Back Office Contracts in the Midlands

Back Office
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates 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 131 148 197
Rank change year-on-year +17 +49 -55
Contract jobs citing Back Office 10 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the General category 0.63% 0.57% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £221 £250 £363
25th Percentile £244 £263 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £360 £441
Median % change year-on-year +37.15% -18.41% +26.07%
75th Percentile £791 £388 £559
90th Percentile £886 £411 £588
England median daily rate £613 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -9.26% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £16.50 - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.25 -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% - -
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.73 £35.25 £21.35
% change year-on-year -38.35% +65.11% +22.00%

All General Skills
Midlands

Back Office falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,579 1,760 2,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 53.56% 54.68% 55.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 1,256 2,052
10th Percentile £206 £228 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £663
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 80 94
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.45 £10.68
25th Percentile £13.90 £14.20 £13.90
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% +29.31%
75th Percentile £34.47 £43.25 £27.50
90th Percentile £52.12 £51.85 £35.00
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in the Midlands

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in the Midlands

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Back Office in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Back Office in the Midlands

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in the Midlands

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +19 9 £494 +79.55% 10
East Midlands +6 1 - - 10
Back Office
England

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) NGFW
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Police
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Support Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Support
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) CCTV Operator
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) AS400
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) CCTV
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Batch Scheduling
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Business Case
3 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) R
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Ivanti
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) VMware