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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 499 422
Rank change year-on-year +22 -77 +49
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 275 454 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.44% 0.70%
As % of the General category 0.67% 0.76% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 187 325 467
10th Percentile £32,826 £27,000 £34,428
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,976 £85,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% +5.26%

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 40,965 59,680 56,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.18% 57.64% 66.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20,103 38,368 34,649
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,485 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -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 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Top 16 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 12 July 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 +7 264 £70,000 +16.67% 297
London +8 139 £90,000 +12.50% 193
Work from Home +40 136 £70,000 - 135
UK excluding London +82 126 £52,500 +31.25% 129
South West +119 32 £37,500 +25.00% 14
North of England +26 31 £65,000 +30.00% 24
South East +43 26 £37,500 +4.17% 42
Midlands +52 20 £50,000 +78.57% 14
North West -13 17 £65,000 +44.44% 11
West Midlands +48 13 £52,500 +110.00% 9
Yorkshire +47 12 £65,000 - 9
East of England +17 9 £48,000 +3.68% 15
East Midlands +38 7 £33,044 -9.18% 5
Scotland +94 6 £40,518 +56.43% 21
North East - 2 - - 4
Wales - 2 - - 1

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 33 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (8.73%) IIS
3 11 (4.00%) Confluence
4 9 (3.27%) CMS
5 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.18%) Apache
7 3 (1.09%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.09%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (5.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (4.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (2.55%) Endur
4 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.73%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.73%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.36%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.36%) Eikon
5 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 73 (26.55%) Azure
2 51 (18.55%) SaaS
3 43 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (13.09%) GitHub
5 26 (9.45%) AWS
6 25 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (8.73%) Dynamics 365
8 23 (8.36%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.27%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.18%) Firebase
11 5 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.45%) GCP
13 3 (1.09%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.09%) npm
13 3 (1.09%) OCI
13 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.09%) Serverless
14 2 (0.73%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.55%) Firewall
2 13 (4.73%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.73%) VPN
3 12 (4.36%) DNS
4 7 (2.55%) DHCP
5 4 (1.45%) 5G
5 4 (1.45%) Broadband
6 3 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.09%) Softphone
6 3 (1.09%) VLAN
6 3 (1.09%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.36%) Internet
7 1 (0.36%) Multicast
7 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.45%) Data Hub
2 26 (9.45%) SQL CLR
3 23 (8.36%) Power BI
4 16 (5.82%) Metadata
5 13 (4.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 13 (4.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (2.91%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.55%) Redis
7 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.55%) Tableau
8 4 (1.45%) MySQL
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.45%) Tick Data
9 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.73%) JIRA
2 19 (6.91%) Git
3 5 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.09%) Vite
6 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.73%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.36%) Subversion
7 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (45.45%) Finance
2 94 (34.18%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.09%) Retail
4 23 (8.36%) Front Office
5 22 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.00%) Banking
6 17 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.73%) Marketing
9 12 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (4.36%) Law
10 10 (3.64%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.91%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.55%) Advertising
12 7 (2.55%) Automotive
13 6 (2.18%) Avionics
13 6 (2.18%) Legal
13 6 (2.18%) Military
14 5 (1.82%) Local Government
15 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (20.00%) Senior
2 54 (19.64%) Developer
3 30 (10.91%) Analyst
4 27 (9.82%) Senior Developer
5 23 (8.36%) Lead
5 23 (8.36%) SaaS Developer
6 19 (6.91%) Architect
7 18 (6.55%) Project Manager
8 17 (6.18%) Desktop Support
9 16 (5.82%) Applications Support
9 16 (5.82%) Desktop Support Technician
9 16 (5.82%) Desktop Technician
9 16 (5.82%) Development Manager
9 16 (5.82%) Support Engineer
9 16 (5.82%) Support Technician
10 15 (5.45%) Applications Manager
11 14 (5.09%) Application Development Manager
11 14 (5.09%) Applications Development Manager
11 14 (5.09%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.73%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.73%) .NET
2 37 (13.45%) .NET Framework
3 24 (8.73%) .NET Core
4 15 (5.45%) Entity Framework
5 13 (4.73%) Dapper ORM
5 13 (4.73%) HTML
6 12 (4.36%) XML
7 10 (3.64%) Web Services
8 9 (3.27%) REST
9 7 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (2.55%) Blazor
9 7 (2.55%) CSS
10 6 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.18%) Node.js
11 5 (1.82%) React
12 4 (1.45%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.45%) jQuery
12 4 (1.45%) Kafka
12 4 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.45%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.45%) Private Cloud
2 15 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.64%) NHS
7 9 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.91%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.55%) Derivative
9 7 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.18%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.18%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.82%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.45%) Equities
12 4 (1.45%) Handset
12 4 (1.45%) IoT
12 4 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.45%) Windows
2 31 (11.27%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.73%) Windows 10
4 17 (6.18%) Linux
5 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.73%) Unix
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Debian
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.36%) Agile
2 59 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (16.00%) DevOps
4 41 (14.91%) Data Privacy
5 38 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 33 (12.00%) Customer Service
7 33 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (12.00%) Fintech
7 33 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 33 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 33 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 33 (12.00%) Workflow
8 31 (11.27%) Analytics
9 30 (10.91%) CRM
9 30 (10.91%) Software Engineering
10 29 (10.55%) Data Integration
10 29 (10.55%) High Availability
10 29 (10.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 88 (32.00%) SQL
2 48 (17.45%) C#
3 32 (11.64%) Python
4 17 (6.18%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.45%) Java
6 13 (4.73%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.36%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.64%) C
9 9 (3.27%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.55%) C++
10 7 (2.55%) PHP
11 6 (2.18%) Bash
12 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.73%) VBA
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (20.73%) Degree
2 18 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.18%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.82%) CTC Cleared
5 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.45%) MBA
7 2 (0.73%) CFA
7 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.36%) ACCA
8 1 (0.36%) CIMA
8 1 (0.36%) MCP
8 1 (0.36%) MCSA
8 1 (0.36%) MCSE
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.27%) SLA
2 13 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.64%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.45%) QA
5 3 (1.09%) NCSC
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.73%) MiFID
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) PMO
6 2 (0.73%) UCITS
7 1 (0.36%) EMIR
7 1 (0.36%) GAAP
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.55%) Docker
5 3 (1.09%) Samba
6 1 (0.36%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.73%) Failover Clustering
2 12 (4.36%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.91%) Terraform
5 6 (2.18%) ZABBIX
6 4 (1.45%) Ansible
6 4 (1.45%) SCCM
7 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.73%) Control-M
9 1 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 91 (33.09%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.00%) VMware
3 24 (8.73%) Cisco
4 21 (7.64%) Oracle
5 16 (5.82%) Siebel
6 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.55%) Trayport
8 6 (2.18%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.82%) SAP
10 4 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.09%) Dell
11 3 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.09%) Okta
11 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.09%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.73%) eFront
12 2 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.73%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.73%) Ruckus Wireless