Back Office Contracts in England

Back Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 330 399
Rank change year-on-year +48 +69 -24
Contract jobs citing Back Office 281 378 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.75% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.30% 1.26% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 288 328
10th Percentile £425 £425 £423
25th Percentile £525 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +9.17%
75th Percentile £750 £835 £725
90th Percentile £850 £908 £797
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile £16.86 £17.78 £11.68
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.25 £12.21
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +189.86% -15.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £57.50 £43.13
90th Percentile - £60.50 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.73 £20.50 £19.30
% change year-on-year +6.00% +6.22% -5.18%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in England.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in England

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in England.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +60 247 £625 -8.09% 94
Midlands +24 11 £725 +123.08% 23
West Midlands +31 10 £725 +163.64% 14
North of England +30 6 £375 - 30
South East -10 6 £560 -27.74% 23
East of England +17 5 - - 9
South West +4 5 £250 -64.29% 13
North West +17 3 - - 23
Yorkshire +16 3 £375 - 4
East Midlands +19 2 £525 +16.67% 9
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (2.85%) CMS
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
2 4 (1.42%) MTS
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Mingle
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (8.19%) Endur
2 4 (1.42%) Aligne
2 4 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.42%) EuroRunner
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.71%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.36%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.36%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.36%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.93%) Azure
2 38 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (9.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 19 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 18 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (4.63%) AWS
7 12 (4.27%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.56%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (1.78%) Google Sheets
9 5 (1.78%) SaaS
10 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.42%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.07%) Serverless
12 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.71%) Miro
12 2 (0.71%) OCI
12 2 (0.71%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.49%) FTP
1 7 (2.49%) LAN
1 7 (2.49%) WAN
2 4 (1.42%) Internet
3 2 (0.71%) SAN
4 1 (0.36%) DHCP
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.27%) Power BI
3 9 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.49%) GIS
6 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.07%) Big Data
8 3 (1.07%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.71%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.71%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.36%) MySQL
10 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (7.47%) Git
2 15 (5.34%) JIRA
3 11 (3.91%) SpecFlow
4 10 (3.56%) Postman
5 9 (3.20%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.85%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.49%) Selenium
8 5 (1.78%) FitNesse
8 5 (1.78%) JMeter
8 5 (1.78%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.78%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.07%) TestRail
10 2 (0.71%) Appium
10 2 (0.71%) Rational Performance Tester
10 2 (0.71%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.36%) GitLab
11 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 117 (41.64%) Finance
2 82 (29.18%) Banking
3 69 (24.56%) Front Office
4 68 (24.20%) Social Skills
5 24 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (7.83%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.56%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.85%) Retail
9 7 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.14%) Wholesale Banking
11 5 (1.78%) Legal
11 5 (1.78%) Local Government
12 4 (1.42%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.07%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.07%) Law
13 3 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.71%) Games
14 2 (0.71%) Marketing
15 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (33.81%) Analyst
2 70 (24.91%) Senior
3 43 (15.30%) Developer
4 37 (13.17%) Business Analyst
5 31 (11.03%) Technical Analyst
6 30 (10.68%) Lead
7 28 (9.96%) Financial Analyst
8 26 (9.25%) Banking Analyst
8 26 (9.25%) Senior Analyst
9 20 (7.12%) SQL Analyst
10 19 (6.76%) Technical Leader
11 16 (5.69%) .NET Developer
12 15 (5.34%) Support Analyst
13 14 (4.98%) Project Manager
13 14 (4.98%) Senior Technical Engineer
13 14 (4.98%) Technical Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Senior Developer
14 13 (4.63%) Tester
15 11 (3.91%) Test Analyst
16 10 (3.56%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.35%) .NET
2 40 (14.23%) .NET Core
3 13 (4.63%) React
4 12 (4.27%) XML
5 11 (3.91%) CSS
5 11 (3.91%) jQuery
6 10 (3.56%) ASP.NET
7 8 (2.85%) HTML
7 8 (2.85%) JSON
8 6 (2.14%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.14%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (2.14%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.78%) REST
10 4 (1.42%) Playwright
11 3 (1.07%) ADO
11 3 (1.07%) Kafka
11 3 (1.07%) pytest
11 3 (1.07%) RESTful
11 3 (1.07%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.73%) Derivative
2 41 (14.59%) Hedge funds
3 34 (12.10%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 12 (4.27%) Equities
5 12 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.56%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.14%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.14%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.78%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.42%) AS400
10 4 (1.42%) DTCC
10 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.07%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.98%) Windows
2 11 (3.91%) Unix
3 9 (3.20%) Android
3 9 (3.20%) Linux
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (40.93%) Agile
2 56 (19.93%) Asset Management
3 50 (17.79%) DevOps
4 47 (16.73%) Investment Management
5 41 (14.59%) OO
5 41 (14.59%) TDD
6 36 (12.81%) Mentoring
7 34 (12.10%) Test Automation
8 33 (11.74%) OOD
9 26 (9.25%) Clean Code
9 26 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (8.54%) Scrum
11 22 (7.83%) API Management
11 22 (7.83%) Software Testing
12 21 (7.47%) Data Analysis
13 20 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (6.05%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (6.05%) Requirements Gathering
14 17 (6.05%) User Stories
15 16 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (35.59%) C#
2 93 (33.10%) SQL
3 58 (20.64%) Python
4 28 (9.96%) Bicep
5 22 (7.83%) Java
6 18 (6.41%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.98%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.20%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.07%) C++
13 2 (0.71%) VBA
14 1 (0.36%) ABAP
14 1 (0.36%) Bash
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (8.90%) Degree
2 6 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.07%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.71%) PhD
6 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.36%) PgMP
6 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.34%) PCI DSS
1 15 (5.34%) QA
2 12 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.56%) WCAG
4 4 (1.42%) GAAP
4 4 (1.42%) ISO 15022
4 4 (1.42%) MiFID
5 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.07%) GDPR
5 3 (1.07%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) EMIR
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 22 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.42%) Docker
3 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (1.42%) Control-M
2 2 (0.71%) Grafana
2 2 (0.71%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.76%) Oracle
3 15 (5.34%) SAP
4 10 (3.56%) OpenLink
5 8 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.14%) HP
7 5 (1.78%) Google
8 3 (1.07%) IBM
8 3 (1.07%) Murex
8 3 (1.07%) VMware
9 2 (0.71%) BMC
9 2 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.71%) Databricks
9 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.71%) Splunk
9 2 (0.71%) Temenos
9 2 (0.71%) Trayport
9 2 (0.71%) UiPath
10 1 (0.36%) FIS
10 1 (0.36%) Nintex