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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 193 244
Rank change year-on-year -236 +51 -29
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 332 787 1,251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 1.77% 1.15%
As % of the General category 0.75% 2.42% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 229 646 1,099
10th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £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 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -17.65% +30.77%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 44,115 32,481 61,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.18% 72.87% 57.13%
Number of salaries quoted 27,080 15,851 40,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,994 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,565 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +5.84% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Front Office job vacancy trend in the UK

Front Office
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front Office

Front Office
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 11 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 17 June 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
England -224 325 £100,000 -13.04% 98
London -120 299 £100,000 -13.04% 91
Work from Home -219 80 £135,000 +17.39% 40
UK excluding London -83 30 £77,500 +10.71% 36
East of England +3 18 £80,000 +6.21% 3
Scotland -6 4 - - 2
Midlands -17 4 £75,000 -11.76% 1
East Midlands -26 4 £75,000 -11.76%
North West -7 2 £60,000 -20.00% 2
South East -26 2 £97,500 +143.75% 18
North of England -41 2 £60,000 -20.00% 3

Front Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (0.60%) Confluence
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.30%) Apache
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (20.18%) AWS
2 36 (10.84%) Azure
3 28 (8.43%) GCP
4 8 (2.41%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (0.90%) SaaS
7 3 (0.90%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.60%) Serverless
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.30%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.30%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.30%) GitHub
9 1 (0.30%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.30%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) DNS
2 4 (1.20%) DHCP
2 4 (1.20%) VLAN
3 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.30%) Telnet
4 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.12%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.71%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.81%) KDB
6 5 (1.51%) Power BI
7 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.60%) MySQL
9 1 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau
9 1 (0.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (2.71%) JIRA
2 8 (2.41%) Gradle
3 5 (1.51%) Git
4 3 (0.90%) GitLab
4 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) CocoaPods
5 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.30%) fastlane
5 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 191 (57.53%) Finance
2 45 (13.55%) Banking
3 36 (10.84%) Social Skills
4 24 (7.23%) Law
5 22 (6.63%) Financial Institution
6 19 (5.72%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.71%) Legal
9 9 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.51%) Back Office
12 4 (1.20%) Marketing
12 4 (1.20%) Military
13 3 (0.90%) Advertising
14 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Retail
15 1 (0.30%) Japanese Language
15 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (53.31%) Developer
2 70 (21.08%) Senior
3 60 (18.07%) Software Engineer
4 59 (17.77%) Lead
5 45 (13.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 41 (12.35%) Lead Developer
6 41 (12.35%) Python Developer
7 35 (10.54%) Java Developer
8 34 (10.24%) Senior Developer
9 32 (9.64%) Lead Software Developer
9 32 (9.64%) Lead Software Engineer
10 31 (9.34%) React Developer
11 24 (7.23%) Quantitative Developer
12 23 (6.93%) Business Development Director
12 23 (6.93%) Development Director
13 22 (6.63%) Java Engineer
14 21 (6.33%) Front Office Developer
15 20 (6.02%) C++ Developer
16 19 (5.72%) Senior C++ Developer
16 19 (5.72%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (23.80%) React
2 52 (15.66%) Node.js
3 50 (15.06%) Redux
4 43 (12.95%) Kafka
5 34 (10.24%) FIX Protocol
5 34 (10.24%) GraphQL
6 19 (5.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 15 (4.52%) WebSockets
8 12 (3.61%) Spring
8 12 (3.61%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.01%) .NET
9 10 (3.01%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.71%) REST
10 9 (2.71%) Vue
11 8 (2.41%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.51%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.51%) OpenFin
13 4 (1.20%) Highcharts JS
13 4 (1.20%) XML
14 3 (0.90%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 110 (33.13%) Fixed Income
2 66 (19.88%) Equities
3 58 (17.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 44 (13.25%) Hedge funds
5 35 (10.54%) Derivative
6 26 (7.83%) Data Structures
7 24 (7.23%) Management Information System
8 22 (6.63%) Algorithms
9 11 (3.31%) Cloud Native
9 11 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.20%) CMDB
11 4 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.90%) EPoS
12 3 (0.90%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.65%) Linux
2 13 (3.92%) Windows
3 6 (1.81%) Unix
4 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.81%) Software Engineering
2 83 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 77 (23.19%) Agile
4 65 (19.58%) Order Management
5 57 (17.17%) Investment Management
6 48 (14.46%) Portfolio Management
7 45 (13.55%) Electronic Trading
8 38 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (9.94%) Fintech
9 33 (9.94%) Test Automation
10 32 (9.64%) Asset Management
10 32 (9.64%) Computer Science
10 32 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 31 (9.34%) OO
12 30 (9.04%) AI
13 29 (8.73%) CI/CD
13 29 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (7.83%) Analytics
16 25 (7.53%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 124 (37.35%) Python
2 103 (31.02%) Java
3 63 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 61 (18.37%) TypeScript
5 55 (16.57%) SQL
6 47 (14.16%) C#
7 32 (9.64%) Go
8 30 (9.04%) C++
9 14 (4.22%) VBA
10 9 (2.71%) Rust
11 7 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.90%) Tcl
14 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.30%) Bash
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) R
14 1 (0.30%) VC++
Qualifications
1 44 (13.25%) Degree
2 29 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.20%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.90%) CFA
5 2 (0.60%) ACCA
5 2 (0.60%) CIMA
6 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.31%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.11%) MiFID
3 4 (1.20%) EMIR
3 4 (1.20%) QA
4 2 (0.60%) ITGC
5 1 (0.30%) Basel II
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.20%) SCCM
3 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.30%) Ansible
4 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (4.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.01%) Solace
3 8 (2.41%) Bloomberg
4 7 (2.11%) Databricks
4 7 (2.11%) Oracle
4 7 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.20%) IBM
5 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.90%) Charles River
6 3 (0.90%) Meraki
6 3 (0.90%) Sybase
6 3 (0.90%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.60%) eFront
7 2 (0.60%) GoldenSource
7 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.60%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.60%) Temenos
8 1 (0.30%) Google
8 1 (0.30%) Reuters
8 1 (0.30%) VMware