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 21 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 -30 -35
Contract jobs citing Front Office 68 46 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.32% 2.16% 3.61%
As % of the General category 4.93% 3.27% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 35 78
10th Percentile £498 £433 £531
25th Percentile £531 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% - -
75th Percentile £788 £870 £875
90th Percentile £892 £935 £1,050
London median daily rate £725 £738 £725
% change year-on-year -1.69% +1.72% -3.33%

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 general skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,378 1,408 1,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 67.22% 66.23% 64.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 877 1,214
10th Percentile £350 £345 £350
25th Percentile £439 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -2.54%
75th Percentile £688 £685 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £800
London median daily rate £535 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 16
10th Percentile £19.05 £12.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.30 £18.00 £21.85
Median hourly rate £26.11 £22.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -13.73% -40.70%
75th Percentile £41.85 £34.38 £51.31
90th Percentile £46.53 £35.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -24.86% +22.27% +2.23%

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 21 January 2026.

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 21 January 2026. 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 +6 65 £675 -10.00% 32
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.94%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.94%) Summit
2 1 (1.47%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.47%) Eikon
2 1 (1.47%) Endur
2 1 (1.47%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.65%) AWS
2 11 (16.18%) Power Platform
3 9 (13.24%) Azure
4 6 (8.82%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.82%) Serverless
5 5 (7.35%) GCP
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) Power BI
2 7 (10.29%) Tableau
3 4 (5.88%) KDB
3 4 (5.88%) Kdb+
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.94%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.94%) Postman
4 2 (2.94%) QUnit
4 2 (2.94%) Selenium
5 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 44 (64.71%) Finance
2 27 (39.71%) Banking
3 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (22.06%) Investment Banking
6 9 (13.24%) Back Office
7 6 (8.82%) Financial Institution
8 5 (7.35%) Legal
9 3 (4.41%) Law
10 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (41.18%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Analyst
3 11 (16.18%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.24%) Business Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Senior
6 6 (8.82%) Project Manager
7 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Lead
9 3 (4.41%) Banking Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) IT Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) KDB Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.94%) MiFID Business Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) Qualitative Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) .NET
1 5 (7.35%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (7.35%) React
2 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.41%) Node.js
2 3 (4.41%) NumPy
2 3 (4.41%) Pandas
2 3 (4.41%) SciPy
3 2 (2.94%) CSS
3 2 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (1.47%) Altair
4 1 (1.47%) HTML5
4 1 (1.47%) JMS
4 1 (1.47%) Kafka
4 1 (1.47%) Middleware
4 1 (1.47%) Murex MxML
4 1 (1.47%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) Swing
4 1 (1.47%) XML
4 1 (1.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (38.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (20.59%) Derivative
3 10 (14.71%) Algorithms
3 10 (14.71%) Equities
4 8 (11.76%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.94%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (2.94%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.94%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.47%) TWAP
7 1 (1.47%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Unix
2 4 (5.88%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (36.76%) Agile
3 15 (22.06%) Low Latency
4 14 (20.59%) Scrum
5 13 (19.12%) Mathematics
5 13 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (17.65%) Analytics
6 12 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 11 (16.18%) Migration
8 10 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (14.71%) Kanban
9 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis
9 9 (13.24%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.76%) Asset Management
10 8 (11.76%) SDLC
11 7 (10.29%) Algorithmic Trading
11 7 (10.29%) Business Analysis
11 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.29%) DevOps
11 7 (10.29%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) Java
2 17 (25.00%) SQL
3 16 (23.53%) Python
4 14 (20.59%) C#
5 8 (11.76%) C++
6 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.41%) VBA
8 2 (2.94%) Scala
8 2 (2.94%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.47%) VC++
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.35%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.41%) PhD
5 2 (2.94%) CFA
5 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.94%) PMP
5 2 (2.94%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) EMIR
2 3 (4.41%) MiFID
3 2 (2.94%) PMO
4 1 (1.47%) Basel III
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Grafana
2 1 (1.47%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Murex
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.94%) Databricks
5 2 (2.94%) UiPath
6 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.47%) Calypso
6 1 (1.47%) Charles River
6 1 (1.47%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.47%) Reuters
6 1 (1.47%) Splunk