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

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 199 185
Rank change year-on-year +122 -14 +323
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 564 542 840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.73% 1.60% 1.92%
As % of the General category 4.96% 2.61% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 535 497 738
10th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £70,735
25th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £137,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year - +4.65% +2.38%

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 11,371 20,739 29,007
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 75.13% 61.37% 66.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,482 15,161 19,119
10th Percentile £25,313 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -11.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -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 25 April 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
1 227 (40.25%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (33.33%) Apache
3 71 (12.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.53%) GemFire
5 2 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 47 (8.33%) Aladdin
2 26 (4.61%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 311 (55.14%) AWS
2 222 (39.36%) dbt
3 151 (26.77%) GCP
4 131 (23.23%) Amazon ECS
5 98 (17.38%) AWS Lambda
5 98 (17.38%) Serverless
6 87 (15.43%) Snowflake
7 74 (13.12%) OpenShift
8 60 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (7.27%) Dagster
10 34 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.79%) Amazon S3
11 27 (4.79%) Azure
12 26 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (0.89%) Figma
14 4 (0.71%) npm
14 4 (0.71%) Yarn
15 3 (0.53%) SaaS
16 2 (0.35%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (39.36%) Amazon Athena
1 222 (39.36%) Apache Iceberg
1 222 (39.36%) Dremio
2 213 (37.77%) Apache Arrow
3 190 (33.69%) Data Lake
4 170 (30.14%) Apache Ignite
5 69 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.95%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.71%) Big Data
11 3 (0.53%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.53%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.53%) Redis
11 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.18%) KDB
12 1 (0.18%) Kdb+
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (12.59%) Artifactory
2 9 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.24%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.71%) Ant
4 4 (0.71%) Babel
4 4 (0.71%) webpack
5 3 (0.53%) Git
5 3 (0.53%) MSTest
5 3 (0.53%) NUnit
5 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.18%) git-flow
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Gradle
6 1 (0.18%) JIRA
6 1 (0.18%) JUnit
6 1 (0.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 522 (92.55%) Finance
2 171 (30.32%) Banking
3 91 (16.13%) Investment Banking
4 22 (3.90%) Social Skills
5 11 (1.95%) Law
6 7 (1.24%) Back Office
7 6 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (0.89%) Agriculture
9 3 (0.53%) Legal
9 3 (0.53%) Retail
10 1 (0.18%) Billing
10 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 241 (42.73%) AWS Engineer
2 206 (36.52%) Python Engineer
3 201 (35.64%) Software Engineer
4 164 (29.08%) Developer
5 142 (25.18%) AWS Software Engineer
6 125 (22.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 101 (17.91%) Python Software Engineer
8 99 (17.55%) AWS DevOps
8 99 (17.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 99 (17.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 87 (15.43%) Senior
10 80 (14.18%) Java Engineer
11 78 (13.83%) Data Engineer
12 77 (13.65%) Java Software Engineer
13 74 (13.12%) Analyst
14 73 (12.94%) AWS Developer
15 59 (10.46%) Business Analyst
15 59 (10.46%) Python Developer
16 58 (10.28%) Finance Manager
17 54 (9.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (23.94%) NumPy
1 135 (23.94%) Pandas
2 133 (23.58%) SciPy
3 128 (22.70%) PySpark
4 116 (20.57%) React
5 96 (17.02%) gRPC
5 96 (17.02%) Protocol Buffers
6 93 (16.49%) Node.js
7 83 (14.72%) Kafka
8 79 (14.01%) AngularJS
9 78 (13.83%) Redux
10 71 (12.59%) J2EE
11 68 (12.06%) Vue
12 30 (5.32%) .NET
13 14 (2.48%) HTML
14 13 (2.30%) CSS
15 9 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (1.42%) HTML5
17 7 (1.24%) CSS3
17 7 (1.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 367 (65.07%) Fixed Income
2 280 (49.65%) Derivative
3 268 (47.52%) Hedge funds
4 245 (43.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 243 (43.09%) Equities
6 44 (7.80%) Product Ownership
7 36 (6.38%) Onboarding
8 35 (6.21%) Pricing Data
9 7 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.06%) Credit Derivative
10 6 (1.06%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.53%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.60%) Linux
1 9 (1.60%) Unix
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (88.30%) Agile
2 349 (61.88%) Asset Management
3 317 (56.21%) Investment Management
4 316 (56.03%) Software Engineering
5 146 (25.89%) Migration
6 139 (24.65%) Fintech
7 113 (20.04%) Roadmaps
8 112 (19.86%) Data Governance
8 112 (19.86%) Regulatory Compliance
9 110 (19.50%) CI/CD
10 103 (18.26%) DevOps
11 97 (17.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 96 (17.02%) Data Management
13 80 (14.18%) Data Engineering
14 71 (12.59%) Open Source
15 69 (12.23%) Performance Attribution
16 52 (9.22%) Analytics
16 52 (9.22%) Risk Management
17 48 (8.51%) Portfolio Management
18 47 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 370 (65.60%) Python
2 220 (39.01%) JavaScript
3 212 (37.59%) Java
4 192 (34.04%) TypeScript
5 101 (17.91%) SQL
6 71 (12.59%) Go
7 36 (6.38%) C#
8 10 (1.77%) C++
9 4 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (4.61%) Degree
2 13 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (9.75%) MiFID
2 12 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 108 (19.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 108 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 98 (17.38%) Terraform
3 5 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (0.89%) Nagios
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (8.33%) BISAM
2 32 (5.67%) Charles River
3 26 (4.61%) Calypso
3 26 (4.61%) SimCorp
4 6 (1.06%) Oracle
5 5 (0.89%) Murex
5 5 (0.89%) Solace
6 4 (0.71%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.53%) Sophis
7 3 (0.53%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.35%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.18%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.18%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.18%) Sun