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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 71 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 -43 +20
Contract jobs citing Front Office 70 67 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.50% 2.74% 6.97%
As % of the General category 4.96% 4.16% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 49 165
10th Percentile £544 £531 £613
25th Percentile £628 £663 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £861 £867 £925
90th Percentile £975 £995 £1,063
London median daily rate £750 £725 £740
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% +5.71%

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 1,410 1,611 2,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 70.57% 66.00% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,152 1,688
10th Percentile £329 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -7.29% +5.26%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 15
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.11 £21.36 £18.42
Median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% -31.43% -23.08%
75th Percentile £49.22 £30.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.63 £47.65 £58.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +19.30% -11.63% -11.64%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +9 69 £700 -9.68% 32
City of Westminster -2 1 £625 -29.58%
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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.71%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.43%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.14%) AWS
2 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (4.29%) Azure
3 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
1 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.29%) KDB
3 2 (2.86%) Big Data
3 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.86%) Tableau
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Crucible
3 1 (1.43%) Maven
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (67.14%) Finance
2 31 (44.29%) Banking
3 18 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (24.29%) Social Skills
5 13 (18.57%) Investment Banking
6 9 (12.86%) Financial Institution
7 6 (8.57%) Legal
8 5 (7.14%) Back Office
9 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Advertising
11 1 (1.43%) International Banking
11 1 (1.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (37.14%) Developer
2 20 (28.57%) Analyst
3 13 (18.57%) Business Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
4 10 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 5 (7.14%) C++ Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Front Office Business Analyst
6 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Algorithm Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (5.71%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) SQL Data Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Product Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.71%) Blazor
4 3 (4.29%) React
5 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.86%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.86%) HTML
5 2 (2.86%) HTML5
5 2 (2.86%) Kafka
5 2 (2.86%) Middleware
5 2 (2.86%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (2.86%) WPF
6 1 (1.43%) Django
6 1 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.43%) NumPy
6 1 (1.43%) Pandas
6 1 (1.43%) REST
6 1 (1.43%) Spring
6 1 (1.43%) WCF
6 1 (1.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (18.57%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.43%) Equities
4 6 (8.57%) Derivative
5 5 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 5 (7.14%) Market Risk
6 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.86%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.86%) TWAP
7 2 (2.86%) VWAP
8 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.43%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.57%) Project Management
1 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
2 12 (17.14%) Low Latency
3 11 (15.71%) Agile
3 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (14.29%) Analytics
4 10 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 9 (12.86%) Computer Science
5 9 (12.86%) Data Analysis
5 9 (12.86%) Multithreading
6 8 (11.43%) Algorithmic Trading
6 8 (11.43%) Electronic Trading
7 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.57%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.14%) SDLC
9 5 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (5.71%) Business Analysis
10 4 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.71%) ETRM
10 4 (5.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) C#
2 16 (22.86%) Python
3 11 (15.71%) Java
4 9 (12.86%) SQL
5 8 (11.43%) C++
6 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.71%) VBA
7 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.43%) Go
8 1 (1.43%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.43%) Perl
8 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.43%) R
8 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.86%) CFA
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) MBA
4 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.43%) PhD
4 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) MiFID
3 1 (1.43%) EMIR
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Ansible
2 1 (1.43%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (8.57%) ION Trading
2 5 (7.14%) Bloomberg
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.86%) Reuters
4 2 (2.86%) Trayport
5 1 (1.43%) Citrix
5 1 (1.43%) CQG
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) Murex
5 1 (1.43%) Refinitiv