Front Office Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 183 213
Rank change year-on-year -161 +30 +36
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 336 862 874
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.61% 1.57%
As % of the General category 0.96% 2.42% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 238 767 791
10th Percentile £70,875 £77,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £137,500 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £148,750 £153,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,750 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.34% +10.42% -9.43%

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 35,175 35,608 34,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.63% 66.54% 61.95%
Number of salaries quoted 19,086 16,201 25,207
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,011
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -6.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 7 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 14 January 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 -164 322 £112,500 +2.27% 153
London -82 317 £112,500 +2.27% 79
Work from Home -143 134 £130,000 +18.18% 75
UK excluding London +39 15 £75,750 +14.34% 96
Scotland +16 12 - - 2
South East +26 2 £75,750 +89.38% 54
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 53 (15.77%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (8.63%) Apache
3 10 (2.98%) Confluence
4 7 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.60%) Endur
2 2 (0.60%) EuroRunner
2 2 (0.60%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 88 (26.19%) AWS
2 53 (15.77%) dbt
3 32 (9.52%) Snowflake
4 27 (8.04%) GCP
5 23 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (5.95%) Azure
7 14 (4.17%) GitHub
8 13 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.27%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.19%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.60%) Azure Batch
14 2 (0.60%) Serverless
15 1 (0.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 1 (0.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.30%) ClickUp
15 1 (0.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.87%) Multicast
2 8 (2.38%) Telnet
3 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) VPN
4 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.48%) Amazon Athena
1 52 (15.48%) Apache Arrow
1 52 (15.48%) Apache Iceberg
1 52 (15.48%) Dremio
2 32 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 29 (8.63%) Apache Ignite
4 26 (7.74%) SQL Server
5 24 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.46%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.27%) Power BI
9 10 (2.98%) Flink
9 10 (2.98%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (1.79%) KDB
11 6 (1.79%) MySQL
12 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.89%) Big Data
13 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (7.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.19%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) JConsole
3 2 (0.60%) VisualVM
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) GCC
4 1 (0.30%) GDB
4 1 (0.30%) Gradle
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 206 (61.31%) Finance
2 96 (28.57%) Banking
3 71 (21.13%) Social Skills
4 55 (16.37%) Investment Banking
5 53 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.87%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.98%) Back Office
8 9 (2.68%) Marketing
9 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 164 (48.81%) Developer
2 75 (22.32%) Senior
3 61 (18.15%) Python Engineer
4 58 (17.26%) AWS Engineer
5 56 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 52 (15.48%) AWS Software Engineer
6 52 (15.48%) Python Software Engineer
7 47 (13.99%) Python Developer
8 43 (12.80%) Analyst
9 34 (10.12%) C++ Developer
9 34 (10.12%) Java Engineer
9 34 (10.12%) Quantitative Developer
10 32 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (8.33%) Senior Developer
12 27 (8.04%) Senior Java Engineer
12 27 (8.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 27 (8.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (7.74%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 26 (7.74%) Lead
14 24 (7.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (18.45%) FIX Protocol
2 56 (16.67%) React
3 55 (16.37%) Pandas
4 54 (16.07%) NumPy
5 52 (15.48%) SciPy
6 38 (11.31%) AngularJS
7 36 (10.71%) Kafka
8 32 (9.52%) gRPC
9 29 (8.63%) Protocol Buffers
10 25 (7.44%) Node.js
10 25 (7.44%) Vue
11 22 (6.55%) OpenFin
12 21 (6.25%) Highcharts JS
12 21 (6.25%) WebSockets
13 20 (5.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 17 (5.06%) .NET
15 12 (3.57%) Spring
16 10 (2.98%) GraphQL
17 9 (2.68%) Java Concurrency
18 5 (1.49%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 116 (34.52%) Equities
2 101 (30.06%) Fixed Income
3 80 (23.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 75 (22.32%) Derivative
5 68 (20.24%) Hedge funds
6 49 (14.58%) Algorithms
7 34 (10.12%) Management Information System
8 32 (9.52%) Pricing Data
9 27 (8.04%) Data Structures
10 17 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (2.98%) Cloud Native
12 10 (2.98%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.98%) Reference Data
13 7 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.49%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.49%) Onboarding
15 4 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
16 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
16 3 (0.89%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.48%) Linux
2 31 (9.23%) Windows
3 12 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.38%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.60%) Solaris
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.06%) Agile
2 90 (26.79%) Investment Management
3 88 (26.19%) Low Latency
4 71 (21.13%) Asset Management
4 71 (21.13%) Software Engineering
5 66 (19.64%) Analytics
5 66 (19.64%) Order Management
6 53 (15.77%) Electronic Trading
7 38 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (11.31%) Test Automation
8 34 (10.12%) DevOps
8 34 (10.12%) Risk Management
9 31 (9.23%) Visualisation
10 29 (8.63%) Computer Science
10 29 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
11 28 (8.33%) Fintech
12 27 (8.04%) Containerisation
12 27 (8.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (7.44%) Dashboard Development
13 25 (7.44%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 148 (44.05%) Python
2 106 (31.55%) Java
3 83 (24.70%) JavaScript
4 72 (21.43%) SQL
5 56 (16.67%) C++
6 53 (15.77%) TypeScript
7 47 (13.99%) C#
8 18 (5.36%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.79%) VBA
10 4 (1.19%) C
10 4 (1.19%) Go
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.60%) VC++
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) Rust
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (10.71%) Degree
2 15 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.27%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.79%) PhD
5 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.60%) PMP
6 1 (0.30%) CISA
6 1 (0.30%) CISSP
6 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.49%) QA
3 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.60%) EMIR
4 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) ITGC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
5 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (3.57%) Docker
2 9 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.98%) Argo
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.19%) Terraform
4 2 (0.60%) logstash
4 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Control-M
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (3.87%) Charles River
2 12 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 11 (3.27%) Databricks
4 10 (2.98%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.98%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.19%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle
8 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.60%) Trayport
9 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.30%) Concur
9 1 (0.30%) FFastFill
9 1 (0.30%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.30%) Okta
9 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.30%) Solace
9 1 (0.30%) Splunk
9 1 (0.30%) Zscaler