Front Office Jobs with Work from Home Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 152 521
Rank change year-on-year -5 +369 -234
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 707 887 406
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.00% 2.33% 0.54%
As % of the General category 3.32% 3.54% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 664 798 359
10th Percentile £75,000 £70,735 £62,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £146,250 £140,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +13.51%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,269 25,037 48,492
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.29% 65.71% 64.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,201 17,070 25,365
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,303 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,548 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

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
1 388 (54.88%) Apache Airflow
2 374 (52.90%) Apache
3 3 (0.42%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.71%) thinkFolio
2 4 (0.57%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.28%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.28%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.14%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 531 (75.11%) AWS
2 372 (52.62%) dbt
3 300 (42.43%) Snowflake
4 296 (41.87%) GCP
5 125 (17.68%) Azure
6 16 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (1.27%) Dagster
9 4 (0.57%) PaaS
9 4 (0.57%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.28%) Serverless
12 1 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.14%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.28%) BGP
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
2 2 (0.28%) OSPF
2 2 (0.28%) WAN
3 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (52.62%) Dremio
2 363 (51.34%) Apache Arrow
3 359 (50.78%) Apache Ignite
4 356 (50.35%) Amazon Athena
5 325 (45.97%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.26%) Big Data
6 16 (2.26%) Power BI
6 16 (2.26%) Tableau
7 8 (1.13%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.42%) KDB
9 3 (0.42%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.28%) Kdb+
10 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.14%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.14%) Flink
Development Applications
1 7 (0.99%) GitLab
1 7 (0.99%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 651 (92.08%) Finance
2 449 (63.51%) Banking
3 365 (51.63%) Investment Banking
4 95 (13.44%) Back Office
5 63 (8.91%) Social Skills
6 8 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.71%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.42%) Marketing
10 2 (0.28%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.28%) International Banking
10 2 (0.28%) Legal
11 1 (0.14%) Automotive
11 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.14%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 295 (41.73%) Software Engineer
2 265 (37.48%) Developer
3 212 (29.99%) Senior
4 180 (25.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 164 (23.20%) Python Engineer
6 158 (22.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 155 (21.92%) Python Software Engineer
8 145 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (20.51%) AWS Software Engineer
9 143 (20.23%) Lead
10 118 (16.69%) Python Developer
11 116 (16.41%) Java Engineer
11 116 (16.41%) Java Software Engineer
12 96 (13.58%) Analyst
13 76 (10.75%) Architect
13 76 (10.75%) Software Developer
14 71 (10.04%) Team Leader
15 70 (9.90%) Senior Java Engineer
15 70 (9.90%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 70 (9.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (53.61%) gRPC
1 379 (53.61%) Protocol Buffers
2 359 (50.78%) Pandas
3 347 (49.08%) NumPy
3 347 (49.08%) SciPy
4 118 (16.69%) React
5 103 (14.57%) Redux
6 78 (11.03%) AngularJS
7 74 (10.47%) Vue
8 61 (8.63%) .NET
9 50 (7.07%) Node.js
10 36 (5.09%) ASP.NET
10 36 (5.09%) ASP.NET Core
11 23 (3.25%) FIX Protocol
12 22 (3.11%) Material-UI
13 21 (2.97%) PySpark
14 19 (2.69%) .NET Core
15 10 (1.41%) GraphQL
16 3 (0.42%) Angular 2
16 3 (0.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 531 (75.11%) Fixed Income
2 506 (71.57%) Derivative
3 502 (71.00%) Hedge funds
4 473 (66.90%) Equities
5 427 (60.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (6.79%) Pricing Data
6 48 (6.79%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 7 (0.99%) FPGA
10 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.42%) Blog
13 3 (0.42%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.42%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.42%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.42%) FMCG
14 2 (0.28%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.11%) Windows
2 19 (2.69%) Linux
3 16 (2.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (79.63%) Asset Management
2 532 (75.25%) Agile
3 481 (68.03%) Software Engineering
4 480 (67.89%) Investment Management
5 133 (18.81%) Line Management
6 128 (18.10%) Greeks
7 113 (15.98%) Analytics
8 78 (11.03%) Fintech
9 60 (8.49%) Mentoring
10 50 (7.07%) Performance Attribution
11 45 (6.36%) Product Management
12 36 (5.09%) Electronic Trading
13 35 (4.95%) Full Stack Development
14 33 (4.67%) Machine Learning
15 32 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence
15 32 (4.53%) Quantitative Research
16 23 (3.25%) Front End Development
16 23 (3.25%) Roadmaps
17 20 (2.83%) Low Latency
17 20 (2.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 593 (83.88%) Python
2 432 (61.10%) TypeScript
3 431 (60.96%) JavaScript
4 370 (52.33%) Java
5 198 (28.01%) SQL
6 103 (14.57%) C#
7 33 (4.67%) R
8 18 (2.55%) C++
9 13 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.70%) Ruby
10 12 (1.70%) Scala
11 10 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.14%) C
12 1 (0.14%) Groovy
12 1 (0.14%) Perl
12 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (2.26%) Degree
2 2 (0.28%) CCIE
2 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (18.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (0.85%) SOC 1
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 2 (0.28%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (7.07%) Bloomberg
2 17 (2.40%) ION Trading
3 13 (1.84%) Murex
4 12 (1.70%) Oracle
4 12 (1.70%) Reuters
5 9 (1.27%) IBM
6 8 (1.13%) Algorithmics
7 5 (0.71%) Charles River
8 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.42%) Trayport
9 2 (0.28%) Cisco
9 2 (0.28%) Juniper
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.14%) Cognos
10 1 (0.14%) Concur
10 1 (0.14%) Databricks
10 1 (0.14%) SAP
10 1 (0.14%) Solace