The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Front Office 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.298% - -
As % of the General category 1.053% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 -
All of the General Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
95 90 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 28.27% 21.69% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 48 30
Average daily rate £355 £305 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.39% -8.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 11
Average hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.35 £11.60 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.50 £48.50 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Front Office
Cambridgeshire

Front Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Front Office Jobs Demand Trend

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Front Office Daily Rate Trend

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Front 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 Front Office.

1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) MCTS
2 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) CCA
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Front 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 Front Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) OLAP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCTS
1 1 (25.00%) CCA
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (25.00%) XenApp
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) SAP