Front Office Developer Contracts

Front Office Developer
UK

The median Front Office Developer daily rate in the UK is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 511 561
Rank change year-on-year +26 +50 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 38 68 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 60 123
10th Percentile £675 £561 £626
25th Percentile £688 £600 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +8.47%
75th Percentile £850 £778 £863
90th Percentile £900 £850 £995
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £1,000

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,190 39,537 53,805
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.80% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,686 25,718 37,580
10th Percentile £293 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.82% +2.90%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,672 1,503
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.82 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.29 £19.30
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +88.21%
75th Percentile £61.44 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +25 38 £725 +3.57% 4
London +15 38 £725 +3.57% 4
Work from Home -2 11 £850 +21.43% 2

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Front Office Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Front Office
2 23 (60.53%) C#
3 17 (44.74%) Java
3 17 (44.74%) Python
4 13 (34.21%) Multithreading
4 13 (34.21%) Azure
5 12 (31.58%) Derivative
5 12 (31.58%) Finance
6 11 (28.95%) Risk Management
6 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Excel
6 11 (28.95%) SQL Server
6 11 (28.95%) Greeks
7 10 (26.32%) Mathematics
7 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
7 10 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (23.68%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (23.68%) Banking
9 7 (18.42%) .NET
9 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
9 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
9 7 (18.42%) Low Latency
10 6 (15.79%) Analytics
10 6 (15.79%) Reactive Extensions
10 6 (15.79%) Design Patterns
10 6 (15.79%) Oracle
10 6 (15.79%) OO
10 6 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (13.16%) Agile
11 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
11 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) Big Data
3 1 (2.63%) KDB
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) Git
3 2 (5.26%) Eclipse
3 2 (5.26%) Gradle
3 2 (5.26%) IntelliJ
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) Maven
3 2 (5.26%) Subversion
3 2 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
General
1 38 (100.00%) Front Office
2 12 (31.58%) Finance
3 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 9 (23.68%) Banking
5 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
6 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) .NET
1 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
2 6 (15.79%) Reactive Extensions
3 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
3 3 (7.89%) NumPy
3 3 (7.89%) Pandas
4 2 (5.26%) WPF
5 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.63%) gRPC
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) HTML5
5 1 (2.63%) Kafka
5 1 (2.63%) Middleware
5 1 (2.63%) Polars
5 1 (2.63%) React
5 1 (2.63%) Redux
5 1 (2.63%) Rendezvous
5 1 (2.63%) RESTful
5 1 (2.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Derivative
2 10 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (10.53%) Equities
5 3 (7.89%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Multithreading
2 11 (28.95%) Greeks
2 11 (28.95%) Risk Management
3 10 (26.32%) Mathematics
4 9 (23.68%) Electronic Trading
5 7 (18.42%) Low Latency
6 6 (15.79%) Analytics
6 6 (15.79%) Design Patterns
6 6 (15.79%) OO
7 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.53%) Economics
8 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.53%) SDLC
8 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
9 3 (7.89%) DevOps
9 3 (7.89%) High Availability
9 3 (7.89%) Microservices
9 3 (7.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) C#
2 17 (44.74%) Java
2 17 (44.74%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.53%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.63%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) Sybase
3 1 (2.63%) Databricks
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) TIBCO