Front Office Contracts in Northern Ireland

Front Office
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Front Office 18 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.00% - 3.95%
As % of the General category 12.16% - 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 7
10th Percentile £325 - £234
25th Percentile £494 - £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.53%
75th Percentile £609 - £638
90th Percentile £664 - £683
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £725
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 148 79 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 74.00% 48.47% 61.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 29 56
10th Percentile £199 £136 £164
25th Percentile £306 £167 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £200 £433
Median % change year-on-year +112.50% -53.76% -3.89%
75th Percentile £558 £369 £511
90th Percentile £612 £538 £575
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 27 4
10th Percentile £13.29 - -
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.48 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +11.29% +15.99%
75th Percentile £22.25 £24.06 £14.56
90th Percentile £33.25 £27.26 £15.72
UK median hourly rate £27.22 £31.80 £30.54
% change year-on-year -14.42% +4.13% +25.42%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in Northern Ireland

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in Northern Ireland

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in Northern Ireland

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
County Antrim - 18 £530 - 12
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
1 3 (16.67%) Tableau
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Ant
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) Maven
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 10 (55.56%) Banking
3 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
6 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Risk Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior PMO
5 1 (5.56%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Equities
2 4 (22.22%) Market Risk
3 3 (16.67%) Derivative
3 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (11.11%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Order Management
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (11.11%) Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (11.11%) SDLC
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 3 (16.67%) PMO
2 2 (11.11%) MiFID
3 1 (5.56%) EMIR
3 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft