The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 31 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Back Office 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.510% 1.504% -
As % of the General category 1.389% 3.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £450 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £363 £390
% change year-on-year
+8.62% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £22.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year
-29.91% +104.54%
All of the General Category
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
72 120 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 36.73% 45.11% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 58 41
Average daily rate £400 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £238 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £26.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.75 £24.25 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.70 £112.75 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Back Office
East of England

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Back Office across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Bedfordshire Back Office Jobs Demand Trend

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Back Office across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Back Office Daily Rate Trend

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Back Office across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Back Office also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Back Office.

1 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
1 5 (83.33%) DMZ
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) NetBackup
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Symantec
3 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
3 3 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) HP
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) SCOM
5 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 1 (16.67%) SLA
5 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Back Office also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Back Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
1 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
1 5 (83.33%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DHCP
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
1 5 (83.33%) DMZ
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 3 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec