Back Office Contract Job Trends 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 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 76 102
Rank change year-on-year -25 +26 +47
Contract jobs citing Back Office 27 53 50
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.45% 2.30% 1.64%
As % of the General category 1.96% 3.42% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 40 36
10th Percentile £340 £374 £429
25th Percentile £500 £413 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £850
90th Percentile £790 £754 £869
London median daily rate £650 £535 £650
% change year-on-year +21.50% -17.69% -7.14%

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 1,380 1,548 1,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 74.31% 67.13% 64.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 954 1,383
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £791 £825
London median daily rate £545 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -5.22% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 15
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £29.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -53.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £70.00 £40.16
90th Percentile £63.75 £92.50 £59.95
London median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +9.38%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Back Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Back Office job vacancy trend in Central London

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Back Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Back Office

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in Central London over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in Central London

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Back Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Back Office

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 27 October 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 -14 27 £640 +4.49% 31
Back Office
London

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (7.41%) Endur
2 1 (3.70%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) dbt
4 1 (3.70%) OCI
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Tableau
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) Postman
2 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
3 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 8 (29.63%) Front Office
6 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
7 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.70%) French Language
8 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
8 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Analyst
2 12 (44.44%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) ACBS Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Back Office Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) CRM Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) CRM Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Business Transformation Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Endur Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Head of Production
6 1 (3.70%) OpenLink Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) XML
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Derivative
2 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Equities
3 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (29.63%) Migration
4 7 (25.93%) Workshop Facilitation
5 6 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 6 (22.22%) Scrum
6 5 (18.52%) Use Case
6 5 (18.52%) User Stories
7 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.81%) DevOps
7 4 (14.81%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (14.81%) Project Management
7 4 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (11.11%) Change Management
8 3 (11.11%) CRM
8 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CFA
3 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) SEPA
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) HubSpot
2 2 (7.41%) OpenLink
2 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.41%) UiPath
3 1 (3.70%) Citrix
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) eFront
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) SAP