Front Office Developer Jobs in the City of London

Front Office Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Front Office Developer salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 168 187
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 9 6 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.44% 0.18% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.19% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 40
10th Percentile - £110,000 £67,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £85,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £130,000 £104,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +24.40% +10.00%
75th Percentile £105,625 £145,000 £124,375
90th Percentile £120,250 - £135,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £130,000 £104,500
% change year-on-year -30.77% +24.40% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,896 3,193 4,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 96.00% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 2,523 3,702
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,044
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,875
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in the City of London

Front Office Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Front Office Developer in the City of London

Front Office Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front Office Developer in the City of London

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Front Office Developer 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Front Office
2 7 (77.78%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (66.67%) Fixed Income
3 6 (66.67%) Java
4 5 (55.56%) Re-Platforming
4 5 (55.56%) Low Latency
4 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (55.56%) Solace
4 5 (55.56%) Concurrent Programming
4 5 (55.56%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (55.56%) Distributed Cache
4 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
4 5 (55.56%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) Banking
6 2 (22.22%) C#
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
6 2 (22.22%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
7 1 (11.11%) Proprietary Trading
7 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (11.11%) Middleware
7 1 (11.11%) XML

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Gradle
General
1 9 (100.00%) Front Office
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 5 (55.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (11.11%) Equities
4 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (55.56%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (55.56%) Distributed Cache
2 5 (55.56%) Low Latency
2 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
2 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Proprietary Trading
4 1 (11.11%) RAD
4 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) F#
3 1 (11.11%) Haskell
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Solace