Back Office Job Trends in Glasgow

Back Office
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 71 122
Rank change year-on-year +19 +51 -16
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 3 1 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.44% 0.14% 0.93%
As % of the General category 0.86% 0.23% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £46,700
25th Percentile £24,725 - £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,250 - £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.17%
75th Percentile £25,775 - £58,375
90th Percentile - - £67,400
Scotland median annual salary £25,250 £29,250 £50,250
% change year-on-year -13.68% -41.79% -12.61%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 general skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 349 426 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.95% 61.56% 75.55%
Number of salaries quoted 191 168 287
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £77,813 £65,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £110,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £35,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -36.36% +4.76% -11.80%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Back Office relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Back Office job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Back Office
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Back Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Back Office

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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