Front Arena Contract Job Trends

FIS Front Arena (formerly SunGard Front Arena)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Front Arena skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 - 577
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Front Arena 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.058% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £569
25th Percentile £425 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
75th Percentile £475 - £616
90th Percentile - - £621
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Front Arena falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,426 2,463 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.14% 8.38% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,924 1,392 1,855
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £743 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 52 114
10th Percentile £25.70 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £39.53 £21.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.31 £57.87
90th Percentile £87.25 £86.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -20.00%

Front Arena
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Front Arena job vacancy trend in the UK

Front Arena
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front Arena.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front Arena

Front Arena
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Arena within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London - 2 £450 -
England - 2 £450 -

Front Arena
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Global One
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Support Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) FIXML
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Derivative
1 2 (100.00%) Eurex
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (100.00%) Swaptions
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Murex