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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 116 132
Rank change year-on-year -231 +16 +4
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 84 477 763
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 3.06% 2.23%
As % of the General category 0.70% 4.12% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 61 443 724
10th Percentile £75,000 £85,500 £76,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £146,875
90th Percentile £150,000 £150,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +6.98%

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 11,918 11,567 20,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.38% 74.30% 60.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7,814 6,392 15,152
10th Percentile £32,261 £27,500 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,094 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,239 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 24 June 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 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 42 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (19.05%) GCP
3 14 (16.67%) Azure
4 5 (5.95%) Copilot Studio
4 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.38%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.19%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Serverless
7 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 64 (76.19%) Finance
2 23 (27.38%) Banking
3 9 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.95%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.95%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.95%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (65.48%) Developer
2 42 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 41 (48.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 33 (39.29%) Lead
5 28 (33.33%) Lead Developer
5 28 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
5 28 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 13 (15.48%) React Developer
7 12 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
9 9 (10.71%) C# Developer
9 9 (10.71%) Front Office Developer
9 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (10.71%) Java Engineer
9 9 (10.71%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (9.52%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (8.33%) Analyst
12 5 (5.95%) Python Developer
13 4 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (51.19%) React
2 42 (50.00%) Node.js
3 41 (48.81%) Redux
4 33 (39.29%) Kafka
5 32 (38.10%) GraphQL
6 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.52%) Vue
7 7 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (5.95%) REST
9 3 (3.57%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.57%) Flask
9 3 (3.57%) LangChain
9 3 (3.57%) LangGraph
9 3 (3.57%) Semantic Kernel
10 2 (2.38%) .NET
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (2.38%) Pandas
10 2 (2.38%) XML
11 1 (1.19%) WebSockets
11 1 (1.19%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (53.57%) Fixed Income
2 15 (17.86%) Equities
3 12 (14.29%) Hedge funds
4 10 (11.90%) Derivative
5 8 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Unix
2 2 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (58.33%) Agile
2 47 (55.95%) Software Engineering
3 44 (52.38%) Investment Management
4 40 (47.62%) Portfolio Management
5 33 (39.29%) Order Management
6 30 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (17.86%) Fintech
8 9 (10.71%) Mentoring
9 8 (9.52%) Asset Management
9 8 (9.52%) Line Management
10 7 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 7 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
11 6 (7.14%) DevOps
11 6 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (5.95%) AI
12 5 (5.95%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 5 (5.95%) ITIL
12 5 (5.95%) KYC
12 5 (5.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (58.33%) Python
2 44 (52.38%) JavaScript
3 43 (51.19%) TypeScript
4 40 (47.62%) Java
5 32 (38.10%) Go
6 20 (23.81%) SQL
7 12 (14.29%) C#
8 4 (4.76%) Tcl
9 2 (2.38%) C++
10 1 (1.19%) C
10 1 (1.19%) VBA
10 1 (1.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Degree
2 2 (2.38%) ACCA
2 2 (2.38%) CIMA
2 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) EMIR
2 3 (3.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) IBM
3 4 (4.76%) Sybase
3 4 (4.76%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.19%) Murex
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) Solace