Front Office Jobs in the City of London

Front Office
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 70 110
Rank change year-on-year -55 +40 -41
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 55 186 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.64% 4.11% 2.94%
As % of the General category 2.68% 6.26% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 47 172 203
10th Percentile £89,000 £67,500 £63,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £83,438 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £104,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +6.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £140,000 £125,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £155,250 £144,875 £127,250
Central London median annual salary £115,000 £104,500 £97,500
% change year-on-year +10.05% +7.18% -2.50%

All General Skills
City of London

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,054 2,973 4,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 61.41% 65.67% 63.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,591 2,412 3,658
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,625 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £118,750 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front Office in the City of London.

Salary trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (1.82%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.82%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.18%) AWS
2 9 (16.36%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) MySQL
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 8 (14.55%) GitLab
3 7 (12.73%) Git
3 7 (12.73%) Maven
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.82%) Gradle
General
1 22 (40.00%) Banking
2 21 (38.18%) Finance
3 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 18 (32.73%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Back Office
5 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Developer
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 13 (23.64%) Analyst
4 9 (16.36%) Java Developer
5 8 (14.55%) Support Analyst
6 7 (12.73%) Front Office Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Electronic Trading Support
7 6 (10.91%) Java Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Business Analyst
8 5 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) React Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Applications Support
10 2 (3.64%) Applications Support Analyst
10 2 (3.64%) Data Manager
10 2 (3.64%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 2 (3.64%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 2 (3.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Spring
1 7 (12.73%) Spring Boot
2 5 (9.09%) React
3 2 (3.64%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) RESTful
4 1 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.82%) Kafka
4 1 (1.82%) Murex MxML
4 1 (1.82%) Pandas
4 1 (1.82%) Rendezvous
4 1 (1.82%) Web Services
4 1 (1.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Equities
2 15 (27.27%) Fixed Income
3 12 (21.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (14.55%) FPGA
5 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Derivative
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.82%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
1 22 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 17 (30.91%) Low Latency
3 11 (20.00%) Agile
4 9 (16.36%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.36%) Microservices
5 8 (14.55%) Analytics
5 8 (14.55%) Computer Science
5 8 (14.55%) Design Patterns
5 8 (14.55%) OO
5 8 (14.55%) TDD
6 7 (12.73%) E-Commerce
7 6 (10.91%) OOD
7 6 (10.91%) Software Engineering
7 6 (10.91%) Straight-Through Processing
8 5 (9.09%) Data Analytics
8 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
9 4 (7.27%) Clean Code
9 4 (7.27%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (7.27%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 25 (45.45%) Java
2 21 (38.18%) SQL
3 9 (16.36%) C++
3 9 (16.36%) Python
4 4 (7.27%) C#
4 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.82%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Degree
2 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 6 (10.91%) FFastFill
2 6 (10.91%) Refinitiv
3 4 (7.27%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.64%) OpenLink
4 2 (3.64%) Solace
4 2 (3.64%) Trayport
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) Murex
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Progress
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) Sybase
5 1 (1.82%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.82%) Vertica