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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 83 169
Rank change year-on-year -105 +86 +120
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 196 618 396
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 3.51% 1.99%
As % of the General category 2.06% 5.20% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 171 594 373
10th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £65,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £141,875 £138,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +9.76%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,516 11,882 12,878
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 62.04% 67.52% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,119 6,924 10,063
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,299
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 December 2025.

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 80 (40.82%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (22.96%) Apache
3 7 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 118 (60.20%) AWS
2 80 (40.82%) dbt
3 45 (22.96%) Snowflake
4 42 (21.43%) GCP
5 14 (7.14%) Azure
6 11 (5.61%) GitHub
7 10 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
7 10 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Telnet
2 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) FTP
3 1 (0.51%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (40.82%) Amazon Athena
1 80 (40.82%) Apache Arrow
1 80 (40.82%) Apache Iceberg
1 80 (40.82%) Dremio
2 46 (23.47%) Data Lake
3 45 (22.96%) Apache Ignite
4 36 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (8.67%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.10%) Flink
7 8 (4.08%) MySQL
8 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.51%) KDB
9 1 (0.51%) Power BI
9 1 (0.51%) Tableau
9 1 (0.51%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) GCC
2 1 (0.51%) GDB
2 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 152 (77.55%) Finance
2 72 (36.73%) Banking
3 48 (24.49%) Investment Banking
4 24 (12.24%) Social Skills
5 20 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.06%) Back Office
7 5 (2.55%) Marketing
8 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (54.08%) Software Engineer
2 96 (48.98%) Developer
3 87 (44.39%) Python Engineer
4 86 (43.88%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (40.82%) AWS Software Engineer
5 80 (40.82%) Python Software Engineer
6 62 (31.63%) Senior
7 59 (30.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 53 (27.04%) Java Engineer
9 52 (26.53%) Java Software Engineer
10 44 (22.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (21.94%) Senior Java Engineer
11 43 (21.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 41 (20.92%) Python Developer
13 35 (17.86%) AWS Developer
14 26 (13.27%) Lead
15 19 (9.69%) Lead Developer
16 18 (9.18%) Analyst
17 15 (7.65%) Lead Software Developer
17 15 (7.65%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (41.33%) NumPy
1 81 (41.33%) Pandas
2 80 (40.82%) SciPy
3 64 (32.65%) React
4 60 (30.61%) Node.js
5 46 (23.47%) gRPC
6 45 (22.96%) Protocol Buffers
7 43 (21.94%) AngularJS
8 42 (21.43%) Vue
9 38 (19.39%) Kafka
10 24 (12.24%) GraphQL
10 24 (12.24%) Redux
11 15 (7.65%) FIX Protocol
12 11 (5.61%) .NET
13 6 (3.06%) Java Concurrency
14 5 (2.55%) .NET Core
14 5 (2.55%) PyXLL
15 3 (1.53%) Sass
15 3 (1.53%) XML
15 3 (1.53%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 123 (62.76%) Fixed Income
2 95 (48.47%) Equities
3 88 (44.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 58 (29.59%) Derivative
5 48 (24.49%) Hedge funds
6 45 (22.96%) Pricing Data
7 14 (7.14%) Algorithms
8 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.57%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.53%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.02%) Credit Risk
12 2 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.51%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Windows
2 9 (4.59%) Linux
2 9 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
4 2 (1.02%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (76.02%) Agile
2 127 (64.80%) Investment Management
3 114 (58.16%) Software Engineering
4 91 (46.43%) Asset Management
5 71 (36.22%) Order Management
6 40 (20.41%) Risk Management
7 39 (19.90%) Fintech
8 35 (17.86%) Performance Attribution
9 26 (13.27%) DevOps
10 24 (12.24%) Portfolio Management
11 22 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (8.67%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.63%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.63%) Electronic Trading
14 12 (6.12%) Analytics
15 11 (5.61%) Coaching
15 11 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (5.61%) Low Latency
16 10 (5.10%) High Availability
16 10 (5.10%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 133 (67.86%) Python
2 104 (53.06%) JavaScript
2 104 (53.06%) TypeScript
3 99 (50.51%) Java
4 36 (18.37%) C#
5 32 (16.33%) SQL
6 28 (14.29%) Go
7 17 (8.67%) C++
8 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.55%) VBA
10 3 (1.53%) C
11 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.02%) VC++
12 1 (0.51%) Rust
12 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (5.10%) Degree
2 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.02%) EMIR
2 2 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.51%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.10%) Argo
3 4 (2.04%) Terraform
4 3 (1.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (5.61%) Charles River
2 3 (1.53%) Bloomberg
2 3 (1.53%) Calypso
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.02%) ION Trading
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle
4 1 (0.51%) Databricks
4 1 (0.51%) Murex
4 1 (0.51%) Solace
4 1 (0.51%) Trayport