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 22 May 2012 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.

Front Office
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank1174936
Rank change year-on-year
Down-68Down-13
Matching permanent IT job ads265051234826
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.198 %4.178 %5.055 %
As % of the General category4.883 %8.637 %10.37 %
Number of salaries quoted218641223898
Average salary£70,000£72,500£72,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.44 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£44,700£50,000£52,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£95,000£95,000£94,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£57,500£50,000
% change year-on-year
-21.73 %+15.00 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
542715931346540
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.37 %48.74 %
Number of salaries quoted456244848337646
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Front Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-652604£70,000-3.44 %
LondonDown-302478£70,000-6.66 %
City of LondonDown-101030£70,000-3.44 %
South EastDown-1457£55,000-15.38 %
SurreyUp+439£55,000-21.42 %
ScotlandUp+3035£40,000-30.43 %
West MidlandsUp+427£49,500-13.91 %
ChertseyUp+1326--
BirminghamUp+521£47,000-18.26 %
South WestUp+320£25,646-48.70 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1120£75,000+7.14 %
Canary WharfDown-1716£75,000-6.25 %
EdinburghUp+1612£45,000-10.00 %
WiltshireUp+211£23,500-55.23 %
BerkshireDown-2011--
North WestDown-510£85,000+142.85 %
StirlingNew entry-10£36,500-
North EastNo change09£35,000+16.66 %
ReadingDown-49--
RedhillDown-28£55,000-21.42 %
GlasgowUp+97£75,000+30.43 %
Tyne and WearNew entry-7£33,000-
MalmesburyNew entry-6--
SwindonDown-25£23,500-53.00 %
ManchesterDown-35--
Newcastle upon TyneNew entry-5£31,000-
WarwickshireNew entry-5£86,250-
Milton KeynesUp+84£35,000-9.67 %
BuckinghamshireNo change04£35,000-12.50 %
CheshireNew entry-4£69,250-

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

12450 (43.35 %)Finance
21953 (34.55 %)SQL
31859 (32.89 %)Banking
41756 (31.07 %)C#
51569 (27.76 %)Java
61467 (25.96 %)Derivative
71173 (20.75 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
81136 (20.10 %)Investment Banking
91032 (18.26 %)C++
101018 (18.01 %)UNIX
11911 (16.12 %).NET
12866 (15.32 %)SQL Server
13862 (15.25 %)Fixed Income
14852 (15.07 %)Multithreading
15794 (14.05 %)Equities
16689 (12.19 %)Oracle
17671 (11.87 %)Risk Management
18633 (11.20 %)Degree
19616 (10.90 %)WPF
20573 (10.14 %)Windows
21566 (10.01 %)Hedge funds
22490 (8.669 %)Back Office
23486 (8.599 %)Agile Software Development
24467 (8.263 %)OO
25460 (8.139 %)Electronic Trading
26457 (8.086 %)Linux
27442 (7.820 %)Sybase
28435 (7.696 %)Asset Management
29419 (7.413 %)Microsoft
30395 (6.989 %)Business Analysis

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
1911 (16.12 %).NET
2616 (10.90 %)WPF
3394 (6.971 %)WinForms
4372 (6.582 %)XML
5326 (5.768 %)WCF
6193 (3.415 %)Spring
7185 (3.273 %)ASP.NET
8176 (3.114 %)J2EE
9144 (2.548 %)Swing
10138 (2.442 %)Hibernate
11136 (2.406 %)STL
12132 (2.335 %)Web Services
13113 (1.999 %)J2SE
14100 (1.769 %)Middleware
14100 (1.769 %)FIX Protocol
1597 (1.716 %).NET Framework
1688 (1.557 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1772 (1.274 %)HTML
1866 (1.168 %)JMS
1962 (1.097 %)Task Parallel Library
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1104 (1.840 %)TIBCO EMS
2101 (1.787 %)Oracle Coherence
373 (1.292 %)Rendezvous
465 (1.150 %)IIS
557 (1.008 %)SharePoint
649 (0.867 %)GemFire
733 (0.584 %)Tomcat
824 (0.425 %)Apache
922 (0.389 %)WebSphere Application Server
1018 (0.318 %)ESB
1115 (0.265 %)TIBCO ActiveMatrix
1211 (0.195 %)SharePoint 2010
1310 (0.177 %)WebLogic
149 (0.159 %)MSMQ
158 (0.142 %)MQSeries
166 (0.106 %)SharePoint Server
166 (0.106 %)CMS
166 (0.106 %)CloudFront
175 (0.088 %)Confluence
175 (0.088 %)RabbitMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1229 (4.052 %)MS Excel
282 (1.451 %)MS Office
366 (1.168 %)Spreadsheet
462 (1.097 %)MS Visio
538 (0.672 %)MS PowerPoint
538 (0.672 %)MATLAB
628 (0.495 %)MS Project
73 (0.053 %)SPSS
82 (0.035 %)S-PLUS
91 (0.018 %)Photoshop
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
176 (1.345 %)LatentZero
259 (1.044 %)Summit
341 (0.725 %)ION MarketView
432 (0.566 %)LongView
432 (0.566 %)Prophet
529 (0.513 %)RMDS
626 (0.460 %)Kondor+
721 (0.372 %)Endur
818 (0.318 %)SAP CRM
915 (0.265 %)Dynamics CRM
915 (0.265 %)3000 Xtra
1011 (0.195 %)Oracle iProcurement
1011 (0.195 %)Findur
1011 (0.195 %)Oracle EBS
1011 (0.195 %)Decalog
1011 (0.195 %)Minerva
1110 (0.177 %)HiInvest
1110 (0.177 %)Front Arena
1110 (0.177 %)Beauchamp
1110 (0.177 %)SAP Oil and Gas
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
172 (1.274 %)TCP/IP
271 (1.256 %)Internet
325 (0.442 %)WAN
325 (0.442 %)LAN
424 (0.425 %)Firewall
424 (0.425 %)NAS
522 (0.389 %)DNS
621 (0.372 %)DHCP
719 (0.336 %)VPN
816 (0.283 %)SAN
915 (0.265 %)HTTP
1012 (0.212 %)3G
1110 (0.177 %)Intranet
128 (0.142 %)Radio Access Network
128 (0.142 %)2G
135 (0.088 %)Extranet
135 (0.088 %)Ethernet
143 (0.053 %)PBX
143 (0.053 %)Broadband
152 (0.035 %)GSM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1866 (15.32 %)SQL Server
2184 (3.255 %)SQL Server Integration Services
3158 (2.795 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
4128 (2.265 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
5122 (2.159 %)Data Warehouse
690 (1.592 %)SQL Server 2005
690 (1.592 %)SQL Server 2008
771 (1.256 %)KDB
847 (0.832 %)ETL
847 (0.832 %)Oracle 10g
945 (0.796 %)RDBMS
1037 (0.655 %)Data Mining
1136 (0.637 %)OLTP
1232 (0.566 %)OLAP
1329 (0.513 %)Hadoop
1426 (0.460 %)Crystal Reports
1522 (0.389 %)DB2
1621 (0.372 %)SQLPlus
1718 (0.318 %)Oracle Reports
1816 (0.283 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1138 (2.442 %)Visual Studio
2115 (2.035 %)Subversion
369 (1.221 %)NUnit
459 (1.044 %)Maven
558 (1.026 %)CruiseControl
650 (0.885 %)JUnit
749 (0.867 %)TortoiseSVN
848 (0.849 %)TeamCity
943 (0.761 %)JIRA
1035 (0.619 %)QuickTest Pro
1133 (0.584 %)Ant
1232 (0.566 %)Team Foundation Server
1329 (0.513 %)Selenium
1329 (0.513 %)Eclipse
1424 (0.425 %)FitNesse
1516 (0.283 %)MSBuild
1613 (0.230 %)MSI
1712 (0.212 %)TestComplete
1712 (0.212 %)Hudson
1811 (0.195 %)ClearCase
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12450 (43.35 %)Finance
21859 (32.89 %)Banking
31136 (20.10 %)Investment Banking
4490 (8.669 %)Back Office
5196 (3.468 %)Financial Institution
681 (1.433 %)Telecoms
772 (1.274 %)Games
866 (1.168 %)Legal
958 (1.026 %)Music
958 (1.026 %)Marketing
1021 (0.372 %)Retail
1117 (0.301 %)French Language
128 (0.142 %)Private Banking
137 (0.124 %)Retail Banking
137 (0.124 %)German Language
146 (0.106 %)Greek Language
146 (0.106 %)Billing
146 (0.106 %)Music Industry
146 (0.106 %)General Ledger
155 (0.088 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12657 (47.01 %)Developer
21397 (24.72 %)Analyst
3881 (15.59 %)C# Developer
4753 (13.32 %)Java Developer
5620 (10.97 %)Business Analyst
6474 (8.386 %)Applications Support
7473 (8.369 %)Support Analyst
8407 (7.201 %)C++ Developer
9302 (5.343 %)Senior Developer
10237 (4.193 %)Project Manager
11230 (4.069 %)Front Office Developer
12223 (3.946 %)Applications Support Analyst
13172 (3.043 %)Senior Analyst
14153 (2.707 %).NET Developer
15151 (2.672 %)Senior Java Developer
16149 (2.636 %)C# .NET Developer
17133 (2.353 %)WPF Developer
18131 (2.318 %)Technical Leader
19127 (2.247 %)Consultant
20120 (2.123 %)Senior Business Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11467 (25.96 %)Derivative
21173 (20.75 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3862 (15.25 %)Fixed Income
4794 (14.05 %)Equities
5566 (10.01 %)Hedge funds
6351 (6.210 %)Equity Derivative
7305 (5.396 %)Computer Science
8257 (4.547 %)Mathematics
9243 (4.299 %)Credit Derivative
10238 (4.211 %)Market Risk
11211 (3.733 %)Credit Risk
12139 (2.459 %)Interest Rate Derivative
13138 (2.442 %)Physics
14127 (2.247 %)Management Information System
1593 (1.645 %)Grid Computing
1653 (0.938 %)N-Tier
1741 (0.725 %)Open Source
1837 (0.655 %)Statistics
1930 (0.531 %)Blackberry
1930 (0.531 %)SWIFT
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11018 (18.01 %)UNIX
2573 (10.14 %)Windows
3457 (8.086 %)Linux
4105 (1.858 %)Solaris
599 (1.752 %)Windows Server 2008
687 (1.539 %)Windows 7
740 (0.708 %)Windows Server 2003
833 (0.584 %)Windows XP
914 (0.248 %)Windows Vista
1010 (0.177 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
119 (0.159 %)Android
128 (0.142 %)Windows Mobile
137 (0.124 %)Apple iOS
146 (0.106 %)Windows 2000 Server
146 (0.106 %)VMS
153 (0.053 %)SUSE
162 (0.035 %)Mac OS X
162 (0.035 %)CentOS
171 (0.018 %)Ubuntu
171 (0.018 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1852 (15.07 %)Multithreading
2671 (11.87 %)Risk Management
3486 (8.599 %)Agile Software Development
4467 (8.263 %)OO
5460 (8.139 %)Electronic Trading
6435 (7.696 %)Asset Management
7395 (6.989 %)Business Analysis
8356 (6.299 %)Project Management
9345 (6.104 %)Algorithmic Trading
10295 (5.219 %)Investment Management
11283 (5.007 %)E-Commerce
12268 (4.742 %)TDD
13145 (2.565 %)Scrum
14142 (2.512 %)RAD
15137 (2.424 %)ITIL
15137 (2.424 %)User Acceptance Testing
16126 (2.229 %)Data Modelling
17120 (2.123 %)Workflow
18116 (2.052 %)Business Intelligence
19113 (1.999 %)Migration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11953 (34.55 %)SQL
21756 (31.07 %)C#
31569 (27.76 %)Java
41032 (18.26 %)C++
5391 (6.918 %)VBA
6296 (5.237 %)Perl
7274 (4.848 %)Python
8125 (2.212 %)Shell Script
9107 (1.893 %)C
1098 (1.734 %)T-SQL
1178 (1.380 %)JavaScript
1273 (1.292 %)Scala
1368 (1.203 %)PL/SQL
1460 (1.062 %)Clojure
1550 (0.885 %)Delphi
1648 (0.849 %)Ruby
1745 (0.796 %)F#
1830 (0.531 %)VB
1928 (0.495 %)VB.NET
1928 (0.495 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1633 (11.20 %)Degree
265 (1.150 %)ISEB
358 (1.026 %)PhD
426 (0.460 %)Microsoft Certification
518 (0.318 %)PRINCE2 Certification
518 (0.318 %)CFA
616 (0.283 %)ACCA
714 (0.248 %)CIMA
812 (0.212 %)Sun Certification
911 (0.195 %)MCSE
911 (0.195 %)ITIL Certification
1010 (0.177 %)MCSA
1010 (0.177 %)MCDBA
1010 (0.177 %)MCP
1010 (0.177 %)PMI Certification
1010 (0.177 %)Security Cleared
119 (0.159 %)ISTQB
126 (0.106 %)MBA
134 (0.071 %)PMP
134 (0.071 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1211 (3.733 %)QA
236 (0.637 %)SLA
329 (0.513 %)Basel III
415 (0.265 %)Basel II
511 (0.195 %)IAS 39
511 (0.195 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
65 (0.088 %)Data Quality
74 (0.071 %)Solvency II
74 (0.071 %)COBIT
74 (0.071 %)MiFID
82 (0.035 %)ISO 9000
91 (0.018 %)BS7799
91 (0.018 %)PCI DSS
91 (0.018 %)FATCA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
131 (0.548 %)Active Directory
227 (0.478 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (0.106 %)VMware Workstation
45 (0.088 %)Terminal Services
52 (0.035 %)Samba
52 (0.035 %)MetaFrame
52 (0.035 %)Oracle RMAN
52 (0.035 %)ClearTrust
52 (0.035 %)Oracle RAC
52 (0.035 %)Postfix
52 (0.035 %)IMail Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
139 (0.690 %)HP Quality Center
217 (0.301 %)Control-M
311 (0.195 %)DameWare
47 (0.124 %)Tivoli Endpoint Manager
56 (0.106 %)WSUS
63 (0.053 %)ServiceCenter
72 (0.035 %)SCCM
72 (0.035 %)Data Guard
72 (0.035 %)Nagios
81 (0.018 %)BladeLogic
81 (0.018 %)EMC NetWorker
81 (0.018 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1689 (12.19 %)Oracle
2442 (7.820 %)Sybase
3419 (7.413 %)Microsoft
4277 (4.901 %)TIBCO
5200 (3.539 %)Bloomberg
6190 (3.362 %)DataSynapse
7176 (3.114 %)Reuters
8162 (2.866 %)Charles River
9102 (1.805 %)thinkFolio
1083 (1.469 %)Fidessa
1182 (1.451 %)SunGard
1277 (1.362 %)Murex
1277 (1.362 %)ION Trading
1351 (0.902 %)OpenLink
1447 (0.832 %)Google
1546 (0.814 %)JBoss
1640 (0.708 %)Calypso
1640 (0.708 %)VMware
1736 (0.637 %)Sun
1834 (0.602 %)Cadis