Front Office Developer Contracts

Front Office Developer
UK

The median Front Office Developer daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 560 594
Rank change year-on-year +50 +34 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 65 122 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 110 231
10th Percentile £563 £625 £600
25th Percentile £600 £700 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £772 £888 £800
90th Percentile £850 £1,003 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate - £1,000 £650
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Top 3 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +48 65 £700 -12.50% 6
England +35 65 £700 -12.50% 7
Work from Home +95 48 £663 -18.46% 3

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Front Office Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Front Office
2 45 (69.23%) Finance
3 40 (61.54%) Banking
4 32 (49.23%) C#
5 28 (43.08%) Derivative
6 27 (41.54%) Investment Banking
7 24 (36.92%) SQL
8 23 (35.38%) Java
9 22 (33.85%) Python
10 21 (32.31%) Equity Derivative
11 17 (26.15%) Fixed Income
12 16 (24.62%) SQL Server
13 13 (20.00%) C++
13 13 (20.00%) RAD
14 12 (18.46%) Agile
15 11 (16.92%) Multithreading
16 10 (15.38%) Azure
16 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
17 9 (13.85%) .NET
17 9 (13.85%) WPF
18 8 (12.31%) Mathematics
18 8 (12.31%) Electronic Trading
18 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
18 8 (12.31%) React
18 8 (12.31%) Front End Development
18 8 (12.31%) Requirements Gathering
18 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
19 7 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
19 7 (10.77%) Greeks
19 7 (10.77%) AWS

Front Office Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) Azure
2 7 (10.77%) AWS
3 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.54%) IaaS
4 1 (1.54%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.08%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) KDB
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) CircleCI
3 2 (3.08%) GitLab
3 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Moq
3 2 (3.08%) NUnit
3 2 (3.08%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (100.00%) Front Office
2 45 (69.23%) Finance
3 40 (61.54%) Banking
4 27 (41.54%) Investment Banking
5 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) .NET
1 9 (13.85%) WPF
2 8 (12.31%) React
3 7 (10.77%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.69%) Reactive Extensions
5 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
5 4 (6.15%) Redux
6 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.62%) CSS
6 3 (4.62%) HTML
6 3 (4.62%) Spring
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.08%) Blazor
7 2 (3.08%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.08%) Middleware
7 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.08%) REST
7 2 (3.08%) RESTful
7 2 (3.08%) SignalR
7 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (43.08%) Derivative
2 21 (32.31%) Equity Derivative
3 17 (26.15%) Fixed Income
4 7 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (10.77%) Equities
5 5 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (6.15%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.54%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) RAD
2 12 (18.46%) Agile
3 11 (16.92%) Multithreading
4 8 (12.31%) Electronic Trading
4 8 (12.31%) Front End Development
4 8 (12.31%) Mathematics
4 8 (12.31%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (10.77%) Greeks
5 7 (10.77%) Risk Management
6 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
6 6 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (7.69%) OOP
8 4 (6.15%) Clean Code
8 4 (6.15%) Containerisation
8 4 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (6.15%) Economics
8 4 (6.15%) Microservices
8 4 (6.15%) Refactoring
8 4 (6.15%) TDD
8 4 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) C#
2 24 (36.92%) SQL
3 23 (35.38%) Java
4 22 (33.85%) Python
5 13 (20.00%) C++
6 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (3.08%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (1.54%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.62%) Oracle
2 2 (3.08%) TIBCO
3 1 (1.54%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft