The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 119 130 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Front Office 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.046% 0.034% -
As % of the General category 0.131% 0.094% -
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 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 -
All of the General Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
763 1069 1000
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 35.00% 36.40% 38.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 458 442
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 80 81
Average hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +20.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.21 £11.14
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £37.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Front Office
England

Front Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Front Office Daily Rate Trend

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Front Office across the East of England region.

East of England Front Office Hourly Rate Trend

Front Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front Office within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £225 -
Front Office
England

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 5 (45.45%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (36.36%) Automotive
2 4 (36.36%) Eloqua
3 2 (18.18%) hybris
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Content Management
3 2 (18.18%) Endeca
3 2 (18.18%) TIBCO
3 2 (18.18%) ATG
3 2 (18.18%) Open Text
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) MS Office
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.091%) Citrix
4 1 (9.091%) CCA
4 1 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (9.091%) Lotus
4 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
4 1 (9.091%) SAP
4 1 (9.091%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (9.091%) OLAP
4 1 (9.091%) SAP CRM
4 1 (9.091%) Replication
4 1 (9.091%) VMware

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (9.091%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) OLAP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.091%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.091%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Sales Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
2 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
1 1 (9.091%) Replication
1 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Content Management
1 2 (18.18%) CRM
1 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
2 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) CCA
1 1 (9.091%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (9.091%) MCTS
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (9.091%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (36.36%) Eloqua
3 2 (18.18%) hybris
3 2 (18.18%) Endeca
3 2 (18.18%) TIBCO
3 2 (18.18%) ATG
3 2 (18.18%) Open Text
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) Citrix
4 1 (9.091%) Lotus
4 1 (9.091%) SAP
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) Remedy