The first table below looks at the demand for the Front Office Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Front Office Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Canary Wharf region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office Developer
Rank 41 44 55
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 13 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 3.377% 0.541% 0.400%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.672% 0.590% 0.426%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 2
Average daily rate £650 £464 £544
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.23% -14.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
354 339 470
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 91.95% 91.62% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 212 366
Average daily rate £550 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £375 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -13.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Front Office Developer
London

Front Office Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Front Office Developer across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Canary Wharf Front Office Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Front Office Developer across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Front Office Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Front Office Developer across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Front Office Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Front Office Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region that cited Front Office Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Front Office Developer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Front Office
2 13 (81.25%) C++
3 9 (56.25%) STL
3 9 (56.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 8 (50.00%) Windows
5 7 (43.75%) SQL
5 7 (43.75%) Banking
5 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
5 7 (43.75%) Credit Risk
6 6 (37.50%) Multithreading
6 6 (37.50%) C#
6 6 (37.50%) Java
7 5 (31.25%) OOP
7 5 (31.25%) OO
7 5 (31.25%) VBA
7 5 (31.25%) .NET
7 5 (31.25%) Degree
8 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
8 4 (25.00%) MVC
8 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
9 3 (18.75%) Web Services
9 3 (18.75%) WPF
9 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (12.50%) CruiseControl
10 2 (12.50%) WinForms
10 2 (12.50%) WCF
10 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
10 2 (12.50%) Physics
10 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (12.50%) Build Forge

Front Office Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region that cited Front Office Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Front Office Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (56.25%) STL
1 9 (56.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) Web Services
3 3 (18.75%) WPF
4 2 (12.50%) WCF
4 2 (12.50%) WinForms
5 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.250%) JSON
5 1 (6.250%) XML
5 1 (6.250%) SOAP
5 1 (6.250%) HTML
5 1 (6.250%) Silverlight
5 1 (6.250%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Rendezvous
1 1 (6.250%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (6.250%) GemFire
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) CruiseControl
1 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (12.50%) Build Forge
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
1 2 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 16 (100.00%) Front Office
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Credit Risk
2 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
2 2 (12.50%) Physics
3 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.250%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.250%) Derivative
3 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Multithreading
2 5 (31.25%) OOP
2 5 (31.25%) OO
3 4 (25.00%) MVC
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.250%) Data Transformation
6 1 (6.250%) Monte Carlo Method
6 1 (6.250%) Data Analysis
6 1 (6.250%) Use Case
6 1 (6.250%) RAD
6 1 (6.250%) DNA
6 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) C++
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) C#
4 5 (31.25%) VBA
5 2 (12.50%) C
6 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.250%) Python
6 1 (6.250%) Assembly Language
6 1 (6.250%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) Sybase
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) TIBCO
2 1 (6.250%) Reuters
2 1 (6.250%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.250%) DataSynapse