Back Office Contracts with Work from Home Options

Back Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 280 415
Rank change year-on-year +68 +135 -48
Contract jobs citing Back Office 133 195 209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.78% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.50% 1.33% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 155 152
10th Percentile £373 £446 £410
25th Percentile £550 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £740 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +23.33% +7.87%
75th Percentile £838 £835 £728
90th Percentile £850 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £11.16
25th Percentile £17.50 - £11.55
Median hourly rate £18.00 £50.00 £12.41
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +302.90% -46.53%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £12.62
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.73 £18.78 £19.30
% change year-on-year +15.69% -2.68% -5.18%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,864 14,673 23,844
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.80% 58.48% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,820 10,341 17,298
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 333 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.95 £19.43
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +52.58% +40.54%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.20 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Back Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Back Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office.

Back Office daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Back Office over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Back Office daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office.

Back Office hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (3.01%) CMS
2 3 (2.26%) MTS
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Endur
2 3 (2.26%) Aligne
2 3 (2.26%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.50%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.50%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.55%) Azure
2 13 (9.77%) Azure Service Bus
3 12 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.76%) AWS
6 5 (3.76%) Google Sheets
7 4 (3.01%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (3.01%) Miro
7 4 (3.01%) SaaS
8 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.75%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (0.75%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (0.75%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Serverless
9 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Firewall
1 1 (0.75%) FTP
1 1 (0.75%) Intranet
1 1 (0.75%) NGFW
1 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.52%) Power BI
3 6 (4.51%) GIS
4 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.26%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) Postman
3 4 (3.01%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.26%) JIRA
5 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.50%) FitNesse
5 2 (1.50%) JMeter
5 2 (1.50%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) TestRail
5 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (51.13%) Finance
2 51 (38.35%) Banking
2 51 (38.35%) Front Office
3 20 (15.04%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 11 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Retail
7 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Games
8 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.50%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (37.59%) Analyst
2 45 (33.83%) Senior
3 23 (17.29%) Financial Analyst
4 21 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 21 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
5 20 (15.04%) Banking Analyst
5 20 (15.04%) SQL Analyst
5 20 (15.04%) Technical Analyst
6 14 (10.53%) Developer
6 14 (10.53%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 14 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
7 13 (9.77%) Senior Financial Analyst
8 10 (7.52%) Senior Technical Analyst
9 8 (6.02%) Lead
10 7 (5.26%) Product Owner
10 7 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 7 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Product Owner
11 6 (4.51%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.28%) .NET
2 12 (9.02%) .NET Core
3 5 (3.76%) CSS
3 5 (3.76%) REST
4 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.01%) jQuery
4 4 (3.01%) React
4 4 (3.01%) XML
5 3 (2.26%) HTML
5 3 (2.26%) SAP PI
5 3 (2.26%) SOAP
6 2 (1.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.50%) FpML
6 2 (1.50%) Middleware
6 2 (1.50%) Playwright
7 1 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.75%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 38 (28.57%) Derivative
1 38 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 19 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.02%) Equities
4 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.01%) DTCC
7 3 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.26%) Market Risk
7 3 (2.26%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.50%) Contactless
8 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.76%) Android
2 1 (0.75%) CentOS
2 1 (0.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.59%) Agile
2 44 (33.08%) Asset Management
3 42 (31.58%) Investment Management
4 37 (27.82%) Mentoring
5 15 (11.28%) DevOps
6 12 (9.02%) Migration
6 12 (9.02%) TDD
6 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
7 11 (8.27%) Data Analysis
7 11 (8.27%) OO
7 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (8.27%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (8.27%) Software Testing
8 10 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (7.52%) Clean Code
8 10 (7.52%) OOD
9 9 (6.77%) API Management
9 9 (6.77%) Scrum
9 9 (6.77%) User Stories
10 8 (6.02%) ETRM
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.85%) C#
2 52 (39.10%) SQL
3 42 (31.58%) Python
4 10 (7.52%) Bicep
5 7 (5.26%) Java
5 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.02%) Degree
2 3 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.75%) CCNA
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) WCAG
3 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.75%) EMIR
4 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.26%) OpenLink
3 6 (4.51%) Oracle
3 6 (4.51%) SAP
4 5 (3.76%) Google
4 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.26%) CyberSource
6 2 (1.50%) Trayport
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.75%) Calypso
7 1 (0.75%) Murex
7 1 (0.75%) Progress
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat