Back Office Jobs in the UK excluding London

Back Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 549 488 502
Rank change year-on-year -61 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 223 260 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the General category 0.53% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 176 159 198
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,190 £28,200
25th Percentile £28,000 £39,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,200 £50,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +8.11% +7.56%
75th Percentile £55,063 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £77,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42,255 38,446 45,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.62% 68.00% 61.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,055 18,057 24,502
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Back Office in the UK excluding London

Back Office
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the UK excluding London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +8 69 £37,500 -42.75% 24
North of England -10 49 £53,075 +24.15% 38
Midlands 0 46 £28,000 -44.00% 13
North West +5 41 £53,075 +39.87% 20
East of England +24 39 £46,899 -1.27% 13
West Midlands +6 38 £25,000 -52.38% 9
Scotland -85 12 £25,901 -50.66% 5
Yorkshire +14 8 £55,689 +17.24% 13
East Midlands -25 8 £36,383 -23.41% 4
South West -44 8 £42,500 -12.82% 15
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.69%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.24%) CMS
4 4 (1.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.90%) Apache
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.90%) IIS
5 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) Kentico
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 52 (23.32%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (13.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (6.28%) NEC Housing
2 11 (4.93%) Endur
3 6 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.90%) Magento
5 2 (0.90%) Maximo
5 2 (0.90%) nopCommerce
5 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (13.90%) Azure
2 30 (13.45%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.93%) AWS
4 11 (4.93%) Mimecast
5 10 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.35%) Google Sheets
7 2 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.90%) GCP
7 2 (0.90%) Miro
7 2 (0.90%) SaaS
7 2 (0.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.45%) GitHub
8 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.45%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.17%) Firewall
2 13 (5.83%) VPN
3 11 (4.93%) VoIP
3 11 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (4.48%) Wireless
5 8 (3.59%) LAN
6 3 (1.35%) ADSL
6 3 (1.35%) Bluetooth
6 3 (1.35%) GPRS
6 3 (1.35%) Internet
6 3 (1.35%) Network Security
7 2 (0.90%) DHCP
7 2 (0.90%) DNS
7 2 (0.90%) SAN
7 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.90%) WAN
8 1 (0.45%) Broadband
8 1 (0.45%) Intranet
8 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.18%) SQL Server
2 26 (11.66%) Power BI
3 14 (6.28%) Oracle Database
3 14 (6.28%) Oracle Database 12c
3 14 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.93%) MS Access
4 11 (4.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (4.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.14%) MySQL
8 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.35%) GIS
9 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.28%) Visual Studio
2 12 (5.38%) JIRA
3 10 (4.48%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 112 (50.22%) Social Skills
2 84 (37.67%) Finance
3 39 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.59%) Local Government
5 31 (13.90%) Retail
6 21 (9.42%) Police
7 19 (8.52%) Public Sector
8 18 (8.07%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (5.38%) Law
10 11 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (4.93%) Telecoms
11 9 (4.04%) Billing
12 8 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.69%) Manufacturing
14 5 (2.24%) Marketing
15 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (1.35%) Banking
16 3 (1.35%) Front Office
17 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
18 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (23.32%) Developer
2 28 (12.56%) Analyst
3 24 (10.76%) Administrator
4 21 (9.42%) SQL Developer
5 17 (7.62%) Project Manager
6 16 (7.17%) Senior
7 15 (6.73%) Support Engineer
8 14 (6.28%) DBA
8 14 (6.28%) Oracle DBA
8 14 (6.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 13 (5.83%) IT Support
9 13 (5.83%) Lead
10 12 (5.38%) Commercial Analyst
11 11 (4.93%) Endur Consultant
11 11 (4.93%) ETRM Consultant
11 11 (4.93%) IT Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Junior Developer
11 11 (4.93%) Junior SQL Developer
11 11 (4.93%) OpenLink Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.59%) .NET
2 21 (9.42%) CSS
3 18 (8.07%) Web Services
4 16 (7.17%) HTML
5 15 (6.73%) .NET Framework
6 13 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
7 11 (4.93%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.69%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.24%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.79%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (1.35%) SignalR
12 2 (0.90%) Laravel
12 2 (0.90%) Node.js
12 2 (0.90%) Pandas
12 2 (0.90%) PrimeNG
12 2 (0.90%) React
12 2 (0.90%) REST
12 2 (0.90%) RESTful
12 2 (0.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Driving Licence
2 19 (8.52%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.38%) Smartcard
4 8 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.14%) Blog
5 7 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.69%) IoT
7 5 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Replication
9 3 (1.35%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.90%) CCTV
10 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.90%) Wiki
11 1 (0.45%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.45%) Derivative
11 1 (0.45%) NHS
11 1 (0.45%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.25%) Windows
2 29 (13.00%) Windows 10
3 15 (6.73%) Unix
4 12 (5.38%) Windows 7
4 12 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.79%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
6 1 (0.45%) Debian
6 1 (0.45%) Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.60%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (27.80%) Customer Service
3 38 (17.04%) Agile
4 37 (16.59%) CRM
5 27 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (12.11%) Project Management
6 26 (11.66%) Data Analysis
7 25 (11.21%) ERP
8 23 (10.31%) ITIL
9 20 (8.97%) Project Delivery
10 18 (8.07%) DevOps
10 18 (8.07%) Mathematics
11 17 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (7.17%) Problem Management
12 16 (7.17%) Risk Management
13 15 (6.73%) Line Management
13 15 (6.73%) Use Case
13 15 (6.73%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (6.28%) Asset Management
14 14 (6.28%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.32%) SQL
2 42 (18.83%) C#
3 17 (7.62%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.17%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.14%) Java
6 6 (2.69%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.79%) Python
7 4 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.79%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.90%) PHP
8 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.45%) Swift
9 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (16.14%) Degree
2 31 (13.90%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.28%) Oracle Certification
5 12 (5.38%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.59%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.59%) PMP
7 7 (3.14%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.90%) ACCA
9 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.90%) CIMA
10 1 (0.45%) CCNA
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.45%) MCSA
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.62%) QA
2 16 (7.17%) Accessibility
3 15 (6.73%) SLA
4 12 (5.38%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.48%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.38%) Hyper-V
2 12 (5.38%) KVM
3 4 (1.79%) Docker
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 82 (36.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.73%) Oracle
3 14 (6.28%) NEC
4 12 (5.38%) Sophos
5 11 (4.93%) Apple
5 11 (4.93%) Barracuda Networks
5 11 (4.93%) ConnectWise
5 11 (4.93%) OpenLink
6 10 (4.48%) SAP
7 5 (2.24%) Genesys
7 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.24%) YouTube
8 4 (1.79%) Google
9 3 (1.35%) Cisco
9 3 (1.35%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.35%) VMware
9 3 (1.35%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.90%) Adobe
10 2 (0.90%) IBM
10 2 (0.90%) WooCommerce