Back Office Jobs with Work from Home Options

Back Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 347 415
Rank change year-on-year -24 +68 +16
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 169 253 652
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.77% 0.83%
As % of the General category 0.99% 1.18% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 132 204 340
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £60,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,938 £95,313 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,022 21,367 51,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.93% 65.11% 66.05%
Number of salaries quoted 11,520 15,606 26,987
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Back Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Back Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office.

Back Office salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Back Office over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Back Office salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.96%) CMS
1 5 (2.96%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.18%) IIS
2 2 (1.18%) WordPress
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.59%) Kentico
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (3.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (2.96%) Endur
3 2 (1.18%) Findur
3 2 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.59%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.59%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.59%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.59%) Magento
4 1 (0.59%) Maximo
4 1 (0.59%) nopCommerce
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.59%) Shopify
4 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.46%) Azure
2 60 (35.50%) AWS
3 40 (23.67%) GCP
4 19 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.92%) SaaS
6 8 (4.73%) Google Sheets
7 7 (4.14%) OCI
8 4 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.37%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.78%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.18%) IaaS
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.18%) npm
10 2 (1.18%) PaaS
10 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) ADSL
2 5 (2.96%) 5G
2 5 (2.96%) Broadband
3 3 (1.78%) BGP
3 3 (1.78%) GPRS
3 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.78%) VLAN
3 3 (1.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) DHCP
4 1 (0.59%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.10%) GIS
3 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.92%) Power BI
5 8 (4.73%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.14%) Geospatial Data
6 7 (4.14%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.55%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.55%) SAP BW
8 4 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.59%) MySQL
9 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.14%) JIRA
2 6 (3.55%) Git
3 3 (1.78%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.59%) Ant
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.59%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.59%) Maven
5 1 (0.59%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.59%) Postman
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.59%) Vite
General
1 89 (52.66%) Finance
2 57 (33.73%) Social Skills
3 39 (23.08%) Front Office
4 27 (15.98%) Retail
5 22 (13.02%) Banking
6 20 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.92%) Law
8 10 (5.92%) Telecoms
9 9 (5.33%) Financial Institution
10 8 (4.73%) Billing
10 8 (4.73%) Police
11 6 (3.55%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.37%) Advertising
13 3 (1.78%) Legal
13 3 (1.78%) Marketing
13 3 (1.78%) Retail Banking
14 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (38.46%) Developer
2 42 (24.85%) Senior
3 35 (20.71%) Senior Developer
4 33 (19.53%) Software Engineer
5 32 (18.93%) .NET Developer
6 30 (17.75%) Analyst
7 29 (17.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 29 (17.16%) Senior .NET Developer
7 29 (17.16%) Senior Software Developer
7 29 (17.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (15.98%) .NET Software Developer
8 27 (15.98%) .NET Software Engineer
8 27 (15.98%) Senior .NET Software Developer
8 27 (15.98%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 17 (10.06%) Lead
10 14 (8.28%) Applications Support
10 14 (8.28%) Business Analyst
11 12 (7.10%) Architect
11 12 (7.10%) Energy Trading Business Analyst
12 10 (5.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (29.59%) .NET
2 34 (20.12%) React
3 31 (18.34%) AngularJS
4 27 (15.98%) Redux
5 26 (15.38%) Vue
6 25 (14.79%) .NET Core
7 19 (11.24%) ASP.NET
8 15 (8.88%) CSS
9 13 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
9 13 (7.69%) Web Services
10 11 (6.51%) HTML
11 10 (5.92%) REST
12 8 (4.73%) .NET Framework
12 8 (4.73%) RESTful
13 7 (4.14%) Pandas
14 6 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (2.96%) jQuery
15 5 (2.96%) WCF
15 5 (2.96%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.12%) Derivative
2 28 (16.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (15.98%) Equities
3 27 (15.98%) Fixed Income
3 27 (15.98%) Hedge funds
4 17 (10.06%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.10%) Onboarding
6 11 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (5.33%) Blog
7 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (3.55%) Driving Licence
9 6 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 6 (3.55%) Reinsurance
10 5 (2.96%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.78%) IoT
12 3 (1.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.20%) Windows
2 13 (7.69%) Linux
3 12 (7.10%) Unix
4 8 (4.73%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.59%) Android
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.59%) Solaris
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.99%) Software Engineering
2 47 (27.81%) Agile
3 28 (16.57%) DevOps
4 27 (15.98%) Asset Management
5 26 (15.38%) Investment Management
5 26 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.43%) CRM
7 20 (11.83%) CI/CD
7 20 (11.83%) Data Analysis
8 19 (11.24%) ITIL
9 18 (10.65%) Roadmaps
10 17 (10.06%) Migration
10 17 (10.06%) Test Automation
11 16 (9.47%) Microservices
12 15 (8.88%) Customer Service
13 14 (8.28%) Service Management
14 13 (7.69%) Change Management
14 13 (7.69%) ERP
15 12 (7.10%) Project Delivery
15 12 (7.10%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.60%) SQL
2 53 (31.36%) C#
3 43 (25.44%) Python
4 38 (22.49%) JavaScript
5 31 (18.34%) TypeScript
6 19 (11.24%) Java
7 17 (10.06%) PowerShell
8 15 (8.88%) T-SQL
9 8 (4.73%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.78%) Go
11 1 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.59%) Swift
11 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (15.38%) Degree
2 8 (4.73%) AWS Certification
2 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (4.73%) DBS Check
2 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.55%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.59%) MCSA
6 1 (0.59%) MCSE
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Architect
6 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.59%) PMP
6 1 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) QA
2 8 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.55%) GAAP
3 6 (3.55%) IFRS
4 4 (2.37%) EMIR
4 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.37%) MiFID
5 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.78%) PMO
5 3 (1.78%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.59%) COBIT
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.59%) ITGC
7 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (8.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.18%) vSphere
3 1 (0.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.37%) Terraform
3 3 (1.78%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.59%) SCOM
4 1 (0.59%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.65%) Oracle
3 11 (6.51%) Google
4 8 (4.73%) SAP
5 6 (3.55%) PeopleSoft
6 5 (2.96%) IBM
6 5 (2.96%) OpenLink
6 5 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.96%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.78%) Algorithmics
7 3 (1.78%) ION Trading
7 3 (1.78%) Sophis
8 2 (1.18%) Adobe
8 2 (1.18%) Murex
8 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.18%) Trayport
8 2 (1.18%) VMware
9 1 (0.59%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.59%) Concur
9 1 (0.59%) Yardi