Front Office Developer Contracts in England

Front Office Developer
UK > England

The median Front Office Developer daily rate in England is £750, 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 442 482 497
Rank change year-on-year +40 +15 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 43 60 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 53 134
10th Percentile £655 £553 £630
25th Percentile £688 £600 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +9.40%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £863
90th Percentile £900 £850 £975
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £800
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +8.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in England

Front Office Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Front Office Developer in England

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office Developer in England

Front Office Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office Developer in England

Front Office Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +21 43 £750 +7.14% 15
Front Office Developer
UK

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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 England region featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Front Office
2 24 (55.81%) C#
3 21 (48.84%) Python
4 19 (44.19%) Java
5 14 (32.56%) Finance
5 14 (32.56%) Banking
6 13 (30.23%) Derivative
6 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
7 12 (27.91%) Azure
7 12 (27.91%) Multithreading
8 11 (25.58%) Microsoft Excel
8 11 (25.58%) Greeks
9 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
9 10 (23.26%) Risk Management
9 10 (23.26%) Investment Banking
10 9 (20.93%) Electronic Trading
10 9 (20.93%) Mathematics
10 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (18.60%) .NET
11 8 (18.60%) Low Latency
12 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
12 7 (16.28%) Analytics
12 7 (16.28%) Design Patterns
13 6 (13.95%) Agile
13 6 (13.95%) Oracle
13 6 (13.95%) OO
13 6 (13.95%) Reactive Extensions
14 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
14 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (25.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) KDB
2 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.65%) Gradle
3 2 (4.65%) IntelliJ
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Maven
3 2 (4.65%) Subversion
3 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
General
1 43 (100.00%) Front Office
2 14 (32.56%) Banking
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
4 10 (23.26%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) .NET
2 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
3 6 (13.95%) Reactive Extensions
4 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.98%) NumPy
5 3 (6.98%) Pandas
6 2 (4.65%) Rendezvous
6 2 (4.65%) WPF
7 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.33%) gRPC
7 1 (2.33%) HTML
7 1 (2.33%) HTML5
7 1 (2.33%) Kafka
7 1 (2.33%) Middleware
7 1 (2.33%) Polars
7 1 (2.33%) React
7 1 (2.33%) Redux
7 1 (2.33%) RESTful
7 1 (2.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.23%) Derivative
2 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (11.63%) Equities
5 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
6 3 (6.98%) Hedge funds
7 2 (4.65%) Market Risk
7 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Multithreading
2 11 (25.58%) Greeks
3 10 (23.26%) Risk Management
4 9 (20.93%) Electronic Trading
4 9 (20.93%) Mathematics
5 8 (18.60%) Low Latency
6 7 (16.28%) Analytics
6 7 (16.28%) Design Patterns
7 6 (13.95%) Agile
7 6 (13.95%) OO
8 5 (11.63%) SDLC
8 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (9.30%) Economics
9 4 (9.30%) High Availability
9 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.98%) Algorithmic Trading
10 3 (6.98%) Microservices
10 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) C#
2 21 (48.84%) Python
3 19 (44.19%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) SQL
4 5 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.98%) C++
6 2 (4.65%) VBA
7 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Sybase
2 2 (4.65%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks