Front Office Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 217 207
Rank change year-on-year +136 -10 +287
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 544 487 785
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.70% 1.50% 1.72%
As % of the General category 4.91% 2.46% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 516 444 680
10th Percentile £80,000 £71,625 £67,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £78,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £115,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £160,250 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £112,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% -

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 11,081 19,794 30,515
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 75.33% 60.84% 66.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,088 15,008 20,113
10th Percentile £27,925 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,139 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,276 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.36% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,075 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Front Office over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

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
1 222 (40.81%) Apache Airflow
2 194 (35.66%) Apache
3 71 (13.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.55%) GemFire
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (6.07%) Aladdin
2 12 (2.21%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 312 (57.35%) AWS
2 214 (39.34%) dbt
3 150 (27.57%) GCP
4 137 (25.18%) Amazon ECS
5 104 (19.12%) AWS Lambda
5 104 (19.12%) Serverless
6 84 (15.44%) Snowflake
7 74 (13.60%) OpenShift
8 66 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (8.82%) Dagster
10 35 (6.43%) Azure
11 34 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (6.07%) Amazon S3
13 32 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.92%) npm
14 5 (0.92%) Yarn
15 4 (0.74%) Figma
16 3 (0.55%) SaaS
17 2 (0.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (39.34%) Amazon Athena
1 214 (39.34%) Apache Iceberg
1 214 (39.34%) Dremio
2 198 (36.40%) Apache Arrow
3 194 (35.66%) Data Lake
4 176 (32.35%) Apache Ignite
5 55 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.76%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.29%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 3 (0.55%) InterSystems Cache
12 3 (0.55%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.55%) Redis
13 1 (0.18%) Data Hub
13 1 (0.18%) KDB
13 1 (0.18%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 71 (13.05%) Artifactory
2 9 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 5 (0.92%) Ant
4 5 (0.92%) Babel
4 5 (0.92%) webpack
5 3 (0.55%) Git
5 3 (0.55%) MSTest
5 3 (0.55%) NUnit
5 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) git-flow
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Gradle
6 1 (0.18%) JIRA
6 1 (0.18%) JUnit
6 1 (0.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 507 (93.20%) Finance
2 172 (31.62%) Banking
3 88 (16.18%) Investment Banking
4 18 (3.31%) Social Skills
5 12 (2.21%) Law
6 7 (1.29%) Back Office
7 6 (1.10%) Agriculture
7 6 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.55%) Legal
8 3 (0.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.18%) Billing
9 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 232 (42.65%) AWS Engineer
2 210 (38.60%) Python Engineer
3 190 (34.93%) Software Engineer
4 154 (28.31%) Developer
5 127 (23.35%) AWS Software Engineer
6 117 (21.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 105 (19.30%) AWS DevOps
7 105 (19.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 105 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 92 (16.91%) Python Software Engineer
9 90 (16.54%) Senior
10 85 (15.63%) Data Engineer
11 71 (13.05%) Java Engineer
12 68 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
13 64 (11.76%) Finance Manager
14 61 (11.21%) AWS Developer
15 59 (10.85%) Analyst
16 53 (9.74%) Python Developer
17 51 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
18 47 (8.64%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (24.82%) PySpark
2 127 (23.35%) NumPy
2 127 (23.35%) Pandas
3 125 (22.98%) SciPy
4 108 (19.85%) React
5 104 (19.12%) gRPC
6 102 (18.75%) Protocol Buffers
7 89 (16.36%) Redux
8 88 (16.18%) Node.js
9 84 (15.44%) Kafka
10 71 (13.05%) J2EE
11 65 (11.95%) AngularJS
12 54 (9.93%) Vue
13 27 (4.96%) .NET
14 14 (2.57%) CSS
14 14 (2.57%) HTML
15 9 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (1.47%) CSS3
16 8 (1.47%) HTML5
16 8 (1.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 340 (62.50%) Fixed Income
2 255 (46.88%) Derivative
3 249 (45.77%) Hedge funds
4 216 (39.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 215 (39.52%) Equities
6 41 (7.54%) Product Ownership
7 32 (5.88%) Pricing Data
8 22 (4.04%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.10%) Credit Derivative
10 6 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.10%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.92%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.55%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.47%) Linux
1 8 (1.47%) Unix
2 3 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (88.60%) Agile
2 338 (62.13%) Asset Management
3 314 (57.72%) Software Engineering
4 299 (54.96%) Investment Management
5 146 (26.84%) Migration
6 145 (26.65%) Fintech
7 117 (21.51%) CI/CD
8 114 (20.96%) Roadmaps
9 112 (20.59%) Data Governance
9 112 (20.59%) Regulatory Compliance
10 111 (20.40%) DevOps
11 103 (18.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 96 (17.65%) Data Management
13 87 (15.99%) Data Engineering
14 71 (13.05%) Open Source
15 60 (11.03%) Performance Attribution
16 59 (10.85%) Analytics
17 53 (9.74%) User Experience
18 34 (6.25%) Portfolio Management
18 34 (6.25%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 363 (66.73%) Python
2 215 (39.52%) JavaScript
3 201 (36.95%) Java
4 181 (33.27%) TypeScript
5 87 (15.99%) SQL
6 71 (13.05%) Go
7 34 (6.25%) C#
8 8 (1.47%) C++
9 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (4.60%) Degree
2 13 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.11%) MiFID
2 13 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 115 (21.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 115 (21.14%) Kubernetes
2 104 (19.12%) Terraform
3 5 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (0.92%) Nagios
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (6.07%) BISAM
2 18 (3.31%) Charles River
3 12 (2.21%) Calypso
3 12 (2.21%) SimCorp
4 6 (1.10%) Oracle
5 5 (0.92%) Murex
5 5 (0.92%) Solace
6 4 (0.74%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.74%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.55%) Sophis
7 3 (0.55%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.37%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.18%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.18%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.18%) Sun