Back Office Contracts in the South West

Back Office
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 110 152 144
Rank change year-on-year +42 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing Back Office 1 5 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.060% 0.16% 0.63%
As % of the General category 0.10% 0.30% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £603
25th Percentile £350 £225 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £250 £700
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -64.29% +60.00%
75th Percentile £360 £375 £750
90th Percentile - £435 £790
England median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -55.00% +189.86%

All General Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 961 1,651 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.27% 51.61% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 989 1,321
10th Percentile £218 £213 £275
25th Percentile £399 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £678 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 269 128
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £87.58
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the South West

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the South West

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the South West

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +31 1 £355 +42.00% 4
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) EPoS
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing