Back Office Jobs in the West Midlands

Back Office
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 221 245
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 0
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 4 36 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.091% 0.49% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.16% 0.84% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 9
10th Percentile £62,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £65,000 - £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £25,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +180.00% -37.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile - £33,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £44,740 £63,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -0.74%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,481 4,263 4,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.49% 57.79% 76.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,104 3,031 2,212
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,500 £29,775
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,428 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the West Midlands

Back Office
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Back Office in the West Midlands

Back Office
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Birmingham +20 4 £70,000 +56.95% 6
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) ColdFusion
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Data Hub
2 3 (75.00%) SQL CLR
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 2 (50.00%) Power BI
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Development
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) ColdBox
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Laravel
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Debian
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (75.00%) Fintech
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat