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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 364 427
Rank change year-on-year +68 +63 -13
Contract jobs citing Back Office 309 360 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.64% 0.58%
As % of the General category 1.25% 1.10% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 275 371
10th Percentile £387 £400 £438
25th Percentile £482 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £750
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 11
10th Percentile - £14.88 £12.21
25th Percentile £12.30 £16.10 £12.48
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.78 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -27.76% +55.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £51.88 £42.13
90th Percentile - £59.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.25 £30.93
% change year-on-year -48.94% +13.99% +33.24%

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 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +50 282 £625 -7.41% 200
London +71 248 £625 -8.59% 95
Work from Home +51 122 £625 -15.54% 101
UK excluding London +16 52 £475 -5.00% 110
Scotland +52 19 £650 -10.34% 5
Midlands +22 10 £494 +55.51% 13
West Midlands +14 9 £494 +79.55% 9
South East -6 8 £560 -2.61% 24
North of England +21 6 £375 - 38
East of England +3 5 - - 13
South West -5 4 £250 -66.67% 15
North West +23 3 - - 20
Yorkshire +14 3 £375 - 13
East Midlands +11 1 - - 4

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 (2.59%) CMS
2 3 (0.97%) MTS
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%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) Mingle
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (8.41%) Endur
2 5 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.29%) Markit EDM
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.29%) thinkFolio
4 3 (0.97%) Aligne
4 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.97%) EuroRunner
5 2 (0.65%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.65%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.32%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 71 (22.98%) Azure
2 39 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (11.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (6.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 19 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (5.83%) AWS
7 12 (3.88%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.24%) Azure Pipelines
9 7 (2.27%) Miro
10 6 (1.94%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (1.94%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (1.94%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (1.94%) SaaS
11 5 (1.62%) Google Sheets
12 4 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.29%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.29%) IaaS
12 4 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.29%) Serverless
13 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.27%) FTP
2 5 (1.62%) LAN
2 5 (1.62%) WAN
3 4 (1.29%) Internet
4 2 (0.65%) Firewall
4 2 (0.65%) SAN
4 2 (0.65%) Wireless
5 1 (0.32%) DHCP
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) Intranet
5 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.32%) NGFW
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.88%) Power BI
3 8 (2.59%) GIS
4 6 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.94%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.94%) SAP HANA
5 5 (1.62%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.29%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.97%) Big Data
8 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.32%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.32%) MySQL
9 1 (0.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (7.12%) Git
2 20 (6.47%) Postman
3 17 (5.50%) JIRA
4 11 (3.56%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.91%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.91%) Visual Studio
6 8 (2.59%) Selenium
7 6 (1.94%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.94%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.62%) FitNesse
8 5 (1.62%) JMeter
8 5 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.97%) Appium
9 3 (0.97%) Rational Performance Tester
9 3 (0.97%) TestRail
10 2 (0.65%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (35.28%) Finance
2 84 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 67 (21.68%) Banking
4 59 (19.09%) Front Office
5 44 (14.24%) Public Sector
6 33 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.59%) Retail
9 7 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.94%) Local Government
10 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.94%) Wholesale Banking
11 4 (1.29%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.97%) Legal
12 3 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.65%) Games
13 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (38.19%) Analyst
2 85 (27.51%) Senior
3 42 (13.59%) Business Analyst
4 40 (12.94%) Developer
5 35 (11.33%) Senior Analyst
6 30 (9.71%) Lead
7 28 (9.06%) Financial Analyst
8 27 (8.74%) Technical Analyst
9 24 (7.77%) Banking Analyst
10 22 (7.12%) Test Analyst
11 19 (6.15%) Product Owner
11 19 (6.15%) Senior Test Analyst
11 19 (6.15%) Technical Leader
12 18 (5.83%) SQL Analyst
13 16 (5.18%) Architect
13 16 (5.18%) Support Analyst
14 15 (4.85%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.53%) Senior Product Owner
15 14 (4.53%) Tester
16 13 (4.21%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.77%) .NET
2 36 (11.65%) .NET Core
3 13 (4.21%) React
3 13 (4.21%) REST
4 12 (3.88%) XML
5 11 (3.56%) CSS
6 10 (3.24%) ASP.NET
6 10 (3.24%) jQuery
7 8 (2.59%) HTML
7 8 (2.59%) SOAP
8 7 (2.27%) JSON
9 6 (1.94%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.94%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.94%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.94%) SAP PI
10 5 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.29%) Playwright
12 3 (0.97%) ADO
12 3 (0.97%) pytest
12 3 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.50%) Product Ownership
2 40 (12.94%) Derivative
3 33 (10.68%) Hedge funds
4 18 (5.83%) Mobile App
5 16 (5.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (4.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 12 (3.88%) Equities
7 12 (3.88%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.91%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.59%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.94%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.29%) Market Risk
13 3 (0.97%) DTCC
13 3 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
13 3 (0.97%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.85%) Android
2 13 (4.21%) Windows
3 9 (2.91%) Unix
4 7 (2.27%) Linux
5 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (44.34%) Agile
2 51 (16.50%) DevOps
3 50 (16.18%) Asset Management
4 45 (14.56%) Test Automation
5 41 (13.27%) OO
5 41 (13.27%) TDD
6 40 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.62%) Investment Management
8 35 (11.33%) Data Analysis
8 35 (11.33%) Software Testing
9 34 (11.00%) Mentoring
9 34 (11.00%) OOD
10 30 (9.71%) API Management
11 29 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
12 27 (8.74%) Clean Code
12 27 (8.74%) Migration
12 27 (8.74%) Scrum
13 24 (7.77%) User Stories
14 23 (7.44%) Requirements Gathering
14 23 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (28.80%) C#
2 86 (27.83%) SQL
3 44 (14.24%) Python
4 29 (9.39%) Bicep
5 28 (9.06%) Java
6 17 (5.50%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.85%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.88%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.59%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.65%) VBA
13 1 (0.32%) Bash
13 1 (0.32%) C++
13 1 (0.32%) PHP
13 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.32%) R
13 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (11.97%) Degree
2 8 (2.59%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.62%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.32%) CBAP
6 1 (0.32%) CCNA
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
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 26 (8.41%) PCI DSS
2 18 (5.83%) QA
3 12 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.24%) WCAG
5 5 (1.62%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.29%) GAAP
6 4 (1.29%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.29%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.97%) GDPR
7 3 (0.97%) PMO
8 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (7.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.32%) vSphere
3 1 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (2.59%) Control-M
2 7 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.41%) Oracle
3 20 (6.47%) SAP
4 13 (4.21%) OpenLink
5 9 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.59%) HP
7 5 (1.62%) CyberSource
7 5 (1.62%) Google
8 4 (1.29%) Murex
8 4 (1.29%) VMware
9 3 (0.97%) IBM
10 2 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.65%) Citrix
10 2 (0.65%) NetApp
10 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.65%) Temenos
11 1 (0.32%) Advent
11 1 (0.32%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.32%) Ivanti
11 1 (0.32%) Nintex