Front Office Contracts in Central London

Front Office
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 31 50
Rank change year-on-year -33 +19 -14
Contract jobs citing Front Office 68 247 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.84% 6.56% 4.82%
As % of the General category 4.31% 10.50% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 157 150
10th Percentile £553 £613 £561
25th Percentile £663 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £750 £738
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +1.69% +13.46%
75th Percentile £866 £925 £838
90th Percentile £931 £1,063 £913
London median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All General Skills
Central London

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,578 2,352 2,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.89% 62.45% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,665 1,908
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £681
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 28
10th Percentile £20.01 £14.63 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.51 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -34.12% +142.86%
75th Percentile £27.38 £48.31 £59.50
90th Percentile £40.53 £57.25 £67.55
London median hourly rate £27.92 £31.71 £37.50
% change year-on-year -11.95% -15.44% +29.98%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -33 63 £750 - 14
City of Westminster +1 5 £800 -
Front Office
London

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (4.41%) MTS
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.47%) SAS
2 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Aligne
1 3 (4.41%) Endur
1 3 (4.41%) EuroRunner
2 2 (2.94%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.94%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.47%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.47%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.47%) Multicast
1 1 (1.47%) SAN
1 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) KDB
2 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.88%) Power BI
4 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.47%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.47%) Redis
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.41%) Selenium
2 3 (4.41%) WebDriver
3 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.94%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 23 (33.82%) Banking
2 20 (29.41%) Finance
3 15 (22.06%) Investment Banking
3 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Back Office
5 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (2.94%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.94%) Legal
7 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.47%) French Language
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (44.12%) Developer
2 19 (27.94%) Analyst
3 12 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Business Analyst
5 10 (14.71%) Project Manager
6 7 (10.29%) C# Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Data Analyst
7 5 (7.35%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Python Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Quantitative Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Senior
8 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Automation Tester
9 3 (4.41%) C++ Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Tester
10 2 (2.94%) Analyst Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Applications Support Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) .NET
1 6 (8.82%) React
2 4 (5.88%) Spring
3 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.94%) Pandas
4 2 (2.94%) Web Services
5 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.47%) ADO
5 1 (1.47%) Blazor
5 1 (1.47%) CSS
5 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) Kafka
5 1 (1.47%) Middleware
5 1 (1.47%) Rendezvous
5 1 (1.47%) RxJS
5 1 (1.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Equities
1 10 (14.71%) Fixed Income
2 9 (13.24%) Hedge funds
3 8 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.76%) Market Risk
4 5 (7.35%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.41%) Derivative
7 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.47%) HP Storage
8 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.47%) Spread Betting
8 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.53%) Agile
2 9 (13.24%) Electronic Trading
3 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 7 (10.29%) Project Management
5 6 (8.82%) DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) ETRM
5 6 (8.82%) Low Latency
5 6 (8.82%) Multithreading
6 5 (7.35%) Business Analysis
6 5 (7.35%) Data Analysis
6 5 (7.35%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (7.35%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.88%) Analytics
7 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (5.88%) Change Management
7 4 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.88%) Microservices
7 4 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.88%) Test Automation
8 3 (4.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) Python
2 17 (25.00%) Java
3 16 (23.53%) C#
3 16 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (4.41%) C++
4 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.47%) C
5 1 (1.47%) Scala
5 1 (1.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) CCNA
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) EMIR
2 1 (1.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Grafana
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.47%) Nagios
1 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Murex
2 3 (4.41%) Bloomberg
3 2 (2.94%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.94%) Sophis
4 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.47%) BT
4 1 (1.47%) Citrix
4 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.47%) Dell
4 1 (1.47%) HP
4 1 (1.47%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.47%) MarketAxess
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.47%) Solace
4 1 (1.47%) Splunk
4 1 (1.47%) Sun
4 1 (1.47%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.47%) VMware