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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 200 195
Rank change year-on-year -80 -5 +50
Contract jobs citing Back Office 105 157 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 1.13% 1.22%
As % of the General category 1.10% 1.75% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 110 185
10th Percentile £405 £400 £468
25th Percentile £483 £476 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -0.88% -13.79%
75th Percentile £758 £813 £800
90th Percentile £931 £863 £850
England median daily rate £650 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +10.64% -6.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £41.26 £22.30
25th Percentile - £80.25 £30.47
Median hourly rate £27.71 £80.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.58% +130.00% +105.10%
75th Percentile - £80.75 £35.16
90th Percentile - - £35.44
England median hourly rate £20.16 £70.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -71.21% +211.11% -32.90%

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 9,587 8,992 11,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.73% 64.98% 63.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,241 5,661 8,500
10th Percentile £348 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £694
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 114 246
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £16.08
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.36 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +20.51% +6.36%
75th Percentile £47.25 £53.11 £51.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £78.40 £73.70
England median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.88% +15.38% +0.30%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 18 £633 -2.69% 8
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 5 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (2.86%) CMS
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (10.48%) Endur
2 4 (3.81%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.90%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.90%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.95%) Maximo
4 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.95%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.95%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.95%) Summit
4 1 (0.95%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.71%) AWS
3 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (1.90%) OCI
5 2 (1.90%) SaaS
5 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.95%) Boomi
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.95%) Figma
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.95%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.95%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) Power BI
2 7 (6.67%) Tableau
3 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.95%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.95%) Dremio
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JIRA
2 6 (5.71%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.86%) Postman
3 3 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) Toad
General
1 59 (56.19%) Finance
2 42 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 35 (33.33%) Front Office
4 32 (30.48%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (20.95%) Banking
6 15 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Local Government
9 2 (1.90%) Marketing
9 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.95%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.95%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (35.24%) Business Analyst
2 34 (32.38%) Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Architect
3 11 (10.48%) Senior
4 9 (8.57%) Developer
5 7 (6.67%) Asset Management Analyst
5 7 (6.67%) Asset Management Business Analyst
5 7 (6.67%) Lead
5 7 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
6 6 (5.71%) OpenLink Business Analyst
7 5 (4.76%) Consultant
7 5 (4.76%) Integration Architect
7 5 (4.76%) OpenLink Analyst
7 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Back Office Business Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.81%) Endur Business Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Investment Management Business Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) .NET
1 5 (4.76%) REST
2 4 (3.81%) XML
3 3 (2.86%) ADO
4 2 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.90%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.90%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.90%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.90%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.95%) JSON
5 1 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.95%) Middleware
5 1 (0.95%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.95%) React
5 1 (0.95%) Spring
5 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.95%) Swagger
5 1 (0.95%) WPF
5 1 (0.95%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Equities
2 10 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.71%) Derivative
4 6 (5.71%) Fixed Income
4 6 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.90%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.95%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Unix
2 1 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.14%) Agile
2 28 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 18 (17.14%) Migration
6 16 (15.24%) Business Analysis
6 16 (15.24%) DevOps
6 16 (15.24%) Scrum
7 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (14.29%) Use Case
8 14 (13.33%) Roadmaps
8 14 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (13.33%) User Stories
9 13 (12.38%) AI
9 13 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (11.43%) Asset Management
10 12 (11.43%) Data Integration
10 12 (11.43%) Investment Management
11 11 (10.48%) Data Migration
11 11 (10.48%) ETRM
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.90%) SQL
2 12 (11.43%) Python
3 7 (6.67%) C#
4 6 (5.71%) Java
5 3 (2.86%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.90%) Scala
7 1 (0.95%) C++
7 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.95%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) CFA
3 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) EMIR
3 2 (1.90%) MiFID
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.95%) Ansible
1 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) OpenLink
2 7 (6.67%) SAP
3 6 (5.71%) Bloomberg
4 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.81%) Charles River
5 4 (3.81%) eFront
5 4 (3.81%) ION Trading
5 4 (3.81%) Murex
6 3 (2.86%) SimCorp
6 3 (2.86%) UiPath
7 2 (1.90%) Google
7 2 (1.90%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle
8 1 (0.95%) Databricks
8 1 (0.95%) Eze Software Group
8 1 (0.95%) FIS
8 1 (0.95%) FNZ
8 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.95%) Workday