Gloucestershire Back Office Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in contract IT jobs within the Gloucestershire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Back Office
Location Andover Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witney York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	56
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.449 %	0.429 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£444	£250
Average daily rate	£444	£250
% change on same period last year	+77.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£414
% change on same period last year	-7.38 %
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	£23.34	£23.14
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
General Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	245	233
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.331 %	0.230 %
Daily rates quoted	100	105
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£381
Average daily rate	£394	£394
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.11	£29.45
Average hourly rate	£27.78	£30.95
% change on same period last year	-10.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.44	£32.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.14	£27.27
% change on same period last year	+3.16 %
Back Office South West

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.

Back Office
Demand Trend

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

Back Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Back Office across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Back Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Back Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	-	1	£450	-

Back Office South West

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (71.43 %) Pensions 2 1 (14.29 %) E-business 2 1 (14.29 %) HTML 2 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 2 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET 2 1 (14.29 %) ASP 2 1 (14.29 %) WebServices 2 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (14.29 %) Wealth Management

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 %) HTML 1 1 (14.29 %) .NET 1 1 (14.29 %) ASP 1 1 (14.29 %) WebServices	General 1 5 (71.43 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Business Analyst 1 5 (71.43 %) Analyst 2 4 (57.14 %) Senior Business Analyst 2 4 (57.14 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Business Architect 3 1 (14.29 %) Architect 3 1 (14.29 %) Development Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (14.29 %) E-business 1 1 (14.29 %) Wealth Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL 1 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 1 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET