Front Office Contracts

Front Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 121 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 -25 +23
Contract jobs citing Front Office 764 830 1,511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 1.90% 2.53%
As % of the General category 4.14% 3.27% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 738 1,257
10th Percentile £525 £525 £525
25th Percentile £638 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £739
Median % change year-on-year - -1.89% +5.57%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £838
90th Percentile £938 £888 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £398 £625
% change year-on-year +15.09% -36.40% +28.21%
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% -2.91%
75th Percentile £20.16 £16.50 -
90th Percentile £20.92 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.90 £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.97% -70.00% +16.28%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 11 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +16 706 £750 +3.45% 306
London +6 698 £750 +3.45% 282
Work from Home +39 430 £750 - 101
UK excluding London +100 60 £458 +15.09% 50
Scotland - 39 £525 - 9
Northern Ireland +7 16 £325 +13.04% 20
South East +42 2 - - 4
North of England +25 2 £563 +38.89% 12
East of England +31 1 £400 +6.67% 4
North West +7 1 £475 +17.28% 8
Yorkshire - 1 £650 - 1

Front Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 111 (14.53%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (11.78%) Apache
3 39 (5.10%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.26%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.13%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 36 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 38 (4.97%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.83%) thinkFolio
3 5 (0.65%) Endur
4 3 (0.39%) Bankmaster
4 3 (0.39%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.26%) Finacle
5 2 (0.26%) Kondor
5 2 (0.26%) Summit
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 197 (25.79%) AWS
2 110 (14.40%) dbt
3 104 (13.61%) GCP
4 78 (10.21%) Azure
5 59 (7.72%) Amazon ECS
6 50 (6.54%) Snowflake
7 45 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (5.89%) Serverless
8 38 (4.97%) OpenShift
9 31 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.40%) Dagster
11 20 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) Multicast
1 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.26%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.13%) DNS
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) HTTP
2 1 (0.13%) Intranet
2 1 (0.13%) SSL
2 1 (0.13%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (17.15%) Data Lake
2 110 (14.40%) Amazon Athena
2 110 (14.40%) Apache Iceberg
2 110 (14.40%) Dremio
3 99 (12.96%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (8.90%) Apache Ignite
5 50 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.84%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 24 (3.14%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.62%) DB2
10 14 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.31%) KDB
12 9 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 8 (1.05%) Delta Lake
14 6 (0.79%) Power BI
14 6 (0.79%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.52%) Kdb+
15 4 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (4.32%) Artifactory
2 31 (4.06%) JIRA
3 28 (3.66%) Git
4 22 (2.88%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.62%) JUnit
6 13 (1.70%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.05%) Maven
9 7 (0.92%) Subversion
10 6 (0.79%) Ant
11 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.26%) Gradle
11 2 (0.26%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.13%) MLflow
12 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 591 (77.36%) Finance
2 269 (35.21%) Banking
3 186 (24.35%) Social Skills
4 143 (18.72%) Investment Banking
5 105 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.50%) Financial Institution
7 23 (3.01%) Back Office
8 12 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.65%) Wholesale Banking
12 4 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.26%) International Banking
14 2 (0.26%) Retail
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.13%) Advertising
15 1 (0.13%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 315 (41.23%) Developer
2 152 (19.90%) Software Engineer
3 150 (19.63%) Analyst
4 116 (15.18%) Business Analyst
5 115 (15.05%) AWS Engineer
6 102 (13.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 98 (12.83%) Python Engineer
8 91 (11.91%) Senior
9 81 (10.60%) Java Developer
10 71 (9.29%) AWS Software Engineer
11 70 (9.16%) Python Developer
12 68 (8.90%) C# Developer
13 57 (7.46%) Business Manager
14 48 (6.28%) Python Software Engineer
15 47 (6.15%) Java Engineer
16 46 (6.02%) Lead
17 45 (5.89%) Java Software Engineer
17 45 (5.89%) Senior Developer
18 44 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
18 44 (5.76%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (13.87%) React
2 80 (10.47%) AngularJS
3 75 (9.82%) .NET
4 71 (9.29%) NumPy
4 71 (9.29%) Pandas
5 70 (9.16%) Kafka
5 70 (9.16%) PySpark
6 67 (8.77%) Node.js
7 66 (8.64%) SciPy
8 62 (8.12%) Redux
9 47 (6.15%) gRPC
10 46 (6.02%) Protocol Buffers
11 41 (5.37%) Vue
12 34 (4.45%) J2EE
13 24 (3.14%) Reactive Extensions
14 22 (2.88%) Spring
15 20 (2.62%) HTML
16 19 (2.49%) HTML5
17 18 (2.36%) .NET Core
18 17 (2.23%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 330 (43.19%) Fixed Income
2 265 (34.69%) Derivative
3 249 (32.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 239 (31.28%) Equities
5 218 (28.53%) Hedge funds
6 70 (9.16%) Product Ownership
7 33 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (3.40%) Onboarding
9 25 (3.27%) Algorithms
10 23 (3.01%) Data Structures
10 23 (3.01%) Equity Derivative
11 21 (2.75%) Market Risk
12 14 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.70%) Pricing Data
14 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.79%) Credit Risk
16 6 (0.79%) Grid Computing
17 5 (0.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.68%) Linux
2 27 (3.53%) Unix
3 25 (3.27%) Windows
4 18 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (58.12%) Agile
2 261 (34.16%) Investment Management
3 240 (31.41%) Asset Management
4 224 (29.32%) Software Engineering
5 135 (17.67%) Analytics
6 127 (16.62%) Migration
7 114 (14.92%) Roadmaps
8 98 (12.83%) Data Governance
8 98 (12.83%) Regulatory Compliance
9 96 (12.57%) Fintech
10 91 (11.91%) DevOps
11 88 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (10.60%) Data Management
13 79 (10.34%) CI/CD
14 69 (9.03%) Risk Management
15 66 (8.64%) Business Analysis
16 56 (7.33%) Portfolio Management
17 55 (7.20%) Multithreading
17 55 (7.20%) OO
18 53 (6.94%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 362 (47.38%) Python
2 218 (28.53%) Java
3 186 (24.35%) SQL
4 153 (20.03%) JavaScript
5 139 (18.19%) TypeScript
6 108 (14.14%) C#
7 44 (5.76%) C++
8 37 (4.84%) Go
9 18 (2.36%) VBA
10 15 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.18%) Scala
12 5 (0.65%) Bicep
12 5 (0.65%) F#
12 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.39%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.39%) Perl
13 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.39%) Ruby
14 1 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 60 (7.85%) Degree
2 10 (1.31%) Master's Degree
3 9 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.26%) CFA
4 2 (0.26%) MBA
4 2 (0.26%) PMP
5 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.13%) MCP
5 1 (0.13%) MCSA
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.13%) PhD
5 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.58%) MiFID
2 17 (2.23%) QA
3 10 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.79%) EMIR
4 6 (0.79%) PMO
5 2 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
5 2 (0.26%) SLA
6 1 (0.13%) Basel III
6 1 (0.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (6.81%) Docker
2 3 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 63 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 43 (5.63%) Terraform
3 5 (0.65%) Ansible
4 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.39%) SCCM
5 2 (0.26%) Grafana
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.26%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.13%) Control-M
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 36 (4.71%) BISAM
2 30 (3.93%) Oracle
3 27 (3.53%) Charles River
4 26 (3.40%) Microsoft
4 26 (3.40%) Sybase
5 22 (2.88%) ION Trading
6 17 (2.23%) Calypso
6 17 (2.23%) Databricks
7 14 (1.83%) Murex
7 14 (1.83%) SimCorp
8 13 (1.70%) Bloomberg
9 8 (1.05%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.92%) IBM
10 7 (0.92%) Solace
10 7 (0.92%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.65%) Splunk
12 3 (0.39%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.39%) Reuters
13 2 (0.26%) Dynatrace