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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 243 373
Rank change year-on-year -14 +130 -137
Permanent jobs citing Front Office 1,160 1,520 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.53% 1.00%
As % of the General category 1.95% 2.25% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 1,349 1,449
10th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 £127,500
90th Percentile £157,250 £151,250 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £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 £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 18 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 18 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 -6 1,127 £115,000 +6.98% 277
London +19 1,070 £115,000 +6.98% 265
Work from Home -4 615 £115,000 +9.52% 115
UK excluding London -29 83 £75,000 +15.38% 50
South West - 29 - - 1
Scotland -58 24 £75,000 +15.38%
North of England +68 19 £35,000 -63.16% 2
Yorkshire - 13 - -
North West +8 6 £35,000 -63.16% 2
South East -19 6 £85,000 -12.82% 45
East of England -5 2 £100,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 -
West Midlands -5 1 £32,000 -39.05%
Midlands -29 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
1 375 (32.33%) Apache Airflow
2 358 (30.86%) Apache
3 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.086%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.086%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.90%) Aladdin
2 14 (1.21%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.52%) ION Anvil
3 6 (0.52%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.086%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.086%) Eikon
7 1 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 647 (55.78%) AWS
2 401 (34.57%) GCP
3 286 (24.66%) Azure
4 258 (22.24%) dbt
5 210 (18.10%) Snowflake
6 42 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (3.62%) Serverless
7 40 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 40 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
8 30 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (2.59%) OpenShift
9 10 (0.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (0.78%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.43%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.34%) PaaS
12 4 (0.34%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.52%) Internet
2 5 (0.43%) FTP
2 5 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.17%) BGP
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) OSPF
3 2 (0.17%) WAN
4 1 (0.086%) DHCP
4 1 (0.086%) DNS
4 1 (0.086%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (30.60%) Apache Ignite
2 258 (22.24%) Apache Arrow
2 258 (22.24%) Dremio
3 254 (21.90%) Amazon Athena
4 214 (18.45%) Data Lake
5 103 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.81%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.38%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.03%) MySQL
11 11 (0.95%) KDB
12 10 (0.86%) Relational Database
13 9 (0.78%) Power BI
14 8 (0.69%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.60%) Kdb+
16 4 (0.34%) Big Data
16 4 (0.34%) Tableau
17 2 (0.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 59 (5.09%) Cypress.io
2 39 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.59%) Artifactory
4 17 (1.47%) Git
5 12 (1.03%) JIRA
6 9 (0.78%) GitLab
6 9 (0.78%) Maven
7 1 (0.086%) Gradle
7 1 (0.086%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 939 (80.95%) Finance
2 594 (51.21%) Banking
3 378 (32.59%) Investment Banking
4 124 (10.69%) Social Skills
5 117 (10.09%) Back Office
6 73 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 63 (5.43%) Law
8 43 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.07%) Marketing
10 19 (1.64%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.47%) Legal
12 6 (0.52%) Billing
13 5 (0.43%) Retail
14 4 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.17%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.17%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.17%) International Banking
16 1 (0.086%) Automotive
16 1 (0.086%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 547 (47.16%) Developer
2 414 (35.69%) Software Engineer
3 299 (25.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 236 (20.34%) Senior
5 229 (19.74%) Python Engineer
6 226 (19.48%) Python Software Engineer
7 223 (19.22%) Python Developer
8 189 (16.29%) Analyst
9 139 (11.98%) React Developer
10 136 (11.72%) Lead
11 128 (11.03%) AWS Engineer
11 128 (11.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 117 (10.09%) Finance Manager
13 111 (9.57%) Java Developer
14 100 (8.62%) .NET Developer
15 98 (8.45%) AWS Software Engineer
16 92 (7.93%) Java Engineer
17 91 (7.84%) Java Software Engineer
18 90 (7.76%) Senior Developer
19 82 (7.07%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (32.16%) gRPC
1 373 (32.16%) Protocol Buffers
2 310 (26.72%) React
3 263 (22.67%) Pandas
4 251 (21.64%) NumPy
5 243 (20.95%) SciPy
6 232 (20.00%) Redux
7 141 (12.16%) .NET
8 126 (10.86%) AngularJS
9 123 (10.60%) Material-UI
10 108 (9.31%) Vue
11 74 (6.38%) .NET Core
12 46 (3.97%) ASP.NET
12 46 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 44 (3.79%) Node.js
14 42 (3.62%) FIX Protocol
15 30 (2.59%) J2EE
15 30 (2.59%) Spring
16 23 (1.98%) Spring Boot
17 22 (1.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 659 (56.81%) Fixed Income
2 624 (53.79%) Hedge funds
3 526 (45.34%) Derivative
4 524 (45.17%) Equities
5 446 (38.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 65 (5.60%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.59%) Pricing Data
8 30 (2.59%) Tandem
9 25 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.38%) Credit Risk
11 16 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.29%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.12%) Blog
14 10 (0.86%) Market Risk
14 10 (0.86%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.78%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.78%) Credit Derivative
16 8 (0.69%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 60 (5.17%) Linux
2 26 (2.24%) Windows
3 24 (2.07%) Unix
4 8 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.086%) CentOS
6 1 (0.086%) Debian
6 1 (0.086%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.086%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.086%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.086%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.086%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (62.59%) Agile
2 699 (60.26%) Asset Management
3 632 (54.48%) Software Engineering
4 608 (52.41%) Investment Management
5 205 (17.67%) Full Stack Development
6 149 (12.84%) Machine Learning
7 147 (12.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 132 (11.38%) Analytics
9 130 (11.21%) Fintech
10 109 (9.40%) Automated Trading
11 104 (8.97%) DevOps
12 102 (8.79%) Line Management
13 99 (8.53%) Electronic Trading
14 94 (8.10%) TDD
15 92 (7.93%) Greeks
16 80 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
17 78 (6.72%) Mentoring
18 72 (6.21%) Low Latency
19 68 (5.86%) Multithreading
20 64 (5.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 758 (65.34%) Python
2 498 (42.93%) TypeScript
3 438 (37.76%) JavaScript
4 430 (37.07%) Java
5 320 (27.59%) SQL
6 215 (18.53%) C#
7 43 (3.71%) C++
8 41 (3.53%) R
9 30 (2.59%) Go
10 19 (1.64%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.47%) Scala
12 14 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.12%) Ruby
14 8 (0.69%) Rust
15 7 (0.60%) Perl
15 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) VBA
17 4 (0.34%) C
17 4 (0.34%) Clojure
17 4 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (7.67%) Degree
2 20 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 5 (0.43%) 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%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.086%) CFA
6 1 (0.086%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.66%) QA
3 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
4 6 (0.52%) MiFID
5 4 (0.34%) SLA
6 3 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 41 (3.53%) Docker
2 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.086%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.59%) Terraform
3 6 (0.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.34%) Control-M
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.086%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.086%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.086%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.086%) SCCM
6 1 (0.086%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.086%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 95 (8.19%) Google
2 85 (7.33%) Bloomberg
3 23 (1.98%) ION Trading
4 20 (1.72%) Oracle
5 14 (1.21%) BISAM
6 13 (1.12%) Murex
7 11 (0.95%) Charles River
8 10 (0.86%) IBM
9 9 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.69%) Algorithmics
11 6 (0.52%) FFastFill
11 6 (0.52%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.52%) Reuters
12 5 (0.43%) Microsoft
12 5 (0.43%) TIBCO
12 5 (0.43%) Trayport
12 5 (0.43%) Vertica
13 3 (0.26%) Databricks
13 3 (0.26%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.26%) SAP