Front Office Jobs

Front Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 266 245
Rank change year-on-year +82 -21 +116
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 861 1,086 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.10% 1.49%
As % of the General category 2.45% 1.85% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 765 928 1,369
10th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £112,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £157,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,160 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.21% +15.38% +6.56%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front Office.

Salary trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +68 847 £115,000 - 306
London +22 820 £115,000 - 282
Work from Home +122 560 £115,000 - 101
UK excluding London +160 38 £75,160 +0.21% 50
Scotland +115 11 £87,500 +16.67% 9
North of England +73 10 £75,000 +114.29% 12
Midlands +68 8 £85,000 +165.63% 1
East Midlands - 8 £85,000 -
North West +34 7 £75,000 +114.29% 8
South East +113 6 - - 4
East of England +59 3 £75,319 -24.68% 4
North East - 2 £87,500 - 3
Yorkshire +56 1 - - 1

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 263 (30.55%) Apache Airflow
2 210 (24.39%) Apache
3 72 (8.36%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.70%) Confluence
5 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.35%) GemFire
7 2 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) Jetty
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) MTS
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 52 (6.04%) Aladdin
2 28 (3.25%) thinkFolio
3 4 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.23%) Eikon
4 2 (0.23%) RMDS
5 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.12%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 393 (45.64%) AWS
2 258 (29.97%) dbt
3 172 (19.98%) GCP
4 141 (16.38%) Amazon ECS
5 121 (14.05%) Serverless
6 112 (13.01%) AWS Lambda
7 109 (12.66%) Snowflake
8 84 (9.76%) OpenShift
9 82 (9.52%) Azure
10 70 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
11 57 (6.62%) Dagster
12 42 (4.88%) Amazon S3
13 36 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.39%) GitHub
16 8 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
17 6 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
18 5 (0.58%) Azure AI
18 5 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.05%) Firewall
2 8 (0.93%) Network Security
3 6 (0.70%) VPN
4 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) BGP
5 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) MPLS
5 2 (0.23%) VPLS
6 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.12%) FTP
6 1 (0.12%) SSH
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (29.97%) Amazon Athena
1 258 (29.97%) Apache Iceberg
1 258 (29.97%) Dremio
2 233 (27.06%) Apache Arrow
3 196 (22.76%) Data Lake
4 174 (20.21%) Apache Ignite
5 81 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.97%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.70%) Tableau
12 5 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.46%) Big Data
13 4 (0.46%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.46%) KDB
13 4 (0.46%) Kdb+
13 4 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (9.64%) Artifactory
2 22 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.39%) Git
4 10 (1.16%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.05%) GitLab
6 8 (0.93%) Gradle
6 8 (0.93%) JIRA
7 6 (0.70%) JUnit
8 5 (0.58%) Maven
8 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.35%) MSTest
10 3 (0.35%) NUnit
10 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.35%) webpack
11 2 (0.23%) Babel
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 732 (85.02%) Finance
2 270 (31.36%) Banking
3 145 (16.84%) Investment Banking
4 72 (8.36%) Social Skills
5 41 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (1.97%) Back Office
7 15 (1.74%) Legal
8 9 (1.05%) Agriculture
8 9 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.05%) Law
9 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.35%) Retail
11 2 (0.23%) Advertising
11 2 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.23%) Marketing
12 1 (0.12%) Billing
12 1 (0.12%) French Language
12 1 (0.12%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 271 (31.48%) AWS Engineer
2 261 (30.31%) Developer
3 245 (28.46%) Python Engineer
4 227 (26.36%) Software Engineer
5 162 (18.82%) AWS Software Engineer
6 138 (16.03%) Analyst
6 138 (16.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 130 (15.10%) Senior
8 117 (13.59%) Python Software Engineer
9 114 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 109 (12.66%) AWS DevOps
10 109 (12.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 102 (11.85%) Data Engineer
12 98 (11.38%) Business Analyst
13 96 (11.15%) Java Engineer
14 95 (11.03%) AWS Developer
15 94 (10.92%) Python Developer
16 91 (10.57%) Java Software Engineer
17 69 (8.01%) Business Manager
18 65 (7.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (18.58%) PySpark
2 158 (18.35%) Pandas
3 157 (18.23%) NumPy
4 153 (17.77%) SciPy
5 132 (15.33%) React
6 100 (11.61%) gRPC
6 100 (11.61%) Protocol Buffers
7 96 (11.15%) Node.js
8 94 (10.92%) AngularJS
9 93 (10.80%) Kafka
10 81 (9.41%) J2EE
11 74 (8.59%) Redux
12 69 (8.01%) Vue
13 35 (4.07%) .NET
14 15 (1.74%) HTML
14 15 (1.74%) Spring
15 14 (1.63%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 13 (1.51%) CSS
16 13 (1.51%) REST
17 12 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 452 (52.50%) Fixed Income
2 348 (40.42%) Hedge funds
3 342 (39.72%) Equities
4 340 (39.49%) Derivative
5 323 (37.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 92 (10.69%) Product Ownership
7 50 (5.81%) Onboarding
8 40 (4.65%) Pricing Data
9 31 (3.60%) Algorithms
10 27 (3.14%) Data Structures
11 26 (3.02%) Management Information System
12 21 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.97%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.16%) Tandem
17 9 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
18 8 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
18 8 (0.93%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.50%) Linux
2 28 (3.25%) Apple iOS
3 18 (2.09%) Windows
4 16 (1.86%) Unix
5 8 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (69.92%) Agile
2 432 (50.17%) Asset Management
3 392 (45.53%) Software Engineering
4 374 (43.44%) Investment Management
5 161 (18.70%) Roadmaps
6 157 (18.23%) CI/CD
6 157 (18.23%) Migration
7 150 (17.42%) Fintech
8 143 (16.61%) DevOps
9 122 (14.17%) Regulatory Compliance
10 119 (13.82%) Data Governance
11 118 (13.70%) Analytics
12 115 (13.36%) Data Management
13 111 (12.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 101 (11.73%) Data Engineering
14 101 (11.73%) Portfolio Management
15 83 (9.64%) Order Management
16 81 (9.41%) Open Source
17 73 (8.48%) Risk Management
18 69 (8.01%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 535 (62.14%) Python
2 312 (36.24%) Java
3 229 (26.60%) JavaScript
4 201 (23.34%) TypeScript
5 177 (20.56%) SQL
6 84 (9.76%) Go
7 50 (5.81%) C#
8 43 (4.99%) C++
9 13 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.46%) Bash
10 4 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.35%) Scala
12 2 (0.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) Groovy
12 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.23%) Rust
13 1 (0.12%) C
13 1 (0.12%) Haskell
13 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (13.24%) Degree
2 26 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.51%) Master's Degree
4 10 (1.16%) PhD
5 2 (0.23%) CCNA
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.23%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.23%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.12%) ACCA
6 1 (0.12%) CFA
6 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.20%) MiFID
2 13 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.81%) GDPR
4 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.58%) NIST
5 4 (0.46%) EMIR
5 4 (0.46%) QA
6 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.12%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.12%) ITGC
7 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 127 (14.75%) Docker
2 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (16.61%) Kubernetes
2 121 (14.05%) Terraform
3 8 (0.93%) Ansible
4 5 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (0.58%) Nagios
5 4 (0.46%) SCCM
6 2 (0.23%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.23%) Packer
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (5.69%) BISAM
2 34 (3.95%) Charles River
3 28 (3.25%) Calypso
3 28 (3.25%) SimCorp
4 18 (2.09%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.28%) Oracle
6 10 (1.16%) Solace
7 9 (1.05%) Bloomberg
7 9 (1.05%) Trayport
8 8 (0.93%) Databricks
9 7 (0.81%) Murex
10 6 (0.70%) Reuters
11 5 (0.58%) Tanium
12 4 (0.46%) Remedy
12 4 (0.46%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.35%) IBM
13 3 (0.35%) Sophis
13 3 (0.35%) TIBCO
14 2 (0.23%) Nokia
14 2 (0.23%) Salesforce