Front Office Jobs with Work from Home 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 186 337
Rank change year-on-year +82 +151 -10
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 686 473 631
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.01% 1.93% 1.02%
As % of the General category 4.53% 2.88% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 666 455 584
10th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £102,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +10.81% -15.91%
75th Percentile £142,500 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 £107,500 £102,500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +2.50%

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 15,154 16,402 41,539
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 66.45% 67.07% 67.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7,154 11,619 25,265
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,306 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +6.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% - +4.35%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

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
1 503 (73.32%) Apache Airflow
2 485 (70.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.58%) Eagle PACE
2 4 (0.58%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.29%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 623 (90.82%) AWS
2 493 (71.87%) dbt
3 377 (54.96%) Snowflake
4 326 (47.52%) GCP
5 128 (18.66%) Amazon ECS
6 109 (15.89%) Amazon EC2
7 93 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (10.20%) Azure
9 54 (7.87%) Dagster
10 39 (5.69%) Power Platform
11 36 (5.25%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (5.25%) Serverless
12 20 (2.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (2.48%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (0.73%) npm
15 5 (0.73%) Yarn
16 4 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
17 2 (0.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 493 (71.87%) Dremio
2 463 (67.49%) Data Lake
3 457 (66.62%) Amazon Athena
4 448 (65.31%) Apache Ignite
5 439 (63.99%) Apache Arrow
6 39 (5.69%) Power BI
7 38 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (5.39%) Tableau
9 32 (4.66%) Big Data
10 17 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (2.33%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.02%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.44%) KDB
14 3 (0.44%) Relational Database
15 2 (0.29%) Kdb+
15 2 (0.29%) MySQL
15 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.73%) Ant
2 5 (0.73%) Babel
2 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
2 5 (0.73%) webpack
3 4 (0.58%) JIRA
4 2 (0.29%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.15%) Gradle
5 1 (0.15%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) Maven
5 1 (0.15%) Mockito
5 1 (0.15%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 666 (97.08%) Finance
2 532 (77.55%) Banking
3 437 (63.70%) Investment Banking
4 19 (2.77%) Social Skills
5 10 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (1.46%) Back Office
6 5 (0.73%) Agriculture
6 5 (0.73%) Law
7 3 (0.44%) Legal
8 2 (0.29%) International Banking
9 1 (0.15%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 381 (55.54%) Software Engineer
2 284 (41.40%) Python Engineer
3 249 (36.30%) AWS Engineer
4 233 (33.97%) AWS Software Engineer
5 221 (32.22%) Developer
6 214 (31.20%) Python Software Engineer
7 204 (29.74%) Senior
8 193 (28.13%) Java Engineer
9 189 (27.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 189 (27.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 168 (24.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 135 (19.68%) Senior Java Engineer
12 131 (19.10%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 123 (17.93%) Lead
14 82 (11.95%) UI Engineer
15 79 (11.52%) Python Developer
16 77 (11.22%) React Developer
16 77 (11.22%) UI Developer
17 76 (11.08%) AWS Developer
18 70 (10.20%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (67.06%) Pandas
2 459 (66.91%) NumPy
2 459 (66.91%) SciPy
3 450 (65.60%) gRPC
4 448 (65.31%) Protocol Buffers
5 146 (21.28%) PySpark
6 109 (15.89%) React
7 108 (15.74%) Redux
8 103 (15.01%) Node.js
9 47 (6.85%) AngularJS
10 26 (3.79%) Vue
11 20 (2.92%) Lambda Expressions
12 16 (2.33%) .NET
13 10 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
14 7 (1.02%) REST
14 7 (1.02%) RESTful
15 6 (0.87%) CSS
15 6 (0.87%) HTML
16 5 (0.73%) CSS3
16 5 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 553 (80.61%) Fixed Income
2 456 (66.47%) Equities
2 456 (66.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 453 (66.03%) Hedge funds
4 452 (65.89%) Derivative
5 102 (14.87%) Pricing Data
6 46 (6.71%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.73%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.58%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.58%) Equity Derivative
12 3 (0.44%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.29%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.15%) ASIC
14 1 (0.15%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.33%) Linux
2 12 (1.75%) Unix
3 7 (1.02%) Windows
4 2 (0.29%) Android
4 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (93.44%) Agile
2 619 (90.23%) Asset Management
3 587 (85.57%) Software Engineering
4 428 (62.39%) Investment Management
5 177 (25.80%) Fintech
6 132 (19.24%) Line Management
7 112 (16.33%) Analytics
8 111 (16.18%) Greeks
9 92 (13.41%) Migration
10 83 (12.10%) User Experience
11 71 (10.35%) Performance Attribution
12 68 (9.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 58 (8.45%) Data Engineering
14 50 (7.29%) Front End Development
15 42 (6.12%) Business Analysis
16 41 (5.98%) DevOps
17 37 (5.39%) CI/CD
18 34 (4.96%) Mentoring
18 34 (4.96%) Visualisation
19 26 (3.79%) Credit Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 639 (93.15%) Python
2 522 (76.09%) JavaScript
3 506 (73.76%) TypeScript
4 469 (68.37%) Java
5 200 (29.15%) SQL
6 18 (2.62%) C#
7 8 (1.17%) C++
8 7 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.58%) Groovy
10 4 (0.58%) R
11 2 (0.29%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (2.33%) Degree
2 9 (1.31%) Master's Degree
3 7 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (2.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) Ansible
3 1 (0.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 67 (9.77%) Bloomberg
2 64 (9.33%) Reuters
3 7 (1.02%) Oracle
4 6 (0.87%) Murex
5 4 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.58%) Sophis
6 2 (0.29%) BISAM
7 1 (0.15%) Databricks
7 1 (0.15%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.15%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.15%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.15%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.15%) Pega
7 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.15%) Solace
7 1 (0.15%) Tradeweb