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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 379 441
Rank change year-on-year +96 +62 -43
Contract jobs citing Back Office 329 361 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the General category 1.33% 1.08% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 277 357
10th Percentile £413 £400 £416
25th Percentile £511 £520 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £725 £825 £744
90th Percentile £850 £843 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -1.36% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 7
10th Percentile £12.30 £14.88 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.86 £16.10 £12.21
Median hourly rate £21.73 £18.78 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% -12.03% +22.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £51.88 £53.55
90th Percentile - £59.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.12 £35.25 £21.35
% change year-on-year -37.26% +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 24,707 33,460 49,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 58.60% 56.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,592 23,193 34,217
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £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 £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 1,020 1,414
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £17.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.43
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.55 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -4.76%

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 15 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 15 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 +63 306 £625 -7.41% 203
London +86 268 £625 -8.09% 96
Work from Home +70 132 £625 -15.54% 106
UK excluding London +24 50 £543 -1.36% 111
Scotland +56 13 £675 -6.90% 5
Midlands +36 13 £525 +61.54% 21
West Midlands +23 12 £525 +90.91% 16
South East -3 8 £560 -25.33% 25
North of England +20 6 £375 - 34
East of England +12 5 - - 14
South West +6 5 £250 -66.67% 11
North West +21 3 - - 24
Yorkshire +17 3 £375 - 7
East Midlands +16 2 £525 +16.67% 5

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 (2.43%) CMS
2 4 (1.22%) MTS
3 2 (0.61%) NetWeaver
3 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 26 (7.90%) Endur
2 5 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.22%) Aligne
3 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.22%) EuroRunner
3 4 (1.22%) Markit EDM
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.22%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.61%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.61%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.61%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.28%) Azure
2 39 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (9.73%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 19 (5.78%) AWS
5 19 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.04%) Azure Pipelines
8 7 (2.13%) Miro
9 6 (1.82%) AWS CodeBuild
9 6 (1.82%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 6 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (1.82%) SaaS
10 5 (1.52%) Google Sheets
10 5 (1.52%) Serverless
11 4 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.22%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.22%) IaaS
11 4 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.13%) FTP
1 7 (2.13%) LAN
1 7 (2.13%) WAN
2 4 (1.22%) Internet
3 2 (0.61%) Firewall
3 2 (0.61%) SAN
3 2 (0.61%) Wireless
4 1 (0.30%) DHCP
4 1 (0.30%) DNS
4 1 (0.30%) Intranet
4 1 (0.30%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.30%) NGFW
4 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.95%) Power BI
3 8 (2.43%) GIS
3 8 (2.43%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.43%) SAP HANA
3 8 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
7 4 (1.22%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.91%) Big Data
9 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.61%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.61%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.61%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (6.69%) Git
2 20 (6.08%) Postman
3 16 (4.86%) JIRA
4 11 (3.34%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.74%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.74%) Visual Studio
6 8 (2.43%) Selenium
7 6 (1.82%) LoadRunner
7 6 (1.82%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.52%) FitNesse
8 5 (1.52%) JMeter
8 5 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.91%) Appium
9 3 (0.91%) Rational Performance Tester
9 3 (0.91%) TestRail
10 2 (0.61%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.30%) GitLab
11 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 120 (36.47%) Finance
2 86 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 80 (24.32%) Banking
4 71 (21.58%) Front Office
5 44 (13.37%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.04%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.43%) Retail
9 6 (1.82%) Local Government
9 6 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.82%) Wholesale Banking
10 4 (1.22%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Law
11 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 121 (36.78%) Analyst
2 88 (26.75%) Senior
3 48 (14.59%) Business Analyst
4 44 (13.37%) Developer
5 37 (11.25%) Senior Analyst
6 31 (9.42%) Technical Analyst
7 30 (9.12%) Financial Analyst
7 30 (9.12%) Lead
8 26 (7.90%) Banking Analyst
9 21 (6.38%) Test Analyst
10 20 (6.08%) SQL Analyst
11 19 (5.78%) Architect
11 19 (5.78%) Technical Leader
12 18 (5.47%) Senior Test Analyst
12 18 (5.47%) Support Analyst
13 17 (5.17%) Product Owner
14 15 (4.56%) .NET Developer
14 15 (4.56%) Project Manager
15 14 (4.26%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.26%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.24%) .NET
2 39 (11.85%) .NET Core
3 13 (3.95%) React
3 13 (3.95%) REST
4 12 (3.65%) XML
5 11 (3.34%) CSS
5 11 (3.34%) jQuery
6 10 (3.04%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.74%) SOAP
8 8 (2.43%) HTML
8 8 (2.43%) JSON
9 6 (1.82%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.82%) SAP PI
10 5 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.22%) Middleware
11 4 (1.22%) Playwright
12 3 (0.91%) ADO
12 3 (0.91%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.89%) Derivative
1 49 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 41 (12.46%) Hedge funds
3 18 (5.47%) Mobile App
3 18 (5.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 15 (4.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (4.26%) Equities
5 14 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.74%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.43%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.82%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.82%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.22%) AS400
10 4 (1.22%) DTCC
11 3 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (0.91%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.56%) Android
1 15 (4.56%) Windows
2 9 (2.74%) Unix
3 7 (2.13%) Linux
4 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) CentOS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (42.25%) Agile
2 59 (17.93%) Asset Management
3 51 (15.50%) DevOps
4 48 (14.59%) Investment Management
5 45 (13.68%) Test Automation
6 42 (12.77%) OO
6 42 (12.77%) TDD
7 38 (11.55%) Mentoring
7 38 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (10.64%) Software Testing
9 34 (10.33%) OOD
10 30 (9.12%) API Management
10 30 (9.12%) Data Analysis
11 28 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (8.51%) Migration
12 27 (8.21%) Clean Code
12 27 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (7.90%) Scrum
14 23 (6.99%) Requirements Gathering
14 23 (6.99%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 101 (30.70%) C#
2 100 (30.40%) SQL
3 53 (16.11%) Python
4 29 (8.81%) Bicep
4 29 (8.81%) Java
5 18 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.56%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.65%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.61%) ABAP
11 2 (0.61%) VBA
12 1 (0.30%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) C++
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) R
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (10.03%) Degree
2 8 (2.43%) Numerate Degree
3 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.61%) PhD
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) CCNA
6 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.30%) PgMP
6 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.30%) PMP
6 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.60%) PCI DSS
2 18 (5.47%) QA
3 12 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.04%) WCAG
5 5 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.22%) GAAP
6 4 (1.22%) ISO 15022
6 4 (1.22%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.91%) GDPR
7 3 (0.91%) MiFID
7 3 (0.91%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) EMIR
9 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.22%) Docker
3 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
4 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (2.43%) Control-M
2 7 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.60%) SAP
3 24 (7.29%) Oracle
4 12 (3.65%) OpenLink
5 10 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.43%) HP
7 5 (1.52%) CyberSource
7 5 (1.52%) Google
8 4 (1.22%) Murex
8 4 (1.22%) VMware
9 3 (0.91%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) Ariba
10 2 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.61%) Citrix
10 2 (0.61%) Databricks
10 2 (0.61%) NetApp
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) Temenos
11 1 (0.30%) FIS
11 1 (0.30%) Nintex