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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

LinkFront Office
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank419555
Rank change year-on-year
Up+54Down-40
Matching permanent IT job ads346321856764
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.398 %2.162 %3.347 %
As % of the General category8.642 %4.402 %6.645 %
Salaries quoted277616704828
Average salary£72,500£65,000£65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.53 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£47,500£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£92,500£87,500£87,500
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£40,000£50,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50 %-20.00 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
4007249639101790
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK50.89 %49.11 %50.37 %
Salaries quoted326614129381674
Average salary£47,500£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-5.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,000£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.660 %-

Front Office
Demand Trend

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

Front Office Demand Trend

Front Office
Salary Trend

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

Front Office Salary Trend

Front Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front Office over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

Front Office Salary Histogram

Front Office
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+523455£72,500+11.53 %
LondonUp+133405£72,500+7.40 %
City of LondonUp+61324£70,000+7.69 %
Docklands, LondonUp+2109£70,000-
South EastUp+7228£46,500+16.25 %
Canary WharfUp+223£70,000+12.00 %
SurreyUp+4719£40,000-
WokingNew entry-11£40,000-
East of EnglandUp+327£22,000-37.14 %
CambridgeshireUp+157£22,000+10.00 %
ReadingUp+326£52,500+10.52 %
South WestUp+296£36,250-48.21 %
BerkshireUp+246£52,500+20.00 %
ScotlandUp+106£45,000+28.57 %
GlasgowNew entry-6£45,000-
CroydonNew entry-6£57,500-
PeterboroughNew entry-5£22,000-
DorsetNew entry-3£27,500-
GuildfordNew entry-2£53,750-
BristolUp+251£52,500-37.31 %
OxfordshireUp+141£75,000+368.75 %
SwindonUp+71£45,000-35.71 %
OxfordUp+61£75,000+368.75 %
WiltshireUp+31£45,000-35.71 %
East MidlandsNew entry-1£35,000-
MiddlesexNew entry-1--
LeicestershireNew entry-1£35,000-
LeicesterNew entry-1£35,000-
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-1£52,500-
IlfordNew entry-1£18,000-

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12549 (39.69 %)Derivative
22423 (37.73 %)Banking
32252 (35.07 %)C#
42251 (35.05 %)Finance
51891 (29.45 %)Java
61633 (25.43 %)C++
71536 (23.92 %)SQL
81518 (23.64 %)Investment Banking
91351 (21.04 %)Fixed Income
101287 (20.04 %).NET
111114 (17.35 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
121055 (16.43 %)UNIX
13868 (13.52 %)Equities
14828 (12.89 %)Windows
15769 (11.97 %)SQL Server
16762 (11.87 %)Risk Management
17741 (11.54 %)Equity Derivative
18644 (10.03 %)Oracle
19612 (9.530 %)OO
20599 (9.327 %)WinForms
21572 (8.907 %)VBA
22553 (8.611 %)WPF
23552 (8.595 %)Multithreading
24542 (8.440 %)Electronic Trading
25496 (7.723 %)Degree
26473 (7.365 %)Sybase
27461 (7.178 %)Project Management
28430 (6.696 %)Linux
29422 (6.571 %)Back Office
30418 (6.509 %)Credit Derivative

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11287 (20.04 %).NET
2599 (9.327 %)WinForms
3553 (8.611 %)WPF
4416 (6.478 %)XML
5256 (3.986 %)J2EE
6242 (3.768 %)Spring
7204 (3.177 %)STL
8179 (2.787 %)WCF
9154 (2.398 %)ASP.NET
10142 (2.211 %)Swing
11138 (2.149 %)Adobe Flex
12122 (1.900 %)Hibernate
13114 (1.775 %)Middleware
14113 (1.760 %)Web Services
1596 (1.495 %)Silverlight
1694 (1.464 %)JDBC
1787 (1.355 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1881 (1.261 %)FIX Protocol
1978 (1.215 %).NET Framework
2072 (1.121 %)HTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1104 (1.619 %)Rendezvous
297 (1.510 %)MS Exchange
393 (1.448 %)Exchange Server 2007
468 (1.059 %)Exchange Server 2003
554 (0.841 %)Tomcat
638 (0.592 %)WebLogic
737 (0.576 %)MQSeries
834 (0.529 %)Apache
930 (0.467 %)SmartSockets
1028 (0.436 %)WebSphere MQ
1125 (0.389 %)TIBCO EMS
1224 (0.374 %)IIS
1317 (0.265 %)SharePoint
149 (0.140 %)Site Server
156 (0.093 %)Lotus Notes
165 (0.078 %)ActiveMQ
174 (0.062 %)BizTalk Server
174 (0.062 %)Exchange Server 2000
183 (0.047 %)ESB
183 (0.047 %)WebLogic Portal
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1174 (2.709 %)Spreadsheet
2170 (2.647 %)MS Excel
359 (0.919 %)MS Visio
456 (0.872 %)MS Office
544 (0.685 %)Photoshop
544 (0.685 %)Adobe Illustrator
636 (0.561 %)MS Project
723 (0.358 %)MATLAB
819 (0.296 %)MS PowerPoint
91 (0.016 %)CA Clarity
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
149 (0.763 %)Summit
237 (0.576 %)ION MarketView
334 (0.529 %)RMDS
431 (0.483 %)Endur
526 (0.405 %)Front Arena
619 (0.296 %)Eagle PACE
715 (0.234 %)Capstone
715 (0.234 %)LongView
813 (0.202 %)Kondor+
911 (0.171 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
109 (0.140 %)Global One
118 (0.125 %)GL Clearvision
127 (0.109 %)Dynamics CRM
136 (0.093 %)Eagle STAR
136 (0.093 %)SAP IS-U
136 (0.093 %)SunGard Martini
145 (0.078 %)Brady Trinity
145 (0.078 %)SunGard APT
145 (0.078 %)Oracle Applications
154 (0.062 %)Sophis RISQUE
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1153 (2.382 %)TCP/IP
261 (0.950 %)Internet
333 (0.514 %)Intranet
333 (0.514 %)VPN
421 (0.327 %)DNS
517 (0.265 %)3G
615 (0.234 %)2G
712 (0.187 %)VoIP
811 (0.171 %)SAN
910 (0.156 %)NAS
106 (0.093 %)WAN
115 (0.078 %)AMQP
115 (0.078 %)FTP
115 (0.078 %)PPP
115 (0.078 %)LAN
124 (0.062 %)Firewall
133 (0.047 %)Extranet
133 (0.047 %)SS7
133 (0.047 %)ISDN
133 (0.047 %)Wi-Fi
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1769 (11.97 %)SQL Server
2179 (2.787 %)SQL Server 2005
3178 (2.772 %)RDBMS
495 (1.479 %)SQL Server 2000
574 (1.152 %)KDB
652 (0.810 %)SQL Server 2008
747 (0.732 %)Crystal Reports
840 (0.623 %)Reference Data
937 (0.576 %)Datawarehouse
1033 (0.514 %)Oracle 10g
1033 (0.514 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1132 (0.498 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1227 (0.420 %)TOAD
1325 (0.389 %)MySQL
1424 (0.374 %)Oracle Reports
1517 (0.265 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1517 (0.265 %)ETL
1616 (0.249 %)MS Access
1616 (0.249 %)BusinessObjects
1715 (0.234 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
176 (1.183 %)Subversion
267 (1.043 %)NUnit
343 (0.670 %)JUnit
440 (0.623 %)Visual Studio
440 (0.623 %)Eclipse
440 (0.623 %)QuickTest Pro
530 (0.467 %)CruiseControl
629 (0.452 %)Maven
728 (0.436 %)Ant
822 (0.343 %)Dreamweaver
822 (0.343 %)ClearCase
919 (0.296 %)TestDirector
1016 (0.249 %)JIRA
1113 (0.202 %)NCover
128 (0.125 %)Bugzilla
128 (0.125 %)PVCS
128 (0.125 %)WinRunner
136 (0.093 %)Log4Net
145 (0.078 %)Team Foundation Server
145 (0.078 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12423 (37.73 %)Banking
22251 (35.05 %)Finance
31518 (23.64 %)Investment Banking
4422 (6.571 %)Back Office
5189 (2.943 %)Financial Institution
6116 (1.806 %)Government
790 (1.401 %)Education
840 (0.623 %)Pensions
939 (0.607 %)Retail
939 (0.607 %)Health
939 (0.607 %)Construction
1034 (0.529 %)Games
1130 (0.467 %)Telecoms
1224 (0.374 %)Insurance
1318 (0.280 %)Marketing
1417 (0.265 %)Billing
1515 (0.234 %)Legal
1614 (0.218 %)Publishing
1614 (0.218 %)General Ledger
1711 (0.171 %)Private Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13353 (52.21 %)Developer
21366 (21.27 %)Analyst
31169 (18.20 %)C# Developer
4903 (14.06 %)Java Developer
5683 (10.64 %)Business Analyst
6670 (10.43 %)C++ Developer
7477 (7.428 %)Senior Developer
8442 (6.883 %)Support Analyst
9418 (6.509 %)Applications Support
10355 (5.528 %)Project Manager
11291 (4.531 %)Front Office Developer
12236 (3.675 %)Team Leader
13216 (3.363 %).NET Developer
14183 (2.850 %)Senior Analyst
14183 (2.850 %)Applications Support Analyst
15170 (2.647 %)Senior Java Developer
16161 (2.507 %)Excel Developer
17158 (2.460 %)GUI Developer
18155 (2.414 %)WinForms Developer
19154 (2.398 %)Lead Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12549 (39.69 %)Derivative
21351 (21.04 %)Fixed Income
31114 (17.35 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4868 (13.52 %)Equities
5741 (11.54 %)Equity Derivative
6552 (8.595 %)Multithreading
7418 (6.509 %)Credit Derivative
8349 (5.434 %)Interest Rate Derivative
9221 (3.441 %)Computer Science
10166 (2.585 %)Credit Risk
11164 (2.554 %)Mathematics
12133 (2.071 %)Client/Server
13115 (1.791 %)Market Risk
1475 (1.168 %)N-Tier
1557 (0.888 %)RIA
1557 (0.888 %)Physics
1642 (0.654 %)Exotic Derivative
1733 (0.514 %)Swaptions
1831 (0.483 %)Management Information System
1930 (0.467 %)Index Arbitrage
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11055 (16.43 %)UNIX
2828 (12.89 %)Windows
3430 (6.696 %)Linux
4132 (2.055 %)Windows XP
5109 (1.697 %)Solaris
635 (0.545 %)Windows 2000
730 (0.467 %)Windows NT
828 (0.436 %)AIX
920 (0.311 %)Windows Server 2003
109 (0.140 %)VMS
118 (0.125 %)Ubuntu
127 (0.109 %)Red Hat Linux
135 (0.078 %)Windows Server 2008
135 (0.078 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
144 (0.062 %)Windows 2000 Server
152 (0.031 %)Windows Vista
161 (0.016 %)Windows 7
161 (0.016 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1762 (11.87 %)Risk Management
2612 (9.530 %)OO
3542 (8.440 %)Electronic Trading
4461 (7.178 %)Project Management
5378 (5.886 %)Agile Software Development
6333 (5.185 %)Algorithmic Trading
7327 (5.092 %)Asset Management
8297 (4.625 %)Business Analysis
9269 (4.189 %)E-Commerce
10255 (3.971 %)Investment Management
11231 (3.597 %)RAD
12183 (2.850 %)OOD
13124 (1.931 %)TDD
14121 (1.884 %)OOA/OOD
15113 (1.760 %)Unit Testing
16112 (1.744 %)Fund Management
17106 (1.651 %)User Acceptance Testing
18102 (1.588 %)ITIL
1989 (1.386 %)Scrum
2087 (1.355 %)Stakeholder Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12252 (35.07 %)C#
21891 (29.45 %)Java
31633 (25.43 %)C++
41536 (23.92 %)SQL
5572 (8.907 %)VBA
6374 (5.824 %)Perl
7201 (3.130 %)Shell Script
8191 (2.974 %)Python
9128 (1.993 %)VB
10122 (1.900 %)T-SQL
11101 (1.573 %)JavaScript
1293 (1.448 %)C
1388 (1.370 %)PL/SQL
1471 (1.106 %)VC++
1569 (1.074 %)ActionScript 3.0
1569 (1.074 %)ActionScript
1651 (0.794 %)VBScript
1747 (0.732 %)VB.NET
1840 (0.623 %)Ruby
1926 (0.405 %)VB6
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1496 (7.723 %)Degree
278 (1.215 %)PhD
351 (0.794 %)Microsoft Certification
437 (0.576 %)MCSE
532 (0.498 %)MCSA
616 (0.249 %)CCNA
616 (0.249 %)Cisco Certification
715 (0.234 %)PMI Certification
811 (0.171 %)MCP
811 (0.171 %)ISEB
910 (0.156 %)MCTS
109 (0.140 %)MCAD
109 (0.140 %)MCSD
118 (0.125 %)PMP
118 (0.125 %)ITIL Certification
124 (0.062 %)Brainbench
124 (0.062 %)CFA
133 (0.047 %)Sun Certification
142 (0.031 %)MBA
142 (0.031 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1116 (1.806 %)QA
234 (0.529 %)SLA
37 (0.109 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (0.031 %)Basel II
51 (0.016 %)MiFID
51 (0.016 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
174 (1.152 %)Active Directory
29 (0.140 %)MSMQ
34 (0.062 %)Backup Exec
41 (0.016 %)Terminal Services
41 (0.016 %)NFS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
131 (0.483 %)AutoSys
220 (0.311 %)CONTROL-M
313 (0.202 %)Tivoli
47 (0.109 %)HP Quality Center
54 (0.062 %)DameWare
54 (0.062 %)ServiceCenter
63 (0.047 %)Foglight
72 (0.031 %)EMC NetWorker
72 (0.031 %)YUM
81 (0.016 %)Dollar Universe
81 (0.016 %)Legato
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1644 (10.03 %)Oracle
2473 (7.365 %)Sybase
3247 (3.846 %)TIBCO
4213 (3.317 %)Microsoft
5170 (2.647 %)Charles River
6136 (2.118 %)Murex
7134 (2.087 %)Bloomberg
8106 (1.651 %)thinkFolio
9104 (1.619 %)Reuters
1093 (1.448 %)Calypso
1187 (1.355 %)Adobe
1268 (1.059 %)LatentZero
1361 (0.950 %)OpenLink
1454 (0.841 %)ION Trading
1454 (0.841 %)Fidessa
1545 (0.701 %)Infragistics
1639 (0.607 %)JBoss
1737 (0.576 %)IBM
1833 (0.514 %)Perforce
1931 (0.483 %)Wall Street Systems