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 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 241 243 371
Rank change year-on-year +2 +128 -131
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,164 1,532 1,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.54% 1.00%
As % of the General category 1.95% 2.26% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,360 1,472
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £83,438 £80,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £138,125 £127,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £150,125 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 59,592 67,843 105,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.21% 64.61%
Number of salaries quoted 39,690 36,730 51,592
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £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 20 May 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 1,132 £115,000 +6.98% 293
London +19 1,077 £115,000 +6.98% 279
Work from Home 0 620 £115,000 +9.52% 119
UK excluding London -11 80 £75,000 +15.38% 56
South West - 29 - -
Scotland -61 23 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North of England +50 17 £35,000 -63.16% 3
Yorkshire - 11 - -
North West +2 6 £35,000 -63.16% 2
South East -10 6 £85,000 -12.82% 50
East of England -3 2 £100,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 -
West Midlands -4 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -27 1 £32,000 -39.05% 1

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
1 387 (33.25%) Apache Airflow
2 370 (31.79%) Apache
3 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.086%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.086%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.89%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.20%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.52%) ION Anvil
3 6 (0.52%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.086%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.086%) Eikon
7 1 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 657 (56.44%) AWS
2 411 (35.31%) GCP
3 288 (24.74%) Azure
4 266 (22.85%) dbt
5 218 (18.73%) Snowflake
6 42 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (3.61%) Serverless
7 40 (3.44%) Amazon S3
7 40 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
8 30 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (2.58%) OpenShift
9 10 (0.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (0.77%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.43%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.34%) PaaS
12 4 (0.34%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.52%) Internet
2 5 (0.43%) FTP
2 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.17%) BGP
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) OSPF
3 2 (0.17%) WAN
4 1 (0.086%) DHCP
4 1 (0.086%) DNS
4 1 (0.086%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (31.53%) Apache Ignite
2 266 (22.85%) Apache Arrow
2 266 (22.85%) Dremio
3 262 (22.51%) Amazon Athena
4 222 (19.07%) Data Lake
5 107 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (2.06%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.80%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.03%) MySQL
11 11 (0.95%) KDB
12 10 (0.86%) Relational Database
13 9 (0.77%) Power BI
14 8 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.60%) Kdb+
16 4 (0.34%) Big Data
16 4 (0.34%) Tableau
17 2 (0.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 63 (5.41%) Cypress.io
2 39 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.58%) Artifactory
4 17 (1.46%) Git
5 13 (1.12%) JIRA
6 9 (0.77%) GitLab
6 9 (0.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.086%) Gradle
7 1 (0.086%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 948 (81.44%) Finance
2 602 (51.72%) Banking
3 381 (32.73%) Investment Banking
4 121 (10.40%) Social Skills
5 118 (10.14%) Back Office
6 73 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (5.41%) Law
8 43 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.06%) Marketing
10 19 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.46%) Legal
12 5 (0.43%) Retail
13 4 (0.34%) Billing
13 4 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.26%) International Banking
15 2 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.17%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.086%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.086%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 548 (47.08%) Developer
2 422 (36.25%) Software Engineer
3 307 (26.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 236 (20.27%) Senior
5 235 (20.19%) Python Engineer
6 232 (19.93%) Python Software Engineer
7 226 (19.42%) Python Developer
8 189 (16.24%) Analyst
9 143 (12.29%) React Developer
10 140 (12.03%) Lead
11 128 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
11 128 (11.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 115 (9.88%) Finance Manager
13 109 (9.36%) Java Developer
14 100 (8.59%) .NET Developer
15 98 (8.42%) AWS Software Engineer
16 94 (8.08%) Java Engineer
17 93 (7.99%) Java Software Engineer
18 89 (7.65%) Senior Developer
19 82 (7.04%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (33.08%) gRPC
1 385 (33.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 314 (26.98%) React
3 271 (23.28%) Pandas
4 259 (22.25%) NumPy
5 251 (21.56%) SciPy
6 236 (20.27%) Redux
7 141 (12.11%) .NET
8 127 (10.91%) Material-UI
9 126 (10.82%) AngularJS
10 108 (9.28%) Vue
11 74 (6.36%) .NET Core
12 46 (3.95%) ASP.NET
12 46 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
13 44 (3.78%) Node.js
14 42 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
15 30 (2.58%) J2EE
15 30 (2.58%) Spring
16 23 (1.98%) Spring Boot
17 22 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 668 (57.39%) Fixed Income
2 634 (54.47%) Hedge funds
3 535 (45.96%) Equities
4 532 (45.70%) Derivative
5 455 (39.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 65 (5.58%) Product Ownership
7 41 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.58%) Pricing Data
8 30 (2.58%) Tandem
9 25 (2.15%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.37%) Credit Risk
11 16 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.12%) Blog
13 10 (0.86%) Market Risk
13 10 (0.86%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.77%) Client/Server
15 8 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.69%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.07%) Linux
2 26 (2.23%) Windows
3 25 (2.15%) Unix
4 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.086%) CentOS
6 1 (0.086%) Debian
6 1 (0.086%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.086%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.086%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.086%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.086%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (62.97%) Agile
2 709 (60.91%) Asset Management
3 642 (55.15%) Software Engineering
4 611 (52.49%) Investment Management
5 208 (17.87%) Full Stack Development
6 153 (13.14%) Machine Learning
7 151 (12.97%) Artificial Intelligence
8 132 (11.34%) Analytics
9 130 (11.17%) Fintech
10 113 (9.71%) Automated Trading
11 110 (9.45%) Line Management
12 103 (8.85%) DevOps
13 94 (8.08%) Electronic Trading
14 92 (7.90%) Greeks
14 92 (7.90%) TDD
15 79 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
16 78 (6.70%) Mentoring
17 68 (5.84%) Low Latency
18 64 (5.50%) Decision-Making
18 64 (5.50%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 767 (65.89%) Python
2 510 (43.81%) TypeScript
3 446 (38.32%) JavaScript
4 434 (37.29%) Java
5 320 (27.49%) SQL
6 215 (18.47%) C#
7 43 (3.69%) C++
8 39 (3.35%) R
9 30 (2.58%) Go
10 19 (1.63%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.46%) Scala
12 14 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.12%) Ruby
14 8 (0.69%) Rust
15 7 (0.60%) Perl
15 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) VBA
17 4 (0.34%) C
17 4 (0.34%) Clojure
17 4 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (7.65%) Degree
2 20 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.43%) 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 (0.086%) CFA
6 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.64%) QA
3 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
4 6 (0.52%) MiFID
5 4 (0.34%) SLA
6 3 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 41 (3.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.58%) Terraform
3 6 (0.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.34%) Control-M
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.086%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.086%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.086%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.086%) SCCM
6 1 (0.086%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.086%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (8.51%) Google
2 85 (7.30%) Bloomberg
3 23 (1.98%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.72%) Oracle
5 14 (1.20%) BISAM
5 14 (1.20%) Murex
6 11 (0.95%) Charles River
7 10 (0.86%) IBM
8 8 (0.69%) Algorithmics
9 7 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.52%) FFastFill
10 6 (0.52%) Refinitiv
10 6 (0.52%) Reuters
11 5 (0.43%) Microsoft
11 5 (0.43%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.43%) Trayport
11 5 (0.43%) Vertica
12 3 (0.26%) Databricks
12 3 (0.26%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.26%) SAP