Front Office Contracts

Front Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 96 119
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -31
Contract jobs citing Front Office 830 1,511 1,972
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.53% 2.22%
As % of the General category 3.27% 4.33% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 1,257 1,634
10th Percentile £525 £525 £538
25th Percentile £600 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £739 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +5.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £838 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £398 £625 £488
% change year-on-year -36.40% +28.21% +15.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £13.50 - £26.56
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £81.06
90th Percentile - - £134.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% +16.28% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,387 34,897 49,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.23% 58.47% 56.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,033 24,201 34,488
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,062 1,440
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +59.71% -2.60%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £46.67
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.91% +65.08% -7.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in the UK

Front Office
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -19 820 £725 -2.03% 240
London 0 806 £725 -2.03% 235
Work from Home +5 393 £750 +1.35% 83
UK excluding London +5 14 £398 -36.40% 7
North of England +11 5 £405 -12.88%
North West +7 5 £405 -8.99%
East of England +14 3 £375 - 1
South East -2 3 £500 -50.00% 2
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Northern Ireland +1 1 £288 -50.35%

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
1 152 (18.31%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (16.51%) Apache
3 14 (1.69%) Confluence
4 7 (0.84%) SAS
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.60%) MTS
6 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (2.53%) Aladdin
2 20 (2.41%) Endur
3 10 (1.20%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.60%) EuroRunner
4 5 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.48%) Aligne
6 3 (0.36%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.24%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.12%) RMDS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 259 (31.20%) AWS
2 177 (21.33%) GCP
3 176 (21.20%) Azure
4 86 (10.36%) dbt
5 63 (7.59%) Snowflake
6 22 (2.65%) npm
7 15 (1.81%) Power Platform
8 14 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.08%) GitHub
11 7 (0.84%) Serverless
12 6 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (0.60%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.48%) Entra ID
15 3 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (0.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 2 (0.24%) Azure App Service
17 1 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
17 1 (0.12%) Azure Logic Apps
17 1 (0.12%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.69%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.36%) DHCP
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) LAN
3 3 (0.36%) WAN
4 2 (0.24%) SSH
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (16.02%) Apache Ignite
2 86 (10.36%) Amazon Athena
2 86 (10.36%) Apache Arrow
2 86 (10.36%) Dremio
3 62 (7.47%) Data Lake
4 47 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (4.46%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.13%) KDB
8 24 (2.89%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.69%) Power BI
10 11 (1.33%) Kdb+
11 8 (0.96%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.72%) Tableau
13 5 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.36%) Data Mart
15 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.24%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (8.55%) JIRA
2 40 (4.82%) Cypress.io
2 40 (4.82%) TeamCity
3 33 (3.98%) Cucumber
4 28 (3.37%) Jenkins
5 27 (3.25%) Git
6 22 (2.65%) webpack
7 16 (1.93%) GitLab
8 15 (1.81%) JUnit
9 13 (1.57%) Mockito
10 12 (1.45%) Moq
10 12 (1.45%) NUnit
11 6 (0.72%) MLflow
11 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.60%) Selenium
12 5 (0.60%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.48%) Maven
14 3 (0.36%) TestRail
14 3 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 546 (65.78%) Finance
2 344 (41.45%) Banking
3 192 (23.13%) Investment Banking
4 143 (17.23%) Social Skills
5 105 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (8.31%) Back Office
7 8 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 7 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (0.84%) Law
8 7 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (0.48%) Agriculture
9 4 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (0.48%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.36%) Aviation
10 3 (0.36%) Legal
10 3 (0.36%) Marketing
10 3 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.24%) Retail
11 2 (0.24%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (50.48%) Developer
2 171 (20.60%) Software Engineer
3 149 (17.95%) Analyst
4 129 (15.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 109 (13.13%) Senior
6 106 (12.77%) Python Developer
7 101 (12.17%) Business Analyst
8 99 (11.93%) C# Developer
9 94 (11.33%) React Developer
10 92 (11.08%) Java Developer
11 86 (10.36%) Python Engineer
12 85 (10.24%) Python Software Engineer
13 65 (7.83%) Finance Manager
14 63 (7.59%) Full Stack Developer
15 60 (7.23%) Front Office Developer
16 51 (6.14%) Lead
17 49 (5.90%) Financial Analyst
18 44 (5.30%) .NET Developer
18 44 (5.30%) Senior Developer
19 43 (5.18%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (22.53%) React
2 145 (17.47%) gRPC
3 142 (17.11%) Protocol Buffers
4 113 (13.61%) Pandas
4 113 (13.61%) Redux
5 105 (12.65%) NumPy
6 99 (11.93%) .NET
7 93 (11.20%) SciPy
8 62 (7.47%) Material-UI
9 57 (6.87%) AngularJS
10 40 (4.82%) REST
11 38 (4.58%) .NET Core
12 37 (4.46%) WPF
13 29 (3.49%) ASP.NET
14 27 (3.25%) RxJS
15 24 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
15 24 (2.89%) CSS
15 24 (2.89%) FIX Protocol
15 24 (2.89%) WebSockets
16 23 (2.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 311 (37.47%) Fixed Income
2 286 (34.46%) Derivative
3 249 (30.00%) Hedge funds
4 218 (26.27%) Equities
5 193 (23.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 39 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (4.22%) Product Ownership
8 33 (3.98%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
10 23 (2.77%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (2.05%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.81%) Credit Derivative
14 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.84%) Wiki
16 6 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.72%) Management Information System
17 5 (0.60%) OTC Derivatives
17 5 (0.60%) Reference Data
18 4 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.99%) Windows
2 41 (4.94%) Unix
3 32 (3.86%) Linux
4 7 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (47.35%) Agile
2 293 (35.30%) Asset Management
3 279 (33.61%) Software Engineering
4 244 (29.40%) Investment Management
5 127 (15.30%) Electronic Trading
6 126 (15.18%) Full Stack Development
7 91 (10.96%) Analytics
8 88 (10.60%) DevOps
9 87 (10.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 84 (10.12%) Machine Learning
11 73 (8.80%) Fintech
11 73 (8.80%) TDD
12 69 (8.31%) Risk Management
13 59 (7.11%) CI/CD
14 58 (6.99%) Computer Science
15 57 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (6.39%) Design Patterns
17 52 (6.27%) Automated Trading
18 51 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 51 (6.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 375 (45.18%) Python
2 263 (31.69%) SQL
3 242 (29.16%) C#
4 230 (27.71%) Java
5 228 (27.47%) TypeScript
6 186 (22.41%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 34 (4.10%) C++
9 17 (2.05%) VBA
10 16 (1.93%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.93%) R
10 16 (1.93%) Scala
11 9 (1.08%) Rust
12 8 (0.96%) Ruby
13 6 (0.72%) Perl
14 4 (0.48%) Groovy
14 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 95 (11.45%) Degree
2 27 (3.25%) Master's Degree
3 22 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.96%) PhD
6 6 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.48%) PMP
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.36%) MCSE
9 1 (0.12%) CCNA
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.12%) CISM
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.12%) PgMP
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.54%) QA
2 37 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.17%) MiFID
4 13 (1.57%) EMIR
5 12 (1.45%) Dodd-Frank
6 8 (0.96%) PMO
7 6 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.48%) SEPA
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.53%) Docker
2 10 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.60%) Grafana
3 5 (0.60%) SCCM
4 4 (0.48%) Podman
4 4 (0.48%) Terraform
5 3 (0.36%) WSUS
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 57 (6.87%) Bloomberg
2 45 (5.42%) Google
3 28 (3.37%) ION Trading
4 21 (2.53%) Oracle
5 19 (2.29%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.93%) Murex
7 14 (1.69%) Citrix
8 13 (1.57%) MarketAxess
8 13 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.57%) TIBCO
8 13 (1.57%) Tradeweb
9 11 (1.33%) BISAM
9 11 (1.33%) IBM
9 11 (1.33%) OpenLink
10 9 (1.08%) Refinitiv
10 9 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.84%) Databricks
12 5 (0.60%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.60%) Reuters
12 5 (0.60%) SimCorp