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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 243 363
Rank change year-on-year -19 +120 -129
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,101 1,534 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.48% 1.04%
As % of the General category 1.87% 2.16% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 942 1,357 1,468
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £107,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £136,250 £128,750
90th Percentile £157,500 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +6.56% +69.44%

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 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £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 £101,250 £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 3 May 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +1 1,067 £115,000 +6.98% 245
London +19 1,008 £115,000 +6.98% 233
Work from Home -15 561 £115,000 +9.52% 77
UK excluding London +16 85 £75,000 +15.38% 13
South West - 29 - - 2
Scotland -60 24 £75,000 +15.38%
North of England +68 20 £35,000 -63.16% 2
Yorkshire - 14 - -
North West +10 6 £35,000 -63.16% 2
South East -14 6 £85,000 -12.82% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 -
East of England +7 2 £100,000 - 5
West Midlands 0 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -6 1 £32,000 -39.05% 1

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
1 300 (27.25%) Apache Airflow
2 281 (25.52%) Apache
3 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.091%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.091%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.00%) Aladdin
2 12 (1.09%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.54%) ION Anvil
3 6 (0.54%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.36%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.27%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.18%) Endur
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.091%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.091%) Eikon
7 1 (0.091%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 573 (52.04%) AWS
2 368 (33.42%) GCP
3 277 (25.16%) Azure
4 198 (17.98%) dbt
5 159 (14.44%) Snowflake
6 44 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (4.00%) Serverless
7 42 (3.81%) Amazon S3
8 40 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.64%) PaaS
12 6 (0.54%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (0.45%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.45%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.36%) Power Automate
15 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Purview
16 2 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.54%) Internet
2 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.36%) FTP
4 2 (0.18%) BGP
4 2 (0.18%) Firewall
4 2 (0.18%) OSPF
4 2 (0.18%) WAN
5 1 (0.091%) DHCP
5 1 (0.091%) DNS
5 1 (0.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (25.43%) Apache Ignite
2 200 (18.17%) Amazon Athena
3 198 (17.98%) Apache Arrow
3 198 (17.98%) Dremio
4 158 (14.35%) Data Lake
5 89 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 18 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.09%) MySQL
11 11 (1.00%) KDB
11 11 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.73%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.64%) Kdb+
14 5 (0.45%) Power BI
15 2 (0.18%) Data Mart
15 2 (0.18%) Tick Data
16 1 (0.091%) Flink
Development Applications
1 48 (4.36%) Cypress.io
2 43 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.09%) Artifactory
4 14 (1.27%) Git
5 11 (1.00%) JIRA
6 10 (0.91%) Maven
7 9 (0.82%) GitLab
8 1 (0.091%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.091%) Gradle
8 1 (0.091%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.091%) Moq
8 1 (0.091%) NUnit
8 1 (0.091%) SpecFlow
General
1 869 (78.93%) Finance
2 525 (47.68%) Banking
3 326 (29.61%) Investment Banking
4 132 (11.99%) Social Skills
5 118 (10.72%) Back Office
6 67 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (5.45%) Law
8 44 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.18%) Marketing
10 20 (1.82%) Financial Institution
11 19 (1.73%) Legal
12 7 (0.64%) Billing
12 7 (0.64%) Retail
13 4 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.18%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.18%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.091%) Automotive
15 1 (0.091%) International Banking
15 1 (0.091%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 537 (48.77%) Developer
2 362 (32.88%) Software Engineer
3 272 (24.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 213 (19.35%) Senior
5 206 (18.71%) Python Developer
6 188 (17.08%) Python Engineer
7 185 (16.80%) Python Software Engineer
8 182 (16.53%) Analyst
9 123 (11.17%) React Developer
10 119 (10.81%) Lead
11 115 (10.45%) Java Developer
12 114 (10.35%) Finance Manager
13 105 (9.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 104 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
15 103 (9.36%) .NET Developer
16 92 (8.36%) Senior Developer
17 84 (7.63%) .NET Software Developer
17 84 (7.63%) .NET Software Engineer
18 72 (6.54%) Front Office Developer
19 71 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (27.07%) gRPC
1 298 (27.07%) Protocol Buffers
2 286 (25.98%) React
3 214 (19.44%) Redux
4 208 (18.89%) Pandas
5 194 (17.62%) NumPy
6 187 (16.98%) SciPy
7 142 (12.90%) .NET
8 123 (11.17%) AngularJS
9 110 (9.99%) Material-UI
10 107 (9.72%) Vue
11 71 (6.45%) .NET Core
12 50 (4.54%) ASP.NET
13 49 (4.45%) ASP.NET Core
14 40 (3.63%) FIX Protocol
15 38 (3.45%) Node.js
16 34 (3.09%) J2EE
17 30 (2.72%) Spring
18 24 (2.18%) Kafka
19 23 (2.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 587 (53.32%) Fixed Income
2 546 (49.59%) Hedge funds
3 470 (42.69%) Derivative
4 460 (41.78%) Equities
5 397 (36.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 55 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 47 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (3.09%) Tandem
9 28 (2.54%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.63%) Pricing Data
11 17 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.45%) Credit Risk
12 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.27%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.00%) Credit Derivative
15 10 (0.91%) Market Risk
16 9 (0.82%) Blog
16 9 (0.82%) Client/Server
17 8 (0.73%) FPGA
17 8 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.09%) Linux
2 26 (2.36%) Windows
3 20 (1.82%) Unix
4 8 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.091%) CentOS
6 1 (0.091%) Debian
6 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.091%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.091%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.091%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.091%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (59.22%) Agile
2 619 (56.22%) Asset Management
3 566 (51.41%) Software Engineering
4 538 (48.86%) Investment Management
5 187 (16.98%) Full Stack Development
6 132 (11.99%) Machine Learning
7 130 (11.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 127 (11.53%) Fintech
9 123 (11.17%) Analytics
10 109 (9.90%) DevOps
11 103 (9.36%) Electronic Trading
12 95 (8.63%) Automated Trading
13 94 (8.54%) TDD
14 87 (7.90%) Line Management
15 83 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
16 81 (7.36%) Mentoring
17 73 (6.63%) Low Latency
18 68 (6.18%) Greeks
18 68 (6.18%) Multithreading
19 66 (5.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 692 (62.85%) Python
2 423 (38.42%) TypeScript
3 389 (35.33%) Java
4 378 (34.33%) JavaScript
5 294 (26.70%) SQL
6 212 (19.26%) C#
7 49 (4.45%) C++
8 43 (3.91%) R
9 34 (3.09%) Go
10 22 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.45%) Scala
12 14 (1.27%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.18%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Perl
14 7 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.54%) Rust
15 6 (0.54%) VBA
16 5 (0.45%) C
17 3 (0.27%) Clojure
17 3 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 98 (8.90%) Degree
2 27 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (1.45%) Master's Degree
4 6 (0.54%) PhD
5 5 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.18%) ACCA
6 2 (0.18%) CBAP
6 2 (0.18%) CCIE
6 2 (0.18%) CIMA
6 2 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.091%) CFA
7 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.72%) QA
3 7 (0.64%) SOC 1
4 5 (0.45%) MiFID
5 4 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 49 (4.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.09%) Terraform
3 6 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.27%) Control-M
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.091%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.091%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.091%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.091%) SCCM
6 1 (0.091%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.091%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.091%) WSUS
Vendors
1 80 (7.27%) Google
2 76 (6.90%) Bloomberg
3 23 (2.09%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.82%) Oracle
5 14 (1.27%) BISAM
6 12 (1.09%) Murex
7 11 (1.00%) Charles River
8 10 (0.91%) IBM
8 10 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.73%) Algorithmics
10 6 (0.54%) FFastFill
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft
10 6 (0.54%) Refinitiv
11 5 (0.45%) Reuters
11 5 (0.45%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.45%) Trayport
11 5 (0.45%) Vertica
12 3 (0.27%) Databricks
12 3 (0.27%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.27%) SAP