The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back 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 Glasgow 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
Back Office
Rank - 54 54
Contract jobs citing Back Office 0 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.906% 0.731%
As % of the General category - 1.636% 1.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 5
Average daily rate - £550 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +57.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -9.37%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
416 428 328
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.47% 55.37% 47.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 219 193
Average daily rate £350 £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 1
Average hourly rate £14.50 £9.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Back Office Daily Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Smartcard
3 2 (28.57%) EPoS
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Credit Risk
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (28.57%) Derivative
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (14.29%) SonicWALL
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL V3
4 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (14.29%) HSRP
4 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) EMV
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) HSRP
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
1 1 (14.29%) ADSL
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Project Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Smartcard
1 2 (28.57%) EPoS
1 2 (28.57%) Credit Risk
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Network Management
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL V3
1 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) Migration
1 1 (14.29%) Change Management
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SonicWALL
1 1 (14.29%) VMware
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft