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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 153 84
Rank change year-on-year -208 -69 +50
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 100 348 758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 2.06% 3.37%
As % of the General category 0.65% 2.92% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 66 321 736
10th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £127,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £146,563
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £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 15,298 11,913 14,126
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.36% 70.62% 62.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9,266 6,228 7,932
10th Percentile £32,250 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 2 October 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 3 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.00%) AWS
2 17 (17.00%) Azure
3 11 (11.00%) GCP
4 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 9 (9.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 9 (9.00%) GitHub
6 8 (8.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (5.00%) ChatGPT
7 5 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.00%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.00%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.00%) SaaS
9 1 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.00%) Big Data
3 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.00%) DuckDB
3 1 (1.00%) HBase
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
3 1 (1.00%) Redis
3 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) JIRA
2 5 (5.00%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (63.00%) Finance
2 55 (55.00%) Banking
3 39 (39.00%) Social Skills
4 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (18.00%) Investment Banking
6 12 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (9.00%) Marketing
8 6 (6.00%) Back Office
8 6 (6.00%) Law
8 6 (6.00%) Retail
9 5 (5.00%) Legal
10 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (35.00%) Developer
2 26 (26.00%) Software Engineer
3 20 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) Analyst
4 19 (19.00%) Lead
4 19 (19.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 17 (17.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 17 (17.00%) Senior
6 16 (16.00%) Python Developer
7 11 (11.00%) Support Analyst
8 9 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 9 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (9.00%) Front Office Developer
8 9 (9.00%) Software Developer
9 8 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (8.00%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (8.00%) Java Developer
9 8 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (7.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (12.00%) LangChain
2 12 (12.00%) LangGraph
3 9 (9.00%) CrewAI
3 9 (9.00%) pydantic
4 6 (6.00%) React
4 6 (6.00%) REST
5 4 (4.00%) .NET
5 4 (4.00%) Kafka
6 3 (3.00%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.00%) Flask
6 3 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.00%) Semantic Kernel
6 3 (3.00%) WebSockets
7 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.00%) Blazor
7 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.00%) Pandas
7 2 (2.00%) Playwright
7 2 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 25 (25.00%) Hedge funds
2 17 (17.00%) Derivative
3 15 (15.00%) Equities
4 13 (13.00%) AI Agents
5 12 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
7 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.00%) Credit Derivative
7 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (5.00%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (3.00%) DTCC
8 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.00%) OTC Derivatives
8 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 1 (1.00%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (24.00%) Investment Management
3 23 (23.00%) AI
4 19 (19.00%) Asset Management
5 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.00%) Project Delivery
7 13 (13.00%) Decision-Making
8 12 (12.00%) Agile
8 12 (12.00%) Functional Testing
9 10 (10.00%) Business Analysis
9 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
10 9 (9.00%) Analytics
10 9 (9.00%) LLM
10 9 (9.00%) Pair Programming
10 9 (9.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 9 (9.00%) Release Management
11 8 (8.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.00%) Python
2 18 (18.00%) SQL
3 17 (17.00%) Java
4 11 (11.00%) R
5 10 (10.00%) C#
5 10 (10.00%) C++
6 5 (5.00%) Tcl
7 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) EMIR
2 3 (3.00%) SLA
3 2 (2.00%) MiFID
4 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) FIS
1 9 (9.00%) Google
1 9 (9.00%) SunGard
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) IBM
3 5 (5.00%) Sybase
3 5 (5.00%) TIBCO
4 3 (3.00%) Databricks
4 3 (3.00%) Solace
5 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.00%) Charles River
6 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.00%) Murex
6 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow