Front Office Developer Jobs

Front Office Developer
UK

The median Front Office Developer salary in the UK is £135,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 866 1089
Rank change year-on-year +62 +223 -342
Permanent jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 73 112 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.11% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.12% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 69 104 132
10th Percentile £72,600 £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £104,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.19% +4.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £150,000 £125,313 £120,000
90th Percentile - £135,000 £125,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +53.85% +6.12% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer.

Salary trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +53 71 £135,000 +28.57% 8
London +86 68 £142,500 +35.71% 8
Work from Home +73 21 £123,750 +26.92% 3
UK excluding London -3 5 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Scotland -61 2 £75,000 +15.38%
East of England - 2 £100,000 -
South East - 1 £100,000 -

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Front Office Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Front Office
2 43 (58.90%) Python
3 34 (46.58%) Banking
4 30 (41.10%) Investment Banking
4 30 (41.10%) Java
5 20 (27.40%) Finance
6 18 (24.66%) Fixed Income
7 16 (21.92%) React
8 15 (20.55%) Low Latency
8 15 (20.55%) Agile
9 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
9 14 (19.18%) C++
10 11 (15.07%) Algorithmic Trading
10 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
11 10 (13.70%) Docker
11 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
12 9 (12.33%) .NET
12 9 (12.33%) Black-Scholes
12 9 (12.33%) High-Frequency Trading
13 8 (10.96%) Computer Science
13 8 (10.96%) Kafka
13 8 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (10.96%) KDB
14 7 (9.59%) Electronic Trading
14 7 (9.59%) Degree
14 7 (9.59%) Hedge funds
14 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
15 6 (8.22%) Market Making
15 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
15 6 (8.22%) TDD

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (6.85%) PaaS
2 3 (4.11%) AWS
2 3 (4.11%) Azure
3 2 (2.74%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) KDB
2 5 (6.85%) Kdb+
3 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (1.37%) Flink
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Git
1 1 (1.37%) Gradle
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.37%) Maven
1 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 73 (100.00%) Front Office
2 34 (46.58%) Banking
3 30 (41.10%) Investment Banking
4 20 (27.40%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) React
2 9 (12.33%) .NET
3 8 (10.96%) Kafka
4 6 (8.22%) Spring
4 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.48%) CSS
6 4 (5.48%) CSS3
6 4 (5.48%) HTML
6 4 (5.48%) HTML5
6 4 (5.48%) Sass
7 3 (4.11%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (4.11%) RESTful
7 3 (4.11%) Web Services
8 2 (2.74%) NumPy
8 2 (2.74%) Pandas
9 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.66%) Fixed Income
2 8 (10.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (9.59%) Hedge funds
4 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Equities
4 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.55%) Agile
1 15 (20.55%) Low Latency
2 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
3 11 (15.07%) Algorithmic Trading
4 9 (12.33%) Black-Scholes
4 9 (12.33%) High-Frequency Trading
5 8 (10.96%) Computer Science
6 7 (9.59%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (8.22%) Market Making
7 6 (8.22%) TDD
8 5 (6.85%) Microservices
8 5 (6.85%) Multithreading
8 5 (6.85%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (6.85%) Risk Management
9 4 (5.48%) Clean Code
9 4 (5.48%) Concurrent Programming
9 4 (5.48%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (5.48%) Mathematics
9 4 (5.48%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) Python
2 30 (41.10%) Java
3 14 (19.18%) C++
4 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
5 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) Charles River
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.37%) Vertica