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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 237 372
Rank change year-on-year -7 +135 -131
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,180 1,526 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.55% 0.99%
As % of the General category 1.97% 2.27% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 1,356 1,461
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £107,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +4.88% +13.89%
75th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £155,000 £151,250 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +19.23% +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 59,832 67,156 106,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.28% 68.18% 64.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,796 36,292 51,369
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £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 23 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 23 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 -1 1,147 £115,000 +6.98% 220
London +22 1,092 £115,000 +6.98% 205
Work from Home -2 639 £115,000 +9.52% 107
UK excluding London +8 81 £77,500 +19.23% 13
South West - 29 - -
Scotland -53 24 £85,000 +30.77% 1
North of England +53 17 £35,000 -63.16% 4
Yorkshire - 11 - -
North West +4 6 £35,000 -63.16% 3
South East -12 6 £85,000 -12.82% 6
East of England -1 2 £100,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 -
West Midlands -8 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -28 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
1 412 (34.92%) Apache Airflow
2 394 (33.39%) Apache
3 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.085%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.085%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.085%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.86%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.19%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.51%) ION Anvil
3 6 (0.51%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.25%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.085%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.085%) Eikon
7 1 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 679 (57.54%) AWS
2 413 (35.00%) GCP
3 291 (24.66%) dbt
4 287 (24.32%) Azure
5 236 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 41 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (3.47%) Serverless
7 39 (3.31%) Amazon S3
7 39 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (2.37%) OpenShift
9 11 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (0.93%) Power Platform
10 5 (0.42%) WhatsApp
11 4 (0.34%) PaaS
11 4 (0.34%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.25%) Dagster
12 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.51%) Internet
2 5 (0.42%) FTP
2 5 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.17%) BGP
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) OSPF
3 2 (0.17%) WAN
4 1 (0.085%) DHCP
4 1 (0.085%) DNS
4 1 (0.085%) SSH
4 1 (0.085%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (32.97%) Apache Ignite
2 291 (24.66%) Dremio
3 288 (24.41%) Apache Arrow
4 285 (24.15%) Amazon Athena
5 245 (20.76%) Data Lake
6 107 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (2.12%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.69%) SQL Server
10 16 (1.36%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.02%) MySQL
12 11 (0.93%) KDB
12 11 (0.93%) Power BI
13 10 (0.85%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.68%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.59%) Kdb+
16 6 (0.51%) Big Data
16 6 (0.51%) Tableau
17 2 (0.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 63 (5.34%) Cypress.io
2 37 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.37%) Artifactory
4 18 (1.53%) Git
5 14 (1.19%) JIRA
6 9 (0.76%) GitLab
6 9 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.085%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.085%) Gradle
7 1 (0.085%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.085%) JUnit
General
1 963 (81.61%) Finance
2 622 (52.71%) Banking
3 402 (34.07%) Investment Banking
4 122 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 113 (9.58%) Back Office
6 74 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (5.42%) Law
8 44 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.03%) Marketing
10 19 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.44%) Legal
12 5 (0.42%) Retail
13 4 (0.34%) Billing
13 4 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.25%) International Banking
15 2 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.17%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.085%) Automotive
16 1 (0.085%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 546 (46.27%) Developer
2 435 (36.86%) Software Engineer
3 308 (26.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 249 (21.10%) Python Engineer
5 247 (20.93%) Senior
6 243 (20.59%) Python Software Engineer
7 226 (19.15%) Python Developer
8 192 (16.27%) Analyst
9 144 (12.20%) Lead
10 143 (12.12%) React Developer
11 140 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
12 139 (11.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 112 (9.49%) AWS Software Engineer
14 111 (9.41%) Java Developer
15 110 (9.32%) Finance Manager
16 103 (8.73%) Java Engineer
17 102 (8.64%) Java Software Engineer
18 99 (8.39%) .NET Developer
19 89 (7.54%) Senior Developer
20 81 (6.86%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (34.49%) gRPC
1 407 (34.49%) Protocol Buffers
2 316 (26.78%) React
3 295 (25.00%) Pandas
4 282 (23.90%) NumPy
5 274 (23.22%) SciPy
6 237 (20.08%) Redux
7 140 (11.86%) .NET
8 127 (10.76%) AngularJS
9 125 (10.59%) Material-UI
10 109 (9.24%) Vue
11 75 (6.36%) .NET Core
12 46 (3.90%) Node.js
13 45 (3.81%) ASP.NET
13 45 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
14 43 (3.64%) FIX Protocol
15 31 (2.63%) Spring
16 29 (2.46%) J2EE
17 23 (1.95%) Spring Boot
18 22 (1.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 688 (58.31%) Fixed Income
2 650 (55.08%) Hedge funds
3 551 (46.69%) Equities
4 546 (46.27%) Derivative
5 474 (40.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 69 (5.85%) Product Ownership
7 41 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (3.05%) Pricing Data
9 28 (2.37%) Tandem
10 26 (2.20%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.36%) Credit Risk
12 16 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.27%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.19%) Blog
15 11 (0.93%) Private Cloud
16 10 (0.85%) Market Risk
17 9 (0.76%) Client/Server
18 8 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
18 8 (0.68%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.08%) Linux
2 26 (2.20%) Unix
2 26 (2.20%) Windows
3 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.085%) CentOS
5 1 (0.085%) Debian
5 1 (0.085%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.085%) Scientific Linux
5 1 (0.085%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.085%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.085%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (63.98%) Agile
2 727 (61.61%) Asset Management
3 660 (55.93%) Software Engineering
4 631 (53.47%) Investment Management
5 208 (17.63%) Full Stack Development
6 153 (12.97%) Machine Learning
7 151 (12.80%) Artificial Intelligence
8 139 (11.78%) Analytics
9 134 (11.36%) Fintech
10 113 (9.58%) Automated Trading
11 109 (9.24%) Line Management
12 104 (8.81%) Greeks
13 100 (8.47%) DevOps
14 93 (7.88%) Electronic Trading
14 93 (7.88%) TDD
15 80 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
16 76 (6.44%) Mentoring
17 69 (5.85%) Low Latency
18 64 (5.42%) Multithreading
19 62 (5.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 785 (66.53%) Python
2 530 (44.92%) TypeScript
3 466 (39.49%) JavaScript
4 455 (38.56%) Java
5 322 (27.29%) SQL
6 210 (17.80%) C#
7 40 (3.39%) C++
8 37 (3.14%) R
9 28 (2.37%) Go
10 17 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 17 (1.44%) Scala
11 14 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.10%) Ruby
13 8 (0.68%) Perl
13 8 (0.68%) Rust
13 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.42%) Groovy
14 5 (0.42%) VBA
15 4 (0.34%) C
15 4 (0.34%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 89 (7.54%) Degree
2 21 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.19%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) CFA
6 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 55 (4.66%) QA
3 7 (0.59%) SOC 1
4 6 (0.51%) MiFID
5 4 (0.34%) SLA
6 3 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 39 (3.31%) Docker
2 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.37%) Terraform
3 6 (0.51%) Ansible
4 4 (0.34%) Control-M
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.085%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.085%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.085%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.085%) SCCM
6 1 (0.085%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.085%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (8.39%) Google
2 86 (7.29%) Bloomberg
3 23 (1.95%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.69%) Oracle
5 15 (1.27%) Murex
6 14 (1.19%) BISAM
7 11 (0.93%) Charles River
8 10 (0.85%) IBM
9 8 (0.68%) Algorithmics
10 7 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.51%) FFastFill
11 6 (0.51%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.51%) Reuters
12 5 (0.42%) Microsoft
12 5 (0.42%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.42%) Trayport
12 5 (0.42%) Vertica
13 3 (0.25%) Databricks
13 3 (0.25%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.25%) SAP