Back Office Contracts in the South East

Back Office
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 187 232
Rank change year-on-year -7 +45 -36
Contract jobs citing Back Office 7 31 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the General category 0.25% 0.93% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 27
10th Percentile £320 £450 £202
25th Percentile £350 £513 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +30.43% -
75th Percentile £650 £1,025 £638
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £625 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.50 £11.16
25th Percentile - £55.00 £11.55
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £12.41
Median % change year-on-year - +373.41% -
75th Percentile - £61.25 £12.62
90th Percentile - £62.00 -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £35.25 £17.25
% change year-on-year -36.17% +104.35% -1.43%

All General Skills
South East

Back Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,762 3,330 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.36% 58.49% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,525 2,271 2,811
10th Percentile £205 £236 £213
25th Percentile £356 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £719 £663
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 169 213
10th Percentile £12.88 £17.95 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.35 £22.23 £14.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -24.70%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £30.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.80 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.44%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the South East

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the South East

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the South East

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the South East

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Surrey +13 3 £650 +18.18% 3
Hampshire -1 2 £560 +6.67% 4
Thames Valley +3 1 £350 +15.23% 9
Buckinghamshire - 1 £350 - 4
West Sussex - 1 - - 1
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP EWM
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (14.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) IT Architect
1 2 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior VMware Architect
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Business Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
1 2 (28.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce