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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 492 513
Rank change year-on-year -64 +21 -12
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 225 246 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.51% 0.66% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 178 161 199
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,438 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,200 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £77,500
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 falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 43,805 37,282 46,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.69% 67.47% 61.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27,566 17,972 24,668
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £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 £80,000
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 13 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 13 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 -18 67 £37,500 -40.94% 13
North of England -11 52 £51,150 +20.92% 43
North West -10 44 £51,150 +28.70% 24
Midlands -28 44 £28,000 -44.00% 19
East of England +13 38 £46,297 -2.53% 4
West Midlands +6 36 £25,000 -54.55% 9
South West -53 12 £41,250 -17.50% 16
Scotland -86 12 £25,901 -50.66% 3
Yorkshire +34 8 £55,689 +17.24% 13
East Midlands -36 8 £36,383 -23.41% 10
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 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.67%) Umbraco
3 5 (2.22%) CMS
4 4 (1.78%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.89%) IIS
5 2 (0.89%) WordPress
6 1 (0.44%) Kentico
6 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 54 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (6.22%) NEC Housing
2 11 (4.89%) Endur
3 6 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.33%) Maximo
4 3 (1.33%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.89%) Magento
5 2 (0.89%) nopCommerce
5 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (13.78%) Azure
2 30 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 12 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.89%) Mimecast
5 10 (4.44%) AWS
5 10 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.78%) Miro
7 3 (1.33%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.89%) GCP
8 2 (0.89%) SaaS
8 2 (0.89%) Serverless
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.44%) GitHub
9 1 (0.44%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.44%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.11%) Firewall
2 13 (5.78%) VPN
3 11 (4.89%) VoIP
3 11 (4.89%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (4.44%) Wireless
5 6 (2.67%) LAN
6 5 (2.22%) ADSL
7 3 (1.33%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.33%) GPRS
7 3 (1.33%) Internet
7 3 (1.33%) Network Security
8 2 (0.89%) DHCP
8 2 (0.89%) DNS
8 2 (0.89%) SAN
8 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.89%) WAN
9 1 (0.44%) Broadband
9 1 (0.44%) Intranet
9 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 26 (11.56%) Power BI
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle Database
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle Database 12c
3 14 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.89%) MS Access
4 11 (4.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (4.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (4.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.56%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.67%) MySQL
8 4 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.33%) GIS
9 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.22%) JIRA
1 14 (6.22%) Visual Studio
2 10 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 111 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 84 (37.33%) Finance
3 39 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.44%) Local Government
5 31 (13.78%) Retail
6 21 (9.33%) Police
7 19 (8.44%) Public Sector
8 16 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (5.33%) Law
10 11 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (4.89%) Telecoms
11 9 (4.00%) Billing
12 8 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.22%) Marketing
14 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.33%) Banking
15 3 (1.33%) Front Office
16 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
17 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (24.44%) Developer
2 28 (12.44%) Analyst
3 24 (10.67%) Administrator
4 21 (9.33%) SQL Developer
5 19 (8.44%) Project Manager
6 16 (7.11%) Senior
7 14 (6.22%) DBA
7 14 (6.22%) Oracle DBA
7 14 (6.22%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 14 (6.22%) Support Engineer
8 13 (5.78%) IT Support
8 13 (5.78%) Lead
9 12 (5.33%) Commercial Analyst
10 11 (4.89%) Endur Consultant
10 11 (4.89%) ETRM Consultant
10 11 (4.89%) IT Engineer
10 11 (4.89%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (4.89%) Junior Developer
10 11 (4.89%) Junior SQL Developer
10 11 (4.89%) OpenLink Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.78%) .NET
2 20 (8.89%) CSS
3 18 (8.00%) Web Services
4 15 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 15 (6.67%) HTML
5 13 (5.78%) ASP.NET Web API
6 11 (4.89%) .NET Core
7 6 (2.67%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.78%) ADO
9 4 (1.78%) Entity Framework
10 3 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (1.33%) SignalR
11 2 (0.89%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (0.89%) jQuery
11 2 (0.89%) Pandas
11 2 (0.89%) PrimeNG
11 2 (0.89%) React
11 2 (0.89%) REST
11 2 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 19 (8.44%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.33%) Smartcard
4 8 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.11%) Blog
5 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.67%) IoT
7 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.78%) Replication
9 3 (1.33%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.89%) CCTV
10 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.89%) Wiki
11 1 (0.44%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.44%) Derivative
11 1 (0.44%) NHS
11 1 (0.44%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.22%) Windows
2 29 (12.89%) Windows 10
3 15 (6.67%) Unix
4 12 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (5.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (4.44%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.78%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) Debian
7 1 (0.44%) Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Scientific Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (27.56%) Customer Service
3 40 (17.78%) Agile
4 37 (16.44%) CRM
5 29 (12.89%) Project Management
6 27 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (12.00%) ITIL
7 26 (11.56%) Data Analysis
8 25 (11.11%) ERP
9 22 (9.78%) Project Delivery
10 19 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (8.00%) DevOps
11 18 (8.00%) Mathematics
11 18 (8.00%) Service Management
12 16 (7.11%) Risk Management
13 15 (6.67%) Line Management
13 15 (6.67%) Use Case
13 15 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (6.22%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (6.22%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.11%) SQL
2 45 (20.00%) C#
3 16 (7.11%) JavaScript
3 16 (7.11%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.11%) Java
5 6 (2.67%) Kotlin
6 4 (1.78%) Python
6 4 (1.78%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.78%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.44%) PHP
8 1 (0.44%) Swift
8 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (16.89%) Degree
2 32 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.22%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.56%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.56%) PMP
7 7 (3.11%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.89%) ACCA
10 2 (0.89%) CIMA
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
11 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.44%) MCSA
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.56%) QA
2 16 (7.11%) Accessibility
3 15 (6.67%) SLA
4 12 (5.33%) Data Quality
5 10 (4.44%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (6.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.33%) Hyper-V
3 10 (4.44%) KVM
4 4 (1.78%) Docker
4 4 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 84 (37.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.67%) Oracle
3 14 (6.22%) NEC
4 12 (5.33%) Sophos
5 11 (4.89%) Apple
5 11 (4.89%) Barracuda Networks
5 11 (4.89%) ConnectWise
5 11 (4.89%) OpenLink
6 10 (4.44%) SAP
7 5 (2.22%) Genesys
7 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.22%) YouTube
8 4 (1.78%) ESRI
8 4 (1.78%) Google
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco
9 3 (1.33%) IBM
9 3 (1.33%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.33%) VMware
9 3 (1.33%) Xamarin
10 2 (0.89%) WooCommerce