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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 372 441
Rank change year-on-year +83 +69 -49
Contract jobs citing Back Office 323 361 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the General category 1.31% 1.08% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 276 361
10th Percentile £413 £400 £429
25th Percentile £510 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £723 £835 £750
90th Percentile £850 £856 £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £12.30 £14.88 £11.94
25th Percentile £15.72 £16.10 £12.21
Median hourly rate £19.87 £18.78 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.76% -27.76% +55.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £51.88 £43.50
90th Percentile - £59.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.73 £35.25 £21.35
% change year-on-year -38.35% +65.11% -8.01%

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 24,681 33,520 49,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.54% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,587 23,230 34,613
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,020 1,422
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.59 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +75 301 £625 -7.41% 222
London +81 264 £625 -7.75% 110
Work from Home +58 133 £625 -15.54% 122
UK excluding London +29 50 £525 - 132
Scotland +51 14 £675 -6.90% 5
Midlands +20 12 £525 +45.83% 22
West Midlands +24 11 £525 +90.91% 18
South East 0 8 £560 -25.33% 44
North of England +29 6 £375 - 32
East of England +11 5 - - 14
South West -1 5 £250 -66.67% 12
North West +18 3 - - 19
Yorkshire +16 3 £375 - 10
East Midlands +17 2 £525 +29.63% 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 (2.48%) CMS
2 4 (1.24%) MTS
3 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 27 (8.36%) Endur
2 5 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.24%) Aligne
3 4 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.24%) EuroRunner
3 4 (1.24%) Markit EDM
3 4 (1.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.24%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.62%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.62%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.67%) Azure
2 39 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (9.91%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (6.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 19 (5.88%) AWS
5 19 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (4.02%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.10%) Azure Pipelines
8 7 (2.17%) Miro
9 6 (1.86%) AWS CodeBuild
9 6 (1.86%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 6 (1.86%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (1.86%) SaaS
10 5 (1.55%) Google Sheets
10 5 (1.55%) Serverless
11 4 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.24%) IaaS
11 4 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.17%) FTP
2 6 (1.86%) LAN
2 6 (1.86%) WAN
3 4 (1.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.62%) Firewall
4 2 (0.62%) SAN
4 2 (0.62%) Wireless
5 1 (0.31%) DHCP
5 1 (0.31%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) Intranet
5 1 (0.31%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.31%) NGFW
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.02%) Power BI
3 8 (2.48%) GIS
3 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.17%) SAP HANA
5 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.24%) NonStop SQL
7 4 (1.24%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.93%) Big Data
9 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.62%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.62%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.62%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (6.81%) Git
2 20 (6.19%) Postman
3 16 (4.95%) JIRA
4 11 (3.41%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.79%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.79%) Visual Studio
6 8 (2.48%) Selenium
7 6 (1.86%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.86%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.55%) FitNesse
8 5 (1.55%) JMeter
8 5 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.93%) Appium
9 3 (0.93%) Rational Performance Tester
9 3 (0.93%) TestRail
10 2 (0.62%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.31%) GitLab
11 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 116 (35.91%) Finance
2 85 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 78 (24.15%) Banking
4 70 (21.67%) Front Office
5 44 (13.62%) Public Sector
6 33 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.10%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.48%) Retail
10 7 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.86%) Local Government
11 6 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.86%) Wholesale Banking
12 4 (1.24%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.93%) Legal
13 3 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.62%) Law
14 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 120 (37.15%) Analyst
2 89 (27.55%) Senior
3 47 (14.55%) Business Analyst
4 43 (13.31%) Developer
5 37 (11.46%) Senior Analyst
6 30 (9.29%) Financial Analyst
6 30 (9.29%) Lead
6 30 (9.29%) Technical Analyst
7 26 (8.05%) Banking Analyst
8 22 (6.81%) Test Analyst
9 20 (6.19%) SQL Analyst
10 19 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
10 19 (5.88%) Technical Leader
11 17 (5.26%) Architect
11 17 (5.26%) Product Owner
11 17 (5.26%) Support Analyst
12 15 (4.64%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.33%) Project Manager
13 14 (4.33%) Technical Engineer
13 14 (4.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (18.27%) .NET
2 37 (11.46%) .NET Core
3 13 (4.02%) React
3 13 (4.02%) REST
4 12 (3.72%) XML
5 11 (3.41%) CSS
5 11 (3.41%) jQuery
6 10 (3.10%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.79%) SOAP
8 8 (2.48%) HTML
8 8 (2.48%) JSON
9 6 (1.86%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.86%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.86%) SAP PI
10 5 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.24%) Playwright
12 3 (0.93%) Kafka
12 3 (0.93%) RESTful
12 3 (0.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.17%) Product Ownership
2 48 (14.86%) Derivative
3 41 (12.69%) Hedge funds
4 18 (5.57%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (4.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 14 (4.33%) Equities
7 12 (3.72%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.79%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.86%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.86%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.24%) DTCC
13 3 (0.93%) AS400
13 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 3 (0.93%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.64%) Android
2 14 (4.33%) Windows
3 9 (2.79%) Unix
4 7 (2.17%) Linux
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (42.72%) Agile
2 59 (18.27%) Asset Management
3 52 (16.10%) DevOps
4 48 (14.86%) Investment Management
5 46 (14.24%) Test Automation
6 42 (13.00%) OO
6 42 (13.00%) TDD
7 38 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 36 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (10.84%) Software Testing
10 34 (10.53%) OOD
11 31 (9.60%) Data Analysis
12 30 (9.29%) API Management
13 29 (8.98%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (8.36%) Clean Code
14 27 (8.36%) Migration
15 26 (8.05%) Scrum
16 25 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (7.12%) Requirements Gathering
17 23 (7.12%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 100 (30.96%) C#
2 99 (30.65%) SQL
3 53 (16.41%) Python
4 29 (8.98%) Bicep
4 29 (8.98%) Java
5 18 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.64%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.33%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.72%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.62%) VBA
12 1 (0.31%) ABAP
12 1 (0.31%) Bash
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (10.22%) Degree
2 8 (2.48%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.55%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.62%) PhD
6 1 (0.31%) CBAP
6 1 (0.31%) CCNA
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.31%) PgMP
6 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.31%) PMP
6 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.74%) PCI DSS
2 18 (5.57%) QA
3 12 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.10%) WCAG
5 5 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.24%) GAAP
6 4 (1.24%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.24%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.93%) PMO
8 2 (0.62%) MiFID
9 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.31%) EMIR
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.24%) Docker
3 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
4 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (2.48%) Control-M
2 7 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.05%) Oracle
3 22 (6.81%) SAP
4 13 (4.02%) OpenLink
5 10 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.48%) HP
7 5 (1.55%) CyberSource
7 5 (1.55%) Google
8 4 (1.24%) Murex
8 4 (1.24%) VMware
9 3 (0.93%) IBM
10 2 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.62%) Citrix
10 2 (0.62%) Databricks
10 2 (0.62%) NetApp
10 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.62%) Temenos
11 1 (0.31%) Aruba
11 1 (0.31%) FIS
11 1 (0.31%) Nintex