Front Office Contracts in Scotland

Front Office
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 78 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Front Office 39 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.40% - 0.56%
As % of the General category 3.33% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 12
10th Percentile £406 - £437
25th Percentile £412 - £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.73%
75th Percentile £538 - £717
90th Percentile £575 - £744
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £739
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +5.57%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in Scotland

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in Scotland

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in Scotland

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in Scotland

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 34 £525 - 4
Edinburgh - 5 £525 - 4
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Finacle
2 1 (2.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.56%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (51.28%) DB2
1 20 (51.28%) Relational Database
2 19 (48.72%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) JUnit
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 24 (61.54%) Banking
1 24 (61.54%) Finance
2 21 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
4 12 (30.77%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Back Office
6 2 (5.13%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (79.49%) Developer
2 30 (76.92%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) SQL Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Sybase Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Java Server Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Lead
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Tableau Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (53.85%) Spring
2 18 (46.15%) Kafka
3 14 (35.90%) JMS
4 2 (5.13%) .NET
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.13%) MSMQ
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.56%) J2EE
5 1 (2.56%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Data Structures
1 18 (46.15%) Equities
2 6 (15.38%) Derivative
3 5 (12.82%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (56.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Agile
2 21 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (48.72%) Multithreading
4 16 (41.03%) SDLC
5 15 (38.46%) Open Source
6 13 (33.33%) Database Tuning
6 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Wealth Management
9 5 (12.82%) Investment Management
10 4 (10.26%) Concurrent Programming
10 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
11 2 (5.13%) DevOps
11 2 (5.13%) Event-Driven
11 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 2 (5.13%) Mentoring
11 2 (5.13%) Microservices
11 2 (5.13%) Performance Optimisation
11 2 (5.13%) Process Improvement
11 2 (5.13%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (84.62%) Java
2 22 (56.41%) SQL
3 19 (48.72%) Python
4 13 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.13%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Sybase
2 2 (5.13%) Avaloq
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Temenos
3 1 (2.56%) Calypso
3 1 (2.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Murex
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle