The first table below looks at the demand for the Front Office Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 19 June 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 England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office Developer
Rank 494 483 359
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -124
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 38 62 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.088% 0.117% 0.402%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.127% 0.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 57 180
Average daily rate £638 £575 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.86% -1.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £525
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Front Office Developer
UK

Front Office Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Front Office Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front Office Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +3 38 £638 +10.86% 13
East of England - - - -
Front Office Developer
UK

Front Office Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 121 (100.00%) Front Office
2 66 (54.55%) C#
3 50 (41.32%) C++
4 39 (32.23%) Banking
5 37 (30.58%) Java
6 36 (29.75%) Multithreading
7 34 (28.10%) Investment Banking
8 33 (27.27%) VBA
9 31 (25.62%) Derivative
10 28 (23.14%) SQL
11 25 (20.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (20.66%) Fixed Income
12 24 (19.83%) SQL Server
12 24 (19.83%) Windows
13 23 (19.01%) STL
13 23 (19.01%) Oracle
14 22 (18.18%) .NET
15 21 (17.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 20 (16.53%) Python
16 20 (16.53%) WPF
17 19 (15.70%) Finance
18 18 (14.88%) Risk Management
19 17 (14.05%) Oracle Coherence
19 17 (14.05%) OO
20 16 (13.22%) Degree
20 16 (13.22%) Analytics
21 15 (12.40%) XML
22 14 (11.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
22 14 (11.57%) Agile Software Development
23 13 (10.74%) Credit Risk

Front Office Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 23 (19.01%) STL
2 22 (18.18%) .NET
3 21 (17.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 20 (16.53%) WPF
5 15 (12.40%) XML
6 12 (9.917%) WCF
7 10 (8.264%) Spring
8 9 (7.438%) Hibernate
9 8 (6.612%) Web Services
10 5 (4.132%) WinForms
11 4 (3.306%) REST
11 4 (3.306%) JSON
11 4 (3.306%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.306%) Silverlight
11 4 (3.306%) Rendezvous
12 3 (2.479%) J2SE
12 3 (2.479%) HTML
12 3 (2.479%) SOAP
12 3 (2.479%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.479%) Reactive Extensions
Application Platforms
1 17 (14.05%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (3.306%) GemFire
2 4 (3.306%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.479%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.826%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (6.612%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.132%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.826%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.306%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.306%) HTTP
2 3 (2.479%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.826%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.306%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (3.306%) OLAP
3 2 (1.653%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.653%) MS Access
4 1 (0.826%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.826%) Big Data
4 1 (0.826%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.826%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.917%) Visual Studio
2 9 (7.438%) CruiseControl
2 9 (7.438%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 7 (5.785%) Build Forge
3 7 (5.785%) Hudson
4 6 (4.959%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (4.132%) Maven
6 3 (2.479%) JUnit
6 3 (2.479%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.653%) Subversion
7 2 (1.653%) NUnit
7 2 (1.653%) Ant
8 1 (0.826%) MSTest
8 1 (0.826%) Moq
8 1 (0.826%) MSBuild
General
1 121 (100.00%) Front Office
2 39 (32.23%) Banking
3 34 (28.10%) Investment Banking
4 19 (15.70%) Finance
5 2 (1.653%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.826%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.62%) Derivative
2 25 (20.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (20.66%) Fixed Income
3 14 (11.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 13 (10.74%) Credit Risk
5 8 (6.612%) Grid Computing
6 7 (5.785%) Physics
6 7 (5.785%) Computer Science
7 6 (4.959%) Mathematics
7 6 (4.959%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (4.132%) Open Source
9 3 (2.479%) Equities
9 3 (2.479%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.653%) Inversion of Control
10 2 (1.653%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.826%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.826%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.826%) Visualisation
11 1 (0.826%) RIA
11 1 (0.826%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.83%) Windows
2 10 (8.264%) Linux
3 5 (4.132%) UNIX
4 1 (0.826%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.75%) Multithreading
2 18 (14.88%) Risk Management
3 17 (14.05%) OO
4 16 (13.22%) Analytics
5 14 (11.57%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (9.917%) OOP
7 11 (9.091%) RAD
8 10 (8.264%) MVC
9 9 (7.438%) TDD
9 9 (7.438%) Scrum
10 8 (6.612%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (4.959%) DNA
12 4 (3.306%) Electronic Trading
12 4 (3.306%) Time Management
12 4 (3.306%) Parallel Computing
13 3 (2.479%) MVVM
13 3 (2.479%) Release Management
13 3 (2.479%) Risk Analytics
14 2 (1.653%) Data Transformation
14 2 (1.653%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 66 (54.55%) C#
2 50 (41.32%) C++
3 37 (30.58%) Java
4 33 (27.27%) VBA
5 28 (23.14%) SQL
6 20 (16.53%) Python
7 8 (6.612%) C
8 5 (4.132%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.132%) Scala
9 4 (3.306%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.653%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.826%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.826%) VB
11 1 (0.826%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (13.22%) Degree
2 2 (1.653%) PhD
3 1 (0.826%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.826%) MCP
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Oracle
2 12 (9.917%) Sybase
3 11 (9.091%) Reuters
4 9 (7.438%) Bloomberg
5 8 (6.612%) TIBCO
5 8 (6.612%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.479%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.826%) Charles River
7 1 (0.826%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.826%) Perforce
7 1 (0.826%) Trayport
7 1 (0.826%) 29West
City, London
Expert in C# - 5+ years dev exp... Expert level C# is required, with knowledge of grid computing with HPC Azure and multi-threading as well as experience around...
Incisive Ltd
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Java mastery is... Firm grasp of Idiomatic Java SE... Experience of a minimum of one enterprise-class JEE container (WebSphere, Weblogic, etc) Very strong C# XML / XSLT... Unix/...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Firm grasp of Idiomatic Java SE... Experience of a minimum of one enterprise-class JEE container (WebSphere, Weblogic, etc) Very strong C# XML/XSLT... Unix/Linux. Murex MXG2000...
Eximius IT
Rate: From £500 to £600 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
It is essential that candidates have extensive exposure to working within front office roles and have proven ability to succeed within large front office projects. As this role...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013