Back Office Jobs in the UK excluding London

Back Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 498 552
Rank change year-on-year -57 +54 -79
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 207 269 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the General category 0.51% 0.63% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 168 168 174
10th Percentile £25,700 £22,000 £25,900
25th Percentile £27,000 £36,000 £35,802
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,875 £44,375
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% +10.14% +4.41%
75th Percentile £55,063 £62,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,875 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,625 £68,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.49% +4.62%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,308 42,509 42,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.50% 69.19% 59.67%
Number of salaries quoted 26,346 19,216 24,189
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South East +36 71 £36,000 -42.40% 23
Midlands +10 42 £28,000 -37.78% 22
North of England -19 41 £51,150 +20.92% 31
East of England +37 39 £46,899 -2.80% 9
West Midlands +48 34 £25,000 -37.50% 14
North West +18 32 £51,150 +41.60% 24
Scotland -79 12 £25,901 -51.13% 3
Yorkshire +39 8 £52,500 -8.70% 4
East Midlands -23 8 £36,383 -21.34% 8
South West -48 3 £62,500 +31.58% 14
North East -7 1 £97,500 +114.88% 3
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.93%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (1.93%) CMS
2 4 (1.93%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.97%) IIS
3 2 (0.97%) WordPress
4 1 (0.48%) Kentico
4 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 49 (23.67%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Endur
2 8 (3.86%) NEC Housing
3 6 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.45%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.97%) Magento
5 2 (0.97%) nopCommerce
5 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.49%) Power Platform
2 25 (12.08%) Azure
3 12 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.31%) AWS
4 11 (5.31%) Mimecast
5 10 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.45%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.97%) GCP
8 2 (0.97%) SaaS
8 2 (0.97%) Serverless
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.48%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.48%) GitHub
9 1 (0.48%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.48%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.25%) Firewall
2 12 (5.80%) VPN
2 12 (5.80%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (5.31%) VoIP
4 10 (4.83%) Wireless
5 8 (3.86%) LAN
6 3 (1.45%) Bluetooth
6 3 (1.45%) GPRS
6 3 (1.45%) Internet
6 3 (1.45%) Network Security
7 2 (0.97%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) DNS
8 1 (0.48%) Intranet
8 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.48%) SAN
8 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.56%) Power BI
3 11 (5.31%) MS Access
3 11 (5.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (5.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (5.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (3.86%) Oracle Database
4 8 (3.86%) Oracle Database 12c
4 8 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.38%) MySQL
5 7 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.45%) GIS
8 3 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.76%) Visual Studio
2 10 (4.83%) Git
2 10 (4.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.48%) Vite
General
1 104 (50.24%) Social Skills
2 76 (36.71%) Finance
3 33 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.98%) Retail
5 30 (14.49%) Local Government
6 21 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (7.25%) Police
8 13 (6.28%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (5.31%) Law
10 9 (4.35%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.38%) Billing
13 6 (2.90%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.93%) Marketing
15 3 (1.45%) Banking
15 3 (1.45%) Front Office
16 2 (0.97%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.97%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (22.22%) Developer
2 27 (13.04%) Analyst
3 19 (9.18%) SQL Developer
4 18 (8.70%) Administrator
5 15 (7.25%) Senior
5 15 (7.25%) Support Engineer
6 12 (5.80%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (5.80%) IT Engineer
6 12 (5.80%) IT Support
6 12 (5.80%) Project Manager
7 11 (5.31%) Consultant
7 11 (5.31%) Endur Consultant
7 11 (5.31%) ETRM Consultant
7 11 (5.31%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (5.31%) Junior
7 11 (5.31%) Junior Developer
7 11 (5.31%) Junior SQL Developer
7 11 (5.31%) Lead
7 11 (5.31%) OpenLink Consultant
7 11 (5.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.46%) .NET
2 19 (9.18%) CSS
3 18 (8.70%) Web Services
4 15 (7.25%) .NET Framework
5 14 (6.76%) HTML
6 13 (6.28%) ASP.NET Web API
7 9 (4.35%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.90%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.42%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.93%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.45%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (1.45%) SignalR
12 2 (0.97%) jQuery
12 2 (0.97%) Laravel
12 2 (0.97%) Node.js
12 2 (0.97%) Pandas
12 2 (0.97%) PrimeNG
12 2 (0.97%) React
12 2 (0.97%) REST
12 2 (0.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.80%) Smartcard
3 11 (5.31%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.38%) Blog
5 7 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.90%) IoT
7 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.93%) Replication
9 3 (1.45%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.97%) CCTV
10 2 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.48%) Derivative
11 1 (0.48%) EPoS
11 1 (0.48%) NHS
11 1 (0.48%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.43%) Windows
2 29 (14.01%) Windows 10
3 15 (7.25%) Windows 7
4 13 (6.28%) Windows Server
5 12 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (4.35%) Unix
7 4 (1.93%) Android
8 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) CentOS
8 1 (0.48%) Debian
8 1 (0.48%) Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Scientific Linux
8 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (26.09%) Customer Service
3 32 (15.46%) CRM
4 31 (14.98%) Agile
5 27 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (12.08%) Data Analysis
7 24 (11.59%) ERP
8 22 (10.63%) Project Management
9 18 (8.70%) Mathematics
10 17 (8.21%) Project Delivery
11 16 (7.73%) Risk Management
12 15 (7.25%) Asset Management
12 15 (7.25%) DevOps
12 15 (7.25%) Use Case
12 15 (7.25%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (6.76%) Line Management
14 13 (6.28%) E-Commerce
14 13 (6.28%) Roadmaps
15 12 (5.80%) Economics
15 12 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (23.67%) SQL
2 37 (17.87%) C#
3 15 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 14 (6.76%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.42%) Java
6 4 (1.93%) Kotlin
6 4 (1.93%) Python
6 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.93%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.97%) PHP
7 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.48%) Swift
8 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.43%) Degree
2 23 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) DV Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.86%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (3.86%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.86%) PMP
5 7 (3.38%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.97%) ACCA
7 2 (0.97%) CIMA
7 2 (0.97%) CISSP
7 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) CCNA
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CISM
8 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.21%) QA
2 15 (7.25%) SLA
3 11 (5.31%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.83%) Accessibility
5 9 (4.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (7.25%) Active Directory
1 15 (7.25%) KVM
2 12 (5.80%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.93%) Docker
3 4 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.48%) SCCM
2 1 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 78 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.80%) Sophos
3 11 (5.31%) Apple
3 11 (5.31%) Barracuda Networks
3 11 (5.31%) ConnectWise
3 11 (5.31%) OpenLink
3 11 (5.31%) SAP
4 10 (4.83%) Oracle
5 8 (3.86%) NEC
6 5 (2.42%) Genesys
6 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.42%) YouTube
7 4 (1.93%) Cisco
7 4 (1.93%) Google
8 3 (1.45%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.45%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.97%) Adobe
9 2 (0.97%) VMware
9 2 (0.97%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.48%) HP