Back Office Contracts in Birmingham

Back Office
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 64 71
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Back Office 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the General category 1.48% 0.73% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £418 £726 £273
25th Percentile £425 £747 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £813 £375
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +116.67% -
75th Percentile £531 £897 £388
90th Percentile £565 £929 -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £725 £275
% change year-on-year -37.93% +163.64% -36.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - £11.75 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.68% -
75th Percentile - - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year - +9.76% -

All General Skills
Birmingham

Back Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in Birmingham

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in Birmingham

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in Birmingham

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in Birmingham

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Genesys Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Genesys Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Statistics
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) WFM
2 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Genesys
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle