Front Office Developer Contracts in the City of London

Front Office Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Front Office Developer daily rate in the City of London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 124 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 9 3 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.14% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.14% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 28
10th Percentile - £690 £613
25th Percentile £650 £713 £639
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £800 £838 £825
90th Percentile - £860 £829
Central London median daily rate £675 £775 £700
% change year-on-year -12.90% +10.71% -3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in the City of London

Front Office Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Front Office Developer in the City of London

Front Office Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office Developer in the City of London

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Front Office Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Front Office
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) C#
3 5 (55.56%) Banking
4 4 (44.44%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
6 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
6 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
6 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (22.22%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (22.22%) Reactive Extensions
6 2 (22.22%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) VBA
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (22.22%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (11.11%) Middleware
7 1 (11.11%) Unix
7 1 (11.11%) Linux
7 1 (11.11%) C++
7 1 (11.11%) HTML
7 1 (11.11%) Equities
7 1 (11.11%) Risk Management

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) KDB
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 9 (100.00%) Front Office
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Banking
4 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
1 2 (22.22%) Reactive Extensions
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Equities
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
4 1 (11.11%) FX Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) High-Frequency Trading
4 1 (11.11%) Market Making
4 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks