Front Office Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 79 90
Rank change year-on-year +32 +11 +158
Contract jobs citing Front Office 432 395 658
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.36% 2.57% 2.54%
As % of the General category 6.99% 4.37% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 361 548
10th Percentile £538 £563 £550
25th Percentile £638 £650 £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £740
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% +5.71%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £850
90th Percentile £938 £888 £925
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £739
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £18.90 £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.97% -70.00% -2.91%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Front Office
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.

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 remote working options citing Front Office over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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
1 103 (23.84%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (18.06%) Apache
3 28 (6.48%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (8.56%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.24%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 167 (38.66%) AWS
2 105 (24.31%) GCP
3 103 (23.84%) dbt
4 54 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 40 (9.26%) Snowflake
6 39 (9.03%) Azure
7 37 (8.56%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (8.56%) Serverless
8 28 (6.48%) OpenShift
9 26 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (6.02%) Dagster
10 17 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.31%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.39%) GitHub
14 6 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.16%) Figma
16 2 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) Firewall
1 1 (0.23%) HTTP
1 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (30.32%) Data Lake
2 103 (23.84%) Amazon Athena
2 103 (23.84%) Apache Iceberg
2 103 (23.84%) Dremio
3 92 (21.30%) Apache Arrow
4 68 (15.74%) Apache Ignite
5 47 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 13 (3.01%) DB2
7 13 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.62%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
12 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (6.48%) Artifactory
2 19 (4.40%) JIRA
3 14 (3.24%) JUnit
4 9 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.85%) Git
6 5 (1.16%) Ant
6 5 (1.16%) Maven
6 5 (1.16%) Subversion
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 370 (85.65%) Finance
2 150 (34.72%) Banking
3 75 (17.36%) Social Skills
4 67 (15.51%) Investment Banking
5 44 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.16%) Legal
7 5 (1.16%) Wholesale Banking
8 4 (0.93%) Back Office
9 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.23%) Law
10 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (38.66%) Developer
2 122 (28.24%) Software Engineer
3 103 (23.84%) AWS Engineer
4 91 (21.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 89 (20.60%) Python Engineer
6 64 (14.81%) AWS Software Engineer
7 63 (14.58%) Analyst
8 59 (13.66%) Business Analyst
9 50 (11.57%) Senior
10 44 (10.19%) Java Developer
11 43 (9.95%) Python Software Engineer
12 39 (9.03%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (9.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 39 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
13 37 (8.56%) Data Engineer
13 37 (8.56%) Head of Finance
14 36 (8.33%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 36 (8.33%) Java Engineer
15 35 (8.10%) AWS Developer
15 35 (8.10%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (18.98%) React
2 68 (15.74%) NumPy
2 68 (15.74%) Pandas
3 65 (15.05%) SciPy
4 62 (14.35%) PySpark
4 62 (14.35%) Redux
5 61 (14.12%) AngularJS
6 58 (13.43%) Node.js
7 48 (11.11%) Kafka
8 43 (9.95%) Vue
9 41 (9.49%) gRPC
10 40 (9.26%) Protocol Buffers
11 33 (7.64%) .NET
12 28 (6.48%) J2EE
13 20 (4.63%) Reactive Extensions
14 14 (3.24%) Spring
15 10 (2.31%) JMS
16 6 (1.39%) .NET Framework
16 6 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 273 (63.19%) Fixed Income
2 188 (43.52%) Derivative
3 187 (43.29%) Hedge funds
4 175 (40.51%) Equities
5 169 (39.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 45 (10.42%) Product Ownership
7 18 (4.17%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (3.01%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.78%) Pricing Data
11 10 (2.31%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (1.39%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.16%) State Machine
14 4 (0.93%) Market Risk
15 3 (0.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
16 2 (0.46%) Credit Derivative
16 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
16 2 (0.46%) Reference Data
16 2 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.56%) Linux
2 9 (2.08%) Unix
3 8 (1.85%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (78.70%) Agile
2 233 (53.94%) Investment Management
3 200 (46.30%) Asset Management
4 181 (41.90%) Software Engineering
5 111 (25.69%) Migration
6 93 (21.53%) Fintech
7 91 (21.06%) Data Governance
7 91 (21.06%) Regulatory Compliance
7 91 (21.06%) Roadmaps
8 71 (16.44%) Data Management
9 70 (16.20%) Analytics
10 52 (12.04%) DevOps
11 47 (10.88%) Business Analysis
12 46 (10.65%) CI/CD
13 45 (10.42%) Data Engineering
14 44 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (10.19%) Performance Attribution
15 39 (9.03%) Open Source
16 37 (8.56%) Electronic Trading
16 37 (8.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 234 (54.17%) Python
2 136 (31.48%) Java
3 132 (30.56%) JavaScript
4 121 (28.01%) TypeScript
5 108 (25.00%) SQL
6 39 (9.03%) C#
7 28 (6.48%) Go
8 11 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.85%) C++
10 6 (1.39%) Scala
11 5 (1.16%) F#
12 3 (0.69%) Ruby
13 2 (0.46%) Perl
13 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.23%) C
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (4.40%) Degree
2 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.46%) CFA
4 2 (0.46%) MBA
5 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.23%) PhD
5 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.23%) PMP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.71%) MiFID
2 5 (1.16%) QA
3 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.46%) EMIR
5 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (9.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 42 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.23%) Ansible
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 37 (8.56%) BISAM
2 18 (4.17%) Charles River
3 17 (3.94%) Oracle
4 15 (3.47%) ION Trading
4 15 (3.47%) Sybase
5 14 (3.24%) Calypso
5 14 (3.24%) SimCorp
6 11 (2.55%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.62%) Databricks
8 5 (1.16%) Solace
9 4 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.93%) Murex
10 3 (0.69%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.46%) Cribl.io
11 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.23%) CQG
12 1 (0.23%) IBM
12 1 (0.23%) OpenLink
12 1 (0.23%) Reuters