The first table below looks at the demand for the Front Office Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 24 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office Developer
Rank 695 756 642
Rank change year-on-year
+61 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 167 143 242
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.155% 0.118% 0.195%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.164% 0.125% 0.206%
Number of salaries quoted 138 115 171
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 £52,500 £58,500 £57,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £94,000 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 - £47,500
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Front Office Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Front Office Developer Salary Trend

Front Office Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front Office Developer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Front Office Developer Salary Histogram

Front Office Developer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +62 154 £70,000 -12.50%
England +35 154 £70,000 -12.50%
City of London +37 76 £73,750 -7.81%
Glasgow - 13 £45,000 -
Scotland - 13 £45,000 -
Canary Wharf - 2 £70,000 -

Front Office Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 318 (100.00%) Front Office
2 184 (57.86%) C#
3 121 (38.05%) Finance
4 109 (34.28%) Java
5 102 (32.08%) .NET
6 98 (30.82%) Derivative
7 90 (28.30%) C++
8 74 (23.27%) Fixed Income
9 70 (22.01%) SQL
10 69 (21.70%) WPF
11 67 (21.07%) VBA
12 66 (20.75%) Multithreading
13 64 (20.13%) SQL Server
14 62 (19.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 59 (18.55%) WCF
16 53 (16.67%) Banking
17 51 (16.04%) Oracle
18 46 (14.47%) Risk Management
19 42 (13.21%) Degree
20 40 (12.58%) OO
21 39 (12.26%) Equities
22 38 (11.95%) Apache Cassandra
23 35 (11.01%) TDD
23 35 (11.01%) RAD
24 34 (10.69%) Hedge funds
25 31 (9.748%) Investment Banking
25 31 (9.748%) UNIX
26 29 (9.119%) Scala
27 28 (8.805%) Python
28 27 (8.491%) Electronic Trading

Front Office Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 102 (32.08%) .NET
2 69 (21.70%) WPF
3 59 (18.55%) WCF
4 25 (7.862%) LINQ
5 24 (7.547%) WinForms
6 23 (7.233%) .NET Framework
7 20 (6.289%) Spring
8 15 (4.717%) Apache Flex
8 15 (4.717%) HTML5
9 13 (4.088%) jQuery
10 11 (3.459%) XML
11 10 (3.145%) MXML
12 9 (2.830%) ASP.NET
13 7 (2.201%) WF
13 7 (2.201%) Silverlight
14 6 (1.887%) Cairngorm
14 6 (1.887%) Parsley
14 6 (1.887%) Hibernate
15 5 (1.572%) CSS
15 5 (1.572%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (3.145%) Lightstreamer
1 10 (3.145%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.830%) Rendezvous
3 7 (2.201%) Oracle Coherence
4 5 (1.572%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (0.943%) Windows Azure
6 2 (0.629%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (0.629%) GemFire
7 1 (0.314%) IIS
7 1 (0.314%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.314%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.346%) MS Excel
2 11 (3.459%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (2.201%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.516%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.201%) HTTP
1 7 (2.201%) Intranet
2 6 (1.887%) Internet
3 1 (0.314%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.13%) SQL Server
2 38 (11.95%) Apache Cassandra
3 19 (5.975%) SQL Server 2008
4 18 (5.660%) Hadoop
4 18 (5.660%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (5.346%) Big Data
6 14 (4.403%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (3.145%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (2.516%) Oracle 8/8i
9 7 (2.201%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.201%) QlikView
10 6 (1.887%) Oracle 10g
11 5 (1.572%) Oracle 11g
12 4 (1.258%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (0.943%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.943%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.314%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.314%) DB2
14 1 (0.314%) OLAP
14 1 (0.314%) KDB
Development Applications
1 10 (3.145%) Visual Studio
2 6 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.887%) JUnit
3 5 (1.572%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.258%) Subversion
4 4 (1.258%) PowerBuilder
5 3 (0.943%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.943%) JIRA
6 2 (0.629%) Maven
6 2 (0.629%) Git (software)
6 2 (0.629%) NUnit
General
1 318 (100.00%) Front Office
2 121 (38.05%) Finance
3 53 (16.67%) Banking
4 31 (9.748%) Investment Banking
5 11 (3.459%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.145%) Advertising
7 8 (2.516%) Retail
8 3 (0.943%) Back Office
9 2 (0.629%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.314%) Games
10 1 (0.314%) International Banking
Miscellaneous
1 98 (30.82%) Derivative
2 74 (23.27%) Fixed Income
3 62 (19.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 39 (12.26%) Equities
5 34 (10.69%) Hedge funds
6 27 (8.491%) Computer Science
7 17 (5.346%) Machine Learning
8 13 (4.088%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 12 (3.774%) Credit Derivative
10 11 (3.459%) Grid Computing
11 10 (3.145%) Equity Derivative
12 7 (2.201%) Credit Risk
12 7 (2.201%) Mathematics
13 6 (1.887%) Physics
13 6 (1.887%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.887%) RIA
13 6 (1.887%) Visualisation
14 3 (0.943%) Index Arbitrage
15 2 (0.629%) Statistical Arbitrage
15 2 (0.629%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.748%) UNIX
2 20 (6.289%) Windows
2 20 (6.289%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (20.75%) Multithreading
2 46 (14.47%) Risk Management
3 40 (12.58%) OO
4 35 (11.01%) TDD
4 35 (11.01%) RAD
5 27 (8.491%) Electronic Trading
6 25 (7.862%) Analytics
7 21 (6.604%) Agile Software Development
8 17 (5.346%) Asset Management
8 17 (5.346%) Pattern Recognition
9 16 (5.031%) Software Engineering
10 14 (4.403%) Unit Testing
11 11 (3.459%) Fund Management
12 9 (2.830%) Algorithmic Trading
13 8 (2.516%) Data Analysis
13 8 (2.516%) Waterfall
13 8 (2.516%) Migration
14 7 (2.201%) Investment Management
15 6 (1.887%) Data Migration
15 6 (1.887%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 184 (57.86%) C#
2 109 (34.28%) Java
3 90 (28.30%) C++
4 70 (22.01%) SQL
5 67 (21.07%) VBA
6 29 (9.119%) Scala
7 28 (8.805%) Python
8 19 (5.975%) MATLAB
9 14 (4.403%) JavaScript
10 12 (3.774%) ActionScript
11 11 (3.459%) Perl
11 11 (3.459%) PL/SQL
11 11 (3.459%) Ruby
12 6 (1.887%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.887%) C
13 5 (1.572%) Tcl
14 4 (1.258%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.943%) VC++
15 3 (0.943%) VB
16 2 (0.629%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 42 (13.21%) Degree
2 20 (6.289%) PhD
3 6 (1.887%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.258%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.258%) Basel III
Vendors
1 51 (16.04%) Oracle
2 22 (6.918%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.660%) Sybase
4 13 (4.088%) Infragistics
5 11 (3.459%) Bloomberg
6 10 (3.145%) Adobe
7 9 (2.830%) TIBCO
7 9 (2.830%) DataSynapse
8 8 (2.516%) thinkFolio
9 5 (1.572%) Business Objects
9 5 (1.572%) Reuters
9 5 (1.572%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.629%) Foundry
10 2 (0.629%) Fidessa
11 1 (0.314%) IBM
11 1 (0.314%) CQG
11 1 (0.314%) EasyScreen
11 1 (0.314%) Redback
11 1 (0.314%) Terracotta
11 1 (0.314%) FFastFill
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
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
For this role as a C# .NET WPF Silverlight Front Office Developer you will be working alongside global teams in providing innovative and logical applications for the business.....
harringtonstarr
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Development using VBA, Access, Excel, Oracle, SQL Server, C# .NET for the desktop and Intranet... Technical experience with .NET/C#, VBA, Access, Excel, SQL Server & Oracle. Understanding of...
iKas International
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
As a Silverlight C# developer (WCF, WPF, MVVM, IIS) your responsibilities will include; .Net 3.5 or 4.0 server development (essential) C# Silverlight client development(essential) WPF...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
My client, a leading global Investment Bank, seeks to find a highly proficient Front Office Java Developer to work within the OTC Derivatives space of a growing organisation.
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Reporting to the Head of Development this role will specifically have responsibility for: *Design of object oriented software *Programming in C#, using .NET framework, XML, XSLT, Oracle, Visual...
I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
The development is closely aligned to RAD development, with quick turnaround on projects due to the front office business critical nature of the work Skills Required: Excel VBA...
Huxley Associates
Salary: Competitive Salary and Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
My client, a Leading Global Brokerage firm in London, seeks to find an experienced Senior C++ Developer to work on an exciting new eTrading platform project. The successful...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £85000 - £95000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits
Posted: 20 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
London
Global financial institution requires a highly skilled Python developer who is comfortable working close with Quants. You must also have a strong infrastructure background working on High Performance...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £90 - £110000 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 17 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