Back Office Jobs

Back Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 464 482
Rank change year-on-year -50 +18 -17
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 180 494 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the General category 0.51% 0.84% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 147 393 417
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,000 £34,196
25th Percentile £48,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,550 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £48,875
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.16% +8.61%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,150 58,962 71,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.54% 59.87% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,382 39,636 38,356
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Back Office.

Salary trend for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -63 174 £72,500 +3.57% 311
London -40 100 £86,243 -4.18% 204
Work from Home +56 85 £70,000 -12.50% 144
UK excluding London +81 78 £60,000 +50.00% 157
North of England +80 36 £65,000 +27.08% 31
South East +58 20 £35,250 -2.08% 66
Yorkshire +83 15 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North West +15 15 £67,500 +31.96% 15
Midlands +47 7 £50,000 +78.57% 20
East of England +25 7 £60,394 +28.77% 10
North East +55 6 £70,000 -28.21% 7
Scotland +125 5 £40,518 +56.43% 10
West Midlands +20 4 £70,000 +180.00% 13
South West +107 3 £69,750 +11.60% 18
East Midlands +45 3 £40,000 +9.94% 6

Back Office
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.22%) IIS
3 7 (3.89%) Apache
3 7 (3.89%) Confluence
4 5 (2.78%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.67%) CMS
5 3 (1.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.56%) Jetty
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.67%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.56%) Endur
2 5 (2.78%) Markit EDM
3 4 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.67%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (1.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.56%) Azure
2 23 (12.78%) AWS
3 20 (11.11%) SaaS
4 16 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.67%) GitHub
7 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.78%) GCP
11 4 (2.22%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.22%) OCI
11 4 (2.22%) Serverless
12 3 (1.67%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.67%) Firebase
12 3 (1.67%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.67%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.11%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.11%) Azure App Service
14 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.89%) Firewall
2 10 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.44%) DNS
4 6 (3.33%) VPN
5 4 (2.22%) 5G
5 4 (2.22%) Broadband
6 3 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) LAN
7 1 (0.56%) SSH
7 1 (0.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.33%) Power BI
3 12 (6.67%) Data Hub
3 12 (6.67%) SQL CLR
4 11 (6.11%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.44%) Metadata
5 8 (4.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (3.89%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.33%) MySQL
7 6 (3.33%) Tableau
8 5 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.78%) Dremio
8 5 (2.78%) Redis
9 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.22%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.11%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (7.78%) JIRA
2 11 (6.11%) Git
3 3 (1.67%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.11%) JUnit
4 2 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.56%) Moq
5 1 (0.56%) MSTest
5 1 (0.56%) NUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Subversion
5 1 (0.56%) xUnit.net
General
1 88 (48.89%) Finance
2 50 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.56%) Retail
4 18 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.44%) Front Office
6 14 (7.78%) Banking
6 14 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.00%) Marketing
8 6 (3.33%) Local Government
9 5 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.22%) Legal
11 3 (1.67%) Advertising
11 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) German Language
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (21.11%) Senior
2 31 (17.22%) Analyst
2 31 (17.22%) Developer
3 15 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 15 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 13 (7.22%) Lead
5 12 (6.67%) Architect
6 11 (6.11%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.56%) Technical Support
8 9 (5.00%) Applications Support
9 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Developer
9 8 (4.44%) SaaS Developer
9 8 (4.44%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.44%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 8 (4.44%) Senior SQL Developer
9 8 (4.44%) SQL Developer
10 7 (3.89%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.67%) .NET
2 13 (7.22%) HTML
3 11 (6.11%) .NET Core
3 11 (6.11%) .NET Framework
4 9 (5.00%) Kafka
5 7 (3.89%) CSS
5 7 (3.89%) REST
5 7 (3.89%) Web Services
6 6 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.33%) React
7 5 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (2.78%) Blazor
7 5 (2.78%) Entity Framework
7 5 (2.78%) jQuery
8 4 (2.22%) Dapper ORM
8 4 (2.22%) RESTful
9 3 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (1.67%) LEMP Stack
9 3 (1.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.44%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.11%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.00%) Derivative
5 9 (5.00%) Equities
6 5 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.78%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.22%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.22%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.78%) Windows
2 23 (12.78%) Linux
3 22 (12.22%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.56%) Unix
5 9 (5.00%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.56%) Android
8 1 (0.56%) CentOS
8 1 (0.56%) Debian
8 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (18.89%) Agile
3 23 (12.78%) Project Management
4 22 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (11.67%) Change Management
5 21 (11.67%) Project Delivery
6 20 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 20 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 20 (11.11%) Workflow
7 19 (10.56%) DevOps
8 18 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 18 (10.00%) Migration
9 17 (9.44%) Business Strategy
9 17 (9.44%) CI/CD
9 17 (9.44%) Fintech
9 17 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (9.44%) ITIL
10 15 (8.33%) Data Privacy
10 15 (8.33%) ERP
10 15 (8.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (45.00%) SQL
2 33 (18.33%) Python
3 19 (10.56%) C#
4 14 (7.78%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.56%) PHP
5 10 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.89%) Java
7 5 (2.78%) Bash
7 5 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (0.56%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 32 (17.78%) Degree
2 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.56%) ACCA
3 1 (0.56%) CIMA
3 1 (0.56%) HNC
3 1 (0.56%) HND
3 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.56%) MCP
3 1 (0.56%) MCSA
3 1 (0.56%) MCSE
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.78%) FINRA
2 4 (2.22%) SLA
3 3 (1.67%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.67%) PMO
3 3 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) EMIR
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ITGC
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (10.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (4.44%) Docker
4 3 (1.67%) Samba
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (5.00%) Terraform
2 8 (4.44%) Failover Clustering
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.78%) ZABBIX
4 4 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (2.22%) Ansible
5 3 (1.67%) SCCM
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.89%) Oracle
3 19 (10.56%) VMware
4 7 (3.89%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.89%) Murex
5 6 (3.33%) Cisco
5 6 (3.33%) Reuters
6 5 (2.78%) Databricks
7 4 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.22%) Siebel
8 3 (1.67%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.67%) Dell
8 3 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.67%) Okta
8 3 (1.67%) SAP
8 3 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.67%) Sophis
8 3 (1.67%) Trayport
8 3 (1.67%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.11%) eFront