Back Office Contracts in the City of London

Back Office
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 137 156
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 -28
Contract jobs citing Back Office 35 36 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.61% 1.01% 0.90%
As % of the General category 2.42% 1.61% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 32
10th Percentile £375 £240 £475
25th Percentile £472 £505 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -5.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £730
90th Percentile £780 £825 £786
Central London median daily rate £600 £626 £650
% change year-on-year -4.08% -3.77% +26.83%

All General Skills
City of London

Back Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,449 2,233 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.47% 62.53% 57.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,571 1,770
10th Percentile £338 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £551 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.13% +5.26% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 28
10th Percentile £19.13 £14.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -50.59% +142.86%
75th Percentile £27.00 £52.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £32.05 £57.75 £67.55
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -50.59% +142.86%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the City of London

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (8.57%) MTS
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Endur
2 3 (8.57%) Aligne
2 3 (8.57%) EuroRunner
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Miro
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Power BI
3 3 (8.57%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (2.86%) MySQL
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Postman
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) TestComplete
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Front Office
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Analyst
2 12 (34.29%) Senior
3 10 (28.57%) Business Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (14.29%) Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Angular Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.71%) Middle Office Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Middle Office Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
7 2 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Tester
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Tester
7 2 (5.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.86%) CSS
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) HTML5
4 1 (2.86%) Playwright
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) SAP PI
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Market Risk
3 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Derivative
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) CentOS
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
3 5 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis
4 4 (11.43%) Test Strategy
5 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (8.57%) Data Management
5 3 (8.57%) ERP
5 3 (8.57%) ETRM
5 3 (8.57%) Manual Testing
5 3 (8.57%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (8.57%) OO
5 3 (8.57%) OOD
5 3 (8.57%) Scrum
5 3 (8.57%) TDD
5 3 (8.57%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) C#
3 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.71%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) EMIR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.86%) MiFID
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) HP
2 3 (8.57%) OpenLink
3 2 (5.71%) Murex
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.86%) CyberSource
4 1 (2.86%) FIS
4 1 (2.86%) Progress
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow