Front Office Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 93 239
Rank change year-on-year +18 +146 -126
Contract jobs citing Front Office 394 641 489
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.60% 2.51% 1.10%
As % of the General category 4.42% 4.29% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 536 392
10th Percentile £563 £550 £513
25th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £740 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £800
90th Percentile £888 £915 £838
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,909 14,937 24,184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.81% 58.40% 54.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,840 10,533 17,530
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 344 348
10th Percentile £14.01 £19.12 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.19 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.18
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +55.40% +34.06%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.39 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.14% +51.75% -2.22%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office.

Front Office daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Front Office daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 91 (23.10%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (19.80%) Apache
3 5 (1.27%) Confluence
4 3 (0.76%) MTS
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.25%) MQSeries
Applications
1 23 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.03%) Endur
2 3 (0.76%) Aligne
2 3 (0.76%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.25%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 130 (32.99%) AWS
2 80 (20.30%) GCP
3 75 (19.04%) dbt
4 58 (14.72%) Snowflake
5 51 (12.94%) Azure
6 5 (1.27%) npm
6 5 (1.27%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.51%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.25%) GitHub
10 1 (0.25%) IaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.25%) PaaS
10 1 (0.25%) SaaS
10 1 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.27%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.51%) DHCP
2 2 (0.51%) DNS
2 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (19.54%) Apache Ignite
2 75 (19.04%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (19.04%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (19.04%) Dremio
3 58 (14.72%) Data Lake
4 18 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.28%) KDB
5 9 (2.28%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.27%) Kdb+
7 5 (1.27%) Power BI
8 3 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.51%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.51%) MySQL
9 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (4.82%) JIRA
2 16 (4.06%) Cucumber
3 13 (3.30%) GitLab
3 13 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.30%) JUnit
3 13 (3.30%) Mockito
4 8 (2.03%) Git
5 6 (1.52%) MLflow
6 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.27%) webpack
7 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.76%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.51%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.51%) JMeter
9 2 (0.51%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.51%) Selenium
9 2 (0.51%) TestRail
10 1 (0.25%) Log4Net
10 1 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 303 (76.90%) Finance
2 184 (46.70%) Banking
3 120 (30.46%) Investment Banking
4 60 (15.23%) Social Skills
5 51 (12.94%) Back Office
6 35 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.02%) Law
9 3 (0.76%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.51%) Marketing
10 2 (0.51%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 200 (50.76%) Developer
2 85 (21.57%) Senior
3 78 (19.80%) Software Engineer
4 63 (15.99%) Analyst
5 57 (14.47%) C# Developer
5 57 (14.47%) Java Developer
6 50 (12.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 50 (12.69%) Front Office Developer
7 43 (10.91%) Python Developer
8 41 (10.41%) Lead
9 38 (9.64%) Python Engineer
9 38 (9.64%) Python Software Engineer
10 36 (9.14%) Business Analyst
11 34 (8.63%) Financial Analyst
11 34 (8.63%) React Developer
12 33 (8.38%) Finance Manager
12 33 (8.38%) Senior Developer
13 29 (7.36%) Java Engineer
13 29 (7.36%) Java Software Engineer
13 29 (7.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (22.08%) gRPC
2 86 (21.83%) Protocol Buffers
3 80 (20.30%) Pandas
4 73 (18.53%) NumPy
4 73 (18.53%) SciPy
5 62 (15.74%) React
6 31 (7.87%) .NET
7 27 (6.85%) Redux
8 22 (5.58%) AngularJS
9 20 (5.08%) Node.js
10 17 (4.31%) WPF
11 16 (4.06%) Spring Boot
12 15 (3.81%) Material-UI
13 11 (2.79%) Vue
14 10 (2.54%) GraphQL
15 8 (2.03%) RxJS
16 7 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (1.78%) REST
16 7 (1.78%) XML
17 6 (1.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 190 (48.22%) Derivative
2 156 (39.59%) Fixed Income
3 142 (36.04%) Hedge funds
4 126 (31.98%) Equities
5 110 (27.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (6.35%) Equity Derivative
7 17 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (3.81%) Credit Derivative
9 14 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (3.30%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.28%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.52%) Pricing Data
13 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
14 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.76%) Reference Data
16 2 (0.51%) Algorithms
16 2 (0.51%) Blog
16 2 (0.51%) Cloud Native
16 2 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.58%) Unix
2 15 (3.81%) Windows
3 7 (1.78%) Linux
4 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (44.67%) Agile
2 171 (43.40%) Asset Management
3 146 (37.06%) Investment Management
4 139 (35.28%) Software Engineering
5 57 (14.47%) Analytics
6 42 (10.66%) Mentoring
7 35 (8.88%) Electronic Trading
7 35 (8.88%) Greeks
8 33 (8.38%) Fintech
9 30 (7.61%) Full Stack Development
9 30 (7.61%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (7.36%) Line Management
11 27 (6.85%) Risk Management
12 25 (6.35%) SDLC
13 23 (5.84%) Computer Science
14 21 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (5.33%) Machine Learning
15 19 (4.82%) Data Modelling
15 19 (4.82%) Performance Attribution
16 18 (4.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 221 (56.09%) Python
2 145 (36.80%) Java
3 125 (31.73%) C#
4 117 (29.70%) JavaScript
5 115 (29.19%) SQL
6 113 (28.68%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.06%) R
8 14 (3.55%) C++
9 13 (3.30%) Scala
10 12 (3.05%) Kotlin
11 9 (2.28%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.78%) Ruby
12 7 (1.78%) VBA
13 4 (1.02%) Perl
13 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.25%) Go
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (11.42%) Degree
2 20 (5.08%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.78%) PhD
5 5 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PMP
7 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.78%) MiFID
2 7 (1.78%) QA
3 4 (1.02%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (1.02%) PMO
3 4 (1.02%) SEPA
4 3 (0.76%) EMIR
5 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.51%) vSphere
3 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.76%) Terraform
2 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.51%) WSUS
3 1 (0.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (4.82%) Bloomberg
2 12 (3.05%) ION Trading
3 11 (2.79%) Oracle
4 6 (1.52%) Databricks
4 6 (1.52%) IBM
4 6 (1.52%) Murex
5 5 (1.27%) MarketAxess
5 5 (1.27%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.27%) OpenLink
5 5 (1.27%) Tradeweb
6 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.51%) ESRI
7 2 (0.51%) Okta
7 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.51%) VMware
8 1 (0.25%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.25%) Calypso
8 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.25%) Solace
8 1 (0.25%) TIBCO