The next and back buttons are grayed out in the conditional logic

I need the next and back buttons to be able to use conditional logic to skip to other pages and I see that they are grayed out in the drop downs to select conditions for .

You cannot set the button to trigger the form to skip pages. It should be based on a filed. This guide should help you about it:

https://www.jotform.com/help/350-How-to-Skip-Pages-Using-Conditional-Logic