Back Office Job Trends in London

Back Office
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 271 260
Rank change year-on-year +47 -11 +61
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 187 119 283
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 0.98% 1.17%
As % of the General category 1.59% 1.28% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57 89 216
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £54,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £131,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% +7.41% -3.57%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,728 9,265 16,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 55.31% 76.58% 67.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,446 5,242 11,443
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,050
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -4.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £126,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Back Office job vacancy trend in London

Back Office
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Back Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Back Office

Back Office
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Back Office in London

Back Office
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
Central London -28 13 £87,500 -7.89% 29
East London - 4 £25,250 - 2
West London -18 1 - - 3
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.07%) CMS
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.07%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (63.64%) SaaS
2 44 (23.53%) AWS
3 36 (19.25%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (18.72%) GCP
5 7 (3.74%) Azure
5 7 (3.74%) Figma
6 6 (3.21%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (1.60%) Route 53
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) WeChat
9 2 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) BGP
1 3 (1.60%) Firewall
1 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.60%) VLAN
1 3 (1.60%) VPN
2 2 (1.07%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.21%) Redis
2 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.07%) MySQL
3 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) Power BI
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.04%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.07%) JUnit
3 1 (0.53%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 151 (80.75%) Finance
2 117 (62.57%) Banking
2 117 (62.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 117 (62.57%) Retail
3 110 (58.82%) Law
4 92 (49.20%) Financial Institution
5 48 (25.67%) Social Skills
6 21 (11.23%) Marketing
7 20 (10.70%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (10.16%) Polish Language
9 14 (7.49%) Italian Language
10 11 (5.88%) Legal
11 10 (5.35%) German Language
12 5 (2.67%) Front Office
12 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (2.14%) French Language
13 4 (2.14%) Spanish Language
14 3 (1.60%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (16.58%) Software Engineer
2 26 (13.90%) Senior
3 24 (12.83%) Architect
3 24 (12.83%) Lead
4 18 (9.63%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.09%) Analyst
6 15 (8.02%) Consultant
7 14 (7.49%) Business Consultant
7 14 (7.49%) Business Development Consultant
7 14 (7.49%) Development Consultant
8 13 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Software Team Leader
9 10 (5.35%) Team Leader
10 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.63%) REST
2 13 (6.95%) RESTful
3 7 (3.74%) OpenAPI
3 7 (3.74%) Swagger
4 5 (2.67%) JSON
4 5 (2.67%) React
5 4 (2.14%) .NET
5 4 (2.14%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.14%) Blazor
5 4 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.14%) Razor View Engine
5 4 (2.14%) WebAssembly
6 3 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.60%) XML
7 2 (1.07%) Dagger
7 2 (1.07%) Kafka
7 2 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.07%) Retrofit
7 2 (1.07%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 66 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 33 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 21 (11.23%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.49%) Onboarding
5 13 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (6.42%) Management Information System
7 11 (5.88%) Blog
8 6 (3.21%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.67%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.14%) EPoS
10 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.60%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.60%) Freedom of Information Act
11 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.07%) Hedge funds
12 2 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.74%) Android
1 7 (3.74%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.34%) Fintech
2 46 (24.60%) Roadmaps
3 42 (22.46%) CI/CD
3 42 (22.46%) Software Engineering
4 38 (20.32%) Microservices
4 38 (20.32%) Test Automation
5 37 (19.79%) Product Roadmap
6 36 (19.25%) Clean Code
6 36 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (18.18%) Business Development
8 31 (16.58%) Agile
9 30 (16.04%) Continuous Deployment
9 30 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (16.04%) Deployment Automation
10 27 (14.44%) Customer-Centricity
11 24 (12.83%) DevOps
11 24 (12.83%) Mentoring
11 24 (12.83%) Product Management
12 23 (12.30%) Coaching
13 22 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.60%) Java
2 11 (5.88%) Python
3 10 (5.35%) SQL
4 6 (3.21%) Go
5 5 (2.67%) C#
6 4 (2.14%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.07%) PHP
8 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (10.70%) Degree
2 9 (4.81%) CISA
2 9 (4.81%) CISSP
2 9 (4.81%) CRISC
3 6 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (1.60%) CISM
4 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.60%) CREST Certified
4 3 (1.60%) ISACA
4 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.70%) PCI DSS
1 20 (10.70%) SOC 2
2 14 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.74%) GRC
5 4 (2.14%) QA
6 3 (1.60%) COBIT
6 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.60%) GDPR
6 3 (1.60%) NIST
6 3 (1.60%) PSD2
6 3 (1.60%) SOC 1
7 1 (0.53%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 42 (22.46%) Terraform
2 31 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 30 (16.04%) Grafana
4 2 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 9 (4.81%) SAP
2 7 (3.74%) Ariba
2 7 (3.74%) Oracle
3 6 (3.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.21%) Workday
4 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.07%) Charles River
5 2 (1.07%) eFront
5 2 (1.07%) PayPal
5 2 (1.07%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.07%) Temenos
6 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.53%) Calypso
6 1 (0.53%) FXall
6 1 (0.53%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.53%) Google
6 1 (0.53%) Sparx
6 1 (0.53%) Tradeweb