Front Office Contracts in the South East

Front Office
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 177 204
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 +54
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Front Office 6 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.16% 0.089%
As % of the General category 0.29% 0.34% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £439 - £633
25th Percentile £442 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.87%
75th Percentile £542 - £688
90th Percentile £599 - -
England median daily rate £750 £750 £700
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.36 - -
75th Percentile £18.90 - -
90th Percentile £20.42 - -
England median hourly rate £16.36 - -

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,091 2,369 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 59.17% 48.84% 57.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,366 2,174
10th Percentile £200 £218 £228
25th Percentile £355 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
England median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.67% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 225 164
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.53 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.20 £26.25 £21.79
Median hourly rate £18.82 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.18% +14.70% +137.53%
75th Percentile £53.56 £70.00 £64.97
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.24 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +13.61%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the South East

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Front Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Front Office

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in the South East over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the South East

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Front Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Front Office

Front Office
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent - 3 - - 1
Thames Valley +8 2 £442 - 17
Berkshire - 2 £442 - 17
West Sussex - 1 £625 -
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Technician
1 2 (33.33%) Data Technician
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) BCP
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) VMware