Back Office Jobs in the North of England

Back Office
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 272 352 339
Rank change year-on-year +80 -13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 36 41 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.24% 0.55%
As % of the General category 0.47% 0.43% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 30 35 34
10th Percentile £35,875 £37,500 £22,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £39,375 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,150 £42,300
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% +20.92% +12.80%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £56,563
90th Percentile £79,283 £80,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -3.57%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,603 9,640 12,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.40% 55.79% 71.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,827 7,324 5,221
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Back Office in the North of England

Back Office
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +83 15 £65,000 +23.81% 10
North West +15 15 £67,500 +31.96% 17
North East +55 6 £70,000 -28.21% 7
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (16.67%) Confluence
2 5 (13.89%) Jupyter
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) GitHub
3 4 (11.11%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 4 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) 5G
1 4 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
2 5 (13.89%) Dremio
2 5 (13.89%) Tableau
3 4 (11.11%) Data Hub
3 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.11%) SQL CLR
4 3 (8.33%) Metadata
4 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Retail
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Marketing
5 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Front Office
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Senior
2 12 (33.33%) Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Architect
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Applications Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 3 (8.33%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Security Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
7 3 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Technical Support
8 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
1 6 (16.67%) HTML
2 5 (13.89%) .NET Core
2 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (13.89%) Blazor
3 3 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.78%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.78%) RESTful
4 1 (2.78%) Swagger
4 1 (2.78%) WinForms
4 1 (2.78%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (16.67%) Equities
3 5 (13.89%) Reference Data
4 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 4 (11.11%) Operational Technology
4 4 (11.11%) Private Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (5.56%) PDA
7 1 (2.78%) Derivative
7 1 (2.78%) EPoS
7 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 6 (16.67%) Line Management
3 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
4 5 (13.89%) Business Strategy
4 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
4 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
4 5 (13.89%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (13.89%) Visualisation
5 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Fintech
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Microservices
5 4 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) SQL
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 6 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) Bash
5 3 (8.33%) PHP
5 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Bloomberg
2 5 (13.89%) Databricks
2 5 (13.89%) Reuters
3 4 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Xamarin