Front Office Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Front Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 518 612
Rank change year-on-year -94 +94 -41
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 45 31 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.090% 0.092%
As % of the General category 0.12% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 30 17 5
10th Percentile £70,000 - £56,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £36,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -17.65% +38.78%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £90,500 £95,250
UK median annual salary £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +6.98%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 36,368 22,759 29,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.71% 65.89% 53.10%
Number of salaries quoted 22,478 11,100 14,362
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.66%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Front Office job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Front Office
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Front Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Front Office

Front Office
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Front Office in the UK excluding London

Front Office
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
East of England -7 24 £80,000 +6.21% 2
North of England -49 9 £80,000 +6.67% 5
North West -8 7 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Scotland -3 5 £95,000 +8.57% 2
East Midlands -30 4 £75,000 -11.76%
Midlands -53 4 £75,000 -11.76% 4
South East -48 2 £97,500 +143.75% 22
North East -59 2 £102,500 +13.89% 1
South West - 1 - - 10
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (4.44%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Organisational Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Military
6 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Law
6 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Service Manager
2 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Hardware Technician
3 7 (15.56%) Support Technician
4 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Principal Java Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Databricks Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.44%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.44%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.44%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Messaging Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Product Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.22%) Pandas
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (15.56%) Driving Licence
2 7 (15.56%) EPoS
3 4 (8.89%) CMDB
3 4 (8.89%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.44%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (35.56%) Software Licensing
2 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 9 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (17.78%) Time Management
5 7 (15.56%) Asset Management
5 7 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (15.56%) Change Management
5 7 (15.56%) IT Asset Management
5 7 (15.56%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) Service Catalogue
5 7 (15.56%) SIAM
6 5 (11.11%) Service Management
6 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.11%) User Experience
7 4 (8.89%) Business Continuity
7 4 (8.89%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.89%) Investment Management
7 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
4 1 (2.22%) Go
4 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Grafana
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.44%) Databricks
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.22%) Okta
2 1 (2.22%) Percona