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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 87 136
Rank change year-on-year -46 +49 +256
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 374 783 614
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.30% 3.35% 2.48%
As % of the General category 3.20% 5.34% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 348 761 593
10th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £142,500 £165,000 £151,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year - +6.98% +4.88%

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 11,694 14,666 16,121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 71.89% 62.74% 65.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,352 8,414 12,916
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,679 £45,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £53,688 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.13% -6.67% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Front Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Front Office

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 20 September 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
1 186 (49.73%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (23.80%) Apache
3 7 (1.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (8.82%) Aladdin
1 33 (8.82%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.27%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 240 (64.17%) AWS
2 186 (49.73%) dbt
3 128 (34.22%) GCP
4 89 (23.80%) Snowflake
5 21 (5.61%) Azure
6 6 (1.60%) GitHub
7 3 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.80%) Figma
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) FTP
2 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (49.73%) Amazon Athena
1 186 (49.73%) Apache Arrow
1 186 (49.73%) Apache Iceberg
1 186 (49.73%) Dremio
2 111 (29.68%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (23.80%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (23.80%) Data Lake
4 22 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.87%) MySQL
6 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.27%) KDB
7 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
7 1 (0.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (1.87%) Git
1 7 (1.87%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 312 (83.42%) Finance
2 133 (35.56%) Banking
3 95 (25.40%) Investment Banking
4 31 (8.29%) Social Skills
5 8 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.60%) Back Office
7 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.53%) Legal
8 2 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.27%) Billing
9 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 239 (63.90%) Software Engineer
2 193 (51.60%) Developer
3 186 (49.73%) AWS Engineer
3 186 (49.73%) AWS Software Engineer
4 162 (43.32%) Python Engineer
4 162 (43.32%) Python Software Engineer
5 146 (39.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 120 (32.09%) Java Engineer
6 120 (32.09%) Java Software Engineer
7 115 (30.75%) Senior
8 97 (25.94%) AWS Developer
9 91 (24.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 89 (23.80%) Senior Java Engineer
10 89 (23.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 82 (21.93%) Python Developer
12 45 (12.03%) Analyst
13 37 (9.89%) Business Analyst
14 33 (8.82%) Business Manager
14 33 (8.82%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 33 (8.82%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (50.27%) NumPy
1 188 (50.27%) Pandas
2 186 (49.73%) SciPy
3 150 (40.11%) React
4 134 (35.83%) Node.js
5 119 (31.82%) AngularJS
6 112 (29.95%) Vue
7 90 (24.06%) gRPC
8 89 (23.80%) Protocol Buffers
9 49 (13.10%) Redux
10 29 (7.75%) Kafka
11 26 (6.95%) .NET
12 24 (6.42%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (2.41%) REST
14 7 (1.87%) .NET Core
14 7 (1.87%) NHibernate
15 6 (1.60%) JSON
15 6 (1.60%) Web Services
15 6 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 278 (74.33%) Fixed Income
2 224 (59.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 218 (58.29%) Equities
4 160 (42.78%) Derivative
5 138 (36.90%) Hedge funds
6 89 (23.80%) Pricing Data
7 33 (8.82%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.41%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.60%) BYOD
11 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.53%) Credit Risk
14 1 (0.27%) Cloud Native
14 1 (0.27%) Data Structures
14 1 (0.27%) Distributed Systems
14 1 (0.27%) Market Risk
14 1 (0.27%) State Machine
14 1 (0.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.87%) Linux
2 6 (1.60%) Windows
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 2 (0.53%) Solaris
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (83.69%) Agile
2 270 (72.19%) Investment Management
3 252 (67.38%) Software Engineering
4 244 (65.24%) Asset Management
5 127 (33.96%) Order Management
6 123 (32.89%) Fintech
7 115 (30.75%) Risk Management
8 97 (25.94%) Performance Attribution
9 59 (15.78%) Portfolio Management
10 40 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
11 34 (9.09%) Business Analysis
12 33 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (8.82%) Data Mapping
13 25 (6.68%) Analytics
14 22 (5.88%) People Management
14 22 (5.88%) TDD
15 17 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (4.28%) Microservices
16 16 (4.28%) Software Delivery
16 16 (4.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 262 (70.05%) Python
2 239 (63.90%) JavaScript
2 239 (63.90%) TypeScript
3 181 (48.40%) Java
4 59 (15.78%) SQL
5 58 (15.51%) C#
6 24 (6.42%) Go
7 20 (5.35%) C++
8 3 (0.80%) VBA
9 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Clojure
10 1 (0.27%) Groovy
10 1 (0.27%) Rust
10 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (3.21%) Degree
2 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.07%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.53%) QA
3 1 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 36 (9.63%) Calypso
2 35 (9.36%) Charles River
3 33 (8.82%) BISAM
3 33 (8.82%) SimCorp
4 6 (1.60%) Trayport
5 5 (1.34%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.27%) Murex
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle
7 1 (0.27%) Reuters
7 1 (0.27%) Solace