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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 83 96
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -23
Contract jobs citing Front Office 810 1,482 1,932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.18% 2.92% 2.72%
As % of the General category 3.73% 4.93% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 1,233 1,605
10th Percentile £525 £538 £538
25th Percentile £600 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £745 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +6.36% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £840
UK median daily rate £725 £740 £700
% change year-on-year -2.03% +5.71% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,707 30,043 39,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.40% 59.29% 56.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,997 21,026 27,868
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £546
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +0.67% +9.26%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,776 1,001 1,328
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.49 £18.25 £14.59
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +58.69% -4.78%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.28 £57.92
UK median hourly rate £29.83 £35.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year -14.79% +61.61% -3.74%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -2 796 £725 -2.68% 223
North of England +9 5 £405 -12.88% 1
North West +3 5 £405 -8.99% 1
East of England +14 3 £375 - 1
South East +2 3 £500 -50.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
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
1 144 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (15.93%) Apache
3 14 (1.73%) Confluence
4 6 (0.74%) SAS
5 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.62%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (2.59%) Aladdin
2 18 (2.22%) Endur
3 10 (1.23%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.62%) EuroRunner
4 5 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.49%) Aligne
6 3 (0.37%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.25%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 252 (31.11%) AWS
2 169 (20.86%) GCP
3 168 (20.74%) Azure
4 82 (10.12%) dbt
5 59 (7.28%) Snowflake
6 23 (2.84%) npm
7 15 (1.85%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.23%) GitHub
9 10 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (0.86%) Serverless
11 6 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (0.49%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.49%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.37%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.25%) Azure App Service
15 1 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
15 1 (0.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 1 (0.12%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.73%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.37%) DHCP
3 3 (0.37%) DNS
3 3 (0.37%) LAN
3 3 (0.37%) WAN
4 2 (0.25%) SSH
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (15.43%) Apache Ignite
2 82 (10.12%) Amazon Athena
2 82 (10.12%) Apache Arrow
2 82 (10.12%) Dremio
3 58 (7.16%) Data Lake
4 43 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.83%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.09%) KDB
8 24 (2.96%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.73%) Power BI
10 11 (1.36%) Kdb+
11 9 (1.11%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.74%) Tableau
13 5 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.37%) Data Mart
15 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (8.89%) JIRA
2 39 (4.81%) TeamCity
3 36 (4.44%) Cypress.io
4 33 (4.07%) Cucumber
5 27 (3.33%) Git
5 27 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 23 (2.84%) webpack
7 16 (1.98%) GitLab
8 15 (1.85%) JUnit
9 13 (1.60%) Mockito
10 12 (1.48%) Moq
10 12 (1.48%) NUnit
11 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.62%) MLflow
12 5 (0.62%) Selenium
12 5 (0.62%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.37%) FitNesse
13 3 (0.37%) TestRail
13 3 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 535 (66.05%) Finance
2 333 (41.11%) Banking
3 187 (23.09%) Investment Banking
4 141 (17.41%) Social Skills
5 104 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (8.52%) Back Office
7 8 (0.99%) Financial Institution
8 7 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (0.86%) Law
8 7 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.49%) Agriculture
9 4 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (0.49%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.37%) Legal
10 3 (0.37%) Marketing
10 3 (0.37%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.25%) Aviation
11 2 (0.25%) French Language
11 2 (0.25%) Retail
11 2 (0.25%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 412 (50.86%) Developer
2 162 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 144 (17.78%) Analyst
4 123 (15.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 110 (13.58%) Senior
6 101 (12.47%) Python Developer
7 97 (11.98%) Business Analyst
8 96 (11.85%) C# Developer
9 90 (11.11%) Java Developer
10 88 (10.86%) React Developer
11 79 (9.75%) Python Engineer
12 78 (9.63%) Python Software Engineer
13 65 (8.02%) Finance Manager
14 60 (7.41%) Front Office Developer
15 58 (7.16%) Full Stack Developer
16 49 (6.05%) Financial Analyst
17 48 (5.93%) Lead
18 46 (5.68%) Senior Developer
19 44 (5.43%) .NET Developer
20 43 (5.31%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (22.35%) React
2 138 (17.04%) gRPC
3 134 (16.54%) Protocol Buffers
4 109 (13.46%) Pandas
4 109 (13.46%) Redux
5 101 (12.47%) NumPy
6 98 (12.10%) .NET
7 89 (10.99%) SciPy
8 60 (7.41%) AngularJS
9 58 (7.16%) Material-UI
10 39 (4.81%) REST
11 38 (4.69%) .NET Core
12 34 (4.20%) WPF
13 30 (3.70%) RxJS
14 29 (3.58%) ASP.NET
15 26 (3.21%) WebSockets
16 24 (2.96%) ASP.NET Core
16 24 (2.96%) CSS
16 24 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
17 23 (2.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 304 (37.53%) Fixed Income
2 280 (34.57%) Derivative
3 241 (29.75%) Hedge funds
4 210 (25.93%) Equities
5 188 (23.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 37 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (4.32%) Product Ownership
8 32 (3.95%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.21%) Equity Derivative
10 22 (2.72%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.98%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.85%) Credit Derivative
14 8 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.99%) Wiki
15 6 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (0.74%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.62%) OTC Derivatives
16 5 (0.62%) Reference Data
17 4 (0.49%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.16%) Windows
2 41 (5.06%) Unix
3 32 (3.95%) Linux
4 7 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (47.28%) Agile
2 285 (35.19%) Asset Management
3 271 (33.46%) Software Engineering
4 240 (29.63%) Investment Management
5 126 (15.56%) Electronic Trading
6 119 (14.69%) Full Stack Development
7 90 (11.11%) Analytics
7 90 (11.11%) DevOps
8 83 (10.25%) Artificial Intelligence
9 80 (9.88%) Machine Learning
10 73 (9.01%) Fintech
10 73 (9.01%) TDD
11 67 (8.27%) Risk Management
12 59 (7.28%) CI/CD
13 57 (7.04%) Computer Science
14 56 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (6.54%) Design Patterns
16 51 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (6.30%) Project Management
16 51 (6.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 361 (44.57%) Python
2 261 (32.22%) SQL
3 238 (29.38%) C#
4 224 (27.65%) TypeScript
5 223 (27.53%) Java
6 185 (22.84%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 34 (4.20%) C++
9 17 (2.10%) VBA
10 16 (1.98%) R
11 15 (1.85%) Scala
12 13 (1.60%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.11%) Rust
14 8 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.74%) Perl
16 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.37%) Groovy
17 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 92 (11.36%) Degree
2 26 (3.21%) Master's Degree
3 22 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.99%) PhD
6 6 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.49%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.49%) PMP
8 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) CISM
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.12%) PgMP
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.68%) QA
2 36 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.22%) MiFID
4 13 (1.60%) EMIR
5 12 (1.48%) Dodd-Frank
6 8 (0.99%) PMO
7 6 (0.74%) SLA
8 4 (0.49%) SEPA
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (2.47%) Docker
2 10 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (0.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.62%) Grafana
3 5 (0.62%) SCCM
4 4 (0.49%) Terraform
5 3 (0.37%) Podman
5 3 (0.37%) WSUS
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 57 (7.04%) Bloomberg
2 41 (5.06%) Google
3 27 (3.33%) ION Trading
4 17 (2.10%) Oracle
5 16 (1.98%) Microsoft
6 14 (1.73%) Citrix
6 14 (1.73%) Murex
7 13 (1.60%) MarketAxess
7 13 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.60%) TIBCO
7 13 (1.60%) Tradeweb
8 11 (1.36%) BISAM
8 11 (1.36%) IBM
9 9 (1.11%) OpenLink
9 9 (1.11%) Refinitiv
10 6 (0.74%) Databricks
10 6 (0.74%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.62%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.62%) Reuters
11 5 (0.62%) SimCorp