Front Office Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 89 241
Rank change year-on-year +13 +152 -128
Contract jobs citing Front Office 407 641 490
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.70% 2.55% 1.12%
As % of the General category 4.59% 4.37% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 539 393
10th Percentile £563 £550 £500
25th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £740 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £800
90th Percentile £888 £909 £838
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,864 14,673 23,844
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.80% 58.48% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,820 10,341 17,298
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 333 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.95 £19.43
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +52.58% +40.54%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.20 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office.

Front Office daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Front Office daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 101 (24.82%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (21.62%) Apache
3 5 (1.23%) Confluence
4 3 (0.74%) MTS
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
Applications
1 22 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.21%) Endur
2 3 (0.74%) Aligne
2 3 (0.74%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.25%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 141 (34.64%) AWS
2 85 (20.88%) GCP
3 84 (20.64%) dbt
4 66 (16.22%) Snowflake
5 50 (12.29%) Azure
6 5 (1.23%) npm
6 5 (1.23%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.49%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.25%) GitHub
10 1 (0.25%) IaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.25%) PaaS
10 1 (0.25%) SaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.23%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.49%) DHCP
2 2 (0.49%) DNS
2 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (21.38%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (20.64%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (20.64%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (20.64%) Dremio
3 66 (16.22%) Data Lake
4 17 (4.18%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.46%) KDB
6 9 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.23%) Kdb+
8 5 (1.23%) Power BI
9 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.49%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.49%) MySQL
10 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (4.67%) JIRA
2 16 (3.93%) Cucumber
3 14 (3.44%) GitLab
3 14 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.19%) JUnit
4 13 (3.19%) Mockito
5 8 (1.97%) Git
6 6 (1.47%) MLflow
7 5 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.23%) webpack
8 4 (0.98%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.98%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.74%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.49%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.49%) JMeter
10 2 (0.49%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.49%) Selenium
10 2 (0.49%) TestRail
11 1 (0.25%) Log4Net
11 1 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 316 (77.64%) Finance
2 192 (47.17%) Banking
3 127 (31.20%) Investment Banking
4 60 (14.74%) Social Skills
5 51 (12.53%) Back Office
6 35 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.47%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.98%) Law
9 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.49%) Marketing
10 2 (0.49%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 207 (50.86%) Developer
2 90 (22.11%) Senior
3 86 (21.13%) Software Engineer
4 63 (15.48%) Analyst
5 59 (14.50%) Java Developer
6 56 (13.76%) C# Developer
7 54 (13.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 49 (12.04%) Front Office Developer
9 46 (11.30%) Python Developer
10 44 (10.81%) Lead
11 43 (10.57%) Python Engineer
11 43 (10.57%) Python Software Engineer
12 36 (8.85%) Business Analyst
13 35 (8.60%) React Developer
14 34 (8.35%) AWS Engineer
14 34 (8.35%) Financial Analyst
14 34 (8.35%) Senior Developer
15 33 (8.11%) AWS Software Engineer
15 33 (8.11%) Finance Manager
15 33 (8.11%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (23.83%) gRPC
2 96 (23.59%) Protocol Buffers
3 89 (21.87%) Pandas
4 82 (20.15%) NumPy
4 82 (20.15%) SciPy
5 64 (15.72%) React
6 33 (8.11%) .NET
7 29 (7.13%) Redux
8 23 (5.65%) AngularJS
9 22 (5.41%) Node.js
10 17 (4.18%) WPF
11 16 (3.93%) Spring Boot
12 15 (3.69%) Material-UI
13 12 (2.95%) Vue
14 10 (2.46%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.97%) RxJS
16 7 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (1.72%) REST
16 7 (1.72%) XML
17 6 (1.47%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 198 (48.65%) Derivative
2 165 (40.54%) Fixed Income
3 151 (37.10%) Hedge funds
4 135 (33.17%) Equities
5 119 (29.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (5.90%) Equity Derivative
7 16 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.69%) Credit Derivative
9 14 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (3.19%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.21%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.97%) Pricing Data
13 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.74%) Reference Data
16 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
16 2 (0.49%) Blog
16 2 (0.49%) Cloud Native
16 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.41%) Unix
2 15 (3.69%) Windows
3 9 (2.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (45.95%) Agile
2 181 (44.47%) Asset Management
3 153 (37.59%) Investment Management
4 149 (36.61%) Software Engineering
5 56 (13.76%) Analytics
6 42 (10.32%) Mentoring
7 37 (9.09%) Greeks
8 36 (8.85%) Electronic Trading
9 35 (8.60%) Fintech
10 32 (7.86%) Line Management
11 31 (7.62%) Full Stack Development
11 31 (7.62%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (6.39%) Risk Management
13 25 (6.14%) SDLC
14 23 (5.65%) Computer Science
15 22 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence
15 22 (5.41%) Machine Learning
16 21 (5.16%) Performance Attribution
17 19 (4.67%) Data Modelling
17 19 (4.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 232 (57.00%) Python
2 154 (37.84%) Java
3 127 (31.20%) JavaScript
4 126 (30.96%) C#
5 123 (30.22%) TypeScript
6 116 (28.50%) SQL
7 16 (3.93%) R
8 14 (3.44%) C++
9 13 (3.19%) Scala
10 12 (2.95%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.21%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.72%) Ruby
12 7 (1.72%) VBA
13 4 (0.98%) Perl
13 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.25%) Go
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (11.06%) Degree
2 20 (4.91%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.72%) PhD
5 5 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PMP
7 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.72%) MiFID
2 7 (1.72%) QA
3 4 (0.98%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.98%) PMO
3 4 (0.98%) SEPA
4 3 (0.74%) EMIR
5 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.49%) vSphere
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.74%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.74%) Terraform
2 2 (0.49%) WSUS
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) Grafana
3 1 (0.25%) Nagios
3 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (4.67%) Bloomberg
2 12 (2.95%) ION Trading
2 12 (2.95%) Oracle
3 6 (1.47%) Databricks
3 6 (1.47%) IBM
3 6 (1.47%) Murex
3 6 (1.47%) OpenLink
4 5 (1.23%) MarketAxess
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.23%) Tradeweb
5 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.49%) ESRI
6 2 (0.49%) Okta
6 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.49%) VMware
7 1 (0.25%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.25%) Solace
7 1 (0.25%) Splunk
7 1 (0.25%) TIBCO