Front Office Contracts

Front Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 96 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -28
Contract jobs citing Front Office 858 1,435 1,969
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 2.48% 2.25%
As % of the General category 3.44% 4.24% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 1,195 1,628
10th Percentile £531 £525 £538
25th Percentile £609 £603 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £625 £485
% change year-on-year -36.40% +28.87% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £13.50 - £26.56
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £81.06
90th Percentile - - £134.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% +16.28% -

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,958 33,814 49,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.04% 58.49% 56.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,748 23,448 34,168
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,935 1,032 1,408
10th Percentile £12.76 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +54.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.89 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.55 £72.50 £59.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.88%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England -13 848 £725 - 245
London 0 833 £731 -0.65% 233
Work from Home +14 408 £750 +1.35% 110
UK excluding London -7 15 £398 -36.40% 12
North of England +16 5 £405 -12.88% 3
North West 0 5 £405 -8.99% 3
South East -1 4 £500 -50.00% 6
East of England +14 3 £375 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £356 -
Midlands - 2 £356 -
Northern Ireland -2 1 £288 -50.35%

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 176 (20.51%) Apache Airflow
2 162 (18.88%) Apache
3 14 (1.63%) Confluence
4 8 (0.93%) SAS
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.58%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (2.68%) Aladdin
2 21 (2.45%) Endur
3 10 (1.17%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.58%) EuroRunner
5 5 (0.58%) Markit EDM
5 5 (0.58%) 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
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 286 (33.33%) AWS
2 192 (22.38%) Azure
3 189 (22.03%) GCP
4 98 (11.42%) dbt
5 77 (8.97%) Snowflake
6 20 (2.33%) npm
7 16 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.86%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (1.05%) GitHub
10 7 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (0.70%) Serverless
12 5 (0.58%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.47%) Azure App Service
13 4 (0.47%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
15 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.12%) Azure Functions
15 1 (0.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.63%) 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
1 158 (18.41%) Apache Ignite
2 98 (11.42%) Amazon Athena
2 98 (11.42%) Apache Arrow
2 98 (11.42%) Dremio
3 76 (8.86%) Data Lake
4 59 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 36 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.26%) KDB
7 25 (2.91%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.75%) Power BI
9 11 (1.28%) Kdb+
10 10 (1.17%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.05%) Tableau
12 6 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.35%) Data Mart
13 3 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 68 (7.93%) JIRA
2 48 (5.59%) Cypress.io
3 36 (4.20%) TeamCity
4 33 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.38%) Git
6 28 (3.26%) Jenkins
7 20 (2.33%) webpack
8 16 (1.86%) GitLab
9 15 (1.75%) JUnit
10 13 (1.52%) Mockito
11 12 (1.40%) NUnit
12 11 (1.28%) Moq
13 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.70%) MLflow
15 6 (0.70%) Selenium
16 5 (0.58%) Maven
17 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
18 3 (0.35%) FitNesse
18 3 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 576 (67.13%) Finance
2 365 (42.54%) Banking
3 200 (23.31%) Investment Banking
4 138 (16.08%) Social Skills
5 102 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (8.16%) Back Office
7 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (0.82%) Law
10 4 (0.47%) Agriculture
10 4 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.47%) Retail Banking
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%) French Language
12 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.23%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 435 (50.70%) Developer
2 190 (22.14%) Software Engineer
3 154 (17.95%) Analyst
4 138 (16.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 119 (13.87%) Python Developer
6 118 (13.75%) Senior
7 104 (12.12%) React Developer
8 103 (12.00%) Business Analyst
8 103 (12.00%) Python Engineer
8 103 (12.00%) Python Software Engineer
9 97 (11.31%) C# Developer
10 95 (11.07%) Java Developer
11 71 (8.28%) Full Stack Developer
12 64 (7.46%) Finance Manager
12 64 (7.46%) Front Office Developer
13 54 (6.29%) Lead
14 51 (5.94%) Financial Analyst
15 47 (5.48%) Senior Developer
16 45 (5.24%) Quantitative Developer
17 44 (5.13%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (22.49%) React
2 170 (19.81%) gRPC
3 166 (19.35%) Protocol Buffers
4 124 (14.45%) Pandas
5 121 (14.10%) Redux
6 117 (13.64%) NumPy
7 105 (12.24%) SciPy
8 102 (11.89%) .NET
9 72 (8.39%) Material-UI
10 56 (6.53%) AngularJS
11 39 (4.55%) REST
12 37 (4.31%) .NET Core
13 34 (3.96%) WPF
14 26 (3.03%) ASP.NET
15 25 (2.91%) RxJS
16 24 (2.80%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (2.68%) Node.js
18 22 (2.56%) Spring Boot
18 22 (2.56%) WebSockets
19 21 (2.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 338 (39.39%) Fixed Income
2 307 (35.78%) Derivative
3 280 (32.63%) Hedge funds
4 243 (28.32%) Equities
5 211 (24.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 38 (4.43%) Product Ownership
7 37 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (3.85%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
10 23 (2.68%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.10%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.75%) Credit Derivative
14 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.93%) Pricing Data
16 7 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.82%) Wiki
17 6 (0.70%) Management Information System
18 5 (0.58%) OTC Derivatives
18 5 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.53%) Windows
2 41 (4.78%) Unix
3 37 (4.31%) Linux
4 5 (0.58%) 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
1 419 (48.83%) Agile
2 318 (37.06%) Asset Management
3 301 (35.08%) Software Engineering
4 272 (31.70%) Investment Management
5 138 (16.08%) Full Stack Development
6 124 (14.45%) Electronic Trading
7 104 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
8 100 (11.66%) Machine Learning
9 92 (10.72%) DevOps
10 89 (10.37%) Analytics
11 73 (8.51%) Fintech
12 71 (8.28%) TDD
13 66 (7.69%) Risk Management
14 65 (7.58%) Automated Trading
15 61 (7.11%) CI/CD
16 58 (6.76%) Computer Science
16 58 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (6.18%) Test Automation
18 52 (6.06%) Design Patterns
19 50 (5.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 402 (46.85%) Python
2 271 (31.59%) SQL
3 246 (28.67%) TypeScript
4 242 (28.21%) C#
5 240 (27.97%) Java
6 191 (22.26%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 37 (4.31%) C++
9 17 (1.98%) VBA
10 16 (1.86%) R
11 15 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.75%) Scala
12 9 (1.05%) Rust
13 7 (0.82%) Ruby
14 6 (0.70%) Perl
15 4 (0.47%) Bicep
15 4 (0.47%) Groovy
15 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (11.07%) Degree
2 27 (3.15%) Master's Degree
3 21 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.93%) PhD
6 6 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.47%) PMP
8 3 (0.35%) CISM
8 3 (0.35%) CISSP
8 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.35%) MCSE
9 2 (0.23%) CISA
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 48 (5.59%) QA
2 45 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.98%) MiFID
4 12 (1.40%) Dodd-Frank
4 12 (1.40%) 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 (2.45%) 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 (0.58%) Podman
3 5 (0.58%) SCCM
4 3 (0.35%) Control-M
4 3 (0.35%) Terraform
4 3 (0.35%) WSUS
5 1 (0.12%) Ansible
5 1 (0.12%) Nagios
5 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (6.64%) Google
2 56 (6.53%) Bloomberg
3 29 (3.38%) ION Trading
4 23 (2.68%) Oracle
5 21 (2.45%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.86%) Murex
7 14 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.52%) MarketAxess
8 13 (1.52%) Tradeweb
9 12 (1.40%) BISAM
9 12 (1.40%) OpenLink
9 12 (1.40%) TIBCO
10 11 (1.28%) Citrix
10 11 (1.28%) IBM
11 9 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.82%) Databricks
13 6 (0.70%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.70%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.70%) Splunk
14 5 (0.58%) Reuters