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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 77 201
Rank change year-on-year -207 +124 +8
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 110 535 473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 4.16% 1.53%
As % of the General category 1.14% 5.77% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 88 507 431
10th Percentile £76,750 £80,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £150,000 £138,750 £142,500
90th Percentile - £152,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,620 9,265 19,041
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.00% 72.03% 61.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,329 6,320 14,910
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,800 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 28 March 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 4 (3.64%) Apache
1 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.82%) AWS
2 17 (15.45%) GCP
3 16 (14.55%) Azure
4 10 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 10 (9.09%) GitHub
4 10 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.64%) dbt
5 4 (3.64%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) Telnet
2 5 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) Flink
2 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (3.64%) Apache Arrow
5 4 (3.64%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (3.64%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (3.64%) Dremio
6 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.91%) MySQL
7 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.91%) Power BI
7 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.91%) GCC
2 1 (0.91%) GDB
General
1 88 (80.00%) Finance
2 37 (33.64%) Banking
3 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.73%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.45%) Marketing
7 4 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.91%) Back Office
9 1 (0.91%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (55.45%) Developer
2 47 (42.73%) Software Engineer
3 40 (36.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 37 (33.64%) Lead
5 31 (28.18%) Lead Developer
6 28 (25.45%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (25.45%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (14.55%) Java Engineer
8 15 (13.64%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (13.64%) Python Engineer
9 12 (10.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (10.91%) React Developer
10 11 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (10.00%) Java Developer
11 10 (9.09%) Analyst
11 10 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (9.09%) Senior
11 10 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (7.27%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (41.82%) React
2 44 (40.00%) Kafka
3 42 (38.18%) Node.js
4 40 (36.36%) Redux
5 32 (29.09%) GraphQL
6 15 (13.64%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (8.18%) Vue
8 8 (7.27%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.36%) .NET
10 5 (4.55%) NumPy
10 5 (4.55%) Pandas
11 4 (3.64%) gRPC
11 4 (3.64%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (3.64%) Sass
11 4 (3.64%) SciPy
11 4 (3.64%) XML
11 4 (3.64%) ZeroMQ
12 3 (2.73%) XSLT
13 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
13 2 (1.82%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 61 (55.45%) Fixed Income
2 21 (19.09%) Equities
3 20 (18.18%) Derivative
4 10 (9.09%) Algorithms
5 9 (8.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (7.27%) Hedge funds
7 7 (6.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.64%) Pricing Data
9 3 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.82%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.82%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.91%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.09%) Windows
2 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.36%) Linux
4 2 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (60.91%) Investment Management
2 64 (58.18%) Agile
3 54 (49.09%) Software Engineering
4 42 (38.18%) Order Management
5 40 (36.36%) Portfolio Management
6 28 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (19.09%) Asset Management
8 18 (16.36%) DevOps
9 13 (11.82%) CI/CD
10 12 (10.91%) ITIL
11 11 (10.00%) Coaching
11 11 (10.00%) Fintech
12 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (7.27%) Computer Science
13 8 (7.27%) Line Management
14 6 (5.45%) Front End Development
14 6 (5.45%) Multithreading
14 6 (5.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (54.55%) Python
2 57 (51.82%) Java
3 45 (40.91%) TypeScript
4 44 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 36 (32.73%) Go
6 26 (23.64%) SQL
7 15 (13.64%) C#
8 9 (8.18%) C++
9 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.64%) C
11 3 (2.73%) VBA
11 3 (2.73%) VC++
12 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Degree
2 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.82%) ACCA
4 2 (1.82%) CIMA
5 1 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) EMIR
2 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.91%) GRC
2 1 (0.91%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.09%) Argo
3 4 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.18%) Charles River
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.73%) Oracle
3 1 (0.91%) Databricks
3 1 (0.91%) IBM
3 1 (0.91%) ION Trading