Back Office Contracts in the North of England

Back Office
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 171 181
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +42
Contract jobs citing Back Office 9 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.22% 0.073% 0.19%
As % of the General category 0.36% 0.13% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £350 - £152
25th Percentile £402 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £612 - £388
90th Percentile £622 - £455
England median daily rate £625 £535 £650
% change year-on-year +16.82% -17.69% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.07 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.26% -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £18.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +138.03% -48.39% +34.62%

All General Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,468 2,231 2,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 61.50% 53.98% 56.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,556 1,302 1,929
10th Percentile £250 £301 £255
25th Percentile £375 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.20% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 169 145
10th Percentile £12.80 £13.23 £14.20
25th Percentile £15.75 £16.00 £16.70
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -1.45% +12.16%
75th Percentile £45.88 £40.00 £35.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £52.02 £55.94
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
North West -1 7 £538 - 16
Yorkshire -14 2 £358 - 17
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Kondor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Floorwalker
2 1 (11.11%) IT Floorwalker
2 1 (11.11%) Junior
2 1 (11.11%) Network Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Credit Derivative
1 2 (22.22%) Derivative
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (22.22%) Market Risk
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Risk Management
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (22.22%) Fintech
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Network Management
5 1 (11.11%) Server Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Basel III
2 2 (22.22%) MiFID
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) Tenable