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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 77 119
Rank change year-on-year -48 +42 -44
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 53 169 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.57% 3.82% 2.85%
As % of the General category 2.57% 5.84% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 44 156 198
10th Percentile £90,000 £68,125 £65,875
25th Percentile £92,500 £84,688 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £105,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £141,250 £128,125 £112,500
90th Percentile £156,375 £144,375 £126,625
Central London median annual salary £115,000 £105,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +7.69% +2.63%

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 2,064 2,892 4,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 61.32% 65.43% 63.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,554 2,333 3,656
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,938 £54,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%

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 17 June 2024.

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 (1.89%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) AWS
2 8 (15.09%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) MySQL
2 3 (5.66%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.21%) Git
2 7 (13.21%) GitLab
2 7 (13.21%) Maven
3 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Gradle
4 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (41.51%) Banking
2 20 (37.74%) Finance
3 18 (33.96%) Investment Banking
4 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Back Office
5 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) Analyst
3 12 (22.64%) Senior
4 8 (15.09%) Front Office Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Support Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Java Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Electronic Trading Support
6 6 (11.32%) Java Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
7 5 (9.43%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) React Developer
7 5 (9.43%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Applications Support
10 2 (3.77%) Applications Support Analyst
10 2 (3.77%) Data Manager
10 2 (3.77%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
10 2 (3.77%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 2 (3.77%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Spring
1 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
2 5 (9.43%) React
3 3 (5.66%) .NET
4 2 (3.77%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
5 1 (1.89%) Murex MxML
5 1 (1.89%) Pandas
5 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) Web Services
5 1 (1.89%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Equities
1 15 (28.30%) Fixed Income
2 11 (20.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (13.21%) FPGA
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.89%) Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Electronic Trading
2 19 (35.85%) Multithreading
3 14 (26.42%) Low Latency
4 11 (20.75%) Agile
5 9 (16.98%) Microservices
6 8 (15.09%) Analytics
6 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 8 (15.09%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.09%) Design Patterns
6 8 (15.09%) OO
6 8 (15.09%) TDD
7 6 (11.32%) E-Commerce
7 6 (11.32%) OOD
7 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
7 6 (11.32%) Straight-Through Processing
8 5 (9.43%) Data Analytics
8 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
9 4 (7.55%) Clean Code
9 4 (7.55%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (7.55%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Java
1 22 (41.51%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 8 (15.09%) C++
4 4 (7.55%) C#
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) C
5 1 (1.89%) Perl
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Degree
2 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Bloomberg
2 6 (11.32%) FFastFill
2 6 (11.32%) Refinitiv
3 4 (7.55%) ION Trading
4 2 (3.77%) OpenLink
4 2 (3.77%) Trayport
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.89%) Murex
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Progress
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Solace
5 1 (1.89%) Sybase
5 1 (1.89%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.89%) Vertica