 2 (2.30%) OTC Derivatives
11 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
12 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 1 (1.15%) Credit Risk
12 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (1.15%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (1.15%) Market Risk
12 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) Software Engineering
2 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (16.09%) Investment Management
5 13 (14.94%) AI
6 12 (13.79%) Decision-Making
6 12 (13.79%) Project Delivery
6 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (12.64%) Agile
7 11 (12.64%) Asset Management
7 11 (12.64%) Functional Testing
8 10 (11.49%) Business Analysis
8 10 (11.49%) Regulatory Change
9 9 (10.34%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (10.34%) Release Management
10 8 (9.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.05%) Test Automation
12 6 (6.90%) DevOps
12 6 (6.90%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.78%) Python
2 22 (25.29%) SQL
3 11 (12.64%) C#
3 11 (12.64%) Java
4 10 (11.49%) C++
5 5 (5.75%) Tcl
6 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.60%) R
7 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Degree
2 1 (1.15%) ACCA
2 1 (1.15%) CIMA
2 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) EMIR
2 3 (3.45%) MiFID
3 2 (2.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) FIS
1 9 (10.34%) SunGard
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.75%) IBM
3 5 (5.75%) Sybase
3 5 (5.75%) TIBCO
4 3 (3.45%) Databricks
4 3 (3.45%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) Solace
5 1 (1.15%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.15%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.15%) Charles River
5 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.15%) Murex
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow