Front Office Contracts in the City of London

Front Office
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 30 41
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Front Office 56 236 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.60% 6.83% 5.50%
As % of the General category 3.88% 10.85% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 148 155
10th Percentile £569 £596 £577
25th Percentile £663 £642 £668
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £738
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +13.46%
75th Percentile £838 £916 £838
90th Percentile £883 £1,063 £920
Central London median daily rate £750 £760 £744
% change year-on-year -1.28% +2.15% +14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £26.00

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,444 2,176 2,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.98% 63.02% 57.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,535 1,748
10th Percentile £338 £368 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +3.64%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 31
10th Percentile £17.96 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.88 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.82 £20.71 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -41.68% +102.86%
75th Percentile £25.60 £38.66 £49.88
90th Percentile £38.63 £52.75 £61.75
Central London median hourly rate £23.80 £21.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% -40.85% +77.50%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.36%) MTS
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.79%) SAS
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Aligne
1 3 (5.36%) Endur
1 3 (5.36%) EuroRunner
2 2 (3.57%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.79%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.79%) ION MarketView
3 1 (1.79%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.50%) AWS
1 7 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.79%) Multicast
1 1 (1.79%) SAN
1 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) KDB
2 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.79%) Redis
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
2 3 (5.36%) Selenium
2 3 (5.36%) WebDriver
3 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (35.71%) Banking
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Back Office
6 3 (5.36%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Developer
2 17 (30.36%) Analyst
3 10 (17.86%) Business Analyst
3 10 (17.86%) Java Developer
4 8 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.71%) C# Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Data Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Front Office Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior
7 4 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Automation Tester
8 3 (5.36%) C++ Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Tester
9 2 (3.57%) Business Project Manager
9 2 (3.57%) C++/Java Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Market Data Analyst
9 2 (3.57%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) React
2 5 (8.93%) .NET
3 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.36%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.36%) Spring
5 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.79%) ADO
6 1 (1.79%) Blazor
6 1 (1.79%) CSS
6 1 (1.79%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.79%) HTML
6 1 (1.79%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.79%) RESTful
6 1 (1.79%) RxJS
6 1 (1.79%) Web Services
6 1 (1.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Equities
2 7 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 6 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (10.71%) Market Risk
4 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.57%) Derivative
6 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.79%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) Agile
2 9 (16.07%) Electronic Trading
3 7 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 6 (10.71%) ETRM
4 6 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (8.93%) Business Analysis
5 5 (8.93%) Data Analysis
5 5 (8.93%) Multithreading
5 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
5 5 (8.93%) Risk Management
6 4 (7.14%) Analytics
6 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (7.14%) DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (7.14%) Project Management
6 4 (7.14%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.36%) Computer Science
7 3 (5.36%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (5.36%) Microservices
8 2 (3.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) C#
2 14 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (23.21%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) C++
4 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) CCNA
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Bloomberg
1 3 (5.36%) Murex
2 2 (3.57%) ION Trading
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.57%) Sophis
3 1 (1.79%) Arista
3 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.79%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco
3 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.79%) FIS
3 1 (1.79%) IBM
3 1 (1.79%) MarketAxess
3 1 (1.79%) Radianz
3 1 (1.79%) Refinitiv
3 1 (1.79%) Solace
3 1 (1.79%) Sun
3 1 (1.79%) Tradeweb
3 1 (1.79%) VMware