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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 43 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -17
Contract jobs citing Front Office 792 1,416 1,892
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.47% 5.23% 4.86%
As % of the General category 7.08% 8.24% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,186 1,574
10th Percentile £531 £538 £538
25th Percentile £613 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £740 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +5.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £838 £800
90th Percentile £888 £909 £850
England median daily rate £725 £740 £700
% change year-on-year -2.03% +5.71% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
England median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,194 17,186 23,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.47% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,991 12,426 16,753
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £801 £825 £794
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 225 296
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.69 £19.89
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -9.72% +30.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.45 £70.00 £64.56
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Central London -42 68 £775 +3.33% 12
East London -2 4 £800 -20.00% 3
West London - 3 £450 - 2
South London +1 1 £800 +14.90%
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
1 144 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (16.29%) Apache
3 12 (1.52%) Confluence
4 6 (0.76%) SAS
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.63%) MTS
6 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (2.65%) Aladdin
2 18 (2.27%) Endur
3 10 (1.26%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.63%) EuroRunner
4 5 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.51%) Aligne
6 3 (0.38%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.25%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 251 (31.69%) AWS
2 169 (21.34%) GCP
3 168 (21.21%) Azure
4 82 (10.35%) dbt
5 59 (7.45%) Snowflake
6 22 (2.78%) npm
7 15 (1.89%) Power Platform
8 13 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.14%) GitHub
11 7 (0.88%) Serverless
12 6 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.51%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.51%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.25%) Azure App Service
16 1 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
16 1 (0.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 1 (0.13%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.77%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.38%) LAN
2 3 (0.38%) WAN
3 2 (0.25%) SSH
4 1 (0.13%) Firewall
4 1 (0.13%) FTP
4 1 (0.13%) SAN
4 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (15.78%) Apache Ignite
2 82 (10.35%) Amazon Athena
2 82 (10.35%) Apache Arrow
2 82 (10.35%) Dremio
3 58 (7.32%) Data Lake
4 43 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.16%) KDB
8 24 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.77%) Power BI
10 11 (1.39%) Kdb+
11 8 (1.01%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.76%) Tableau
13 5 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.38%) Data Mart
15 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (8.59%) JIRA
2 39 (4.92%) TeamCity
3 36 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 33 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 27 (3.41%) Jenkins
6 26 (3.28%) Git
7 22 (2.78%) webpack
8 16 (2.02%) GitLab
9 15 (1.89%) JUnit
10 13 (1.64%) Mockito
11 12 (1.52%) Moq
11 12 (1.52%) NUnit
12 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.63%) MLflow
13 5 (0.63%) Selenium
13 5 (0.63%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.38%) FitNesse
14 3 (0.38%) TestRail
14 3 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 527 (66.54%) Finance
2 330 (41.67%) Banking
3 186 (23.48%) Investment Banking
4 138 (17.42%) Social Skills
5 102 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (8.71%) Back Office
7 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.88%) Law
7 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.51%) Agriculture
9 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.38%) Legal
10 3 (0.38%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.25%) Aviation
11 2 (0.25%) French Language
11 2 (0.25%) Marketing
11 2 (0.25%) Retail
11 2 (0.25%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 408 (51.52%) Developer
2 162 (20.45%) Software Engineer
3 141 (17.80%) Analyst
4 123 (15.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 106 (13.38%) Senior
6 101 (12.75%) Python Developer
7 96 (12.12%) C# Developer
8 95 (11.99%) Business Analyst
9 90 (11.36%) Java Developer
10 87 (10.98%) React Developer
11 79 (9.97%) Python Engineer
12 78 (9.85%) Python Software Engineer
13 65 (8.21%) Finance Manager
14 60 (7.58%) Front Office Developer
15 58 (7.32%) Full Stack Developer
16 49 (6.19%) Financial Analyst
17 48 (6.06%) Lead
18 44 (5.56%) .NET Developer
18 44 (5.56%) Senior Developer
19 43 (5.43%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (22.60%) React
2 137 (17.30%) gRPC
3 134 (16.92%) Protocol Buffers
4 109 (13.76%) Pandas
4 109 (13.76%) Redux
5 101 (12.75%) NumPy
6 95 (11.99%) .NET
7 89 (11.24%) SciPy
8 58 (7.32%) Material-UI
9 57 (7.20%) AngularJS
10 38 (4.80%) .NET Core
10 38 (4.80%) REST
11 34 (4.29%) WPF
12 29 (3.66%) ASP.NET
13 27 (3.41%) RxJS
14 24 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 24 (3.03%) CSS
14 24 (3.03%) WebSockets
15 23 (2.90%) Vue
16 22 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 302 (38.13%) Fixed Income
2 280 (35.35%) Derivative
3 241 (30.43%) Hedge funds
4 210 (26.52%) Equities
5 186 (23.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 37 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (4.42%) Product Ownership
8 32 (4.04%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.28%) Equity Derivative
10 22 (2.78%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (2.02%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.89%) Credit Derivative
14 8 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.76%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
16 5 (0.63%) OTC Derivatives
16 5 (0.63%) Reference Data
16 5 (0.63%) Wiki
17 4 (0.51%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.94%) Windows
2 38 (4.80%) Unix
3 28 (3.54%) Linux
4 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (47.47%) Agile
2 285 (35.98%) Asset Management
3 269 (33.96%) Software Engineering
4 240 (30.30%) Investment Management
5 121 (15.28%) Electronic Trading
6 119 (15.03%) Full Stack Development
7 87 (10.98%) Analytics
7 87 (10.98%) DevOps
8 83 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 80 (10.10%) Machine Learning
10 72 (9.09%) Fintech
10 72 (9.09%) TDD
11 66 (8.33%) Risk Management
12 58 (7.32%) CI/CD
13 55 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (6.57%) Computer Science
15 51 (6.44%) Design Patterns
16 50 (6.31%) Mentoring
16 50 (6.31%) Test Automation
17 47 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 361 (45.58%) Python
2 259 (32.70%) SQL
3 237 (29.92%) C#
4 223 (28.16%) Java
5 220 (27.78%) TypeScript
6 182 (22.98%) JavaScript
7 41 (5.18%) PowerShell
8 31 (3.91%) C++
9 17 (2.15%) VBA
10 16 (2.02%) R
11 15 (1.89%) Scala
12 13 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.14%) Rust
14 8 (1.01%) Ruby
15 6 (0.76%) Perl
16 4 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.38%) Groovy
17 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.25%) Bicep
18 2 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 87 (10.98%) Degree
2 26 (3.28%) Master's Degree
3 21 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (1.01%) PhD
6 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.38%) MCSE
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) CCNA
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.13%) CISM
7 1 (0.13%) CISSP
7 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.13%) PgMP
7 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.13%) PMP
7 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.68%) QA
2 36 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.27%) MiFID
4 13 (1.64%) EMIR
5 12 (1.52%) Dodd-Frank
6 8 (1.01%) PMO
7 4 (0.51%) SEPA
8 3 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (2.53%) Docker
2 7 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (0.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.63%) Grafana
3 5 (0.63%) SCCM
4 4 (0.51%) Terraform
5 3 (0.38%) Podman
6 1 (0.13%) Ansible
6 1 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 57 (7.20%) Bloomberg
2 41 (5.18%) Google
3 27 (3.41%) ION Trading
4 17 (2.15%) Oracle
5 14 (1.77%) Citrix
5 14 (1.77%) Murex
6 13 (1.64%) MarketAxess
6 13 (1.64%) Microsoft
6 13 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.64%) TIBCO
6 13 (1.64%) Tradeweb
7 11 (1.39%) BISAM
7 11 (1.39%) IBM
8 9 (1.14%) OpenLink
8 9 (1.14%) Refinitiv
9 6 (0.76%) Databricks
10 5 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.63%) Reuters
10 5 (0.63%) SimCorp
11 3 (0.38%) Barracuda Networks