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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 248 364
Rank change year-on-year -21 +116 -137
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,066 1,549 1,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.48% 1.05%
As % of the General category 1.82% 2.15% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 914 1,368 1,462
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £107,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £157,500 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +6.56% +69.44%

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 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 14 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 27 April 2024. 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 -6 1,032 £113,750 +5.81% 237
London +17 977 £115,000 +4.55% 232
Work from Home -13 544 £115,000 +9.52% 74
UK excluding London +12 81 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Scotland -56 24 £75,000 +11.11% 2
South West - 24 - - 2
North of England +68 21 £35,000 -64.10% 1
Yorkshire - 15 - -
North West +14 6 £35,000 -64.10% 1
South East +7 6 £85,000 -12.82% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 -
East of England +4 2 £100,000 - 1
West Midlands +9 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -12 1 £32,000 -39.05% 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
1 272 (25.52%) Apache Airflow
2 252 (23.64%) Apache
3 3 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.19%) Confluence
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.094%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.094%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (1.88%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.94%) thinkFolio
3 7 (0.66%) ION Anvil
4 6 (0.56%) ION MarketView
5 4 (0.38%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.19%) Endur
6 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.094%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.094%) Eikon
7 1 (0.094%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 547 (51.31%) AWS
2 365 (34.24%) GCP
3 273 (25.61%) Azure
4 179 (16.79%) dbt
5 133 (12.48%) Snowflake
6 45 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (4.22%) Serverless
7 43 (4.03%) Amazon S3
8 40 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (3.38%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.66%) PaaS
12 5 (0.47%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.47%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.47%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.38%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 2 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.38%) FTP
2 4 (0.38%) Internet
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
4 1 (0.094%) DHCP
4 1 (0.094%) DNS
4 1 (0.094%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (23.45%) Apache Ignite
2 182 (17.07%) Amazon Athena
3 179 (16.79%) Apache Arrow
3 179 (16.79%) Dremio
4 132 (12.38%) Data Lake
5 78 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.50%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.41%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.13%) MySQL
11 11 (1.03%) KDB
11 11 (1.03%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.75%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.66%) Kdb+
14 5 (0.47%) Power BI
15 2 (0.19%) Data Mart
16 1 (0.094%) Flink
16 1 (0.094%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 44 (4.13%) Jenkins
2 41 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 36 (3.38%) Artifactory
4 12 (1.13%) Git
5 11 (1.03%) JIRA
6 10 (0.94%) Maven
7 8 (0.75%) GitLab
8 1 (0.094%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.094%) Gradle
8 1 (0.094%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.094%) Moq
8 1 (0.094%) NUnit
8 1 (0.094%) SpecFlow
General
1 840 (78.80%) Finance
2 483 (45.31%) Banking
3 297 (27.86%) Investment Banking
4 129 (12.10%) Social Skills
5 119 (11.16%) Back Office
6 59 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (4.97%) Law
8 39 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.25%) Marketing
10 21 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 19 (1.78%) Legal
12 8 (0.75%) Billing
13 7 (0.66%) Retail
14 4 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.38%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.19%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.19%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.094%) Automotive
16 1 (0.094%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.094%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 539 (50.56%) Developer
2 347 (32.55%) Software Engineer
3 271 (25.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 201 (18.86%) Senior
5 199 (18.67%) Python Developer
6 174 (16.32%) Analyst
7 169 (15.85%) Python Engineer
8 166 (15.57%) Python Software Engineer
9 117 (10.98%) Finance Manager
10 114 (10.69%) Java Developer
10 114 (10.69%) React Developer
11 108 (10.13%) .NET Developer
12 107 (10.04%) Lead
13 101 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
14 95 (8.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 94 (8.82%) Senior Developer
16 87 (8.16%) .NET Software Developer
16 87 (8.16%) .NET Software Engineer
17 75 (7.04%) Front Office Developer
18 72 (6.75%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (26.45%) React
2 270 (25.33%) gRPC
2 270 (25.33%) Protocol Buffers
3 208 (19.51%) Redux
4 192 (18.01%) Pandas
5 175 (16.42%) NumPy
6 168 (15.76%) SciPy
7 144 (13.51%) .NET
8 128 (12.01%) AngularJS
9 112 (10.51%) Vue
10 103 (9.66%) Material-UI
11 70 (6.57%) .NET Core
12 53 (4.97%) ASP.NET
13 52 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
14 40 (3.75%) Node.js
15 39 (3.66%) FIX Protocol
16 36 (3.38%) J2EE
17 30 (2.81%) Spring
18 26 (2.44%) Kafka
19 23 (2.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 557 (52.25%) Fixed Income
2 508 (47.65%) Hedge funds
3 444 (41.65%) Derivative
4 432 (40.53%) Equities
5 379 (35.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (4.78%) Product Ownership
7 48 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (3.38%) Tandem
9 28 (2.63%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.50%) Credit Risk
12 15 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.13%) Pricing Data
14 11 (1.03%) Credit Derivative
15 10 (0.94%) Market Risk
16 9 (0.84%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.84%) Management Information System
17 8 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
18 7 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.16%) Linux
2 27 (2.53%) Windows
3 20 (1.88%) Unix
4 8 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.094%) CentOS
6 1 (0.094%) Debian
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.094%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.094%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (57.88%) Agile
2 595 (55.82%) Asset Management
3 545 (51.13%) Software Engineering
4 504 (47.28%) Investment Management
5 179 (16.79%) Full Stack Development
6 132 (12.38%) Analytics
7 131 (12.29%) Fintech
8 117 (10.98%) Machine Learning
9 116 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
10 111 (10.41%) DevOps
11 103 (9.66%) Electronic Trading
12 92 (8.63%) TDD
13 86 (8.07%) Automated Trading
14 82 (7.69%) Mentoring
15 78 (7.32%) Line Management
15 78 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
16 70 (6.57%) Computer Science
17 69 (6.47%) Low Latency
18 64 (6.00%) Decision-Making
18 64 (6.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 665 (62.38%) Python
2 399 (37.43%) TypeScript
3 369 (34.62%) Java
4 366 (34.33%) JavaScript
5 284 (26.64%) SQL
6 213 (19.98%) C#
7 51 (4.78%) C++
8 43 (4.03%) R
9 36 (3.38%) Go
10 24 (2.25%) Kotlin
11 18 (1.69%) Scala
12 15 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.41%) Ruby
13 7 (0.66%) Perl
13 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) VBA
15 5 (0.47%) C
15 5 (0.47%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) Clojure
16 3 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 97 (9.10%) Degree
2 31 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 6 (0.56%) PhD
5 5 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.19%) ACCA
6 2 (0.19%) CCIE
6 2 (0.19%) CIMA
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.094%) CFA
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.97%) QA
3 7 (0.66%) SOC 1
4 5 (0.47%) MiFID
5 4 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.38%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) EMIR
System Software
1 52 (4.88%) Docker
2 3 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.38%) Terraform
3 6 (0.56%) Ansible
4 3 (0.28%) Control-M
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.094%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.094%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.094%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.094%) SCCM
6 1 (0.094%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.094%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.094%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (6.75%) Bloomberg
2 69 (6.47%) Google
3 24 (2.25%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.88%) Oracle
5 13 (1.22%) BISAM
6 12 (1.13%) Murex
7 11 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.94%) Charles River
8 10 (0.94%) IBM
9 8 (0.75%) Algorithmics
10 6 (0.56%) FFastFill
10 6 (0.56%) Microsoft
10 6 (0.56%) Refinitiv
11 5 (0.47%) Reuters
11 5 (0.47%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.47%) Trayport
11 5 (0.47%) Vertica
12 3 (0.28%) Databricks
12 3 (0.28%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.28%) SAP