The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Front Office 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 terms in our General category for the Docklands, 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office
Rank 14 23 8
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -15
Contract jobs citing Front Office 15 10 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 8.982% 4.525% 19.06%
As % of the General category 11.72% 6.289% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 55
Average daily rate £638 £525 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £450 £423
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £553 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.50 -
All of the General Category
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
128 159 501
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 76.65% 71.95% 83.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 124 241
Average daily rate £475 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £380 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £638
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +90.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Front Office
London

Front Office
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Front Office across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Docklands, London Front Office Jobs Demand Trend

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Front Office across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Front Office Daily Rate Trend

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Docklands, London Front Office Hourly Rate Trend

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Front Office also 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 that cited Front Office.

1 15 (71.43%) Derivative
2 13 (61.90%) Investment Banking
2 13 (61.90%) Banking
3 11 (52.38%) SQL
4 9 (42.86%) Finance
4 9 (42.86%) Fixed Income
4 9 (42.86%) Business Analysis
5 8 (38.10%) TIBCO
6 7 (33.33%) Data Mining
6 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (33.33%) Credit Derivative
6 7 (33.33%) Spotfire
6 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
6 7 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 7 (33.33%) Analytics
7 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (14.29%) Windows
7 3 (14.29%) C#
7 3 (14.29%) Grid Computing
7 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (9.524%) Summit
8 2 (9.524%) Degree
8 2 (9.524%) System Testing
8 2 (9.524%) Investment Management
8 2 (9.524%) Time Management
8 2 (9.524%) WCF
8 2 (9.524%) WPF
8 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
8 2 (9.524%) Computer Science
8 2 (9.524%) Multithreading

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Front Office also 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 that cited Front Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) WCF
1 2 (9.524%) WPF
2 1 (4.762%) REST
2 1 (4.762%) .NET
2 1 (4.762%) SOAP
2 1 (4.762%) Web Services
2 1 (4.762%) XML
2 1 (4.762%) Middleware
2 1 (4.762%) FIXML
2 1 (4.762%) XML Messaging
2 1 (4.762%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (4.762%) GemFire
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 7 (33.33%) Spotfire
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (61.90%) Banking
1 13 (61.90%) Investment Banking
2 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (9.524%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.762%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Analyst
2 11 (52.38%) Business Analyst
3 7 (33.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 6 (28.57%) Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (9.524%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.762%) QA Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) C++ Developer
7 1 (4.762%) WPF Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (71.43%) Derivative
2 9 (42.86%) Fixed Income
3 7 (33.33%) Credit Derivative
3 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (14.29%) Grid Computing
5 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
5 2 (9.524%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Linux
3 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Business Analysis
2 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (9.524%) Risk Management
4 2 (9.524%) Multithreading
4 2 (9.524%) System Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Investment Management
4 2 (9.524%) Time Management
5 1 (4.762%) Monte Carlo Method
5 1 (4.762%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (4.762%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.762%) Project Management
5 1 (4.762%) Service Management
5 1 (4.762%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.762%) Project Planning
5 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (9.524%) C++
3 2 (9.524%) Python
4 1 (4.762%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) TIBCO
2 1 (4.762%) Reuters
2 1 (4.762%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.762%) DataSynapse
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft