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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 119 151
Rank change year-on-year -219 +32 -19
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 80 478 732
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 3.11% 2.12%
As % of the General category 0.69% 4.17% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 57 445 691
10th Percentile £78,300 £85,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £127,500 £100,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £146,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £150,000 £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 11,626 11,450 20,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.23% 74.59% 60.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,580 6,288 15,255
10th Percentile £31,975 £27,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,753 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,271 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.02% +5.84% -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 17 June 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 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (52.50%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) GCP
3 12 (15.00%) Azure
4 4 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.25%) SaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Serverless
6 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 63 (78.75%) Finance
2 21 (26.25%) Banking
3 9 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Social Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.25%) Legal
7 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (67.50%) Developer
2 42 (52.50%) Software Engineer
3 41 (51.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 31 (38.75%) Lead
5 28 (35.00%) Lead Developer
5 28 (35.00%) Lead Software Developer
5 28 (35.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (16.25%) React Developer
7 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
9 9 (11.25%) C# Developer
9 9 (11.25%) Front Office Developer
9 9 (11.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (11.25%) Java Engineer
9 9 (11.25%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (7.50%) Analyst
12 5 (6.25%) Python Developer
13 4 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (53.75%) React
2 42 (52.50%) Node.js
3 41 (51.25%) Redux
4 33 (41.25%) Kafka
5 32 (40.00%) GraphQL
6 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.00%) Vue
7 7 (8.75%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (6.25%) REST
9 3 (3.75%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.75%) Flask
9 3 (3.75%) LangChain
9 3 (3.75%) LangGraph
9 3 (3.75%) Semantic Kernel
10 2 (2.50%) .NET
10 2 (2.50%) XML
11 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.25%) Pandas
11 1 (1.25%) XSLT
11 1 (1.25%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (57.50%) Fixed Income
2 15 (18.75%) Equities
3 11 (13.75%) Hedge funds
4 9 (11.25%) Derivative
5 7 (8.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.00%) Agile
2 47 (58.75%) Software Engineering
3 44 (55.00%) Investment Management
4 40 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
5 34 (42.50%) Order Management
6 30 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (17.50%) Fintech
8 9 (11.25%) Asset Management
8 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
9 8 (10.00%) Line Management
10 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
10 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (7.50%) ITIL
11 6 (7.50%) Regulatory Change
12 5 (6.25%) CI/CD
12 5 (6.25%) DevOps
12 5 (6.25%) Test Automation
13 4 (5.00%) AI
13 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 4 (5.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.75%) Python
2 44 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 43 (53.75%) TypeScript
4 39 (48.75%) Java
5 32 (40.00%) Go
6 18 (22.50%) SQL
7 12 (15.00%) C#
8 3 (3.75%) Tcl
9 2 (2.50%) C++
10 1 (1.25%) C
10 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.25%) VBA
10 1 (1.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) ACCA
2 2 (2.50%) CIMA
2 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) EMIR
2 3 (3.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) IBM
3 3 (3.75%) Sybase
3 3 (3.75%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.25%) Charles River
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle
4 1 (1.25%) Solace