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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 95 120
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 -26
Contract jobs citing Front Office 874 1,433 1,991
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 2.50% 2.25%
As % of the General category 3.54% 4.28% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,199 1,646
10th Percentile £531 £525 £538
25th Percentile £613 £600 £588
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 £398 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -36.40% +31.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £13.50 - £24.81
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +44.93% -
75th Percentile £16.50 - £68.69
90th Percentile - - £115.45
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 24,681 33,520 49,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.54% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,587 23,230 34,613
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,020 1,422
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.59 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%

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 20 May 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 11 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -11 865 £750 +3.45% 294
London +1 849 £750 +3.45% 280
Work from Home +19 417 £750 +3.45% 120
UK excluding London -4 16 £398 -36.40% 56
North of England +12 5 £405 -12.88% 3
South East +3 5 £500 -50.00% 50
North West -1 5 £405 -8.99% 2
East of England +12 3 £375 - 5
East Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Midlands - 2 £356 - 1
Northern Ireland -5 1 £288 -50.35%

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
1 201 (23.00%) Apache Airflow
2 187 (21.40%) Apache
3 14 (1.60%) Confluence
4 8 (0.92%) SAS
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.57%) MTS
6 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 45 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (2.75%) Aladdin
2 22 (2.52%) Endur
3 10 (1.14%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.80%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.69%) Markit EDM
5 6 (0.69%) thinkFolio
6 5 (0.57%) EuroRunner
7 4 (0.46%) Aligne
8 3 (0.34%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
10 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.11%) RMDS
10 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 316 (36.16%) AWS
2 206 (23.57%) GCP
3 203 (23.23%) Azure
4 114 (13.04%) dbt
5 90 (10.30%) Snowflake
6 19 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 18 (2.06%) npm
8 17 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.03%) GitHub
11 7 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.80%) Serverless
12 6 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.57%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.46%) Azure App Service
14 4 (0.46%) Entra ID
15 3 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
16 2 (0.23%) Amazon MSK
16 2 (0.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.60%) FIX Connectivity
2 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.34%) DHCP
3 3 (0.34%) DNS
3 3 (0.34%) LAN
3 3 (0.34%) WAN
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) SSH
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Multicast
5 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (20.71%) Apache Ignite
2 114 (13.04%) Apache Arrow
2 114 (13.04%) Dremio
3 112 (12.81%) Amazon Athena
4 91 (10.41%) Data Lake
5 67 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 28 (3.20%) KDB
9 24 (2.75%) NoSQL
10 18 (2.06%) Power BI
11 12 (1.37%) Tableau
12 11 (1.26%) Kdb+
13 10 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.46%) Redis
17 3 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
17 3 (0.34%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 65 (7.44%) JIRA
2 56 (6.41%) Cypress.io
3 32 (3.66%) TeamCity
4 31 (3.55%) Cucumber
5 29 (3.32%) Git
6 28 (3.20%) Jenkins
7 18 (2.06%) webpack
8 15 (1.72%) GitLab
9 14 (1.60%) JUnit
10 12 (1.37%) Mockito
11 11 (1.26%) NUnit
12 10 (1.14%) Moq
13 8 (0.92%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.80%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.69%) MLflow
15 6 (0.69%) Selenium
16 5 (0.57%) Maven
17 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
18 3 (0.34%) JMeter
18 3 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 600 (68.65%) Finance
2 390 (44.62%) Banking
3 212 (24.26%) Investment Banking
4 134 (15.33%) Social Skills
5 94 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (8.01%) Back Office
7 9 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.80%) Law
10 4 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.46%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.34%) Agriculture
11 3 (0.34%) Aviation
11 3 (0.34%) Marketing
11 3 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.23%) Publishing
12 2 (0.23%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 446 (51.03%) Developer
2 205 (23.46%) Software Engineer
3 153 (17.51%) Analyst
4 149 (17.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 134 (15.33%) Python Developer
6 123 (14.07%) Senior
7 117 (13.39%) Python Engineer
7 117 (13.39%) Python Software Engineer
8 111 (12.70%) React Developer
9 103 (11.78%) Business Analyst
10 98 (11.21%) Java Developer
11 92 (10.53%) C# Developer
12 75 (8.58%) Full Stack Developer
13 67 (7.67%) Front Office Developer
14 63 (7.21%) Finance Manager
15 60 (6.86%) Lead
16 52 (5.95%) Financial Analyst
17 49 (5.61%) Senior Developer
18 42 (4.81%) .NET Developer
18 42 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (22.54%) React
2 193 (22.08%) gRPC
3 189 (21.62%) Protocol Buffers
4 137 (15.68%) Pandas
5 130 (14.87%) NumPy
6 125 (14.30%) Redux
7 119 (13.62%) SciPy
8 101 (11.56%) .NET
9 79 (9.04%) Material-UI
10 54 (6.18%) AngularJS
11 37 (4.23%) REST
12 36 (4.12%) .NET Core
13 31 (3.55%) WPF
14 24 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
14 24 (2.75%) Node.js
15 23 (2.63%) ASP.NET
15 23 (2.63%) RxJS
16 20 (2.29%) Spring
16 20 (2.29%) Spring Boot
16 20 (2.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 357 (40.85%) Fixed Income
2 319 (36.50%) Derivative
3 299 (34.21%) Hedge funds
4 264 (30.21%) Equities
5 229 (26.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (3.32%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.86%) Equity Derivative
10 24 (2.75%) Market Risk
11 19 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (2.06%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.49%) Credit Derivative
14 10 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.14%) Pricing Data
15 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.69%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.69%) Wiki
17 5 (0.57%) Reference Data
17 5 (0.57%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.18%) Windows
2 41 (4.69%) Unix
3 37 (4.23%) Linux
4 5 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (50.46%) Agile
2 340 (38.90%) Asset Management
3 321 (36.73%) Software Engineering
4 286 (32.72%) Investment Management
5 144 (16.48%) Full Stack Development
6 118 (13.50%) Electronic Trading
7 113 (12.93%) Artificial Intelligence
8 107 (12.24%) Machine Learning
9 90 (10.30%) Analytics
9 90 (10.30%) DevOps
10 73 (8.35%) Automated Trading
11 72 (8.24%) Fintech
12 67 (7.67%) TDD
13 65 (7.44%) CI/CD
14 61 (6.98%) Risk Management
15 60 (6.86%) Computer Science
16 57 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (5.95%) Test Automation
18 51 (5.84%) Line Management
18 51 (5.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 424 (48.51%) Python
2 270 (30.89%) SQL
3 261 (29.86%) TypeScript
4 252 (28.83%) Java
5 233 (26.66%) C#
6 201 (23.00%) JavaScript
7 42 (4.81%) PowerShell
8 39 (4.46%) C++
9 17 (1.95%) VBA
10 15 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 15 (1.72%) Scala
11 14 (1.60%) R
12 9 (1.03%) Rust
13 7 (0.80%) Ruby
14 6 (0.69%) Perl
15 4 (0.46%) Bicep
15 4 (0.46%) Groovy
15 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 97 (11.10%) Degree
2 28 (3.20%) Master's Degree
3 23 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.14%) 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
7 6 (0.69%) Microsoft 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%) MCSE
10 1 (0.11%) CCNA
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 51 (5.84%) QA
2 49 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.95%) MiFID
4 12 (1.37%) Dodd-Frank
4 12 (1.37%) EMIR
5 6 (0.69%) SLA
6 5 (0.57%) PMO
7 4 (0.46%) SEPA
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (2.40%) Docker
2 10 (1.14%) 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 8 (0.92%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (0.69%) Grafana
4 5 (0.57%) Podman
5 4 (0.46%) Control-M
5 4 (0.46%) SCCM
5 4 (0.46%) Terraform
6 3 (0.34%) WSUS
7 1 (0.11%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Nagios
7 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (7.44%) Google
2 57 (6.52%) Bloomberg
3 30 (3.43%) ION Trading
4 24 (2.75%) Oracle
5 21 (2.40%) Microsoft
6 16 (1.83%) Murex
7 15 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.49%) MarketAxess
8 13 (1.49%) OpenLink
8 13 (1.49%) Tradeweb
9 12 (1.37%) BISAM
10 11 (1.26%) TIBCO
11 10 (1.14%) Citrix
11 10 (1.14%) IBM
12 9 (1.03%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.80%) Databricks
13 7 (0.80%) SimCorp
14 6 (0.69%) Splunk
15 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.57%) Reuters