Front Office Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 66 91 203
Rank change year-on-year +25 +112 -76
Contract jobs citing Front Office 436 595 605
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.95% 2.49% 1.38%
As % of the General category 5.06% 4.26% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 525 505
10th Percentile £563 £534 £550
25th Percentile £663 £600 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - +20.83%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £845
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -70.00% -2.91% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,623 13,983 24,165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.44% 58.57% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 9,896 17,664
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 316 342
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.66 £13.53
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £34.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +42.24% +55.04%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.38 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Front Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front Office.

Front Office daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front Office over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Front Office daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 155 (35.55%) Apache Airflow
2 147 (33.72%) Apache
3 5 (1.15%) Confluence
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.46%) MTS
5 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
Applications
1 16 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) Endur
2 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.46%) Aligne
2 2 (0.46%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 199 (45.64%) AWS
2 143 (32.80%) dbt
3 112 (25.69%) Snowflake
4 107 (24.54%) GCP
5 44 (10.09%) Azure
6 12 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.15%) npm
10 4 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.92%) Dagster
11 3 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.46%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
13 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.23%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.23%) Azure Storage
13 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.46%) DHCP
3 2 (0.46%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (32.80%) Dremio
2 139 (31.88%) Apache Arrow
3 138 (31.65%) Apache Ignite
4 135 (30.96%) Amazon Athena
5 124 (28.44%) Data Lake
6 13 (2.98%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.75%) Power BI
8 9 (2.06%) KDB
9 8 (1.83%) Big Data
9 8 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.83%) Tableau
10 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.92%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.46%) Data Mart
13 2 (0.46%) MySQL
14 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 19 (4.36%) JIRA
2 13 (2.98%) Cucumber
3 11 (2.52%) GitLab
3 11 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.29%) JUnit
4 10 (2.29%) Mockito
5 8 (1.83%) Git
6 6 (1.38%) MLflow
7 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.15%) webpack
8 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.69%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.46%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.46%) JMeter
10 2 (0.46%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.46%) Selenium
10 2 (0.46%) TestRail
11 1 (0.23%) Log4Net
11 1 (0.23%) TestComplete
General
1 356 (81.65%) Finance
2 235 (53.90%) Banking
3 177 (40.60%) Investment Banking
4 58 (13.30%) Social Skills
5 34 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.80%) Back Office
6 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 4 (0.92%) Law
8 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.46%) Marketing
9 2 (0.46%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 216 (49.54%) Developer
2 119 (27.29%) Software Engineer
3 101 (23.17%) Senior
4 70 (16.06%) Python Engineer
5 69 (15.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 66 (15.14%) Python Software Engineer
7 64 (14.68%) Java Developer
8 62 (14.22%) Lead
9 61 (13.99%) Analyst
10 59 (13.53%) Python Developer
11 57 (13.07%) AWS Engineer
12 56 (12.84%) AWS Software Engineer
13 52 (11.93%) Java Engineer
13 52 (11.93%) Java Software Engineer
14 50 (11.47%) Senior Software Engineer
15 49 (11.24%) C# Developer
16 45 (10.32%) Front Office Developer
17 43 (9.86%) Software Developer
18 41 (9.40%) Business Analyst
19 37 (8.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (33.94%) gRPC
2 147 (33.72%) Protocol Buffers
3 140 (32.11%) Pandas
4 133 (30.50%) NumPy
4 133 (30.50%) SciPy
5 65 (14.91%) React
6 34 (7.80%) .NET
7 33 (7.57%) Redux
8 28 (6.42%) AngularJS
9 26 (5.96%) Node.js
10 16 (3.67%) Vue
11 15 (3.44%) WPF
12 13 (2.98%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.52%) Material-UI
14 10 (2.29%) PySpark
15 8 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (1.83%) RxJS
16 7 (1.61%) CSS
16 7 (1.61%) REST
16 7 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 237 (54.36%) Derivative
2 218 (50.00%) Fixed Income
3 188 (43.12%) Equities
4 186 (42.66%) Hedge funds
5 185 (42.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (5.50%) Product Ownership
7 20 (4.59%) Equity Derivative
8 16 (3.67%) Pricing Data
9 12 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.52%) Credit Derivative
10 11 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.61%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.69%) Reference Data
15 2 (0.46%) Blog
15 2 (0.46%) Cloud Native
15 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.82%) Unix
2 15 (3.44%) Windows
3 14 (3.21%) Linux
4 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (55.73%) Agile
2 222 (50.92%) Asset Management
3 194 (44.50%) Software Engineering
4 176 (40.37%) Investment Management
5 63 (14.45%) Analytics
6 55 (12.61%) Line Management
7 48 (11.01%) Greeks
8 43 (9.86%) Fintech
9 37 (8.49%) Electronic Trading
10 32 (7.34%) Full Stack Development
10 32 (7.34%) Mentoring
11 30 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (5.73%) Machine Learning
12 25 (5.73%) Performance Attribution
13 24 (5.50%) Computer Science
14 21 (4.82%) Product Management
15 20 (4.59%) SDLC
16 19 (4.36%) Front End Development
16 19 (4.36%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 274 (62.84%) Python
2 196 (44.95%) Java
3 176 (40.37%) JavaScript
4 172 (39.45%) TypeScript
5 117 (26.83%) SQL
6 104 (23.85%) C#
7 17 (3.90%) C++
8 12 (2.75%) Scala
9 10 (2.29%) R
10 9 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.38%) Ruby
12 6 (1.38%) VBA
13 4 (0.92%) Perl
13 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.23%) Go
15 1 (0.23%) Rust
15 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (10.55%) Degree
2 20 (4.59%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.61%) PhD
5 5 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.23%) PMP
7 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.61%) QA
3 6 (1.38%) MiFID
4 4 (0.92%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.92%) SEPA
5 2 (0.46%) EMIR
5 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.46%) PMO
5 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.46%) vSphere
3 1 (0.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.69%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.69%) Terraform
2 2 (0.46%) WSUS
3 1 (0.23%) Ansible
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Nagios
3 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (5.28%) Bloomberg
2 13 (2.98%) Oracle
3 12 (2.75%) ION Trading
4 8 (1.83%) Reuters
5 6 (1.38%) Databricks
5 6 (1.38%) OpenLink
6 5 (1.15%) MarketAxess
6 5 (1.15%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.15%) Murex
6 5 (1.15%) Tradeweb
7 3 (0.69%) IBM
7 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.46%) Okta
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.46%) VMware
9 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.23%) Charles River
9 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.23%) Solace
9 1 (0.23%) Splunk