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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 145 78
Rank change year-on-year -228 -67 +59
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 97 361 774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 2.19% 3.38%
As % of the General category 0.64% 3.06% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 64 335 752
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 £147,500
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 15,214 11,787 14,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.39% 71.36% 62.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9,250 6,281 8,147
10th Percentile £32,260 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £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 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -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 26 September 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 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.74%) AWS
2 18 (18.56%) Azure
3 11 (11.34%) GCP
4 9 (9.28%) Amazon Bedrock
5 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (7.22%) GitHub
7 6 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (5.15%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.09%) ChatGPT
10 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.06%) Rubrik
10 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.03%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.03%) SaaS
11 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.06%) Power BI
2 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.03%) Big Data
3 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.03%) DuckDB
3 1 (1.03%) HBase
3 1 (1.03%) Metadata
3 1 (1.03%) Redis
3 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) JIRA
2 3 (3.09%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (64.95%) Finance
2 53 (54.64%) Banking
3 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
4 20 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (16.49%) Investment Banking
6 13 (13.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (9.28%) Marketing
8 6 (6.19%) Back Office
8 6 (6.19%) Law
8 6 (6.19%) Retail
9 5 (5.15%) Legal
10 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.03%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 34 (35.05%) Developer
2 23 (23.71%) Software Engineer
3 19 (19.59%) Analyst
3 19 (19.59%) Python Engineer
4 18 (18.56%) Python Software Engineer
5 17 (17.53%) Lead
6 16 (16.49%) Python Developer
6 16 (16.49%) Senior
7 15 (15.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 11 (11.34%) Support Analyst
9 10 (10.31%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 9 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (9.28%) Business Support Analyst
10 9 (9.28%) Software Developer
11 8 (8.25%) C# Developer
12 7 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (7.22%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (6.19%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (12.37%) LangChain
2 12 (12.37%) LangGraph
3 9 (9.28%) CrewAI
3 9 (9.28%) pydantic
4 6 (6.19%) React
4 6 (6.19%) REST
5 4 (4.12%) .NET
5 4 (4.12%) Kafka
6 3 (3.09%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.09%) Flask
6 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.09%) Semantic Kernel
6 3 (3.09%) WebSockets
7 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.06%) Blazor
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.06%) Pandas
7 2 (2.06%) Playwright
7 2 (2.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.74%) Hedge funds
2 23 (23.71%) Fixed Income
3 14 (14.43%) Derivative
3 14 (14.43%) Equities
4 13 (13.40%) AI Agents
5 12 (12.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.15%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (3.09%) DTCC
9 3 (3.09%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (3.09%) OTC Derivatives
10 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Unix
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Software Engineering
2 22 (22.68%) Investment Management
3 21 (21.65%) AI
4 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (16.49%) Asset Management
5 16 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (13.40%) Decision-Making
7 13 (13.40%) Project Delivery
8 12 (12.37%) Functional Testing
9 11 (11.34%) Agile
10 10 (10.31%) Business Analysis
10 10 (10.31%) Regulatory Change
11 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (9.28%) LLM
11 9 (9.28%) Pair Programming
11 9 (9.28%) Performance Monitoring
11 9 (9.28%) Release Management
12 7 (7.22%) Analytics
12 7 (7.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) Python
2 20 (20.62%) SQL
3 13 (13.40%) Java
4 11 (11.34%) C#
4 11 (11.34%) R
5 10 (10.31%) C++
6 5 (5.15%) Tcl
7 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) Degree
2 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) EMIR
2 3 (3.09%) SLA
3 2 (2.06%) MiFID
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) FIS
1 9 (9.28%) Google
1 9 (9.28%) SunGard
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) IBM
3 5 (5.15%) Sybase
3 5 (5.15%) TIBCO
4 3 (3.09%) Databricks
4 3 (3.09%) Solace
5 2 (2.06%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.03%) Charles River
6 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.03%) Murex
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow