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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 201 193
Rank change year-on-year -50 -8 +34
Contract jobs citing Back Office 130 176 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.20% 1.21%
As % of the General category 1.36% 1.86% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 125 176
10th Percentile £360 £400 £456
25th Percentile £466 £456 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -2.40% -10.71%
75th Percentile £756 £775 £817
90th Percentile £950 £863 £850
England median daily rate £650 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £41.26 -
25th Percentile - £80.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.71 £80.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.58% +130.00% +66.41%
75th Percentile - £80.75 £35.32
90th Percentile - - £35.50
England median hourly rate £27.71 £67.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -58.95% +92.86% +66.41%

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 9,546 9,446 11,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.20% 64.62% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 6,008 8,422
10th Percentile £348 £325 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 115 166
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.99 £20.13
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £45.38 £53.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.04 £76.88
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +29.36%

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 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 1 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 -32 20 £625 -3.85% 18
East London -6 2 - -
West London -16 1 £475 - 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 5 (3.85%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) CMS
3 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Endur
2 3 (2.31%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.54%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.54%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.77%) Findur
4 1 (0.77%) Maximo
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.77%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.08%) Azure
2 11 (8.46%) Power Platform
3 10 (7.69%) AWS
4 7 (5.38%) GCP
5 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.31%) SaaS
7 2 (1.54%) OCI
7 2 (1.54%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.54%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.77%) dbt
8 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.77%) Figma
8 1 (0.77%) Firebase
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.77%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Internet
1 1 (0.77%) Skype
1 1 (0.77%) VPN
1 1 (0.77%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.69%) Power BI
2 7 (5.38%) Tableau
3 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.77%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.77%) Dremio
7 1 (0.77%) Metadata
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) JIRA
2 6 (4.62%) Git
3 4 (3.08%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.08%) Postman
3 4 (3.08%) Selenium
4 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (54.62%) Finance
2 51 (39.23%) Social Skills
3 41 (31.54%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (30.00%) Front Office
5 34 (26.15%) Banking
6 18 (13.85%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Retail
11 2 (1.54%) Automotive
11 2 (1.54%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.54%) Local Government
11 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.54%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.77%) Marketing
12 1 (0.77%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (37.69%) Business Analyst
2 47 (36.15%) Analyst
3 15 (11.54%) Developer
4 14 (10.77%) Architect
5 12 (9.23%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 12 (9.23%) Senior
6 11 (8.46%) OpenLink Analyst
7 10 (7.69%) Endur Business Analyst
8 9 (6.92%) Endur Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) Lead
10 7 (5.38%) Back Office Business Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Senior Business Analyst
10 7 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.62%) Asset Management Analyst
11 6 (4.62%) Asset Management Business Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Consultant
12 5 (3.85%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
13 4 (3.08%) Applications Support
13 4 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) XML
2 8 (6.15%) .NET
2 8 (6.15%) REST
3 4 (3.08%) ADO
3 4 (3.08%) React
4 3 (2.31%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.31%) JSON
4 3 (2.31%) Smart Contracts
5 2 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.54%) Kafka
5 2 (1.54%) Swagger
5 2 (1.54%) WPF
6 1 (0.77%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.77%) Middleware
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.77%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.77%) Spring
6 1 (0.77%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.77%) Web Services
6 1 (0.77%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Equities
1 11 (8.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.15%) Derivative
4 7 (5.38%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.31%) Blockchain
7 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.31%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.54%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.54%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Windows
3 2 (1.54%) Unix
3 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.46%) Agile
2 29 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (20.77%) Migration
3 27 (20.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (16.92%) Data Modelling
4 22 (16.92%) DevOps
5 21 (16.15%) Scrum
6 18 (13.85%) Data Migration
6 18 (13.85%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (13.08%) Requirements Gathering
8 16 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (12.31%) Use Case
9 15 (11.54%) Business Analysis
9 15 (11.54%) ETRM
9 15 (11.54%) User Stories
10 14 (10.77%) Data Integration
11 13 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 13 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 13 (10.00%) SDLC
12 11 (8.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (23.85%) SQL
2 15 (11.54%) Python
3 12 (9.23%) C#
3 12 (9.23%) Java
4 3 (2.31%) DAML
4 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.31%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.54%) C++
5 2 (1.54%) Scala
5 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.77%) C
6 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.77%) Tcl
6 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.92%) Degree
2 9 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.85%) CFA
4 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.77%) MBA
5 1 (0.77%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) QA
2 9 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.85%) EMIR
3 5 (3.85%) MiFID
4 1 (0.77%) Basel III
4 1 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Ansible
1 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.54%) Terraform
2 1 (0.77%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) OpenLink
3 9 (6.92%) SAP
4 6 (4.62%) Bloomberg
5 5 (3.85%) ION Trading
5 5 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.08%) Charles River
6 4 (3.08%) Murex
6 4 (3.08%) Oracle
7 3 (2.31%) eFront
7 3 (2.31%) SimCorp
7 3 (2.31%) UiPath
8 2 (1.54%) CQG
8 2 (1.54%) Databricks
8 2 (1.54%) Google
8 2 (1.54%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.54%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.54%) Workday
9 1 (0.77%) Ariba
9 1 (0.77%) Reuters