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 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 368 424
Rank change year-on-year -1 +56 -22
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 244 287 608
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 0.77% 0.80%
As % of the General category 1.14% 1.17% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 215 208 291
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% +10.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 21,449 24,567 48,827
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.34% 65.55% 64.53%
Number of salaries quoted 15,278 16,919 25,294
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,548 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £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 12 June 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 (2.46%) Umbraco
2 5 (2.05%) CMS
3 4 (1.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.82%) IIS
4 2 (0.82%) WordPress
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.41%) Kentico
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (2.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.64%) Endur
4 2 (0.82%) Magento
4 2 (0.82%) nopCommerce
4 2 (0.82%) Shopify
4 2 (0.82%) 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 90 (36.89%) Azure
2 69 (28.28%) AWS
3 47 (19.26%) GCP
4 20 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.28%) Google Sheets
7 7 (2.87%) OCI
8 5 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.64%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) npm
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.41%) GitHub
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.41%) PaaS
11 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.41%) SaaS
11 1 (0.41%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.05%) 5G
1 5 (2.05%) ADSL
1 5 (2.05%) Broadband
2 4 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.23%) GPRS
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.92%) GIS
4 10 (4.10%) Data Lake
4 10 (4.10%) Power BI
5 9 (3.69%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.87%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.46%) SAP BW
8 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.64%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.82%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.41%) MySQL
10 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.92%) JIRA
2 6 (2.46%) Git
3 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Ant
4 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.41%) Maven
4 1 (0.41%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 146 (59.84%) Finance
2 93 (38.11%) Front Office
3 67 (27.46%) Social Skills
4 55 (22.54%) Banking
5 25 (10.25%) Retail
6 17 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.10%) Billing
7 10 (4.10%) Police
7 10 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.46%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.46%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.64%) Advertising
11 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Legal
12 3 (1.23%) Marketing
13 2 (0.82%) International Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 89 (36.48%) Developer
2 80 (32.79%) Senior
3 56 (22.95%) Senior Developer
4 50 (20.49%) Analyst
5 48 (19.67%) .NET Developer
5 48 (19.67%) Software Engineer
6 45 (18.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 45 (18.44%) Senior .NET Developer
6 45 (18.44%) Senior Software Developer
6 45 (18.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (17.62%) .NET Software Developer
7 43 (17.62%) .NET Software Engineer
7 43 (17.62%) Senior .NET Software Developer
7 43 (17.62%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 23 (9.43%) Financial Analyst
9 21 (8.61%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (8.61%) SQL Analyst
9 21 (8.61%) Technical Analyst
10 18 (7.38%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 18 (7.38%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (29.51%) .NET
2 51 (20.90%) React
3 50 (20.49%) AngularJS
4 43 (17.62%) Redux
5 42 (17.21%) Vue
6 34 (13.93%) ASP.NET
7 29 (11.89%) .NET Core
8 27 (11.07%) ASP.NET Core
9 18 (7.38%) CSS
10 14 (5.74%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (5.74%) Web Services
11 12 (4.92%) HTML
12 10 (4.10%) Pandas
13 9 (3.69%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (2.46%) jQuery
15 6 (2.46%) REST
16 5 (2.05%) WCF
16 5 (2.05%) WinForms
17 4 (1.64%) QuickFIX
Miscellaneous
1 88 (36.07%) Derivative
2 84 (34.43%) Hedge funds
3 44 (18.03%) Fixed Income
3 44 (18.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (17.21%) Equities
5 13 (5.33%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.92%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.51%) Cloud Native
8 10 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.46%) Reinsurance
10 5 (2.05%) Culture of Ownership
10 5 (2.05%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.64%) Replication
11 4 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.23%) Blog
12 3 (1.23%) IoT
13 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.61%) Windows
2 12 (4.92%) Linux
2 12 (4.92%) Unix
3 6 (2.46%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Solaris
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (33.61%) Asset Management
2 81 (33.20%) Investment Management
3 71 (29.10%) Agile
4 62 (25.41%) Software Engineering
5 48 (19.67%) Mentoring
6 35 (14.34%) DevOps
7 33 (13.52%) CRM
8 29 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (9.84%) Data Analysis
9 24 (9.84%) Project Delivery
10 21 (8.61%) ERP
11 20 (8.20%) Roadmaps
12 19 (7.79%) Change Management
13 18 (7.38%) ITIL
13 18 (7.38%) Line Management
13 18 (7.38%) Test Automation
14 17 (6.97%) CI/CD
14 17 (6.97%) Customer Service
15 16 (6.56%) Migration
16 14 (5.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (54.51%) SQL
2 114 (46.72%) C#
3 93 (38.11%) Python
4 57 (23.36%) JavaScript
5 47 (19.26%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.79%) T-SQL
7 15 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.92%) Java
9 10 (4.10%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.64%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.41%) Bash
11 1 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (15.57%) Degree
2 11 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.10%) DBS Check
4 9 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.28%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.28%) PMP
6 6 (2.46%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.05%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.05%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.23%) CISSP
9 2 (0.82%) CISM
9 2 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.41%) MCSA
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.15%) QA
2 12 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.69%) PMO
4 6 (2.46%) GAAP
4 6 (2.46%) IFRS
5 4 (1.64%) EMIR
5 4 (1.64%) MiFID
6 2 (0.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.41%) ITGC
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (6.15%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.41%) Ansible
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%) Terraform
2 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.79%) Oracle
3 17 (6.97%) SAP
4 11 (4.51%) Google
5 9 (3.69%) IBM
6 8 (3.28%) Algorithmics
6 8 (3.28%) ION Trading
7 6 (2.46%) PeopleSoft
7 6 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.05%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.64%) OpenLink
10 3 (1.23%) Iron Mountain
11 2 (0.82%) Adobe
11 2 (0.82%) Blue Prism
11 2 (0.82%) Calypso
11 2 (0.82%) Murex
11 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.82%) UiPath
11 2 (0.82%) VMware
11 2 (0.82%) WooCommerce