Back Office Contracts in Central London

Back Office
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in Central London. 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 93 99 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 +21
Contract jobs citing Back Office 36 34 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.80% 1.39% 1.01%
As % of the General category 2.56% 2.11% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 34
10th Percentile £500 £400 £240
25th Percentile £550 £538 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -3.96% -1.88%
75th Percentile £825 £725 £788
90th Percentile £963 £784 £825
London median daily rate £650 £625 £680
% change year-on-year +4.00% -8.09% +4.62%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,406 1,610 2,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 70.41% 65.82% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,149 1,691
10th Percentile £330 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 15
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.07 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.11 £21.93 £18.42
Median hourly rate £30.04 £24.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% -30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £49.22 £35.69 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.63 £57.63 £58.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in Central London

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in Central London

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in Central London

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in Central London

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +10 32 £675 +10.20% 11
West End of London -1 3 £625 +4.17% 2
City of Westminster - 3 £625 - 2
Back Office
London

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Endur
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.78%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) OCI
2 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.11%) SaaS
3 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Maven
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Front Office
5 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
2 10 (27.78%) Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Business Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Lead
4 6 (16.67%) Project Manager
5 5 (13.89%) Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
6 4 (11.11%) ETRM Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Lead Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Consultant
8 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Consultant
8 2 (5.56%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 2 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Kafka
2 6 (16.67%) .NET
3 5 (13.89%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (8.33%) FpML
5 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.56%) JPA
5 2 (5.56%) React
5 2 (5.56%) Spring
5 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 3 (8.33%) PMI
3 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.78%) Derivative
5 1 (2.78%) Equities
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) Project Management
3 7 (19.44%) Business Analysis
3 7 (19.44%) Investment Management
4 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Management
5 5 (13.89%) ETRM
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
5 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Product Backlog
6 4 (11.11%) Release Management
6 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.11%) SDLC
7 3 (8.33%) Reference Data Management
7 3 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) Ruby
7 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) EMIR
1 5 (13.89%) MiFID
2 4 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) OpenLink
4 2 (5.56%) Murex
5 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.78%) CQG
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) IBM
5 1 (2.78%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.78%) Reuters