Front Office Contracts in England

Front Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front Office over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 81 90
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Front Office 872 1,357 2,022
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.32% 2.89% 2.88%
As % of the General category 4.06% 4.88% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 1,151 1,688
10th Percentile £538 £525 £538
25th Percentile £625 £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 £863
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - £26.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
England

Front Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,502 27,813 40,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.33% 59.13% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,781 19,606 28,322
10th Percentile £281 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,827 910 1,280
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile £52.64 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in England

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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 -1 851 £750 +3.45% 181
South East +7 9 £500 -50.00% 3
North of England +14 7 £515 -20.77% 3
North West +10 5 £405 -37.69% 2
East of England +6 3 £375 -
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 3
Midlands - 2 £356 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
Front Office
UK

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 244 (27.98%) Apache Airflow
2 234 (26.83%) Apache
3 11 (1.26%) Confluence
4 8 (0.92%) SAS
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.46%) MTS
7 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 37 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (2.41%) Aladdin
2 20 (2.29%) Endur
3 8 (0.92%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.80%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.69%) Markit EDM
5 6 (0.69%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.46%) EuroRunner
7 3 (0.34%) Aligne
8 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.11%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 363 (41.63%) AWS
2 222 (25.46%) GCP
3 198 (22.71%) Azure
4 162 (18.58%) dbt
5 128 (14.68%) Snowflake
6 24 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 17 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.38%) npm
10 11 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (1.03%) GitHub
11 9 (1.03%) Serverless
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.69%) Azure App Service
13 6 (0.69%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (0.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.26%) FIX Connectivity
2 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Multicast
5 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (25.46%) Apache Ignite
2 162 (18.58%) Dremio
3 158 (18.12%) Apache Arrow
4 154 (17.66%) Amazon Athena
5 139 (15.94%) Data Lake
6 67 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (4.36%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.10%) NoSQL
9 26 (2.98%) Relational Database
10 24 (2.75%) KDB
11 23 (2.64%) Power BI
12 17 (1.95%) Tableau
13 12 (1.38%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.92%) Big Data
15 7 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.80%) Redis
16 6 (0.69%) Kdb+
16 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 3 (0.34%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 57 (6.54%) Cypress.io
1 57 (6.54%) JIRA
2 34 (3.90%) Git
3 30 (3.44%) Cucumber
4 28 (3.21%) Jenkins
5 27 (3.10%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.49%) GitLab
6 13 (1.49%) JUnit
7 12 (1.38%) Maven
7 12 (1.38%) webpack
8 11 (1.26%) NUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Mockito
9 10 (1.15%) Moq
9 10 (1.15%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.80%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.69%) Selenium
12 5 (0.57%) Gradle
12 5 (0.57%) IntelliJ
12 5 (0.57%) MLflow
13 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
General
1 620 (71.10%) Finance
2 420 (48.17%) Banking
3 249 (28.56%) Investment Banking
4 125 (14.33%) Social Skills
5 71 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (5.73%) Back Office
7 9 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.69%) Law
10 4 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.46%) Publishing
11 3 (0.34%) Aviation
11 3 (0.34%) Marketing
11 3 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (0.34%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.23%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.23%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 452 (51.83%) Developer
2 225 (25.80%) Software Engineer
3 156 (17.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 149 (17.09%) Python Developer
5 143 (16.40%) Analyst
6 136 (15.60%) Python Engineer
6 136 (15.60%) Senior
7 132 (15.14%) Python Software Engineer
8 108 (12.39%) React Developer
9 105 (12.04%) Java Developer
10 97 (11.12%) Business Analyst
11 78 (8.94%) C# Developer
12 71 (8.14%) Full Stack Developer
13 69 (7.91%) Lead
14 68 (7.80%) Front Office Developer
15 60 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
16 59 (6.77%) AWS Software Engineer
17 57 (6.54%) Finance Manager
18 55 (6.31%) Java Engineer
18 55 (6.31%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (26.83%) gRPC
2 230 (26.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 191 (21.90%) React
4 180 (20.64%) Pandas
5 173 (19.84%) NumPy
6 163 (18.69%) SciPy
7 124 (14.22%) Redux
8 102 (11.70%) .NET
9 77 (8.83%) Material-UI
10 53 (6.08%) AngularJS
11 36 (4.13%) .NET Core
12 32 (3.67%) REST
13 27 (3.10%) Node.js
14 24 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
14 24 (2.75%) WPF
15 21 (2.41%) Spring
16 20 (2.29%) ASP.NET
16 20 (2.29%) Vue
17 19 (2.18%) CSS
18 18 (2.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 401 (45.99%) Fixed Income
2 341 (39.11%) Derivative
3 327 (37.50%) Hedge funds
4 298 (34.17%) Equities
5 277 (31.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (5.85%) Product Ownership
7 29 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (3.10%) Algorithms
9 22 (2.52%) Equity Derivative
9 22 (2.52%) Market Risk
10 21 (2.41%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.83%) Pricing Data
12 11 (1.26%) Credit Derivative
12 11 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.69%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.57%) Handset
14 5 (0.57%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.28%) Windows
2 41 (4.70%) Linux
3 34 (3.90%) Unix
4 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (54.47%) Agile
2 367 (42.09%) Asset Management
3 350 (40.14%) Software Engineering
4 298 (34.17%) Investment Management
5 142 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
6 112 (12.84%) Artificial Intelligence
7 106 (12.16%) Machine Learning
8 103 (11.81%) Electronic Trading
9 89 (10.21%) Analytics
10 84 (9.63%) DevOps
11 77 (8.83%) Fintech
12 71 (8.14%) Automated Trading
12 71 (8.14%) Line Management
13 70 (8.03%) TDD
14 69 (7.91%) CI/CD
15 59 (6.77%) Computer Science
16 58 (6.65%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (6.08%) Test Automation
18 48 (5.50%) Greeks
19 47 (5.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 453 (51.95%) Python
2 294 (33.72%) TypeScript
3 284 (32.57%) Java
4 263 (30.16%) SQL
5 235 (26.95%) JavaScript
6 197 (22.59%) C#
7 40 (4.59%) C++
8 34 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.18%) VBA
10 13 (1.49%) Scala
11 11 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.15%) R
13 9 (1.03%) Rust
14 7 (0.80%) Perl
15 6 (0.69%) Ruby
16 5 (0.57%) Groovy
17 4 (0.46%) Bicep
17 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 88 (10.09%) Degree
2 29 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 28 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.92%) PhD
6 7 (0.80%) CISM
6 7 (0.80%) CISSP
7 6 (0.69%) CISA
7 6 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.46%) PMP
9 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CCNA
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.11%) PgMP
10 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.39%) QA
3 13 (1.49%) MiFID
4 9 (1.03%) Dodd-Frank
5 8 (0.92%) EMIR
6 4 (0.46%) PMO
6 4 (0.46%) SEPA
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (2.64%) Docker
2 10 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (0.69%) Grafana
4 5 (0.57%) Podman
4 5 (0.57%) SCCM
4 5 (0.57%) Terraform
5 4 (0.46%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Nagios
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (7.45%) Google
2 60 (6.88%) Bloomberg
3 28 (3.21%) ION Trading
4 23 (2.64%) Oracle
5 16 (1.83%) Microsoft
6 15 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.49%) Murex
7 13 (1.49%) OpenLink
7 13 (1.49%) Reuters
8 12 (1.38%) BISAM
9 11 (1.26%) TIBCO
10 10 (1.15%) Citrix
10 10 (1.15%) MarketAxess
10 10 (1.15%) Tradeweb
11 8 (0.92%) IBM
12 7 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.80%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.69%) Databricks
13 6 (0.69%) Splunk
14 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace