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 have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 211 260 309
Rank change year-on-year +49 +49 -124
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 876 1,711 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.39% 1.19%
As % of the General category 2.52% 2.03% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 802 1,503 1,331
10th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £142,500 £127,500 £123,125
90th Percentile £153,750 £142,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% +38.89%

All General Skills
UK

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,825 84,481 76,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.73% 68.77% 59.91%
Number of salaries quoted 24,374 48,187 48,005
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% +3.68%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +52 870 £112,500 +9.76% 289
London +33 844 £112,500 +9.76% 253
Work from Home +100 399 £105,000 +16.12% 95
UK excluding London +237 31 £60,000 -7.69% 44
South East +141 10 £65,000 +110.53% 23
North of England +146 6 - - 11
Yorkshire - 6 - - 6
Midlands +134 5 £52,500 +5.00% 2
West Midlands +129 5 £52,500 +5.00% 1
East of England +122 3 - - 1
Scotland +29 3 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £67,500 - 3
South West +76 1 - - 2

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
1 104 (11.87%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (11.76%) Apache
3 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.11%) Confluence
4 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) ION Anvil
2 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.23%) EuroRunner
3 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.23%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
3 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 369 (42.12%) AWS
2 289 (32.99%) GCP
3 203 (23.17%) Azure
4 77 (8.79%) OpenShift
5 54 (6.16%) dbt
6 37 (4.22%) GitHub
7 33 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (1.94%) SaaS
9 17 (1.94%) Serverless
10 16 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.37%) PaaS
13 5 (0.57%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (0.46%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.80%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) ATM
4 1 (0.11%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.11%) DHCP
4 1 (0.11%) DMZ
4 1 (0.11%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) Network Security
4 1 (0.11%) OSPF
4 1 (0.11%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) WebEx
4 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (10.05%) Apache Ignite
2 67 (7.65%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (6.16%) Apache Arrow
3 54 (6.16%) Dremio
4 44 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.26%) KDB
9 7 (0.80%) Kdb+
10 6 (0.68%) Big Data
10 6 (0.68%) MySQL
11 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.34%) Hazelcast
13 3 (0.34%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.34%) Power BI
14 2 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (5.25%) Cypress.io
2 37 (4.22%) Artifactory
3 33 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 25 (2.85%) Bitbucket
5 22 (2.51%) GitLab
6 8 (0.91%) Git
7 6 (0.68%) Maven
8 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.23%) JIRA
10 2 (0.23%) Moq
10 2 (0.23%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) JUnit
11 1 (0.11%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 653 (74.54%) Finance
2 247 (28.20%) Banking
3 145 (16.55%) Investment Banking
4 141 (16.10%) Social Skills
5 67 (7.65%) Back Office
6 48 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 13 (1.48%) Legal
9 7 (0.80%) Retail
10 6 (0.68%) Billing
11 4 (0.46%) Law
11 4 (0.46%) Marketing
12 3 (0.34%) International Banking
12 3 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
12 3 (0.34%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.23%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 515 (58.79%) Developer
2 267 (30.48%) Software Engineer
3 246 (28.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 165 (18.84%) Python Developer
5 129 (14.73%) Java Developer
6 115 (13.13%) AWS Engineer
7 110 (12.56%) Python Engineer
8 109 (12.44%) Analyst
9 102 (11.64%) React Developer
10 99 (11.30%) .NET Developer
11 92 (10.50%) Python Software Engineer
12 81 (9.25%) Full Stack Developer
13 80 (9.13%) .NET Software Developer
13 80 (9.13%) Senior
14 79 (9.02%) .NET Software Engineer
14 79 (9.02%) Full Stack Engineer
14 79 (9.02%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 74 (8.45%) AWS Developer
16 70 (7.99%) Finance Manager
17 65 (7.42%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (24.89%) React
2 160 (18.26%) Redux
3 139 (15.87%) .NET
4 96 (10.96%) gRPC
5 94 (10.73%) AngularJS
6 84 (9.59%) ASP.NET
7 83 (9.47%) ASP.NET Core
8 82 (9.36%) Vue
9 78 (8.90%) Protocol Buffers
10 74 (8.45%) Node.js
11 66 (7.53%) Pandas
12 57 (6.51%) Material-UI
13 56 (6.39%) NumPy
14 52 (5.94%) SciPy
15 42 (4.79%) FIX Protocol
16 38 (4.34%) Kafka
17 32 (3.65%) Qt
18 30 (3.42%) OpenFin
19 24 (2.74%) GraphQL
20 23 (2.63%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 297 (33.90%) Fixed Income
2 255 (29.11%) Derivative
3 217 (24.77%) Equities
4 198 (22.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 179 (20.43%) Hedge funds
6 89 (10.16%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (4.57%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.74%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.51%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 18 (2.05%) Reference Data
11 16 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.60%) Market Risk
13 13 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.37%) Tandem
15 10 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
16 8 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 7 (0.80%) Credit Risk
18 6 (0.68%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.65%) Linux
2 29 (3.31%) Windows
3 24 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 13 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.03%) Unix
6 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (48.52%) Agile
2 390 (44.52%) Software Engineering
3 371 (42.35%) Asset Management
4 246 (28.08%) Investment Management
5 167 (19.06%) DevOps
6 150 (17.12%) Analytics
7 142 (16.21%) Full Stack Development
8 122 (13.93%) Fintech
9 95 (10.84%) TDD
10 77 (8.79%) Electronic Trading
11 62 (7.08%) CI/CD
12 60 (6.85%) Roadmaps
13 59 (6.74%) Order Management
14 57 (6.51%) Computer Science
15 50 (5.71%) Data Architecture
16 48 (5.48%) Low Latency
16 48 (5.48%) Microservices
16 48 (5.48%) Multithreading
17 47 (5.37%) Mentoring
18 43 (4.91%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 372 (42.47%) Python
2 274 (31.28%) Java
3 258 (29.45%) TypeScript
4 222 (25.34%) JavaScript
5 175 (19.98%) C#
6 153 (17.47%) SQL
7 116 (13.24%) C++
8 51 (5.82%) Go
9 27 (3.08%) Kotlin
10 25 (2.85%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.85%) Ruby
11 18 (2.05%) Scala
12 11 (1.26%) Bash
13 10 (1.14%) R
14 7 (0.80%) Korn
14 7 (0.80%) VBA
15 5 (0.57%) C
16 3 (0.34%) Perl
17 2 (0.23%) Clojure
17 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (13.70%) Degree
2 28 (3.20%) Master's Degree
3 25 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (1.94%) PhD
5 7 (0.80%) CISSP
6 6 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (0.57%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 3 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.13%) QA
2 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.57%) MiFID
3 4 (0.46%) PMO
4 2 (0.23%) EMIR
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.11%) SOC 1
System Software
1 87 (9.93%) Docker
2 8 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 94 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 77 (8.79%) Terraform
3 38 (4.34%) Rancher
4 33 (3.77%) Argo
5 26 (2.97%) Ansible
6 8 (0.91%) SCCM
7 2 (0.23%) Grafana
7 2 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (5.48%) Google
2 34 (3.88%) Bloomberg
3 27 (3.08%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.74%) Finsemble
5 14 (1.60%) MarketAxess
5 14 (1.60%) Tradeweb
6 13 (1.48%) Splunk
7 9 (1.03%) Charles River
7 9 (1.03%) Oracle
8 7 (0.80%) ArcSight
8 7 (0.80%) Carbon Black
8 7 (0.80%) CheckPoint
8 7 (0.80%) CyberArk
8 7 (0.80%) McAfee
8 7 (0.80%) Qualys
9 6 (0.68%) ION Trading
9 6 (0.68%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.57%) Citrix
10 5 (0.57%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.46%) Calypso