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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 84 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 -44 -23
Contract jobs citing Front Office 62 53 132
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.13% 2.21% 4.68%
As % of the General category 4.35% 3.32% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 41 110
10th Percentile £493 £400 £512
25th Percentile £581 £625 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £792 £750
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +5.60% -
75th Percentile £788 £865 £875
90th Percentile £913 £913 £1,011
London median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,426 1,595 1,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 72.02% 66.54% 65.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 997 1,321
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
London median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 14
10th Percentile £19.05 £14.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.96 £22.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £34.00 £33.75 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% +26.17% -47.03%
75th Percentile £49.83 £47.00 £60.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £77.00 £71.13
London median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% +7.14% +2.94%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 59 £668 -16.14% 22
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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.61%) Eikon
2 1 (1.61%) Endur
2 1 (1.61%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.61%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) AWS
2 11 (17.74%) Amazon S3
3 10 (16.13%) Azure
4 7 (11.29%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (9.68%) Serverless
6 4 (6.45%) GCP
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.84%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (11.29%) Power BI
2 5 (8.06%) KDB
2 5 (8.06%) Tableau
3 4 (6.45%) Kdb+
4 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.61%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Postman
2 3 (4.84%) Selenium
3 2 (3.23%) QUnit
4 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 44 (70.97%) Finance
2 22 (35.48%) Banking
3 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
4 14 (22.58%) Investment Banking
5 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.68%) Back Office
6 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.84%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (40.32%) Developer
2 10 (16.13%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Front Office Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) KDB Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) .NET
1 7 (11.29%) React
2 6 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (8.06%) Kafka
4 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.84%) Node.js
4 3 (4.84%) NumPy
4 3 (4.84%) Pandas
4 3 (4.84%) SciPy
5 2 (3.23%) CSS
5 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.23%) HTML
5 2 (3.23%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) Svelte
6 1 (1.61%) Altair
6 1 (1.61%) HTML5
6 1 (1.61%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.61%) Swing
6 1 (1.61%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Derivative
2 13 (20.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (16.13%) Algorithms
4 7 (11.29%) Equities
4 7 (11.29%) Fixed Income
5 6 (9.68%) Cloud Native
6 4 (6.45%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
8 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (3.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (3.23%) Reference Data
8 2 (3.23%) Swaptions
8 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.61%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Unix
2 5 (8.06%) Linux
3 4 (6.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Agile
2 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.97%) Low Latency
5 12 (19.35%) Analytics
5 12 (19.35%) Mathematics
5 12 (19.35%) Scrum
6 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (14.52%) Migration
7 9 (14.52%) Risk Management
7 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
8 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
8 8 (12.90%) DevOps
8 8 (12.90%) Kanban
9 7 (11.29%) Physics
9 7 (11.29%) SDLC
10 6 (9.68%) Algorithmic Trading
10 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (9.68%) Quantitative Finance
10 6 (9.68%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) Java
3 15 (24.19%) C#
3 15 (24.19%) SQL
4 9 (14.52%) C++
5 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.84%) VB.NET
6 3 (4.84%) VBA
7 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.61%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) VC++
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) Degree
2 7 (11.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.68%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.45%) PhD
5 2 (3.23%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.61%) CFA
6 1 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) EMIR
3 1 (1.61%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.61%) MiFID
3 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Databricks
3 3 (4.84%) UiPath
4 2 (3.23%) Calypso
4 2 (3.23%) Murex
5 1 (1.61%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.61%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.61%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.61%) Reuters