Front Office Contract Job Trends

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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 115 141
Rank change year-on-year -89 +26 -51
Contract jobs citing Front Office 501 720 795
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.12% 1.81%
As % of the General category 2.23% 3.47% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 605 701
10th Percentile £463 £500 £519
25th Percentile £575 £638 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £850 £863 £825
90th Percentile £1,000 £938 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £463 £250
% change year-on-year -4.38% +85.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.36 - -
75th Percentile £20.03 - -
90th Percentile £22.24 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.36 - -

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 22,437 20,742 26,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.08% 61.08% 59.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,022 12,399 17,274
10th Percentile £275 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,452 710 1,070
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.53 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.54 £27.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% -17.27% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.79 £25.99 £30.48
% change year-on-year -16.15% -14.72% +41.74%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Front Office job vacancy trend in the UK

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Front Office
Top 12 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 Office within the UK over the 6 months to 21 December 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 -89 464 £750 - 57
London -48 450 £750 - 55
Work from Home -104 149 £750 - 24
UK excluding London -24 37 £442 -4.38% 23
Scotland +2 15 £338 -35.71%
Northern Ireland -6 12 £400 +23.08%
South East -12 6 £536 -33.00% 19
North of England -37 2 £390 -13.33% 2
East Midlands - 2 £437 -
Midlands - 2 £437 -
North West -29 1 £390 -13.33% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Front Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.79%) Apache
3 16 (3.19%) Confluence
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Sketch
6 2 (0.40%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
7 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (3.59%) Endur
2 16 (3.19%) Aladdin
3 10 (2.00%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.00%) Bloomberg AIM
5 4 (0.80%) thinkFolio
6 3 (0.60%) Eikon
6 3 (0.60%) ION MarketView
6 3 (0.60%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.40%) BondVision
7 2 (0.40%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.40%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.20%) Eze OMS
8 1 (0.20%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 1 (0.20%) PORTIA
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.20%) Shopify
8 1 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 85 (16.97%) AWS
2 45 (8.98%) Azure
3 34 (6.79%) dbt
4 31 (6.19%) Snowflake
5 29 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.79%) GCP
7 15 (2.99%) GitHub
8 13 (2.59%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.00%) Serverless
11 9 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (0.80%) PaaS
15 3 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.59%) Multicast
2 8 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.00%) FIX Connectivity
3 5 (1.00%) tcpdump
3 5 (1.00%) Wireshark
4 4 (0.80%) Firewall
5 3 (0.60%) DHCP
5 3 (0.60%) DNS
5 3 (0.60%) SAN
5 3 (0.60%) VPN
6 2 (0.40%) DMZ
7 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
1 34 (6.79%) Apache Arrow
1 34 (6.79%) Apache Iceberg
1 34 (6.79%) Dremio
2 30 (5.99%) Data Lake
3 29 (5.79%) Power BI
4 26 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 26 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.79%) Apache Ignite
6 22 (4.39%) KDB
6 22 (4.39%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (3.39%) Kdb+
9 15 (2.99%) DB2
10 13 (2.59%) Tableau
11 8 (1.60%) Flink
12 6 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.80%) Data Mart
15 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (5.19%) JIRA
2 14 (2.79%) Git
3 13 (2.59%) JUnit
4 7 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.20%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.20%) Maven
6 5 (1.00%) GCC
6 5 (1.00%) GDB
6 5 (1.00%) QUnit
7 4 (0.80%) Selenium
8 3 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.60%) GitLab
8 3 (0.60%) Gradle
8 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.60%) Postman
8 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.60%) webpack
9 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 313 (62.48%) Finance
2 213 (42.51%) Banking
3 191 (38.12%) Social Skills
4 123 (24.55%) Investment Banking
5 67 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (8.58%) Back Office
7 37 (7.39%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.59%) Legal
9 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.60%) Law
10 8 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.00%) International Banking
12 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.40%) Marketing
14 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.20%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.20%) Japanese Language
15 1 (0.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 212 (42.32%) Developer
2 86 (17.17%) Senior
3 84 (16.77%) Analyst
4 63 (12.57%) Java Developer
5 59 (11.78%) Software Engineer
6 58 (11.58%) Business Analyst
7 44 (8.78%) Python Developer
8 43 (8.58%) Python Engineer
9 40 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
9 40 (7.98%) Front Office Developer
10 34 (6.79%) AWS Software Engineer
10 34 (6.79%) Python Software Engineer
11 32 (6.39%) Java Engineer
12 29 (5.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (5.79%) Quantitative Developer
13 28 (5.59%) Senior Developer
14 27 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (4.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 24 (4.79%) Lead
16 24 (4.79%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (12.18%) React
2 50 (9.98%) NumPy
3 49 (9.78%) FIX Protocol
3 49 (9.78%) Pandas
4 44 (8.78%) Kafka
5 40 (7.98%) .NET
6 37 (7.39%) SciPy
7 26 (5.19%) gRPC
8 25 (4.99%) Node.js
8 25 (4.99%) REST
9 24 (4.79%) AngularJS
9 24 (4.79%) Protocol Buffers
10 20 (3.99%) Middleware
11 18 (3.59%) GraphQL
12 16 (3.19%) Redux
12 16 (3.19%) Spring
13 15 (2.99%) JMS
14 14 (2.79%) HTML
14 14 (2.79%) Vue
15 10 (2.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 134 (26.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 120 (23.95%) Fixed Income
3 107 (21.36%) Equities
4 106 (21.16%) Derivative
5 56 (11.18%) Hedge funds
6 38 (7.58%) Algorithms
7 34 (6.79%) Product Ownership
8 27 (5.39%) Data Structures
9 24 (4.79%) Pricing Data
10 18 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (3.39%) Cloud Native
12 14 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (2.79%) Equity Derivative
13 12 (2.40%) Onboarding
14 10 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.60%) Market Risk
15 8 (1.60%) Reference Data
16 7 (1.40%) Credit Risk
16 7 (1.40%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 55 (10.98%) Linux
2 26 (5.19%) Windows
3 25 (4.99%) Unix
4 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (33.33%) Agile
2 110 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (15.77%) Software Engineering
4 77 (15.37%) Analytics
4 77 (15.37%) Investment Management
5 71 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 70 (13.97%) Low Latency
7 66 (13.17%) Asset Management
8 65 (12.97%) Risk Management
9 55 (10.98%) Electronic Trading
9 55 (10.98%) Multithreading
10 51 (10.18%) Mathematics
11 50 (9.98%) DevOps
12 48 (9.58%) CI/CD
13 39 (7.78%) Order Management
14 38 (7.58%) Business Analysis
15 37 (7.39%) Scrum
16 35 (6.99%) Computer Science
16 35 (6.99%) Project Management
17 33 (6.59%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 196 (39.12%) Python
2 145 (28.94%) Java
3 116 (23.15%) SQL
4 70 (13.97%) C#
5 63 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 63 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 42 (8.38%) C++
7 19 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.19%) VBA
9 15 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.79%) Go
11 13 (2.59%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.00%) Bash
13 3 (0.60%) Bicep
13 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.40%) Scala
14 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.40%) VB
15 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (11.58%) Degree
2 22 (4.39%) Master's Degree
3 17 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.00%) PhD
5 6 (1.20%) CFA
5 6 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.00%) PMP
7 4 (0.80%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.60%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) Server+ Certification
9 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.39%) QA
2 23 (4.59%) MiFID
3 15 (2.99%) EMIR
4 9 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.60%) PMO
6 2 (0.40%) Basel III
6 2 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.40%) ITGC
6 2 (0.40%) P3O
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) FINRA
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (3.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 27 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.60%) Argo
2 8 (1.60%) Grafana
2 8 (1.60%) SCCM
3 6 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (1.20%) Prometheus
3 6 (1.20%) Terraform
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.60%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 2 (0.40%) WSUS
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.20%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.79%) Bloomberg
3 22 (4.39%) Murex
4 17 (3.39%) Databricks
4 17 (3.39%) ION Trading
4 17 (3.39%) Solace
5 15 (2.99%) Oracle
5 15 (2.99%) Sybase
6 12 (2.40%) Charles River
7 7 (1.40%) Reuters
7 7 (1.40%) Tradeweb
8 6 (1.20%) Avaloq
8 6 (1.20%) Sophis
9 5 (1.00%) Calypso
9 5 (1.00%) Citrix
9 5 (1.00%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.00%) Refinitiv
9 5 (1.00%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.00%) Trayport
10 4 (0.80%) OpenLink