Back Office Contracts in Scotland

Back Office
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 116 158
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 +2
Contract jobs citing Back Office 20 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.23% 0.59% 0.17%
As % of the General category 1.71% 0.90% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £363 £654 £370
25th Percentile £388 £659 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -40.15% +3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £438 £691 £738
90th Percentile £519 £696 £790
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £12.67
25th Percentile - - £13.22
Median hourly rate - £12.30 £14.15
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -67.10%
75th Percentile - - £15.07
90th Percentile - - £15.62
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £21.73 £20.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +6.00% +6.22%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +13 11 £404 - 4
Edinburgh +1 4 - - 5
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Finacle
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle Database
1 9 (45.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) Git
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
General
1 12 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Front Office
4 2 (10.00%) Private Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Systems Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Accounts Payable Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) REST
2 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (30.00%) Node.js
3 5 (25.00%) CSS
3 5 (25.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) Express.js
5 1 (5.00%) J2EE
5 1 (5.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Data Design
5 5 (25.00%) API Development
5 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Business Case
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (15.00%) User Stories
8 2 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (10.00%) System Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Wealth Management
8 2 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Avaloq
2 2 (10.00%) Temenos
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft