Back Office Contracts in the City of London

Back Office
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 138 150
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 -29
Contract jobs citing Back Office 27 39 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.23% 1.07% 0.99%
As % of the General category 1.85% 1.72% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 36
10th Percentile £425 £240 £475
25th Percentile £531 £505 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% -5.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £750 £788 £751
90th Percentile £792 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £600 £638 £675
% change year-on-year -5.92% -5.52% +24.14%

All General Skills
City of London

Back 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,459 2,268 2,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.26% 62.22% 57.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 1,596 1,780
10th Percentile £339 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £693 £738 £680
90th Percentile £804 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £556 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -7.29% +5.26% +6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 26
10th Percentile £19.53 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -52.81% +154.29%
75th Percentile £27.38 £53.75 £57.00
90th Percentile £52.60 £58.75 £64.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +137.33%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (11.11%) MTS
2 1 (3.70%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Endur
2 3 (11.11%) Aligne
2 3 (11.11%) EuroRunner
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Power BI
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Postman
1 2 (7.41%) TestComplete
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) JMeter
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
2 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
1 9 (33.33%) Front Office
2 5 (18.52%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Business Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Angular Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Software Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) FIX Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) HTML5
4 1 (3.70%) Playwright
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Market Risk
1 3 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.70%) Equities
2 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) CentOS
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Agile
2 4 (14.81%) DevOps
2 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
2 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
3 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 3 (11.11%) ETRM
3 3 (11.11%) Investment Management
3 3 (11.11%) Project Management
3 3 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
3 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 2 (7.41%) Batch Processing
4 2 (7.41%) ERP
4 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
4 2 (7.41%) Information Security
4 2 (7.41%) OO
4 2 (7.41%) OOD
4 2 (7.41%) TDD
4 2 (7.41%) Test Scripting
4 2 (7.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) MiFID
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) EMIR
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) OpenLink
3 2 (7.41%) HP
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.70%) FIS
4 1 (3.70%) Murex
4 1 (3.70%) Progress
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow