The first table below looks at the demand for the Front Office Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office Developer
Rank 188 211 178
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 13 9 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.206% 0.115% 0.600%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.223% 0.126% 0.653%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 53
Average daily rate £575 £563 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% -2.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £471 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £695 £625 £675
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5840 7150 8882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.42% 91.56% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4286 5125 6488
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 179 185
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £42.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Front Office Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Front Office Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Front Office Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Front Office Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front Office Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 30 (100.00%) Front Office
2 17 (56.67%) Java
3 14 (46.67%) C#
4 11 (36.67%) Banking
5 10 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 10 (33.33%) SQL
6 9 (30.00%) VBA
7 7 (23.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
7 7 (23.33%) Fixed Income
7 7 (23.33%) Spring
8 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
9 5 (16.67%) C++
9 5 (16.67%) OO
9 5 (16.67%) RAD
9 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (16.67%) Derivative
9 5 (16.67%) Multithreading
10 4 (13.33%) TDD
10 4 (13.33%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (13.33%) Reuters
10 4 (13.33%) Finance
10 4 (13.33%) Sybase
10 4 (13.33%) Oracle
10 4 (13.33%) Scala
11 3 (10.00%) Linux
11 3 (10.00%) .NET
11 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
11 3 (10.00%) TIBCO

Front Office Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
1 7 (23.33%) Spring
2 3 (10.00%) .NET
2 3 (10.00%) WCF
2 3 (10.00%) WPF
3 1 (3.333%) LINQ
3 1 (3.333%) Django
3 1 (3.333%) Reactive Extensions
3 1 (3.333%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (3.333%) ADO
3 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.333%) DAO
3 1 (3.333%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Rendezvous
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.667%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) MS Access
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) NUnit
1 1 (3.333%) Subversion
1 1 (3.333%) Moq
General
1 30 (100.00%) Front Office
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 10 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (23.33%) Fixed Income
2 5 (16.67%) Derivative
3 4 (13.33%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (10.00%) Grid Computing
5 2 (6.667%) Credit Risk
6 1 (3.333%) Open Source
6 1 (3.333%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.333%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (16.67%) OO
2 5 (16.67%) RAD
2 5 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 4 (13.33%) TDD
4 1 (3.333%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (3.333%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (3.333%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (3.333%) MVVM
4 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) C#
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
4 9 (30.00%) VBA
5 5 (16.67%) C++
6 4 (13.33%) Scala
7 2 (6.667%) Python
8 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.333%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
1 4 (13.33%) Sybase
1 4 (13.33%) Reuters
2 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (3.333%) Perforce
City, London
The position will take responsibility for the integration of new front office models programmed in C#... Any applicants will have: - Expert level C# - Understanding of Market Data and...
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Posted: 17 May 2013