Back Office Jobs in England

Back Office
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 411 473
Rank change year-on-year -74 +62 +6
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 195 484 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.59% 0.95% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 149 386 360
10th Percentile £35,500 £27,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,393 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -0.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,625 £111,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All General Skills
England

Back Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,306 50,872 61,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 68.85% 59.24% 68.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16,642 35,678 33,330
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £104,275
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Back Office in England.

Salary trend for Back Office in England

Back Office
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Back Office in England

Back Office
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -36 108 £90,000 - 251
North of England +55 37 £65,000 +18.18% 43
South East +53 21 £35,250 -2.08% 94
North West -18 16 £65,000 +22.47% 25
Yorkshire +74 15 £65,000 +23.81% 11
South West +118 14 £57,500 -8.00% 9
Midlands +28 7 £50,000 +78.57% 24
East of England +8 7 £60,394 +28.77% 9
North East +56 6 £70,000 -28.21% 8
West Midlands +28 4 £70,000 +180.00% 12
East Midlands +39 3 £40,000 +9.94% 9
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (10.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.69%) IIS
3 7 (3.59%) Apache
3 7 (3.59%) Confluence
4 5 (2.56%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.05%) CMS
6 3 (1.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.51%) Jetty
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (9.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.54%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Endur
2 8 (4.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.56%) Markit EDM
4 3 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.03%) Aladdin
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.21%) Azure
2 25 (12.82%) SaaS
3 23 (11.79%) AWS
4 22 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.18%) GitHub
7 10 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.13%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.56%) GCP
10 4 (2.05%) Firebase
10 4 (2.05%) Serverless
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.54%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.54%) OCI
11 3 (1.54%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.03%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.03%) Azure App Service
13 1 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.21%) Firewall
2 10 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.10%) DNS
4 6 (3.08%) VPN
5 4 (2.05%) 5G
5 4 (2.05%) Broadband
6 3 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.54%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.51%) Internet
7 1 (0.51%) LAN
7 1 (0.51%) SSH
7 1 (0.51%) WAN
7 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.44%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.72%) Power BI
3 16 (8.21%) Data Hub
3 16 (8.21%) SQL CLR
4 10 (5.13%) Metadata
4 10 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 10 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.59%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.08%) MySQL
6 6 (3.08%) Redis
6 6 (3.08%) Tableau
7 5 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.56%) Dremio
8 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.05%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.03%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (7.18%) JIRA
2 9 (4.62%) Git
3 3 (1.54%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.03%) JUnit
4 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.51%) Moq
5 1 (0.51%) MSTest
5 1 (0.51%) NUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Selenium
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) Subversion
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) xUnit.net
General
1 95 (48.72%) Finance
2 58 (29.74%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.77%) Retail
4 18 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.72%) Front Office
6 15 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (7.18%) Banking
8 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
9 10 (5.13%) Marketing
10 6 (3.08%) Local Government
10 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.56%) Investment Banking
12 4 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.05%) Law
12 4 (2.05%) Legal
12 4 (2.05%) Military
13 3 (1.54%) Advertising
13 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 42 (21.54%) Senior
2 32 (16.41%) Developer
3 30 (15.38%) Analyst
4 19 (9.74%) Senior Developer
5 15 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 14 (7.18%) Project Manager
7 13 (6.67%) Applications Support
8 12 (6.15%) Architect
8 12 (6.15%) Lead
9 11 (5.64%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.64%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Developer
10 10 (5.13%) SaaS Developer
10 10 (5.13%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 10 (5.13%) Senior SQL Developer
10 10 (5.13%) SQL Developer
10 10 (5.13%) Technical Support
11 8 (4.10%) Consultant
11 8 (4.10%) Development Manager
11 8 (4.10%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.85%) .NET
2 17 (8.72%) .NET Framework
3 14 (7.18%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.64%) HTML
5 9 (4.62%) Kafka
6 7 (3.59%) Entity Framework
6 7 (3.59%) Web Services
7 6 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (3.08%) Blazor
7 6 (3.08%) CSS
7 6 (3.08%) Dapper ORM
7 6 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (3.08%) REST
8 5 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.56%) jQuery
8 5 (2.56%) React
9 4 (2.05%) Node.js
10 3 (1.54%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (1.54%) LEMP Stack
10 3 (1.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Onboarding
2 17 (8.72%) Management Information System
3 16 (8.21%) Private Cloud
4 11 (5.64%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.62%) Derivative
5 9 (4.62%) Equities
6 7 (3.59%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (2.56%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.56%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.05%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.10%) Windows
2 24 (12.31%) Windows Server
3 22 (11.28%) Linux
4 15 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 9 (4.62%) Unix
6 7 (3.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.51%) Android
8 1 (0.51%) CentOS
8 1 (0.51%) Debian
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (20.51%) Agile
3 24 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (11.79%) ITIL
4 23 (11.79%) Workflow
5 22 (11.28%) DevOps
5 22 (11.28%) Fintech
6 21 (10.77%) Customer Service
6 21 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (10.77%) Project Management
6 21 (10.77%) Software Engineering
7 20 (10.26%) Change Management
7 20 (10.26%) Migration
7 20 (10.26%) Roadmaps
8 19 (9.74%) CI/CD
8 19 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (9.74%) Data Privacy
8 19 (9.74%) Project Delivery
9 18 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.72%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 85 (43.59%) SQL
2 34 (17.44%) Python
3 21 (10.77%) C#
4 15 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.15%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.64%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.62%) PHP
8 7 (3.59%) Java
9 5 (2.56%) Bash
9 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.05%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.03%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Bicep
12 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.51%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (18.46%) Degree
2 8 (4.10%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.10%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.59%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.51%) ACCA
5 1 (0.51%) CIMA
5 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.51%) MCP
5 1 (0.51%) MCSA
5 1 (0.51%) MCSE
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) SLA
2 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.56%) FINRA
3 3 (1.54%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.54%) PMO
3 3 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) ITGC
System Software
1 23 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.62%) Hyper-V
3 8 (4.10%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.59%) Docker
5 3 (1.54%) Samba
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.13%) Failover Clustering
3 8 (4.10%) Terraform
4 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.56%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.05%) Ansible
7 3 (1.54%) SCCM
8 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 56 (28.72%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.79%) VMware
3 22 (11.28%) Oracle
4 13 (6.67%) Cisco
5 8 (4.10%) Siebel
6 7 (3.59%) Murex
7 6 (3.08%) Bloomberg
7 6 (3.08%) Reuters
8 5 (2.56%) Databricks
8 5 (2.56%) Trayport
9 4 (2.05%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.54%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.54%) Dell
10 3 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.54%) Okta
10 3 (1.54%) SAP
10 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.54%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.03%) eFront
11 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow