Back Office Contracts in Scotland

Back Office
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Back Office over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 104 152
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 +16
Contract jobs citing Back Office 15 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 0.90% 0.19%
As % of the General category 1.24% 1.43% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile £363 £190 £663
25th Percentile £372 £326 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -10.34% +45.00%
75th Percentile £409 £688 £781
90th Percentile £429 £693 £808
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £675
% change year-on-year +2.04% -9.26% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £12.67
25th Percentile - - £13.22
Median hourly rate - £12.30 £14.15
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -66.12%
75th Percentile - £12.85 £15.07
90th Percentile - £13.84 £15.62
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £18.00 £18.78
% change year-on-year +261.11% -4.17% -27.76%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,211 1,328 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 74.07% 62.91% 66.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 803 1,264
10th Percentile £231 £178 £250
25th Percentile £363 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £563 £557
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 78 29
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.57 £14.56 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.07 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -5.81% -47.04%
75th Percentile £26.21 £47.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £66.50 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £30.50 £30.52
% change year-on-year -9.38% -0.07% +27.65%

Back Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Back Office in Scotland

Back Office
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 June 2025. 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
Glasgow -2 10 £402 +111.58% 18
Edinburgh +3 2 - - 23
Stirling - 2 £400 - 1
Perthshire - 1 - -
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Finacle
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (13.33%) Private Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
2 7 (46.67%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Report Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Accounts Payable Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) Express.js
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) J2EE
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Data Design
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Process Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) API Development
5 3 (20.00%) Business Case
5 3 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
5 3 (20.00%) User Stories
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) System Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Wealth Management
7 1 (6.67%) Front End Development
7 1 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PL/SQL
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (13.33%) SLA
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Avaloq
2 2 (13.33%) Temenos
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