Front Office Contracts in London

Front Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front Office over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 39 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Front Office 844 1,317 1,991
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.78% 5.21% 5.11%
As % of the General category 7.64% 8.22% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 1,122 1,658
10th Percentile £538 £525 £538
25th Percentile £638 £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
England median daily rate £750 £725 £700
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £87.25
90th Percentile - - £143.65
England median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% -16.67% -

All General Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,054 16,027 23,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.63% 63.42% 60.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,887 11,681 17,263
10th Percentile £335 £375 £387
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 201 281
10th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.14 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £47.81 £52.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £66.20 £70.00 £64.75
England median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £21.63
% change year-on-year +0.81% +43.35% +2.73%

Front Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front Office in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front Office in London

Front Office
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London -47 58 £750 -2.85% 17
East London -3 6 £800 -11.11% 3
South London +5 5 £800 +4.92% 1
West London - 5 £450 -
Front Office
England

Front Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 232 (27.49%) Apache Airflow
2 223 (26.42%) Apache
3 10 (1.18%) Confluence
4 8 (0.95%) SAS
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.47%) MTS
7 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 38 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.61%) Endur
2 20 (2.37%) Aladdin
3 9 (1.07%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.83%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.71%) Markit EDM
5 6 (0.71%) thinkFolio
6 4 (0.47%) EuroRunner
7 3 (0.36%) Aligne
8 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.12%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 352 (41.71%) AWS
2 215 (25.47%) GCP
3 200 (23.70%) Azure
4 150 (17.77%) dbt
5 117 (13.86%) Snowflake
6 24 (2.84%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.54%) npm
10 9 (1.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (1.07%) GitHub
11 8 (0.95%) Serverless
12 7 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (0.71%) Azure App Service
13 6 (0.71%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (0.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.42%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.36%) Firewall
2 3 (0.36%) SSH
3 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) FTP
4 1 (0.12%) Multicast
4 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
2 150 (17.77%) Dremio
3 147 (17.42%) Apache Arrow
4 142 (16.82%) Amazon Athena
5 127 (15.05%) Data Lake
6 67 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 26 (3.08%) NoSQL
8 26 (3.08%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.73%) KDB
9 23 (2.73%) Power BI
10 18 (2.13%) Tableau
11 12 (1.42%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.95%) Big Data
13 7 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (0.83%) Redis
14 6 (0.71%) Kdb+
14 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 57 (6.75%) Cypress.io
2 56 (6.64%) JIRA
3 32 (3.79%) Cucumber
4 30 (3.55%) Git
4 30 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 28 (3.32%) TeamCity
6 15 (1.78%) GitLab
6 15 (1.78%) JUnit
7 13 (1.54%) webpack
8 12 (1.42%) Mockito
9 11 (1.30%) NUnit
10 10 (1.18%) Moq
10 10 (1.18%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.71%) Maven
12 6 (0.71%) Selenium
13 5 (0.59%) MLflow
14 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.36%) FitNesse
15 3 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 604 (71.56%) Finance
2 400 (47.39%) Banking
3 239 (28.32%) Investment Banking
4 123 (14.57%) Social Skills
5 75 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (6.40%) Back Office
7 9 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 6 (0.71%) Law
10 4 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.47%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.36%) Aviation
11 3 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
11 3 (0.36%) Publishing
12 2 (0.24%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.24%) Marketing
12 2 (0.24%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.12%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.12%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 438 (51.90%) Developer
2 220 (26.07%) Software Engineer
3 153 (18.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 144 (17.06%) Analyst
5 141 (16.71%) Python Developer
6 132 (15.64%) Python Engineer
7 131 (15.52%) Senior
8 129 (15.28%) Python Software Engineer
9 109 (12.91%) React Developer
10 99 (11.73%) Java Developer
11 95 (11.26%) Business Analyst
12 80 (9.48%) C# Developer
13 72 (8.53%) Full Stack Developer
14 66 (7.82%) Front Office Developer
15 65 (7.70%) Lead
16 59 (6.99%) Finance Manager
17 56 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
18 55 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
19 53 (6.28%) Financial Analyst
20 52 (6.16%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (26.42%) gRPC
2 219 (25.95%) Protocol Buffers
3 191 (22.63%) React
4 168 (19.91%) Pandas
5 161 (19.08%) NumPy
6 151 (17.89%) SciPy
7 125 (14.81%) Redux
8 99 (11.73%) .NET
9 77 (9.12%) Material-UI
10 54 (6.40%) AngularJS
11 36 (4.27%) .NET Core
12 33 (3.91%) REST
13 27 (3.20%) Node.js
14 24 (2.84%) WPF
15 21 (2.49%) ASP.NET
15 21 (2.49%) Spring
15 21 (2.49%) Vue
16 20 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
16 20 (2.37%) Spring Boot
17 18 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 391 (46.33%) Fixed Income
2 330 (39.10%) Derivative
3 320 (37.91%) Hedge funds
4 286 (33.89%) Equities
5 256 (30.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 51 (6.04%) Product Ownership
7 29 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (3.08%) Algorithms
9 23 (2.73%) Equity Derivative
10 21 (2.49%) Market Risk
11 20 (2.37%) Data Structures
12 17 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.90%) Pricing Data
14 13 (1.54%) Credit Derivative
15 11 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
16 6 (0.71%) Management Information System
17 5 (0.59%) Reference Data
17 5 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
17 5 (0.59%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.09%) Windows
2 32 (3.79%) Linux
2 32 (3.79%) Unix
3 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (54.38%) Agile
2 358 (42.42%) Asset Management
3 339 (40.17%) Software Engineering
4 297 (35.19%) Investment Management
5 143 (16.94%) Full Stack Development
6 113 (13.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 106 (12.56%) Machine Learning
8 98 (11.61%) Electronic Trading
9 88 (10.43%) DevOps
10 87 (10.31%) Analytics
11 76 (9.00%) Fintech
12 71 (8.41%) Automated Trading
13 68 (8.06%) CI/CD
13 68 (8.06%) TDD
14 60 (7.11%) Line Management
15 55 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (6.28%) Computer Science
17 50 (5.92%) Risk Management
17 50 (5.92%) Test Automation
18 46 (5.45%) Greeks
Programming Languages
1 439 (52.01%) Python
2 282 (33.41%) TypeScript
3 268 (31.75%) Java
4 260 (30.81%) SQL
5 223 (26.42%) JavaScript
6 203 (24.05%) C#
7 39 (4.62%) C++
8 32 (3.79%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.13%) VBA
10 13 (1.54%) Scala
11 11 (1.30%) R
12 10 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.07%) Rust
14 7 (0.83%) Perl
15 6 (0.71%) Ruby
16 5 (0.59%) Groovy
17 4 (0.47%) Bicep
17 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
19 2 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 84 (9.95%) Degree
2 28 (3.32%) Master's Degree
3 24 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
5 8 (0.95%) PhD
6 7 (0.83%) CISM
6 7 (0.83%) CISSP
7 6 (0.71%) CISA
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.12%) CCNA
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.12%) PgMP
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PMP
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.69%) QA
3 14 (1.66%) MiFID
4 10 (1.18%) Dodd-Frank
5 9 (1.07%) EMIR
6 4 (0.47%) PMO
6 4 (0.47%) SEPA
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (2.73%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (0.71%) Grafana
4 5 (0.59%) Podman
4 5 (0.59%) Terraform
5 4 (0.47%) Control-M
5 4 (0.47%) SCCM
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Nagios
6 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (7.70%) Google
2 56 (6.64%) Bloomberg
3 29 (3.44%) ION Trading
4 23 (2.73%) Oracle
5 15 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.66%) OpenLink
7 13 (1.54%) Microsoft
8 12 (1.42%) BISAM
8 12 (1.42%) Murex
9 11 (1.30%) MarketAxess
9 11 (1.30%) TIBCO
9 11 (1.30%) Tradeweb
10 10 (1.18%) IBM
11 9 (1.07%) Citrix
11 9 (1.07%) Reuters
12 7 (0.83%) SimCorp
13 6 (0.71%) Databricks
13 6 (0.71%) Splunk
14 5 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.47%) Trayport