Back Office Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 17 May 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 Berkshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 103 59 83
Rank change year-on-year
-44 +24
Contract jobs citing Back Office 20 85 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.826% 2.788% 1.413%
As % of the General category 1.905% 5.585% 3.618%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 3
Average daily rate £285 £275 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -31.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-15.89% +7.14%
All of the General Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 1050 1522 1161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 43.39% 49.92% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 426 398
Average daily rate £359 £340 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.44% +3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £470 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 33 37
Average hourly rate £17.00 £14.50 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.24% -4.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £9.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £46.45 £39.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Back Office Daily Rate Trend

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Back Office across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Back Office Daily Rate Histogram

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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newbury +8 9 £285 +20.00%
Reading -19 4 £125 -53.70%
Bracknell -9 1 - -
Slough - 1 - -
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 15 (42.86%) Oracle
1 15 (42.86%) 3G
2 13 (37.14%) Telecoms
3 12 (34.29%) 2G
3 12 (34.29%) DNS
4 11 (31.43%) SQL
5 10 (28.57%) Perl
6 9 (25.71%) ATM
7 8 (22.86%) Cramer
7 8 (22.86%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (17.14%) Nokia
9 6 (17.14%) MySQL
9 6 (17.14%) Nokia NetAct
9 6 (17.14%) Greenplum
9 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (17.14%) Retail
9 6 (17.14%) Korn
10 5 (14.29%) RNC
10 5 (14.29%) Migration
10 5 (14.29%) C#
10 5 (14.29%) Cisco
11 4 (11.43%) DHCP
11 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
11 4 (11.43%) .NET
11 4 (11.43%) UNIX
11 4 (11.43%) ERP
11 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
11 4 (11.43%) Oracle Retail
12 3 (8.571%) Cisco Nexus

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 3 (8.571%) XML
3 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.857%) J2EE
3 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.857%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.857%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.857%) Apache
1 1 (2.857%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (2.857%) CMS
1 1 (2.857%) Resin
1 1 (2.857%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) MS Office
1 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) 3G
2 12 (34.29%) DNS
2 12 (34.29%) 2G
3 9 (25.71%) ATM
4 8 (22.86%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (17.14%) Nokia NetAct
6 5 (14.29%) RNC
7 4 (11.43%) DHCP
8 3 (8.571%) WAN
8 3 (8.571%) SMTP
8 3 (8.571%) SNMP
8 3 (8.571%) TCP/IP
8 3 (8.571%) TELNET
8 3 (8.571%) Firewall
8 3 (8.571%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (8.571%) LTE
9 2 (5.714%) VPN
9 2 (5.714%) MPLS
9 2 (5.714%) LAN
9 2 (5.714%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) MySQL
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (37.14%) Telecoms
2 6 (17.14%) Retail
3 3 (8.571%) Finance
4 1 (2.857%) Front Office
4 1 (2.857%) Billing
4 1 (2.857%) French Language
4 1 (2.857%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Back Office Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) OSS Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) IP Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Consultant
4 3 (8.571%) Architect
4 3 (8.571%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (5.714%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.857%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.857%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (2.857%) Project Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Help Desk Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) SAP Architect
6 1 (2.857%) RAN Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Technical Support
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) UNIX
2 2 (5.714%) Windows
2 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 4 (11.43%) ERP
3 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
4 3 (8.571%) Change Management
4 3 (8.571%) Validation
4 3 (8.571%) Data Analysis
4 3 (8.571%) Web Development
5 2 (5.714%) Data Migration
5 2 (5.714%) Data Mapping
5 2 (5.714%) Data Management
5 2 (5.714%) CRM
6 1 (2.857%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.857%) Service Management
6 1 (2.857%) Process Management
6 1 (2.857%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.857%) MVC
6 1 (2.857%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Perl
3 6 (17.14%) Korn
4 5 (14.29%) C#
5 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.571%) C++
7 1 (2.857%) Java
7 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.857%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) MCP
1 1 (2.857%) HNC
1 1 (2.857%) HND
1 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.857%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.714%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.857%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) OpenView
1 1 (2.857%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (2.857%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Oracle
2 8 (22.86%) Cramer
3 6 (17.14%) Nokia
3 6 (17.14%) Greenplum
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco
5 3 (8.571%) Nortel
5 3 (8.571%) Juniper
5 3 (8.571%) Ericsson
5 3 (8.571%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 2 (5.714%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.714%) Redback
6 2 (5.714%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.857%) VMware
7 1 (2.857%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.857%) Huawei
7 1 (2.857%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.857%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.857%) HP
7 1 (2.857%) SAP
7 1 (2.857%) JBoss
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