Back Office Contracts in England

Back Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 281 327
Rank change year-on-year -39 +46 +74
Contract jobs citing Back Office 168 287 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.77% 0.74%
As % of the General category 1.08% 1.32% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 204 283
10th Percentile £402 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £809 £750 £830
90th Percentile £871 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £14.02 £16.86 £17.78
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.50 £20.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -55.00% +189.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £23.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.30 - £60.50
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £21.73 £20.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +6.00% +6.22%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in England.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in England

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in England.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Back Office in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Back Office in England

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -44 141 £650 +4.00% 211
Midlands +19 8 £450 -37.93% 25
West Midlands +12 8 £450 -37.93% 17
South East +45 6 £350 -37.50% 70
East of England +31 6 £500 - 11
North of England +16 3 £625 +66.67% 34
Yorkshire +7 2 £606 +61.67% 10
South West +42 1 £355 +42.00% 19
North West +15 1 £625 - 17
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (2.98%) Confluence
2 4 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Drupal
3 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (11.31%) Endur
2 3 (1.79%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.19%) MultiFonds
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.60%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.60%) Summit
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.86%) Azure
2 16 (9.52%) AWS
2 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.17%) SaaS
5 5 (2.98%) OCI
6 4 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.79%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.19%) Serverless
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.60%) GCP
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) Firewall
2 2 (1.19%) DNS
2 2 (1.19%) Intranet
2 2 (1.19%) NGFW
2 2 (1.19%) Wireless
2 2 (1.19%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.60%) DHCP
3 1 (0.60%) LAN
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.60%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.98%) Power BI
3 4 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.19%) Big Data
5 2 (1.19%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.19%) GIS
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.60%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.60%) Power Query
6 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.74%) JIRA
2 8 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.79%) Maven
4 2 (1.19%) Git
4 2 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 74 (44.05%) Finance
2 49 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Front Office
4 19 (11.31%) Banking
5 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.95%) Investment Banking
6 10 (5.95%) Retail
7 5 (2.98%) Marketing
7 5 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.38%) Billing
8 4 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Legal
10 2 (1.19%) Local Government
10 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.60%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (25.00%) Analyst
2 31 (18.45%) Business Analyst
3 26 (15.48%) Developer
3 26 (15.48%) Lead
4 16 (9.52%) Architect
5 14 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 12 (7.14%) Consultant
6 12 (7.14%) Senior
6 12 (7.14%) Technical Leader
7 6 (3.57%) Endur Analyst
7 6 (3.57%) Endur Consultant
7 6 (3.57%) OpenLink Analyst
7 6 (3.57%) OpenLink Consultant
7 6 (3.57%) Python Developer
8 5 (2.98%) Analyst Developer
8 5 (2.98%) Endur Business Analyst
8 5 (2.98%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (2.98%) Lead Architect
8 5 (2.98%) OpenLink Business Analyst
8 5 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.10%) .NET
2 10 (5.95%) Kafka
3 8 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (4.17%) React
5 5 (2.98%) Django
5 5 (2.98%) Flask
5 5 (2.98%) Murex MxML
5 5 (2.98%) NumPy
5 5 (2.98%) Pandas
5 5 (2.98%) XML
6 4 (2.38%) FpML
6 4 (2.38%) Svelte
7 3 (1.79%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.79%) JPA
7 3 (1.79%) Spring
7 3 (1.79%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.19%) HTML5
8 2 (1.19%) Node.js
8 2 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (5.95%) Fixed Income
5 8 (4.76%) Derivative
6 6 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.98%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 5 (2.98%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.98%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (2.38%) EPoS
8 4 (2.38%) PMI
9 3 (1.79%) Equities
9 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.19%) Credit Derivative
10 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.36%) Windows
2 6 (3.57%) Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Android
3 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.62%) Agile
2 26 (15.48%) DevOps
3 24 (14.29%) Project Management
4 23 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (11.90%) Risk Management
7 18 (10.71%) Analytics
8 16 (9.52%) Business Analysis
8 16 (9.52%) Investment Management
9 15 (8.93%) Clean Code
9 15 (8.93%) TDD
9 15 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 14 (8.33%) ETRM
10 14 (8.33%) Migration
10 14 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 13 (7.74%) OO
11 13 (7.74%) OOD
12 12 (7.14%) Asset Management
12 12 (7.14%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.14%) SQL
2 21 (12.50%) C#
3 20 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.90%) Python
4 19 (11.31%) Java
5 18 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.19%) VBA
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Haskell
9 1 (0.60%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.71%) Degree
2 7 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.79%) PMP
5 2 (1.19%) CCNA
5 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.19%) MCP
5 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.60%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.60%) APMP
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) IIBA
6 1 (0.60%) ISEB
6 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.60%) MCSA
6 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.14%) EMIR
1 12 (7.14%) MiFID
2 11 (6.55%) QA
3 9 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.98%) PMO
5 2 (1.19%) GDPR
5 2 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.19%) Rundeck
2 2 (1.19%) SCCM
3 1 (0.60%) Ansible
3 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.60%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.93%) Oracle
3 13 (7.74%) OpenLink
4 9 (5.36%) Murex
5 7 (4.17%) Bloomberg
6 6 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.98%) Charles River
8 4 (2.38%) Databricks
9 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.19%) Apple
10 2 (1.19%) Genesys
10 2 (1.19%) IBM
10 2 (1.19%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.19%) SAP
10 2 (1.19%) Splunk
10 2 (1.19%) Sybase
11 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.60%) Tradeweb
11 1 (0.60%) Trayport