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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 96 117
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Front Office 864 1,393 2,028
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.01% 2.49% 2.32%
As % of the General category 3.49% 4.25% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 1,176 1,681
10th Percentile £538 £525 £538
25th Percentile £613 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -40.00% +35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £26.00
25th Percentile £13.50 - £30.13
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 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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 1 June 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 12 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 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
England -14 855 £750 +3.45% 224
London 0 836 £750 +3.45% 201
Work from Home +17 417 £750 +3.06% 100
UK excluding London +5 19 £405 -40.00% 13
South East -1 7 £500 -50.00% 7
North of England +19 6 £515 -20.77% 3
North West +16 5 £405 -37.69% 2
East of England +6 3 £375 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Northern Ireland -4 1 £288 -52.08%
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

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
1 215 (24.88%) Apache Airflow
2 206 (23.84%) Apache
3 13 (1.50%) Confluence
4 8 (0.93%) SAS
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.46%) MTS
7 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (2.66%) Aladdin
2 21 (2.43%) Endur
3 10 (1.16%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.81%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.69%) Markit EDM
5 6 (0.69%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.46%) EuroRunner
7 3 (0.35%) Aligne
8 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.12%) RMDS
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 333 (38.54%) AWS
2 208 (24.07%) GCP
3 206 (23.84%) Azure
4 133 (15.39%) dbt
5 104 (12.04%) Snowflake
6 22 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 17 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (1.85%) npm
9 9 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (1.04%) GitHub
10 7 (0.81%) Serverless
11 6 (0.69%) Azure App Service
12 5 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.58%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.46%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon MSK
15 2 (0.23%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.50%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.35%) DHCP
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) SSH
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) LAN
5 1 (0.12%) Multicast
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (22.69%) Apache Ignite
2 133 (15.39%) Dremio
3 131 (15.16%) Apache Arrow
4 127 (14.70%) Amazon Athena
5 111 (12.85%) Data Lake
6 67 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (4.51%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 24 (2.78%) KDB
9 24 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 21 (2.43%) Power BI
11 16 (1.85%) Tableau
12 11 (1.27%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (0.81%) Kdb+
13 7 (0.81%) Redis
14 6 (0.69%) Big Data
14 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.35%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 64 (7.41%) JIRA
2 57 (6.60%) Cypress.io
3 32 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 30 (3.47%) TeamCity
5 29 (3.36%) Git
6 28 (3.24%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.85%) webpack
8 15 (1.74%) GitLab
8 15 (1.74%) JUnit
9 12 (1.39%) Mockito
10 11 (1.27%) NUnit
11 10 (1.16%) Moq
11 10 (1.16%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.69%) MLflow
13 6 (0.69%) Selenium
14 5 (0.58%) Maven
15 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.35%) FitNesse
16 3 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 605 (70.02%) Finance
2 397 (45.95%) Banking
3 224 (25.93%) Investment Banking
4 128 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 84 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (6.83%) Back Office
7 9 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 8 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.69%) Law
10 4 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.46%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.35%) Aviation
11 3 (0.35%) Marketing
11 3 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.23%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.23%) Publishing
12 2 (0.23%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 437 (50.58%) Developer
2 215 (24.88%) Software Engineer
3 152 (17.59%) Analyst
4 149 (17.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 138 (15.97%) Python Developer
6 129 (14.93%) Senior
7 127 (14.70%) Python Engineer
8 125 (14.47%) Python Software Engineer
9 110 (12.73%) React Developer
10 101 (11.69%) Business Analyst
11 96 (11.11%) Java Developer
12 87 (10.07%) C# Developer
13 77 (8.91%) Full Stack Developer
14 65 (7.52%) Front Office Developer
15 61 (7.06%) Lead
16 59 (6.83%) Finance Manager
17 53 (6.13%) Financial Analyst
18 49 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
18 49 (5.67%) Senior Developer
19 48 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (24.07%) gRPC
2 204 (23.61%) Protocol Buffers
3 195 (22.57%) React
4 151 (17.48%) Pandas
5 144 (16.67%) NumPy
6 134 (15.51%) SciPy
7 126 (14.58%) Redux
8 104 (12.04%) .NET
9 78 (9.03%) Material-UI
10 55 (6.37%) AngularJS
11 36 (4.17%) .NET Core
11 36 (4.17%) REST
12 29 (3.36%) WPF
13 26 (3.01%) Node.js
14 23 (2.66%) FIX Protocol
15 22 (2.55%) ASP.NET
15 22 (2.55%) RxJS
16 21 (2.43%) Spring
16 21 (2.43%) Vue
17 20 (2.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 374 (43.29%) Fixed Income
2 325 (37.62%) Derivative
3 307 (35.53%) Hedge funds
4 272 (31.48%) Equities
5 242 (28.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 46 (5.32%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 24 (2.78%) Equity Derivative
10 20 (2.31%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.20%) Data Structures
12 18 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.62%) Pricing Data
14 13 (1.50%) Credit Derivative
15 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (0.69%) Management Information System
17 6 (0.69%) Wiki
18 5 (0.58%) Reference Data
18 5 (0.58%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.56%) Windows
2 40 (4.63%) Linux
3 37 (4.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (52.55%) Agile
2 348 (40.28%) Asset Management
3 333 (38.54%) Software Engineering
4 294 (34.03%) Investment Management
5 147 (17.01%) Full Stack Development
6 112 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 109 (12.62%) Electronic Trading
8 105 (12.15%) Machine Learning
9 89 (10.30%) Analytics
9 89 (10.30%) DevOps
10 75 (8.68%) Fintech
11 72 (8.33%) Automated Trading
12 68 (7.87%) TDD
13 65 (7.52%) CI/CD
14 56 (6.48%) Computer Science
15 55 (6.37%) Line Management
15 55 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (6.25%) Risk Management
17 49 (5.67%) Test Automation
18 47 (5.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 432 (50.00%) Python
2 272 (31.48%) TypeScript
3 258 (29.86%) SQL
4 255 (29.51%) Java
5 217 (25.12%) C#
6 211 (24.42%) JavaScript
7 40 (4.63%) C++
8 37 (4.28%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.97%) VBA
10 14 (1.62%) Scala
11 13 (1.50%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.39%) R
13 9 (1.04%) Rust
14 7 (0.81%) Perl
15 6 (0.69%) Ruby
16 4 (0.46%) Bicep
16 4 (0.46%) Groovy
16 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 92 (10.65%) Degree
2 28 (3.24%) Master's Degree
3 22 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.93%) PhD
6 7 (0.81%) CISM
6 7 (0.81%) CISSP
7 6 (0.69%) CISA
7 6 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.46%) PMP
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.12%) CCNA
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.12%) PgMP
10 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.79%) QA
3 15 (1.74%) MiFID
4 11 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
5 10 (1.16%) EMIR
6 4 (0.46%) PMO
6 4 (0.46%) SEPA
6 4 (0.46%) SLA
7 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.43%) Docker
2 10 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (0.69%) Grafana
4 5 (0.58%) Podman
5 4 (0.46%) Control-M
5 4 (0.46%) SCCM
5 4 (0.46%) Terraform
6 3 (0.35%) WSUS
7 1 (0.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) Nagios
7 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (7.52%) Google
2 53 (6.13%) Bloomberg
3 29 (3.36%) ION Trading
4 24 (2.78%) Oracle
5 19 (2.20%) Microsoft
6 15 (1.74%) Murex
6 15 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.50%) OpenLink
8 12 (1.39%) BISAM
8 12 (1.39%) MarketAxess
8 12 (1.39%) Tradeweb
9 11 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 10 (1.16%) IBM
11 9 (1.04%) Citrix
11 9 (1.04%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.81%) Databricks
12 7 (0.81%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.69%) Splunk
14 5 (0.58%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.58%) Reuters