Front Office Contracts in the City of London

Front Office
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 66 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 -41 +18
Contract jobs citing Front Office 72 62 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.10% 2.83% 7.22%
As % of the General category 5.77% 4.26% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 161
10th Percentile £546 £531 £613
25th Percentile £638 £659 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £763 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £858 £844 £938
90th Percentile £965 £909 £1,063
Central London median daily rate £700 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +3.45%

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,248 1,455 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.07% 66.38% 62.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 1,034 1,603
10th Percentile £332 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.58 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% +14.29% -53.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £96.38 £32.05 £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.15% -31.43% -23.08%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.39%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.56%) AWS
2 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) KDB
3 2 (2.78%) Big Data
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.78%) Tableau
4 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.39%) Crucible
3 1 (1.39%) Maven
3 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (69.44%) Finance
2 30 (41.67%) Banking
3 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (18.06%) Investment Banking
6 9 (12.50%) Financial Institution
7 6 (8.33%) Back Office
7 6 (8.33%) Legal
8 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Advertising
10 1 (1.39%) International Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) Analyst
1 24 (33.33%) Developer
2 17 (23.61%) Business Analyst
3 10 (13.89%) C# Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Senior
3 10 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Front Office Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.94%) C++ Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Front Office Business Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Lead
7 4 (5.56%) Algorithm Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) SQL Data Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Back Office Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) C++/C# Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Product Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.44%) .NET
2 6 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.56%) Blazor
4 3 (4.17%) React
5 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.78%) HTML
5 2 (2.78%) HTML5
5 2 (2.78%) Kafka
5 2 (2.78%) Middleware
5 2 (2.78%) Reactive Extensions
5 2 (2.78%) WPF
6 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.39%) Django
6 1 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.39%) Spring
6 1 (1.39%) WCF
6 1 (1.39%) Web Services
6 1 (1.39%) XML
6 1 (1.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.11%) Equities
4 6 (8.33%) Derivative
5 5 (6.94%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.94%) Market Risk
6 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.78%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.78%) TWAP
7 2 (2.78%) VWAP
8 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.39%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.78%) Windows
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Project Management
2 14 (19.44%) Agile
3 12 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 12 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 11 (15.28%) Data Analysis
4 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.50%) Analytics
5 9 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 9 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 8 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
6 8 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
7 7 (9.72%) Business Analysis
8 6 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (6.94%) CI/CD
9 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
9 5 (6.94%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (5.56%) Migration
10 4 (5.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.56%) C#
2 14 (19.44%) Python
3 12 (16.67%) SQL
4 11 (15.28%) Java
5 8 (11.11%) C++
6 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.17%) VBA
8 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (1.39%) Groovy
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.39%) Perl
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.39%) R
9 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.78%) CFA
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.78%) MBA
4 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.39%) PhD
4 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) MiFID
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) EMIR
3 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Ansible
2 1 (1.39%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) ION Trading
2 5 (6.94%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) Reuters
5 2 (2.78%) Trayport
6 1 (1.39%) Charles River
6 1 (1.39%) Citrix
6 1 (1.39%) CQG
6 1 (1.39%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Murex
6 1 (1.39%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.39%) SimCorp