Front Office Contracts in the UK excluding London

Front Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 385 372
Rank change year-on-year +108 -13 +84
Contract jobs citing Front Office 62 14 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.067% 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.78% 0.12% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 12 58
10th Percentile £325 £357 £417
25th Percentile £338 £363 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £398 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -36.40% +28.21%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £797
90th Percentile £612 £626 £1,188
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £731
% change year-on-year - -0.75% +4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £16.87 - -
25th Percentile £17.63 £13.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.90 £15.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.97% -70.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £20.16 £16.50 -
90th Percentile £20.92 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.90 £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.97% -70.00% -2.91%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,965 11,346 13,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.27% 54.67% 56.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,921 6,475 9,256
10th Percentile £213 £205 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 1,658 785
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.66 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% -8.32% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.25 £52.78 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £69.30
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the UK excluding London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the UK excluding London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the UK excluding London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the UK excluding London

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland - 39 £525 - 8
Northern Ireland +7 16 £325 +13.04% 20
North of England +21 3 £575 +41.98% 16
South East +45 2 - - 127
East of England +28 2 £400 +6.67% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 1
North West +10 1 £475 +17.28% 8
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Finacle
2 1 (1.61%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.61%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) Azure
2 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
3 3 (4.84%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.23%) AWS
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.10%) Relational Database
2 20 (32.26%) DB2
3 19 (30.65%) MongoDB
4 6 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.23%) Tableau
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.61%) Big Data
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.61%) Power BI
7 1 (1.61%) Presto
Development Applications
1 20 (32.26%) JUnit
2 10 (16.13%) Git
3 4 (6.45%) Ant
3 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) Maven
3 4 (6.45%) Subversion
4 2 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 40 (64.52%) Finance
2 31 (50.00%) Banking
3 29 (46.77%) Social Skills
4 24 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (20.97%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.45%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (4.84%) Back Office
9 2 (3.23%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.61%) International Banking
10 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.61%) Retail
10 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (64.52%) Developer
2 35 (56.45%) Java Developer
3 11 (17.74%) Software Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 7 (11.29%) SQL Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Sybase Developer
6 6 (9.68%) Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Java Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.45%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (6.45%) C# Software Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Java Software Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (33.87%) Spring
2 19 (30.65%) Kafka
3 14 (22.58%) JMS
4 6 (9.68%) .NET
4 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
4 6 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.06%) Apache Avro
5 5 (8.06%) JSON
5 5 (8.06%) RESTful
5 5 (8.06%) Web Services
5 5 (8.06%) XML
6 4 (6.45%) React
7 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.23%) MSMQ
7 2 (3.23%) REST
8 1 (1.61%) J2EE
8 1 (1.61%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 28 (45.16%) Equities
2 18 (29.03%) Data Structures
3 15 (24.19%) Derivative
4 13 (20.97%) Equity Derivative
5 9 (14.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.61%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (43.55%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Unix
3 4 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (45.16%) Agile
3 20 (32.26%) SDLC
4 19 (30.65%) Multithreading
5 17 (27.42%) Software Engineering
6 15 (24.19%) Open Source
7 13 (20.97%) Database Tuning
7 13 (20.97%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (12.90%) Concurrent Programming
9 7 (11.29%) DevOps
9 7 (11.29%) Investment Management
10 6 (9.68%) Data Analysis
10 6 (9.68%) Wealth Management
11 5 (8.06%) OO
12 4 (6.45%) CI/CD
12 4 (6.45%) Clean Code
12 4 (6.45%) High Availability
12 4 (6.45%) OOA/OOD
12 4 (6.45%) Test Automation
12 4 (6.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (61.29%) Java
2 35 (56.45%) SQL
3 21 (33.87%) Python
4 13 (20.97%) Shell Script
5 6 (9.68%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) MiFID
2 1 (1.61%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) HDFS
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 20 (32.26%) Sybase
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Avaloq
3 2 (3.23%) IBM
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) Temenos
4 1 (1.61%) Calypso
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) Murex