Front Office Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Front Office Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Front Office Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 296 387
Rank change year-on-year +6 +91 +205
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 14 49 90
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.34% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 43 76
10th Percentile £805 £550 £650
25th Percentile £838 £600 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -21.88% +14.29%
75th Percentile £913 £738 £863
90th Percentile £925 £850 £1,025
UK median daily rate £750 £700 £800
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +8.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Front Office Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office Developer.

Front Office Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Front Office Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Front Office Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Front Office
2 9 (64.29%) C#
2 9 (64.29%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 6 (42.86%) .NET
4 6 (42.86%) Python
4 6 (42.86%) AngularJS
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
5 5 (35.71%) Low Latency
5 5 (35.71%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
6 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (28.57%) JIRA
6 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (28.57%) Reactive Extensions
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (28.57%) OO
6 4 (28.57%) Oracle
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Economics
7 3 (21.43%) Banking
7 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
7 3 (21.43%) Finance
7 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Azure
8 2 (14.29%) Pandas
8 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (14.29%) .NET Core

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 14 (100.00%) Front Office
2 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
1 6 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) NumPy
3 2 (14.29%) Pandas
3 2 (14.29%) Rendezvous
4 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
4 1 (7.14%) gRPC
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
1 5 (35.71%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (35.71%) Low Latency
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (28.57%) Economics
2 4 (28.57%) OO
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
5 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.14%) High-Frequency Trading
5 1 (7.14%) Market Making
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) PnL Attribution
5 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 2 (14.29%) C++
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) TIBCO