Front Office Job Trends in London

Front Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -66 +5 +28
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 331 819 828
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.41% 5.25% 4.64%
As % of the General category 3.54% 7.18% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 248 753 763
10th Percentile £73,375 £77,500 £71,250
25th Percentile £87,125 £85,000 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £153,750
England median annual salary £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +9.76%

All General Skills
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 general skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,363 11,412 11,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 68.09% 73.21% 66.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,742 6,117 9,230
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Front Office job vacancy trend in London

Front Office
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front Office

Front Office
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office in London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Front Office in London

Front Office
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the London region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Central London +31 54 £112,500 +18.42% 44
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 60 (18.13%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (9.97%) Apache
3 12 (3.63%) Confluence
4 7 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.60%) Endur
2 2 (0.60%) EuroRunner
2 2 (0.60%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 96 (29.00%) AWS
2 60 (18.13%) dbt
3 36 (10.88%) Snowflake
4 30 (9.06%) GCP
5 23 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (4.83%) Azure
7 14 (4.23%) GitHub
8 13 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.32%) Power Platform
11 10 (3.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (1.21%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.60%) Azure Batch
13 2 (0.60%) Serverless
14 1 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.30%) ClickUp
14 1 (0.30%) Matillion
14 1 (0.30%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.93%) Multicast
2 4 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) FTP
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.82%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (17.82%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (17.82%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (17.82%) Dremio
2 36 (10.88%) Data Lake
3 33 (9.97%) Apache Ignite
4 27 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (8.16%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.53%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.32%) Power BI
8 10 (3.02%) Flink
8 10 (3.02%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.42%) MySQL
9 8 (2.42%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (1.81%) KDB
11 4 (1.21%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.91%) Big Data
12 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (6.04%) JIRA
2 4 (1.21%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) JConsole
3 2 (0.60%) VisualVM
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) GCC
4 1 (0.30%) GDB
4 1 (0.30%) Gradle
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 204 (61.63%) Finance
2 99 (29.91%) Banking
3 69 (20.85%) Social Skills
4 58 (17.52%) Investment Banking
5 43 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.23%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.32%) Back Office
8 10 (3.02%) Marketing
9 4 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Legal
12 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (50.15%) Developer
2 76 (22.96%) Senior
3 69 (20.85%) Python Engineer
4 65 (19.64%) AWS Engineer
5 64 (19.34%) Software Engineer
6 60 (18.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 59 (17.82%) AWS Software Engineer
8 51 (15.41%) Python Developer
9 39 (11.78%) Analyst
10 38 (11.48%) Java Engineer
11 36 (10.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 36 (10.88%) Quantitative Developer
12 34 (10.27%) C++ Developer
13 31 (9.37%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (9.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 31 (9.37%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (8.46%) Senior Developer
15 26 (7.85%) AWS Developer
15 26 (7.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 26 (7.85%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (18.73%) Pandas
2 61 (18.43%) NumPy
3 59 (17.82%) React
3 59 (17.82%) SciPy
4 53 (16.01%) FIX Protocol
5 41 (12.39%) AngularJS
6 38 (11.48%) Kafka
7 36 (10.88%) gRPC
8 33 (9.97%) Protocol Buffers
9 28 (8.46%) Node.js
9 28 (8.46%) Vue
10 22 (6.65%) OpenFin
11 21 (6.34%) Highcharts JS
11 21 (6.34%) WebSockets
12 20 (6.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 18 (5.44%) .NET
14 12 (3.63%) Spring
15 10 (3.02%) GraphQL
16 9 (2.72%) Java Concurrency
17 5 (1.51%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (35.65%) Equities
2 99 (29.91%) Fixed Income
3 90 (27.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 78 (23.56%) Derivative
5 74 (22.36%) Hedge funds
6 49 (14.80%) Algorithms
7 36 (10.88%) Management Information System
7 36 (10.88%) Pricing Data
8 27 (8.16%) Data Structures
9 17 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (3.02%) Cloud Native
10 10 (3.02%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.51%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.01%) Linux
2 23 (6.95%) Windows
3 12 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.51%) Unix
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.60%) Solaris
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (31.42%) Agile
2 91 (27.49%) Low Latency
3 83 (25.08%) Investment Management
4 80 (24.17%) Software Engineering
5 67 (20.24%) Analytics
6 66 (19.94%) Asset Management
7 58 (17.52%) Order Management
8 53 (16.01%) Electronic Trading
9 39 (11.78%) Test Automation
10 38 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (11.18%) Risk Management
12 32 (9.67%) Fintech
13 31 (9.37%) Visualisation
14 30 (9.06%) Computer Science
14 30 (9.06%) DevOps
15 28 (8.46%) Containerisation
15 28 (8.46%) Performance Tuning
16 27 (8.16%) Performance Optimisation
17 26 (7.85%) Multithreading
17 26 (7.85%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 157 (47.43%) Python
2 112 (33.84%) Java
3 90 (27.19%) JavaScript
4 65 (19.64%) SQL
5 60 (18.13%) TypeScript
6 54 (16.31%) C++
7 48 (14.50%) C#
8 10 (3.02%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.81%) VBA
10 5 (1.51%) Go
11 3 (0.91%) C
11 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
12 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.60%) VC++
13 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (10.57%) Degree
2 15 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.02%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.11%) PhD
5 1 (0.30%) CISA
5 1 (0.30%) CISSP
5 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.30%) PMP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
1 6 (1.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.51%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) EMIR
4 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) MiFID
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (3.93%) Docker
2 9 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.02%) Argo
3 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.21%) Terraform
4 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.60%) Control-M
5 2 (0.60%) Grafana
5 2 (0.60%) logstash
6 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (3.63%) Red Hat
2 11 (3.32%) Databricks
3 10 (3.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.42%) Bloomberg
4 8 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.51%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.21%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.21%) Oracle
7 3 (0.91%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.60%) Calypso
8 2 (0.60%) FFastFill
8 2 (0.60%) Splunk
8 2 (0.60%) Trayport
9 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.30%) Ariba
9 1 (0.30%) Concur
9 1 (0.30%) Informatica
9 1 (0.30%) Murex
9 1 (0.30%) SAP
9 1 (0.30%) Solace