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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 133 87
Rank change year-on-year -232 -46 +49
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 90 374 783
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 2.30% 3.35%
As % of the General category 0.60% 3.20% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 59 348 761
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 £130,000 £137,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £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 14,917 11,698 14,668
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.96% 71.90% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,149 6,356 8,416
10th Percentile £32,227 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,679 £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 £80,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%

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 20 September 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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.22%) AWS
2 15 (16.67%) Azure
3 8 (8.89%) GCP
4 6 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
5 5 (5.56%) GitHub
5 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) Rubrik
7 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.11%) SaaS
8 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
2 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.11%) Big Data
3 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.11%) DuckDB
3 1 (1.11%) HBase
3 1 (1.11%) Metadata
3 1 (1.11%) Redis
3 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (63.33%) Finance
2 47 (52.22%) Banking
3 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
4 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (17.78%) Investment Banking
6 13 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.67%) Marketing
8 5 (5.56%) Back Office
8 5 (5.56%) Law
8 5 (5.56%) Legal
8 5 (5.56%) Retail
9 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.11%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Developer
2 19 (21.11%) Analyst
3 17 (18.89%) Software Engineer
4 16 (17.78%) Senior
5 15 (16.67%) Lead
5 15 (16.67%) Python Engineer
6 14 (15.56%) Python Software Engineer
7 13 (14.44%) Python Developer
8 11 (12.22%) Support Analyst
9 10 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 10 (11.11%) Front Office Developer
10 9 (10.00%) Business Support Analyst
11 8 (8.89%) C# Developer
12 6 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 6 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (10.00%) LangChain
2 9 (10.00%) LangGraph
3 6 (6.67%) CrewAI
3 6 (6.67%) pydantic
3 6 (6.67%) React
3 6 (6.67%) REST
4 4 (4.44%) .NET
4 4 (4.44%) Kafka
5 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.33%) Flask
5 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.33%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (3.33%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.22%) Blazor
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.22%) Pandas
6 2 (2.22%) Playwright
6 2 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Fixed Income
2 19 (21.11%) Hedge funds
3 12 (13.33%) Equities
4 10 (11.11%) AI Agents
4 10 (11.11%) Derivative
5 9 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
7 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.44%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.22%) DTCC
10 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (2.22%) OTC Derivatives
10 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 1 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.11%) Market Risk
11 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.11%) Software Engineering
2 17 (18.89%) Investment Management
3 16 (17.78%) AI
3 16 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (14.44%) Asset Management
4 13 (14.44%) Decision-Making
5 12 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (12.22%) Agile
6 11 (12.22%) Functional Testing
7 10 (11.11%) Business Analysis
7 10 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
8 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 9 (10.00%) Release Management
9 7 (7.78%) CI/CD
10 6 (6.67%) DevOps
10 6 (6.67%) LLM
10 6 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.00%) Python
2 21 (23.33%) SQL
3 11 (12.22%) C#
3 11 (12.22%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) C++
5 8 (8.89%) R
6 5 (5.56%) Tcl
7 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Degree
2 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) EMIR
2 3 (3.33%) MiFID
3 2 (2.22%) SLA
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) FIS
1 9 (10.00%) SunGard
2 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Google
4 5 (5.56%) IBM
4 5 (5.56%) Sybase
4 5 (5.56%) TIBCO
5 3 (3.33%) Databricks
5 3 (3.33%) Solace
6 2 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Charles River
7 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.11%) Murex
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow