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 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 557 494
Rank change year-on-year +71 -63 +19
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 100 225 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.37% 0.51% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 70 178 161
10th Percentile £31,500 £26,000 £25,950
25th Percentile £34,375 £29,438 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,200 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +49.25% -19.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,651 £67,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.57% +7.69%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,843 43,805 37,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.74% 54.69% 67.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12,134 27,566 17,972
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 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
North of England +55 29 £65,000 +27.08% 68
South West +132 26 £37,500 -9.09% 8
South East +49 23 £37,500 - 135
North West 0 16 £65,000 +27.08% 48
Yorkshire +68 12 £65,000 +16.72% 13
Midlands +45 11 £57,500 +105.36% 18
West Midlands +29 6 £65,000 +160.00% 6
East Midlands +48 5 £33,044 -9.18% 12
East of England +10 5 £60,394 +30.45% 7
Scotland +106 4 £40,518 +56.43% 8
Wales - 2 - - 4
North East - 1 £70,000 - 7
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 12 (12.00%) IIS
2 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (7.00%) Confluence
4 5 (5.00%) Apache
5 3 (3.00%) CMS
5 3 (3.00%) Umbraco
6 1 (1.00%) ColdFusion
6 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Markit EDM
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (17.00%) Entra ID
3 13 (13.00%) GitHub
4 10 (10.00%) Azure
5 9 (9.00%) AWS
5 9 (9.00%) SaaS
6 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.00%) GCP
8 3 (3.00%) Google Workspace
8 3 (3.00%) npm
9 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) Firewall
2 6 (6.00%) VPN
3 5 (5.00%) DNS
3 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.00%) 5G
4 4 (4.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.00%) Data Hub
2 9 (9.00%) SQL CLR
3 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.00%) Metadata
5 5 (5.00%) Power BI
5 5 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.00%) Dremio
6 1 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) JIRA
2 5 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (3.00%) Vite
4 1 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 44 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.00%) Finance
3 19 (19.00%) Retail
4 8 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.00%) Marketing
6 5 (5.00%) Front Office
6 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.00%) Local Government
6 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.00%) Avionics
7 4 (4.00%) Law
7 4 (4.00%) Military
7 4 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Advertising
9 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Banking
10 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (19.00%) Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Senior
3 16 (16.00%) Desktop Support
3 16 (16.00%) Desktop Support Technician
3 16 (16.00%) Desktop Technician
3 16 (16.00%) Support Technician
4 11 (11.00%) Analyst
4 11 (11.00%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.00%) Technical Support
6 9 (9.00%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Lead
8 6 (6.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Administrator
9 5 (5.00%) SaaS Developer
9 5 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) .NET
1 13 (13.00%) .NET Core
2 8 (8.00%) HTML
3 7 (7.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (6.00%) Blazor
5 5 (5.00%) CSS
6 4 (4.00%) Dapper ORM
6 4 (4.00%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.00%) Sass
8 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.00%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.00%) ColdBox
8 1 (1.00%) jQuery
8 1 (1.00%) JSON
8 1 (1.00%) Laravel
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (1.00%) RESTful
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceStack
8 1 (1.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.00%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.00%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.00%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.00%) Handset
5 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.00%) IoT
5 4 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 4 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.00%) FMCG
7 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.00%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.00%) PDA
8 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (34.00%) Windows
2 23 (23.00%) Windows 10
3 16 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.00%) CentOS
5 1 (1.00%) Debian
5 1 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 25 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (23.00%) Analytics
4 22 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (22.00%) ITIL
5 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.00%) Agile
6 17 (17.00%) Customer Acquisition
6 17 (17.00%) Customer Experience
6 17 (17.00%) Project Delivery
6 17 (17.00%) Ticket Management
7 16 (16.00%) Patch Management
7 16 (16.00%) Software Deployment
8 15 (15.00%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.00%) ITSM
10 10 (10.00%) Change Management
10 10 (10.00%) Data Privacy
10 10 (10.00%) Workflow
11 9 (9.00%) High Availability
11 9 (9.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.00%) SQL
2 13 (13.00%) C#
3 10 (10.00%) Python
4 5 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.00%) Bash
5 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.00%) PHP
5 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (24.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) CTC Cleared
2 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) ACCA
4 1 (1.00%) CIMA
4 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) EMIR
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.00%) Docker
4 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (5.00%) ZABBIX
2 4 (4.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 40 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.00%) Cisco
3 14 (14.00%) VMware
4 7 (7.00%) Oracle
5 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.00%) Juniper
5 2 (2.00%) Meraki
5 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.00%) Ruckus Wireless
5 2 (2.00%) SAP
6 1 (1.00%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.00%) Reuters
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce