Front Office Contract Job Trends in Central London

Front Office
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 79 41
Rank change year-on-year +20 -38 -22
Contract jobs citing Front Office 70 51 139
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.62% 2.16% 4.71%
As % of the General category 4.90% 3.24% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 40 112
10th Percentile £502 £458 £505
25th Percentile £581 £659 £612
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £797 £867 £875
90th Percentile £913 £917 £1,046
London median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

All General Skills
Central London

Front Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,430 1,576 1,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.90% 66.75% 64.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 974 1,354
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £589
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.64% +2.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £791 £825
London median daily rate £543 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.57% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 15
10th Percentile £17.22 £14.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £19.88 £29.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +27.27% -35.29%
75th Percentile £44.63 £70.00 £55.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £92.50 £71.75
London median hourly rate £27.75 £37.79 £35.44
% change year-on-year -26.56% +6.62% +18.13%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Front Office job vacancy trend in Central London

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Front Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Front Office

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in Central London over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Front Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Front Office

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +16 70 £675 -15.63% 112
Front Office
London

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.43%) Eikon
2 1 (1.43%) Endur
2 1 (1.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.43%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.43%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.00%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 10 (14.29%) Azure
3 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.71%) GCP
5 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.29%) Serverless
5 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.00%) Power BI
3 5 (7.14%) KDB
3 5 (7.14%) Tableau
4 4 (5.71%) Kdb+
5 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.86%) MySQL
7 1 (1.43%) Big Data
7 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.43%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) JIRA
3 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.29%) Postman
3 3 (4.29%) Selenium
4 2 (2.86%) QUnit
5 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.43%) GitLab
General
1 49 (70.00%) Finance
2 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 21 (30.00%) Banking
4 16 (22.86%) Investment Banking
5 13 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.43%) Financial Institution
7 7 (10.00%) Back Office
8 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.29%) Law
9 2 (2.86%) Legal
10 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Developer
2 15 (21.43%) Analyst
3 10 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Business Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) Lead
5 7 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Consultant
6 6 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Consultant
7 5 (7.14%) Low Latency Java Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Business Consultant
8 4 (5.71%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Lead Business Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Charles River Consultant
9 3 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Product Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) React
2 7 (10.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) Kafka
3 6 (8.57%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (5.71%) GraphQL
4 4 (5.71%) REST
4 4 (5.71%) Svelte
5 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.29%) Node.js
6 2 (2.86%) CSS
6 2 (2.86%) HTML
7 1 (1.43%) Altair
7 1 (1.43%) HTML5
7 1 (1.43%) Murex MxML
7 1 (1.43%) Spring
7 1 (1.43%) Swing
7 1 (1.43%) XML
7 1 (1.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 10 (14.29%) Derivative
3 8 (11.43%) Fixed Income
4 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.71%) Equities
6 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.86%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.86%) Swaptions
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.43%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Exotic Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Linux
1 7 (10.00%) Unix
2 6 (8.57%) Windows
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Agile
2 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (24.29%) Scrum
4 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (17.14%) Risk Management
7 11 (15.71%) Project Management
8 10 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 10 (14.29%) Migration
8 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 10 (14.29%) Validation
9 9 (12.86%) Analytics
9 9 (12.86%) Business Analysis
9 9 (12.86%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (12.86%) Mathematics
10 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
10 8 (11.43%) Kanban
10 8 (11.43%) Portfolio Management
10 8 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Python
2 20 (28.57%) Java
2 20 (28.57%) SQL
3 13 (18.57%) C#
4 6 (8.57%) C++
5 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.29%) VB.NET
7 3 (4.29%) VBA
8 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (1.43%) C
9 1 (1.43%) Scala
9 1 (1.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Degree
2 7 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.86%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.43%) CFA
5 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.43%) PhD
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) QA
2 8 (11.43%) EMIR
3 6 (8.57%) MiFID
4 1 (1.43%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.43%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.43%) Rundeck
2 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle
3 3 (4.29%) Charles River
3 3 (4.29%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) UiPath
4 2 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.86%) Calypso
4 2 (2.86%) ION Trading
4 2 (2.86%) Murex
5 1 (1.43%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Reuters
5 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Tenable