Back Office Contract Job Trends in London

Back Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 186 209
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 +59
Contract jobs citing Back Office 171 217 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.33% 1.17%
As % of the General category 1.84% 2.14% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 142 210
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £521 £650
Median % change year-on-year +24.70% -19.84% -7.11%
75th Percentile £756 £650 £835
90th Percentile £887 £730 £863
England median daily rate £637 £520 £650
% change year-on-year +22.40% -20.00% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.79
25th Percentile £62.50 - £30.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £35.16
90th Percentile - - £35.44
England median hourly rate £43.00 £18.07 £35.32
% change year-on-year +138.03% -48.85% +35.83%

All General Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,311 10,130 14,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 69.24% 62.19% 64.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,148 6,727 10,238
10th Percentile £325 £330 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £703
90th Percentile £790 £825 £810
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 121 174
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.00 £17.98
25th Percentile £24.65 £24.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.65% -16.20%
75th Percentile £49.75 £53.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in London

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Back Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Back Office

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in London

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Back Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Back Office

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Central London -18 32 £656 +19.32% 24
West London - 7 £475 -
East London -1 5 - - 1
North London - 1 £440 -
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (5.85%) Confluence
2 7 (4.09%) CMS
3 6 (3.51%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.17%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 35 (20.47%) Endur
2 4 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.34%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.75%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.75%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.17%) MultiFonds
5 1 (0.58%) Findur
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.58%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.58%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 26 (15.20%) Azure
2 17 (9.94%) AWS
3 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.09%) Firebase
4 7 (4.09%) GCP
5 3 (1.75%) Miro
5 3 (1.75%) OpenShift
5 3 (1.75%) SaaS
6 2 (1.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.58%) dbt
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.58%) OCI
7 1 (0.58%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Skype
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
2 1 (0.58%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.68%) Power BI
1 8 (4.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.09%) Redis
3 4 (2.34%) Tableau
4 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.58%) Metadata
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (11.70%) JIRA
2 8 (4.68%) Git
3 3 (1.75%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.75%) Selenium
4 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.17%) Maven
4 2 (1.17%) Postman
4 2 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.58%) Subversion
5 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (56.14%) Finance
2 60 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 44 (25.73%) Banking
4 39 (22.81%) Front Office
5 37 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (8.19%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.09%) Retail
8 6 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.92%) Automotive
10 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.17%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.17%) Marketing
11 2 (1.17%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.58%) French Language
12 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.58%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 71 (41.52%) Analyst
2 64 (37.43%) Business Analyst
3 25 (14.62%) Developer
4 23 (13.45%) Senior
5 18 (10.53%) Architect
5 18 (10.53%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 17 (9.94%) OpenLink Analyst
7 16 (9.36%) Endur Business Analyst
8 15 (8.77%) Endur Analyst
9 11 (6.43%) Project Manager
10 10 (5.85%) Applications Support
11 9 (5.26%) Consultant
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
12 8 (4.68%) Lead
12 8 (4.68%) Support Analyst
13 7 (4.09%) Applications Support Analyst
13 7 (4.09%) OpenLink Consultant
13 7 (4.09%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 7 (4.09%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.43%) XML
2 7 (4.09%) Node.js
2 7 (4.09%) React
2 7 (4.09%) Web Services
3 6 (3.51%) .NET
3 6 (3.51%) REST
4 5 (2.92%) Smart Contracts
5 4 (2.34%) JSON
6 3 (1.75%) Kafka
6 3 (1.75%) Spring
6 3 (1.75%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.75%) Swagger
7 2 (1.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.17%) ADO
7 2 (1.17%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.17%) JPA
7 2 (1.17%) Middleware
8 1 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.58%) FpML
8 1 (0.58%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 10 (5.85%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.09%) Derivative
4 7 (4.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.92%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.92%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.92%) Equities
6 5 (2.92%) Market Risk
7 4 (2.34%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.34%) PMI
7 4 (2.34%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.34%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.09%) Windows
2 4 (2.34%) Linux
3 3 (1.75%) Unix
4 2 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.09%) Agile
2 43 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (16.96%) Migration
5 28 (16.37%) DevOps
6 26 (15.20%) ETRM
6 26 (15.20%) Risk Management
7 23 (13.45%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (12.28%) Project Management
9 20 (11.70%) Data Modelling
10 19 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
11 18 (10.53%) Scrum
11 18 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (9.94%) Business Analysis
13 16 (9.36%) Data Migration
13 16 (9.36%) User Stories
14 15 (8.77%) Project Delivery
14 15 (8.77%) Use Case
15 14 (8.19%) Computer Science
15 14 (8.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.15%) SQL
2 21 (12.28%) Python
3 14 (8.19%) Java
4 9 (5.26%) C#
5 7 (4.09%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.09%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.92%) DAML
6 5 (2.92%) Haskell
7 4 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.75%) OCaml
8 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.17%) VBA
10 1 (0.58%) C
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) Tcl
10 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Degree
2 8 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.09%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.92%) PMP
5 3 (1.75%) CFA
5 3 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 2 (1.17%) CBAP
6 2 (1.17%) MBA
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) QA
2 8 (4.68%) EMIR
3 6 (3.51%) MiFID
4 4 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.75%) PMO
6 2 (1.17%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.58%) Basel III
7 1 (0.58%) FINRA
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.58%) SEPA
7 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (1.75%) Ansible
1 3 (1.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.58%) SCCM
2 1 (0.58%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (11.11%) OpenLink
2 16 (9.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.85%) Oracle
4 8 (4.68%) SAP
5 5 (2.92%) Charles River
5 5 (2.92%) Hitachi
5 5 (2.92%) ION Trading
5 5 (2.92%) Murex
5 5 (2.92%) Temenos
6 4 (2.34%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.34%) Databricks
7 3 (1.75%) CQG
7 3 (1.75%) eFront
7 3 (1.75%) SimCorp
7 3 (1.75%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.17%) Ariba
8 2 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.17%) Citrix
8 2 (1.17%) Google
8 2 (1.17%) Salesforce