Front Office Contract Job Trends 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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -48 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Front Office 450 684 784
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.13% 4.55% 4.16%
As % of the General category 4.69% 7.08% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 588 694
10th Percentile £478 £538 £525
25th Percentile £613 £638 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £869 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
England median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - -
Median hourly rate £22.27 - -
75th Percentile £23.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.36 - -

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 9,590 9,667 12,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.69% 64.32% 64.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,163 8,773
10th Percentile £339 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 117 161
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% - +3.49%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £76.36 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% -9.09% +32.00%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Front Office job vacancy trend in London

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front Office

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in London

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front Office

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 20 December 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 +11 60 £668 -11.00% 24
East London - 11 £1,000 -
South London -12 3 £825 -10.81% 1
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.33%) Apache
3 14 (3.11%) Confluence
4 6 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.89%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) Notion
7 1 (0.22%) Sketch
7 1 (0.22%) Trello
7 1 (0.22%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (4.00%) Endur
2 13 (2.89%) Aladdin
3 10 (2.22%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.89%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.67%) Eikon
5 3 (0.67%) ION MarketView
5 3 (0.67%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.44%) BondVision
6 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.22%) Eze OMS
7 1 (0.22%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.22%) PORTIA
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 86 (19.11%) AWS
2 40 (8.89%) Azure
3 35 (7.78%) dbt
4 31 (6.89%) Snowflake
5 25 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.44%) GCP
7 15 (3.33%) GitHub
8 13 (2.89%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.22%) Serverless
11 9 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (0.89%) PaaS
15 3 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (0.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.89%) Multicast
2 8 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.11%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.11%) tcpdump
3 5 (1.11%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.67%) VPN
5 2 (0.44%) DMZ
5 2 (0.44%) Firewall
6 1 (0.22%) DHCP
6 1 (0.22%) DNS
6 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
1 35 (7.78%) Apache Arrow
1 35 (7.78%) Apache Iceberg
1 35 (7.78%) Dremio
2 28 (6.22%) Data Lake
3 25 (5.56%) Power BI
4 24 (5.33%) Apache Ignite
5 21 (4.67%) KDB
5 21 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.67%) SQL Server
6 16 (3.56%) Kdb+
7 13 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.89%) Tableau
8 10 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.78%) Flink
10 6 (1.33%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.67%) Data Mart
13 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.44%) DB2
Development Applications
1 23 (5.11%) JIRA
2 14 (3.11%) Git
3 7 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.33%) Maven
5 5 (1.11%) GCC
5 5 (1.11%) GDB
5 5 (1.11%) QUnit
6 4 (0.89%) Selenium
7 3 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.67%) GitLab
7 3 (0.67%) Gradle
7 3 (0.67%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.67%) Postman
7 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.67%) webpack
8 2 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 276 (61.33%) Finance
2 191 (42.44%) Banking
3 156 (34.67%) Social Skills
4 108 (24.00%) Investment Banking
5 45 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (8.89%) Back Office
7 32 (7.11%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.22%) Legal
9 9 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.78%) Law
11 6 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.11%) International Banking
13 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.22%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.22%) Japanese Language
15 1 (0.22%) Local Government
15 1 (0.22%) Marketing
15 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 193 (42.89%) Developer
2 86 (19.11%) Senior
3 71 (15.78%) Analyst
4 60 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 52 (11.56%) Business Analyst
6 47 (10.44%) Java Developer
7 45 (10.00%) Python Developer
8 43 (9.56%) Python Engineer
9 41 (9.11%) AWS Engineer
10 40 (8.89%) Front Office Developer
11 35 (7.78%) AWS Software Engineer
11 35 (7.78%) Python Software Engineer
12 32 (7.11%) Java Engineer
13 29 (6.44%) Java Software Engineer
13 29 (6.44%) Quantitative Developer
14 28 (6.22%) Senior Developer
15 27 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (5.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 24 (5.33%) Lead
17 24 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.56%) React
2 51 (11.33%) NumPy
3 50 (11.11%) Pandas
4 49 (10.89%) FIX Protocol
5 38 (8.44%) SciPy
6 36 (8.00%) .NET
7 32 (7.11%) Kafka
8 26 (5.78%) gRPC
8 26 (5.78%) Node.js
9 25 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 25 (5.56%) REST
10 24 (5.33%) Protocol Buffers
11 18 (4.00%) GraphQL
12 17 (3.78%) Middleware
13 16 (3.56%) Redux
14 15 (3.33%) Vue
15 14 (3.11%) HTML
16 10 (2.22%) .NET Core
17 9 (2.00%) COM
18 7 (1.56%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 133 (29.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 117 (26.00%) Fixed Income
3 103 (22.89%) Derivative
4 95 (21.11%) Equities
5 53 (11.78%) Hedge funds
6 38 (8.44%) Algorithms
7 31 (6.89%) Product Ownership
8 24 (5.33%) Pricing Data
9 18 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (3.56%) Cloud Native
12 15 (3.33%) Data Structures
13 13 (2.89%) Equity Derivative
14 10 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
14 10 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
16 7 (1.56%) Credit Risk
16 7 (1.56%) Market Risk
16 7 (1.56%) Reference Data
16 7 (1.56%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.67%) Linux
2 24 (5.33%) Windows
3 20 (4.44%) Unix
4 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (32.89%) Agile
2 90 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (17.56%) Software Engineering
4 74 (16.44%) Investment Management
5 72 (16.00%) Analytics
6 68 (15.11%) Low Latency
7 65 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 63 (14.00%) Risk Management
9 60 (13.33%) Asset Management
10 54 (12.00%) Electronic Trading
11 50 (11.11%) Mathematics
12 47 (10.44%) CI/CD
13 46 (10.22%) DevOps
14 42 (9.33%) Multithreading
15 39 (8.67%) Order Management
16 36 (8.00%) Scrum
17 35 (7.78%) Business Analysis
18 33 (7.33%) Requirements Gathering
19 32 (7.11%) Computer Science
19 32 (7.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 181 (40.22%) Python
2 127 (28.22%) Java
3 95 (21.11%) SQL
4 66 (14.67%) C#
5 64 (14.22%) JavaScript
5 64 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 41 (9.11%) C++
7 19 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.56%) VBA
9 14 (3.11%) Go
10 13 (2.89%) Kotlin
11 10 (2.22%) Bash
12 3 (0.67%) Bicep
12 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.44%) Scala
13 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.44%) VB
14 1 (0.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 51 (11.33%) Degree
2 22 (4.89%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.22%) PhD
5 6 (1.33%) CFA
6 5 (1.11%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.89%) PMP
7 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.44%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.78%) QA
2 18 (4.00%) MiFID
3 14 (3.11%) EMIR
4 4 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.67%) PMO
6 2 (0.44%) Basel III
6 2 (0.44%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.44%) ITGC
6 2 (0.44%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) FINRA
7 1 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (4.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 26 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.78%) Argo
2 8 (1.78%) Grafana
3 6 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (1.33%) Prometheus
3 6 (1.33%) SCCM
3 6 (1.33%) Terraform
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.67%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.44%) WSUS
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.22%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (6.89%) Bloomberg
2 30 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 21 (4.67%) Murex
4 17 (3.78%) Databricks
4 17 (3.78%) ION Trading
4 17 (3.78%) Solace
5 13 (2.89%) Oracle
6 12 (2.67%) Charles River
7 7 (1.56%) Reuters
8 6 (1.33%) Sophis
8 6 (1.33%) Tradeweb
9 5 (1.11%) Calypso
9 5 (1.11%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.11%) Refinitiv
9 5 (1.11%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.11%) Trayport
10 4 (0.89%) Avaloq
10 4 (0.89%) OpenLink
10 4 (0.89%) Portware
10 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow