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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 341 326
Rank change year-on-year +106 -15 +8
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 140 100 165
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.93% 0.61% 0.76%
As % of the General category 1.55% 0.89% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 51 69 151
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £91,875 £82,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.25% -1.67% +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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,061 11,259 13,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.27% 68.80% 62.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,747 6,354 10,558
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,407 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,888 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.98% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,158
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.17% -6.20%

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 13 January 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 (3.57%) CMS
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (23.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.57%) Magento
2 5 (3.57%) Shopify
3 3 (2.14%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.14%) SaaS
2 33 (23.57%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (21.43%) AWS
4 24 (17.14%) GCP
5 18 (12.86%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.00%) GitHub
7 5 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.86%) Azure
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (2.14%) Route 53
9 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.71%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.71%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.57%) Firewall
1 5 (3.57%) Network Security
2 4 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (2.14%) BGP
3 3 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.14%) VLAN
3 3 (2.14%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) DNS
4 1 (0.71%) Skype
4 1 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (13.57%) TeamCity
2 8 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 79 (56.43%) Finance
2 57 (40.71%) Social Skills
3 54 (38.57%) Retail
4 49 (35.00%) Banking
5 47 (33.57%) Financial Institution
5 47 (33.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (30.71%) Law
7 19 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (8.57%) Marketing
9 6 (4.29%) Advertising
10 4 (2.86%) Front Office
10 4 (2.86%) Legal
10 4 (2.86%) Polish Language
11 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.71%) Support Engineer
2 28 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 28 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 28 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 24 (17.14%) Site Engineer
4 16 (11.43%) Senior
5 15 (10.71%) Lead
5 15 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Analyst
7 10 (7.14%) Architect
8 9 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Product Lead
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Support Analyst
11 5 (3.57%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.43%) REST
2 6 (4.29%) RESTful
3 5 (3.57%) Middleware
3 5 (3.57%) SOAP
4 3 (2.14%) .NET
5 2 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.43%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.43%) Swagger
5 2 (1.43%) XML
6 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (0.71%) Blazor
6 1 (0.71%) gRPC
6 1 (0.71%) OAuth
6 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.71%) OpenID
6 1 (0.71%) React
6 1 (0.71%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.29%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.86%) Product Ownership
3 13 (9.29%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.71%) Blog
5 8 (5.71%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.29%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.86%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.86%) Social Media
9 3 (2.14%) CMDB
9 3 (2.14%) Digital Signage
9 3 (2.14%) EPoS
9 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.43%) NHS
11 1 (0.71%) Equities
11 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Windows
2 31 (22.14%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.14%) Android
3 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Linux
4 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (26.43%) ITIL
3 34 (24.29%) Analytics
4 33 (23.57%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (22.86%) Software Engineering
6 31 (22.14%) Customer Experience
7 29 (20.71%) Customer Service
8 28 (20.00%) Customer Acquisition
8 28 (20.00%) Patch Management
8 28 (20.00%) Software Deployment
8 28 (20.00%) Ticket Management
9 26 (18.57%) CI/CD
10 24 (17.14%) People Management
11 23 (16.43%) CRM
12 22 (15.71%) Roadmaps
13 20 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 19 (13.57%) Microservices
15 18 (12.86%) Agile
16 17 (12.14%) Clean Code
16 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.86%) Java
2 11 (7.86%) Python
2 11 (7.86%) SQL
3 7 (5.00%) Go
4 6 (4.29%) C#
4 6 (4.29%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.86%) Bash
6 2 (1.43%) C
7 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Degree
2 31 (22.14%) Security Cleared
3 29 (20.71%) SC Cleared
4 28 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (2.86%) AAT
5 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.14%) CISA
6 3 (2.14%) CISSP
6 3 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.14%) CRISC
7 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.71%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (25.00%) SLA
2 17 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (10.71%) PCI DSS
3 15 (10.71%) SOC 2
4 7 (5.00%) GRC
4 7 (5.00%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.14%) NIST
5 3 (2.14%) QA
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.71%) EMIR
7 1 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (19.29%) Terraform
2 23 (16.43%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.71%) Grafana
4 4 (2.86%) Cilium
5 1 (0.71%) Control-M
5 1 (0.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Cisco
2 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.57%) ConnectWise
4 5 (3.57%) WooCommerce
5 4 (2.86%) Xero
6 2 (1.43%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.43%) Calypso
6 2 (1.43%) Google
7 1 (0.71%) Citrix
7 1 (0.71%) Foundry
7 1 (0.71%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle
7 1 (0.71%) Reuters
7 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) SAP
7 1 (0.71%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.71%) Veeam
7 1 (0.71%) VMware