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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Front Office' in IT jobs across the UK 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 last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFront Office
Location
3 months to 13 May 2008Same period last year
Rank5232
Rank change on same period last yearDown-20
Matching permanent IT job ads729012204
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled3.566 %5.241 %
As % of the category below6.883 %9.946 %
Salaries quoted55448926
Average minimum salary£61,693£59,379
Average salary£68,490£65,790
% change on same period last year+4.10 %
Average maximum salary£75,288£72,201
UK excluding London average salary£47,948£50,153
% change on same period last year-4.39 %
General UKGeneral
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads105920122701
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled51.82 %52.69 %
Salaries quoted8549495783
Average minimum salary£43,911£46,194
Average salary£48,251£50,561
% change on same period last year-4.56 %
Average maximum salary£52,591£54,927
UK excluding London average salary£40,645£42,055
% change on same period last year-3.35 %

Front Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Front Office across 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 ads citing Front Office across the UK.

Front Office Salary Trend

Front Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Front Office across the UK over the past 3 months.

Front Office Salary Histogram

Front Office
Top 30 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 UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-237232£68,589+4.25 %
2LondonDown-37040£69,203+4.74 %
3City of LondonDown-42759£67,772+0.38 %
4Docklands, LondonUp+3314£75,322+12.27 %
5Canary WharfDown-5178£70,060-2.40 %
6South EastDown-1481£55,100+3.25 %
7South WestUp+1057£47,426+3.66 %
8SurreyUp+645£60,694+8.03 %
9East of EnglandDown-1030£41,361+0.62 %
10ScotlandUp+5328£47,522+66.74 %
11BuckinghamshireUp+2323£43,609+14.00 %
12WiltshireUp+517£45,909+11.97 %
12SwindonUp+217£45,909+11.97 %
13EdinburghUp+2316£45,000+57.89 %
14HertfordshireNew entry-15£44,667-
15EssexDown-1714£27,850-33.91 %
16GlasgowNew entry-11£50,800-
16BerkshireUp+911£57,222+13.77 %
17West MidlandsDown-1310£28,778-12.79 %
17SolihullNew entry-10£28,778-
18YorkshireDown-189£24,056-39.86 %
18West YorkshireDown-79£24,056-39.86 %
19BristolNew entry-7£45,786-
20BedfordshireNew entry-6£43,333-
20Channel IslandsNew entry-6£48,333-
20GuernseyNew entry-6£48,333-
21StevenageNew entry-5£41,000-
22BournemouthNew entry-4£55,625-
22LiversedgeNew entry-4£24,125-
22WakefieldNew entry-4£26,000-

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Front Office also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Front Office.

16054 (42.77 %)Derivative
25493 (38.81 %)Finance
35387 (38.06 %)Banking
44752 (33.57 %)Java
54288 (30.29 %)SQL
63959 (27.97 %)C#
73403 (24.04 %)C++
83375 (23.84 %)Investment Banking
92946 (20.81 %)Unix
102516 (17.77 %)Fixed Income
112183 (15.42 %).NET
122113 (14.93 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
132090 (14.77 %)Equities
142044 (14.44 %)Equity Derivative
151832 (12.94 %)Sybase
161827 (12.91 %)Degree
171759 (12.43 %)VBA
181544 (10.91 %)Risk Management
191536 (10.85 %)OO
201506 (10.64 %)SQL Server
211448 (10.23 %)Oracle
221216 (8.591 %)Windows
231147 (8.103 %)XML
241106 (7.813 %)Asset Management
251072 (7.573 %)Back Office
261002 (7.079 %)Credit Derivative
27949 (6.704 %)Business Analysis
28858 (6.061 %)Investment Management
29822 (5.807 %)J2EE
30794 (5.609 %)Project Management

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Front Office also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Front Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
12183 (15.42 %).NET
21147 (8.103 %)XML
3822 (5.807 %)J2EE
4702 (4.959 %)WinForms
5692 (4.889 %)Spring
6519 (3.667 %)ASP.NET
7483 (3.412 %)Hibernate
8382 (2.699 %)Swing
9317 (2.239 %)WebServices
10282 (1.992 %)STL
11275 (1.943 %)J2SE
12220 (1.554 %)HTML
13206 (1.455 %)FIX Protocol
14195 (1.378 %)Middleware
15181 (1.279 %)ASP
16172 (1.215 %)JMS
17166 (1.173 %)JDBC
18154 (1.088 %).NET Framework
19151 (1.067 %)JSP
20138 (0.975 %)MFC
Application Platforms
1151 (1.067 %)JBoss
2148 (1.046 %)WebLogic
3104 (0.735 %)Tomcat
4101 (0.714 %)MQSeries
589 (0.629 %)Rendezvous
681 (0.572 %)Apache
778 (0.551 %)IIS
861 (0.431 %)SharePoint
943 (0.304 %)TIBCO EMS
1029 (0.205 %)MS Exchange
1122 (0.155 %)Lotus Notes
1215 (0.106 %)Oracle Workflow
1215 (0.106 %)Oracle Application Server
1313 (0.092 %)WebSphere MQ
1313 (0.092 %)SAS
1412 (0.085 %)SonicMQ
1511 (0.078 %)ColdFusion
1511 (0.078 %)JRun
1511 (0.078 %)SmartSockets
1610 (0.071 %)MTS
Applications
1405 (2.861 %)MS Excel
2147 (1.039 %)MS Office
381 (0.572 %)MS Visio
444 (0.311 %)MS PowerPoint
524 (0.170 %)MS Project
623 (0.162 %)MATLAB
78 (0.057 %)CA Clarity
81 (0.007 %)Photoshop
81 (0.007 %)S-PLUS
Business Applications
1161 (1.137 %)Fidessa
2123 (0.869 %)Endur
377 (0.544 %)Summit
465 (0.459 %)MarketView
558 (0.410 %)RMDS
650 (0.353 %)FRONT ARENA
746 (0.325 %)Capstone
843 (0.304 %)Minerva
938 (0.268 %)Tesseract
1035 (0.247 %)LongView
1035 (0.247 %)Murex MxG2000
1132 (0.226 %)Beauchamp
1227 (0.191 %)Oracle Applications
1227 (0.191 %)SimCorp Dimension
1323 (0.162 %)Decalog
1421 (0.148 %)Kondor+
1421 (0.148 %)Eagle PACE
1518 (0.127 %)InvestOne
1616 (0.113 %)Loan IQ
1616 (0.113 %)Sophis RISQUE
Communications & Networking
1116 (0.819 %)TCP/IP
292 (0.650 %)Internet
377 (0.544 %)Intranet
444 (0.311 %)Firewall
535 (0.247 %)SAN
634 (0.240 %)LAN
634 (0.240 %)WAN
724 (0.170 %)VPN
820 (0.141 %)DHCP
820 (0.141 %)PBX
914 (0.099 %)DNS
914 (0.099 %)Extranet
1012 (0.085 %)IP Telephony
1110 (0.071 %)Network Security
1110 (0.071 %)HTTP
129 (0.064 %)MPLS
138 (0.057 %)IPsec
138 (0.057 %)ATM
147 (0.049 %)SSL
155 (0.035 %)WINS
Database & Business Intelligence
11506 (10.64 %)SQL Server
2666 (4.705 %)RDBMS
3246 (1.738 %)SQL Server 2005
4191 (1.349 %)SQL Server 2000
5148 (1.046 %)SQL Server 7
687 (0.615 %)Crystal Reports
783 (0.586 %)BusinessObjects
863 (0.445 %)DTS
953 (0.374 %)Oracle 8/8i
1050 (0.353 %)Reference Data
1146 (0.325 %)Oracle Reports
1245 (0.318 %)MySQL
1245 (0.318 %)ETL
1341 (0.290 %)Oracle 10g
1440 (0.283 %)Oracle 9i
1539 (0.276 %)Datawarehouse
1634 (0.240 %)DB2
1732 (0.226 %)MS Access
1830 (0.212 %)SQLPlus
1923 (0.162 %)KDB
Development Applications
1256 (1.809 %)Eclipse
2181 (1.279 %)JUnit
393 (0.657 %)Visual Studio
487 (0.615 %)Ant
581 (0.572 %)TestDirector
655 (0.389 %)NUnit
754 (0.381 %)Subversion
846 (0.325 %)ClearCase
935 (0.247 %)Dreamweaver
1025 (0.177 %)QuickTest Pro
1124 (0.170 %)CruiseControl
1223 (0.162 %)PowerBuilder
1320 (0.141 %)Oracle Forms
1414 (0.099 %)ClearQuest
1513 (0.092 %)Log4j
1610 (0.071 %)JIRA
1610 (0.071 %)LoadRunner
177 (0.049 %)Flash
184 (0.028 %)WinRunner
193 (0.021 %)VSS/SourceSafe
General
15493 (38.81 %)Finance
25387 (38.06 %)Banking
33375 (23.84 %)Investment Banking
41072 (7.573 %)Back Office
5395 (2.791 %)Education
6361 (2.550 %)Financial Institution
7129 (0.911 %)Pensions
8119 (0.841 %)Health
9110 (0.777 %)Insurance
10106 (0.749 %)Marketing
11104 (0.735 %)Telecoms
1274 (0.523 %)Legal
1274 (0.523 %)Games
1359 (0.417 %)Retail
1454 (0.381 %)Private Banking
1541 (0.290 %)Government
1623 (0.162 %)Electric
1720 (0.141 %)Retail Banking
1818 (0.127 %)Construction
1915 (0.106 %)Publishing
Job Titles
17189 (50.79 %)Developer
23870 (27.34 %)Analyst
32382 (16.83 %)Java Developer
41911 (13.50 %)C# Developer
51640 (11.59 %)Business Analyst
61293 (9.135 %)C++ Developer
71063 (7.510 %)Applications Support
81054 (7.446 %)Support Analyst
9958 (6.768 %)Front Office Developer
10886 (6.259 %)Senior Developer
11679 (4.797 %)Project Manager
12652 (4.606 %)Team Leader
13599 (4.232 %)Excel Developer
14597 (4.218 %)VBA Developer
15571 (4.034 %).NET Developer
16532 (3.758 %)Applications Support Analyst
17434 (3.066 %)Analyst Developer
18422 (2.981 %)Excel VBA Developer
19380 (2.685 %)Senior Analyst
20364 (2.572 %)Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
16054 (42.77 %)Derivative
22516 (17.77 %)Fixed Income
32113 (14.93 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
42090 (14.77 %)Equities
52044 (14.44 %)Equity Derivative
61106 (7.813 %)Asset Management
71002 (7.079 %)Credit Derivative
8525 (3.709 %)Interest Rate Derivative
9510 (3.603 %)Computer Science
10484 (3.419 %)Multithreading
11465 (3.285 %)Mathematics
12299 (2.112 %)Fund Management
13220 (1.554 %)Market Risk
14165 (1.166 %)Credit Risk
15152 (1.074 %)N-Tier
16149 (1.053 %)Exotic Derivative
17146 (1.031 %)Grid Computing
18120 (0.848 %)Management Information System
1996 (0.678 %)Client/Server
2090 (0.636 %)Physics
Operating Systems
12946 (20.81 %)Unix
21216 (8.591 %)Windows
3676 (4.776 %)Linux
4264 (1.865 %)Solaris
5161 (1.137 %)Windows NT
6124 (0.876 %)Windows 2000
790 (0.636 %)Windows XP
828 (0.198 %)HPUX
922 (0.155 %)Windows Server 2003
1016 (0.113 %)Debian
112 (0.014 %)SUSE
112 (0.014 %)AIX
121 (0.007 %)VMS
Processes & Methodologies
11544 (10.91 %)Risk Management
21536 (10.85 %)OO
3949 (6.704 %)Business Analysis
4858 (6.061 %)Investment Management
5794 (5.609 %)Project Management
6602 (4.253 %)Algorithmic Trading
7558 (3.942 %)Electronic Trading
8544 (3.843 %)RAD
9496 (3.504 %)Agile Software Development
10311 (2.197 %)UML
11280 (1.978 %)E-Commerce
12203 (1.434 %)User Acceptance Testing
13170 (1.201 %)SOA
14163 (1.152 %)Workflow
15158 (1.116 %)OOD
16135 (0.954 %)Migration
17134 (0.947 %)ITIL
18133 (0.940 %)TDD
19126 (0.890 %)Risk Analysis
20124 (0.876 %)Validation
Programming Languages
14752 (33.57 %)Java
24288 (30.29 %)SQL
33959 (27.97 %)C#
43403 (24.04 %)C++
51759 (12.43 %)VBA
6791 (5.588 %)VB
7705 (4.981 %)Perl
8345 (2.437 %)VB.NET
9341 (2.409 %)Shell Script
10290 (2.049 %)C
11224 (1.582 %)VB6
12209 (1.477 %)VC++
13194 (1.371 %)JavaScript
14152 (1.074 %)Python
15142 (1.003 %)Transact-SQL
16108 (0.763 %)PL/SQL
1753 (0.374 %)VBScript
1850 (0.353 %)Delphi
1937 (0.261 %)Korn
2029 (0.205 %)Smalltalk
Qualifications
11827 (12.91 %)Degree
2107 (0.756 %)PhD
341 (0.290 %)ISEB
424 (0.170 %)ACCA
424 (0.170 %)CIMA
523 (0.162 %)Oracle Certification
622 (0.155 %)PMI Certification
719 (0.134 %)PMP
813 (0.092 %)ITIL Certification
813 (0.092 %)Microsoft Certification
910 (0.071 %)CFA
109 (0.064 %)Postgraduate
117 (0.049 %)CCNP
117 (0.049 %)CCNA
117 (0.049 %)Cisco Certification
117 (0.049 %)CISA
126 (0.042 %)MCSE
135 (0.035 %)MCP
135 (0.035 %)ISEB Practitioner
144 (0.028 %)MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1270 (1.907 %)QA
262 (0.438 %)SLA
315 (0.106 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
412 (0.085 %)Basel II
53 (0.021 %)GAAP
53 (0.021 %)MiFID
61 (0.007 %)ISO9000
61 (0.007 %)IAS 39
System Software
129 (0.205 %)Active Directory
219 (0.134 %)MSMQ
38 (0.057 %)Oracle RMAN
46 (0.042 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
46 (0.042 %)Terminal Services
55 (0.035 %)Oracle RAC
62 (0.014 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
71 (0.007 %)VMware ESX
71 (0.007 %)MetaFrame
Systems Management
134 (0.240 %)MOM
229 (0.205 %)CONTROL-M
325 (0.177 %)Legato
417 (0.120 %)AutoSys
58 (0.057 %)OpenView
67 (0.049 %)Nagios
75 (0.035 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
82 (0.014 %)Tivoli
91 (0.007 %)DameWare
91 (0.007 %)EMC NetWorker
91 (0.007 %)SCOM
Vendors
11832 (12.94 %)Sybase
21448 (10.23 %)Oracle
3538 (3.801 %)Microsoft
4325 (2.296 %)Bloomberg
5299 (2.112 %)Murex
6295 (2.084 %)TIBCO
7293 (2.070 %)Reuters
8253 (1.787 %)Charles River
9241 (1.703 %)LatentZero
10161 (1.137 %)OpenLink
11148 (1.046 %)Calypso
12114 (0.805 %)thinkFolio
1385 (0.600 %)Sophis
1483 (0.586 %)Business Objects
1575 (0.530 %)Actuate
1672 (0.509 %)Sun
1765 (0.459 %)Red Hat
1852 (0.367 %)Google
1941 (0.290 %)SimCorp
1941 (0.290 %)IBM
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