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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 159 505
Rank change year-on-year -9 +346 -226
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 671 878 398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.94% 2.27% 0.54%
As % of the General category 3.19% 3.45% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 628 789 351
10th Percentile £75,000 £70,735 £62,500
25th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £144,375 £140,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +16.67%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,045 25,443 47,653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.77% 65.87% 64.23%
Number of salaries quoted 15,113 17,236 25,004
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 May 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
1 343 (51.12%) Apache Airflow
2 328 (48.88%) Apache
3 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.89%) thinkFolio
2 4 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.30%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.30%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.15%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 485 (72.28%) AWS
2 325 (48.44%) dbt
3 273 (40.69%) GCP
4 262 (39.05%) Snowflake
5 125 (18.63%) Azure
6 12 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.89%) Dagster
8 4 (0.60%) PaaS
8 4 (0.60%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.30%) Serverless
11 1 (0.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.15%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.15%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.30%) BGP
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) OSPF
2 2 (0.30%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (48.44%) Dremio
2 319 (47.54%) Apache Arrow
3 317 (47.24%) Apache Ignite
4 313 (46.65%) Amazon Athena
5 280 (41.73%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.79%) Big Data
6 12 (1.79%) Power BI
6 12 (1.79%) Tableau
7 8 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.45%) KDB
9 3 (0.45%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.30%) Kdb+
10 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.15%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.15%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (1.19%) GitLab
1 8 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.89%) JIRA
3 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 613 (91.36%) Finance
2 410 (61.10%) Banking
3 325 (48.44%) Investment Banking
4 99 (14.75%) Back Office
5 70 (10.43%) Social Skills
6 8 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.45%) Marketing
10 2 (0.30%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.30%) International Banking
10 2 (0.30%) Legal
11 1 (0.15%) Automotive
11 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.15%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 271 (40.39%) Software Engineer
2 260 (38.75%) Developer
3 206 (30.70%) Senior
4 168 (25.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 147 (21.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 145 (21.61%) Python Engineer
7 139 (20.72%) Python Software Engineer
8 127 (18.93%) Lead
9 125 (18.63%) AWS Engineer
9 125 (18.63%) AWS Software Engineer
10 115 (17.14%) Python Developer
11 102 (15.20%) Java Engineer
11 102 (15.20%) Java Software Engineer
12 94 (14.01%) Analyst
13 71 (10.58%) Senior Developer
14 67 (9.99%) Finance Manager
15 66 (9.84%) Architect
15 66 (9.84%) Software Developer
16 62 (9.24%) Senior Java Engineer
16 62 (9.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (50.22%) gRPC
1 337 (50.22%) Protocol Buffers
2 316 (47.09%) Pandas
3 304 (45.31%) NumPy
3 304 (45.31%) SciPy
4 116 (17.29%) React
5 101 (15.05%) Redux
6 76 (11.33%) AngularJS
7 72 (10.73%) Vue
8 61 (9.09%) .NET
9 48 (7.15%) Node.js
10 36 (5.37%) ASP.NET
10 36 (5.37%) ASP.NET Core
11 24 (3.58%) Material-UI
12 23 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
13 19 (2.83%) .NET Core
14 12 (1.79%) GraphQL
15 6 (0.89%) PySpark
16 3 (0.45%) Angular 2
16 3 (0.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 487 (72.58%) Fixed Income
2 469 (69.90%) Derivative
3 465 (69.30%) Hedge funds
4 434 (64.68%) Equities
5 383 (57.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 42 (6.26%) Pricing Data
6 42 (6.26%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.34%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.19%) FPGA
10 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.45%) Blog
13 3 (0.45%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.45%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.45%) FMCG
14 2 (0.30%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.30%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.28%) Windows
2 20 (2.98%) Linux
3 16 (2.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (77.65%) Asset Management
2 486 (72.43%) Agile
3 457 (68.11%) Investment Management
4 440 (65.57%) Software Engineering
5 116 (17.29%) Greeks
6 114 (16.99%) Line Management
7 106 (15.80%) Analytics
8 73 (10.88%) Fintech
9 64 (9.54%) Mentoring
10 48 (7.15%) Performance Attribution
11 43 (6.41%) Product Management
12 37 (5.51%) Electronic Trading
13 35 (5.22%) Full Stack Development
14 34 (5.07%) Quantitative Research
15 31 (4.62%) Machine Learning
16 30 (4.47%) Artificial Intelligence
17 23 (3.43%) Roadmaps
18 22 (3.28%) Low Latency
19 21 (3.13%) Front End Development
19 21 (3.13%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 552 (82.27%) Python
2 392 (58.42%) TypeScript
3 391 (58.27%) JavaScript
4 334 (49.78%) Java
5 187 (27.87%) SQL
6 108 (16.10%) C#
7 35 (5.22%) R
8 19 (2.83%) C++
9 13 (1.94%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.79%) Ruby
10 12 (1.79%) Scala
11 1 (0.15%) C
11 1 (0.15%) Groovy
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (2.38%) Degree
2 2 (0.30%) CCIE
2 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (17.29%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.04%) SOC 1
3 4 (0.60%) SLA
4 2 (0.30%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (5.96%) Bloomberg
2 17 (2.53%) ION Trading
3 13 (1.94%) Murex
4 12 (1.79%) Oracle
5 9 (1.34%) IBM
6 8 (1.19%) Algorithmics
7 6 (0.89%) Charles River
8 3 (0.45%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.45%) Trayport
9 2 (0.30%) Cisco
9 2 (0.30%) Juniper
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.15%) Cognos
10 1 (0.15%) Concur
10 1 (0.15%) Databricks
10 1 (0.15%) SAP
10 1 (0.15%) Solace