Back Office Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 22 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 Edinburgh 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 51 49 69
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +20
Contract jobs citing Back Office 4 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.484% 0.815% 0.155%
As % of the General category 1.036% 1.181% 0.218%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
Average daily rate £463 £343 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.03% -11.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £305 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £430 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.50 -
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 386 762 916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 46.73% 69.02% 70.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 384 483
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 7
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.27 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.35% -27.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £7.50 £10.00 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £30.20 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Back Office
Scotland

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (62.50%) Asset Management
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Investment Management
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (12.50%) TOAD
4 1 (12.50%) MS Office
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (12.50%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Embarcadero
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (25.00%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Asset Management
2 3 (37.50%) Investment Management
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Fund Management
4 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Sun
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Embarcadero
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Red Gate
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