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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 203 185
Rank change year-on-year -101 -18 +61
Contract jobs citing Back Office 108 148 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 1.17% 1.26%
As % of the General category 1.03% 1.75% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 106 181
10th Percentile £398 £438 £463
25th Percentile £463 £514 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £742 £825 £800
90th Percentile £826 £938 £850
England median daily rate £573 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.40% - -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £13.62 £38.88 -
25th Percentile £14.02 £66.94 -
Median hourly rate £21.11 £80.50 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year -73.78% +377.46% -1.20%
75th Percentile £33.28 £80.75 -
90th Percentile £43.31 - -
England median hourly rate £13.45 £67.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -80.07% +200.00% -57.14%

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 10,469 8,437 11,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.97% 66.83% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,829 5,713 8,163
10th Percentile £350 £336 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £782 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 139 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.85 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.75 £55.13 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.68 £72.13
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.03
% change year-on-year -14.10% +15.25% -25.63%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -39 16 £645 -0.77% 19
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%) CMS
1 3 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.78%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.78%) Findur
3 2 (1.85%) Endur
3 2 (1.85%) Front Arena
3 2 (1.85%) Global One
3 2 (1.85%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (1.85%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.93%) Maximo
4 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.93%) Summit
4 1 (0.93%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.04%) Azure
2 8 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.48%) AWS
4 6 (5.56%) GCP
5 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.78%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.85%) OCI
7 2 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.93%) Boomi
8 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.93%) Figma
8 1 (0.93%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.93%) IBM Blueworks
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) Tableau
2 7 (6.48%) Power BI
3 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.85%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.93%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.93%) Dremio
6 1 (0.93%) Looker
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
2 3 (2.78%) Git
2 3 (2.78%) Postman
2 3 (2.78%) Selenium
3 2 (1.85%) Toad
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 64 (59.26%) Finance
2 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.63%) Front Office
4 29 (26.85%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (20.37%) Banking
6 15 (13.89%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.70%) Retail
9 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.85%) Billing
10 2 (1.85%) Local Government
10 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.93%) French Language
11 1 (0.93%) German Language
11 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.93%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.93%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 35 (32.41%) Analyst
2 32 (29.63%) Business Analyst
3 12 (11.11%) Developer
4 9 (8.33%) Asset Management Analyst
4 9 (8.33%) Asset Management Business Analyst
5 6 (5.56%) Architect
5 6 (5.56%) Consultant
5 6 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) Senior
6 5 (4.63%) Integration Architect
6 5 (4.63%) Lead
6 5 (4.63%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (3.70%) Back Office Business Analyst
7 4 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.70%) C# Developer
7 4 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Investment Management Business Analyst
7 4 (3.70%) OpenLink Business Analyst
7 4 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) .NET
2 4 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (3.70%) REST
3 3 (2.78%) ADO
3 3 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.78%) WPF
3 3 (2.78%) XML
4 2 (1.85%) FIXML
4 2 (1.85%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.85%) Middleware
4 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.85%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.85%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.93%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.93%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (8.33%) Derivative
2 9 (8.33%) Equities
3 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.63%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.78%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Eurex
7 2 (1.85%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.85%) Swaptions
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.93%) SUSE
2 1 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.93%) Unix
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.85%) Agile
2 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 15 (13.89%) Migration
6 14 (12.96%) AI
6 14 (12.96%) Validation
7 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (11.11%) Business Analysis
8 12 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 12 (11.11%) Investment Management
8 12 (11.11%) Scrum
9 11 (10.19%) Analytics
9 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (10.19%) DevOps
9 11 (10.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (9.26%) Data Integration
10 10 (9.26%) Roadmaps
10 10 (9.26%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.44%) SQL
2 14 (12.96%) Python
3 8 (7.41%) Java
4 7 (6.48%) C#
5 3 (2.78%) Scala
5 3 (2.78%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.85%) Korn
6 2 (1.85%) Perl
6 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (10.19%) Degree
2 3 (2.78%) CFA
2 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.93%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.19%) QA
2 7 (6.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.78%) EMIR
3 3 (2.78%) MiFID
4 2 (1.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Control-M
1 2 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 7 (6.48%) Microsoft
1 7 (6.48%) Murex
2 6 (5.56%) Bloomberg
2 6 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.63%) OpenLink
3 5 (4.63%) SAP
4 4 (3.70%) Oracle
5 3 (2.78%) Charles River
5 3 (2.78%) UiPath
6 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.85%) Calypso
6 2 (1.85%) Eze Software Group
6 2 (1.85%) FactSet
6 2 (1.85%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.85%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.85%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Portware
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) Sage