Back Office Contracts

Back Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 364 435
Rank change year-on-year +53 +71 -42
Contract jobs citing Back Office 310 395 499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.66% 0.56%
As % of the General category 1.22% 1.13% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 299 363
10th Percentile £425 £413 £413
25th Percentile £525 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £825 £725
90th Percentile £850 £855 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -1.18% +22.45% +13.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £12.30 £14.51 £11.81
25th Percentile £16.86 £16.06 £12.21
Median hourly rate £21.73 £20.50 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +6.22% -5.18%
75th Percentile £23.75 £53.75 £48.53
90th Percentile - £59.50 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.12 £35.25 £19.30
% change year-on-year -37.26% +82.64% -16.85%

All General Skills
UK

Back Office is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,387 34,897 49,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.23% 58.47% 56.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,033 24,201 34,488
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,062 1,440
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +59.71% -2.60%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £46.67
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.91% +65.08% -7.50%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Back Office.

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Back Office.

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 287 £625 -7.41% 201
London +65 252 £625 -8.09% 101
Work from Home +43 122 £625 -15.54% 69
UK excluding London +25 47 £605 -1.18% 100
Scotland +43 13 £675 +3.85% 3
Midlands +30 11 £725 +123.08% 23
West Midlands +30 10 £725 +163.64% 15
South East -12 7 £560 -20.00% 23
North of England +26 6 £375 - 28
East of England +13 5 - - 10
South West -6 5 £250 -64.29% 13
North West +25 3 - - 21
Yorkshire +19 3 £375 - 4
East Midlands +23 2 £525 +16.67% 8

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.58%) CMS
2 4 (1.29%) Confluence
2 4 (1.29%) MTS
3 2 (0.65%) NetWeaver
3 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Mingle
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 27 (8.71%) Endur
2 5 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.29%) Aligne
3 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.29%) EuroRunner
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.65%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.65%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.65%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.32%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.39%) Azure
2 38 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (8.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 21 (6.77%) AWS
5 19 (6.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 18 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (4.19%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
9 8 (2.58%) SaaS
10 6 (1.94%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (1.94%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (1.94%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (1.61%) Google Sheets
12 4 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.29%) IaaS
13 3 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.97%) Serverless
13 3 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
14 2 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.26%) FTP
1 7 (2.26%) LAN
1 7 (2.26%) WAN
2 4 (1.29%) Internet
3 2 (0.65%) SAN
4 1 (0.32%) DHCP
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.32%) Firewall
4 1 (0.32%) Intranet
4 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.19%) Power BI
3 10 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.26%) GIS
6 6 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.61%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.97%) Big Data
9 3 (0.97%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.65%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.65%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.65%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.32%) Metadata
11 1 (0.32%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (7.10%) Git
2 15 (4.84%) JIRA
3 12 (3.87%) Postman
4 11 (3.55%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.58%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.26%) Selenium
8 5 (1.61%) FitNesse
8 5 (1.61%) JMeter
8 5 (1.61%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.61%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.97%) TestRail
10 2 (0.65%) Appium
10 2 (0.65%) Rational Performance Tester
10 2 (0.65%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.32%) GitLab
11 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (40.32%) Finance
2 84 (27.10%) Banking
2 84 (27.10%) Social Skills
3 69 (22.26%) Front Office
4 32 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.55%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.58%) Retail
9 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.94%) Wholesale Banking
10 5 (1.61%) Legal
10 5 (1.61%) Local Government
11 4 (1.29%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.97%) Law
12 3 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
13 2 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 107 (34.52%) Analyst
2 72 (23.23%) Senior
3 45 (14.52%) Developer
4 42 (13.55%) Business Analyst
5 31 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
6 30 (9.68%) Lead
7 28 (9.03%) Financial Analyst
8 27 (8.71%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (8.39%) Banking Analyst
10 20 (6.45%) SQL Analyst
11 19 (6.13%) Architect
11 19 (6.13%) Technical Leader
12 17 (5.48%) .NET Developer
13 15 (4.84%) Project Manager
13 15 (4.84%) Support Analyst
14 14 (4.52%) Senior Developer
14 14 (4.52%) Senior Technical Engineer
14 14 (4.52%) Technical Engineer
14 14 (4.52%) Tester
15 13 (4.19%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (19.68%) .NET
2 40 (12.90%) .NET Core
3 13 (4.19%) React
3 13 (4.19%) REST
4 12 (3.87%) XML
5 11 (3.55%) CSS
5 11 (3.55%) jQuery
6 10 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.90%) SOAP
8 8 (2.58%) HTML
8 8 (2.58%) JSON
9 6 (1.94%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.94%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.94%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.29%) Middleware
10 4 (1.29%) Playwright
11 3 (0.97%) ADO
11 3 (0.97%) Kafka
11 3 (0.97%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.16%) Derivative
2 41 (13.23%) Hedge funds
3 35 (11.29%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.52%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 13 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.87%) Equities
6 12 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.58%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.94%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.61%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.29%) AS400
11 4 (1.29%) DTCC
12 3 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
12 3 (0.97%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.52%) Windows
2 12 (3.87%) Android
3 11 (3.55%) Unix
4 9 (2.90%) Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) CentOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (38.39%) Agile
2 56 (18.06%) Asset Management
3 50 (16.13%) DevOps
4 47 (15.16%) Investment Management
5 41 (13.23%) OO
5 41 (13.23%) TDD
6 37 (11.94%) Mentoring
6 37 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (11.94%) Test Automation
7 33 (10.65%) OOD
8 30 (9.68%) API Management
9 29 (9.35%) Software Testing
10 26 (8.39%) Clean Code
10 26 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (8.06%) Data Analysis
12 24 (7.74%) Scrum
13 23 (7.42%) Migration
14 22 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (6.77%) CI/CD
16 20 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (32.58%) C#
2 95 (30.65%) SQL
3 58 (18.71%) Python
4 30 (9.68%) Java
5 28 (9.03%) Bicep
6 18 (5.81%) JavaScript
7 14 (4.52%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.87%) Kotlin
8 12 (3.87%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.26%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.97%) C++
12 2 (0.65%) ABAP
12 2 (0.65%) VBA
13 1 (0.32%) Bash
13 1 (0.32%) PHP
13 1 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (10.65%) Degree
2 10 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.32%) PgMP
6 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.32%) PMP
6 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.16%) QA
2 15 (4.84%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.23%) WCAG
5 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.29%) GAAP
5 4 (1.29%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.29%) MiFID
6 3 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.97%) GDPR
6 3 (0.97%) PMO
7 2 (0.65%) EMIR
8 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.29%) Docker
3 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.32%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (2.26%) Terraform
2 4 (1.29%) Control-M
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.74%) Oracle
3 19 (6.13%) SAP
4 14 (4.52%) OpenLink
5 9 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.94%) HP
7 5 (1.61%) Google
8 4 (1.29%) Murex
9 3 (0.97%) IBM
9 3 (0.97%) VMware
10 2 (0.65%) Ariba
10 2 (0.65%) BMC
10 2 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.65%) Databricks
10 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.65%) Splunk
10 2 (0.65%) Temenos
10 2 (0.65%) Trayport
10 2 (0.65%) UiPath
11 1 (0.32%) NetApp