The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 46 37 48
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +11
Contract jobs citing Back Office 1 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.242% 2.421% 0.759%
As % of the General category 0.735% 7.194% 1.807%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 3
Average daily rate - £438 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
136 139 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 32.93% 33.66% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 60
Average daily rate £388 £396 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.14% +28.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £171 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £533 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 26
Average hourly rate £30.00 £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.47% -24.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.00 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £30.00 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Back Office
East of England

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Cerner
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) MCDST
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) SystemC

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCDST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Cerner
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