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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 157 84
Rank change year-on-year -207 -73 +54
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 103 331 748
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 1.97% 3.37%
As % of the General category 0.68% 2.79% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 69 305 728
10th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £127,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £132,500 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £144,000 £142,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +4.65%

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 15,222 11,882 13,949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.28% 70.69% 62.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,179 6,201 7,773
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,200
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 October 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 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.97%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.18%) AWS
2 20 (19.42%) Azure
3 14 (13.59%) GCP
4 12 (11.65%) Amazon Bedrock
5 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (8.74%) GitHub
7 8 (7.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.85%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (4.85%) ChatGPT
8 5 (4.85%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.94%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.97%) SaaS
10 1 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) Power BI
2 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.97%) Big Data
3 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.97%) DuckDB
3 1 (0.97%) HBase
3 1 (0.97%) Metadata
3 1 (0.97%) Redis
3 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) JIRA
2 5 (4.85%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (64.08%) Finance
2 58 (56.31%) Banking
3 42 (40.78%) Social Skills
4 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (17.48%) Investment Banking
6 12 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (11.65%) Marketing
7 6 (5.83%) Back Office
7 6 (5.83%) Law
7 6 (5.83%) Retail
8 5 (4.85%) Legal
9 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 38 (36.89%) Developer
2 29 (28.16%) Software Engineer
3 23 (22.33%) Python Engineer
4 22 (21.36%) Python Software Engineer
5 21 (20.39%) Lead
6 20 (19.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 19 (18.45%) Analyst
7 19 (18.45%) Python Developer
8 17 (16.50%) Senior
9 12 (11.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 12 (11.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (11.65%) Software Developer
10 11 (10.68%) Support Analyst
11 9 (8.74%) Business Support Analyst
11 9 (8.74%) Front Office Developer
12 8 (7.77%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (7.77%) Java Developer
12 8 (7.77%) Lead Developer
12 8 (7.77%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.56%) FIX Protocol
1 15 (14.56%) LangChain
1 15 (14.56%) LangGraph
2 12 (11.65%) CrewAI
2 12 (11.65%) pydantic
3 6 (5.83%) React
3 6 (5.83%) REST
4 4 (3.88%) .NET
4 4 (3.88%) Kafka
5 3 (2.91%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.91%) Flask
5 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.91%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (2.91%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.94%) Blazor
6 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.94%) Pandas
6 2 (1.94%) Playwright
6 2 (1.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (27.18%) Hedge funds
2 25 (24.27%) Fixed Income
3 17 (16.50%) Derivative
4 16 (15.53%) AI Agents
5 15 (14.56%) Equities
6 12 (11.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
8 5 (4.85%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (4.85%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (2.91%) DTCC
9 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.91%) OTC Derivatives
9 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.97%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Software Engineering
2 27 (26.21%) Investment Management
3 26 (25.24%) AI
4 19 (18.45%) Asset Management
5 15 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (13.59%) Project Delivery
7 13 (12.62%) Decision-Making
8 12 (11.65%) Agile
8 12 (11.65%) Functional Testing
8 12 (11.65%) LLM
8 12 (11.65%) Pair Programming
9 10 (9.71%) Business Analysis
9 10 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (9.71%) Regulatory Change
10 9 (8.74%) Analytics
10 9 (8.74%) Performance Monitoring
10 9 (8.74%) Release Management
11 8 (7.77%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 47 (45.63%) Python
2 18 (17.48%) SQL
3 17 (16.50%) Java
4 14 (13.59%) R
5 10 (9.71%) C#
5 10 (9.71%) C++
6 5 (4.85%) Tcl
7 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (6.80%) Degree
2 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) EMIR
2 3 (2.91%) SLA
3 2 (1.94%) MiFID
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Google
2 9 (8.74%) FIS
2 9 (8.74%) SunGard
3 7 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.85%) IBM
4 5 (4.85%) Sybase
4 5 (4.85%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.91%) Databricks
5 3 (2.91%) Solace
6 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.97%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.97%) Charles River
7 1 (0.97%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.97%) Murex
7 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow