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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 468 479
Rank change year-on-year -75 +11 +32
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 164 214 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.44% 0.60%
As % of the General category 0.47% 0.68% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 131 157 237
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,870 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,125 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £83,150 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%

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 35,229 31,627 50,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.97% 65.69% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,712 17,348 26,425
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,720
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
North of England -9 46 £50,000 +5.26% 19
South East +8 45 £37,500 -42.75% 24
North West +1 40 £47,500 +16.07% 10
Midlands -20 30 £28,000 -46.67% 10
West Midlands -2 21 £25,000 -61.54% 5
South West +3 20 £30,000 -40.00% 13
East of England -2 14 £46,297 +8.93% 8
East Midlands -28 9 £36,383 -27.24% 5
Scotland -75 8 £29,701 -43.43% 5
Yorkshire +35 6 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £70,000 - 2
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 7 (4.27%) ArcGIS
1 7 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.05%) CMS
2 5 (3.05%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.22%) IIS
4 2 (1.22%) WordPress
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) Kentico
5 1 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 36 (21.95%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (8.54%) NEC Housing
2 6 (3.66%) Endur
2 6 (3.66%) Maximo
3 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.61%) Magento
4 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.61%) nopCommerce
4 1 (0.61%) Shopify
4 1 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.59%) Azure
2 12 (7.32%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.66%) AWS
5 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.44%) Miro
6 3 (1.83%) Google Sheets
6 3 (1.83%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (1.22%) SaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.61%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub
8 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.61%) IaaS
8 1 (0.61%) OCI
8 1 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.32%) Firewall
2 11 (6.71%) ADSL
2 11 (6.71%) LAN
3 7 (4.27%) WAN
3 7 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (4.27%) Wireless
4 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.44%) VPN
6 3 (1.83%) Bluetooth
6 3 (1.83%) GPRS
6 3 (1.83%) Internet
6 3 (1.83%) Network Security
6 3 (1.83%) VoIP
7 1 (0.61%) Broadband
7 1 (0.61%) DHCP
7 1 (0.61%) DNS
7 1 (0.61%) Intranet
7 1 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.54%) Oracle Database
2 14 (8.54%) Oracle Database 12c
2 14 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.32%) Power BI
4 8 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.05%) MySQL
7 4 (2.44%) GIS
7 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.83%) MS Access
8 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.22%) Tableau
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) JIRA
2 8 (4.88%) Git
2 8 (4.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 74 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 58 (35.37%) Finance
3 36 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (18.90%) Local Government
5 19 (11.59%) Police
6 15 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 15 (9.15%) Retail
7 11 (6.71%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.27%) Law
9 6 (3.66%) Billing
9 6 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.05%) Marketing
10 5 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.22%) Military
13 1 (0.61%) Front Office
13 1 (0.61%) Legal
13 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (23.78%) Developer
2 20 (12.20%) Analyst
3 16 (9.76%) Administrator
4 15 (9.15%) Lead
5 14 (8.54%) DBA
5 14 (8.54%) Oracle DBA
5 14 (8.54%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 12 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 11 (6.71%) IT Technician
8 10 (6.10%) .NET Developer
8 10 (6.10%) C# Developer
8 10 (6.10%) Senior
9 9 (5.49%) IT Support
9 9 (5.49%) Software Developer
10 7 (4.27%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (4.27%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.27%) SQL Developer
11 6 (3.66%) Consultant
11 6 (3.66%) Endur Consultant
11 6 (3.66%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.85%) .NET
2 16 (9.76%) CSS
3 13 (7.93%) Web Services
4 11 (6.71%) HTML
5 9 (5.49%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.27%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.66%) ADO
8 4 (2.44%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (2.44%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.83%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.83%) REST
9 3 (1.83%) SignalR
10 2 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (1.22%) React
11 1 (0.61%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.61%) OpenID
11 1 (0.61%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (0.61%) Redux
11 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.56%) Driving Licence
2 21 (12.80%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.27%) Blog
5 6 (3.66%) IoT
5 6 (3.66%) NHS
6 5 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.05%) EPoS
6 5 (3.05%) PACS
6 5 (3.05%) Smartcard
7 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.83%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.22%) CCTV
10 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.61%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.61%) Derivative
10 1 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.85%) Windows
2 20 (12.20%) Windows 10
3 14 (8.54%) Unix
4 4 (2.44%) Android
4 4 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.83%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.39%) Customer Service
2 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (19.51%) Agile
3 32 (19.51%) ITIL
4 24 (14.63%) Service Management
5 21 (12.80%) CRM
6 18 (10.98%) Project Management
7 15 (9.15%) Data Analysis
7 15 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (8.54%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (8.54%) Problem Management
9 13 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (7.93%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (7.32%) ERP
11 11 (6.71%) DevOps
11 11 (6.71%) Software Licensing
12 10 (6.10%) Data Management
12 10 (6.10%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.12%) SQL
2 32 (19.51%) C#
3 13 (7.93%) T-SQL
4 12 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.66%) Java
6 5 (3.05%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.22%) Python
10 1 (0.61%) Swift
10 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.63%) Degree
3 20 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.54%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (3.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.61%) IIBA
8 1 (0.61%) ISEB
8 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.61%) MCSA
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.61%) PMP
8 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.32%) QA
2 12 (7.32%) SLA
3 11 (6.71%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) COBIT
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.83%) KVM
4 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (34.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.15%) Oracle
3 14 (8.54%) NEC
4 7 (4.27%) ESRI
5 6 (3.66%) IBM
5 6 (3.66%) OpenLink
6 5 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.44%) Google
8 3 (1.83%) Apple
8 3 (1.83%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (1.83%) Cisco
8 3 (1.83%) ConnectWise
8 3 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.83%) Sophos
8 3 (1.83%) Xamarin
9 2 (1.22%) Adobe
9 2 (1.22%) VMware
10 1 (0.61%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.61%) Veeam
10 1 (0.61%) WooCommerce