Chester Back Office Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in contract IT jobs within the Chester region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Argyll and Bute Belfast Berkshire Borehamwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tiverton UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witney York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	32
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.176 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£387
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.41	£29.73
% change on same period last year	-21.25 %
General Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	91	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	18	9
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£277
Average daily rate	£321	£291
% change on same period last year	+10.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.45	£19.33
Average hourly rate	£27.36	£19.50
% change on same period last year	+40.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.27	£19.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Back Office Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Back Office across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 11i	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Support Officer 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Officer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Management
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle