Front Office Contracts in London

Front Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 42 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Front Office 836 1,345 1,912
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.78% 5.14% 4.92%
As % of the General category 7.56% 8.13% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 1,132 1,591
10th Percentile £538 £538 £538
25th Percentile £613 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £900 £850
England median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
England median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,060 16,542 23,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.19% 63.27% 60.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,890 11,986 16,911
10th Percentile £338 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 210 299
10th Percentile £15.75 £16.59 £19.58
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £27.92 £31.71 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -15.44% +29.98%
75th Percentile £43.75 £57.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.44%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -33 68 £763 +1.67% 15
East London -2 5 £825 -17.50% 1
West London - 5 £450 - 1
South London +4 3 £800 +15.52% 2
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 189 (22.61%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (20.93%) Apache
3 12 (1.44%) Confluence
4 8 (0.96%) SAS
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.60%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 46 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (2.75%) Aladdin
2 21 (2.51%) Endur
3 10 (1.20%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.60%) EuroRunner
5 5 (0.60%) Markit EDM
5 5 (0.60%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.48%) Aligne
7 3 (0.36%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 298 (35.65%) AWS
2 198 (23.68%) GCP
3 193 (23.09%) Azure
4 106 (12.68%) dbt
5 84 (10.05%) Snowflake
6 19 (2.27%) npm
7 16 (1.91%) Power Platform
8 15 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.08%) GitHub
11 7 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.72%) Serverless
13 5 (0.60%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.48%) Azure App Service
14 4 (0.48%) Entra ID
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
16 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 1 (0.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 1 (0.12%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.67%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.36%) LAN
2 3 (0.36%) WAN
3 2 (0.24%) SSH
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) FTP
4 1 (0.12%) Multicast
4 1 (0.12%) SAN
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (20.45%) Apache Ignite
2 106 (12.68%) Amazon Athena
2 106 (12.68%) Apache Arrow
2 106 (12.68%) Dremio
3 83 (9.93%) Data Lake
4 63 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.31%) SQL Server
6 34 (4.07%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.35%) KDB
8 25 (2.99%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.79%) Power BI
10 11 (1.32%) Kdb+
11 10 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.08%) Tableau
13 6 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.36%) Data Mart
14 3 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (7.66%) JIRA
2 52 (6.22%) Cypress.io
3 35 (4.19%) TeamCity
4 32 (3.83%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.47%) Git
6 27 (3.23%) Jenkins
7 19 (2.27%) webpack
8 15 (1.79%) GitLab
9 14 (1.67%) JUnit
10 12 (1.44%) Mockito
10 12 (1.44%) NUnit
11 11 (1.32%) Moq
12 8 (0.96%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.84%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.72%) Selenium
15 5 (0.60%) Maven
15 5 (0.60%) MLflow
16 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
17 3 (0.36%) FitNesse
17 3 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 571 (68.30%) Finance
2 368 (44.02%) Banking
3 204 (24.40%) Investment Banking
4 132 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 96 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (8.37%) Back Office
7 8 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
8 7 (0.84%) Law
9 4 (0.48%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.36%) Agriculture
10 3 (0.36%) Aviation
10 3 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.36%) Legal
10 3 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.24%) Marketing
11 2 (0.24%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.12%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.12%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 433 (51.79%) Developer
2 196 (23.44%) Software Engineer
3 148 (17.70%) Analyst
4 144 (17.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 123 (14.71%) Python Developer
6 116 (13.88%) Senior
7 108 (12.92%) Python Engineer
7 108 (12.92%) Python Software Engineer
8 105 (12.56%) React Developer
9 98 (11.72%) Business Analyst
10 95 (11.36%) Java Developer
11 92 (11.00%) C# Developer
12 69 (8.25%) Full Stack Developer
13 64 (7.66%) Front Office Developer
14 63 (7.54%) Finance Manager
15 56 (6.70%) Lead
16 51 (6.10%) Financial Analyst
17 46 (5.50%) Senior Developer
18 42 (5.02%) .NET Developer
19 41 (4.90%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (22.97%) React
2 183 (21.89%) gRPC
3 179 (21.41%) Protocol Buffers
4 131 (15.67%) Pandas
5 124 (14.83%) NumPy
5 124 (14.83%) Redux
6 113 (13.52%) SciPy
7 98 (11.72%) .NET
8 75 (8.97%) Material-UI
9 55 (6.58%) AngularJS
10 38 (4.55%) REST
11 37 (4.43%) .NET Core
12 30 (3.59%) WPF
13 25 (2.99%) ASP.NET
14 24 (2.87%) Node.js
14 24 (2.87%) RxJS
15 22 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
16 21 (2.51%) Spring
16 21 (2.51%) Vue
16 21 (2.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 349 (41.75%) Fixed Income
2 309 (36.96%) Derivative
3 290 (34.69%) Hedge funds
4 253 (30.26%) Equities
5 213 (25.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 39 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (3.59%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.11%) Equity Derivative
10 23 (2.75%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.15%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.67%) Credit Derivative
14 10 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.96%) Pricing Data
16 6 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
17 5 (0.60%) Reference Data
17 5 (0.60%) Solar Panel
17 5 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.10%) Windows
2 38 (4.55%) Unix
3 32 (3.83%) Linux
4 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (50.48%) Agile
2 329 (39.35%) Asset Management
3 310 (37.08%) Software Engineering
4 279 (33.37%) Investment Management
5 137 (16.39%) Full Stack Development
6 117 (14.00%) Electronic Trading
7 108 (12.92%) Artificial Intelligence
8 103 (12.32%) Machine Learning
9 89 (10.65%) DevOps
10 83 (9.93%) Analytics
11 72 (8.61%) Fintech
12 69 (8.25%) TDD
13 67 (8.01%) Automated Trading
14 62 (7.42%) CI/CD
15 61 (7.30%) Risk Management
16 55 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (6.34%) Computer Science
17 53 (6.34%) Test Automation
18 50 (5.98%) Design Patterns
18 50 (5.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 404 (48.33%) Python
2 267 (31.94%) SQL
3 255 (30.50%) TypeScript
4 243 (29.07%) Java
5 234 (27.99%) C#
6 197 (23.56%) JavaScript
7 39 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 34 (4.07%) C++
9 17 (2.03%) VBA
10 15 (1.79%) R
11 14 (1.67%) Scala
12 11 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.08%) Rust
14 7 (0.84%) Ruby
15 6 (0.72%) Perl
16 4 (0.48%) Bicep
16 4 (0.48%) Groovy
16 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (10.53%) Degree
2 26 (3.11%) Master's Degree
3 20 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.96%) PhD
6 5 (0.60%) CISM
6 5 (0.60%) CISSP
7 4 (0.48%) CISA
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.36%) MCSE
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) CCNA
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.12%) PgMP
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PMP
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.74%) Data Quality
1 48 (5.74%) QA
2 17 (2.03%) MiFID
3 12 (1.44%) Dodd-Frank
3 12 (1.44%) EMIR
4 5 (0.60%) PMO
5 4 (0.48%) SEPA
6 3 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.51%) Docker
2 7 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
1 7 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.72%) Grafana
3 5 (0.60%) Podman
4 4 (0.48%) SCCM
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
5 3 (0.36%) Terraform
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (7.30%) Google
2 57 (6.82%) Bloomberg
3 29 (3.47%) ION Trading
4 22 (2.63%) Oracle
5 16 (1.91%) Microsoft
6 15 (1.79%) Murex
7 14 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.56%) MarketAxess
8 13 (1.56%) Tradeweb
9 12 (1.44%) BISAM
9 12 (1.44%) OpenLink
9 12 (1.44%) TIBCO
10 10 (1.20%) Citrix
10 10 (1.20%) IBM
11 6 (0.72%) Databricks
11 6 (0.72%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.72%) SimCorp
11 6 (0.72%) Splunk
12 5 (0.60%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.60%) Reuters