The first table below looks at the demand for the Front Office Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Front Office Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office Developer
Rank 245 286 267
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 72 40 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.617% 0.304% 0.451%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.665% 0.327% 0.482%
Number of salaries quoted 65 37 54
Average salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £59,000 £56,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £88,500 £84,250
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 - £47,500
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10833 12236 14328
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.06% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9362 11128 12878
Average salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.94% -3.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Front Office Developer
London

Front Office Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Front Office Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front Office Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Front Office Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Front Office Developer Salary Trend

Front Office Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front Office Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Front Office Developer Salary Histogram

Front Office Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled with Front Office Developer in their job title.

1 111 (100.00%) Front Office
2 69 (62.16%) C#
3 41 (36.94%) .NET
4 34 (30.63%) Derivative
5 33 (29.73%) Finance
6 32 (28.83%) SQL Server
7 29 (26.13%) SQL
8 28 (25.23%) Java
8 28 (25.23%) Oracle
8 28 (25.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (24.32%) VBA
10 26 (23.42%) Risk Management
11 23 (20.72%) C++
12 22 (19.82%) Fixed Income
13 20 (18.02%) PhD
13 20 (18.02%) Multithreading
14 18 (16.22%) RAD
15 17 (15.32%) Equities
15 17 (15.32%) Banking
15 17 (15.32%) MATLAB
15 17 (15.32%) Hadoop
15 17 (15.32%) Pattern Recognition
15 17 (15.32%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (15.32%) Machine Learning
15 17 (15.32%) Big Data
16 14 (12.61%) WPF
17 12 (10.81%) OO
18 11 (9.910%) Fund Management
19 10 (9.009%) Degree
19 10 (9.009%) TDD

Front Office Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 IT job ads sampled with Front Office Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 41 (36.94%) .NET
2 14 (12.61%) WPF
3 10 (9.009%) Spring
4 9 (8.108%) WinForms
5 7 (6.306%) WCF
5 7 (6.306%) LINQ
6 5 (4.505%) Apache Flex
6 5 (4.505%) Hibernate
6 5 (4.505%) XML
7 4 (3.604%) Reactive Extensions
8 3 (2.703%) HTML5
8 3 (2.703%) HTML
8 3 (2.703%) Web Services
8 3 (2.703%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.802%) Swing
9 2 (1.802%) JMS
9 2 (1.802%) ASP
9 2 (1.802%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.802%) WF
9 2 (1.802%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.505%) Oracle Coherence
2 3 (2.703%) Rendezvous
3 2 (1.802%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (0.901%) Confluence
4 1 (0.901%) GemFire
Applications
1 6 (5.405%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.901%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.901%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (8.108%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.306%) Intranet
2 4 (3.604%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.83%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.32%) Hadoop
2 17 (15.32%) Apache Cassandra
2 17 (15.32%) Big Data
3 8 (7.207%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (6.306%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (2.703%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (2.703%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.703%) QlikView
5 3 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.802%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.901%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.901%) DB2
7 1 (0.901%) KDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.703%) JIRA
1 3 (2.703%) TeamCity
1 3 (2.703%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.802%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.802%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.901%) Subversion
3 1 (0.901%) Maven
General
1 111 (100.00%) Front Office
2 33 (29.73%) Finance
3 17 (15.32%) Banking
4 9 (8.108%) Investment Banking
5 8 (7.207%) Retail
6 7 (6.306%) Advertising
7 1 (0.901%) Games
7 1 (0.901%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.63%) Derivative
2 28 (25.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (19.82%) Fixed Income
4 17 (15.32%) Equities
4 17 (15.32%) Machine Learning
5 7 (6.306%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (5.405%) Hedge funds
6 6 (5.405%) Computer Science
6 6 (5.405%) Credit Risk
6 6 (5.405%) Visualisation
7 5 (4.505%) Grid Computing
8 4 (3.604%) Mathematics
8 4 (3.604%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.802%) Open Source
9 2 (1.802%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (1.802%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.901%) Physics
10 1 (0.901%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.009%) UNIX
2 9 (8.108%) Windows
3 5 (4.505%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.42%) Risk Management
2 20 (18.02%) Multithreading
3 18 (16.22%) RAD
4 17 (15.32%) Pattern Recognition
5 12 (10.81%) OO
6 11 (9.910%) Fund Management
7 10 (9.009%) TDD
8 8 (7.207%) Migration
9 7 (6.306%) Asset Management
9 7 (6.306%) Data Analysis
10 6 (5.405%) Data Migration
11 4 (3.604%) Investment Management
11 4 (3.604%) Requirements Analysis
11 4 (3.604%) Scrum
11 4 (3.604%) Agile Software Development
12 3 (2.703%) OOP
12 3 (2.703%) Analytics
13 2 (1.802%) Portfolio Management
13 2 (1.802%) Business Analysis
13 2 (1.802%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 69 (62.16%) C#
2 29 (26.13%) SQL
3 28 (25.23%) Java
4 27 (24.32%) VBA
5 23 (20.72%) C++
6 17 (15.32%) MATLAB
7 6 (5.405%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.405%) Python
8 4 (3.604%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.802%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.802%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.802%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.901%) Clojure
10 1 (0.901%) VC++
10 1 (0.901%) Ruby
10 1 (0.901%) F#
10 1 (0.901%) Scala
10 1 (0.901%) Perl
10 1 (0.901%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (18.02%) PhD
2 10 (9.009%) Degree
3 1 (0.901%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.604%) Basel III
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) Oracle
2 10 (9.009%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.108%) Sybase
3 9 (8.108%) thinkFolio
4 4 (3.604%) DevExpress
4 4 (3.604%) Infragistics
5 3 (2.703%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.703%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.802%) DataSynapse
6 2 (1.802%) Foundry
7 1 (0.901%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.901%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.901%) IBM
City of London
The successful candidate should experience working with C#.net, WCF and SQL as well as having good interpersonal skill as they will be working closely with the traders...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Global Investment bank based in London, seeking an extremely strong Excel VBA Developer with exceptional business knowledge, specifically in Interest Rate Derivatives and/or FX Options... The main...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Experience of real-time messaging (eg TIBCO RV) Highly effective working as part of a global team. Mathematics or related science degree. This is a great opportunity for...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £85000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus+Benefits+Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Mathematics or related science degree This is a great opportunity for the Front Office.Net Developer (C#,WCF,WPF,Silverlight,MQ) to work in a challenging but rewarding...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £85000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus+Benefits+Package
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The technology environment is a mixture of VBA, Excel, Access and SQL Server / Oracle and is increasingly moving towards using the .NET technologies... If you have a good...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + bonus, pension, health, etc.
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Must Have Fixed Income Knowledge - Must Have. Knowledge of Reuters and/or Bloomberg - Must Have... - Must Have Strong object orientated skills - Beneficial. Knowledge of C++ or C# - Beneficial.....
Harrington Starr
Salary: £75000 - £100000 per annum + Package + Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
TIBCO RV) - Beneficial This is an excellent opportunity to join a global and leading company within this space... RAD Development, Tibco etc.) and benefit from excellent training and...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £75000 - £100000 per annum + Package + Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
C++ Developer- Tier 1 Investment Bank- Windows/Linux A leading Tier 1 Investment Bank has multiple headcount for C++ developers in a multi-asset class team providing risk...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
55,000- £70,000 + Extremely Competitive Bonus and Benefits Package(PhD, MATLAB, Big Data, Hadoop, MACHINE LEARNING) This is an exciting front office role for a strong Quantitative...
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + Competitive Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013