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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 397 429
Rank change year-on-year +25 +32 -73
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 229 312 486
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the General category 1.11% 1.09% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 208 209 263
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £110,000 £90,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £138,750 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,699 28,610 41,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.34% 66.31% 62.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,087 18,942 24,253
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 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 4 (1.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (1.75%) CMS
1 4 (1.75%) Umbraco
2 2 (0.87%) WordPress
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) Kentico
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (2.18%) Oracle General Ledger
1 5 (2.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.87%) Endur
2 2 (0.87%) Magento
2 2 (0.87%) nopCommerce
2 2 (0.87%) Shopify
2 2 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.44%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 76 (33.19%) Azure
2 61 (26.64%) AWS
3 42 (18.34%) GCP
4 14 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.49%) Google Sheets
7 5 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.18%) OCI
8 4 (1.75%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) npm
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.44%) GitHub
10 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.44%) SaaS
10 1 (0.44%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.31%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.24%) GIS
2 12 (5.24%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.37%) Power BI
4 9 (3.93%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.49%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.06%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (2.18%) SAP BW
8 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.87%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.44%) MySQL
10 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.37%) JIRA
2 6 (2.62%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) Ant
3 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 155 (67.69%) Finance
2 105 (45.85%) Front Office
3 67 (29.26%) Banking
4 58 (25.33%) Social Skills
5 23 (10.04%) Retail
6 15 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.93%) Billing
7 9 (3.93%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.49%) Police
8 8 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.62%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.18%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.31%) Marketing
13 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 79 (34.50%) Developer
2 77 (33.62%) Senior
3 53 (23.14%) Analyst
4 51 (22.27%) Senior Developer
5 45 (19.65%) .NET Developer
6 44 (19.21%) Software Engineer
7 43 (18.78%) Senior .NET Developer
8 42 (18.34%) .NET Software Developer
8 42 (18.34%) .NET Software Engineer
8 42 (18.34%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 42 (18.34%) Senior .NET Software Developer
8 42 (18.34%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 42 (18.34%) Senior Software Developer
8 42 (18.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (12.66%) Financial Analyst
10 27 (11.79%) Banking Analyst
10 27 (11.79%) SQL Analyst
10 27 (11.79%) Technical Analyst
11 22 (9.61%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 22 (9.61%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (27.07%) .NET
2 50 (21.83%) AngularJS
3 47 (20.52%) React
4 43 (18.78%) Redux
5 42 (18.34%) Vue
6 30 (13.10%) ASP.NET
7 27 (11.79%) ASP.NET Core
8 25 (10.92%) .NET Core
9 14 (6.11%) CSS
10 10 (4.37%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (3.93%) Pandas
12 8 (3.49%) Web Services
13 6 (2.62%) HTML
14 4 (1.75%) .NET Framework
15 3 (1.31%) ASP.NET MVC
15 3 (1.31%) RESTful
16 2 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web API
16 2 (0.87%) jQuery
16 2 (0.87%) REST
16 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (42.79%) Derivative
2 97 (42.36%) Hedge funds
3 44 (19.21%) Fixed Income
4 42 (18.34%) Equities
4 42 (18.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (5.68%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.37%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.18%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.75%) Replication
11 3 (1.31%) Blog
11 3 (1.31%) IoT
12 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.93%) Linux
1 9 (3.93%) Unix
1 9 (3.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.44%) Android
2 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (42.36%) Asset Management
2 95 (41.48%) Investment Management
3 67 (29.26%) Agile
4 57 (24.89%) Mentoring
5 55 (24.02%) Software Engineering
6 27 (11.79%) CRM
6 27 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (11.35%) Project Delivery
8 23 (10.04%) Data Analysis
8 23 (10.04%) ERP
9 19 (8.30%) DevOps
9 19 (8.30%) Roadmaps
10 18 (7.86%) Line Management
11 17 (7.42%) Computer Science
12 16 (6.99%) Change Management
12 16 (6.99%) Migration
13 15 (6.55%) Test Automation
14 14 (6.11%) Data Management
15 12 (5.24%) Business Continuity
15 12 (5.24%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (59.83%) SQL
2 118 (51.53%) C#
3 105 (45.85%) Python
4 51 (22.27%) JavaScript
5 47 (20.52%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.86%) T-SQL
7 11 (4.80%) Java
8 9 (3.93%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.93%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.75%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 41 (17.90%) Degree
2 15 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (6.11%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.49%) CISSP
4 8 (3.49%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.49%) PMI Certification
4 8 (3.49%) PMP
5 7 (3.06%) CISM
6 5 (2.18%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.44%) CCNA
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.80%) QA
3 9 (3.93%) PMO
4 5 (2.18%) GAAP
4 5 (2.18%) IFRS
5 2 (0.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (6.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 25 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.17%) Oracle
2 21 (9.17%) SAP
3 11 (4.80%) Google
4 9 (3.93%) IBM
5 8 (3.49%) Algorithmics
5 8 (3.49%) ION Trading
6 6 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.18%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (1.31%) Iron Mountain
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe
9 2 (0.87%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.87%) Calypso
9 2 (0.87%) Charles River
9 2 (0.87%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.87%) UiPath
9 2 (0.87%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.44%) Concur
10 1 (0.44%) eFront