The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 20 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 Brighton 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 26 22 24
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +2
Contract jobs citing Back Office 1 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.704% 5.078% 0.769%
As % of the General category 2.000% 28.26% 1.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 1
Average daily rate £325 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% -19.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
50 46 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 35.21% 17.97% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 39
Average daily rate £400 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £300 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £23.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Back Office
East Sussex

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Informatica
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) SAS
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Teradata
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Taleo
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Teradata
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle