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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -37 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing Front Office 65 245 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.98% 6.91% 5.02%
As % of the General category 4.49% 11.04% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 151 141
10th Percentile £531 £613 £550
25th Percentile £663 £647 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £735
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +13.08%
75th Percentile £838 £931 £838
90th Percentile £908 £1,063 £913
Central London median daily rate £763 £770 £736
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.52% +13.27%

All General Skills
City of London

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,449 2,219 2,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.47% 62.58% 57.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,561 1,761
10th Percentile £338 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £551 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.13% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 27
10th Percentile £19.13 £14.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -51.72% +148.57%
75th Percentile £27.00 £52.75 £60.25
90th Percentile £32.05 £57.75 £68.15
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -51.72% +148.57%

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 11 May 2024.

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 (4.62%) MTS
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.54%) SAS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Aligne
1 3 (4.62%) Endur
1 3 (4.62%) EuroRunner
2 2 (3.08%) Fidessa
2 2 (3.08%) Orchestrade
3 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.54%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
3 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (1.54%) Multicast
1 1 (1.54%) SAN
1 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) KDB
2 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.15%) Power BI
3 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.54%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.62%) Selenium
2 3 (4.62%) WebDriver
3 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (35.38%) Banking
2 20 (30.77%) Finance
3 15 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Back Office
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Agriculture
7 3 (4.62%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (3.08%) French Language
8 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) Developer
2 17 (26.15%) Analyst
3 12 (18.46%) Java Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 10 (15.38%) Project Manager
5 7 (10.77%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Data Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Front Office Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.15%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Automation Tester
8 3 (4.62%) C++ Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Tester
9 2 (3.08%) Business Project Manager
9 2 (3.08%) Developer Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) .NET
1 6 (9.23%) React
2 4 (6.15%) Spring
3 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.62%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.08%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.08%) Web Services
5 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.54%) ADO
5 1 (1.54%) Blazor
5 1 (1.54%) CSS
5 1 (1.54%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.54%) HTML
5 1 (1.54%) Middleware
5 1 (1.54%) Rendezvous
5 1 (1.54%) RESTful
5 1 (1.54%) RxJS
5 1 (1.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Equities
2 9 (13.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (12.31%) Market Risk
4 6 (9.23%) Fixed Income
5 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Hedge funds
6 3 (4.62%) Derivative
6 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.54%) HP Storage
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.54%) Spread Betting
8 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.62%) Agile
2 9 (13.85%) Electronic Trading
2 9 (13.85%) Risk Management
3 7 (10.77%) Project Management
4 6 (9.23%) ETRM
4 6 (9.23%) Low Latency
4 6 (9.23%) Multithreading
5 5 (7.69%) Business Analysis
5 5 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 5 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 4 (6.15%) Analytics
6 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (6.15%) Change Management
6 4 (6.15%) DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Microservices
6 4 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.15%) Test Automation
7 3 (4.62%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (4.62%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) Java
2 16 (24.62%) C#
2 16 (24.62%) Python
3 15 (23.08%) SQL
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.62%) C++
5 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.54%) C
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) CCNA
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) EMIR
2 1 (1.54%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (6.15%) Murex
2 3 (4.62%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.08%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.08%) Sophis
4 1 (1.54%) Arista
4 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco
4 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.54%) FIS
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.54%) MarketAxess
4 1 (1.54%) Progress
4 1 (1.54%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.54%) Remedy
4 1 (1.54%) Solace
4 1 (1.54%) Sun
4 1 (1.54%) Tradeweb