Back Office Contracts with Work from Home Options

Back Office
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 229 268 408
Rank change year-on-year +39 +140 -17
Contract jobs citing Back Office 113 194 223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.81% 0.51%
As % of the General category 1.31% 1.39% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 157 171
10th Percentile £350 £425 £413
25th Percentile £461 £563 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £765 £615
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +24.39% +11.82%
75th Percentile £741 £835 £750
90th Percentile £850 £863 £825
UK median daily rate £613 £675 £628
% change year-on-year -9.26% +7.57% +14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £11.29
25th Percentile £17.50 - £11.88
Median hourly rate £18.00 £50.00 £12.41
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +302.90% -46.53%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £26.96
90th Percentile - - £52.78
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £18.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% -27.76% +55.22%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,623 13,983 24,165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.44% 58.57% 55.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,682 9,896 17,664
10th Percentile £325 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 316 342
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.66 £13.53
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £34.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +42.24% +55.04%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.38 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% +38.96% +9.26%

Back Office
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Back Office trend for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office.

Back Office daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Back Office over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Back Office daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Back Office.

Back Office hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (3.54%) CMS
2 2 (1.77%) MTS
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Endur
2 2 (1.77%) Aligne
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) EuroRunner
2 2 (1.77%) SAP EWM
2 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.77%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.78%) Azure
2 14 (12.39%) Azure Service Bus
3 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.96%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (4.42%) AWS
6 5 (4.42%) Google Sheets
7 4 (3.54%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (3.54%) Miro
7 4 (3.54%) SaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.88%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.88%) IaaS
9 1 (0.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Serverless
9 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
1 1 (0.88%) FTP
1 1 (0.88%) Intranet
1 1 (0.88%) NGFW
1 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.96%) Power BI
3 6 (5.31%) GIS
4 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.65%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Git
2 6 (5.31%) Postman
3 4 (3.54%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.77%) FitNesse
5 2 (1.77%) JMeter
5 2 (1.77%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.77%) Selenium
5 2 (1.77%) TestRail
5 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.77%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (45.13%) Finance
2 35 (30.97%) Banking
3 34 (30.09%) Front Office
4 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
5 19 (16.81%) Social Skills
6 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Games
9 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (35.40%) Analyst
1 40 (35.40%) Senior
2 19 (16.81%) Senior Analyst
3 17 (15.04%) Financial Analyst
4 16 (14.16%) Business Analyst
5 14 (12.39%) Banking Analyst
5 14 (12.39%) SQL Analyst
5 14 (12.39%) Technical Analyst
6 13 (11.50%) Developer
7 10 (8.85%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 10 (8.85%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) Technical Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Product Owner
8 8 (7.08%) Senior Test Analyst
8 8 (7.08%) Test Analyst
9 7 (6.19%) Lead
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Product Owner
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 6 (5.31%) Project Manager
10 6 (5.31%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) .NET
2 12 (10.62%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.42%) CSS
3 5 (4.42%) REST
4 4 (3.54%) ASP.NET
4 4 (3.54%) jQuery
4 4 (3.54%) React
4 4 (3.54%) XML
5 3 (2.65%) HTML
5 3 (2.65%) SAP PI
5 3 (2.65%) SOAP
6 2 (1.77%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.77%) FpML
6 2 (1.77%) Middleware
6 2 (1.77%) Playwright
7 1 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.24%) Derivative
1 24 (21.24%) Hedge funds
2 19 (16.81%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.19%) Equities
4 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.42%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.65%) DTCC
6 3 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.65%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.77%) Contactless
7 2 (1.77%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Android
2 2 (1.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) CentOS
3 1 (0.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.71%) Agile
2 29 (25.66%) Asset Management
3 27 (23.89%) Investment Management
4 26 (23.01%) Mentoring
5 15 (13.27%) DevOps
6 13 (11.50%) Test Automation
7 12 (10.62%) Migration
7 12 (10.62%) TDD
8 11 (9.73%) Data Analysis
8 11 (9.73%) OO
8 11 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (9.73%) Software Testing
9 10 (8.85%) Clean Code
9 10 (8.85%) OOD
9 10 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (7.96%) API Management
10 9 (7.96%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (7.08%) Service Management
11 8 (7.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.51%) C#
2 38 (33.63%) SQL
3 28 (24.78%) Python
4 10 (8.85%) Bicep
5 7 (6.19%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.31%) Java
6 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.42%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (7.08%) Degree
2 3 (2.65%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.77%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CCNA
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.54%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) WCAG
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.31%) SAP
3 5 (4.42%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) OpenLink
3 5 (4.42%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.65%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe
5 1 (0.88%) Citrix
5 1 (0.88%) Ivanti
5 1 (0.88%) Murex
5 1 (0.88%) NetApp
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.88%) VMware