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 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 198 186
Rank change year-on-year -113 -12 +30
Contract jobs citing Back Office 123 173 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the General category 1.02% 1.87% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 119 145
10th Percentile £413 £401 £413
25th Percentile £488 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -15.90%
75th Percentile £753 £775 £675
90th Percentile £838 £850 £750
England median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £13.53 - -
25th Percentile £13.80 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.69% - -
75th Percentile £32.61 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £43.04 - -
England median hourly rate £13.45 £43.00 £21.73
% change year-on-year -68.72% +97.88% -40.06%

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 12,094 9,255 10,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.69% 68.22% 62.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,712 6,164 7,317
10th Percentile £350 £326 £338
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 178 163
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.94
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.90 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -8.44% -3.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.69 £50.88
90th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.24% -33.58% +26.96%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -20 20 £693 +10.80% 9
West London -14 10 - -
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 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Finacle
2 7 (5.69%) Aladdin
3 6 (4.88%) Findur
4 2 (1.63%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.63%) Front Arena
4 2 (1.63%) Global One
4 2 (1.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.81%) Endur
5 1 (0.81%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.45%) Azure
2 13 (10.57%) AWS
3 8 (6.50%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.50%) Snowflake
4 7 (5.69%) Amazon S3
4 7 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.69%) Serverless
5 6 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.88%) GCP
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.07%) GitHub
6 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (3.25%) Datadog
7 4 (3.25%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.13%) Oracle Database
2 10 (8.13%) RDBMS
3 8 (6.50%) Power BI
4 7 (5.69%) Tableau
5 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.63%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.63%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.81%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.81%) Looker
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) JIRA
2 3 (2.44%) Git
3 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.63%) GitLab
3 2 (1.63%) Selenium
3 2 (1.63%) Toad
General
1 76 (61.79%) Finance
2 47 (38.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (28.46%) Front Office
4 33 (26.83%) Banking
5 30 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (7.32%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.44%) Billing
9 3 (2.44%) Legal
9 3 (2.44%) Retail
10 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.63%) Local Government
10 2 (1.63%) Marketing
10 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.81%) French Language
11 1 (0.81%) German Language
11 1 (0.81%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 35 (28.46%) Analyst
2 27 (21.95%) Business Analyst
3 18 (14.63%) Developer
4 14 (11.38%) Applications Support
5 13 (10.57%) Senior
6 10 (8.13%) Systems Support
7 8 (6.50%) Consultant
8 6 (4.88%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Software Asset Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Software Manager
9 5 (4.07%) Commodities Business Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Findur Business Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Product Manager
10 4 (3.25%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) .NET
2 4 (3.25%) Middleware
2 4 (3.25%) React
3 3 (2.44%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.44%) REST
3 3 (2.44%) Spring
3 3 (2.44%) WPF
4 2 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.63%) FIXML
4 2 (1.63%) JSON
4 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.81%) EDI
5 1 (0.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (9.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (8.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 9 (7.32%) Derivative
5 7 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.88%) Equities
6 6 (4.88%) Fixed Income
7 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.63%) Eurex
10 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.63%) Swaptions
10 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.76%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) SUSE
3 1 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (26.02%) User Acceptance Testing
3 29 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.45%) Validation
5 17 (13.82%) Asset Management
6 15 (12.20%) Defect Management
7 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (9.76%) Data Analysis
8 12 (9.76%) Migration
8 12 (9.76%) Scenario Testing
8 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (9.76%) Test Automation
9 11 (8.94%) Software Testing
10 10 (8.13%) AI
10 10 (8.13%) Analytics
10 10 (8.13%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 10 (8.13%) CI/CD
10 10 (8.13%) CRM
10 10 (8.13%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.27%) SQL
2 21 (17.07%) Python
3 14 (11.38%) Java
4 9 (7.32%) C#
5 5 (4.07%) Korn
5 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.25%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.44%) Scala
8 2 (1.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Degree
2 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.81%) CBAP
4 1 (0.81%) CFA
4 1 (0.81%) CISA
4 1 (0.81%) CISSP
4 1 (0.81%) IIBA
4 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) QA
2 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) GDPR
3 2 (1.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) COPPA
4 1 (0.81%) EMIR
4 1 (0.81%) GRC
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) MiFID
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.63%) Control-M
1 2 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (21.14%) Oracle
2 10 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.88%) OpenLink
4 5 (4.07%) ION Trading
5 4 (3.25%) Murex
6 3 (2.44%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.44%) Charles River
6 3 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.63%) Databricks
7 2 (1.63%) Eze Software Group
7 2 (1.63%) FactSet
7 2 (1.63%) IBM
7 2 (1.63%) Sage
7 2 (1.63%) SAP
7 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.63%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.63%) Verint
8 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.81%) Refinitiv