Front Office Contracts in England

Front Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 83 93
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing Front Office 852 1,409 1,958
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.33% 2.86% 2.77%
As % of the General category 4.00% 4.84% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 1,175 1,627
10th Percentile £531 £525 £538
25th Percentile £613 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £731 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £850
UK median daily rate £739 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +1.90% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,277 29,126 40,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.20% 59.21% 56.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,702 20,455 28,101
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,781 948 1,313
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.12 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.67
90th Percentile £65.25 £71.64 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.82% +53.73% -2.22%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London 0 837 £750 +3.45% 237
North West +7 5 £405 -8.99% 3
North of England +4 5 £405 -12.88% 3
South East -2 4 £500 -50.00% 6
East of England +9 3 £375 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 184 (21.60%) Apache Airflow
2 170 (19.95%) Apache
3 14 (1.64%) Confluence
4 8 (0.94%) SAS
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.59%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 46 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (2.70%) Aladdin
2 21 (2.46%) Endur
3 10 (1.17%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.59%) EuroRunner
5 5 (0.59%) Markit EDM
5 5 (0.59%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.47%) Aligne
7 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 294 (34.51%) AWS
2 197 (23.12%) GCP
3 193 (22.65%) Azure
4 102 (11.97%) dbt
5 81 (9.51%) Snowflake
6 20 (2.35%) npm
7 16 (1.88%) Power Platform
8 15 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.06%) GitHub
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.70%) Serverless
13 5 (0.59%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.47%) Azure App Service
14 4 (0.47%) Entra ID
15 2 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
16 1 (0.12%) Azure Functions
16 1 (0.12%) Figma
16 1 (0.12%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.64%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.35%) DHCP
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) WAN
4 2 (0.23%) SSH
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) Multicast
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (19.48%) Apache Ignite
2 102 (11.97%) Amazon Athena
2 102 (11.97%) Apache Arrow
2 102 (11.97%) Dremio
3 80 (9.39%) Data Lake
4 63 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 34 (3.99%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.29%) KDB
8 25 (2.93%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.76%) Power BI
10 11 (1.29%) Kdb+
11 10 (1.17%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.06%) Tableau
13 6 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.35%) Data Mart
14 3 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (7.86%) JIRA
2 52 (6.10%) Cypress.io
3 35 (4.11%) TeamCity
4 33 (3.87%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.40%) Git
6 28 (3.29%) Jenkins
7 20 (2.35%) webpack
8 16 (1.88%) GitLab
9 15 (1.76%) JUnit
10 13 (1.53%) Mockito
11 12 (1.41%) NUnit
12 11 (1.29%) Moq
13 8 (0.94%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.70%) Selenium
16 5 (0.59%) Maven
16 5 (0.59%) MLflow
17 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
18 3 (0.35%) TestRail
18 3 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 578 (67.84%) Finance
2 369 (43.31%) Banking
3 202 (23.71%) Investment Banking
4 134 (15.73%) Social Skills
5 98 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (8.22%) Back Office
7 9 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 8 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.82%) Law
10 4 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.47%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.35%) Agriculture
11 3 (0.35%) Aviation
11 3 (0.35%) Legal
11 3 (0.35%) Marketing
11 3 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.23%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 437 (51.29%) Developer
2 193 (22.65%) Software Engineer
3 151 (17.72%) Analyst
4 143 (16.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 123 (14.44%) Python Developer
6 117 (13.73%) Senior
7 106 (12.44%) Python Engineer
7 106 (12.44%) Python Software Engineer
8 105 (12.32%) React Developer
9 100 (11.74%) Business Analyst
10 96 (11.27%) Java Developer
11 94 (11.03%) C# Developer
12 70 (8.22%) Full Stack Developer
13 64 (7.51%) Front Office Developer
14 63 (7.39%) Finance Manager
15 55 (6.46%) Lead
16 51 (5.99%) Financial Analyst
17 47 (5.52%) Senior Developer
18 44 (5.16%) Quantitative Developer
19 43 (5.05%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (22.54%) React
2 178 (20.89%) gRPC
3 174 (20.42%) Protocol Buffers
4 127 (14.91%) Pandas
5 123 (14.44%) Redux
6 120 (14.08%) NumPy
7 109 (12.79%) SciPy
8 102 (11.97%) .NET
9 76 (8.92%) Material-UI
10 55 (6.46%) AngularJS
11 39 (4.58%) REST
12 37 (4.34%) .NET Core
13 30 (3.52%) WPF
14 25 (2.93%) ASP.NET
14 25 (2.93%) RxJS
15 24 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
16 23 (2.70%) Node.js
17 22 (2.58%) Spring Boot
17 22 (2.58%) WebSockets
18 21 (2.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 344 (40.38%) Fixed Income
2 308 (36.15%) Derivative
3 286 (33.57%) Hedge funds
4 250 (29.34%) Equities
5 213 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 38 (4.46%) Product Ownership
7 34 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (3.76%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.05%) Equity Derivative
10 23 (2.70%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.11%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.64%) Credit Derivative
14 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.94%) Pricing Data
16 7 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.82%) Wiki
17 6 (0.70%) Management Information System
18 5 (0.59%) OTC Derivatives
18 5 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.46%) Windows
2 41 (4.81%) Unix
3 37 (4.34%) Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (49.77%) Agile
2 324 (38.03%) Asset Management
3 307 (36.03%) Software Engineering
4 274 (32.16%) Investment Management
5 137 (16.08%) Full Stack Development
6 120 (14.08%) Electronic Trading
7 108 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
8 103 (12.09%) Machine Learning
9 90 (10.56%) DevOps
10 88 (10.33%) Analytics
11 72 (8.45%) Fintech
12 69 (8.10%) TDD
13 67 (7.86%) Automated Trading
14 64 (7.51%) Risk Management
15 63 (7.39%) CI/CD
16 57 (6.69%) Computer Science
16 57 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (6.22%) Test Automation
18 51 (5.99%) Design Patterns
19 50 (5.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 401 (47.07%) Python
2 269 (31.57%) SQL
3 252 (29.58%) TypeScript
4 242 (28.40%) Java
5 237 (27.82%) C#
6 194 (22.77%) JavaScript
7 43 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 37 (4.34%) C++
9 17 (2.00%) VBA
10 15 (1.76%) R
11 14 (1.64%) Scala
12 12 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.06%) Rust
14 7 (0.82%) Ruby
15 6 (0.70%) Perl
16 4 (0.47%) Bicep
16 4 (0.47%) Groovy
16 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 92 (10.80%) Degree
2 26 (3.05%) Master's Degree
3 20 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.94%) PhD
6 6 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.59%) CISM
7 5 (0.59%) CISSP
8 4 (0.47%) CISA
8 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.47%) PMP
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.35%) MCSE
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.12%) PgMP
10 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.75%) QA
2 44 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.00%) MiFID
4 12 (1.41%) Dodd-Frank
4 12 (1.41%) EMIR
5 6 (0.70%) PMO
5 6 (0.70%) SLA
6 4 (0.47%) SEPA
7 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.46%) Docker
2 10 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
1 7 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.70%) Grafana
3 5 (0.59%) Podman
4 4 (0.47%) SCCM
5 3 (0.35%) Control-M
5 3 (0.35%) Terraform
5 3 (0.35%) WSUS
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (7.16%) Google
2 56 (6.57%) Bloomberg
3 29 (3.40%) ION Trading
4 22 (2.58%) Oracle
5 19 (2.23%) Microsoft
6 15 (1.76%) Murex
7 14 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.53%) MarketAxess
8 13 (1.53%) Tradeweb
9 12 (1.41%) BISAM
9 12 (1.41%) OpenLink
9 12 (1.41%) TIBCO
10 11 (1.29%) IBM
11 10 (1.17%) Citrix
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.70%) Databricks
13 6 (0.70%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.70%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.70%) Splunk
14 5 (0.59%) Dynatrace