Front Office Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 116 150
Rank change year-on-year -43 +34 +363
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 459 829 807
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.18% 2.52% 2.32%
As % of the General category 2.85% 4.13% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 422 790 756
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £70,735
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,813 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% +7.69%
75th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £140,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - +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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,095 20,096 22,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 76.49% 61.14% 65.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,086 14,107 16,296
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,767 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,492 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,772 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% -12.50% -

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office.

Front Office salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Front Office over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Front Office salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 205 (44.66%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (27.45%) Apache
3 30 (6.54%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.65%) GemFire
5 2 (0.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 47 (10.24%) Aladdin
2 39 (8.50%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 276 (60.13%) AWS
2 205 (44.66%) dbt
3 143 (31.15%) GCP
4 91 (19.83%) Snowflake
5 41 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
6 33 (7.19%) OpenShift
7 30 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (6.54%) Serverless
8 27 (5.88%) Azure
9 11 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (2.40%) Dagster
10 6 (1.31%) GitHub
11 5 (1.09%) Figma
12 3 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) FTP
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (44.66%) Amazon Athena
1 205 (44.66%) Apache Arrow
1 205 (44.66%) Apache Iceberg
1 205 (44.66%) Dremio
2 110 (23.97%) Apache Ignite
3 103 (22.44%) PostgreSQL
4 93 (20.26%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (0.65%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.65%) Redis
7 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) MySQL
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (6.54%) Artifactory
2 9 (1.96%) Git
3 5 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.65%) JIRA
4 3 (0.65%) MSTest
4 3 (0.65%) NUnit
4 3 (0.65%) SpecFlow
4 3 (0.65%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.22%) git-flow
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Gradle
5 1 (0.22%) JUnit
5 1 (0.22%) Maven
5 1 (0.22%) Mockito
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 401 (87.36%) Finance
2 157 (34.20%) Banking
3 101 (22.00%) Investment Banking
4 27 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 7 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.31%) Back Office
6 6 (1.31%) Law
7 5 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.87%) Legal
9 3 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.22%) Billing
10 1 (0.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 245 (53.38%) Software Engineer
2 214 (46.62%) Developer
3 205 (44.66%) AWS Engineer
4 175 (38.13%) AWS Software Engineer
5 166 (36.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 163 (35.51%) Python Engineer
7 132 (28.76%) Python Software Engineer
8 117 (25.49%) Java Engineer
9 114 (24.84%) Java Software Engineer
10 100 (21.79%) AWS Developer
11 97 (21.13%) Senior
12 72 (15.69%) Python Developer
12 72 (15.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 70 (15.25%) Senior Java Engineer
13 70 (15.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 62 (13.51%) Analyst
15 58 (12.64%) Business Analyst
16 52 (11.33%) Business Manager
16 52 (11.33%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
17 47 (10.24%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (35.29%) NumPy
1 162 (35.29%) Pandas
2 159 (34.64%) SciPy
3 156 (33.99%) React
4 128 (27.89%) Node.js
5 119 (25.93%) AngularJS
6 107 (23.31%) Vue
7 77 (16.78%) gRPC
7 77 (16.78%) Protocol Buffers
8 68 (14.81%) Redux
9 63 (13.73%) Kafka
10 57 (12.42%) PySpark
11 34 (7.41%) .NET
12 30 (6.54%) J2EE
13 24 (5.23%) GraphQL
14 13 (2.83%) FIX Protocol
14 13 (2.83%) REST
15 10 (2.18%) HTML
16 9 (1.96%) CSS
16 9 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 325 (70.81%) Fixed Income
2 230 (50.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 222 (48.37%) Equities
4 207 (45.10%) Derivative
5 188 (40.96%) Hedge funds
6 64 (13.94%) Pricing Data
7 45 (9.80%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.40%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.31%) BYOD
9 6 (1.31%) Credit Derivative
9 6 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.65%) Market Risk
13 2 (0.44%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.40%) Linux
2 5 (1.09%) Unix
3 3 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (82.14%) Agile
2 296 (64.49%) Asset Management
3 287 (62.53%) Software Engineering
4 286 (62.31%) Investment Management
5 124 (27.02%) Fintech
6 113 (24.62%) Order Management
7 103 (22.44%) Risk Management
8 91 (19.83%) Performance Attribution
9 81 (17.65%) Portfolio Management
10 52 (11.33%) Business Analysis
11 49 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
12 47 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (9.80%) CI/CD
13 45 (9.80%) Data Mapping
14 41 (8.93%) DevOps
15 37 (8.06%) Data Management
16 34 (7.41%) TDD
17 32 (6.97%) Analytics
17 32 (6.97%) Migration
18 30 (6.54%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 317 (69.06%) Python
2 235 (51.20%) JavaScript
2 235 (51.20%) TypeScript
3 217 (47.28%) Java
4 96 (20.92%) SQL
5 54 (11.76%) C#
5 54 (11.76%) Go
6 16 (3.49%) C++
7 2 (0.44%) VBA
8 1 (0.22%) C
8 1 (0.22%) Clojure
8 1 (0.22%) Groovy
8 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (4.14%) Degree
2 6 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.09%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.53%) MiFID
3 2 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 41 (8.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.75%) Terraform
3 5 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (1.09%) Nagios
4 2 (0.44%) Control-M
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (10.24%) BISAM
2 45 (9.80%) Charles River
3 41 (8.93%) Calypso
4 39 (8.50%) SimCorp
5 6 (1.31%) Solace
5 6 (1.31%) Trayport
6 4 (0.87%) Bloomberg
6 4 (0.87%) Oracle
6 4 (0.87%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.65%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.44%) Murex
9 1 (0.22%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.22%) Reuters