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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 216 176
Rank change year-on-year -93 -40 +56
Contract jobs citing Back Office 108 128 253
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 1.06% 1.45%
As % of the General category 0.98% 1.56% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 88 186
10th Percentile £405 £406 £423
25th Percentile £456 £509 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £749 £788 £716
90th Percentile £785 £850 £850
England median daily rate £588 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £13.62 - -
25th Percentile £14.02 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.11 £65.00 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year -67.53% +285.53% -1.20%
75th Percentile £33.28 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £43.31 - -
England median hourly rate £13.45 £21.00 £22.12
% change year-on-year -35.95% -5.04% -37.26%

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,014 8,221 10,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.89% 67.84% 62.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,102 5,488 7,850
10th Percentile £350 £348 £336
25th Percentile £431 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 147 240
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.42 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -5.39%
75th Percentile £46.25 £50.63 £46.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.45 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.16 £27.50 £30.27
% change year-on-year +13.29% -9.14% -5.18%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Back Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Back Office job vacancy trend 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 29 May 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Back Office in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Back Office in London

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 29 May 2026. 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 -29 16 £733 +12.69% 12
West London -25 5 - - 4
North London -1 1 £400 -9.09%
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Aladdin
2 6 (5.56%) Findur
3 5 (4.63%) Finacle
4 3 (2.78%) Fidessa
5 2 (1.85%) Endur
5 2 (1.85%) Front Arena
5 2 (1.85%) Global One
5 2 (1.85%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.93%) Summit
6 1 (0.93%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.81%) Azure
2 12 (11.11%) AWS
3 10 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.33%) GCP
5 7 (6.48%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.70%) Datadog
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.78%) GitHub
7 3 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.78%) Serverless
8 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.85%) IBM Blueworks
8 2 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) Power BI
2 8 (7.41%) Tableau
3 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.63%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.85%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.93%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.93%) Looker
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (1.85%) Toad
4 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 68 (62.96%) Finance
2 38 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 28 (25.93%) Front Office
4 25 (23.15%) Banking
5 18 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (9.26%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Billing
9 3 (2.78%) Local Government
9 3 (2.78%) Retail
10 2 (1.85%) Legal
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.93%) French Language
11 1 (0.93%) German Language
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) Analyst
2 26 (24.07%) Business Analyst
3 15 (13.89%) Developer
4 9 (8.33%) Applications Support
5 8 (7.41%) Python Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) Asset Management Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Asset Management Business Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) OpenLink Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) OpenLink Business Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Software Asset Manager
7 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Software Manager
7 5 (4.63%) Systems Support
7 5 (4.63%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.70%) Findur Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Findur Business Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) .NET
2 4 (3.70%) Middleware
2 4 (3.70%) REST
3 3 (2.78%) ADO
3 3 (2.78%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.78%) WPF
4 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.85%) FIXML
4 2 (1.85%) JSON
4 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.85%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.93%) React
5 1 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (9.26%) Equities
3 9 (8.33%) Derivative
4 7 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (6.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.63%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.85%) Eurex
9 2 (1.85%) Swaptions
9 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.93%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) SUSE
3 1 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (18.52%) Asset Management
5 16 (14.81%) AI
6 14 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (12.04%) Validation
8 12 (11.11%) Migration
9 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.26%) Agile
10 10 (9.26%) Analytics
10 10 (9.26%) Defect Management
10 10 (9.26%) Software Testing
11 9 (8.33%) Investment Management
11 9 (8.33%) Risk Management
11 9 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.41%) CRM
12 8 (7.41%) Data Analysis
12 8 (7.41%) Regression Testing
12 8 (7.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.22%) SQL
2 20 (18.52%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) Java
4 8 (7.41%) C#
5 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.70%) Scala
6 3 (2.78%) Korn
7 2 (1.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) Bash
8 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.26%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.93%) CFA
3 1 (0.93%) CISA
3 1 (0.93%) CISSP
3 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) EMIR
3 2 (1.85%) MiFID
3 2 (1.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Control-M
1 2 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Oracle
2 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.48%) OpenLink
4 4 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.70%) Murex
4 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.70%) SAP
5 3 (2.78%) Charles River
6 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.85%) Eze Software Group
6 2 (1.85%) FactSet
6 2 (1.85%) IBM
6 2 (1.85%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.85%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.85%) Verint
7 1 (0.93%) eFront
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.93%) Zopa