Back Office Contracts in the UK excluding London

Back Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 365 384
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -38
Contract jobs citing Back Office 48 86 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.64% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 49 90
10th Percentile £244 £260 £262
25th Percentile £350 £385 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £476
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.98% +5.83%
75th Percentile £688 £788 £588
90th Percentile £715 £1,025 £654
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 8
10th Percentile £12.30 £14.15 £11.81
25th Percentile £16.20 £17.06 £12.21
Median hourly rate £22.12 £35.25 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year -37.26% +82.64% -16.85%
75th Percentile £23.75 £55.63 £48.53
90th Percentile - £60.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.73 £18.78 £19.30
% change year-on-year +15.69% -2.68% -5.18%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,235 13,480 17,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.64% 56.43% 55.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,412 9,215 11,847
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 775 1,044
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -5.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.53 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +47.73% -2.22%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Scotland +49 13 £675 +3.85% 4
Midlands +32 12 £625 +92.31% 20
West Midlands +26 11 £625 +127.27% 14
South East -5 7 £560 -26.56% 26
North of England +28 6 £375 - 34
East of England +17 5 - - 13
South West +7 5 £250 -62.96% 11
North West +28 3 - - 22
Yorkshire +15 3 £375 - 8
East Midlands +20 2 £525 +16.67% 6
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.08%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) AWS
2 6 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
2 6 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 6 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 5 (10.42%) Google Sheets
3 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.33%) IaaS
5 3 (6.25%) Azure
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) LAN
1 7 (14.58%) WAN
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) SAN
2 2 (4.17%) Wireless
3 1 (2.08%) DHCP
3 1 (2.08%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.08%) NGFW
3 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) GIS
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle Database
1 5 (10.42%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (14.58%) Retail
6 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Law
8 1 (2.08%) Local Government
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Analyst
2 12 (25.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) AWS Architect
4 6 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 6 (12.50%) Technical Support Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Digital Transformation
5 5 (10.42%) Digital Transformation Manager
5 5 (10.42%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Junior
6 4 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Junior Data Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) SOAP
2 8 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) jQuery
3 1 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.33%) AS400
3 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) CCTV
4 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.08%) LIMS
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Service Management
2 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
2 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (18.75%) API Management
3 9 (18.75%) Data Analysis
4 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 8 (16.67%) Migration
4 8 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.58%) Problem Management
6 6 (12.50%) Batch Scheduling
6 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 6 (12.50%) ITIL
7 5 (10.42%) Agile
7 5 (10.42%) Line Management
7 5 (10.42%) Security Architecture
7 5 (10.42%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) Java
2 8 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) ABAP
3 1 (2.08%) Bicep
3 1 (2.08%) C#
3 1 (2.08%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) R
3 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.17%) PhD
3 1 (2.08%) CCNA
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
2 1 (2.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) SAP
2 7 (14.58%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.25%) VMware
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.08%) Adobe
6 1 (2.08%) Ariba
6 1 (2.08%) Aruba
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Citrix
6 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) NetApp
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Sophos