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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 86 105
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 +47
Contract jobs citing Back Office 15 37 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.69% 1.79% 1.13%
As % of the General category 1.06% 2.67% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 19
10th Percentile £364 £500 £515
25th Percentile £481 £575 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +4.00% -2.00%
75th Percentile £731 £825 £744
90th Percentile £749 £963 £875
London median daily rate £650 £656 £625
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -10.71%

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 general skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,409 1,384 1,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.17% 66.86% 64.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 869 1,196
10th Percentile £350 £348 £333
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £688 £679 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £805
London median daily rate £535 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 15
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.30 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +29.17% -40.74%
75th Percentile £42.30 £35.00 £48.50
90th Percentile £52.80 £65.50 £65.00
London median hourly rate £28.55 £37.81 £28.75
% change year-on-year -24.48% +31.50% -4.17%

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 25 February 2026.

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 25 February 2026. 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 -27 15 £633 -10.54% 8
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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (6.67%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Postman
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
General
1 14 (93.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 8 (53.33%) Front Office
3 6 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) ACBS Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Business Transformation Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Transformation Director
4 1 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (20.00%) Equities
3 2 (13.33%) Derivative
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Use Case
5 2 (13.33%) AI
5 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Scala
2 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) UiPath
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) HubSpot
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Murex
2 1 (6.67%) Sage
2 1 (6.67%) SAP