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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 95 219
Rank change year-on-year -176 +124 +13
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 106 539 415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 3.37% 1.52%
As % of the General category 1.12% 4.87% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 84 515 385
10th Percentile £78,400 £80,000 £66,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £160,000 £152,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +12.20%

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 9,450 11,061 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.21% 69.25% 62.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,960 6,305 13,491
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,600 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +12.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.29%

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 5 February 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 29 (27.36%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (14.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.51%) AWS
2 29 (27.36%) dbt
3 17 (16.04%) GCP
4 15 (14.15%) Azure
4 15 (14.15%) Snowflake
5 10 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (9.43%) Amazon Kinesis
5 10 (9.43%) GitHub
5 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.94%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) Telnet
2 5 (4.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.94%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.36%) Amazon Athena
1 29 (27.36%) Apache Arrow
1 29 (27.36%) Apache Iceberg
1 29 (27.36%) Dremio
2 17 (16.04%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (15.09%) Data Lake
4 15 (14.15%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (10.38%) SQL Server
6 10 (9.43%) Flink
7 3 (2.83%) MySQL
8 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.94%) KDB
9 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.94%) Power BI
9 1 (0.94%) Tableau
9 1 (0.94%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (9.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) GCC
2 1 (0.94%) GDB
General
1 73 (68.87%) Finance
2 43 (40.57%) Banking
3 19 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.92%) Investment Banking
4 16 (15.09%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Marketing
6 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.83%) Back Office
7 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (43.40%) Developer
2 37 (34.91%) Python Engineer
3 35 (33.02%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (31.13%) Software Engineer
5 30 (28.30%) Python Software Engineer
6 29 (27.36%) AWS Software Engineer
7 28 (26.42%) Senior
8 19 (17.92%) Python Developer
9 18 (16.98%) Java Engineer
10 17 (16.04%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (15.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 14 (13.21%) AWS Developer
13 13 (12.26%) Analyst
13 13 (12.26%) Senior Java Engineer
13 13 (12.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 13 (12.26%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (11.32%) Lead
15 10 (9.43%) C# Developer
15 10 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.30%) NumPy
1 30 (28.30%) Pandas
2 29 (27.36%) SciPy
3 21 (19.81%) React
4 17 (16.04%) Node.js
5 16 (15.09%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (15.09%) gRPC
6 15 (14.15%) AngularJS
6 15 (14.15%) Protocol Buffers
6 15 (14.15%) Vue
7 13 (12.26%) Kafka
8 10 (9.43%) .NET
9 5 (4.72%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.72%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (3.77%) PyXLL
10 4 (3.77%) Sass
10 4 (3.77%) ZeroMQ
11 3 (2.83%) XML
12 2 (1.89%) CSS
12 2 (1.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (47.17%) Fixed Income
2 42 (39.62%) Equities
3 32 (30.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (27.36%) Derivative
5 17 (16.04%) Hedge funds
6 15 (14.15%) Pricing Data
7 13 (12.26%) Algorithms
8 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
9 6 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.89%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.94%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Windows
1 10 (9.43%) Windows Server
2 6 (5.66%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (61.32%) Agile
2 55 (51.89%) Investment Management
3 43 (40.57%) Asset Management
4 41 (38.68%) Software Engineering
5 27 (25.47%) Order Management
6 25 (23.58%) DevOps
7 20 (18.87%) Risk Management
8 16 (15.09%) CI/CD
8 16 (15.09%) Fintech
9 14 (13.21%) Performance Attribution
10 12 (11.32%) Coaching
10 12 (11.32%) Computer Science
11 11 (10.38%) Analytics
12 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (8.49%) Electronic Trading
13 9 (8.49%) Low Latency
13 9 (8.49%) Test Automation
14 8 (7.55%) ITIL
14 8 (7.55%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 63 (59.43%) Python
2 40 (37.74%) Java
3 31 (29.25%) JavaScript
3 31 (29.25%) TypeScript
4 27 (25.47%) C#
5 26 (24.53%) SQL
6 15 (14.15%) C++
7 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.77%) C
8 4 (3.77%) Go
9 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.89%) VBA
9 2 (1.89%) VC++
10 1 (0.94%) Rust
10 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (9.43%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) EMIR
1 2 (1.89%) QA
2 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.43%) Argo
3 4 (3.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (11.32%) Charles River
2 2 (1.89%) ION Trading
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle
3 1 (0.94%) Databricks
3 1 (0.94%) IBM