Back Office Job Trends 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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 428 530
Rank change year-on-year +89 +102 -17
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 226 67 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.73% 0.37% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 116 57 171
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,415 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +37.50% -17.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £55,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,959 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.69% +3.57% +3.70%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,927 18,059 39,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.25% 68.35% 58.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,943 9,350 26,355
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,438 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -12.50%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Back Office job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Back Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Back Office

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 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 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
North of England -7 83 £50,000 -23.08% 15
South West +13 66 £42,500 -39.07% 11
North West +24 58 £40,000 -38.46% 8
Scotland +8 37 £50,000 +23.40% 5
South East -30 24 £30,000 -20.00% 28
Yorkshire -57 24 £65,000 - 6
Midlands -26 14 £50,000 +25.00% 8
East of England -26 13 £80,000 +32.46% 10
West Midlands -14 10 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East Midlands -48 4 £47,500 +21.79% 5
Wales - 3 - -
North East -36 1 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 61 (26.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (4.42%) SAP PM
2 9 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.98%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (3.98%) Magento
2 9 (3.98%) Shopify
3 5 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Odoo
4 1 (0.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.76%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (14.60%) Entra ID
3 9 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.65%) Azure
5 3 (1.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.88%) Firebase
7 1 (0.44%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.44%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.44%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.44%) GitHub
7 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.44%) OCI
7 1 (0.44%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.42%) LAN
1 10 (4.42%) TCP/IP
1 10 (4.42%) WAN
2 2 (0.88%) Modbus
2 2 (0.88%) MQTT
3 1 (0.44%) DNS
3 1 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.29%) Tableau
2 20 (8.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.33%) Power BI
4 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (3.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) GCC
2 1 (0.44%) Git
General
1 107 (47.35%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.55%) Law
3 59 (26.11%) Military
4 52 (23.01%) Finance
5 37 (16.37%) Telecoms
6 23 (10.18%) Local Government
7 21 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.42%) Retail
9 7 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.77%) Marketing
12 3 (1.33%) Advertising
12 3 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.44%) Arabic Language
13 1 (0.44%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (27.88%) Support Engineer
2 60 (26.55%) Desktop Engineer
2 60 (26.55%) Desktop Support
2 60 (26.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 56 (24.78%) Site Engineer
4 40 (17.70%) Project Manager
5 23 (10.18%) Traffic Manager
6 21 (9.29%) Analyst
7 19 (8.41%) Administrator
8 14 (6.19%) Senior
9 13 (5.75%) Technical Administrator
10 11 (4.87%) Performance Manager
10 11 (4.87%) Service Manager
11 10 (4.42%) Developer
11 10 (4.42%) Performance Analyst
12 9 (3.98%) Support Technician
13 8 (3.54%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.54%) Support Analyst
14 6 (2.65%) Applications Support
14 6 (2.65%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.42%) REST
2 9 (3.98%) Middleware
2 9 (3.98%) SOAP
3 7 (3.10%) .NET
4 2 (0.88%) Classic ASP
4 2 (0.88%) React
5 1 (0.44%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.44%) CSS
5 1 (0.44%) HTML
5 1 (0.44%) Node.js
5 1 (0.44%) OAuth
5 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.44%) OpenID
5 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.44%) React Native
5 1 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.08%) Driving Licence
2 14 (6.19%) EPoS
3 3 (1.33%) e-Learning
3 3 (1.33%) FMCG
3 3 (1.33%) IoT
3 3 (1.33%) Legacy Code
3 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
4 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 2 (0.88%) SCADA
4 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.44%) Derivative
5 1 (0.44%) Equities
5 1 (0.44%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (32.74%) Windows
2 60 (26.55%) Windows 10
3 10 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.33%) Linux
4 3 (1.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 71 (31.42%) Customer Service
3 70 (30.97%) ITIL
4 64 (28.32%) Analytics
5 63 (27.88%) Cybersecurity
6 60 (26.55%) Customer Acquisition
6 60 (26.55%) Customer Experience
6 60 (26.55%) Patch Management
6 60 (26.55%) Software Deployment
6 60 (26.55%) Ticket Management
7 27 (11.95%) People Management
8 22 (9.73%) Data Governance
8 22 (9.73%) Visualisation
9 20 (8.85%) Data Development
9 20 (8.85%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 17 (7.52%) Commercial Awareness
11 14 (6.19%) Data Management
11 14 (6.19%) Office Automation
12 12 (5.31%) CRM
12 12 (5.31%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.08%) SQL
2 10 (4.42%) T-SQL
3 3 (1.33%) C#
4 2 (0.88%) Java
4 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (28.32%) Degree
2 63 (27.88%) SC Cleared
2 63 (27.88%) Security Cleared
3 60 (26.55%) CTC Cleared
4 4 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (30.97%) SLA
2 23 (10.18%) COSHH
3 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.33%) Check_MK
2 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (26.55%) Cisco
2 46 (20.35%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.96%) SAP
4 9 (3.98%) ConnectWise
4 9 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.98%) WooCommerce
5 4 (1.77%) VMware
6 3 (1.33%) Mitel
7 1 (0.44%) Concur
7 1 (0.44%) Foundry
7 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle
7 1 (0.44%) Veeam