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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 321 300
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 +83
Contract jobs citing Back Office 200 222 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the General category 1.12% 1.16% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 145 270
10th Percentile £400 £375 £400
25th Percentile £475 £430 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £535 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -17.69% -0.66%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £825
90th Percentile £850 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £535 £650
% change year-on-year +16.82% -17.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £25.15 - £16.13
25th Percentile £31.38 £18.03 £18.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £18.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.03% -48.39% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.88 £18.10 £54.75
90th Percentile £62.85 - £59.50
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £13.40 £20.50
% change year-on-year +220.90% -34.63% -49.38%

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 17,867 19,087 26,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.26% 57.58% 59.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,346 12,263 18,282
10th Percentile £276 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £420 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £660 £680
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 975 1,202 950
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.00 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.25 £72.55
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -1 171 £625 +13.64% 201
South East +19 10 £488 +39.29% 44
North of England -6 9 £538 - 36
North West -1 7 £538 - 16
South West +31 5 £803 - 13
Midlands -11 2 - - 16
Yorkshire -14 2 £358 - 17
East Midlands - 2 - - 6
East of England +6 1 - - 7
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 8 (4.00%) Confluence
2 7 (3.50%) CMS
3 6 (3.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (15.50%) Endur
2 4 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.00%) Fidessa
2 4 (2.00%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.50%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.00%) Kondor
4 2 (1.00%) MultiFonds
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.50%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Findur
5 1 (0.50%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.50%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.50%) Azure
2 18 (9.00%) AWS
3 9 (4.50%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.50%) Firebase
4 7 (3.50%) GCP
5 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.00%) SaaS
7 3 (1.50%) Miro
7 3 (1.50%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.50%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.00%) OCI
8 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.50%) dbt
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.50%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Internet
2 1 (0.50%) DHCP
2 1 (0.50%) DNS
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) Skype
2 1 (0.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.50%) Power BI
2 7 (3.50%) Redis
3 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.50%) Power Query
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.50%) JIRA
2 6 (3.00%) Git
3 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.50%) Maven
3 3 (1.50%) Selenium
3 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.00%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.50%) Subversion
5 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (55.50%) Finance
2 61 (30.50%) Social Skills
3 41 (20.50%) Banking
4 38 (19.00%) Front Office
5 35 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.50%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.00%) Retail
8 7 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.00%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.50%) Automotive
10 5 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.50%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.50%) Legal
12 3 (1.50%) Marketing
13 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (37.00%) Analyst
2 61 (30.50%) Business Analyst
3 28 (14.00%) Developer
4 26 (13.00%) Architect
5 19 (9.50%) Senior
6 16 (8.00%) Endur Business Analyst
6 16 (8.00%) Lead
6 16 (8.00%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 16 (8.00%) Project Manager
7 15 (7.50%) Endur Analyst
7 15 (7.50%) OpenLink Analyst
8 14 (7.00%) Consultant
9 11 (5.50%) Applications Support
10 9 (4.50%) Support Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Applications Support Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Back Office Business Analyst
12 7 (3.50%) Node.js Developer
12 7 (3.50%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.50%) Technical Analyst
13 6 (3.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.50%) XML
2 9 (4.50%) .NET
2 9 (4.50%) React
2 9 (4.50%) REST
3 7 (3.50%) Node.js
3 7 (3.50%) Web Services
4 5 (2.50%) Smart Contracts
5 4 (2.00%) JSON
5 4 (2.00%) Kafka
5 4 (2.00%) Spring
5 4 (2.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.50%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.50%) JPA
6 3 (1.50%) Swagger
7 2 (1.00%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.00%) ADO
7 2 (1.00%) Middleware
7 2 (1.00%) Murex MxML
7 2 (1.00%) SOAP
8 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (6.00%) Fixed Income
3 11 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.00%) Derivative
5 9 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.00%) Market Risk
9 5 (2.50%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.50%) Blockchain
9 5 (2.50%) Equities
9 5 (2.50%) PMI
9 5 (2.50%) Reference Data
10 4 (2.00%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Linux
1 9 (4.50%) Windows
2 5 (2.50%) Unix
3 3 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.00%) Agile
2 45 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (17.00%) Risk Management
5 28 (14.00%) DevOps
6 27 (13.50%) Migration
7 23 (11.50%) ETRM
7 23 (11.50%) Project Management
8 20 (10.00%) Business Analysis
8 20 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (9.50%) Asset Management
10 18 (9.00%) Decision-Making
10 18 (9.00%) Scrum
11 17 (8.50%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.00%) Project Delivery
13 15 (7.50%) Investment Management
13 15 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
13 15 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (7.00%) Computer Science
14 14 (7.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.50%) SQL
2 23 (11.50%) Python
3 15 (7.50%) Java
4 12 (6.00%) C#
5 9 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.50%) DAML
7 5 (2.50%) Haskell
7 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.50%) OCaml
10 2 (1.00%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.50%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (12.50%) Degree
2 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.50%) PMP
4 4 (2.00%) ACCA
4 4 (2.00%) CIMA
4 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (1.00%) CBAP
6 2 (1.00%) MBA
7 1 (0.50%) APMP
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) IIBA
7 1 (0.50%) ISEB
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.50%) QA
2 11 (5.50%) EMIR
2 11 (5.50%) MiFID
3 5 (2.50%) PMO
4 4 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.00%) NCSC
4 4 (2.00%) NIST
5 3 (1.50%) Basel III
6 2 (1.00%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (1.00%) JSP 440
6 2 (1.00%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) FINRA
7 1 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (1.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.50%) Ansible
1 3 (1.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.50%) Terraform
2 2 (1.00%) SCCM
3 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.50%) OpenLink
3 16 (8.00%) Oracle
4 7 (3.50%) Charles River
4 7 (3.50%) SAP
5 6 (3.00%) Murex
6 5 (2.50%) Hitachi
6 5 (2.50%) ION Trading
6 5 (2.50%) Temenos
7 4 (2.00%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.00%) CQG
7 4 (2.00%) Databricks
7 4 (2.00%) Sybase
8 3 (1.50%) Citrix
8 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.50%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.00%) Concur
9 2 (1.00%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.00%) Splunk