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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 76 40
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 -12
Contract jobs citing Front Office 66 53 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.42% 2.31% 5.33%
As % of the General category 4.59% 3.45% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 130
10th Percentile £575 £591 £512
25th Percentile £613 £669 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £792 £713
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +11.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £881 £864 £859
90th Percentile £1,048 £913 £926
London median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

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 1,439 1,538 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 74.56% 66.96% 63.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 983 1,487
10th Percentile £315 £356 £349
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £772 £800 £825
London median daily rate £545 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 13
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.80 -
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +42.11% -54.22%
75th Percentile £50.75 £51.75 £38.00
90th Percentile £64.11 £87.00 £63.46
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -7.14% +13.82% -14.58%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +26 65 £700 -11.62% 53
City of Westminster -3 1 £625 -26.47%
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 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Aladdin
2 4 (6.06%) ION Anvil
3 1 (1.52%) Endur
3 1 (1.52%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) AWS
2 10 (15.15%) Amazon S3
3 4 (6.06%) Azure
4 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
5 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
1 1 (1.52%) SAN
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.55%) KDB
2 3 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (4.55%) Tableau
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.52%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.52%) Git
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) Postman
2 1 (1.52%) QUnit
2 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 45 (68.18%) Finance
2 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 22 (33.33%) Banking
4 15 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (13.64%) Financial Institution
7 8 (12.12%) Back Office
8 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.52%) International Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (33.33%) Analyst
2 18 (27.27%) Developer
3 14 (21.21%) Business Analyst
4 11 (16.67%) Lead
5 9 (13.64%) Consultant
6 8 (12.12%) Lead Consultant
6 8 (12.12%) Senior
7 7 (10.61%) Lead Business Analyst
8 6 (9.09%) Business Consultant
8 6 (9.09%) Product Analyst
8 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Charles River Consultant
9 4 (6.06%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Business Development Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) Charles River Business Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) Development Analyst
10 3 (4.55%) Development Consultant
10 3 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.55%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) Kafka
1 8 (12.12%) React
2 6 (9.09%) .NET
3 5 (7.58%) GraphQL
3 5 (7.58%) REST
3 5 (7.58%) Svelte
4 3 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.03%) Node.js
5 2 (3.03%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (3.03%) Spring
6 1 (1.52%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.52%) NumPy
6 1 (1.52%) Pandas
6 1 (1.52%) Polars
6 1 (1.52%) Swing
6 1 (1.52%) XML
6 1 (1.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Fixed Income
1 10 (15.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (12.12%) Derivative
3 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.58%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.03%) Equities
5 2 (3.03%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.03%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.52%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.52%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.52%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (1.52%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.55%) Unix
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Agile
2 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (19.70%) Asset Management
4 13 (19.70%) Project Management
5 11 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
5 11 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 11 (16.67%) Scrum
5 11 (16.67%) Validation
6 10 (15.15%) Business Analysis
6 10 (15.15%) Data Analysis
6 10 (15.15%) Low Latency
6 10 (15.15%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (12.12%) Change Management
8 8 (12.12%) CI/CD
8 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (12.12%) GAP Analysis
8 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) Python
2 19 (28.79%) SQL
3 11 (16.67%) C#
4 10 (15.15%) Java
5 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.06%) C++
7 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.55%) VBA
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) C
8 1 (1.52%) Scala
8 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.52%) VC++
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.03%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) EMIR
2 9 (13.64%) MiFID
3 6 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.52%) Rundeck
1 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) ION Trading
3 4 (6.06%) Charles River
4 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Calypso
5 1 (1.52%) Citrix
5 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Dell
5 1 (1.52%) HP
5 1 (1.52%) Murex
5 1 (1.52%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.52%) Reuters
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.52%) UiPath
5 1 (1.52%) VMware