Front Office Jobs in the City of London

Front Office
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 118 72
Rank change year-on-year +30 -46 +37
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 47 56 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.31% 1.68% 3.97%
As % of the General category 3.29% 2.73% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 39 48 168
10th Percentile £73,750 £89,250 £67,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £122,500 £104,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +17.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £150,000 £140,000 £123,125
90th Percentile £157,500 £154,875 £144,125
Central London median annual salary £115,000 £115,000 £104,000
% change year-on-year - +10.58% +6.67%

All General Skills
City of London

Front Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,428 2,049 3,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 70.17% 61.61% 65.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 1,600 2,449
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,451 £42,444
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £98,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +2.11%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Front Office in the City of London

Front Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Eikon
1 1 (2.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) GitHub
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (4.26%) PaaS
3 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.26%) Serverless
3 2 (4.26%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) npm
4 1 (2.13%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) KDB
3 1 (2.13%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
1 3 (6.38%) Selenium
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Gradle
3 1 (2.13%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Banking
3 10 (21.28%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Agriculture
5 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Advertising
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) French Language
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Front Office Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Python Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) React Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) UI Developer
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) React
2 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) Node.js
3 4 (8.51%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.38%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.26%) Django
5 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.26%) Flask
6 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.13%) Middleware
6 1 (2.13%) REST
6 1 (2.13%) WPF
6 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Fixed Income
2 13 (27.66%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Data Structures
3 5 (10.64%) Derivative
3 5 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.38%) Equities
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Blog
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Agile
1 12 (25.53%) Electronic Trading
2 11 (23.40%) Analytics
3 9 (19.15%) Low Latency
3 9 (19.15%) Microservices
4 8 (17.02%) Risk Management
4 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.89%) API Integration
5 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.89%) DevOps
5 7 (14.89%) Investment Management
5 7 (14.89%) Multithreading
6 6 (12.77%) Concurrent Programming
6 6 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (10.64%) Distributed Cache
7 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.64%) Re-Platforming
8 4 (8.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) Java
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) C#
6 4 (8.51%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) Rust
8 1 (2.13%) F#
8 1 (2.13%) Haskell
8 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Solace
2 3 (6.38%) Murex
3 1 (2.13%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Reuters