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

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 250 361
Rank change year-on-year -29 +111 -128
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,036 1,560 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.46% 1.06%
As % of the General category 1.78% 2.13% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 891 1,370 1,469
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £157,500 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +66.67%

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 58,263 73,377 96,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.94% 68.89% 63.20%
Number of salaries quoted 39,453 39,313 51,241
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 19 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 19 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 -3 1,003 £112,500 +4.65% 234
London +17 952 £115,000 +6.98% 214
Work from Home -15 523 £115,000 +9.52% 63
UK excluding London +15 77 £70,000 +7.69% 6
Scotland -53 24 £75,000 +11.11% 1
North of England +73 21 £35,000 -64.10%
South West - 19 - - 2
Yorkshire - 15 - -
North West +17 6 £35,000 -64.10%
South East -21 6 £85,000 -12.82% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 -
East of England +25 2 £100,000 - 1
West Midlands +18 2 £46,000 -12.38%
Midlands -3 2 £46,000 -12.38%

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
1 247 (23.84%) Apache Airflow
2 225 (21.72%) Apache
3 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.19%) Confluence
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.097%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.097%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.74%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.77%) thinkFolio
3 7 (0.68%) ION Anvil
4 6 (0.58%) ION MarketView
5 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.19%) Endur
6 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.097%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.097%) Eikon
7 1 (0.097%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.097%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 520 (50.19%) AWS
2 361 (34.85%) GCP
3 268 (25.87%) Azure
4 159 (15.35%) dbt
5 107 (10.33%) Snowflake
6 45 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (4.34%) Serverless
7 43 (4.15%) Amazon S3
8 40 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (3.47%) OpenShift
11 9 (0.87%) PaaS
12 5 (0.48%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.48%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.48%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 2 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (0.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.39%) FTP
1 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.29%) Internet
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
4 1 (0.097%) DHCP
4 1 (0.097%) DNS
4 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (21.53%) Apache Ignite
2 162 (15.64%) Amazon Athena
3 159 (15.35%) Apache Arrow
3 159 (15.35%) Dremio
4 106 (10.23%) Data Lake
5 71 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (2.22%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.06%) KDB
10 11 (1.06%) MySQL
10 11 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.68%) Kdb+
13 5 (0.48%) Power BI
14 2 (0.19%) Data Mart
15 1 (0.097%) Flink
15 1 (0.097%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 44 (4.25%) Jenkins
2 38 (3.67%) Cypress.io
3 36 (3.47%) Artifactory
4 12 (1.16%) Git
5 10 (0.97%) JIRA
5 10 (0.97%) Maven
6 8 (0.77%) GitLab
7 2 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.19%) Moq
7 2 (0.19%) NUnit
8 1 (0.097%) Gradle
8 1 (0.097%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.097%) SpecFlow
General
1 813 (78.47%) Finance
2 449 (43.34%) Banking
3 270 (26.06%) Investment Banking
4 131 (12.64%) Social Skills
5 119 (11.49%) Back Office
6 53 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (4.63%) Law
8 34 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.32%) Marketing
10 20 (1.93%) Financial Institution
11 19 (1.83%) Legal
12 8 (0.77%) Billing
12 8 (0.77%) Retail
13 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.19%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.19%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.097%) International Banking
16 1 (0.097%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.097%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 539 (52.03%) Developer
2 334 (32.24%) Software Engineer
3 269 (25.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 195 (18.82%) Python Developer
5 186 (17.95%) Senior
6 170 (16.41%) Analyst
7 155 (14.96%) Python Engineer
8 152 (14.67%) Python Software Engineer
9 118 (11.39%) Finance Manager
10 117 (11.29%) Java Developer
11 109 (10.52%) .NET Developer
12 108 (10.42%) React Developer
13 96 (9.27%) Lead
14 95 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
15 93 (8.98%) Senior Developer
16 86 (8.30%) .NET Software Developer
16 86 (8.30%) .NET Software Engineer
17 85 (8.20%) Senior Software Engineer
18 75 (7.24%) Front Office Developer
19 72 (6.95%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (27.03%) React
2 245 (23.65%) gRPC
2 245 (23.65%) Protocol Buffers
3 202 (19.50%) Redux
4 174 (16.80%) Pandas
5 155 (14.96%) NumPy
6 148 (14.29%) SciPy
7 144 (13.90%) .NET
8 128 (12.36%) AngularJS
9 113 (10.91%) Vue
10 100 (9.65%) Material-UI
11 70 (6.76%) .NET Core
12 56 (5.41%) ASP.NET
13 55 (5.31%) ASP.NET Core
14 42 (4.05%) Node.js
15 37 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
16 36 (3.47%) J2EE
17 30 (2.90%) Spring
18 26 (2.51%) Kafka
19 23 (2.22%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 530 (51.16%) Fixed Income
2 473 (45.66%) Hedge funds
3 413 (39.86%) Derivative
4 403 (38.90%) Equities
5 356 (34.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 50 (4.83%) Product Ownership
7 49 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (3.47%) Tandem
9 33 (3.19%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.54%) Credit Risk
10 16 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.06%) Credit Derivative
12 11 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.97%) Market Risk
14 9 (0.87%) Client/Server
15 8 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.77%) Management Information System
16 7 (0.68%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.12%) Linux
2 27 (2.61%) Windows
3 19 (1.83%) Unix
4 8 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.097%) CentOS
6 1 (0.097%) Debian
6 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.097%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.097%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.097%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.097%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (56.47%) Agile
2 571 (55.12%) Asset Management
3 524 (50.58%) Software Engineering
4 475 (45.85%) Investment Management
5 174 (16.80%) Full Stack Development
6 140 (13.51%) Analytics
7 132 (12.74%) Fintech
8 111 (10.71%) DevOps
9 108 (10.42%) Machine Learning
10 107 (10.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 102 (9.85%) Electronic Trading
12 91 (8.78%) TDD
13 84 (8.11%) Mentoring
14 78 (7.53%) Automated Trading
15 73 (7.05%) Problem-Solving
16 70 (6.76%) Line Management
17 69 (6.66%) Computer Science
18 68 (6.56%) Low Latency
19 65 (6.27%) Multithreading
20 64 (6.18%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 640 (61.78%) Python
2 374 (36.10%) TypeScript
3 352 (33.98%) Java
4 350 (33.78%) JavaScript
5 273 (26.35%) SQL
6 212 (20.46%) C#
7 51 (4.92%) C++
8 43 (4.15%) R
9 36 (3.47%) Go
10 26 (2.51%) Kotlin
11 20 (1.93%) Scala
12 17 (1.64%) Ruby
13 15 (1.45%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.58%) Perl
15 6 (0.58%) VBA
16 4 (0.39%) C
16 4 (0.39%) Rust
17 3 (0.29%) Clojure
17 3 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (9.07%) Degree
2 32 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (1.83%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.68%) PhD
5 6 (0.58%) 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 (0.097%) CFA
7 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.12%) QA
2 47 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 7 (0.68%) SOC 1
4 5 (0.48%) MiFID
5 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.19%) EMIR
System Software
1 53 (5.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.47%) Terraform
3 5 (0.48%) Ansible
4 3 (0.29%) Control-M
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.097%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.097%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.097%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.097%) SCCM
6 1 (0.097%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.097%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (6.76%) Bloomberg
2 62 (5.98%) Google
3 24 (2.32%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.93%) Oracle
5 12 (1.16%) BISAM
5 12 (1.16%) Murex
6 11 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 10 (0.97%) IBM
8 9 (0.87%) Charles River
9 8 (0.77%) Algorithmics
10 7 (0.68%) Microsoft
11 6 (0.58%) FFastFill
11 6 (0.58%) Refinitiv
12 5 (0.48%) Reuters
12 5 (0.48%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.48%) Trayport
12 5 (0.48%) Vertica
13 4 (0.39%) Calypso
14 3 (0.29%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.29%) SAP