Front Office Developer
UK

The median Front Office Developer salary in the UK is £132,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 867 1058
Rank change year-on-year +40 +191 -307
Permanent jobs requiring a Front Office Developer 71 113 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.11% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.12% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 67 105 138
10th Percentile £69,450 £67,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £132,500 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £150,000 £130,000 £120,000
90th Percentile - £135,000 £126,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +53.85% +6.12% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Front Office Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front Office Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front Office Developer.

Salary trend for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front Office Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front Office Developer in the UK

Front Office Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +61 69 £135,000 +28.57% 7
London +76 66 £135,000 +28.57% 7
Work from Home +43 19 £105,000 +7.69% 3
UK excluding London -11 5 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Scotland -63 2 £75,000 +15.38%
East of England - 2 £100,000 -
South East - 1 £100,000 -

Front Office Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Front Office Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Front Office Developer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Front Office
2 40 (56.34%) Python
3 35 (49.30%) Banking
4 31 (43.66%) Investment Banking
5 30 (42.25%) Java
6 18 (25.35%) Finance
6 18 (25.35%) Fixed Income
7 16 (22.54%) Agile
7 16 (22.54%) React
8 15 (21.13%) Low Latency
8 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
9 13 (18.31%) C++
10 12 (16.90%) TypeScript
11 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
11 11 (15.49%) Algorithmic Trading
12 10 (14.08%) Docker
13 9 (12.68%) High-Frequency Trading
13 9 (12.68%) .NET
14 8 (11.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (11.27%) KDB
14 8 (11.27%) Kafka
14 8 (11.27%) Computer Science
15 7 (9.86%) Black-Scholes
15 7 (9.86%) Hedge funds
15 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
15 7 (9.86%) Electronic Trading
15 7 (9.86%) Degree
16 6 (8.45%) Spring
16 6 (8.45%) TDD
16 6 (8.45%) Market Making

Front Office Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (7.04%) PaaS
2 3 (4.23%) AWS
2 3 (4.23%) Azure
3 2 (2.82%) WhatsApp
4 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) KDB
2 5 (7.04%) Kdb+
3 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (1.41%) Flink
5 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Git
1 1 (1.41%) Gradle
1 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.41%) Maven
1 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
General
1 71 (100.00%) Front Office
2 35 (49.30%) Banking
3 31 (43.66%) Investment Banking
4 18 (25.35%) Finance
5 5 (7.04%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.54%) React
2 9 (12.68%) .NET
3 8 (11.27%) Kafka
4 6 (8.45%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.45%) Spring
4 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.04%) CSS
5 5 (7.04%) CSS3
5 5 (7.04%) HTML
5 5 (7.04%) HTML5
5 5 (7.04%) Sass
6 3 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (4.23%) RESTful
6 3 (4.23%) Web Services
7 2 (2.82%) NumPy
7 2 (2.82%) Pandas
8 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Fixed Income
2 8 (11.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (9.86%) Hedge funds
4 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.63%) Equities
5 4 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.54%) Agile
2 15 (21.13%) Low Latency
2 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
3 11 (15.49%) Algorithmic Trading
4 9 (12.68%) High-Frequency Trading
5 8 (11.27%) Computer Science
6 7 (9.86%) Black-Scholes
6 7 (9.86%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (8.45%) Market Making
7 6 (8.45%) TDD
8 5 (7.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (7.04%) Microservices
8 5 (7.04%) Multithreading
8 5 (7.04%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (7.04%) Risk Management
9 4 (5.63%) Clean Code
9 4 (5.63%) Concurrent Programming
9 4 (5.63%) Mathematics
9 4 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.63%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 40 (56.34%) Python
2 30 (42.25%) Java
3 13 (18.31%) C++
4 12 (16.90%) TypeScript
5 11 (15.49%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.82%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.82%) Charles River
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.41%) Vertica