Front Office Contracts in England

Front Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 98 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing Front Office 718 826 1,470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.95% 2.22% 2.91%
As % of the General category 4.61% 3.80% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 736 1,223
10th Percentile £538 £525 £538
25th Percentile £638 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £740
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% +5.71%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £838
90th Percentile £938 £888 £925
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £739
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £16.87 - -
25th Percentile £17.63 £13.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.90 £15.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.97% -70.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £20.16 £16.50 -
90th Percentile £20.92 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.90 £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.97% -70.00% -2.91%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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 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 +6 708 £750 +3.45% 409
North of England +17 3 £575 +41.98% 15
South East +45 2 - - 128
East of England +29 2 £400 +6.67% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 1
North West +13 1 £475 +17.28% 8
Front Office
UK

Front Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 112 (15.60%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (12.53%) Apache
3 39 (5.43%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.81%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 32 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (5.43%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.95%) thinkFolio
3 5 (0.70%) Endur
4 3 (0.42%) Bankmaster
4 3 (0.42%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.28%) Kondor
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.14%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 198 (27.58%) AWS
2 111 (15.46%) dbt
3 107 (14.90%) GCP
4 76 (10.58%) Azure
5 59 (8.22%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (6.55%) Snowflake
7 45 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (6.27%) Serverless
8 34 (4.74%) OpenShift
9 31 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.62%) Dagster
11 20 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.09%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.95%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.84%) GitHub
15 6 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.70%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) Multicast
1 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.28%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.14%) DNS
2 1 (0.14%) Firewall
2 1 (0.14%) HTTP
2 1 (0.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.14%) SSL
2 1 (0.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (18.25%) Data Lake
2 111 (15.46%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (15.46%) Apache Iceberg
2 111 (15.46%) Dremio
3 100 (13.93%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (9.47%) Apache Ignite
5 51 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (3.34%) SQL Server
7 15 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.39%) KDB
10 9 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.11%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.70%) Power BI
13 4 (0.56%) Kdb+
13 4 (0.56%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.42%) Big Data
14 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (4.60%) Artifactory
2 31 (4.32%) JIRA
3 19 (2.65%) Git
4 18 (2.51%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.81%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.56%) Maven
8 3 (0.42%) Subversion
9 2 (0.28%) Ant
9 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.28%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.28%) Gradle
9 2 (0.28%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.14%) Crucible
10 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 555 (77.30%) Finance
2 240 (33.43%) Banking
3 166 (23.12%) Social Skills
4 130 (18.11%) Investment Banking
5 81 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (5.01%) Financial Institution
7 23 (3.20%) Back Office
8 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.25%) Legal
11 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.28%) International Banking
14 1 (0.14%) Advertising
14 1 (0.14%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.14%) Law
14 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.14%) Retail
14 1 (0.14%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 279 (38.86%) Developer
2 147 (20.47%) Analyst
3 144 (20.06%) Software Engineer
4 117 (16.30%) Business Analyst
5 116 (16.16%) AWS Engineer
6 98 (13.65%) Python Engineer
7 97 (13.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 88 (12.26%) Senior
9 72 (10.03%) AWS Software Engineer
10 71 (9.89%) Python Developer
11 65 (9.05%) C# Developer
12 58 (8.08%) Business Manager
13 48 (6.69%) Python Software Engineer
14 47 (6.55%) Java Developer
15 44 (6.13%) AWS DevOps
15 44 (6.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
15 44 (6.13%) Lead
15 44 (6.13%) React Developer
15 44 (6.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (14.76%) React
2 77 (10.72%) AngularJS
3 72 (10.03%) NumPy
3 72 (10.03%) Pandas
4 70 (9.75%) PySpark
5 69 (9.61%) .NET
6 68 (9.47%) Node.js
7 67 (9.33%) SciPy
8 64 (8.91%) Redux
9 52 (7.24%) Kafka
10 47 (6.55%) gRPC
11 46 (6.41%) Protocol Buffers
12 44 (6.13%) Vue
13 33 (4.60%) J2EE
14 24 (3.34%) Reactive Extensions
15 20 (2.79%) HTML
16 19 (2.65%) HTML5
17 18 (2.51%) .NET Core
18 15 (2.09%) ASP.NET
19 11 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 331 (46.10%) Fixed Income
2 251 (34.96%) Derivative
3 249 (34.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 221 (30.78%) Hedge funds
5 215 (29.94%) Equities
6 61 (8.50%) Product Ownership
7 35 (4.87%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (3.76%) Onboarding
9 26 (3.62%) Algorithms
10 21 (2.92%) Market Risk
11 13 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.81%) Pricing Data
12 10 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.97%) Grid Computing
15 6 (0.84%) Credit Risk
16 5 (0.70%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.62%) Linux
2 21 (2.92%) Unix
2 21 (2.92%) Windows
3 18 (2.51%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (58.64%) Agile
2 263 (36.63%) Investment Management
3 245 (34.12%) Asset Management
4 210 (29.25%) Software Engineering
5 135 (18.80%) Analytics
6 128 (17.83%) Migration
7 114 (15.88%) Roadmaps
8 99 (13.79%) Fintech
8 99 (13.79%) Regulatory Compliance
9 98 (13.65%) Data Governance
10 89 (12.40%) DevOps
11 79 (11.00%) Data Management
12 75 (10.45%) CI/CD
13 71 (9.89%) Risk Management
14 68 (9.47%) Business Analysis
15 61 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (7.94%) Portfolio Management
17 53 (7.38%) Electronic Trading
18 50 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
18 50 (6.96%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 346 (48.19%) Python
2 181 (25.21%) Java
3 156 (21.73%) JavaScript
3 156 (21.73%) SQL
4 141 (19.64%) TypeScript
5 102 (14.21%) C#
6 44 (6.13%) C++
7 37 (5.15%) Go
8 18 (2.51%) VBA
9 8 (1.11%) Scala
10 5 (0.70%) Bicep
10 5 (0.70%) F#
10 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.42%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.28%) Perl
12 2 (0.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (8.50%) Degree
2 10 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.28%) CFA
4 2 (0.28%) MBA
4 2 (0.28%) PMP
5 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.14%) MCP
5 1 (0.14%) MCSA
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.14%) PhD
5 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.01%) MiFID
2 16 (2.23%) QA
3 9 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.84%) EMIR
4 6 (0.84%) PMO
5 3 (0.42%) SLA
6 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (7.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.14%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 57 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 43 (5.99%) Terraform
3 5 (0.70%) Ansible
4 4 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.42%) SCCM
6 2 (0.28%) Grafana
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.28%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.14%) Control-M
7 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 37 (5.15%) BISAM
2 29 (4.04%) Oracle
3 27 (3.76%) Charles River
4 22 (3.06%) ION Trading
5 20 (2.79%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.23%) Calypso
7 15 (2.09%) Databricks
8 14 (1.95%) SimCorp
9 12 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.67%) Murex
10 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.97%) Solace
10 7 (0.97%) TIBCO
11 6 (0.84%) Splunk
11 6 (0.84%) Sybase
12 5 (0.70%) IBM
13 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.42%) Reuters