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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 79 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 -40
Contract jobs citing Front Office 70 44 85
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.28% 2.11% 3.28%
As % of the General category 5.00% 3.16% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 30 66
10th Percentile £476 £459 £563
25th Percentile £525 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £718 £775
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -7.42% +3.33%
75th Percentile £788 £852 £884
90th Percentile £850 £950 £1,063
London median daily rate £725 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -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 1,399 1,392 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.53% 66.89% 64.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 870 1,198
10th Percentile £350 £348 £329
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £816
London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 16
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.42 £24.31 £20.15
Median hourly rate £26.11 £33.75 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +37.76% -39.51%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £53.11 £111.25 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.56 £29.36
% change year-on-year -18.32% +31.32% +3.02%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +13 67 £668 -6.97% 24
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 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.86%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Fidessa
2 3 (4.29%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (2.86%) Aladdin
3 2 (2.86%) Summit
4 1 (1.43%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.00%) AWS
2 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.43%) Azure
4 6 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (8.57%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.57%) Serverless
5 5 (7.14%) GCP
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Power BI
2 6 (8.57%) Tableau
3 3 (4.29%) KDB
3 3 (4.29%) Kdb+
4 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) JIRA
3 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.86%) Postman
4 2 (2.86%) Selenium
5 1 (1.43%) QUnit
General
1 45 (64.29%) Finance
2 30 (42.86%) Banking
3 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
4 21 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (22.86%) Investment Banking
6 8 (11.43%) Back Office
7 6 (8.57%) Financial Institution
7 6 (8.57%) Legal
8 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.29%) Law
10 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) Developer
2 11 (15.71%) Analyst
2 11 (15.71%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.86%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.57%) Front Office Developer
5 6 (8.57%) Senior
6 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Lead
8 3 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) IT Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (2.86%) KDB Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (7.14%) React
3 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.29%) JMS
3 3 (4.29%) Kafka
3 3 (4.29%) Middleware
3 3 (4.29%) Node.js
3 3 (4.29%) NumPy
3 3 (4.29%) Pandas
3 3 (4.29%) REST
3 3 (4.29%) SciPy
4 2 (2.86%) CSS
4 2 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (1.43%) Altair
5 1 (1.43%) HTML5
5 1 (1.43%) Murex MxML
5 1 (1.43%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (18.57%) Derivative
3 12 (17.14%) Equities
4 10 (14.29%) Algorithms
5 7 (10.00%) Fixed Income
6 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.29%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.86%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Unix
2 4 (5.71%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.57%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.29%) Agile
3 14 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 14 (20.00%) Scrum
4 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (15.71%) Analytics
5 11 (15.71%) CI/CD
5 11 (15.71%) Data Analysis
5 11 (15.71%) Mathematics
6 10 (14.29%) Kanban
6 10 (14.29%) Migration
7 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.43%) Algorithmic Trading
8 8 (11.43%) Asset Management
8 8 (11.43%) Risk Management
8 8 (11.43%) SDLC
9 7 (10.00%) Business Analysis
9 7 (10.00%) DevOps
10 6 (8.57%) Electronic Trading
10 6 (8.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) Java
2 19 (27.14%) Python
3 16 (22.86%) SQL
4 15 (21.43%) C#
5 7 (10.00%) C++
6 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.29%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.86%) Scala
8 2 (2.86%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.29%) PhD
5 2 (2.86%) CFA
5 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) MiFID
3 2 (2.86%) EMIR
3 2 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) Basel III
4 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Murex
3 5 (7.14%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.29%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.29%) Charles River
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle
4 3 (4.29%) Splunk
5 2 (2.86%) Databricks
5 2 (2.86%) UiPath
6 1 (1.43%) Calypso
6 1 (1.43%) Reuters
6 1 (1.43%) Wallstreet Suite