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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 194 192
Rank change year-on-year -105 -2 +25
Contract jobs citing Back Office 135 175 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.31% 1.30%
As % of the General category 1.10% 1.89% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 122 138
10th Percentile £409 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £637 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +21.24% -22.22%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £650
90th Percentile £943 £873 £732
England median daily rate £625 £625 £524
% change year-on-year - +19.33% -19.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.25 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.69% - -
75th Percentile £14.75 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £13.45 £43.00 £18.07
% change year-on-year -68.72% +138.03% -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 12,232 9,240 10,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.84% 69.04% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,767 6,143 6,997
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £503 £538
% change year-on-year +4.48% -6.51% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 185 140
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.50% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £66.20
England median hourly rate £31.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.84% -34.02% +35.37%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -34 21 £685 +7.45% 24
West London -17 10 - - 6
North London -2 1 £400 -9.09% 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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) MTS
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Finacle
2 9 (6.67%) Aladdin
3 6 (4.44%) Findur
4 2 (1.48%) Front Arena
4 2 (1.48%) Global One
5 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.74%) Endur
5 1 (0.74%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.74%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.11%) Azure
2 11 (8.15%) AWS
3 8 (5.93%) Amazon S3
3 8 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (5.93%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.93%) Serverless
4 6 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (4.44%) GitHub
5 5 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.96%) Datadog
6 4 (2.96%) GCP
6 4 (2.96%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 10 (7.41%) RDBMS
1 10 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.93%) Power BI
2 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.70%) Tableau
4 2 (1.48%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.48%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.48%) KDB
4 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.74%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.74%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (10.37%) JIRA
2 6 (4.44%) Git
3 3 (2.22%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.48%) Selenium
General
1 81 (60.00%) Finance
2 46 (34.07%) Banking
2 46 (34.07%) Social Skills
3 40 (29.63%) Front Office
4 27 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (14.07%) Investment Banking
6 11 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.96%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Billing
9 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.48%) Legal
9 2 (1.48%) Local Government
9 2 (1.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.48%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (23.70%) Analyst
2 25 (18.52%) Business Analyst
3 20 (14.81%) Senior
4 19 (14.07%) Developer
5 15 (11.11%) Applications Support
6 10 (7.41%) Systems Support
7 9 (6.67%) Consultant
7 9 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.44%) Commodities Business Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 6 (4.44%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.44%) Software Asset Manager
9 6 (4.44%) Software Manager
10 5 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.96%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.41%) .NET
2 7 (5.19%) React
3 6 (4.44%) Spring
4 4 (2.96%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (2.96%) Middleware
5 3 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.22%) REST
5 3 (2.22%) Terraform
5 3 (2.22%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.48%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.48%) FIXML
6 2 (1.48%) JSON
7 1 (0.74%) EDI
7 1 (0.74%) FpML
7 1 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (8.15%) Derivative
3 11 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 11 (8.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 9 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.19%) Equities
5 7 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.22%) Eurex
8 3 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.48%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.48%) Exotic Derivative
9 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.48%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.89%) Windows
2 4 (2.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (25.93%) User Acceptance Testing
3 30 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 17 (12.59%) Validation
6 15 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (11.11%) Defect Management
6 15 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 14 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (10.37%) Software Engineering
8 13 (9.63%) AI
8 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
9 12 (8.89%) Agile
9 12 (8.89%) Risk Management
9 12 (8.89%) Scenario Testing
9 12 (8.89%) Software Testing
9 12 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (8.15%) Migration
10 11 (8.15%) Process Improvement
11 10 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.44%) SQL
2 24 (17.78%) Python
3 17 (12.59%) Java
4 9 (6.67%) C#
5 7 (5.19%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.70%) Korn
6 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.96%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.22%) Perl
9 2 (1.48%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) C
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.74%) R
10 1 (0.74%) Tcl
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (9.63%) Degree
2 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.74%) ACCA
4 1 (0.74%) CBAP
4 1 (0.74%) CIMA
4 1 (0.74%) CISA
4 1 (0.74%) CISSP
4 1 (0.74%) IIBA
4 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.48%) EMIR
3 2 (1.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) MiFID
3 2 (1.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) COPPA
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.48%) Control-M
1 2 (1.48%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Oracle
2 9 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.93%) ION Trading
4 6 (4.44%) OpenLink
5 4 (2.96%) Murex
6 2 (1.48%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.48%) Calypso
6 2 (1.48%) Databricks
6 2 (1.48%) IBM
6 2 (1.48%) Sage
6 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.48%) SAP
6 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.48%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.48%) Verint
7 1 (0.74%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.74%) FactSet
7 1 (0.74%) FIS
7 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.74%) Splunk