Front Office Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 79 32
Rank change year-on-year +30 -47 +10
Contract jobs citing Front Office 85 59 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.23% 2.49% 6.16%
As % of the General category 5.75% 3.75% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 40 159
10th Percentile £575 £578 £574
25th Percentile £610 £663 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £763 £775
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -1.61% +4.73%
75th Percentile £839 £863 £885
90th Percentile £990 £918 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £750 £725
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%

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 1,478 1,572 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.53% 66.22% 62.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 1,085 1,659
10th Percentile £331 £338 £313
25th Percentile £429 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £827
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 15
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.93 £20.92 £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.24 £26.78 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% +29.34% -51.28%
75th Percentile £51.81 £41.06 £38.66
90th Percentile £67.89 £70.20 £53.35
London median hourly rate £34.00 £30.33 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.10% -6.68% -8.45%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in Central London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in Central London

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 5 July 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 +28 84 £700 -8.20% 182
City of Westminster -1 1 £625 -26.47% 13
Front Office
London

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Aladdin
2 4 (4.71%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.18%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.18%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.29%) AWS
2 8 (9.41%) Amazon S3
3 4 (4.71%) Azure
4 3 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) SAN
1 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.53%) KDB
4 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.18%) Crucible
4 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) Maven
4 1 (1.18%) Postman
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (68.24%) Finance
2 31 (36.47%) Banking
3 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 21 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 10 (11.76%) Financial Institution
7 7 (8.24%) Back Office
8 6 (7.06%) Legal
9 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.35%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.18%) International Banking
11 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.18%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (35.29%) Developer
2 24 (28.24%) Analyst
3 19 (22.35%) Business Analyst
4 11 (12.94%) Software Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Lead
6 9 (10.59%) C# Developer
6 9 (10.59%) Senior
7 8 (9.41%) Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) Lead Consultant
8 7 (8.24%) Front Office Developer
8 7 (8.24%) Lead Business Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Business Consultant
9 6 (7.06%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.71%) C++ Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Charles River Consultant
10 4 (4.71%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Product Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) .NET
2 10 (11.76%) Kafka
3 6 (7.06%) React
3 6 (7.06%) REST
4 5 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 5 (5.88%) Svelte
5 4 (4.71%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.53%) Blazor
7 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.35%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.35%) HTML
7 2 (2.35%) HTML5
7 2 (2.35%) Middleware
7 2 (2.35%) Reactive Extensions
7 2 (2.35%) WPF
8 1 (1.18%) Spring
8 1 (1.18%) WCF
8 1 (1.18%) Web Services
8 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (15.29%) Fixed Income
3 10 (11.76%) Derivative
4 6 (7.06%) Equities
4 6 (7.06%) Market Risk
5 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.53%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.35%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.18%) Exotic Derivative
7 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.18%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.18%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.94%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.41%) Agile
2 22 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.18%) Project Management
3 18 (21.18%) Risk Management
4 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
6 13 (15.29%) Low Latency
7 12 (14.12%) Business Analysis
7 12 (14.12%) Data Analysis
8 10 (11.76%) Asset Management
8 10 (11.76%) Electronic Trading
8 10 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (11.76%) Scrum
8 10 (11.76%) Validation
9 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.59%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (10.59%) GAP Analysis
9 9 (10.59%) Portfolio Management
9 9 (10.59%) Project Delivery
10 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.88%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) C#
3 13 (15.29%) SQL
4 12 (14.12%) Java
5 9 (10.59%) C++
6 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.18%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) C
9 1 (1.18%) Groovy
9 1 (1.18%) Perl
9 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.18%) R
9 1 (1.18%) Ruby
9 1 (1.18%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.35%) PhD
4 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) MiFID
2 10 (11.76%) EMIR
3 7 (8.24%) QA
4 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.35%) PMO
6 1 (1.18%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Control-M
1 1 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.24%) ION Trading
3 4 (4.71%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.71%) Charles River
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.35%) Reuters
5 2 (2.35%) Sun
6 1 (1.18%) Calypso
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) CQG
6 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.18%) Databricks
6 1 (1.18%) Dell
6 1 (1.18%) HP
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Murex
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.18%) VMware