Back Office Contracts in the North West

Back Office
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 132 148
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +30
Contract jobs citing Back Office 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 0.11% 0.033%
As % of the General category 0.41% 0.20% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £612 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £642 - -
England median daily rate £625 £575 £680
% change year-on-year +8.70% -15.44% +4.62%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,216 1,492 1,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.60% 53.65% 52.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 881 1,099
10th Percentile £303 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 192 85
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £14.79
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £29.54 £23.48 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% +1.40% -6.46%
75th Percentile £58.50 £42.88 £35.75
90th Percentile £76.38 £51.79 £55.94
England median hourly rate £27.38 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.78% +9.65% +26.04%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the North West

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the North West

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the North West over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the North West

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Manchester +19 5 £612 - 15
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) Kondor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Credit Derivative
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (40.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Network Management
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Basel III
1 2 (40.00%) MiFID
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Tenable