Front Office Contract Job Trends 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 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 91 137
Rank change year-on-year -10 +46 +19
Contract jobs citing Front Office 10 28 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.66% 1.72% 0.13%
As % of the General category 1.01% 2.49% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile £215 £404 £164
25th Percentile £293 £513 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £293
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +79.49% -38.42%
75th Percentile £561 £538 £372
90th Percentile £635 £553 £419
UK median daily rate £700 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%

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 general skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 994 1,124 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 65.44% 68.96% 67.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 677 964
10th Percentile £200 £192 £203
25th Percentile £360 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year - -6.93% +1.79%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 31 71
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.10 £11.86
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +50.05%
75th Percentile £29.79 £28.07 £60.75
90th Percentile £69.60 £65.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £28.60 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% +10.00% +4.00%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Front Office job vacancy trend in Scotland

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in Scotland

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 February 2026. 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 -8 9 £175 -66.67%
Edinburgh +1 1 £685 +30.48% 2
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) DB2
1 7 (70.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (70.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) QlikView
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JUnit
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Banking
2 9 (90.00%) Investment Banking
2 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Java Developer
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Sybase Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) JMS
1 7 (70.00%) Kafka
1 7 (70.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Structures
1 7 (70.00%) Equities
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Database Tuning
2 7 (70.00%) Multithreading
2 7 (70.00%) Open Source
2 7 (70.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Economics
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science
4 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Fintech
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Sybase
2 2 (20.00%) Avaloq