Front Office Contracts in London

Front Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 38 42 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Front Office 842 1,320 1,902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.82% 5.10% 4.93%
As % of the General category 7.64% 8.05% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 1,109 1,580
10th Percentile £538 £538 £538
25th Percentile £616 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £900 £850
England median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
England median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,014 16,388 23,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.10% 63.33% 60.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,866 11,862 16,811
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 212 294
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.40 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -17.33% +31.88%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London -39 66 £775 +0.55% 14
East London 0 6 £800 -20.00% 1
West London - 5 £450 - 1
South London +3 4 £800 +3.73% 2
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (22.80%) Apache Airflow
2 178 (21.14%) Apache
3 12 (1.43%) Confluence
4 8 (0.95%) SAS
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.59%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 46 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (2.73%) Aladdin
2 22 (2.61%) Endur
3 10 (1.19%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.71%) Markit EDM
4 6 (0.71%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.71%) thinkFolio
5 5 (0.59%) EuroRunner
6 4 (0.48%) Aligne
7 3 (0.36%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 305 (36.22%) AWS
2 198 (23.52%) GCP
3 194 (23.04%) Azure
4 109 (12.95%) dbt
5 86 (10.21%) Snowflake
6 18 (2.14%) npm
7 17 (2.02%) Power Platform
8 15 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.07%) GitHub
11 7 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (0.83%) Serverless
12 5 (0.59%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.48%) Azure App Service
13 4 (0.48%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.24%) Amazon MSK
16 1 (0.12%) Azure Storage
16 1 (0.12%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.66%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.36%) LAN
2 3 (0.36%) WAN
3 2 (0.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) SSH
4 1 (0.12%) FTP
4 1 (0.12%) Multicast
4 1 (0.12%) SAN
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (20.55%) Apache Ignite
2 109 (12.95%) Apache Arrow
2 109 (12.95%) Dremio
3 108 (12.83%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (10.21%) Data Lake
5 63 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.39%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 28 (3.33%) KDB
9 24 (2.85%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.90%) Power BI
11 11 (1.31%) Kdb+
12 10 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.19%) Tableau
13 6 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.36%) Data Mart
14 3 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (7.48%) JIRA
2 52 (6.18%) Cypress.io
3 33 (3.92%) TeamCity
4 31 (3.68%) Cucumber
5 28 (3.33%) Git
5 28 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.14%) webpack
7 15 (1.78%) GitLab
8 14 (1.66%) JUnit
9 12 (1.43%) Mockito
10 11 (1.31%) NUnit
11 10 (1.19%) Moq
12 8 (0.95%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.71%) Selenium
15 5 (0.59%) Maven
15 5 (0.59%) MLflow
16 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
17 3 (0.36%) LoadRunner
17 3 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 578 (68.65%) Finance
2 372 (44.18%) Banking
3 207 (24.58%) Investment Banking
4 130 (15.44%) Social Skills
5 92 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (8.31%) Back Office
7 8 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (0.83%) Law
9 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.48%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.36%) Agriculture
11 3 (0.36%) Aviation
11 3 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.24%) Legal
12 2 (0.24%) Marketing
12 2 (0.24%) Publishing
12 2 (0.24%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 434 (51.54%) Developer
2 198 (23.52%) Software Engineer
3 148 (17.58%) Analyst
4 144 (17.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 127 (15.08%) Python Developer
6 122 (14.49%) Senior
7 110 (13.06%) Python Engineer
7 110 (13.06%) Python Software Engineer
8 104 (12.35%) React Developer
9 99 (11.76%) Business Analyst
10 95 (11.28%) Java Developer
11 90 (10.69%) C# Developer
12 69 (8.19%) Full Stack Developer
13 68 (8.08%) Front Office Developer
14 63 (7.48%) Finance Manager
15 56 (6.65%) Lead
16 52 (6.18%) Financial Analyst
17 48 (5.70%) Senior Developer
18 42 (4.99%) .NET Developer
18 42 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (22.80%) React
2 185 (21.97%) gRPC
3 181 (21.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 133 (15.80%) Pandas
5 126 (14.96%) NumPy
6 123 (14.61%) Redux
7 115 (13.66%) SciPy
8 98 (11.64%) .NET
9 75 (8.91%) Material-UI
10 55 (6.53%) AngularJS
11 37 (4.39%) REST
12 36 (4.28%) .NET Core
13 29 (3.44%) WPF
14 24 (2.85%) ASP.NET
14 24 (2.85%) Node.js
15 23 (2.73%) RxJS
16 22 (2.61%) FIX Protocol
17 21 (2.49%) Vue
18 20 (2.38%) Spring
18 20 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 351 (41.69%) Fixed Income
2 313 (37.17%) Derivative
3 292 (34.68%) Hedge funds
4 257 (30.52%) Equities
5 220 (26.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (4.75%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (3.44%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.09%) Equity Derivative
10 24 (2.85%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.14%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.66%) Credit Derivative
14 10 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.19%) Pricing Data
15 6 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (0.71%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.59%) OTC Derivatives
16 5 (0.59%) Reference Data
16 5 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.29%) Windows
2 38 (4.51%) Unix
3 32 (3.80%) Linux
4 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (50.12%) Agile
2 332 (39.43%) Asset Management
3 311 (36.94%) Software Engineering
4 283 (33.61%) Investment Management
5 138 (16.39%) Full Stack Development
6 116 (13.78%) Electronic Trading
7 108 (12.83%) Artificial Intelligence
8 103 (12.23%) Machine Learning
9 89 (10.57%) DevOps
10 84 (9.98%) Analytics
11 72 (8.55%) Fintech
12 68 (8.08%) TDD
13 67 (7.96%) Automated Trading
14 62 (7.36%) CI/CD
15 61 (7.24%) Risk Management
16 55 (6.53%) Computer Science
17 54 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
18 52 (6.18%) Test Automation
19 50 (5.94%) Mentoring
20 49 (5.82%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 410 (48.69%) Python
2 269 (31.95%) SQL
3 255 (30.29%) TypeScript
4 246 (29.22%) Java
5 231 (27.43%) C#
6 198 (23.52%) JavaScript
7 39 (4.63%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.28%) C++
9 18 (2.14%) VBA
10 15 (1.78%) R
11 14 (1.66%) Scala
12 12 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.07%) Rust
14 7 (0.83%) Ruby
15 6 (0.71%) Perl
16 4 (0.48%) Bicep
16 4 (0.48%) Groovy
16 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 90 (10.69%) Degree
2 27 (3.21%) Master's Degree
3 22 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.95%) PhD
6 5 (0.59%) CISM
6 5 (0.59%) CISSP
7 4 (0.48%) CISA
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.36%) MCSE
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) CCNA
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.12%) PgMP
9 1 (0.12%) PMP
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.82%) QA
2 48 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.02%) MiFID
4 12 (1.43%) Dodd-Frank
4 12 (1.43%) EMIR
5 5 (0.59%) PMO
6 4 (0.48%) SEPA
7 3 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.49%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (0.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (0.71%) Grafana
4 5 (0.59%) Podman
5 4 (0.48%) Control-M
5 4 (0.48%) SCCM
5 4 (0.48%) Terraform
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (7.24%) Google
2 58 (6.89%) Bloomberg
3 30 (3.56%) ION Trading
4 22 (2.61%) Oracle
5 16 (1.90%) Microsoft
5 16 (1.90%) Murex
6 14 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.54%) MarketAxess
7 13 (1.54%) OpenLink
7 13 (1.54%) Tradeweb
8 12 (1.43%) BISAM
9 11 (1.31%) Citrix
9 11 (1.31%) TIBCO
10 10 (1.19%) IBM
11 6 (0.71%) Databricks
11 6 (0.71%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.71%) SimCorp
11 6 (0.71%) Splunk
12 5 (0.59%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.59%) Reuters