London Front Office Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Front Office' in IT jobs within the London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bristol Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guernsey Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Manchester Merseyside North West Northern Ireland Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southampton Stevenage Street Surrey Swindon UK Uxbridge Welwyn Garden City West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	17
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	5342	12139
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.820 %	4.971 %
As % of the category below	11.10 %	16.76 %
Salaries quoted	4143	8700
Average minimum salary	£60,265	£59,745
Average salary	£67,626	£66,492
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Average maximum salary	£74,988	£73,238
UK excluding London average salary	£47,376	£44,596
% change on same period last year	+6.23 %
General London
Matching permanent IT job ads	48136	72437
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	25.41 %	29.66 %
Salaries quoted	39892	55007
Average minimum salary	£48,957	£51,407
Average salary	£53,838	£56,567
% change on same period last year	-4.82 %
Average maximum salary	£58,718	£61,728
UK excluding London average salary	£40,890	£42,387
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Front Office across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front Office across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-4	2181	£66,386	-2.93 %
Canary Wharf	-1	178	£63,900	-11.02 %
Docklands, London	-8	119	£68,823	-2.45 %
Uxbridge	-	8	£26,125	-
Luton	-	4	£35,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the London 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 5673 (44.01 %) Derivative 2 4940 (38.32 %) Banking 3 4931 (38.25 %) Finance 4 4271 (33.13 %) Java 5 3827 (29.69 %) SQL 6 3824 (29.66 %) C# 7 3306 (25.65 %) C++ 8 3006 (23.32 %) Investment Banking 9 2551 (19.79 %) UNIX 10 2352 (18.25 %) Fixed Income 11 2106 (16.34 %) Equities 12 2072 (16.07 %) .NET 13 1968 (15.27 %) Equity Derivative 14 1964 (15.24 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 15 1817 (14.10 %) VBA

16 1606 (12.46 %) Degree 17 1520 (11.79 %) OO 18 1489 (11.55 %) Sybase 19 1480 (11.48 %) SQL Server 20 1308 (10.15 %) Risk Management 21 1293 (10.03 %) Oracle 22 1233 (9.565 %) Windows 23 1031 (7.998 %) Asset Management 24 995 (7.719 %) Back Office 25 988 (7.664 %) XML 26 898 (6.966 %) Credit Derivative 27 830 (6.439 %) J2EE 28 800 (6.206 %) Project Management 29 794 (6.159 %) Investment Management 30 766 (5.942 %) Business Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the London 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 2072 (16.07 %) .NET 2 988 (7.664 %) XML 3 830 (6.439 %) J2EE 4 668 (5.182 %) WinForms 5 666 (5.166 %) Spring 6 486 (3.770 %) ASP.NET 7 436 (3.382 %) Hibernate 8 317 (2.459 %) Swing 9 287 (2.226 %) WebServices 10 285 (2.211 %) STL 11 271 (2.102 %) J2SE 12 232 (1.800 %) Middleware 13 207 (1.606 %) FIX Protocol 14 201 (1.559 %) .NET Framework 15 189 (1.466 %) ASP 16 184 (1.427 %) JMS 17 179 (1.389 %) JDBC 18 172 (1.334 %) HTML 19 147 (1.140 %) MFC 20 137 (1.063 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 156 (1.210 %) JBoss 2 101 (0.783 %) WebLogic 3 93 (0.721 %) MQSeries 4 90 (0.698 %) Tomcat 5 82 (0.636 %) Rendezvous 6 77 (0.597 %) Apache 7 64 (0.496 %) MS Exchange 8 56 (0.434 %) IIS 9 53 (0.411 %) TIBCO EMS 10 47 (0.365 %) SharePoint 11 16 (0.124 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 15 (0.116 %) CMS 13 14 (0.109 %) WebSphere MQ 13 14 (0.109 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 12 (0.093 %) BizTalk Server 15 11 (0.085 %) ColdFusion 15 11 (0.085 %) JRun 16 10 (0.078 %) SAS 17 9 (0.070 %) Site Server 18 8 (0.062 %) SmartSockets
Applications 1 333 (2.583 %) MS Excel 2 314 (2.436 %) Spreadsheet 3 87 (0.675 %) MS Office 4 68 (0.527 %) MS Visio 5 22 (0.171 %) MS Project 6 16 (0.124 %) MATLAB 7 9 (0.070 %) MS PowerPoint 8 8 (0.062 %) CA Clarity 9 1 (0.008 %) Photoshop 9 1 (0.008 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 135 (1.047 %) Endur 2 87 (0.675 %) Capstone 3 72 (0.559 %) Summit 4 48 (0.372 %) Minerva 5 47 (0.365 %) FRONT ARENA 6 46 (0.357 %) RMDS 7 43 (0.334 %) Tesseract 8 37 (0.287 %) LongView 9 35 (0.272 %) Beauchamp 10 30 (0.233 %) Murex MxG2000 11 29 (0.225 %) SimCorp Dimension 12 26 (0.202 %) Eagle PACE 13 23 (0.178 %) Decalog 14 21 (0.163 %) Findur 15 18 (0.140 %) Temenos Globus 15 18 (0.140 %) Thomson PORTIA 16 17 (0.132 %) InvestOne 17 16 (0.124 %) Sophis RISQUE 18 15 (0.116 %) Loan IQ 18 15 (0.116 %) Misys Opics
Communications & Networking 1 100 (0.776 %) TCP/IP 2 82 (0.636 %) Intranet 3 67 (0.520 %) Internet 4 45 (0.349 %) Firewall 5 33 (0.256 %) SAN 6 31 (0.240 %) LAN 7 30 (0.233 %) WAN 8 20 (0.155 %) VPN 9 14 (0.109 %) DNS 9 14 (0.109 %) DHCP 10 12 (0.093 %) HTTP 11 10 (0.078 %) SSL 12 9 (0.070 %) Extranet 13 6 (0.047 %) Network Security 14 5 (0.039 %) VoIP 15 3 (0.023 %) FTP 15 3 (0.023 %) PBX 15 3 (0.023 %) MPLS 16 2 (0.016 %) ATM 16 2 (0.016 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1480 (11.48 %) SQL Server 2 614 (4.763 %) RDBMS 3 292 (2.265 %) SQL Server 2005 4 185 (1.435 %) SQL Server 2000 5 152 (1.179 %) SQL Server 7 6 85 (0.659 %) BusinessObjects 7 78 (0.605 %) DTS 8 77 (0.597 %) ETL 9 70 (0.543 %) Reference Data 10 63 (0.489 %) Crystal Reports 11 52 (0.403 %) MySQL 12 49 (0.380 %) Datawarehouse 13 48 (0.372 %) Oracle 9i 14 32 (0.248 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 31 (0.240 %) Oracle Reports 15 31 (0.240 %) OLAP 16 27 (0.209 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 26 (0.202 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 25 (0.194 %) Oracle 10g 19 24 (0.186 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 175 (1.358 %) Eclipse 2 161 (1.249 %) JUnit 3 106 (0.822 %) TestDirector 4 84 (0.652 %) Ant 5 56 (0.434 %) Visual Studio 6 50 (0.388 %) ClearCase 7 48 (0.372 %) Subversion 8 47 (0.365 %) QuickTest Pro 9 41 (0.318 %) Dreamweaver 10 40 (0.310 %) NUnit 11 23 (0.178 %) WinRunner 12 20 (0.155 %) CruiseControl 13 17 (0.132 %) ClearQuest 14 16 (0.124 %) LoadRunner 15 15 (0.116 %) Log4j 16 14 (0.109 %) Flash 17 9 (0.070 %) JIRA 18 7 (0.054 %) Oracle Forms 19 6 (0.047 %) Rational Robot 19 6 (0.047 %) Selenium	General 1 4940 (38.32 %) Banking 2 4931 (38.25 %) Finance 3 3006 (23.32 %) Investment Banking 4 995 (7.719 %) Back Office 5 352 (2.731 %) Education 6 306 (2.374 %) Financial Institution 7 114 (0.884 %) Health 8 95 (0.737 %) Marketing 9 88 (0.683 %) Insurance 10 84 (0.652 %) Pensions 10 84 (0.652 %) Retail 11 82 (0.636 %) Telecoms 12 67 (0.520 %) Games 13 47 (0.365 %) Private Banking 14 43 (0.334 %) Legal 15 42 (0.326 %) Government 16 31 (0.240 %) Construction 17 20 (0.155 %) Retail Banking 18 15 (0.116 %) Electric 19 13 (0.101 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 6608 (51.26 %) Developer 2 3433 (26.63 %) Analyst 3 2128 (16.51 %) Java Developer 4 1856 (14.40 %) C# Developer 5 1487 (11.54 %) Business Analyst 6 1205 (9.348 %) C++ Developer 7 956 (7.416 %) Applications Support 8 903 (7.005 %) Senior Developer 9 891 (6.912 %) Front Office Developer 10 827 (6.415 %) Support Analyst 11 660 (5.120 %) Project Manager 12 622 (4.825 %) Team Leader 13 599 (4.647 %) VBA Developer 14 529 (4.104 %) Excel Developer 15 483 (3.747 %) .NET Developer 16 431 (3.343 %) Analyst Developer 17 410 (3.181 %) Applications Support Analyst 18 395 (3.064 %) Excel VBA Developer 19 387 (3.002 %) Senior Analyst 20 351 (2.723 %) Senior Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5673 (44.01 %) Derivative 2 2352 (18.25 %) Fixed Income 3 2106 (16.34 %) Equities 4 1968 (15.27 %) Equity Derivative 5 1964 (15.24 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 898 (6.966 %) Credit Derivative 7 523 (4.057 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 455 (3.530 %) Multithreading 9 452 (3.506 %) Computer Science 10 402 (3.118 %) Mathematics 11 219 (1.699 %) Market Risk 12 181 (1.404 %) Credit Risk 13 170 (1.319 %) Exotic Derivative 14 162 (1.257 %) Grid Computing 15 140 (1.086 %) N-Tier 16 116 (0.900 %) Management Information System 17 92 (0.714 %) Physics 18 80 (0.621 %) Client/Server 19 65 (0.504 %) Statistical Arbitrage 20 61 (0.473 %) Contract for Difference
Operating Systems 1 2551 (19.79 %) UNIX 2 1233 (9.565 %) Windows 3 688 (5.337 %) Linux 4 197 (1.528 %) Solaris 5 183 (1.420 %) Windows NT 6 110 (0.853 %) Windows 2000 7 78 (0.605 %) Windows XP 8 22 (0.171 %) Debian 9 17 (0.132 %) HPUX 10 16 (0.124 %) Windows Server 2003 11 13 (0.101 %) SUSE 12 7 (0.054 %) VMS 13 2 (0.016 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1520 (11.79 %) OO 2 1308 (10.15 %) Risk Management 3 1031 (7.998 %) Asset Management 4 800 (6.206 %) Project Management 5 794 (6.159 %) Investment Management 6 766 (5.942 %) Business Analysis 7 636 (4.934 %) Algorithmic Trading 8 558 (4.329 %) Electronic Trading 9 516 (4.003 %) RAD 10 482 (3.739 %) Agile Software Development 11 264 (2.048 %) E-Commerce 12 258 (2.001 %) UML 13 231 (1.792 %) Fund Management 13 231 (1.792 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 188 (1.458 %) Workflow 15 155 (1.202 %) Migration 16 148 (1.148 %) SOA 17 137 (1.063 %) OOD 18 134 (1.039 %) ITIL 19 130 (1.008 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 4271 (33.13 %) Java 2 3827 (29.69 %) SQL 3 3824 (29.66 %) C# 4 3306 (25.65 %) C++ 5 1817 (14.10 %) VBA 6 761 (5.903 %) VB 7 584 (4.530 %) Perl 8 317 (2.459 %) VB.NET 9 311 (2.413 %) Shell Script 10 241 (1.870 %) VB6 11 237 (1.838 %) C 12 215 (1.668 %) VC++ 13 167 (1.295 %) Python 14 166 (1.288 %) Transact-SQL 15 133 (1.032 %) JavaScript 16 80 (0.621 %) PL/SQL 17 49 (0.380 %) Delphi 18 43 (0.334 %) Korn 19 42 (0.326 %) VBScript 20 32 (0.248 %) Smalltalk	Qualifications 1 1606 (12.46 %) Degree 2 119 (0.923 %) PhD 3 58 (0.450 %) ISEB 4 31 (0.240 %) Microsoft Certification 4 31 (0.240 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 24 (0.186 %) ITIL Certification 6 22 (0.171 %) MCSE 7 20 (0.155 %) PMI Certification 7 20 (0.155 %) ACCA 7 20 (0.155 %) CIMA 8 19 (0.147 %) PMP 9 11 (0.085 %) ISEB Practitioner 10 10 (0.078 %) CFA 11 9 (0.070 %) Postgraduate 12 8 (0.062 %) CCNA 12 8 (0.062 %) MCSA 12 8 (0.062 %) Cisco Certification 13 7 (0.054 %) CCNP 14 5 (0.039 %) CISA 15 4 (0.031 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 284 (2.203 %) QA 2 50 (0.388 %) SLA 3 12 (0.093 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 11 (0.085 %) MiFID 5 8 (0.062 %) Basel II 6 4 (0.031 %) GAAP 7 1 (0.008 %) IAS 39	System Software 1 27 (0.209 %) Active Directory 2 20 (0.155 %) MSMQ 3 9 (0.070 %) Oracle RMAN 4 6 (0.047 %) Oracle RAC 5 5 (0.039 %) Terminal Services 6 4 (0.031 %) ISA Server 7 3 (0.023 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 1 (0.008 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 1 (0.008 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 1 (0.008 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 34 (0.264 %) MOM 2 25 (0.194 %) Legato 3 9 (0.070 %) CONTROL-M 4 7 (0.054 %) Nagios 5 5 (0.039 %) AutoSys 6 4 (0.031 %) ServiceCenter 7 2 (0.016 %) OpenView 8 1 (0.008 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 1 (0.008 %) DameWare 8 1 (0.008 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 1489 (11.55 %) Sybase 2 1293 (10.03 %) Oracle 3 513 (3.980 %) Microsoft 4 323 (2.506 %) Bloomberg 5 311 (2.413 %) Reuters 6 305 (2.366 %) TIBCO 7 267 (2.071 %) LatentZero 8 250 (1.939 %) Murex 9 225 (1.745 %) Charles River 10 164 (1.272 %) OpenLink 11 154 (1.195 %) thinkFolio 12 128 (0.993 %) Calypso 13 123 (0.954 %) Fidessa 14 87 (0.675 %) Sophis 15 85 (0.659 %) Business Objects 16 55 (0.427 %) Sun 17 54 (0.419 %) Red Hat 18 52 (0.403 %) GL TRADE 19 42 (0.326 %) Actuate 20 41 (0.318 %) StatPro