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 27 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	289	220	207
Rank change year-on-year	-69	-13	-3
Contract jobs citing Back Office	174	156	172
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.85%	1.16%	1.10%
As % of the General category	1.36%	1.70%	1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	104	112	121
10^th Percentile	£442	£400	£400
25^th Percentile	£558	£475	£420
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£700	£650	£535
Median % change year-on-year	+7.69%	+21.50%	-17.69%
75^th Percentile	£775	£775	£701
90^th Percentile	£888	£934	£825
England median daily rate	£650	£648	£525
% change year-on-year	+0.31%	+23.43%	-19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted	15	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£80.25
Median hourly rate	£155.00	-	£80.50
75^th Percentile	£155.34	-	£80.75
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£92.11	-	£80.50
% change year-on-year	-	-	+130.00%

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 citing general skills in London.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing general skills	12,828	9,178	9,812
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	62.87%	68.38%	62.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	8,232	5,998	6,268
10^th Percentile	£350	£330	£327
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£545	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+0.92%	-5.22%	-2.13%
75^th Percentile	£675	£675	£698
90^th Percentile	£775	£788	£825
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	316	184	112
10^th Percentile	£15.00	£17.50	£17.55
25^th Percentile	£19.50	£23.25	£26.57
Median hourly rate	£27.75	£30.00	£37.50
Median % change year-on-year	-7.50%	-20.00%	+7.14%
75^th Percentile	£47.50	£47.13	£55.25
90^th Percentile	£67.25	£68.67	£74.63
England median hourly rate	£27.50	£24.61	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+11.74%	-24.28%	+8.33%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 27 October 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.

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 27 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-14	37	£675	+5.47%	6
West London	-14	12	£155	-67.30%	2
South London	-	4	£155	-	1
East London	+1	3	£155	-
North London	-	1	£155	-
Back Office England

Back Office Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Back Office also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Back Office.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	29.3%	51
2	Stakeholder Management	24.1%	42
3	Java	20.7%	36
4	CI/CD	19.5%	34
4	Problem-Solving	19.5%	34
6	AWS	17.2%	30
7	AI	16.1%	28
8	Agile	15.5%	27
8	Software Engineering	15.5%	27
10	Python	13.8%	24
10	Test Automation	13.8%	24
12	User Acceptance Testing	13.2%	23
13	Migration	12.6%	22
14	Oracle	12.1%	21
14	Spring	12.1%	21
16	Continuous Improvement	11.5%	20
17	ATM	10.9%	19
17	DBS Check	10.9%	19
19	Serverless	10.3%	18
19	Validation	10.3%	18
21	Business Analysis	9.8%	17
21	Data Pipeline	9.8%	17
21	DevOps	9.8%	17
21	Relational Database	9.8%	17
25	Azure	9.2%	16
25	Infrastructure as Code	9.2%	16
25	ION Trading	9.2%	16
25	SQL Server	9.2%	16
29	Amazon S3	8.6%	15
29	AWS Lambda	8.6%	15

Back Office Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Finance	55.2%	96
2	Banking	35.6%	62
3	Social Skills	26.4%	46
4	Analytical Skills	25.9%	45
4	Front Office	25.9%	45
6	Investment Banking	19.5%	34
7	Documentation Skills	6.3%	11
8	Financial Institution	4.0%	7
9	Retail Banking	2.9%	5
10	Public Sector	2.3%	4
10	Retail	2.3%	4
12	Marketing	1.7%	3
12	Military	1.7%	3
12	Presentation Skills	1.7%	3
15	Inclusion and Diversity	1.1%	2
15	International Banking	1.1%	2
15	Pharmaceutical	1.1%	2
15	Private Banking	1.1%	2
19	Billing	0.6%	1
19	Corporate Banking	0.6%	1