Front Office Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Front Office
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing Front Office 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% 0.66% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.25% 0.87% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £513 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £525 £135
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% +288.89% -68.24%
75th Percentile - £538 £138
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £430 £525 £293
% change year-on-year -18.10% +79.49% -38.42%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 399 459 700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 66.39% 75.49% 76.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 258 414
10th Percentile £150 £191 £212
25th Percentile £325 £364 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £555 £536 £575
90th Percentile £663 £633 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £484
% change year-on-year - -6.93% +1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 29
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.02 £15.66
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £22.87
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -60.00% +220.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £41.43 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +50.05%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Front Office job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Front Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Front Office

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) QlikView
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality