Back Office Contracts in the West Midlands

Back Office
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 89 101 131
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 +35
Contract jobs citing Back Office 8 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.51% 0.34%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.91% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £202 £553 -
25th Percentile £310 £613 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £725 £275
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +163.64% -36.78%
75th Percentile £531 £844 £388
90th Percentile £554 £908 £391
England median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £17.45 -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +9.76% -
75th Percentile - £23.75 £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -55.00% +189.86%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 841 1,101 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.53% 56.55% 58.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 758 972
10th Percentile £185 £263 £237
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 111 42
10th Percentile - £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%
75th Percentile £28.18 £39.34 £26.82
90th Percentile £33.91 £56.25 £56.63
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the West Midlands

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the West Midlands

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the West Midlands

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the West Midlands

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 5 £513 -36.92% 7
Coventry +9 2 £210 -60.00% 3
Worcestershire - 1 - - 2
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) NGFW
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Finance Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Change Management
1 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) Statistics
1 2 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
1 2 (25.00%) WFM
2 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) ERP
2 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Genesys
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle