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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 87 213
Rank change year-on-year -187 +126 0
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 112 531 454
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 3.81% 1.52%
As % of the General category 1.17% 5.34% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 92 501 413
10th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - +15.79%
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 9,583 9,943 18,402
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.63% 71.27% 61.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,088 6,264 14,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 11 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 7 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.46%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 59 (52.68%) AWS
2 19 (16.96%) GCP
3 18 (16.07%) Azure
4 10 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (8.93%) Amazon Kinesis
4 10 (8.93%) GitHub
4 10 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (6.25%) dbt
6 5 (4.46%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.89%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Telnet
2 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.93%) Flink
3 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (6.25%) Apache Arrow
4 7 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
4 7 (6.25%) Dremio
5 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.46%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.89%) MySQL
9 1 (0.89%) Power BI
9 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.89%) GCC
2 1 (0.89%) GDB
General
1 90 (80.36%) Finance
2 35 (31.25%) Banking
3 19 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.39%) Social Skills
5 10 (8.93%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.36%) Marketing
7 4 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (58.04%) Developer
2 50 (44.64%) Software Engineer
3 42 (37.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 37 (33.04%) Lead
5 31 (27.68%) Lead Developer
6 28 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
6 28 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (16.07%) Python Engineer
8 17 (15.18%) Java Engineer
9 16 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (11.61%) Senior
11 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (10.71%) React Developer
12 11 (9.82%) Analyst
12 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 11 (9.82%) Java Developer
12 11 (9.82%) Python Software Engineer
13 10 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.86%) React
2 44 (39.29%) Kafka
2 44 (39.29%) Node.js
3 40 (35.71%) Redux
4 32 (28.57%) GraphQL
5 15 (13.39%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (9.82%) AngularJS
6 11 (9.82%) Vue
7 10 (8.93%) .NET
8 8 (7.14%) NumPy
8 8 (7.14%) Pandas
9 7 (6.25%) SciPy
10 6 (5.36%) gRPC
11 5 (4.46%) .NET Core
11 5 (4.46%) Protocol Buffers
12 4 (3.57%) Sass
12 4 (3.57%) XML
12 4 (3.57%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (2.68%) XSLT
14 2 (1.79%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 65 (58.04%) Fixed Income
2 23 (20.54%) Equities
3 21 (18.75%) Derivative
4 11 (9.82%) Algorithms
5 9 (8.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (6.25%) Hedge funds
7 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
8 5 (4.46%) Pricing Data
9 3 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.79%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.89%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.89%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.04%) Windows
2 8 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (63.39%) Investment Management
2 69 (61.61%) Agile
3 58 (51.79%) Software Engineering
4 46 (41.07%) Order Management
5 40 (35.71%) Portfolio Management
6 29 (25.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (23.21%) Asset Management
8 21 (18.75%) DevOps
9 12 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 12 (10.71%) Coaching
9 12 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.82%) Fintech
11 10 (8.93%) ITIL
11 10 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (7.14%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.14%) Line Management
12 8 (7.14%) Risk Management
13 6 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.36%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 60 (53.57%) Python
2 58 (51.79%) Java
3 48 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 47 (41.96%) JavaScript
5 36 (32.14%) Go
6 24 (21.43%) SQL
7 17 (15.18%) C#
8 10 (8.93%) C++
9 8 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.57%) C
11 3 (2.68%) VBA
11 3 (2.68%) VC++
12 1 (0.89%) Rust
12 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) Degree
2 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.46%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.89%) ACCA
4 1 (0.89%) CIMA
4 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) EMIR
2 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.89%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (4.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.93%) Argo
3 4 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Charles River
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle
3 2 (1.79%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.89%) Databricks
4 1 (0.89%) IBM