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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 218 217
Rank change year-on-year -31 -1 +149
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 762 1,301 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 1.30% 1.68%
As % of the General category 1.87% 2.26% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 615 1,154 1,299
10th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £165,000 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +30.77% +4.42%

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 40,795 57,553 55,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.85% 57.56% 66.22%
Number of salaries quoted 20,127 36,571 34,073
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,199 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -39 738 £115,000 - 292
London -7 711 £115,000 - 285
Work from Home -50 449 £125,000 +8.70% 112
UK excluding London +123 45 £72,500 -14.71% 47
Scotland +91 18 £87,500 +2.94% 2
South East +64 13 £40,000 -52.94% 32
North of England +38 11 £75,000 - 5
North West +10 7 £75,000 - 3
Yorkshire +36 2 £57,500 -
East of England +23 2 £75,319 -24.68%
North East - 2 £88,750 - 2
Midlands +68 1 £85,000 - 2
East Midlands +35 1 £85,000 -

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
1 229 (30.05%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (19.03%) Apache
3 29 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.92%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) GemFire
7 1 (0.13%) MTS
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 52 (6.82%) Aladdin
2 39 (5.12%) thinkFolio
3 3 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.26%) Eikon
4 2 (0.26%) Maximo
4 2 (0.26%) RMDS
5 1 (0.13%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 337 (44.23%) AWS
2 229 (30.05%) dbt
3 153 (20.08%) GCP
4 114 (14.96%) Snowflake
5 77 (10.10%) Azure
6 38 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (4.46%) Serverless
8 30 (3.94%) OpenShift
9 28 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (2.49%) Dagster
11 15 (1.97%) GitHub
12 11 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.79%) Power Platform
15 5 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (0.66%) Figma
15 5 (0.66%) PaaS
16 4 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) Firewall
1 7 (0.92%) Network Security
2 6 (0.79%) VPN
3 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.39%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) BGP
5 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) MPLS
5 1 (0.13%) Multicast
5 1 (0.13%) SSH
5 1 (0.13%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (30.58%) Amazon Athena
2 229 (30.05%) Apache Iceberg
2 229 (30.05%) Dremio
3 221 (29.00%) Apache Arrow
4 114 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (14.44%) Apache Ignite
6 93 (12.20%) Data Lake
7 41 (5.38%) SQL Server
8 13 (1.71%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.31%) KDB
10 10 (1.31%) Kdb+
11 9 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.79%) Power BI
12 6 (0.79%) Tableau
13 4 (0.52%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
14 3 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (3.81%) Git
2 28 (3.67%) Artifactory
3 12 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.57%) JIRA
4 9 (1.18%) GitLab
5 8 (1.05%) Gradle
5 8 (1.05%) Maven
6 7 (0.92%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.66%) JUnit
8 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.39%) MSTest
9 3 (0.39%) NUnit
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 3 (0.39%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.26%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 618 (81.10%) Finance
2 287 (37.66%) Banking
3 163 (21.39%) Investment Banking
4 105 (13.78%) Social Skills
5 61 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (6.17%) Law
7 26 (3.41%) Legal
8 23 (3.02%) Back Office
9 10 (1.31%) Agriculture
9 10 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.66%) Marketing
11 3 (0.39%) Advertising
11 3 (0.39%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.39%) Retail
12 2 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.13%) Billing
13 1 (0.13%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.13%) French Language
Job Titles
1 316 (41.47%) Developer
2 314 (41.21%) Software Engineer
3 221 (29.00%) AWS Engineer
4 214 (28.08%) Python Engineer
5 194 (25.46%) AWS Software Engineer
6 180 (23.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 172 (22.57%) Python Software Engineer
8 158 (20.73%) Senior
9 141 (18.50%) Java Engineer
10 137 (17.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 119 (15.62%) AWS Developer
12 103 (13.52%) Python Developer
13 97 (12.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 93 (12.20%) Analyst
15 82 (10.76%) Senior Java Engineer
15 82 (10.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 80 (10.50%) Java Developer
17 78 (10.24%) Business Analyst
17 78 (10.24%) Lead
18 60 (7.87%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (23.75%) React
2 173 (22.70%) NumPy
2 173 (22.70%) Pandas
3 170 (22.31%) SciPy
4 129 (16.93%) Node.js
5 125 (16.40%) AngularJS
6 105 (13.78%) Vue
7 80 (10.50%) gRPC
7 80 (10.50%) Protocol Buffers
8 78 (10.24%) PySpark
9 67 (8.79%) Redux
10 64 (8.40%) Kafka
11 52 (6.82%) .NET
12 27 (3.54%) GraphQL
12 27 (3.54%) J2EE
13 21 (2.76%) FIX Protocol
13 21 (2.76%) REST
14 15 (1.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 13 (1.71%) Spring
16 12 (1.57%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 367 (48.16%) Fixed Income
2 291 (38.19%) Equities
3 277 (36.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 259 (33.99%) Derivative
5 236 (30.97%) Hedge funds
6 73 (9.58%) Pricing Data
7 51 (6.69%) Onboarding
8 38 (4.99%) Algorithms
9 28 (3.67%) Management Information System
10 27 (3.54%) Data Structures
11 26 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (3.02%) Product Ownership
13 19 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (2.10%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
18 6 (0.79%) BYOD
18 6 (0.79%) Market Risk
18 6 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.96%) Linux
2 22 (2.89%) Unix
3 11 (1.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (60.37%) Agile
2 380 (49.87%) Software Engineering
3 333 (43.70%) Asset Management
4 293 (38.45%) Investment Management
5 139 (18.24%) Fintech
6 137 (17.98%) Order Management
7 123 (16.14%) Risk Management
8 99 (12.99%) Portfolio Management
9 96 (12.60%) CI/CD
10 89 (11.68%) Performance Attribution
10 89 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (10.50%) Analytics
12 66 (8.66%) DevOps
12 66 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
13 64 (8.40%) Low Latency
14 61 (8.01%) Business Analysis
15 59 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
16 54 (7.09%) Electronic Trading
17 52 (6.82%) TDD
18 47 (6.17%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 501 (65.75%) Python
2 311 (40.81%) Java
3 252 (33.07%) TypeScript
4 246 (32.28%) JavaScript
5 203 (26.64%) SQL
6 94 (12.34%) C#
7 56 (7.35%) Go
8 50 (6.56%) C++
9 17 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.52%) Bash
11 4 (0.52%) Rust
11 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.52%) VBA
12 2 (0.26%) Bicep
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) Clojure
13 1 (0.13%) Groovy
13 1 (0.13%) Scala
13 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (11.15%) Degree
2 31 (4.07%) Master's Degree
3 30 (3.94%) PhD
4 23 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.13%) ACCA
6 1 (0.13%) CCNA
6 1 (0.13%) CFA
6 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.84%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.57%) MiFID
3 7 (0.92%) GDPR
4 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.66%) NIST
6 4 (0.52%) EMIR
7 3 (0.39%) QA
8 2 (0.26%) ITGC
9 1 (0.13%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 47 (6.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 39 (5.12%) Terraform
3 7 (0.92%) Ansible
4 5 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (0.66%) Nagios
5 3 (0.39%) Control-M
6 1 (0.13%) Grafana
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (6.04%) BISAM
2 45 (5.91%) Charles River
3 42 (5.51%) Calypso
4 39 (5.12%) SimCorp
5 28 (3.67%) Oracle
6 22 (2.89%) Microsoft
6 22 (2.89%) Trayport
7 14 (1.84%) Bloomberg
8 13 (1.71%) Solace
9 6 (0.79%) Databricks
9 6 (0.79%) Murex
9 6 (0.79%) Reuters
10 5 (0.66%) Tanium
11 4 (0.52%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.52%) Vertica
12 3 (0.39%) FactSet
12 3 (0.39%) IBM
12 3 (0.39%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.26%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.26%) Sybase