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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 88 122
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 +40
Contract jobs citing Back Office 33 47 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.64% 1.98% 1.43%
As % of the General category 2.23% 3.00% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 46
10th Percentile £513 £375 £240
25th Percentile £588 £434 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £574 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.73% +4.00%
75th Percentile £713 £669 £822
90th Percentile £773 £750 £850
London median daily rate £648 £575 £700
% change year-on-year +12.70% -17.86% -

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 1,478 1,567 2,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.50% 66.12% 62.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 1,080 1,664
10th Percentile £331 £338 £319
25th Percentile £429 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.17% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £815 £829
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 15
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.93 £20.92 £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.24 £26.78 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% +29.34% -51.28%
75th Percentile £51.81 £41.06 £38.66
90th Percentile £67.89 £70.20 £53.35
London median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.69
% change year-on-year +12.73% -7.74% -7.92%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -4 32 £650 +11.11% 79
West End of London +2 1 £625 +4.17% 2
City of Westminster - 1 £625 - 1
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 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (6.06%) Endur
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.03%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) OCI
2 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.12%) SaaS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.03%) dbt
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power Query
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Maven
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (6.06%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.03%) Selenium
3 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 7 (21.21%) Front Office
5 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
7 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.03%) French Language
8 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Analyst
2 10 (30.30%) Business Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Back Office Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Business Architect
6 2 (6.06%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Financials Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.06%) JPA
2 2 (6.06%) React
2 2 (6.06%) Spring
2 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.06%) XML
3 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (15.15%) Reference Data
2 3 (9.09%) PMI
3 2 (6.06%) Derivative
3 2 (6.06%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Equities
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile
1 13 (39.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.21%) Project Management
4 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (15.15%) Investment Management
5 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.12%) Business Analysis
6 4 (12.12%) Change Management
6 4 (12.12%) Data Management
6 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
6 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
6 4 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (9.09%) Accounts Receivable
7 3 (9.09%) Data Strategy
7 3 (9.09%) Data-Flow Analysis
7 3 (9.09%) Reference Data Management
7 3 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 4 (12.12%) C#
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) EMIR
1 3 (9.09%) MiFID
1 3 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SEPA
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) HubSpot
2 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix
3 1 (3.03%) CQG
3 1 (3.03%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.03%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.03%) OpenLink
3 1 (3.03%) Reuters
3 1 (3.03%) UiPath