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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 555 507
Rank change year-on-year +67 -48 +21
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 91 211 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.30% 0.43%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.52% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 69 168 161
10th Percentile £31,500 £25,700 £22,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £27,000 £36,250
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 £55,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,730 £67,875 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

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 25,991 40,667 41,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 66.66% 57.40% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,992 26,395 18,794
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £37,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £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 14 May 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 14 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
North of England +44 36 £65,000 +18.18% 58
South East +52 21 £35,250 -2.08% 97
North West -14 16 £65,000 +22.47% 33
Yorkshire +83 15 £65,000 - 16
South West +118 14 £57,500 -8.00% 10
Midlands +24 7 £50,000 +78.57% 29
East of England +14 7 £60,394 +28.77% 11
Scotland +112 5 £40,518 +56.43% 13
North East +48 5 £70,000 -28.21% 10
West Midlands +22 4 £70,000 +180.00% 19
East Midlands +28 3 £40,000 +9.94% 8
Wales - 1 - - 6
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 8 (8.79%) IIS
2 7 (7.69%) Confluence
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (6.59%) Apache
4 4 (4.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.10%) ColdFusion
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.89%) GitHub
4 8 (8.79%) AWS
5 7 (7.69%) SaaS
6 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.40%) GCP
8 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.10%) Serverless
10 1 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Firewall
2 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.59%) VPN
3 5 (5.49%) DNS
4 4 (4.40%) 5G
4 4 (4.40%) Broadband
5 1 (1.10%) LAN
5 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.69%) Data Hub
3 7 (7.69%) SQL CLR
4 6 (6.59%) Power BI
5 5 (5.49%) Metadata
5 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (5.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.40%) Dremio
6 4 (4.40%) Tableau
7 3 (3.30%) MySQL
8 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) JIRA
2 6 (6.59%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Moq
3 1 (1.10%) MSTest
3 1 (1.10%) NUnit
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.10%) Subversion
3 1 (1.10%) xUnit.net
General
1 31 (34.07%) Finance
1 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Retail
3 7 (7.69%) Marketing
3 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.59%) Local Government
4 6 (6.59%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Front Office
6 4 (4.40%) Law
6 4 (4.40%) Military
7 3 (3.30%) Legal
7 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Billing
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Senior
3 16 (17.58%) Analyst
4 11 (12.09%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Technical Support
6 9 (9.89%) Support Technician
7 8 (8.79%) Desktop Support
7 8 (8.79%) Desktop Support Technician
7 8 (8.79%) Desktop Technician
7 8 (8.79%) Lead
7 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
8 7 (7.69%) Support Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Architect
9 6 (6.59%) Data Analyst
10 5 (5.49%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 5 (5.49%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) HTML
2 9 (9.89%) .NET
3 8 (8.79%) .NET Core
4 7 (7.69%) CSS
5 6 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (6.59%) Blazor
6 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.30%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.30%) jQuery
7 2 (2.20%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (2.20%) JSON
7 2 (2.20%) RESTful
8 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.10%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.10%) Laravel
8 1 (1.10%) NHibernate
8 1 (1.10%) Ninject
8 1 (1.10%) REST
8 1 (1.10%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Onboarding
2 12 (13.19%) Management Information System
3 11 (12.09%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.69%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.49%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.49%) Driving Licence
5 5 (5.49%) Equities
6 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.40%) Operational Technology
6 4 (4.40%) Reference Data
6 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.40%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.20%) EPoS
7 2 (2.20%) FMCG
7 2 (2.20%) PDA
7 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.10%) Derivative
8 1 (1.10%) Handset
8 1 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.37%) Windows
2 15 (16.48%) Windows 10
3 14 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.10%) Android
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Debian
5 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (18.68%) Agile
5 15 (16.48%) ITIL
6 14 (15.38%) Analytics
6 14 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 12 (13.19%) Change Management
7 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
8 11 (12.09%) ITSM
9 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (10.99%) Customer Experience
9 10 (10.99%) Migration
10 9 (9.89%) Customer Acquisition
10 9 (9.89%) Project Management
11 8 (8.79%) ERP
11 8 (8.79%) Patch Management
11 8 (8.79%) Software Deployment
11 8 (8.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) SQL
2 16 (17.58%) Python
3 9 (9.89%) C#
4 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.59%) PHP
4 6 (6.59%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.40%) Bash
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) Java
7 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.10%) R
7 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Degree
2 8 (8.79%) CTC Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.10%) ACCA
3 1 (1.10%) CIMA
3 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) SLA
2 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.59%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.49%) Docker
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (5.49%) ZABBIX
2 4 (4.40%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 34 (37.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.29%) VMware
3 8 (8.79%) Cisco
3 8 (8.79%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) Bloomberg
4 4 (4.40%) Databricks
4 4 (4.40%) Reuters
5 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) Xamarin