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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 79 93
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 +147
Contract jobs citing Front Office 435 398 645
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.41% 2.61% 2.53%
As % of the General category 7.05% 4.44% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 364 541
10th Percentile £538 £563 £550
25th Percentile £638 £650 £600
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 £905
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £725
% change year-on-year - - +3.57%
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 6,166 8,955 14,919
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.52% 58.82% 58.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,161 5,880 10,507
10th Percentile £328 £325 £363
25th Percentile £415 £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% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 474 342
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.02 £19.01
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.61 £26.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.68% -23.76% +53.85%
75th Percentile £64.52 £52.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.55 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.60
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.96% +48.16%

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 7 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
1 104 (23.91%) Apache Airflow
2 79 (18.16%) Apache
3 28 (6.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.92%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 39 (8.97%) Aladdin
2 16 (3.68%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 167 (38.39%) AWS
2 104 (23.91%) dbt
2 104 (23.91%) GCP
3 53 (12.18%) Amazon ECS
4 42 (9.66%) Snowflake
5 39 (8.97%) Azure
6 36 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (8.28%) Serverless
7 28 (6.44%) OpenShift
8 25 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (5.75%) Dagster
9 17 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.38%) GitHub
12 6 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.15%) Figma
14 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
1 132 (30.34%) Data Lake
2 104 (23.91%) Amazon Athena
2 104 (23.91%) Apache Iceberg
2 104 (23.91%) Dremio
3 94 (21.61%) Apache Arrow
4 69 (15.86%) Apache Ignite
5 48 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.91%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.22%) DB2
7 14 (3.22%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.61%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (0.23%) Redis
12 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (6.44%) Artifactory
2 19 (4.37%) JIRA
3 14 (3.22%) JUnit
4 9 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.84%) Git
6 5 (1.15%) Ant
6 5 (1.15%) Maven
6 5 (1.15%) Subversion
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 372 (85.52%) Finance
2 152 (34.94%) Banking
3 78 (17.93%) Social Skills
4 69 (15.86%) Investment Banking
5 46 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.68%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.15%) Back Office
7 5 (1.15%) Legal
7 5 (1.15%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.23%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.23%) Retail
9 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (38.39%) Developer
2 123 (28.28%) Software Engineer
3 104 (23.91%) AWS Engineer
4 91 (20.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 89 (20.46%) Python Engineer
6 67 (15.40%) Analyst
7 66 (15.17%) AWS Software Engineer
8 62 (14.25%) Business Analyst
9 52 (11.95%) Senior
10 45 (10.34%) Java Developer
10 45 (10.34%) Python Software Engineer
11 38 (8.74%) AWS DevOps
11 38 (8.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 38 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 38 (8.74%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 37 (8.51%) Head of Finance
12 37 (8.51%) Java Engineer
13 36 (8.28%) Business Manager
13 36 (8.28%) Data Engineer
14 35 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (18.85%) React
2 69 (15.86%) NumPy
2 69 (15.86%) Pandas
3 66 (15.17%) SciPy
4 61 (14.02%) AngularJS
4 61 (14.02%) PySpark
4 61 (14.02%) Redux
5 58 (13.33%) Node.js
6 49 (11.26%) Kafka
7 43 (9.89%) Vue
8 42 (9.66%) gRPC
9 41 (9.43%) Protocol Buffers
10 33 (7.59%) .NET
11 28 (6.44%) J2EE
12 20 (4.60%) Reactive Extensions
13 14 (3.22%) Spring
14 11 (2.53%) JMS
15 6 (1.38%) .NET Framework
15 6 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
15 6 (1.38%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 277 (63.68%) Fixed Income
2 192 (44.14%) Derivative
3 191 (43.91%) Hedge funds
4 180 (41.38%) Equities
5 174 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 45 (10.34%) Product Ownership
7 20 (4.60%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.22%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.22%) Pricing Data
9 13 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.30%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (1.38%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.15%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.15%) State Machine
13 3 (0.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
14 2 (0.46%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (0.46%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.52%) Linux
2 9 (2.07%) Unix
3 8 (1.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (79.08%) Agile
2 236 (54.25%) Investment Management
3 202 (46.44%) Asset Management
4 179 (41.15%) Software Engineering
5 111 (25.52%) Migration
6 91 (20.92%) Data Governance
6 91 (20.92%) Fintech
6 91 (20.92%) Regulatory Compliance
6 91 (20.92%) Roadmaps
7 70 (16.09%) Data Management
8 69 (15.86%) Analytics
9 51 (11.72%) DevOps
10 50 (11.49%) Business Analysis
11 46 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
12 45 (10.34%) CI/CD
13 44 (10.11%) Data Engineering
13 44 (10.11%) Performance Attribution
14 40 (9.20%) Open Source
15 37 (8.51%) Electronic Trading
15 37 (8.51%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 237 (54.48%) Python
2 136 (31.26%) Java
3 133 (30.57%) JavaScript
4 123 (28.28%) TypeScript
5 109 (25.06%) SQL
6 39 (8.97%) C#
7 28 (6.44%) Go
8 12 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.84%) C++
10 6 (1.38%) Scala
11 5 (1.15%) 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 18 (4.14%) Degree
2 5 (1.15%) 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 (6.67%) MiFID
2 6 (1.38%) QA
3 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.69%) EMIR
4 2 (0.46%) PMO
5 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 39 (8.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 41 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.28%) 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 39 (8.97%) BISAM
2 20 (4.60%) Charles River
3 17 (3.91%) Oracle
4 16 (3.68%) Calypso
4 16 (3.68%) SimCorp
4 16 (3.68%) Sybase
5 15 (3.45%) ION Trading
6 11 (2.53%) Microsoft
7 7 (1.61%) Databricks
8 5 (1.15%) Solace
9 4 (0.92%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.69%) 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%) Google
12 1 (0.23%) IBM
12 1 (0.23%) Reuters
12 1 (0.23%) SAP