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 contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 69 90 210
Rank change year-on-year +21 +120 -87
Contract jobs citing Front Office 430 605 597
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.92% 2.53% 1.34%
As % of the General category 4.99% 4.30% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 529 496
10th Percentile £563 £534 £550
25th Percentile £663 £600 £617
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +20.83%
75th Percentile £850 £835 £800
90th Percentile £888 £925 £838
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 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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,619 14,055 24,462
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.58% 58.67% 55.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,650 9,923 17,874
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £776 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 318 338
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.59 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.69 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.50 £33.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +47.98% +48.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.23 £65.27
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.22% +4.65%

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 7 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
1 144 (33.49%) Apache Airflow
2 137 (31.86%) Apache
3 5 (1.16%) Confluence
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) MTS
5 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
Applications
1 17 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Endur
2 2 (0.47%) Aligne
2 2 (0.47%) EuroRunner
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 189 (43.95%) AWS
2 132 (30.70%) dbt
3 102 (23.72%) Snowflake
4 100 (23.26%) GCP
5 45 (10.47%) Azure
6 12 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.16%) npm
8 4 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (0.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.70%) Dagster
10 2 (0.47%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.23%) PaaS
11 1 (0.23%) SaaS
11 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.16%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.47%) DHCP
3 2 (0.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (30.70%) Dremio
2 129 (30.00%) Apache Arrow
3 128 (29.77%) Apache Ignite
4 124 (28.84%) Amazon Athena
5 113 (26.28%) Data Lake
6 14 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.79%) Power BI
8 9 (2.09%) KDB
9 8 (1.86%) Big Data
9 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.86%) Tableau
10 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.93%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.47%) Data Mart
13 2 (0.47%) MySQL
14 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (4.42%) JIRA
2 15 (3.49%) Cucumber
3 13 (3.02%) GitLab
3 13 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.79%) JUnit
4 12 (2.79%) Mockito
5 8 (1.86%) Git
6 6 (1.40%) MLflow
7 5 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.16%) webpack
8 4 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.70%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.47%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.47%) JMeter
10 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.47%) Selenium
10 2 (0.47%) TestRail
11 1 (0.23%) Log4Net
11 1 (0.23%) NUnit
General
1 350 (81.40%) Finance
2 224 (52.09%) Banking
3 167 (38.84%) Investment Banking
4 59 (13.72%) Social Skills
5 36 (8.37%) Back Office
6 34 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 4 (0.93%) Law
9 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.47%) Marketing
10 2 (0.47%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (50.00%) Developer
2 113 (26.28%) Software Engineer
3 101 (23.49%) Senior
4 66 (15.35%) Python Engineer
5 65 (15.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 64 (14.88%) Java Developer
7 63 (14.65%) Python Software Engineer
8 62 (14.42%) Analyst
9 57 (13.26%) Lead
9 57 (13.26%) Python Developer
10 53 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (12.09%) AWS Software Engineer
12 50 (11.63%) C# Developer
13 49 (11.40%) Java Engineer
13 49 (11.40%) Java Software Engineer
14 48 (11.16%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (10.70%) Front Office Developer
16 40 (9.30%) Business Analyst
17 39 (9.07%) Software Developer
18 37 (8.60%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (32.09%) gRPC
2 137 (31.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 129 (30.00%) Pandas
4 122 (28.37%) NumPy
4 122 (28.37%) SciPy
5 66 (15.35%) React
6 34 (7.91%) .NET
7 33 (7.67%) Redux
8 28 (6.51%) AngularJS
9 26 (6.05%) Node.js
10 16 (3.72%) Vue
11 15 (3.49%) Spring Boot
11 15 (3.49%) WPF
12 11 (2.56%) Material-UI
13 8 (1.86%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (1.86%) RxJS
14 7 (1.63%) REST
14 7 (1.63%) XML
15 6 (1.40%) CSS
15 6 (1.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (53.49%) Derivative
2 209 (48.60%) Fixed Income
3 179 (41.63%) Equities
3 179 (41.63%) Hedge funds
4 173 (40.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (5.58%) Product Ownership
6 21 (4.88%) Equity Derivative
7 16 (3.72%) Pricing Data
8 13 (3.02%) Credit Derivative
9 12 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.63%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.70%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.47%) Blog
14 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
14 2 (0.47%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.88%) Unix
2 15 (3.49%) Windows
3 13 (3.02%) Linux
4 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (54.19%) Agile
2 213 (49.53%) Asset Management
3 184 (42.79%) Software Engineering
4 174 (40.47%) Investment Management
5 62 (14.42%) Analytics
6 48 (11.16%) Line Management
7 46 (10.70%) Greeks
8 42 (9.77%) Fintech
9 37 (8.60%) Electronic Trading
10 34 (7.91%) Mentoring
11 32 (7.44%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence
13 25 (5.81%) Machine Learning
13 25 (5.81%) Performance Attribution
14 24 (5.58%) Computer Science
15 22 (5.12%) SDLC
16 21 (4.88%) Product Management
17 20 (4.65%) Risk Management
18 19 (4.42%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 266 (61.86%) Python
2 187 (43.49%) Java
3 165 (38.37%) JavaScript
4 161 (37.44%) TypeScript
5 114 (26.51%) SQL
6 107 (24.88%) C#
7 17 (3.95%) C++
8 12 (2.79%) Scala
9 11 (2.56%) R
10 9 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.86%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.40%) Ruby
12 6 (1.40%) VBA
13 4 (0.93%) Perl
13 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.23%) Go
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (10.70%) Degree
2 20 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 14 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.63%) PhD
5 5 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.47%) 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 50 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.63%) QA
3 6 (1.40%) MiFID
4 4 (0.93%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (0.93%) SEPA
5 2 (0.47%) EMIR
5 2 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.47%) PMO
5 2 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.47%) vSphere
3 1 (0.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.70%) Terraform
2 2 (0.47%) WSUS
3 1 (0.23%) Ansible
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Nagios
3 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (4.65%) Bloomberg
2 13 (3.02%) Oracle
3 12 (2.79%) ION Trading
4 6 (1.40%) Databricks
4 6 (1.40%) OpenLink
5 5 (1.16%) IBM
5 5 (1.16%) MarketAxess
5 5 (1.16%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.16%) Murex
5 5 (1.16%) Tradeweb
6 4 (0.93%) Reuters
7 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.47%) Okta
8 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.47%) VMware
9 1 (0.23%) ESRI
9 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.23%) Solace
9 1 (0.23%) Splunk
9 1 (0.23%) TIBCO