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 21 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 93 195
Rank change year-on-year -156 +102 +42
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 124 546 408
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 3.34% 1.70%
As % of the General category 1.35% 4.84% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 102 523 385
10th Percentile £77,800 £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 £144,375 £138,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £159,000 £148,750 £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 9,216 11,292 14,999
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.76% 69.11% 62.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,831 6,381 11,824
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.50% +8.23% -11.15%

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 21 January 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 44 (35.48%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (19.35%) Apache
3 4 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.97%) AWS
2 44 (35.48%) dbt
3 24 (19.35%) Snowflake
4 21 (16.94%) GCP
5 13 (10.48%) Azure
6 10 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (8.06%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (8.06%) GitHub
6 10 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) Telnet
2 5 (4.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (35.48%) Amazon Athena
1 44 (35.48%) Apache Arrow
1 44 (35.48%) Apache Iceberg
1 44 (35.48%) Dremio
2 25 (20.16%) Data Lake
3 24 (19.35%) Apache Ignite
4 21 (16.94%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (10.48%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.06%) Flink
7 5 (4.03%) MySQL
8 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.81%) KDB
9 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.81%) Power BI
9 1 (0.81%) Tableau
9 1 (0.81%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) GCC
2 1 (0.81%) GDB
General
1 86 (69.35%) Finance
2 51 (41.13%) Banking
3 28 (22.58%) Investment Banking
4 20 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
6 6 (4.84%) Marketing
7 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.42%) Back Office
8 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
9 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (42.74%) Developer
2 51 (41.13%) Python Engineer
3 50 (40.32%) AWS Engineer
4 46 (37.10%) Software Engineer
5 44 (35.48%) AWS Software Engineer
5 44 (35.48%) Python Software Engineer
6 38 (30.65%) Senior
7 27 (21.77%) Java Engineer
8 26 (20.97%) Java Software Engineer
9 25 (20.16%) Python Developer
10 22 (17.74%) Senior Java Engineer
10 22 (17.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 22 (17.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (16.13%) AWS Developer
11 20 (16.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 15 (12.10%) Analyst
13 10 (8.06%) C# Developer
13 10 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (8.06%) Lead
13 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.29%) NumPy
1 45 (36.29%) Pandas
2 44 (35.48%) SciPy
3 25 (20.16%) gRPC
3 25 (20.16%) React
4 24 (19.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 21 (16.94%) AngularJS
5 21 (16.94%) Node.js
5 21 (16.94%) Vue
6 16 (12.90%) FIX Protocol
7 13 (10.48%) Kafka
8 9 (7.26%) .NET
9 6 (4.84%) Java Concurrency
10 5 (4.03%) PyXLL
11 4 (3.23%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.23%) Sass
11 4 (3.23%) ZeroMQ
12 3 (2.42%) XML
13 2 (1.61%) CSS
13 2 (1.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 63 (50.81%) Fixed Income
2 56 (45.16%) Equities
3 48 (38.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (29.03%) Derivative
5 26 (20.97%) Hedge funds
6 24 (19.35%) Pricing Data
7 14 (11.29%) Algorithms
8 8 (6.45%) Product Ownership
9 6 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
11 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
11 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
11 3 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (1.61%) Credit Risk
12 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
13 1 (0.81%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Windows
1 10 (8.06%) Windows Server
2 6 (4.84%) Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Unix
4 2 (1.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (66.13%) Agile
2 68 (54.84%) Investment Management
3 56 (45.16%) Asset Management
4 53 (42.74%) Software Engineering
5 33 (26.61%) Order Management
6 26 (20.97%) DevOps
7 25 (20.16%) Risk Management
8 20 (16.13%) Fintech
8 20 (16.13%) Performance Attribution
9 16 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 13 (10.48%) Computer Science
11 12 (9.68%) Analytics
11 12 (9.68%) Coaching
12 11 (8.87%) Electronic Trading
13 10 (8.06%) Low Latency
13 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (7.26%) Mathematics
14 9 (7.26%) Test Automation
15 8 (6.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 78 (62.90%) Python
2 50 (40.32%) Java
3 44 (35.48%) JavaScript
3 44 (35.48%) TypeScript
4 28 (22.58%) C#
4 28 (22.58%) SQL
5 17 (13.71%) C++
6 8 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.23%) C
7 4 (3.23%) Go
8 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.61%) VBA
8 2 (1.61%) VC++
9 1 (0.81%) Rust
9 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (8.06%) Degree
2 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.61%) EMIR
1 2 (1.61%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.06%) Argo
3 4 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.68%) Charles River
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.61%) ION Trading
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle
4 1 (0.81%) Databricks
4 1 (0.81%) IBM