Back Office
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Back Office over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 484 470
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 -30
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 503 606 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.60% 0.75%
As % of the General category 0.85% 0.88% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 393 413 661
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +4.65%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Back Office.

Salary trend for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Back Office over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Back Office in the UK

Back Office
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 484 £70,000 +3.70% 201
London +100 282 £90,000 +12.50% 96
Work from Home +8 242 £80,000 +14.29% 109
UK excluding London -56 212 £40,000 -20.00% 110
South East +25 70 £36,000 -42.86% 25
North of England -2 45 £55,000 +30.02% 31
Midlands -1 44 £28,000 -37.78% 24
East of England +44 39 £46,899 -2.80% 13
West Midlands +23 36 £25,000 -37.50% 18
North West +8 36 £53,075 +33.54% 20
Scotland -78 12 £25,901 -51.13% 5
Yorkshire +37 8 £52,500 +10.53% 8
East Midlands -24 8 £36,383 -21.34% 6
South West -47 3 £62,500 +31.58% 14
North East -10 1 £97,500 +102.07% 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 27 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.19%) Umbraco
3 4 (0.80%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.40%) GlassFish
5 2 (0.40%) JCAPS
5 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.40%) WordPress
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.20%) Kentico
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 52 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (3.78%) Endur
1 19 (3.78%) NEC Housing
2 6 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (1.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.80%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 3 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.40%) Adaptiv
5 2 (0.40%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) nopCommerce
5 2 (0.40%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.20%) Findur
6 1 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 119 (23.66%) Azure
2 87 (17.30%) AWS
3 57 (11.33%) Power Platform
4 46 (9.15%) GCP
5 35 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.38%) Google Sheets
9 16 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.19%) Mimecast
11 11 (2.19%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.39%) OCI
13 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.80%) SaaS
14 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 2 (0.40%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.98%) Firewall
2 12 (2.39%) VPN
2 12 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (2.19%) VoIP
4 10 (1.99%) Wireless
5 8 (1.59%) LAN
6 3 (0.60%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.60%) FTP
6 3 (0.60%) GPRS
6 3 (0.60%) Internet
6 3 (0.60%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) DHCP
7 2 (0.40%) DNS
7 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.20%) Intranet
8 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 43 (8.55%) Power BI
3 28 (5.57%) Oracle Database
4 27 (5.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 24 (4.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (4.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (4.17%) GIS
7 19 (3.78%) Oracle Database 12c
7 19 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.19%) MS Access
10 8 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.59%) MySQL
11 7 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.19%) SAP BW
13 4 (0.80%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 15 (2.98%) JIRA
2 14 (2.78%) Visual Studio
3 11 (2.19%) Git
4 3 (0.60%) Ant
4 3 (0.60%) Maven
5 2 (0.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Subversion
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.20%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 288 (57.26%) Finance
2 201 (39.96%) Social Skills
3 117 (23.26%) Front Office
4 93 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (17.10%) Banking
6 57 (11.33%) Local Government
7 55 (10.93%) Retail
8 31 (6.16%) Public Sector
9 29 (5.77%) Police
10 25 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (4.57%) Billing
13 16 (3.18%) Telecoms
14 14 (2.78%) Law
15 9 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.59%) General Ledger
17 6 (1.19%) Health Technology
17 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.99%) Legal
19 4 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 129 (25.65%) Senior
2 114 (22.66%) Developer
3 101 (20.08%) Analyst
4 59 (11.73%) Senior Developer
5 48 (9.54%) Senior Software Developer
5 48 (9.54%) Software Engineer
6 47 (9.34%) .NET Developer
7 44 (8.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 44 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 43 (8.55%) Senior .NET Developer
9 42 (8.35%) .NET Software Developer
9 42 (8.35%) .NET Software Engineer
9 42 (8.35%) Senior .NET Software Developer
9 42 (8.35%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 37 (7.36%) Lead
11 36 (7.16%) Technical Analyst
12 31 (6.16%) Architect
13 29 (5.77%) Administrator
13 29 (5.77%) Financial Analyst
13 29 (5.77%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (21.27%) .NET
2 52 (10.34%) React
3 50 (9.94%) AngularJS
4 48 (9.54%) .NET Core
5 43 (8.55%) Redux
6 42 (8.35%) Vue
7 36 (7.16%) ASP.NET
8 27 (5.37%) ASP.NET Core
9 26 (5.17%) CSS
10 23 (4.57%) Web Services
11 19 (3.78%) .NET Framework
12 18 (3.58%) HTML
13 15 (2.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (2.78%) Pandas
15 13 (2.58%) FIX Protocol
16 6 (1.19%) Entity Framework
16 6 (1.19%) jQuery
17 5 (0.99%) ASP.NET MVC
18 4 (0.80%) REST
18 4 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 110 (21.87%) Hedge funds
2 107 (21.27%) Derivative
3 64 (12.72%) Fixed Income
4 51 (10.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 48 (9.54%) Equities
6 39 (7.75%) Management Information System
7 36 (7.16%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (4.37%) Driving Licence
9 20 (3.98%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.39%) Smartcard
12 10 (1.99%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.59%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.39%) Blog
15 6 (1.19%) IoT
15 6 (1.19%) Reinsurance
16 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
16 4 (0.80%) Replication
16 4 (0.80%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 54 (10.74%) Windows
2 35 (6.96%) Unix
3 30 (5.96%) Windows 10
4 15 (2.98%) Linux
4 15 (2.98%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.78%) Windows 7
6 13 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.80%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.20%) AIX
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Debian
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Scientific Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (26.84%) Asset Management
2 117 (23.26%) Agile
3 115 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (22.66%) Investment Management
5 85 (16.90%) Customer Service
6 80 (15.90%) Software Engineering
7 60 (11.93%) Mentoring
8 52 (10.34%) Data Analysis
9 47 (9.34%) DevOps
10 43 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
11 41 (8.15%) CRM
11 41 (8.15%) ERP
12 36 (7.16%) Project Delivery
13 35 (6.96%) Roadmaps
14 34 (6.76%) ITIL
15 33 (6.56%) Computer Science
16 32 (6.36%) Technical Leadership
17 31 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (5.96%) User Acceptance Testing
19 29 (5.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 201 (39.96%) SQL
2 161 (32.01%) C#
3 118 (23.46%) Python
4 66 (13.12%) JavaScript
5 47 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 23 (4.57%) Java
7 20 (3.98%) T-SQL
8 17 (3.38%) Bicep
9 15 (2.98%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.99%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.99%) VBA
12 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.80%) VB
12 4 (0.80%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
13 2 (0.40%) XPath
14 1 (0.20%) Bash
14 1 (0.20%) Swift
14 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 92 (18.29%) Degree
2 34 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (4.97%) Oracle Certification
5 18 (3.58%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.98%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.19%) CISM
9 10 (1.99%) CISSP
9 10 (1.99%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.59%) PMP
11 3 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.40%) ACCA
12 2 (0.40%) CIMA
12 2 (0.40%) CISA
12 2 (0.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.77%) SLA
2 25 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.57%) Accessibility
4 21 (4.17%) QA
5 9 (1.79%) PMO
6 6 (1.19%) GAAP
6 6 (1.19%) IFRS
7 2 (0.40%) COBIT
7 2 (0.40%) EMIR
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.40%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) COSHH
8 1 (0.20%) GDPR
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.38%) Docker
3 14 (2.78%) KVM
4 12 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.19%) Control-M
3 2 (0.40%) SCOM
3 2 (0.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.20%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
4 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 60 (11.93%) Oracle
3 30 (5.96%) SAP
4 23 (4.57%) Google
5 19 (3.78%) NEC
5 19 (3.78%) OpenLink
6 12 (2.39%) Charles River
6 12 (2.39%) Sophos
7 11 (2.19%) Apple
7 11 (2.19%) Barracuda Networks
7 11 (2.19%) ConnectWise
8 9 (1.79%) IBM
8 9 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.59%) Algorithmics
9 8 (1.59%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.19%) PeopleSoft
10 6 (1.19%) Sybase
11 5 (0.99%) Genesys
11 5 (0.99%) YouTube
12 4 (0.80%) Cisco