Front Office Contracts in England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Front Office UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	83	182	130
Rank change year-on-year	+99	-52
Contract jobs citing Front Office	1234	707	902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	2.85%	1.43%	1.80%
As % of the General category	7.27%	3.92%	4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted	945	563	752
Median daily rate	£600	£600	£575
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£475	£450	£450
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£700	£700	£675
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£410	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.65%	-21.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	2	0
Median hourly rate	£15.00	£46.50	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-67.74%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£10.00	-	£65.00

Front Office is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	16970	18055	19635
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	39.24%	36.41%	39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted	11222	12293	12923
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£288	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£650	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	380	440	488
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+8.69%	+2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.50	£47.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	+11.11%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Front Office as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the General category.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Front Office in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Front Office in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
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 within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+47	1209	£600	-	144
South East	-20	15	£425	-	3
North West	+22	4	£375	-	3
South West	-	3	£675	-	1
Yorkshire	+30	1	-	-
East Midlands	-9	1	-	-
Front Office UK

Front Office
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Front Office also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Front Office.

1	936 (44.96%)	Banking
2	883 (42.41%)	Finance
3	726 (34.87%)	Java
4	611 (29.35%)	Investment Banking
5	575 (27.62%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	544 (26.13%)	Agile Software Development
7	514 (24.69%)	C#
8	499 (23.97%)	SQL
9	455 (21.85%)	Fixed Income
10	398 (19.12%)	Electronic Trading
11	392 (18.83%)	Derivative
12	380 (18.25%)	Multithreading
13	351 (16.86%)	Equities
14	318 (15.27%)	C++
15	298 (14.31%)	Low Latency

16	274 (13.16%)	.NET
17	268 (12.87%)	MiFID
18	266 (12.78%)	JavaScript
19	253 (12.15%)	HTML
20	250 (12.01%)	Analytical Skills
21	242 (11.62%)	SQL Server
22	233 (11.19%)	TDD
23	232 (11.14%)	Python
24	226 (10.85%)	Linux
25	223 (10.71%)	Oracle
26	221 (10.61%)	HTML5
27	218 (10.47%)	Unix
28	197 (9.46%)	Risk Management
29	190 (9.13%)	OO
30	179 (8.60%)	AngularJS

Front Office
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	58 (2.79%)	Oracle Coherence
2	41 (1.97%)	Apache Spark
3	19 (0.91%)	Apache
3	19 (0.91%)	IIS
4	16 (0.77%)	DataSynapse
4	16 (0.77%)	Oracle Workflow
5	13 (0.62%)	Elasticsearch
6	12 (0.58%)	Tomcat
6	12 (0.58%)	WebSphere
7	11 (0.53%)	WebLogic
8	10 (0.48%)	Confluence
9	8 (0.38%)	Cloud Foundry
10	7 (0.34%)	CMS
10	7 (0.34%)	JBoss
11	6 (0.29%)	IBM Notes
12	5 (0.24%)	MQSeries
12	5 (0.24%)	nginx
12	5 (0.24%)	SharePoint
13	4 (0.19%)	Apache Pig
14	3 (0.14%)	GemFire

Applications
1	117 (5.62%)	Microsoft Excel
2	33 (1.59%)	Microsoft Office
3	20 (0.96%)	MS Visio
4	17 (0.82%)	Spreadsheet
5	14 (0.67%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	12 (0.58%)	Microsoft Project
7	2 (0.096%)	Photoshop
8	1 (0.048%)	Adobe Illustrator

Business Applications
1	50 (2.40%)	ION MarketView
2	34 (1.63%)	thinkFolio
3	25 (1.20%)	RMDS
4	17 (0.82%)	Endur
5	12 (0.58%)	Global One
6	8 (0.38%)	Bloomberg AIM
6	8 (0.38%)	Markit EDM
7	7 (0.34%)	Actimize
7	7 (0.34%)	Bloomberg TOMS
7	7 (0.34%)	LatentZero
8	5 (0.24%)	Sophis RISQUE
8	5 (0.24%)	Summit
9	4 (0.19%)	FINCAD Analytics
9	4 (0.19%)	Murex MxG2000
10	3 (0.14%)	Kondor
10	3 (0.14%)	Loan IQ
10	3 (0.14%)	Oracle EBS R12
10	3 (0.14%)	Orchestrade
11	2 (0.096%)	IntelliMatch
11	2 (0.096%)	Postilion

Cloud Services
1	38 (1.83%)	Amazon AWS
2	22 (1.06%)	Cloud Computing
3	14 (0.67%)	Microsoft Azure
4	5 (0.24%)	Amazon EC2
5	4 (0.19%)	Amazon ElastiCache
5	4 (0.19%)	AWS Lambda
5	4 (0.19%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	4 (0.19%)	Route 53
6	3 (0.14%)	GitHub
6	3 (0.14%)	IBM Blueworks
6	3 (0.14%)	PaaS
7	2 (0.096%)	Boomi
7	2 (0.096%)	IaaS
8	1 (0.048%)	Office 365
8	1 (0.048%)	OpenShift
8	1 (0.048%)	SaaS
8	1 (0.048%)	SuccessFactors

Communications & Networking
1	20 (0.96%)	Firewall
2	12 (0.58%)	FIX Connectivity
3	10 (0.48%)	TCP/IP
4	9 (0.43%)	HTTP
5	8 (0.38%)	NAS
5	8 (0.38%)	SAN
6	5 (0.24%)	SSL
7	4 (0.19%)	Internet
8	3 (0.14%)	Diameter Protocol
8	3 (0.14%)	LAN
8	3 (0.14%)	Network Security
8	3 (0.14%)	VoIP
9	2 (0.096%)	DHCP
9	2 (0.096%)	GGSN
9	2 (0.096%)	GPRS
9	2 (0.096%)	GSM
9	2 (0.096%)	LTE
9	2 (0.096%)	SMTP
9	2 (0.096%)	SNMP
9	2 (0.096%)	UMTS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	242 (11.62%)	SQL Server
2	123 (5.91%)	Relational Database
3	92 (4.42%)	Big Data
4	72 (3.46%)	Hadoop
5	69 (3.31%)	KDB
6	47 (2.26%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	40 (1.92%)	Tick Data
8	37 (1.78%)	NoSQL
9	34 (1.63%)	RDBMS
10	30 (1.44%)	Oracle Database
11	27 (1.30%)	SQL Server 2008
12	25 (1.20%)	HBase
13	24 (1.15%)	Data Mart
14	23 (1.10%)	Data Warehouse
15	22 (1.06%)	Kdb+
16	21 (1.01%)	BusinessObjects
16	21 (1.01%)	MongoDB
16	21 (1.01%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
17	20 (0.96%)	DB2
18	17 (0.82%)	MS Access

Development Applications
1	88 (4.23%)	TeamCity
2	75 (3.60%)	Git (software)
3	69 (3.31%)	Subversion
4	51 (2.45%)	JIRA
5	49 (2.35%)	Maven
6	43 (2.07%)	NUnit
7	42 (2.02%)	JUnit
8	30 (1.44%)	Jenkins
9	24 (1.15%)	Selenium
9	24 (1.15%)	Team Foundation Server
10	22 (1.06%)	Mockito
11	21 (1.01%)	Grunt
11	21 (1.01%)	Visual Studio
12	19 (0.91%)	Gradle
13	18 (0.86%)	gulp
13	18 (0.86%)	Sonatype Nexus
14	17 (0.82%)	VSS/SourceSafe
15	16 (0.77%)	webpack
16	9 (0.43%)	Bitbucket
17	8 (0.38%)	Cucumber

General
1	936 (44.96%)	Banking
2	883 (42.41%)	Finance
3	611 (29.35%)	Investment Banking
4	126 (6.05%)	Back Office
5	56 (2.69%)	Financial Institution
6	23 (1.10%)	Marketing
7	22 (1.06%)	Private Banking
8	21 (1.01%)	Legal
9	19 (0.91%)	Retail
10	15 (0.72%)	Advertising
11	11 (0.53%)	Corporate Banking
12	7 (0.34%)	Telecoms
13	6 (0.29%)	French Language
13	6 (0.29%)	Retail Banking
14	5 (0.24%)	General Ledger
15	3 (0.14%)	Games
16	2 (0.096%)	Mandarin Language
16	2 (0.096%)	Manufacturing
16	2 (0.096%)	Prime Brokerage
17	1 (0.048%)	Synthetic Prime Brokerage

Job Titles
1	1279 (61.43%)	Developer
2	474 (22.77%)	Analyst
2	474 (22.77%)	Java Developer
3	320 (15.37%)	Business Analyst
4	319 (15.32%)	Front Office Developer
5	315 (15.13%)	C# Developer
6	181 (8.69%)	Senior Developer
7	143 (6.87%)	Electronic Trading Developer
8	114 (5.48%)	Senior Java Developer
9	112 (5.38%)	Project Manager
10	109 (5.24%)	C++ Developer
11	107 (5.14%)	.NET Developer
12	96 (4.61%)	Front Office Business Analyst
13	92 (4.42%)	C# .NET Developer
13	92 (4.42%)	Electronic Trading Java Developer
13	92 (4.42%)	JavaScript Developer
14	89 (4.27%)	Quantitative Developer
15	87 (4.18%)	Python Developer
16	86 (4.13%)	MiFID Business Analyst
17	84 (4.03%)	SQL Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	274 (13.16%)	.NET
2	253 (12.15%)	HTML
3	221 (10.61%)	HTML5
4	179 (8.60%)	AngularJS
5	165 (7.93%)	WPF
6	127 (6.10%)	CSS
7	121 (5.81%)	Spring
8	113 (5.43%)	FIX Protocol
9	102 (4.90%)	React
10	71 (3.41%)	XML
11	66 (3.17%)	REST
12	65 (3.12%)	WCF
13	60 (2.88%)	Node.js
14	54 (2.59%)	JMS
15	47 (2.26%)	Middleware
15	47 (2.26%)	Redux
15	47 (2.26%)	Rendezvous
16	44 (2.11%)	Hibernate
17	43 (2.07%)	Web Services
18	41 (1.97%)	CSS3

Miscellaneous
1	575 (27.62%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
2	455 (21.85%)	Fixed Income
3	392 (18.83%)	Derivative
4	351 (16.86%)	Equities
5	250 (12.01%)	Analytical Skills
6	134 (6.44%)	Greenfield Project
7	116 (5.57%)	Equity Derivative
8	106 (5.09%)	Computer Science
9	84 (4.03%)	Market Risk
10	72 (3.46%)	Algorithms
11	60 (2.88%)	Hedge funds
12	47 (2.26%)	User Experience
13	45 (2.16%)	Fintech
14	44 (2.11%)	Data Structures
15	42 (2.02%)	Interest Rate Derivative
15	42 (2.02%)	Virtual Team
16	35 (1.68%)	Management Information System
17	32 (1.54%)	OTC Derivatives
18	31 (1.49%)	Credit Risk
18	31 (1.49%)	Grid Computing

Operating Systems
1	226 (10.85%)	Linux
2	218 (10.47%)	Unix
3	150 (7.20%)	Windows
4	25 (1.20%)	Windows Server
5	14 (0.67%)	Windows 7
6	7 (0.34%)	Solaris
7	3 (0.14%)	OS/390
8	2 (0.096%)	Android
8	2 (0.096%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	2 (0.096%)	Windows Server 2003
8	2 (0.096%)	Windows Server 2008
8	2 (0.096%)	Windows Server 2012
8	2 (0.096%)	Windows Vista
9	1 (0.048%)	HPUX
9	1 (0.048%)	Mac OS
9	1 (0.048%)	Windows 8
9	1 (0.048%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	544 (26.13%)	Agile Software Development
2	398 (19.12%)	Electronic Trading
3	380 (18.25%)	Multithreading
4	298 (14.31%)	Low Latency
5	233 (11.19%)	TDD
6	197 (9.46%)	Risk Management
7	190 (9.13%)	OO
8	164 (7.88%)	Asset Management
8	164 (7.88%)	SDLC
9	155 (7.44%)	Business Analysis
10	152 (7.30%)	Analytics
11	144 (6.92%)	Mathematics
12	134 (6.44%)	Continuous Integration
13	116 (5.57%)	Investment Management
14	113 (5.43%)	Scrum
15	111 (5.33%)	Project Management
16	107 (5.14%)	Stakeholder Management
17	104 (5.00%)	Test Automation
18	94 (4.51%)	Software Engineering
19	83 (3.99%)	Algorithmic Trading

Programming Languages
1	726 (34.87%)	Java
2	514 (24.69%)	C#
3	499 (23.97%)	SQL
4	318 (15.27%)	C++
5	266 (12.78%)	JavaScript
6	232 (11.14%)	Python
7	114 (5.48%)	VBA
8	102 (4.90%)	Scala
9	74 (3.55%)	Perl
10	52 (2.50%)	TypeScript
11	45 (2.16%)	T-SQL
12	37 (1.78%)	Bash Shell
12	37 (1.78%)	Shell Script
13	36 (1.73%)	ES6
13	36 (1.73%)	VB
14	34 (1.63%)	R
15	33 (1.59%)	C
16	29 (1.39%)	XAML
17	27 (1.30%)	PowerShell
18	20 (0.96%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	135 (6.48%)	Degree
2	39 (1.87%)	Computer Science Degree
3	34 (1.63%)	Numerate Degree
4	30 (1.44%)	PhD
4	30 (1.44%)	PMI Certification
5	28 (1.34%)	PMP
6	8 (0.38%)	Master's Degree
7	5 (0.24%)	ITIL Certification
7	5 (0.24%)	MBA
7	5 (0.24%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
8	4 (0.19%)	CFA
8	4 (0.19%)	Microsoft Certification
9	3 (0.14%)	MCP
10	2 (0.096%)	Postgraduate
11	1 (0.048%)	ISEB
11	1 (0.048%)	MCSA
11	1 (0.048%)	MCSE
11	1 (0.048%)	MOS
11	1 (0.048%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	1 (0.048%)	SC Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	268 (12.87%)	MiFID
2	61 (2.93%)	QA
3	31 (1.49%)	EMIR
4	26 (1.25%)	Dodd-Frank
5	22 (1.06%)	Data Quality
6	13 (0.62%)	SLA
7	9 (0.43%)	Basel III
8	7 (0.34%)	PMO
9	6 (0.29%)	AIFMD
10	3 (0.14%)	Solvency II
11	2 (0.096%)	Disclosure Scotland
11	2 (0.096%)	SEPA
12	1 (0.048%)	Basel II
12	1 (0.048%)	FATCA
12	1 (0.048%)	GDPR

System Software
1	21 (1.01%)	Docker
2	12 (0.58%)	HDFS
3	9 (0.43%)	Apache ZooKeeper
4	7 (0.34%)	Active Directory
5	6 (0.29%)	Virtual Desktop
6	3 (0.14%)	Platform Symphony
7	2 (0.096%)	Hyper-V
7	2 (0.096%)	Virtual Machines
8	1 (0.048%)	Oracle RAC

Systems Management
1	14 (0.67%)	Control-M
2	10 (0.48%)	Ansible
2	10 (0.48%)	ITRS Geneos
3	7 (0.34%)	Opscode Chef
4	6 (0.29%)	HP Quality Center
5	4 (0.19%)	SCCM
6	3 (0.14%)	BMC PATROL
6	3 (0.14%)	Kubernetes
6	3 (0.14%)	Puppet
6	3 (0.14%)	Tivoli
6	3 (0.14%)	Tivoli NetView
7	2 (0.096%)	Hadoop YARN
7	2 (0.096%)	Terraform
8	1 (0.048%)	Cobbler
8	1 (0.048%)	Mesos
8	1 (0.048%)	NetBackup
8	1 (0.048%)	Norton AntiVirus
8	1 (0.048%)	Thomson Reuters DACS
8	1 (0.048%)	yum

Vendors
1	223 (10.71%)	Oracle
2	119 (5.72%)	Microsoft
3	112 (5.38%)	Sybase
4	90 (4.32%)	Bloomberg
4	90 (4.32%)	ION Trading
5	88 (4.23%)	TIBCO
6	81 (3.89%)	Murex
7	55 (2.64%)	Reuters
8	38 (1.83%)	Charles River
9	36 (1.73%)	Fidessa
10	27 (1.30%)	Calypso
11	22 (1.06%)	Sophis
12	21 (1.01%)	Currenex
13	14 (0.67%)	IBM
13	14 (0.67%)	Solace
14	13 (0.62%)	Google
14	13 (0.62%)	JD Edwards
15	12 (0.58%)	FXall
15	12 (0.58%)	OpenLink
16	11 (0.53%)	SAP