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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 236 381
Rank change year-on-year -7 +145 -134
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,200 1,535 1,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.58% 0.99%
As % of the General category 1.98% 2.32% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 1,362 1,480
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £107,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +4.88% +13.89%
75th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £151,250 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +19.23% +4.42% +49.10%

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 60,543 66,044 108,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.62% 67.97% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40,070 35,832 51,526
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 29 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 29 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 -9 1,166 £115,000 +6.98% 233
London +13 1,112 £115,000 +6.98% 218
Work from Home -5 660 £115,000 +9.52% 109
UK excluding London -19 80 £77,500 +19.23% 12
South West - 29 - - 1
Scotland -56 24 £85,000 +30.77% 1
North of England +43 16 £35,000 -63.16% 4
Yorkshire - 10 - -
North West +1 6 £35,000 -63.16% 3
South East -27 6 £85,000 -12.82% 5
East of England -10 2 £100,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 -
West Midlands -15 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -34 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
1 434 (36.17%) Apache Airflow
2 415 (34.58%) Apache
3 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.083%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.083%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.083%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.83%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.17%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.50%) ION Anvil
3 6 (0.50%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.25%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.083%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.083%) Eikon
7 1 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 698 (58.17%) AWS
2 423 (35.25%) GCP
3 313 (26.08%) dbt
4 288 (24.00%) Azure
5 252 (21.00%) Snowflake
6 39 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (3.25%) Serverless
7 37 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 37 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
8 26 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (2.17%) OpenShift
9 13 (1.08%) Power Platform
10 11 (0.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (0.50%) Dagster
12 5 (0.42%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.33%) PaaS
13 4 (0.33%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Internet
2 5 (0.42%) FTP
2 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.17%) BGP
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) OSPF
3 2 (0.17%) WAN
4 1 (0.083%) DHCP
4 1 (0.083%) DNS
4 1 (0.083%) SSH
4 1 (0.083%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (34.00%) Apache Ignite
2 313 (26.08%) Dremio
3 307 (25.58%) Apache Arrow
4 305 (25.42%) Amazon Athena
5 266 (22.17%) Data Lake
6 107 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.67%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.08%) Power BI
11 12 (1.00%) MySQL
12 11 (0.92%) KDB
13 10 (0.83%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.67%) Big Data
14 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.67%) Tableau
15 7 (0.58%) Kdb+
16 3 (0.25%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 63 (5.25%) Cypress.io
2 35 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.17%) Artifactory
4 18 (1.50%) Git
5 14 (1.17%) JIRA
6 9 (0.75%) GitLab
6 9 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.083%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.083%) Gradle
7 1 (0.083%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.083%) JUnit
General
1 982 (81.83%) Finance
2 641 (53.42%) Banking
3 419 (34.92%) Investment Banking
4 123 (10.25%) Social Skills
5 111 (9.25%) Back Office
6 74 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (5.17%) Law
8 44 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.00%) Marketing
10 19 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.25%) Legal
12 4 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.25%) Billing
13 3 (0.25%) International Banking
13 3 (0.25%) Retail
14 2 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.17%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.083%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.083%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 554 (46.17%) Developer
2 444 (37.00%) Software Engineer
3 313 (26.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 258 (21.50%) Python Engineer
5 251 (20.92%) Senior
6 249 (20.75%) Python Software Engineer
7 228 (19.00%) Python Developer
8 193 (16.08%) Analyst
9 152 (12.67%) Lead
10 143 (11.92%) AWS Engineer
10 143 (11.92%) React Developer
11 142 (11.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 117 (9.75%) AWS Software Engineer
13 115 (9.58%) Java Developer
14 112 (9.33%) Finance Manager
15 107 (8.92%) Java Engineer
16 106 (8.83%) Java Software Engineer
17 98 (8.17%) .NET Developer
18 89 (7.42%) Senior Developer
19 81 (6.75%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (35.50%) gRPC
1 426 (35.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 318 (26.50%) React
3 315 (26.25%) Pandas
4 302 (25.17%) NumPy
5 294 (24.50%) SciPy
6 239 (19.92%) Redux
7 139 (11.58%) .NET
8 129 (10.75%) AngularJS
9 123 (10.25%) Material-UI
10 111 (9.25%) Vue
11 75 (6.25%) .NET Core
12 48 (4.00%) Node.js
13 45 (3.75%) ASP.NET
13 45 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
13 45 (3.75%) FIX Protocol
14 31 (2.58%) Spring
15 27 (2.25%) J2EE
16 23 (1.92%) Spring Boot
17 22 (1.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 708 (59.00%) Fixed Income
2 670 (55.83%) Hedge funds
3 568 (47.33%) Equities
4 561 (46.75%) Derivative
5 493 (41.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 73 (6.08%) Product Ownership
7 40 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (3.00%) Pricing Data
9 27 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 26 (2.17%) Tandem
11 17 (1.42%) Credit Risk
11 17 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.25%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.17%) Blog
15 11 (0.92%) Market Risk
15 11 (0.92%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.75%) Client/Server
17 8 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (0.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.08%) Linux
2 26 (2.17%) Unix
2 26 (2.17%) Windows
3 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.083%) CentOS
5 1 (0.083%) Debian
5 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.083%) Scientific Linux
5 1 (0.083%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.083%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (64.42%) Agile
2 743 (61.92%) Asset Management
3 676 (56.33%) Software Engineering
4 643 (53.58%) Investment Management
5 208 (17.33%) Full Stack Development
6 154 (12.83%) Machine Learning
7 151 (12.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 146 (12.17%) Analytics
9 138 (11.50%) Fintech
10 117 (9.75%) Line Management
11 114 (9.50%) Automated Trading
12 112 (9.33%) Greeks
13 98 (8.17%) DevOps
14 95 (7.92%) Electronic Trading
15 93 (7.75%) TDD
16 81 (6.75%) Problem-Solving
17 74 (6.17%) Mentoring
18 71 (5.92%) Low Latency
19 64 (5.33%) Multithreading
20 60 (5.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 807 (67.25%) Python
2 547 (45.58%) TypeScript
3 483 (40.25%) JavaScript
4 473 (39.42%) Java
5 326 (27.17%) SQL
6 206 (17.17%) C#
7 42 (3.50%) C++
8 35 (2.92%) R
9 26 (2.17%) Go
10 16 (1.33%) Scala
11 15 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.17%) PowerShell
13 12 (1.00%) Ruby
14 8 (0.67%) Perl
14 8 (0.67%) Rust
14 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.42%) Groovy
15 5 (0.42%) VBA
16 4 (0.33%) C
16 4 (0.33%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 90 (7.50%) Degree
2 21 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.17%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.42%) PhD
5 2 (0.17%) ACCA
5 2 (0.17%) CBAP
5 2 (0.17%) CCIE
5 2 (0.17%) CIMA
5 2 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.083%) CFA
6 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 55 (4.58%) QA
3 7 (0.58%) SOC 1
4 6 (0.50%) MiFID
5 4 (0.33%) SLA
6 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 37 (3.08%) Docker
2 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.17%) Terraform
3 6 (0.50%) Ansible
4 4 (0.33%) Control-M
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.083%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.083%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.083%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.083%) SCCM
6 1 (0.083%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.083%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.083%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (8.25%) Google
2 86 (7.17%) Bloomberg
3 23 (1.92%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.67%) Oracle
5 15 (1.25%) Murex
6 14 (1.17%) BISAM
7 10 (0.83%) Charles River
7 10 (0.83%) IBM
8 8 (0.67%) Algorithmics
9 6 (0.50%) FFastFill
9 6 (0.50%) Refinitiv
9 6 (0.50%) Reuters
9 6 (0.50%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.42%) Microsoft
10 5 (0.42%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.42%) Trayport
10 5 (0.42%) Vertica
11 3 (0.25%) Databricks
11 3 (0.25%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.25%) SAP