Front Office Jobs

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 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 246 228 381
Rank change year-on-year -18 +153 -133
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,201 1,518 1,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.60% 0.98%
As % of the General category 1.97% 2.37% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 1,355 1,490
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% +10.81%
75th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £151,250 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +23.08% +4.42% +72.92%

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 61,046 64,137 109,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.17% 67.76% 65.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,257 35,476 51,779
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,799 £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 1 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -12 1,168 £115,000 +6.98% 226
London +16 1,115 £115,000 +6.98% 203
Work from Home -9 671 £115,000 +9.52% 100
UK excluding London -34 78 £80,000 +23.08% 13
South West - 29 - - 1
Scotland -60 24 £85,000 +30.77% 1
North of England +45 15 £35,000 -63.16% 3
Yorkshire - 9 - -
North West -1 6 £35,000 -63.16% 2
South East -28 6 £85,000 -12.82% 7
East of England -10 2 £100,000 - 4
West Midlands -28 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -31 1 £32,000 -39.05% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £80,000 -

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
1 444 (36.97%) Apache Airflow
2 429 (35.72%) 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 13 (1.08%) 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
1 711 (59.20%) AWS
2 422 (35.14%) GCP
3 327 (27.23%) dbt
4 286 (23.81%) Azure
5 262 (21.82%) 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 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (2.16%) OpenShift
9 17 (1.42%) 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
1 418 (34.80%) Apache Ignite
2 327 (27.23%) Dremio
3 321 (26.73%) Apache Arrow
4 315 (26.23%) Amazon Athena
5 280 (23.31%) Data Lake
6 107 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.58%) SQL Server
9 17 (1.42%) Power BI
10 16 (1.33%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.00%) Big Data
11 12 (1.00%) MySQL
11 12 (1.00%) Tableau
12 11 (0.92%) KDB
13 10 (0.83%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.58%) Kdb+
16 3 (0.25%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 63 (5.25%) Cypress.io
2 35 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.16%) Artifactory
4 18 (1.50%) Git
5 14 (1.17%) JIRA
6 9 (0.75%) Maven
7 8 (0.67%) GitLab
8 1 (0.083%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.083%) Gradle
8 1 (0.083%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.083%) JUnit
General
1 986 (82.10%) Finance
2 652 (54.29%) Banking
3 432 (35.97%) Investment Banking
4 122 (10.16%) Social Skills
5 109 (9.08%) Back Office
6 74 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (5.08%) Law
8 44 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.00%) Marketing
10 19 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.17%) Legal
12 4 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.25%) International Banking
14 2 (0.17%) Billing
14 2 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.17%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.17%) Retail
15 1 (0.083%) Automotive
15 1 (0.083%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 552 (45.96%) Developer
2 451 (37.55%) Software Engineer
3 312 (25.98%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 265 (22.06%) Python Engineer
5 256 (21.32%) Python Software Engineer
5 256 (21.32%) Senior
6 228 (18.98%) Python Developer
7 191 (15.90%) Analyst
8 152 (12.66%) Lead
9 151 (12.57%) AWS Engineer
10 150 (12.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 143 (11.91%) React Developer
12 125 (10.41%) AWS Software Engineer
13 115 (9.58%) Java Developer
14 114 (9.49%) Java Engineer
15 113 (9.41%) Finance Manager
15 113 (9.41%) Java Software Engineer
16 97 (8.08%) .NET Developer
17 89 (7.41%) Senior Developer
18 80 (6.66%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (36.30%) gRPC
1 436 (36.30%) Protocol Buffers
2 325 (27.06%) Pandas
3 317 (26.39%) React
4 312 (25.98%) NumPy
5 304 (25.31%) SciPy
6 238 (19.82%) Redux
7 137 (11.41%) .NET
8 128 (10.66%) AngularJS
9 123 (10.24%) Material-UI
10 110 (9.16%) Vue
11 75 (6.24%) .NET Core
12 48 (4.00%) Node.js
13 45 (3.75%) FIX Protocol
14 44 (3.66%) ASP.NET
14 44 (3.66%) ASP.NET Core
15 31 (2.58%) Spring
16 27 (2.25%) J2EE
17 23 (1.92%) Spring Boot
18 22 (1.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 719 (59.87%) Fixed Income
2 680 (56.62%) Hedge funds
3 579 (48.21%) Equities
4 569 (47.38%) Derivative
5 504 (41.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 75 (6.24%) Product Ownership
7 42 (3.50%) Pricing Data
8 39 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 26 (2.16%) 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%) FPGA
17 8 (0.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.00%) Linux
2 26 (2.16%) Unix
3 25 (2.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.083%) CentOS
6 1 (0.083%) Debian
6 1 (0.083%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.083%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.083%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.083%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.083%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (65.28%) Agile
2 751 (62.53%) Asset Management
3 684 (56.95%) Software Engineering
4 651 (54.20%) Investment Management
5 207 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
6 152 (12.66%) Machine Learning
7 150 (12.49%) Analytics
8 149 (12.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 135 (11.24%) Fintech
10 116 (9.66%) Greeks
10 116 (9.66%) Line Management
11 114 (9.49%) Automated Trading
12 96 (7.99%) DevOps
13 95 (7.91%) Electronic Trading
14 92 (7.66%) TDD
15 81 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
16 72 (6.00%) Low Latency
17 70 (5.83%) Mentoring
18 64 (5.33%) Multithreading
19 59 (4.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 819 (68.19%) Python
2 556 (46.29%) TypeScript
3 491 (40.88%) JavaScript
4 482 (40.13%) Java
5 327 (27.23%) SQL
6 202 (16.82%) C#
7 42 (3.50%) C++
8 35 (2.91%) R
9 26 (2.16%) Go
10 16 (1.33%) Scala
11 14 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.00%) Ruby
13 8 (0.67%) Perl
13 8 (0.67%) Rust
13 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.42%) Groovy
14 5 (0.42%) VBA
15 4 (0.33%) C
15 4 (0.33%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 89 (7.41%) 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
1 128 (10.66%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.50%) 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 50 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.16%) 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 (8.24%) Google
2 86 (7.16%) 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
10 5 (0.42%) Microsoft
10 5 (0.42%) ServiceNow
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