Front Office Contracts in the North of England

Front Office
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in the North of 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 163 180 197
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 +19
Contract jobs citing Front Office 3 5 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.10% 0.39%
As % of the General category 0.15% 0.19% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 18
10th Percentile £485 - £417
25th Percentile £519 £390 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £405 £465
Median % change year-on-year +41.98% -12.88% -5.37%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £620
90th Percentile £635 - £680
England median daily rate £750 £725 £740
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% +5.71%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the North of England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the North of England

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the North of England

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the North of England

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 30
North West +13 1 £475 +17.28% 39
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Presto
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Server Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle