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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 85 102
Rank change year-on-year -28 +17 +47
Contract jobs citing Back Office 20 48 49
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.04% 2.05% 1.65%
As % of the General category 1.42% 3.06% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 35
10th Percentile £322 £403 £463
25th Percentile £400 £463 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.42% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £689 £718 £850
90th Percentile £782 £833 £873
London median daily rate £650 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -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 1,411 1,570 1,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.72% 66.89% 64.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 967 1,366
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -1.28% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £699
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile £17.36 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.98 £29.13 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +27.27% -33.73%
75th Percentile £41.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £92.50 £71.75
London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.79 £35.98
% change year-on-year -27.22% +5.02% +19.93%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -21 20 £633 - 47
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 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Endur
2 1 (5.00%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) Tableau
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
1 4 (20.00%) Postman
2 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (30.00%) Front Office
4 6 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (5.00%) French Language
7 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) ACBS Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Endur Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Production
4 1 (5.00%) OpenLink Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Director
4 1 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Derivative
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Equities
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Use Case
6 4 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) User Stories
6 4 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Change Management
7 3 (15.00%) Project Management
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) UiPath
3 2 (10.00%) OpenLink
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) eFront
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Guidewire
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) SAP