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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 378 429
Rank change year-on-year +21 +51 -53
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 242 314 520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.76% 0.75%
As % of the General category 1.17% 1.15% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 220 207 271
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £45,625
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 £93,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 20,750 27,292 43,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.55% 66.00% 63.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,057 18,200 24,536
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 £82,751 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £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 13 May 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 6 (2.48%) Umbraco
2 4 (1.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (1.65%) CMS
3 2 (0.83%) IIS
3 2 (0.83%) WordPress
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.41%) Kentico
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (2.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.65%) Endur
4 2 (0.83%) Magento
4 2 (0.83%) nopCommerce
4 2 (0.83%) Shopify
4 2 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.41%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.41%) Findur
5 1 (0.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 85 (35.12%) Azure
2 63 (26.03%) AWS
3 42 (17.36%) GCP
4 16 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.31%) Google Sheets
7 6 (2.48%) OCI
8 5 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.65%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) npm
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.41%) GitHub
11 1 (0.41%) IaaS
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.41%) SaaS
11 1 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.24%) GPRS
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.37%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.96%) GIS
4 10 (4.13%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.13%) Power BI
5 9 (3.72%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.89%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.48%) SAP BW
8 4 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.83%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.41%) MySQL
10 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.55%) JIRA
2 6 (2.48%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) Ant
3 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Maven
3 1 (0.41%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 160 (66.12%) Finance
2 106 (43.80%) Front Office
3 68 (28.10%) Banking
4 63 (26.03%) Social Skills
5 25 (10.33%) Retail
6 16 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.13%) Billing
7 10 (4.13%) Police
7 10 (4.13%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.48%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.48%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Marketing
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 86 (35.54%) Developer
2 80 (33.06%) Senior
3 54 (22.31%) Analyst
4 53 (21.90%) Senior Developer
5 46 (19.01%) .NET Developer
5 46 (19.01%) Software Engineer
6 44 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 44 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
6 44 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (17.77%) Senior .NET Developer
8 42 (17.36%) .NET Software Developer
8 42 (17.36%) .NET Software Engineer
8 42 (17.36%) Senior .NET Software Developer
8 42 (17.36%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 29 (11.98%) Financial Analyst
10 27 (11.16%) Banking Analyst
10 27 (11.16%) SQL Analyst
10 27 (11.16%) Technical Analyst
11 22 (9.09%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 22 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.10%) .NET
2 50 (20.66%) AngularJS
3 49 (20.25%) React
4 43 (17.77%) Redux
5 42 (17.36%) Vue
6 32 (13.22%) ASP.NET
7 29 (11.98%) .NET Core
8 27 (11.16%) ASP.NET Core
9 18 (7.44%) CSS
10 12 (4.96%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (4.96%) Web Services
11 10 (4.13%) HTML
11 10 (4.13%) Pandas
12 6 (2.48%) .NET Framework
13 5 (2.07%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (1.65%) jQuery
14 4 (1.65%) REST
15 3 (1.24%) RESTful
16 2 (0.83%) WCF
16 2 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (41.32%) Derivative
2 97 (40.08%) Hedge funds
3 44 (18.18%) Fixed Income
4 43 (17.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 42 (17.36%) Equities
6 13 (5.37%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (4.55%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.48%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.65%) Replication
11 3 (1.24%) Blog
11 3 (1.24%) IoT
11 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.37%) Windows
2 11 (4.55%) Linux
2 11 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Solaris
3 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (39.67%) Asset Management
2 95 (39.26%) Investment Management
3 68 (28.10%) Agile
4 59 (24.38%) Software Engineering
5 58 (23.97%) Mentoring
6 30 (12.40%) CRM
7 28 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (11.16%) Project Delivery
9 25 (10.33%) DevOps
10 24 (9.92%) Data Analysis
10 24 (9.92%) ERP
11 20 (8.26%) Roadmaps
12 19 (7.85%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.44%) Line Management
14 17 (7.02%) Change Management
14 17 (7.02%) Test Automation
15 16 (6.61%) Migration
16 15 (6.20%) CI/CD
16 15 (6.20%) Data Management
17 12 (4.96%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 143 (59.09%) SQL
2 124 (51.24%) C#
3 106 (43.80%) Python
4 55 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 47 (19.42%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.85%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.96%) Java
7 12 (4.96%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.13%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.65%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (17.77%) Degree
2 16 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.79%) Master's Degree
4 10 (4.13%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.31%) CISSP
5 8 (3.31%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.31%) PMP
6 7 (2.89%) CISM
7 6 (2.48%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CCNA
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.41%) MCSA
9 1 (0.41%) MCSE
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Architect
9 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.79%) QA
3 9 (3.72%) PMO
4 6 (2.48%) GAAP
4 6 (2.48%) IFRS
5 2 (0.83%) EMIR
5 2 (0.83%) MiFID
5 2 (0.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (6.20%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.41%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (0.41%) SCOM
2 1 (0.41%) SCOrch
2 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.50%) Oracle
3 22 (9.09%) SAP
4 11 (4.55%) Google
5 9 (3.72%) IBM
6 8 (3.31%) Algorithmics
6 8 (3.31%) ION Trading
7 6 (2.48%) PeopleSoft
7 6 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.65%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.24%) Iron Mountain
10 2 (0.83%) Adobe
10 2 (0.83%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.83%) Calypso
10 2 (0.83%) UiPath
10 2 (0.83%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.41%) Charles River
11 1 (0.41%) Cognos
11 1 (0.41%) Murex
11 1 (0.41%) Sybase