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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 106 167
Rank change year-on-year -205 +61 -3
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 96 529 615
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 3.50% 1.89%
As % of the General category 0.92% 4.70% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 70 503 573
10th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £88,750
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 £143,750
90th Percentile £150,000 £152,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +4.65%

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 10,452 11,264 20,228
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.78% 74.63% 62.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,937 6,394 15,097
10th Percentile £31,530 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 19 May 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.04%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) AWS
2 17 (17.71%) GCP
3 14 (14.58%) Azure
4 6 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 6 (6.25%) GitHub
4 6 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.04%) SaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Telnet
2 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.25%) Flink
3 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.04%) MySQL
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Power BI
5 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 74 (77.08%) Finance
2 26 (27.08%) Banking
3 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.25%) Marketing
7 5 (5.21%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Legal
8 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) Back Office
9 1 (1.04%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (61.46%) Developer
2 43 (44.79%) Software Engineer
3 40 (41.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 35 (36.46%) Lead
5 29 (30.21%) Lead Developer
6 28 (29.17%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (29.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (12.50%) C# Developer
7 12 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 12 (12.50%) React Developer
8 11 (11.46%) Front Office Developer
8 11 (11.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 11 (11.46%) Java Engineer
8 11 (11.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (9.38%) Java Developer
10 8 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (7.29%) Analyst
11 7 (7.29%) Python Engineer
11 7 (7.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (48.96%) React
2 42 (43.75%) Node.js
3 40 (41.67%) Redux
4 39 (40.63%) Kafka
5 32 (33.33%) GraphQL
6 11 (11.46%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (9.38%) Vue
8 8 (8.33%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.21%) .NET
10 3 (3.13%) XML
11 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.08%) Pandas
11 2 (2.08%) REST
11 2 (2.08%) Sass
11 2 (2.08%) XSLT
11 2 (2.08%) ZeroMQ
12 1 (1.04%) Java Concurrency
12 1 (1.04%) PySpark
12 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (1.04%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 52 (54.17%) Fixed Income
2 18 (18.75%) Equities
3 13 (13.54%) Derivative
4 11 (11.46%) Hedge funds
5 5 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.21%) Linux
4 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (57.29%) Agile
1 55 (57.29%) Investment Management
2 48 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 40 (41.67%) Portfolio Management
4 38 (39.58%) Order Management
5 29 (30.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (14.58%) Asset Management
7 13 (13.54%) DevOps
7 13 (13.54%) Fintech
8 11 (11.46%) CI/CD
8 11 (11.46%) ITIL
9 9 (9.38%) Coaching
9 9 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.33%) Line Management
10 8 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.25%) Decision-Making
11 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (6.25%) Regulatory Change
11 6 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 52 (54.17%) Python
2 48 (50.00%) Java
3 42 (43.75%) TypeScript
4 40 (41.67%) JavaScript
5 36 (37.50%) Go
6 25 (26.04%) SQL
7 17 (17.71%) C#
8 6 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.17%) C++
10 2 (2.08%) C
10 2 (2.08%) Tcl
10 2 (2.08%) VBA
10 2 (2.08%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.08%) ACCA
3 2 (2.08%) CIMA
3 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) EMIR
2 3 (3.13%) MiFID
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) Argo
3 5 (5.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.25%) Charles River
2 3 (3.13%) IBM
3 2 (2.08%) Databricks
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) Sybase
3 2 (2.08%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.04%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.04%) Solace