Front Office Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 72 88 236
Rank change year-on-year +16 +148 -117
Contract jobs citing Front Office 415 625 507
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.80% 2.54% 1.15%
As % of the General category 4.76% 4.33% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 530 413
10th Percentile £563 £550 £520
25th Percentile £650 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £740 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £838
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £700
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,717 14,425 23,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.90% 58.53% 54.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 10,165 17,422
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 325 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.85 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +51.48%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office.

Front Office daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Front Office daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 111 (26.75%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (23.86%) Apache
3 5 (1.20%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) MTS
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
Applications
1 21 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Endur
2 3 (0.72%) Aligne
2 3 (0.72%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.24%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 152 (36.63%) AWS
2 94 (22.65%) dbt
3 88 (21.20%) GCP
4 74 (17.83%) Snowflake
5 49 (11.81%) Azure
6 6 (1.45%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.20%) npm
8 4 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.24%) GitHub
11 1 (0.24%) IaaS
11 1 (0.24%) PaaS
11 1 (0.24%) SaaS
11 1 (0.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.20%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.48%) DHCP
2 2 (0.48%) DNS
2 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (23.37%) Apache Ignite
2 94 (22.65%) Apache Arrow
2 94 (22.65%) Dremio
3 93 (22.41%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (18.07%) Data Lake
5 17 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.41%) KDB
7 9 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.45%) Power BI
8 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.20%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.48%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.48%) MySQL
11 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.24%) Big Data
12 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (4.58%) JIRA
2 15 (3.61%) Cucumber
3 13 (3.13%) GitLab
3 13 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.89%) JUnit
4 12 (2.89%) Mockito
5 8 (1.93%) Git
6 6 (1.45%) MLflow
7 5 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.20%) webpack
8 4 (0.96%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.72%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.48%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.48%) JMeter
10 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.48%) Selenium
10 2 (0.48%) TestRail
11 1 (0.24%) Log4Net
11 1 (0.24%) TestComplete
General
1 325 (78.31%) Finance
2 200 (48.19%) Banking
3 135 (32.53%) Investment Banking
4 58 (13.98%) Social Skills
5 51 (12.29%) Back Office
6 34 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.96%) Law
9 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
10 2 (0.48%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 211 (50.84%) Developer
2 93 (22.41%) Senior
2 93 (22.41%) Software Engineer
3 63 (15.18%) Analyst
4 59 (14.22%) Java Developer
5 57 (13.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 55 (13.25%) C# Developer
7 51 (12.29%) Front Office Developer
8 50 (12.05%) Python Developer
9 48 (11.57%) Python Engineer
9 48 (11.57%) Python Software Engineer
10 47 (11.33%) Lead
11 39 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (9.16%) AWS Software Engineer
13 37 (8.92%) Business Analyst
13 37 (8.92%) Java Engineer
13 37 (8.92%) Java Software Engineer
14 36 (8.67%) Financial Analyst
14 36 (8.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (8.43%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (25.78%) gRPC
2 106 (25.54%) Protocol Buffers
3 98 (23.61%) Pandas
4 91 (21.93%) NumPy
4 91 (21.93%) SciPy
5 65 (15.66%) React
6 34 (8.19%) .NET
7 30 (7.23%) Redux
8 24 (5.78%) AngularJS
9 23 (5.54%) Node.js
10 17 (4.10%) WPF
11 15 (3.61%) Spring Boot
12 14 (3.37%) Material-UI
13 13 (3.13%) Vue
14 9 (2.17%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.93%) RxJS
16 7 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (1.69%) REST
16 7 (1.69%) XML
17 6 (1.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 207 (49.88%) Derivative
2 174 (41.93%) Fixed Income
3 159 (38.31%) Hedge funds
4 145 (34.94%) Equities
5 130 (31.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (5.78%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (3.61%) Product Ownership
8 14 (3.37%) Credit Derivative
8 14 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.41%) Pricing Data
10 9 (2.17%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.72%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.48%) Algorithms
14 2 (0.48%) Blog
14 2 (0.48%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.30%) Unix
2 15 (3.61%) Windows
3 10 (2.41%) Linux
4 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (47.47%) Agile
2 190 (45.78%) Asset Management
3 160 (38.55%) Investment Management
4 157 (37.83%) Software Engineering
5 57 (13.73%) Analytics
6 42 (10.12%) Mentoring
7 40 (9.64%) Greeks
8 36 (8.67%) Electronic Trading
8 36 (8.67%) Fintech
9 35 (8.43%) Line Management
10 31 (7.47%) Full Stack Development
11 30 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (6.02%) Risk Management
13 23 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (5.54%) Computer Science
13 23 (5.54%) Machine Learning
13 23 (5.54%) SDLC
14 22 (5.30%) Performance Attribution
15 19 (4.58%) Data Modelling
15 19 (4.58%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 244 (58.80%) Python
2 160 (38.55%) Java
3 136 (32.77%) JavaScript
4 132 (31.81%) TypeScript
5 126 (30.36%) C#
6 119 (28.67%) SQL
7 15 (3.61%) C++
7 15 (3.61%) R
8 13 (3.13%) Scala
9 11 (2.65%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.69%) Ruby
11 7 (1.69%) VBA
12 4 (0.96%) Perl
12 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (10.84%) Degree
2 20 (4.82%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.69%) PhD
5 5 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.24%) PMP
7 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.12%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.69%) MiFID
2 7 (1.69%) QA
3 4 (0.96%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (0.96%) SEPA
4 3 (0.72%) EMIR
4 3 (0.72%) PMO
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.48%) vSphere
3 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.72%) Terraform
2 2 (0.48%) WSUS
3 1 (0.24%) Ansible
3 1 (0.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.24%) Nagios
3 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (4.58%) Bloomberg
2 13 (3.13%) Oracle
3 12 (2.89%) ION Trading
4 6 (1.45%) Databricks
4 6 (1.45%) Murex
4 6 (1.45%) OpenLink
5 5 (1.20%) IBM
5 5 (1.20%) MarketAxess
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.20%) Tradeweb
6 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.48%) ESRI
7 2 (0.48%) Okta
7 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.48%) VMware
8 1 (0.24%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.24%) Solace
8 1 (0.24%) Splunk
8 1 (0.24%) TIBCO