Hybrid/Remote Back Office Job Trends

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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 323 359
Rank change year-on-year +121 +36 +9
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 217 98 241
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 0.68% 0.74%
As % of the General category 2.12% 0.92% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 38 70 220
10th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,875 £81,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £101,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £56,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -19.64% - +6.67%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,222 10,643 20,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.74% 74.06% 61.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,809 6,480 15,088
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Back Office and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Back Office job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Back Office
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Back Office.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Back Office

Back Office
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Back Office over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Back Office salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Back Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.30%) CMS
Applications
1 51 (23.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (4.61%) Shopify
3 9 (4.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (4.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.46%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 113 (52.07%) SaaS
2 57 (26.27%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (21.66%) AWS
4 37 (17.05%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (16.59%) GCP
6 33 (15.21%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.53%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.76%) Figma
9 4 (1.84%) Azure
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.38%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (1.38%) Route 53
10 3 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.38%) BGP
1 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.38%) VLAN
1 3 (1.38%) VPN
2 1 (0.46%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 10 (4.61%) JIRA
3 2 (0.92%) Git
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 119 (54.84%) Finance
1 119 (54.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 119 (54.84%) Retail
2 114 (52.53%) Banking
3 111 (51.15%) Social Skills
4 110 (50.69%) Law
5 92 (42.40%) Financial Institution
6 30 (13.82%) Marketing
7 19 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (8.76%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (6.91%) Polish Language
9 14 (6.45%) Italian Language
10 10 (4.61%) German Language
11 6 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.84%) French Language
12 4 (1.84%) Legal
12 4 (1.84%) Spanish Language
13 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (23.50%) Desktop Engineer
1 51 (23.50%) Desktop Support
1 51 (23.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 51 (23.50%) Support Engineer
2 48 (22.12%) Site Engineer
3 32 (14.75%) Software Engineer
4 26 (11.98%) Lead
5 25 (11.52%) Senior
6 17 (7.83%) Analyst
7 15 (6.91%) Consultant
8 14 (6.45%) Business Consultant
8 14 (6.45%) Business Development Consultant
8 14 (6.45%) Development Consultant
9 13 (5.99%) Architect
9 13 (5.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.07%) Java Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Team Leader
12 10 (4.61%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.83%) REST
2 10 (4.61%) RESTful
3 9 (4.15%) Middleware
3 9 (4.15%) SOAP
4 6 (2.76%) OpenAPI
4 6 (2.76%) Swagger
5 5 (2.30%) .NET
6 3 (1.38%) Classic ASP
7 2 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.92%) Playwright
7 2 (0.92%) React
8 1 (0.46%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (0.46%) CSS
8 1 (0.46%) CSS3
8 1 (0.46%) Dagger
8 1 (0.46%) JDBC
8 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.46%) React Native
8 1 (0.46%) Retrofit
8 1 (0.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (30.41%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.67%) Product Ownership
3 18 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.07%) Blog
6 9 (4.15%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.23%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.84%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.38%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
12 2 (0.92%) Freedom of Information Act
12 2 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.46%) IoT
13 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 54 (24.88%) Windows
2 51 (23.50%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.23%) Android
3 7 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.38%) Linux
4 3 (1.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (26.27%) Analytics
2 57 (26.27%) ITIL
3 55 (25.35%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (23.96%) Customer Experience
5 51 (23.50%) Customer Acquisition
5 51 (23.50%) Customer Service
5 51 (23.50%) Patch Management
5 51 (23.50%) Software Deployment
5 51 (23.50%) Ticket Management
6 45 (20.74%) Software Engineering
7 44 (20.28%) Fintech
8 40 (18.43%) CI/CD
9 37 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.59%) Roadmaps
10 36 (16.59%) Test Automation
11 35 (16.13%) Agile
12 34 (15.67%) Microservices
13 33 (15.21%) Product Roadmap
14 32 (14.75%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.58%) Java
2 16 (7.37%) SQL
3 10 (4.61%) T-SQL
4 8 (3.69%) Python
5 6 (2.76%) Go
6 5 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.84%) C#
8 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.92%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 66 (30.41%) Degree
2 54 (24.88%) SC Cleared
2 54 (24.88%) Security Cleared
3 51 (23.50%) CTC Cleared
4 9 (4.15%) CISA
4 9 (4.15%) CISSP
4 9 (4.15%) CRISC
5 7 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.38%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.38%) OSCP
7 2 (0.92%) CISM
7 2 (0.92%) ISACA
8 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.96%) SLA
2 20 (9.22%) SOC 2
3 18 (8.29%) PCI DSS
4 11 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.23%) GRC
6 4 (1.84%) QA
7 3 (1.38%) PSD2
8 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.92%) COBIT
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.92%) GDPR
8 2 (0.92%) NIST
8 2 (0.92%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 43 (19.82%) Terraform
2 32 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.29%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 51 (23.50%) Cisco
2 46 (21.20%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.07%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.15%) ConnectWise
4 9 (4.15%) WooCommerce
5 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.38%) VMware
6 1 (0.46%) Concur
6 1 (0.46%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.46%) Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) SAP