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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 209 183
Rank change year-on-year -79 -26 +53
Contract jobs citing Back Office 112 145 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 1.14% 1.33%
As % of the General category 1.05% 1.69% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 98 184
10th Percentile £400 £418 £458
25th Percentile £464 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +4.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £788
90th Percentile £813 £933 £850
England median daily rate £588 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £13.62 £29.43 -
25th Percentile £14.02 £50.69 -
Median hourly rate £21.11 £72.75 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year -70.99% +331.49% -1.20%
75th Percentile £33.28 £80.75 -
90th Percentile £43.31 - -
England median hourly rate £13.45 £65.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -79.31% +188.89% -57.14%

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 10,660 8,589 11,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.91% 67.47% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,949 5,808 8,078
10th Percentile £345 £337 £334
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £701 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 139 249
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.90
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +18.97% -10.77%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.63 £46.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.83
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.11% -14.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -31 16 £656 +0.96% 10
West London -23 3 - - 1
North London +2 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 (2.68%) CMS
1 3 (2.68%) Confluence
1 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Aladdin
2 5 (4.46%) Findur
3 3 (2.68%) Fidessa
3 3 (2.68%) Finacle
4 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.79%) Endur
4 2 (1.79%) Front Arena
4 2 (1.79%) Global One
4 2 (1.79%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.89%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.89%) Maximo
5 1 (0.89%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.89%) Summit
5 1 (0.89%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.29%) Azure
2 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.04%) AWS
3 9 (8.04%) GCP
4 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (2.68%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.68%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.79%) IBM Blueworks
5 2 (1.79%) OCI
5 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.89%) Boomi
6 1 (0.89%) Datadog
6 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.89%) Figma
6 1 (0.89%) Google Sheets
6 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Power BI
2 9 (8.04%) Tableau
3 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.68%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.79%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.89%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.89%) Looker
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) JIRA
2 2 (1.79%) Selenium
2 2 (1.79%) Toad
3 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.89%) Git
3 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 64 (57.14%) Finance
2 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
3 31 (27.68%) Front Office
4 27 (24.11%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (21.43%) Banking
6 12 (10.71%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.46%) Retail
9 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.68%) Local Government
9 3 (2.68%) Marketing
10 2 (1.79%) Billing
10 2 (1.79%) Legal
10 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.89%) French Language
11 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (29.46%) Analyst
2 28 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 14 (12.50%) Developer
4 7 (6.25%) Consultant
5 6 (5.36%) Applications Support
5 6 (5.36%) Architect
5 6 (5.36%) Asset Management Analyst
5 6 (5.36%) Asset Management Business Analyst
5 6 (5.36%) Python Engineer
5 6 (5.36%) Senior
5 6 (5.36%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (4.46%) Integration Architect
6 5 (4.46%) Lead
6 5 (4.46%) Programme Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.57%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 4 (3.57%) Product Manager
7 4 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) .NET
2 4 (3.57%) Middleware
2 4 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.57%) WPF
3 3 (2.68%) ADO
3 3 (2.68%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.79%) FIXML
4 2 (1.79%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.79%) JSON
4 2 (1.79%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.79%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.79%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.89%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (8.93%) Derivative
3 9 (8.04%) Equities
4 7 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Eurex
8 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.79%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (1.79%) Swaptions
9 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Linux
1 4 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.89%) SUSE
2 1 (0.89%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (19.64%) Agile
2 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (18.75%) Asset Management
4 19 (16.96%) User Acceptance Testing
5 17 (15.18%) AI
6 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (11.61%) Migration
6 13 (11.61%) Validation
7 12 (10.71%) Analytics
7 12 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (9.82%) CRM
8 11 (9.82%) Risk Management
9 10 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (8.93%) Data Modelling
9 10 (8.93%) Roadmaps
9 10 (8.93%) Software Testing
9 10 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (8.93%) Test Strategy
9 10 (8.93%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.32%) SQL
2 16 (14.29%) Python
3 8 (7.14%) Java
4 7 (6.25%) C#
5 4 (3.57%) Scala
6 3 (2.68%) Korn
6 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.79%) Perl
7 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.89%) Bash
8 1 (0.89%) C++
8 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) CFA
3 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.89%) CISA
4 1 (0.89%) CISSP
4 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.68%) EMIR
3 3 (2.68%) MiFID
3 3 (2.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.79%) Control-M
1 2 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Oracle
2 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.25%) Murex
4 6 (5.36%) OpenLink
4 6 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.46%) Bloomberg
5 5 (4.46%) SAP
6 3 (2.68%) Charles River
7 2 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.79%) Calypso
7 2 (1.79%) Eze Software Group
7 2 (1.79%) FactSet
7 2 (1.79%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.79%) Verint
8 1 (0.89%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.89%) UiPath
8 1 (0.89%) Zopa