Front Office Job Trends in England

Front Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 188 191
Rank change year-on-year -226 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 339 771 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 1.78% 1.44%
As % of the General category 0.83% 2.56% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 242 639 1,162
10th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
25th Percentile £85,625 £90,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £150,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +6.98%

All General Skills
England

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 general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 40,893 30,068 51,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 47.06% 69.58% 57.84%
Number of salaries quoted 26,099 15,524 34,896
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front Office relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Front Office job vacancy trend in England

Front Office
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Front Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Front Office

Front Office
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Front Office in England

Front Office
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the England region over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -116 311 £100,000 -13.04% 126
East of England +6 18 £80,000 +6.21% 2
East Midlands -19 4 £75,000 -11.76% 1
Midlands -27 4 £75,000 -11.76% 1
North of England -45 4 £60,000 -20.00% 2
North West -6 3 £60,000 -20.00%
South East -51 2 £97,500 +143.75% 11
North East -47 1 £105,000 +18.31% 2
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.59%) Apache
2 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.18%) Endur
3 2 (0.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 70 (20.65%) AWS
2 38 (11.21%) Azure
3 29 (8.55%) GCP
4 8 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.36%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.47%) Copilot Studio
5 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (0.88%) SaaS
6 3 (0.88%) Serverless
6 3 (0.88%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.59%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.59%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.29%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.29%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.29%) GitHub
8 1 (0.29%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) DNS
2 4 (1.18%) DHCP
2 4 (1.18%) VLAN
3 1 (0.29%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) VoIP
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.95%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.36%) KDB
6 5 (1.47%) Power BI
7 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.59%) MySQL
9 1 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Redis
9 1 (0.29%) Tableau
9 1 (0.29%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 10 (2.95%) JIRA
2 7 (2.06%) Gradle
3 6 (1.77%) Git
4 3 (0.88%) GitLab
4 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) CocoaPods
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) fastlane
5 1 (0.29%) MSI
5 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 197 (58.11%) Finance
2 54 (15.93%) Banking
3 46 (13.57%) Social Skills
4 29 (8.55%) Investment Banking
5 24 (7.08%) Law
6 22 (6.49%) Financial Institution
7 19 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.65%) Back Office
9 9 (2.65%) Legal
9 9 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.18%) Advertising
11 4 (1.18%) Military
12 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Marketing
14 1 (0.29%) Automotive
14 1 (0.29%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (50.44%) Developer
2 68 (20.06%) Senior
3 63 (18.58%) Lead
4 60 (17.70%) Software Engineer
5 45 (13.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 40 (11.80%) Python Developer
7 39 (11.50%) Lead Developer
8 35 (10.32%) Java Developer
9 33 (9.73%) Senior Developer
10 32 (9.44%) Lead Software Developer
10 32 (9.44%) Lead Software Engineer
11 29 (8.55%) React Developer
12 24 (7.08%) Java Engineer
13 23 (6.78%) Business Development Director
13 23 (6.78%) Development Director
14 22 (6.49%) Quantitative Developer
15 21 (6.19%) Analyst
16 20 (5.90%) Front Office Developer
17 18 (5.31%) C++ Developer
18 17 (5.01%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.71%) React
2 54 (15.93%) Node.js
3 50 (14.75%) Redux
4 43 (12.68%) Kafka
5 36 (10.62%) FIX Protocol
6 34 (10.03%) GraphQL
7 17 (5.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 13 (3.83%) Spring
8 13 (3.83%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.83%) WebSockets
9 11 (3.24%) .NET
9 11 (3.24%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.65%) REST
10 9 (2.65%) Vue
11 8 (2.36%) .NET Core
11 8 (2.36%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.47%) Django
12 5 (1.47%) Flask
13 4 (1.18%) Pandas
13 4 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (32.74%) Fixed Income
2 66 (19.47%) Equities
3 56 (16.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (13.27%) Hedge funds
5 36 (10.62%) Derivative
6 23 (6.78%) Data Structures
7 22 (6.49%) Management Information System
8 19 (5.60%) Algorithms
9 13 (3.83%) Cloud Native
10 12 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.06%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.18%) CMDB
13 4 (1.18%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.18%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.88%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 47 (13.86%) Linux
2 13 (3.83%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Unix
4 4 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.25%) Software Engineering
2 79 (23.30%) Agile
3 76 (22.42%) Low Latency
4 61 (17.99%) Order Management
5 57 (16.81%) Investment Management
6 48 (14.16%) Portfolio Management
7 40 (11.80%) Electronic Trading
8 39 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (9.73%) Asset Management
12 32 (9.44%) CI/CD
12 32 (9.44%) Fintech
12 32 (9.44%) Mentoring
12 32 (9.44%) Test Automation
13 31 (9.14%) Computer Science
14 29 (8.55%) AI
14 29 (8.55%) OO
15 25 (7.37%) Analytics
16 23 (6.78%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 128 (37.76%) Python
2 106 (31.27%) Java
3 62 (18.29%) JavaScript
3 62 (18.29%) TypeScript
4 60 (17.70%) SQL
5 48 (14.16%) C#
6 33 (9.73%) C++
7 32 (9.44%) Go
8 14 (4.13%) VBA
9 9 (2.65%) Rust
10 7 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.47%) Tcl
12 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) R
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) VC++
Qualifications
1 44 (12.98%) Degree
2 27 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.18%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.88%) CFA
5 2 (0.59%) ACCA
5 2 (0.59%) CIMA
6 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.06%) MiFID
3 4 (1.18%) EMIR
3 4 (1.18%) QA
4 2 (0.59%) ITGC
4 2 (0.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) Basel II
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (3.83%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.47%) SCCM
3 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.59%) Terraform
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (4.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.65%) Bloomberg
2 9 (2.65%) Solace
3 8 (2.36%) Databricks
4 7 (2.06%) Oracle
5 6 (1.77%) IBM
5 6 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.47%) FIS
6 5 (1.47%) SunGard
6 5 (1.47%) Sybase
6 5 (1.47%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.59%) Charles River
8 2 (0.59%) Citrix
8 2 (0.59%) eFront
8 2 (0.59%) GoldenSource
8 2 (0.59%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.59%) Reuters
8 2 (0.59%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.59%) Temenos