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 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 83 159
Rank change year-on-year -94 +76 +182
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 280 680 480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.71% 3.41% 2.14%
As % of the General category 2.44% 5.46% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 256 660 461
10th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £103,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +12.20% +10.81%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £135,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £151,250
UK median annual salary £115,000 £110,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.33% +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 11,455 12,453 14,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 69.86% 62.37% 66.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,259 7,105 11,662
10th Percentile £28,712 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% - +3.31%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - -

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 31 October 2025.

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
1 137 (48.93%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (24.64%) Apache
3 7 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Aladdin
1 11 (3.93%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.36%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 180 (64.29%) AWS
2 137 (48.93%) dbt
3 87 (31.07%) GCP
4 69 (24.64%) Snowflake
5 21 (7.50%) Azure
6 8 (2.86%) GitHub
7 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.07%) FTP
2 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.36%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (48.93%) Amazon Athena
1 137 (48.93%) Apache Arrow
1 137 (48.93%) Apache Iceberg
1 137 (48.93%) Dremio
2 76 (27.14%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (24.64%) Apache Ignite
3 69 (24.64%) Data Lake
4 22 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.50%) MySQL
6 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.71%) Flink
8 1 (0.36%) KDB
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (2.50%) JIRA
2 6 (2.14%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) GCC
3 1 (0.36%) GDB
3 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 222 (79.29%) Finance
2 101 (36.07%) Banking
3 74 (26.43%) Investment Banking
4 28 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.79%) Back Office
6 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 175 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 152 (54.29%) Developer
3 139 (49.64%) AWS Engineer
4 137 (48.93%) AWS Software Engineer
5 127 (45.36%) Python Engineer
6 125 (44.64%) Python Software Engineer
7 105 (37.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 91 (32.50%) Senior
9 88 (31.43%) Java Engineer
10 87 (31.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 68 (24.29%) AWS Developer
11 68 (24.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 67 (23.93%) Senior Java Engineer
12 67 (23.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 65 (23.21%) Python Developer
14 29 (10.36%) Lead
15 25 (8.93%) Analyst
16 21 (7.50%) Java Developer
17 20 (7.14%) C# Developer
18 19 (6.79%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (49.64%) NumPy
1 139 (49.64%) Pandas
2 137 (48.93%) SciPy
3 108 (38.57%) React
4 99 (35.36%) Node.js
5 84 (30.00%) AngularJS
6 80 (28.57%) Vue
7 70 (25.00%) gRPC
8 69 (24.64%) Protocol Buffers
9 37 (13.21%) Redux
10 32 (11.43%) Kafka
11 24 (8.57%) GraphQL
12 16 (5.71%) .NET
13 12 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
14 9 (3.21%) REST
15 7 (2.50%) NHibernate
16 6 (2.14%) Java Concurrency
16 6 (2.14%) JSON
16 6 (2.14%) Web Services
16 6 (2.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 196 (70.00%) Fixed Income
2 168 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 163 (58.21%) Equities
4 105 (37.50%) Derivative
5 92 (32.86%) Hedge funds
6 69 (24.64%) Pricing Data
7 11 (3.93%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.57%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.86%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.50%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.14%) BYOD
11 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.07%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.71%) Credit Risk
14 1 (0.36%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.36%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.21%) Linux
2 5 (1.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.07%) Unix
4 2 (0.71%) Solaris
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (81.07%) Agile
2 192 (68.57%) Investment Management
3 180 (64.29%) Software Engineering
4 166 (59.29%) Asset Management
5 101 (36.07%) Order Management
6 85 (30.36%) Fintech
6 85 (30.36%) Risk Management
7 68 (24.29%) Performance Attribution
8 36 (12.86%) Portfolio Management
9 30 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (7.86%) Analytics
11 20 (7.14%) DevOps
12 18 (6.43%) Microservices
13 16 (5.71%) TDD
14 14 (5.00%) CI/CD
14 14 (5.00%) Low Latency
14 14 (5.00%) People Management
15 13 (4.64%) Business Analysis
15 13 (4.64%) Electronic Trading
15 13 (4.64%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 195 (69.64%) Python
2 176 (62.86%) JavaScript
2 176 (62.86%) TypeScript
3 136 (48.57%) Java
4 47 (16.79%) C#
5 37 (13.21%) SQL
6 24 (8.57%) Go
7 19 (6.79%) C++
8 3 (1.07%) VBA
9 2 (0.71%) Scala
9 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) Clojure
10 1 (0.36%) Groovy
10 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (4.29%) Degree
2 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.07%) PhD
5 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.71%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (2.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.07%) Control-M
3 2 (0.71%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (5.36%) Charles River
2 14 (5.00%) Calypso
3 11 (3.93%) BISAM
3 11 (3.93%) SimCorp
4 6 (2.14%) Trayport
5 5 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.36%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.36%) Murex
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle
6 1 (0.36%) Reuters
6 1 (0.36%) Solace