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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 474 478
Rank change year-on-year +53 +4 -44
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 483 538 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.59% 0.74%
As % of the General category 0.95% 0.87% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 387 359 579
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,875 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £117,000 £111,500 £115,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,625 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.78% +3.85%

All General Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,814 61,696 85,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.22% 68.21% 64.03%
Number of salaries quoted 35,671 33,426 44,983
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +96 280 £90,000 +12.50% 102
South East +34 71 £36,000 -42.86% 23
North of England -10 45 £55,000 +29.41% 30
Midlands +20 44 £28,000 -34.12% 24
East of England +37 39 £46,899 -1.27% 12
West Midlands +37 36 £25,000 -37.50% 18
North West +11 36 £53,075 +33.54% 19
Yorkshire +28 8 £52,500 -8.70% 8
East Midlands -22 8 £36,383 -21.34% 6
South West -52 3 £62,500 +31.58% 11
North East -6 1 £97,500 +102.07% 4
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 27 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.24%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.83%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (0.83%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.41%) GlassFish
4 2 (0.41%) IIS
4 2 (0.41%) JCAPS
4 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.41%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.41%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.41%) WordPress
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.21%) Kentico
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 52 (10.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (10.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (3.73%) NEC Housing
2 9 (1.86%) Endur
3 6 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.24%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.04%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.41%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.41%) Magento
6 2 (0.41%) nopCommerce
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
6 2 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 110 (22.77%) Azure
2 87 (18.01%) AWS
3 56 (11.59%) Power Platform
4 46 (9.52%) GCP
5 31 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.52%) Google Sheets
9 16 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.28%) Mimecast
12 10 (2.07%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.45%) OCI
14 4 (0.83%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.83%) SaaS
15 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 2 (0.41%) Amazon S3
15 2 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (0.41%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.11%) Firewall
2 12 (2.48%) VPN
2 12 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.28%) VoIP
4 10 (2.07%) Wireless
5 8 (1.66%) LAN
6 3 (0.62%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.62%) FTP
6 3 (0.62%) GPRS
6 3 (0.62%) Internet
6 3 (0.62%) Network Security
7 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.41%) WAN
8 1 (0.21%) DHCP
8 1 (0.21%) DNS
8 1 (0.21%) Intranet
8 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.90%) Power BI
3 27 (5.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 26 (5.38%) Oracle Database
5 23 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (4.35%) GIS
7 18 (3.73%) Oracle Database 12c
7 18 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.28%) MS Access
9 10 (2.07%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.86%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.66%) MySQL
11 8 (1.66%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.24%) SAP BW
14 5 (1.04%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.83%) MongoDB
16 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (2.90%) JIRA
1 14 (2.90%) Visual Studio
2 11 (2.28%) Git
3 3 (0.62%) Ant
3 3 (0.62%) Maven
4 2 (0.41%) JUnit
4 2 (0.41%) Subversion
5 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.21%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.21%) Vite
General
1 272 (56.31%) Finance
2 197 (40.79%) Social Skills
3 117 (24.22%) Front Office
4 83 (17.18%) Banking
5 78 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (11.59%) Local Government
7 52 (10.77%) Retail
8 30 (6.21%) Public Sector
9 26 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (5.18%) Police
11 20 (4.14%) Billing
12 13 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.66%) General Ledger
16 6 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.24%) Manufacturing
17 5 (1.04%) Games
18 4 (0.83%) Legal
18 4 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 125 (25.88%) Senior
2 107 (22.15%) Developer
3 100 (20.70%) Analyst
4 58 (12.01%) Senior Developer
5 47 (9.73%) .NET Developer
5 47 (9.73%) Senior Software Developer
5 47 (9.73%) Software Engineer
6 43 (8.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 43 (8.90%) Senior .NET Developer
6 43 (8.90%) Senior Software Engineer
7 42 (8.70%) .NET Software Developer
7 42 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
7 42 (8.70%) Senior .NET Software Developer
7 42 (8.70%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 37 (7.66%) Lead
9 35 (7.25%) Technical Analyst
10 30 (6.21%) Architect
11 29 (6.00%) Financial Analyst
11 29 (6.00%) SQL Analyst
12 28 (5.80%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (21.12%) .NET
2 51 (10.56%) React
3 50 (10.35%) AngularJS
4 45 (9.32%) .NET Core
5 43 (8.90%) Redux
6 42 (8.70%) Vue
7 35 (7.25%) ASP.NET
8 27 (5.59%) ASP.NET Core
9 23 (4.76%) CSS
10 19 (3.93%) Web Services
11 18 (3.73%) .NET Framework
12 17 (3.52%) HTML
13 15 (3.11%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (2.90%) Pandas
15 12 (2.48%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (1.24%) Entity Framework
17 5 (1.04%) jQuery
18 4 (0.83%) ASP.NET MVC
18 4 (0.83%) RESTful
18 4 (0.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 110 (22.77%) Hedge funds
2 106 (21.95%) Derivative
3 65 (13.46%) Fixed Income
4 51 (10.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 48 (9.94%) Equities
6 39 (8.07%) Management Information System
7 35 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (4.35%) Driving Licence
9 19 (3.93%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.48%) Smartcard
12 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.07%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.86%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.45%) Blog
15 6 (1.24%) IoT
15 6 (1.24%) Reinsurance
16 5 (1.04%) Swaptions
17 4 (0.83%) Replication
18 3 (0.62%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.77%) Windows
2 31 (6.42%) Unix
3 30 (6.21%) Windows 10
4 15 (3.11%) Windows 7
5 14 (2.90%) Linux
5 14 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.83%) Android
8 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Debian
9 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.21%) Scientific Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Solaris
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (28.16%) Asset Management
2 114 (23.60%) Agile
3 113 (23.40%) Investment Management
4 106 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (17.39%) Customer Service
6 79 (16.36%) Software Engineering
7 60 (12.42%) Mentoring
8 52 (10.77%) Data Analysis
9 43 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
9 43 (8.90%) DevOps
10 41 (8.49%) ERP
11 36 (7.45%) Project Delivery
12 35 (7.25%) CRM
12 35 (7.25%) Roadmaps
13 32 (6.63%) Computer Science
14 31 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (6.42%) User Acceptance Testing
15 30 (6.21%) ITIL
15 30 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (6.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 183 (37.89%) SQL
2 157 (32.51%) C#
3 118 (24.43%) Python
4 65 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 47 (9.73%) TypeScript
6 21 (4.35%) Java
7 17 (3.52%) Bicep
7 17 (3.52%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.45%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.04%) VB
10 5 (1.04%) VBA
11 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.83%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.41%) PHP
12 2 (0.41%) XPath
13 1 (0.21%) Bash
13 1 (0.21%) Swift
13 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (18.84%) Degree
2 34 (7.04%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (4.97%) Oracle Certification
5 18 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 15 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.28%) CISM
9 10 (2.07%) CISSP
10 8 (1.66%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.66%) PMP
11 7 (1.45%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.41%) ACCA
12 2 (0.41%) CIMA
12 2 (0.41%) CISA
12 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.21%) CCNA
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.80%) SLA
2 22 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.73%) QA
4 9 (1.86%) PMO
5 6 (1.24%) GAAP
5 6 (1.24%) IFRS
6 2 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.21%) COSHH
7 1 (0.21%) EMIR
7 1 (0.21%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (8.49%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.52%) Docker
3 15 (3.11%) KVM
4 12 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.21%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.24%) Control-M
3 2 (0.41%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 59 (12.22%) Oracle
3 30 (6.21%) SAP
4 23 (4.76%) Google
5 18 (3.73%) NEC
6 13 (2.69%) Charles River
7 12 (2.48%) Sophos
8 11 (2.28%) Apple
8 11 (2.28%) Barracuda Networks
8 11 (2.28%) ConnectWise
9 9 (1.86%) IBM
9 9 (1.86%) OpenLink
9 9 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.66%) Algorithmics
10 8 (1.66%) ION Trading
11 7 (1.45%) Sybase
12 6 (1.24%) PeopleSoft
13 5 (1.04%) Genesys
13 5 (1.04%) TIBCO
13 5 (1.04%) YouTube