Front Office Contracts in London

Front Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in London. 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 36 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Front Office 708 812 1,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.64% 4.55% 5.23%
As % of the General category 8.35% 7.21% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 724 1,184
10th Percentile £550 £531 £538
25th Percentile £638 £612 £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 £906
England median daily rate £750 £725 £740
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% +5.71%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,474 11,265 17,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.53% 63.18% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 8,041 12,396
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 245 221
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.72 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £51.81 £43.75 £58.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £65.02 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +7 68 £700 -9.68% 39
South London +18 13 £925 +15.63%
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (15.82%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (12.71%) Apache
3 38 (5.37%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.84%) 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
7 1 (0.14%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 30 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (5.51%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.98%) thinkFolio
3 5 (0.71%) 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 (27.97%) AWS
2 111 (15.68%) dbt
3 107 (15.11%) GCP
4 75 (10.59%) Azure
5 59 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (6.64%) Snowflake
7 45 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (6.36%) Serverless
8 34 (4.80%) OpenShift
9 31 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.67%) Dagster
11 20 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.12%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.85%) GitHub
15 6 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
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 (18.50%) Data Lake
2 111 (15.68%) Amazon Athena
2 111 (15.68%) Apache Iceberg
2 111 (15.68%) Dremio
3 100 (14.12%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (9.60%) Apache Ignite
5 51 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 14 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.41%) KDB
9 9 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.13%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.71%) Power BI
12 4 (0.56%) Kdb+
13 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (4.66%) Artifactory
2 31 (4.38%) JIRA
3 19 (2.68%) Git
4 18 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.84%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.55%) 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
1 551 (77.82%) Finance
2 239 (33.76%) Banking
3 158 (22.32%) Social Skills
4 130 (18.36%) Investment Banking
5 80 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 22 (3.11%) Back Office
8 10 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.27%) Legal
9 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.14%) French Language
12 1 (0.14%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.14%) International Banking
12 1 (0.14%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.14%) Retail
12 1 (0.14%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 279 (39.41%) Developer
2 144 (20.34%) Analyst
2 144 (20.34%) Software Engineer
3 117 (16.53%) Business Analyst
4 116 (16.38%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (13.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 97 (13.70%) Python Engineer
6 88 (12.43%) Senior
7 72 (10.17%) AWS Software Engineer
8 71 (10.03%) Python Developer
9 65 (9.18%) C# Developer
10 58 (8.19%) Business Manager
11 48 (6.78%) Python Software Engineer
12 47 (6.64%) Java Developer
13 44 (6.21%) AWS DevOps
13 44 (6.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 44 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 44 (6.21%) React Developer
13 44 (6.21%) Senior Developer
14 43 (6.07%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (14.97%) React
2 77 (10.88%) AngularJS
3 72 (10.17%) NumPy
3 72 (10.17%) Pandas
4 70 (9.89%) PySpark
5 69 (9.75%) .NET
6 68 (9.60%) Node.js
7 67 (9.46%) SciPy
8 64 (9.04%) Redux
9 51 (7.20%) Kafka
10 47 (6.64%) gRPC
11 46 (6.50%) Protocol Buffers
12 44 (6.21%) Vue
13 33 (4.66%) J2EE
14 24 (3.39%) Reactive Extensions
15 20 (2.82%) HTML
16 19 (2.68%) HTML5
17 18 (2.54%) .NET Core
18 15 (2.12%) ASP.NET
19 11 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 331 (46.75%) Fixed Income
2 251 (35.45%) Derivative
3 249 (35.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 221 (31.21%) Hedge funds
5 215 (30.37%) Equities
6 61 (8.62%) Product Ownership
7 35 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (3.81%) Onboarding
9 26 (3.67%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.82%) Market Risk
11 13 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.84%) Pricing Data
12 10 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.99%) Grid Computing
15 5 (0.71%) Credit Risk
15 5 (0.71%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.53%) Linux
2 21 (2.97%) Unix
2 21 (2.97%) Windows
3 18 (2.54%) 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
1 420 (59.32%) Agile
2 258 (36.44%) Investment Management
3 240 (33.90%) Asset Management
4 210 (29.66%) Software Engineering
5 135 (19.07%) Analytics
6 128 (18.08%) Migration
7 114 (16.10%) Roadmaps
8 99 (13.98%) Fintech
9 98 (13.84%) Data Governance
10 97 (13.70%) Regulatory Compliance
11 88 (12.43%) DevOps
12 79 (11.16%) Data Management
13 75 (10.59%) CI/CD
14 70 (9.89%) Risk Management
15 68 (9.60%) Business Analysis
16 58 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
17 57 (8.05%) Portfolio Management
18 53 (7.49%) Electronic Trading
19 50 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
19 50 (7.06%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 345 (48.73%) Python
2 181 (25.56%) Java
3 156 (22.03%) JavaScript
4 154 (21.75%) SQL
5 141 (19.92%) TypeScript
6 102 (14.41%) C#
7 44 (6.21%) C++
8 37 (5.23%) Go
9 18 (2.54%) VBA
10 8 (1.13%) Scala
11 5 (0.71%) Bicep
11 5 (0.71%) F#
11 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.42%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.28%) Perl
13 2 (0.28%) Ruby
13 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (8.47%) Degree
2 9 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.28%) CFA
3 2 (0.28%) MBA
3 2 (0.28%) PMP
4 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.14%) MCP
4 1 (0.14%) MCSA
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.14%) PhD
4 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.80%) MiFID
2 16 (2.26%) QA
3 9 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.85%) EMIR
5 3 (0.42%) PMO
6 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (7.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 57 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 43 (6.07%) Terraform
3 5 (0.71%) 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%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 37 (5.23%) BISAM
2 28 (3.95%) Oracle
3 27 (3.81%) Charles River
4 22 (3.11%) ION Trading
5 19 (2.68%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.26%) Calypso
7 15 (2.12%) Databricks
8 14 (1.98%) SimCorp
9 12 (1.69%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.69%) Murex
10 7 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.99%) Solace
10 7 (0.99%) TIBCO
11 6 (0.85%) Splunk
11 6 (0.85%) Sybase
12 5 (0.71%) IBM
13 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.42%) Reuters