Back Office Contracts 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 155 242
Rank change year-on-year -64 +87 +86
Contract jobs citing Back Office 140 268 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.13% 1.53% 1.05%
As % of the General category 1.67% 2.43% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 200 225
10th Percentile £416 £430 £450
25th Percentile £513 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £680
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -8.09% +4.62%
75th Percentile £813 £741 £835
90th Percentile £870 £850 £838
England median daily rate £644 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +3.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £24.71 - -
25th Percentile £38.88 - £16.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.86 £17.07
Median % change year-on-year +285.53% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £74.13 - £18.00
90th Percentile £78.10 - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -6.67% -36.17% +108.83%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,400 11,028 16,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.72% 63.15% 63.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,645 7,869 11,891
10th Percentile £343 £336 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 232 210
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.55 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.13 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +21.78% -11.95% -15.44%
75th Percentile £51.18 £44.00 £57.07
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.25
England median hourly rate £27.25 £30.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.65% -7.20% +51.16%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in London

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in London.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in London

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in London

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in London.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in London

Back Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Back Office in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 -4 37 £675 +12.50% 15
West London +14 2 £475 - 1
East London +11 1 - - 1
South London +2 1 £413 -16.24%
North London - 1 £440 -
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.29%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Drupal
4 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Endur
2 5 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.43%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.43%) MultiFonds
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.71%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.71%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.29%) Azure
2 14 (10.00%) AWS
3 7 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.57%) SaaS
6 4 (2.86%) OCI
7 3 (2.14%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.71%) Firebase
9 1 (0.71%) GCP
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.86%) Power BI
3 3 (2.14%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (1.43%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.71%) GIS
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.71%) Power Query
5 1 (0.71%) Redis
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (11.43%) JIRA
2 7 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) Git
3 3 (2.14%) Maven
4 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 72 (51.43%) Finance
2 45 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.00%) Front Office
4 24 (17.14%) Banking
5 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.00%) Retail
8 6 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.57%) Marketing
9 5 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.71%) Billing
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (28.57%) Analyst
2 31 (22.14%) Business Analyst
3 28 (20.00%) Developer
4 17 (12.14%) Lead
5 14 (10.00%) Architect
6 13 (9.29%) Project Manager
6 13 (9.29%) Senior
7 11 (7.86%) Consultant
8 6 (4.29%) Endur Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) Endur Consultant
8 6 (4.29%) OpenLink Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) OpenLink Consultant
8 6 (4.29%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.57%) Endur Business Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Functional Consultant
9 5 (3.57%) Lead Architect
9 5 (3.57%) OpenLink Business Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Analyst Developer
10 4 (2.86%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.57%) .NET
2 8 (5.71%) Kafka
3 7 (5.00%) React
4 6 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (3.57%) Django
5 5 (3.57%) Flask
5 5 (3.57%) NumPy
5 5 (3.57%) Pandas
5 5 (3.57%) XML
6 4 (2.86%) Murex MxML
6 4 (2.86%) Svelte
7 3 (2.14%) FpML
7 3 (2.14%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.14%) JPA
7 3 (2.14%) Spring
7 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.43%) CSS
8 2 (1.43%) HTML
8 2 (1.43%) HTML5
8 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (6.43%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (5.71%) Derivative
3 8 (5.71%) Fixed Income
3 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.29%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.57%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.86%) PMI
8 3 (2.14%) EPoS
8 3 (2.14%) Equities
8 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.71%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 29 (20.71%) Agile
3 25 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (17.14%) Project Management
4 24 (17.14%) Risk Management
5 18 (12.86%) DevOps
6 16 (11.43%) Analytics
7 15 (10.71%) Business Analysis
7 15 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (10.00%) Investment Management
8 14 (10.00%) Migration
9 13 (9.29%) ETRM
9 13 (9.29%) Project Delivery
10 11 (7.86%) Asset Management
10 11 (7.86%) Data Management
10 11 (7.86%) Data Protection
10 11 (7.86%) Scrum
11 10 (7.14%) Functional Testing
12 9 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.57%) SQL
2 18 (12.86%) Python
3 11 (7.86%) C#
3 11 (7.86%) PowerShell
4 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.71%) Java
6 4 (2.86%) Haskell
6 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.43%) OCaml
8 2 (1.43%) VBA
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.29%) Degree
2 6 (4.29%) PMI Certification
3 4 (2.86%) PMP
4 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.43%) MCP
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.71%) APMP
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) IIBA
6 1 (0.71%) ISEB
6 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.71%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) EMIR
2 11 (7.86%) MiFID
3 9 (6.43%) QA
4 4 (2.86%) PMO
5 2 (1.43%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.71%) SEPA
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.43%) Rundeck
1 2 (1.43%) SCCM
1 2 (1.43%) Terraform
2 1 (0.71%) Ansible
2 1 (0.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) OpenLink
3 10 (7.14%) Oracle
4 8 (5.71%) Murex
5 7 (5.00%) Bloomberg
6 5 (3.57%) Charles River
6 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.86%) Databricks
7 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.43%) Apple
8 2 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.43%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.43%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.43%) SAP
8 2 (1.43%) Splunk
8 2 (1.43%) Sybase
9 1 (0.71%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.71%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.71%) Trayport