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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 93 204
Rank change year-on-year -178 +111 +5
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 120 523 455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 3.60% 1.59%
As % of the General category 1.23% 5.07% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 99 493 418
10th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £147,500 £138,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +7.14%

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 9,770 10,321 17,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.32% 71.07% 61.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,205 6,193 14,116
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -8.84%

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 6 March 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 11 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 63 (52.50%) AWS
2 22 (18.33%) GCP
3 19 (15.83%) Azure
4 11 (9.17%) dbt
5 10 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 10 (8.33%) GitHub
5 10 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) Telnet
2 5 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.17%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (9.17%) Apache Arrow
2 11 (9.17%) Apache Iceberg
2 11 (9.17%) Dremio
3 10 (8.33%) Flink
4 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.83%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.00%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.83%) KDB
9 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.83%) MySQL
9 1 (0.83%) Power BI
9 1 (0.83%) Tableau
9 1 (0.83%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 8 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) GCC
2 1 (0.83%) GDB
General
1 95 (79.17%) Finance
2 36 (30.00%) Banking
3 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
5 11 (9.17%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.83%) Marketing
7 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.50%) Back Office
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
9 1 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (58.33%) Developer
2 54 (45.00%) Software Engineer
3 45 (37.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 37 (30.83%) Lead
5 31 (25.83%) Lead Developer
6 28 (23.33%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (23.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 22 (18.33%) Python Engineer
8 18 (15.00%) Java Engineer
9 17 (14.17%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (14.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 16 (13.33%) Senior
11 15 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (10.00%) Analyst
12 12 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (10.00%) Java Developer
12 12 (10.00%) React Developer
13 11 (9.17%) AWS Software Engineer
13 11 (9.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 10 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (42.50%) React
2 47 (39.17%) Node.js
3 45 (37.50%) Kafka
4 40 (33.33%) Redux
5 32 (26.67%) GraphQL
6 16 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
7 14 (11.67%) AngularJS
7 14 (11.67%) Vue
8 12 (10.00%) NumPy
8 12 (10.00%) Pandas
9 11 (9.17%) SciPy
10 10 (8.33%) .NET
11 7 (5.83%) gRPC
12 6 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
13 5 (4.17%) .NET Core
14 4 (3.33%) Java Concurrency
14 4 (3.33%) Sass
14 4 (3.33%) XML
14 4 (3.33%) ZeroMQ
15 3 (2.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 69 (57.50%) Fixed Income
2 28 (23.33%) Equities
3 24 (20.00%) Derivative
4 13 (10.83%) Algorithms
4 13 (10.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 8 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (5.00%) Pricing Data
8 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.67%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.83%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.50%) Windows
2 8 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.33%) Agile
1 76 (63.33%) Investment Management
2 62 (51.67%) Software Engineering
3 50 (41.67%) Order Management
4 40 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
5 31 (25.83%) Asset Management
6 29 (24.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (18.33%) DevOps
8 13 (10.83%) Fintech
8 13 (10.83%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.00%) Coaching
10 11 (9.17%) Risk Management
11 10 (8.33%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (7.50%) ITIL
13 8 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (6.67%) Line Management
13 8 (6.67%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 66 (55.00%) Python
2 62 (51.67%) Java
3 52 (43.33%) TypeScript
4 51 (42.50%) JavaScript
5 36 (30.00%) Go
6 26 (21.67%) SQL
7 18 (15.00%) C#
8 10 (8.33%) C++
9 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.33%) C
11 3 (2.50%) VBA
11 3 (2.50%) VC++
12 1 (0.83%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (8.33%) Degree
2 8 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.83%) ACCA
4 1 (0.83%) CIMA
4 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) EMIR
2 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.33%) Argo
3 4 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) Charles River
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (1.67%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.83%) Databricks
4 1 (0.83%) IBM