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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 211 198
Rank change year-on-year -83 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing Back Office 159 160 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.19% 1.31%
As % of the General category 1.27% 1.72% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 112 139
10th Percentile £400 £400 £399
25th Percentile £508 £475 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £646
90th Percentile £919 £898 £732
England median daily rate £625 £650 £520
% change year-on-year -3.85% +25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £155.00 - -
75th Percentile £155.34 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.48 - £18.07
% change year-on-year - - -48.39%

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 12,528 9,282 10,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.61% 68.85% 62.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,004 6,114 6,636
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 178 123
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.00 £18.03
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.61 £25.24
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -10.01% +22.81%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £64.83 £65.81
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +32.46%

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 26 September 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
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 26 September 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 -27 31 £685 +2.43% 30
West London -17 13 £155 -67.30% 3
South London - 4 £155 - 6
East London 0 3 £155 - 2
North London +1 2 £278 -36.89% 1
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 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) MTS
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.63%) Solana
Applications
1 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Finacle
2 6 (3.77%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.89%) Findur
3 3 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.26%) Endur
5 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.63%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.63%) Global One
5 1 (0.63%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.63%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.63%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.69%) Azure
2 16 (10.06%) AWS
3 12 (7.55%) Amazon S3
3 12 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (7.55%) Serverless
4 10 (6.29%) GitHub
5 9 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (5.66%) Amazon EventBridge
5 9 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.40%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (3.77%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.52%) Datadog
9 4 (2.52%) GCP
9 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.69%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.55%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.29%) Oracle Database
2 10 (6.29%) RDBMS
2 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.40%) Power BI
5 3 (1.89%) Tableau
6 2 (1.26%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.26%) KDB
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.63%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) JIRA
2 7 (4.40%) Git
3 6 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 6 (3.77%) GitLab
4 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.26%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
General
1 86 (54.09%) Finance
2 51 (32.08%) Banking
3 42 (26.42%) Social Skills
4 41 (25.79%) Front Office
5 34 (21.38%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (12.58%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.14%) Retail
8 5 (3.14%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.26%) Billing
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Legal
9 2 (1.26%) Local Government
9 2 (1.26%) Marketing
9 2 (1.26%) Military
9 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.26%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (20.75%) Analyst
2 31 (19.50%) Senior
3 27 (16.98%) Business Analyst
4 25 (15.72%) Developer
5 17 (10.69%) EPoS Engineer
6 14 (8.81%) Applications Support
7 13 (8.18%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.92%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.29%) Systems Support
10 9 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.66%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Commodities Business Analyst
12 7 (4.40%) Consultant
12 7 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.77%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 6 (3.77%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) Software Asset Manager
13 6 (3.77%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) .NET
2 10 (6.29%) React
3 7 (4.40%) Spring
4 6 (3.77%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.77%) Terraform
5 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.52%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.52%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.89%) Blazor
7 3 (1.89%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.89%) Middleware
7 3 (1.89%) REST
7 3 (1.89%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.26%) JSON
8 2 (1.26%) Node.js
8 2 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.63%) RESTful
9 1 (0.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.32%) EPoS
2 17 (10.69%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.92%) Derivative
4 11 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.66%) Fixed Income
6 9 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (5.03%) Equities
8 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.89%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.26%) Eurex
11 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Windows
2 5 (3.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 31 (19.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 29 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (11.32%) CI/CD
5 18 (11.32%) Software Engineering
6 17 (10.69%) AI
6 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (10.69%) Validation
7 15 (9.43%) Migration
8 14 (8.81%) Agile
8 14 (8.81%) Asset Management
9 13 (8.18%) Analytics
9 13 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (7.55%) Business Analysis
10 12 (7.55%) Data Engineering
10 12 (7.55%) Defect Management
10 12 (7.55%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.55%) User Stories
11 11 (6.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.16%) SQL
2 27 (16.98%) Python
3 20 (12.58%) Java
4 12 (7.55%) C#
5 9 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.52%) Korn
8 3 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.63%) R
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.63%) Tcl
10 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (10.69%) DBS Check
2 14 (8.81%) Degree
3 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) ACCA
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.63%) CBAP
5 1 (0.63%) CFA
5 1 (0.63%) CIMA
5 1 (0.63%) CISA
5 1 (0.63%) CISSP
5 1 (0.63%) IIBA
5 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.77%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) EMIR
3 2 (1.26%) GDPR
3 2 (1.26%) MiFID
3 2 (1.26%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) COPPA
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Control-M
2 1 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 25 (15.72%) Oracle
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.66%) ION Trading
4 4 (2.52%) OpenLink
5 3 (1.89%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.89%) Murex
5 3 (1.89%) SAP
6 2 (1.26%) Calypso
6 2 (1.26%) Databricks
6 2 (1.26%) IBM
6 2 (1.26%) Sage
6 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.26%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.26%) Verint
7 1 (0.63%) FactSet
7 1 (0.63%) FIS
7 1 (0.63%) GoldenSource
7 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.63%) Splunk