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 have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 491 465
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 -43
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 496 617 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the General category 0.84% 0.87% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 391 419 666
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +2.66% +1.15%
75th Percentile £94,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All General Skills
UK

Back Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,949 70,703 99,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.28% 63.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,111 51,326
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,318 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 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
England +50 478 £70,000 +3.70% 205
London +91 277 £90,000 +12.50% 102
Work from Home +24 237 £80,000 +14.29% 109
UK excluding London -61 211 £40,000 -20.00% 108
South East +33 72 £36,000 -42.40% 25
Midlands +31 43 £28,000 -34.12% 21
North of England -18 43 £53,075 +24.88% 35
East of England +46 39 £46,899 -2.80% 14
West Midlands +40 35 £25,000 -37.50% 15
North West +14 34 £51,150 +28.70% 23
Scotland -85 12 £25,901 -51.13% 4
Yorkshire +37 8 £52,500 -8.70% 8
East Midlands -22 8 £36,383 -21.34% 6
South West -48 3 £62,500 +31.58% 12
North East -7 1 £97,500 +102.07% 5

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 27 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.01%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.81%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (0.81%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) Apache
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.40%) GlassFish
4 2 (0.40%) IIS
4 2 (0.40%) JCAPS
4 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.40%) WordPress
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.20%) Kentico
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 52 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (10.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.03%) Endur
2 16 (3.23%) NEC Housing
3 6 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 5 (1.01%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 3 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.40%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.40%) Magento
6 2 (0.40%) nopCommerce
6 2 (0.40%) Shopify
6 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.20%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.20%) Findur
7 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 114 (22.98%) Azure
2 88 (17.74%) AWS
3 56 (11.29%) Power Platform
4 46 (9.27%) GCP
5 32 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.43%) Google Sheets
9 16 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.22%) Mimecast
12 10 (2.02%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.41%) OCI
14 4 (0.81%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.81%) SaaS
15 2 (0.40%) Amazon S3
15 2 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
15 2 (0.40%) npm
15 2 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.02%) Firewall
2 12 (2.42%) VPN
2 12 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.22%) VoIP
4 10 (2.02%) Wireless
5 8 (1.61%) LAN
6 3 (0.60%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.60%) FTP
6 3 (0.60%) GPRS
6 3 (0.60%) Internet
6 3 (0.60%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) DNS
8 1 (0.20%) Intranet
8 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.67%) Power BI
3 27 (5.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 24 (4.84%) Oracle Database
4 24 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (4.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (4.23%) GIS
6 16 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
6 16 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.22%) MS Access
10 8 (1.61%) MySQL
10 8 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.21%) SAP BW
13 5 (1.01%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.01%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (2.82%) JIRA
1 14 (2.82%) Visual Studio
2 11 (2.22%) Git
3 4 (0.81%) Maven
4 3 (0.60%) Ant
5 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Subversion
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.20%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 283 (57.06%) Finance
2 198 (39.92%) Social Skills
3 117 (23.59%) Front Office
4 89 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (16.73%) Banking
6 54 (10.89%) Local Government
6 54 (10.89%) Retail
7 28 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 25 (5.04%) Police
9 24 (4.84%) Billing
9 24 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (3.23%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.62%) Law
13 9 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.61%) General Ledger
15 6 (1.21%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.01%) Games
17 4 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 124 (25.00%) Senior
2 112 (22.58%) Developer
3 100 (20.16%) Analyst
4 58 (11.69%) Senior Developer
5 47 (9.48%) Senior Software Developer
5 47 (9.48%) Software Engineer
6 46 (9.27%) .NET Developer
7 43 (8.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 43 (8.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 43 (8.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (8.47%) .NET Software Developer
8 42 (8.47%) .NET Software Engineer
8 42 (8.47%) Senior .NET Software Developer
8 42 (8.47%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 36 (7.26%) Lead
9 36 (7.26%) Technical Analyst
10 30 (6.05%) Architect
11 29 (5.85%) Financial Analyst
11 29 (5.85%) SQL Analyst
12 28 (5.65%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (20.77%) .NET
2 51 (10.28%) AngularJS
2 51 (10.28%) React
3 46 (9.27%) .NET Core
4 43 (8.67%) Redux
5 42 (8.47%) Vue
6 35 (7.06%) ASP.NET
7 27 (5.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (4.84%) CSS
9 21 (4.23%) Web Services
10 18 (3.63%) .NET Framework
11 16 (3.23%) HTML
12 15 (3.02%) ASP.NET Web API
13 14 (2.82%) Pandas
14 12 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
15 6 (1.21%) Entity Framework
16 5 (1.01%) jQuery
16 5 (1.01%) RESTful
17 4 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
17 4 (0.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 111 (22.38%) Hedge funds
2 106 (21.37%) Derivative
3 66 (13.31%) Fixed Income
4 51 (10.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 48 (9.68%) Equities
6 40 (8.06%) Management Information System
7 34 (6.85%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (3.83%) Driving Licence
8 19 (3.83%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.42%) Smartcard
11 10 (2.02%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.41%) Blog
14 6 (1.21%) IoT
14 6 (1.21%) Reinsurance
15 5 (1.01%) Swaptions
16 4 (0.81%) Replication
17 3 (0.60%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.48%) Windows
2 30 (6.05%) Windows 10
3 29 (5.85%) Unix
4 15 (3.02%) Linux
4 15 (3.02%) Windows 7
5 14 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.81%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) AIX
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Scientific Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (27.62%) Asset Management
2 119 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (23.59%) Agile
4 114 (22.98%) Investment Management
5 83 (16.73%) Customer Service
6 79 (15.93%) Software Engineering
7 60 (12.10%) Mentoring
8 52 (10.48%) Data Analysis
9 45 (9.07%) DevOps
10 43 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
11 41 (8.27%) ERP
12 40 (8.06%) CRM
13 36 (7.26%) Project Delivery
14 35 (7.06%) Roadmaps
15 34 (6.85%) Computer Science
16 32 (6.45%) User Acceptance Testing
17 31 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (6.05%) Technical Leadership
19 29 (5.85%) Line Management
19 29 (5.85%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 198 (39.92%) SQL
2 158 (31.85%) C#
3 118 (23.79%) Python
4 65 (13.10%) JavaScript
5 47 (9.48%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.04%) Java
7 20 (4.03%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.43%) Bicep
9 13 (2.62%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.02%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.01%) VB
11 5 (1.01%) VBA
12 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
13 2 (0.40%) XPath
14 1 (0.20%) Bash
14 1 (0.20%) Swift
14 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (18.75%) Degree
2 32 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
4 18 (3.63%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 15 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.22%) CISM
8 10 (2.02%) CISSP
9 9 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.61%) PMP
11 3 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.40%) ACCA
12 2 (0.40%) CIMA
12 2 (0.40%) CISA
13 1 (0.20%) CCNA
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.65%) SLA
2 25 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.03%) QA
4 9 (1.81%) PMO
5 6 (1.21%) GAAP
5 6 (1.21%) IFRS
6 2 (0.40%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) COSHH
7 1 (0.20%) EMIR
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (8.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.43%) Docker
3 15 (3.02%) KVM
4 12 (2.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.21%) Control-M
3 2 (0.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.20%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 119 (23.99%) Microsoft
2 56 (11.29%) Oracle
3 30 (6.05%) SAP
4 23 (4.64%) Google
5 20 (4.03%) OpenLink
6 16 (3.23%) NEC
7 14 (2.82%) Charles River
8 12 (2.42%) Sophos
9 11 (2.22%) Apple
9 11 (2.22%) Barracuda Networks
9 11 (2.22%) ConnectWise
10 9 (1.81%) IBM
10 9 (1.81%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.61%) Algorithmics
11 8 (1.61%) ION Trading
12 7 (1.41%) Sybase
13 6 (1.21%) PeopleSoft
14 5 (1.01%) Genesys
14 5 (1.01%) TIBCO
14 5 (1.01%) YouTube