Front Office Contracts in England

Front Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 84 92
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Front Office 858 1,374 1,942
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.36% 2.85% 2.76%
As % of the General category 4.05% 4.81% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 1,147 1,611
10th Percentile £531 £525 £538
25th Percentile £613 £613 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £838 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
England

Front Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,183 28,577 39,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.22% 59.31% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,071 27,958
10th Percentile £281 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £790 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 929 1,300
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front Office in England.

Daily rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front Office in England.

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +4 842 £750 +3.45% 222
North of England +8 5 £405 -12.88% 2
North West +2 5 £405 -8.99% 2
South East -5 5 £500 -50.00% 6
East of England +11 3 £375 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 192 (22.38%) Apache Airflow
2 178 (20.75%) Apache
3 14 (1.63%) Confluence
4 8 (0.93%) SAS
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.58%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 46 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (2.68%) Aladdin
2 22 (2.56%) Endur
3 10 (1.17%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.70%) Markit EDM
4 6 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.70%) thinkFolio
5 5 (0.58%) EuroRunner
6 4 (0.47%) Aligne
7 3 (0.35%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 305 (35.55%) AWS
2 198 (23.08%) GCP
3 194 (22.61%) Azure
4 109 (12.70%) dbt
5 86 (10.02%) Snowflake
6 18 (2.10%) npm
7 17 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 15 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.05%) GitHub
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (0.82%) Serverless
12 5 (0.58%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.47%) Azure App Service
13 4 (0.47%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon MSK
16 1 (0.12%) Azure Storage
16 1 (0.12%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.63%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.35%) DHCP
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) LAN
3 3 (0.35%) WAN
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) SSH
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) Multicast
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (20.16%) Apache Ignite
2 109 (12.70%) Apache Arrow
2 109 (12.70%) Dremio
3 108 (12.59%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (10.02%) Data Lake
5 63 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.31%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 28 (3.26%) KDB
9 24 (2.80%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.86%) Power BI
11 11 (1.28%) Kdb+
12 10 (1.17%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.17%) Tableau
13 6 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.35%) Data Mart
14 3 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (7.58%) JIRA
2 52 (6.06%) Cypress.io
3 33 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 31 (3.61%) Cucumber
5 28 (3.26%) Git
5 28 (3.26%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.10%) webpack
7 15 (1.75%) GitLab
8 14 (1.63%) JUnit
9 12 (1.40%) Mockito
10 11 (1.28%) NUnit
11 10 (1.17%) Moq
12 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.70%) Selenium
15 5 (0.58%) Maven
15 5 (0.58%) MLflow
16 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
17 3 (0.35%) FitNesse
17 3 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 586 (68.30%) Finance
2 376 (43.82%) Banking
3 207 (24.13%) Investment Banking
4 131 (15.27%) Social Skills
5 92 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (8.16%) Back Office
7 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (0.82%) Law
9 4 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (0.47%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.35%) Agriculture
10 3 (0.35%) Aviation
10 3 (0.35%) Marketing
10 3 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.23%) Legal
11 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.23%) Publishing
11 2 (0.23%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 436 (50.82%) Developer
2 198 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 151 (17.60%) Analyst
4 144 (16.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 129 (15.03%) Python Developer
6 124 (14.45%) Senior
7 110 (12.82%) Python Engineer
7 110 (12.82%) Python Software Engineer
8 104 (12.12%) React Developer
9 101 (11.77%) Business Analyst
10 95 (11.07%) Java Developer
11 90 (10.49%) C# Developer
12 69 (8.04%) Full Stack Developer
13 68 (7.93%) Front Office Developer
14 63 (7.34%) Finance Manager
15 56 (6.53%) Lead
16 52 (6.06%) Financial Analyst
17 48 (5.59%) Senior Developer
18 42 (4.90%) .NET Developer
18 42 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (22.38%) React
2 185 (21.56%) gRPC
3 181 (21.10%) Protocol Buffers
4 133 (15.50%) Pandas
5 126 (14.69%) NumPy
6 123 (14.34%) Redux
7 115 (13.40%) SciPy
8 101 (11.77%) .NET
9 75 (8.74%) Material-UI
10 55 (6.41%) AngularJS
11 37 (4.31%) REST
12 36 (4.20%) .NET Core
13 29 (3.38%) WPF
14 24 (2.80%) ASP.NET
14 24 (2.80%) FIX Protocol
14 24 (2.80%) Node.js
15 23 (2.68%) RxJS
16 21 (2.45%) Vue
17 20 (2.33%) Spring Boot
17 20 (2.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 351 (40.91%) Fixed Income
2 315 (36.71%) Derivative
3 292 (34.03%) Hedge funds
4 257 (29.95%) Equities
5 224 (26.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (4.66%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (3.38%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
10 24 (2.80%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.10%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.63%) Credit Derivative
14 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.17%) Pricing Data
15 7 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.70%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.70%) Wiki
17 5 (0.58%) Reference Data
17 5 (0.58%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.53%) Windows
2 41 (4.78%) Unix
3 38 (4.43%) Linux
4 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (49.77%) Agile
2 332 (38.69%) Asset Management
3 311 (36.25%) Software Engineering
4 283 (32.98%) Investment Management
5 138 (16.08%) Full Stack Development
6 118 (13.75%) Electronic Trading
7 108 (12.59%) Artificial Intelligence
8 103 (12.00%) Machine Learning
9 89 (10.37%) DevOps
10 87 (10.14%) Analytics
11 73 (8.51%) Fintech
12 68 (7.93%) TDD
13 67 (7.81%) Automated Trading
14 62 (7.23%) CI/CD
14 62 (7.23%) Risk Management
15 59 (6.88%) Computer Science
16 55 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (6.06%) Test Automation
18 50 (5.83%) Mentoring
19 49 (5.71%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 412 (48.02%) Python
2 271 (31.59%) SQL
3 255 (29.72%) TypeScript
4 246 (28.67%) Java
5 232 (27.04%) C#
6 198 (23.08%) JavaScript
7 42 (4.90%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.55%) C++
9 18 (2.10%) VBA
10 15 (1.75%) R
11 14 (1.63%) Scala
12 12 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.05%) Rust
14 7 (0.82%) Ruby
15 6 (0.70%) Perl
16 4 (0.47%) Bicep
16 4 (0.47%) Groovy
16 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (10.96%) Degree
2 27 (3.15%) Master's Degree
3 22 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.93%) PhD
6 6 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.58%) CISM
7 5 (0.58%) CISSP
8 4 (0.47%) CISA
8 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.47%) PMP
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.35%) MCSE
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.12%) PgMP
10 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.83%) QA
2 48 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.98%) MiFID
4 12 (1.40%) Dodd-Frank
4 12 (1.40%) EMIR
5 6 (0.70%) SLA
6 5 (0.58%) PMO
7 4 (0.47%) SEPA
8 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.45%) Docker
2 10 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (0.70%) Grafana
4 5 (0.58%) Podman
5 4 (0.47%) Control-M
5 4 (0.47%) SCCM
5 4 (0.47%) Terraform
6 3 (0.35%) WSUS
7 1 (0.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) Nagios
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (7.11%) Google
2 58 (6.76%) Bloomberg
3 30 (3.50%) ION Trading
4 22 (2.56%) Oracle
5 19 (2.21%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.86%) Murex
7 14 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.52%) MarketAxess
8 13 (1.52%) OpenLink
8 13 (1.52%) Tradeweb
9 12 (1.40%) BISAM
10 11 (1.28%) Citrix
10 11 (1.28%) TIBCO
11 10 (1.17%) IBM
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.70%) Databricks
13 6 (0.70%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.70%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.70%) Splunk
14 5 (0.58%) Dynatrace