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 in the UK excluding London. 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 292 352 374
Rank change year-on-year +60 +22 +12
Contract jobs citing Back Office 44 47 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the General category 0.55% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 52
10th Percentile £276 £263 £266
25th Percentile £366 £359 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £612
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% -1.18% +22.45%
75th Percentile £528 £688 £788
90th Percentile £581 £719 £1,025
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile £14.01 £12.30 £14.15
25th Percentile £14.02 £16.20 £17.06
Median hourly rate £17.53 £22.12 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% -37.26% +82.64%
75th Percentile £33.25 £23.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £55.30 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £21.73 £20.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +6.00% +6.22%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,944 11,365 13,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.23% 54.72% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,491 9,285
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £597 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 1,652 782
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.76 £52.84 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
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 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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
Scotland +20 20 £404 -40.15% 10
Midlands +19 8 £450 -37.93% 25
West Midlands +12 8 £450 -37.93% 17
South East +45 6 £350 -37.50% 70
East of England +31 6 £500 - 11
North of England +16 3 £625 +66.67% 34
Yorkshire +7 2 £606 +61.67% 10
South West +42 1 £355 +42.00% 19
North West +15 1 £625 - 17
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:

Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Finacle
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.55%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.27%) OCI
5 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) Intranet
1 2 (4.55%) NGFW
1 2 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) Oracle Database
1 10 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 9 (20.45%) RDBMS
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Git
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) JMeter
General
1 18 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Banking
5 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.82%) Billing
6 3 (6.82%) Front Office
6 3 (6.82%) Retail
7 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.55%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Dutch Language
8 1 (2.27%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Law
8 1 (2.27%) Legal
8 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Analyst
2 7 (15.91%) Systems Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Administrator
4 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (4.55%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.55%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.55%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Report Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Service Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Node.js
1 8 (18.18%) REST
2 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 5 (11.36%) CSS
3 5 (11.36%) HTML
4 3 (6.82%) Express.js
5 1 (2.27%) J2EE
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.55%) Derivative
1 2 (4.55%) EPoS
1 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) Agile
2 15 (34.09%) DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.91%) Data Design
5 6 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.36%) API Development
6 5 (11.36%) Customer Experience
6 5 (11.36%) Front End Development
7 4 (9.09%) Business Case
7 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.09%) Problem Management
7 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.09%) Process Improvement
7 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 3 (6.82%) Change Management
8 3 (6.82%) ITIL
8 3 (6.82%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (20.45%) PL/SQL
3 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) Python
6 1 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) CCNA
2 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Avaloq
3 2 (4.55%) Genesys
3 2 (4.55%) Temenos
4 1 (2.27%) Adobe
4 1 (2.27%) BMC
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Tenable