Back Office Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 360 377
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 +52
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 99 251 305
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.74% 0.76%
As % of the General category 0.68% 1.20% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70 226 198
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +3.57% +1.82% +5.77%

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 14,492 20,849 26,559
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 78.26% 61.65% 65.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,222 15,084 17,679
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,500 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,899
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Back Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Back Office trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Back Office
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Back Office over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (15.15%) IIS
3 6 (6.06%) Apache
3 6 (6.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.27%) SaaS
2 20 (20.20%) Azure
3 16 (16.16%) GitHub
4 13 (13.13%) Power Platform
5 11 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (9.09%) AWS
7 8 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.08%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.04%) GCP
9 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.02%) OCI
10 1 (1.01%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.01%) Serverless
10 1 (1.01%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) DNS
1 5 (5.05%) Firewall
1 5 (5.05%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.04%) 5G
2 4 (4.04%) Broadband
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.34%) SQL Server
2 19 (19.19%) Data Hub
2 19 (19.19%) SQL CLR
3 13 (13.13%) Power BI
4 11 (11.11%) Metadata
5 10 (10.10%) Relational Database
5 10 (10.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 10 (10.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (8.08%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.05%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.02%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.01%) MySQL
9 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.01%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (1.01%) Moq
3 1 (1.01%) MSTest
3 1 (1.01%) NUnit
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.01%) Subversion
3 1 (1.01%) xUnit.net
General
1 50 (50.51%) Finance
2 47 (47.47%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Retail
4 10 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.08%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.07%) Banking
7 6 (6.06%) Front Office
7 6 (6.06%) Local Government
8 4 (4.04%) Legal
8 4 (4.04%) Marketing
9 3 (3.03%) Advertising
9 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.02%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) Senior
2 23 (23.23%) Developer
3 17 (17.17%) Senior Developer
4 14 (14.14%) Analyst
5 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Developer
5 10 (10.10%) SaaS Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Senior SQL Developer
5 10 (10.10%) SQL Developer
6 9 (9.09%) Head of Development
7 8 (8.08%) Desktop Support
7 8 (8.08%) Desktop Support Technician
7 8 (8.08%) Desktop Technician
7 8 (8.08%) Project Manager
7 8 (8.08%) Support Technician
8 7 (7.07%) Architect
8 7 (7.07%) Consultant
9 6 (6.06%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.06%) Business Analyst
9 6 (6.06%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) .NET
2 17 (17.17%) .NET Core
3 15 (15.15%) .NET Framework
4 10 (10.10%) Entity Framework
5 9 (9.09%) Dapper ORM
5 9 (9.09%) HTML
6 6 (6.06%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (6.06%) Blazor
7 5 (5.05%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (4.04%) jQuery
8 4 (4.04%) React
8 4 (4.04%) REST
8 4 (4.04%) Web Services
8 4 (4.04%) WinForms
9 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (3.03%) CSS
9 3 (3.03%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (3.03%) QuickFIX
9 3 (3.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Private Cloud
2 14 (14.14%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 9 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 8 (8.08%) Data Centre
6 6 (6.06%) Derivative
7 5 (5.05%) Client/Server
7 5 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
8 4 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
9 3 (3.03%) NHS
9 3 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (2.02%) Equities
10 2 (2.02%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.30%) Windows
2 14 (14.14%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.08%) Linux
3 8 (8.08%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.01%) CentOS
5 1 (1.01%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) Agile
1 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (23.23%) Data Privacy
2 23 (23.23%) Fintech
2 23 (23.23%) Workflow
3 20 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.19%) High Availability
4 19 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (19.19%) ITIL
4 19 (19.19%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (19.19%) Wealth Management
5 16 (16.16%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (15.15%) Customer Service
6 15 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (15.15%) Software Engineering
7 14 (14.14%) Analytics
8 13 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (12.12%) Change Management
9 12 (12.12%) Migration
10 11 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (54.55%) SQL
2 20 (20.20%) C#
3 14 (14.14%) Python
4 11 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.04%) Bash
6 4 (4.04%) PHP
7 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.01%) Java
8 1 (1.01%) R
8 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Degree
2 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) ACCA
6 1 (1.01%) CIMA
6 1 (1.01%) MBA
6 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.11%) SLA
2 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.03%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.02%) FINRA
4 2 (2.02%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (1.01%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (25.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (5.05%) ZABBIX
3 4 (4.04%) Terraform
4 1 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (46.46%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.25%) VMware
3 17 (17.17%) Oracle
4 8 (8.08%) Cisco
5 4 (4.04%) Murex
6 3 (3.03%) SAP
6 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) Siebel
7 2 (2.02%) Sophis
8 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.01%) Splunk