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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 248 359
Rank change year-on-year -10 +111 -122
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,139 1,516 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.50% 1.03%
As % of the General category 1.92% 2.20% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 980 1,346 1,456
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £62,250
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £107,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £137,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £157,500 £150,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +6.56% +69.44%

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 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £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 10 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 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 +5 1,106 £115,000 +6.98% 238
London +21 1,049 £115,000 +6.98% 226
Work from Home -10 592 £115,000 +9.52% 114
UK excluding London -11 83 £75,000 +15.38% 12
South West - 29 - - 2
Scotland -54 24 £75,000 +15.38%
North of England +64 19 £35,000 -63.16% 3
Yorkshire - 13 - -
North West +6 6 £35,000 -63.16% 3
South East -14 6 £85,000 -12.82% 6
East of England +9 2 £100,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 -
West Midlands -17 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -35 1 £32,000 -39.05%

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
1 341 (29.94%) Apache Airflow
2 320 (28.09%) Apache
3 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.088%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.088%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.93%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.14%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.53%) ION Anvil
3 6 (0.53%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.35%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.18%) Endur
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.088%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.088%) Eikon
7 1 (0.088%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 615 (53.99%) AWS
2 390 (34.24%) GCP
3 286 (25.11%) Azure
4 226 (19.84%) dbt
5 184 (16.15%) Snowflake
6 43 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
6 43 (3.78%) Serverless
7 41 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 41 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
8 32 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (2.81%) OpenShift
9 9 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (0.61%) PaaS
11 5 (0.44%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.44%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.35%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.53%) Internet
2 5 (0.44%) FTP
2 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.18%) BGP
3 2 (0.18%) Firewall
3 2 (0.18%) OSPF
3 2 (0.18%) WAN
4 1 (0.088%) DHCP
4 1 (0.088%) DNS
4 1 (0.088%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (28.18%) Apache Ignite
2 226 (19.84%) Amazon Athena
2 226 (19.84%) Apache Arrow
2 226 (19.84%) Dremio
3 184 (16.15%) Data Lake
4 99 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (2.02%) SQL Server
7 22 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.05%) MySQL
10 11 (0.97%) KDB
11 10 (0.88%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.61%) Kdb+
14 5 (0.44%) Power BI
15 2 (0.18%) Data Mart
15 2 (0.18%) Tick Data
16 1 (0.088%) Flink
Development Applications
1 55 (4.83%) Cypress.io
2 41 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.81%) Artifactory
4 17 (1.49%) Git
5 12 (1.05%) JIRA
6 10 (0.88%) Maven
7 9 (0.79%) GitLab
8 1 (0.088%) Gradle
8 1 (0.088%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.088%) SpecFlow
General
1 910 (79.89%) Finance
2 563 (49.43%) Banking
3 352 (30.90%) Investment Banking
4 127 (11.15%) Social Skills
5 117 (10.27%) Back Office
6 71 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (5.53%) Law
8 43 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.11%) Marketing
10 19 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 18 (1.58%) Legal
12 7 (0.61%) Retail
13 6 (0.53%) Billing
14 4 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.35%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.18%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.18%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.18%) International Banking
16 1 (0.088%) Automotive
16 1 (0.088%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 551 (48.38%) Developer
2 393 (34.50%) Software Engineer
3 290 (25.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 225 (19.75%) Senior
5 218 (19.14%) Python Developer
6 212 (18.61%) Python Engineer
7 209 (18.35%) Python Software Engineer
8 185 (16.24%) Analyst
9 135 (11.85%) React Developer
10 128 (11.24%) Lead
11 117 (10.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 116 (10.18%) AWS Engineer
13 115 (10.10%) Finance Manager
14 114 (10.01%) Java Developer
15 102 (8.96%) .NET Developer
16 90 (7.90%) Senior Developer
17 84 (7.37%) AWS Software Engineer
18 83 (7.29%) .NET Software Developer
18 83 (7.29%) .NET Software Engineer
19 81 (7.11%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (29.76%) gRPC
1 339 (29.76%) Protocol Buffers
2 304 (26.69%) React
3 235 (20.63%) Pandas
4 227 (19.93%) Redux
5 223 (19.58%) NumPy
6 215 (18.88%) SciPy
7 143 (12.55%) .NET
8 126 (11.06%) AngularJS
9 121 (10.62%) Material-UI
10 108 (9.48%) Vue
11 73 (6.41%) .NET Core
12 48 (4.21%) ASP.NET
13 47 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
14 42 (3.69%) Node.js
15 41 (3.60%) FIX Protocol
16 32 (2.81%) J2EE
17 31 (2.72%) Spring
18 24 (2.11%) Spring Boot
19 23 (2.02%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 628 (55.14%) Fixed Income
2 591 (51.89%) Hedge funds
3 499 (43.81%) Derivative
4 494 (43.37%) Equities
5 420 (36.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (5.18%) Product Ownership
7 47 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (2.81%) Tandem
9 28 (2.46%) Algorithms
10 24 (2.11%) Pricing Data
11 18 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.49%) Credit Risk
13 16 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.32%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.05%) Blog
16 11 (0.97%) Credit Derivative
17 10 (0.88%) Market Risk
18 9 (0.79%) Client/Server
18 9 (0.79%) Private Cloud
19 8 (0.70%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.09%) Linux
2 25 (2.19%) Windows
3 22 (1.93%) Unix
4 8 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.088%) CentOS
6 1 (0.088%) Debian
6 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.088%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.088%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.088%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.088%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.088%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (61.28%) Agile
2 664 (58.30%) Asset Management
3 608 (53.38%) Software Engineering
4 578 (50.75%) Investment Management
5 201 (17.65%) Full Stack Development
6 145 (12.73%) Machine Learning
7 143 (12.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 129 (11.33%) Analytics
8 129 (11.33%) Fintech
9 107 (9.39%) Automated Trading
9 107 (9.39%) DevOps
10 103 (9.04%) Electronic Trading
11 96 (8.43%) TDD
12 95 (8.34%) Line Management
13 80 (7.02%) Greeks
13 80 (7.02%) Mentoring
13 80 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
14 73 (6.41%) Low Latency
15 68 (5.97%) Multithreading
16 66 (5.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 733 (64.35%) Python
2 467 (41.00%) TypeScript
3 415 (36.44%) Java
4 410 (36.00%) JavaScript
5 310 (27.22%) SQL
6 215 (18.88%) C#
7 49 (4.30%) C++
8 43 (3.78%) R
9 32 (2.81%) Go
10 21 (1.84%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.49%) Scala
12 13 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.14%) Ruby
13 7 (0.61%) Perl
13 7 (0.61%) Rust
13 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.53%) VBA
15 5 (0.44%) C
16 4 (0.35%) Clojure
16 4 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 95 (8.34%) Degree
2 24 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 6 (0.53%) PhD
5 4 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.18%) ACCA
6 2 (0.18%) CBAP
6 2 (0.18%) CCIE
6 2 (0.18%) CIMA
6 2 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.088%) CFA
7 1 (0.088%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.74%) QA
3 7 (0.61%) SOC 1
4 6 (0.53%) MiFID
5 4 (0.35%) SLA
6 3 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 44 (3.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.81%) Terraform
3 6 (0.53%) Ansible
4 3 (0.26%) Control-M
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.088%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.088%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.088%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.088%) SCCM
6 1 (0.088%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.088%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (7.99%) Google
2 82 (7.20%) Bloomberg
3 23 (2.02%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.76%) Oracle
5 14 (1.23%) BISAM
6 13 (1.14%) Murex
7 11 (0.97%) Charles River
8 10 (0.88%) IBM
9 9 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.70%) Algorithmics
11 6 (0.53%) FFastFill
11 6 (0.53%) Microsoft
11 6 (0.53%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.53%) Reuters
12 5 (0.44%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.44%) Trayport
12 5 (0.44%) Vertica
13 3 (0.26%) Databricks
13 3 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.26%) SAP