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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 80 171
Rank change year-on-year -88 +91 +142
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 231 680 422
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.51% 3.42% 2.01%
As % of the General category 2.35% 5.35% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 207 654 401
10th Percentile £94,500 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £104,250 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £112,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +7.14% +16.12%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £137,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% - +7.32%

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 9,848 12,711 13,689
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 64.59% 63.96% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,325 7,352 10,773
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £36,019
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 November 2025.

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
1 107 (46.32%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (24.68%) Apache
3 7 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 146 (63.20%) AWS
2 107 (46.32%) dbt
3 62 (26.84%) GCP
4 57 (24.68%) Snowflake
5 18 (7.79%) Azure
6 9 (3.90%) GitHub
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) FTP
1 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.30%) Telnet
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (46.32%) Amazon Athena
1 107 (46.32%) Apache Arrow
1 107 (46.32%) Apache Iceberg
1 107 (46.32%) Dremio
2 57 (24.68%) Apache Ignite
2 57 (24.68%) Data Lake
3 54 (23.38%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.03%) MySQL
6 5 (2.16%) Flink
7 4 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.43%) KDB
8 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.33%) JIRA
2 4 (1.73%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) GCC
3 1 (0.43%) GDB
3 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 179 (77.49%) Finance
2 88 (38.10%) Banking
3 62 (26.84%) Investment Banking
4 27 (11.69%) Social Skills
5 12 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.16%) Back Office
8 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 138 (59.74%) Software Engineer
2 125 (54.11%) Developer
3 112 (48.48%) AWS Engineer
4 107 (46.32%) AWS Software Engineer
5 106 (45.89%) Python Engineer
6 101 (43.72%) Python Software Engineer
7 80 (34.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 78 (33.77%) Senior
9 70 (30.30%) Java Engineer
10 69 (29.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 56 (24.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 55 (23.81%) Senior Java Engineer
12 55 (23.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 53 (22.94%) Python Developer
14 50 (21.65%) AWS Developer
15 25 (10.82%) Lead
16 19 (8.23%) Lead Developer
17 17 (7.36%) Analyst
17 17 (7.36%) C# Developer
18 16 (6.93%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (47.19%) NumPy
1 109 (47.19%) Pandas
2 107 (46.32%) SciPy
3 83 (35.93%) React
4 77 (33.33%) Node.js
5 62 (26.84%) AngularJS
6 59 (25.54%) Vue
7 58 (25.11%) gRPC
8 57 (24.68%) Protocol Buffers
9 35 (15.15%) Kafka
10 30 (12.99%) Redux
11 24 (10.39%) GraphQL
12 14 (6.06%) .NET
12 14 (6.06%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (3.03%) REST
14 6 (2.60%) Java Concurrency
15 5 (2.16%) .NET Core
15 5 (2.16%) NHibernate
15 5 (2.16%) PyXLL
15 5 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (66.23%) Fixed Income
2 127 (54.98%) Equities
2 127 (54.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 75 (32.47%) Derivative
4 65 (28.14%) Hedge funds
5 57 (24.68%) Pricing Data
6 12 (5.19%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.73%) BYOD
10 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.43%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.33%) Linux
2 8 (3.46%) Windows
3 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.30%) Unix
5 2 (0.87%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (78.35%) Agile
2 150 (64.94%) Investment Management
3 143 (61.90%) Software Engineering
4 121 (52.38%) Asset Management
5 85 (36.80%) Order Management
6 63 (27.27%) Risk Management
7 60 (25.97%) Fintech
8 50 (21.65%) Performance Attribution
9 25 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (10.39%) Portfolio Management
11 22 (9.52%) DevOps
12 17 (7.36%) Analytics
13 15 (6.49%) CI/CD
14 14 (6.06%) Microservices
15 13 (5.63%) Electronic Trading
15 13 (5.63%) Low Latency
16 12 (5.19%) Computer Science
17 11 (4.76%) Mathematics
17 11 (4.76%) TDD
18 10 (4.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 157 (67.97%) Python
2 138 (59.74%) JavaScript
2 138 (59.74%) TypeScript
3 115 (49.78%) Java
4 42 (18.18%) C#
5 28 (12.12%) SQL
6 24 (10.39%) Go
7 18 (7.79%) C++
8 4 (1.73%) VBA
9 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.87%) C
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) Clojure
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 10 (4.33%) Degree
2 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.87%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) EMIR
3 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (1.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.16%) Argo
3 3 (1.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (3.03%) Charles River
2 5 (2.16%) Bloomberg
3 4 (1.73%) Trayport
4 3 (1.30%) Calypso
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle
6 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.43%) Murex
6 1 (0.43%) Reuters
6 1 (0.43%) Solace