The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our General category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office
Rank 80 80 97
Rank change year-on-year
0 +17
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 12 12 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.103% 0.866% 0.524%
As % of the General category 2.048% 1.821% 0.940%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 7
Average salary £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.77% -10.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year
- -21.73%
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
586 659 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 53.86% 47.58% 55.69%
Number of salaries quoted 288 435 616
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £62,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Front Office
Scotland

Front Office
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Front Office across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Edinburgh Front Office Jobs Demand Trend

Front Office
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Front Office Salary Trend

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Front Office also 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 that cited Front Office.

1 18 (69.23%) Finance
2 16 (61.54%) Investment Management
3 13 (50.00%) Banking
3 13 (50.00%) SQL
4 12 (46.15%) Business Analysis
5 11 (42.31%) C#
6 10 (38.46%) Investment Banking
7 9 (34.62%) Derivative
7 9 (34.62%) Degree
7 9 (34.62%) Java
7 9 (34.62%) OO
8 8 (30.77%) Asset Management
9 7 (26.92%) Equities
9 7 (26.92%) MS Excel
9 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
10 6 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (23.08%) .NET
10 6 (23.08%) OOP
10 6 (23.08%) Charles River
10 6 (23.08%) Back Office
10 6 (23.08%) Analytics
11 5 (19.23%) Change Management
11 5 (19.23%) PhD
12 4 (15.38%) Six Sigma
12 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
12 4 (15.38%) Fixed Income
12 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
12 4 (15.38%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
12 4 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
12 4 (15.38%) Use Case

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Front Office also 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 that cited Front Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
3 1 (3.846%) Spring
3 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.846%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) MS Excel
2 4 (15.38%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
General
1 18 (69.23%) Finance
2 13 (50.00%) Banking
3 10 (38.46%) Investment Banking
4 6 (23.08%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Analyst
2 12 (46.15%) Business Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (15.38%) Systems Support
5 4 (15.38%) Support Analyst
5 4 (15.38%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (15.38%) Systems Support Analyst
6 3 (11.54%) Business Support Analyst
7 2 (7.692%) Software Developer
7 2 (7.692%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.692%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Applications Support
7 2 (7.692%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (7.692%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.846%) .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Platform Manager
8 1 (3.846%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Derivative
2 7 (26.92%) Equities
3 6 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 4 (15.38%) Fixed Income
5 3 (11.54%) Exotic Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Investment Management
2 12 (46.15%) Business Analysis
3 9 (34.62%) OO
4 8 (30.77%) Asset Management
5 6 (23.08%) OOP
5 6 (23.08%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Change Management
7 4 (15.38%) Six Sigma
7 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 4 (15.38%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 4 (15.38%) Use Case
7 4 (15.38%) Systems Analysis
7 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Data Management
8 3 (11.54%) Data Management
8 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
8 3 (11.54%) Workflow
9 2 (7.692%) Wealth Management
10 1 (3.846%) Portfolio Management
10 1 (3.846%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) C#
3 9 (34.62%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) MATLAB
4 3 (11.54%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) VBA
4 3 (11.54%) PHP
4 3 (11.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) PhD
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Charles River
3 3 (11.54%) Cadis
3 3 (11.54%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.846%) Reuters