Front Office Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 215 208
Rank change year-on-year +134 -7 +290
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 540 478 787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.68% 1.47% 1.71%
As % of the General category 4.88% 2.42% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 513 436 682
10th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £78,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £113,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +13.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £138,750 £142,813 £132,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £162,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £112,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,070 19,761 30,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 75.36% 60.83% 66.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,070 14,949 20,278
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,139 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office.

Front Office salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 1 April 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
1 223 (41.30%) Apache Airflow
2 197 (36.48%) Apache
3 71 (13.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) GemFire
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 33 (6.11%) Aladdin
2 12 (2.22%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 315 (58.33%) AWS
2 214 (39.63%) dbt
3 151 (27.96%) GCP
4 139 (25.74%) Amazon ECS
5 106 (19.63%) AWS Lambda
5 106 (19.63%) Serverless
6 84 (15.56%) Snowflake
7 74 (13.70%) OpenShift
8 68 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (8.89%) Dagster
10 35 (6.48%) Amazon S3
11 34 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (6.30%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (6.30%) Azure
12 5 (0.93%) npm
12 5 (0.93%) Yarn
13 4 (0.74%) Figma
14 3 (0.56%) SaaS
15 2 (0.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (39.63%) Amazon Athena
1 214 (39.63%) Apache Iceberg
1 214 (39.63%) Dremio
2 198 (36.67%) Apache Arrow
3 194 (35.93%) Data Lake
4 179 (33.15%) Apache Ignite
5 54 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (6.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 13 (2.41%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.74%) Big Data
12 3 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
12 3 (0.56%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.56%) Redis
13 1 (0.19%) Data Hub
13 1 (0.19%) KDB
13 1 (0.19%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 71 (13.15%) Artifactory
2 9 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.48%) TeamCity
4 5 (0.93%) Ant
4 5 (0.93%) Babel
4 5 (0.93%) webpack
5 3 (0.56%) Git
5 3 (0.56%) MSTest
5 3 (0.56%) NUnit
5 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) git-flow
6 1 (0.19%) GitLab
6 1 (0.19%) Gradle
6 1 (0.19%) JIRA
6 1 (0.19%) JUnit
6 1 (0.19%) Maven
6 1 (0.19%) Mockito
General
1 506 (93.70%) Finance
2 171 (31.67%) Banking
3 88 (16.30%) Investment Banking
4 16 (2.96%) Social Skills
5 12 (2.22%) Law
6 7 (1.30%) Back Office
7 6 (1.11%) Agriculture
8 5 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.56%) Legal
9 3 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 234 (43.33%) AWS Engineer
2 214 (39.63%) Python Engineer
3 190 (35.19%) Software Engineer
4 154 (28.52%) Developer
5 127 (23.52%) AWS Software Engineer
6 118 (21.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 107 (19.81%) AWS DevOps
7 107 (19.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 107 (19.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 94 (17.41%) Python Software Engineer
9 90 (16.67%) Senior
10 85 (15.74%) Data Engineer
11 69 (12.78%) Java Engineer
12 66 (12.22%) Finance Manager
12 66 (12.22%) Java Software Engineer
13 61 (11.30%) AWS Developer
14 58 (10.74%) Analyst
15 55 (10.19%) Python Developer
16 50 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
17 49 (9.07%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (25.00%) PySpark
2 127 (23.52%) NumPy
2 127 (23.52%) Pandas
3 125 (23.15%) SciPy
4 109 (20.19%) React
5 107 (19.81%) gRPC
6 105 (19.44%) Protocol Buffers
7 92 (17.04%) Redux
8 90 (16.67%) Node.js
9 84 (15.56%) Kafka
10 71 (13.15%) J2EE
11 63 (11.67%) AngularJS
12 53 (9.81%) Vue
13 23 (4.26%) .NET
14 14 (2.59%) CSS
14 14 (2.59%) HTML
15 9 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (1.48%) CSS3
16 8 (1.48%) HTML5
16 8 (1.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 341 (63.15%) Fixed Income
2 250 (46.30%) Derivative
3 248 (45.93%) Hedge funds
4 213 (39.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 212 (39.26%) Equities
6 41 (7.59%) Product Ownership
7 32 (5.93%) Pricing Data
8 22 (4.07%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.11%) Credit Derivative
10 6 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.11%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.56%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.37%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.48%) Linux
1 8 (1.48%) Unix
2 3 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (89.26%) Agile
2 341 (63.15%) Asset Management
3 314 (58.15%) Software Engineering
4 300 (55.56%) Investment Management
5 148 (27.41%) Fintech
6 146 (27.04%) Migration
7 119 (22.04%) CI/CD
8 114 (21.11%) Roadmaps
9 113 (20.93%) DevOps
10 112 (20.74%) Data Governance
10 112 (20.74%) Regulatory Compliance
11 105 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 96 (17.78%) Data Management
13 87 (16.11%) Data Engineering
14 71 (13.15%) Open Source
15 61 (11.30%) Performance Attribution
16 58 (10.74%) Analytics
17 55 (10.19%) User Experience
18 34 (6.30%) Portfolio Management
19 33 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 367 (67.96%) Python
2 218 (40.37%) JavaScript
3 194 (35.93%) Java
4 182 (33.70%) TypeScript
5 86 (15.93%) SQL
6 71 (13.15%) Go
7 30 (5.56%) C#
8 7 (1.30%) C++
9 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (4.63%) Degree
2 13 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.19%) MiFID
2 13 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 117 (21.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 117 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 106 (19.63%) Terraform
3 5 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (0.93%) Nagios
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (6.11%) BISAM
2 18 (3.33%) Charles River
3 12 (2.22%) Calypso
3 12 (2.22%) SimCorp
4 6 (1.11%) Oracle
5 5 (0.93%) Murex
5 5 (0.93%) Solace
6 4 (0.74%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.56%) Sophis
7 3 (0.56%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.37%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.19%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.19%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.19%) Sun