Back Office Engineer Job Trends

Back Office Engineer
UK

The median Back Office Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 784 -
Rank change year-on-year +116 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Back Office Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.003% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.003% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 44,026 73,874 58,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,758 44,964 44,983
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Back Office Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Back Office Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office Engineer in the UK

Back Office Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Back Office Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Back Office Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Back Office Engineer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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
England +120 2 £55,000 -35.29%
London +86 2 £55,000 -35.29%

Back Office Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Back Office Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Back Office Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development

Back Office Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle