The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 82 93 96
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +3
Contract jobs citing Back Office 21 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.376% 0.063% 0.487%
As % of the General category 4.403% 0.190% 1.431%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
Average daily rate £390 - £240
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 - £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 - £332
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.77 £37.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.94% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £18.75 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-15.89% +44.23%
All of the General Category
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
477 525 629
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 31.26% 33.00% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 273 293
Average daily rate £388 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 56 84
Average hourly rate £22.50 £31.25 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -8.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.08 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Back Office Daily Rate Trend

Back Office
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Back Office across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire Back Office Daily Rate Histogram

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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Havant - 9 - -
Portsmouth - 2 £390 -
Fareham - 2 £325 -
Southampton - 1 - -
Farnborough - 1 - -
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 11 (33.33%) Windows
3 7 (21.21%) Oracle
3 7 (21.21%) PRINCE2
4 6 (18.18%) Biometrics
4 6 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (18.18%) ITIL
4 6 (18.18%) SLA
5 5 (15.15%) HP
5 5 (15.15%) HTML
6 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
6 4 (12.12%) Lotus Notes
6 4 (12.12%) CRM
6 4 (12.12%) Citrix
6 4 (12.12%) SAN
6 4 (12.12%) Lotus
6 4 (12.12%) Intranet
6 4 (12.12%) Internet
6 4 (12.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (12.12%) Service Management
6 4 (12.12%) Project Management
6 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
7 3 (9.091%) Bash shell
7 3 (9.091%) Asset Management
7 3 (9.091%) jQuery
7 3 (9.091%) Validation
7 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
7 3 (9.091%) Management Information System
7 3 (9.091%) MVC

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 5 (15.15%) HTML
2 3 (9.091%) jQuery
2 3 (9.091%) .NET
2 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.061%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.030%) HTML5
4 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 1 (3.030%) Ajax
4 1 (3.030%) WPF
4 1 (3.030%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) Lotus Notes
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) SAN
1 4 (12.12%) Intranet
1 4 (12.12%) Internet
2 1 (3.030%) FTP
2 1 (3.030%) HTTP
2 1 (3.030%) 3G
Development Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.061%) Front Office
4 1 (3.030%) Billing
4 1 (3.030%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Project Manager
3 6 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Service Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle Project Manager
5 3 (9.091%) Systems Support Analyst
5 3 (9.091%) Developer
5 3 (9.091%) Systems Support
5 3 (9.091%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (6.061%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Break Fix Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Web Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Computer Engineer
7 1 (3.030%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Biometrics
2 3 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.061%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) PRINCE2
2 6 (18.18%) ITIL
3 4 (12.12%) CRM
3 4 (12.12%) Service Management
3 4 (12.12%) Project Management
4 3 (9.091%) Asset Management
4 3 (9.091%) Validation
4 3 (9.091%) MVC
5 2 (6.061%) ERP
5 2 (6.061%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.030%) BDD
6 1 (3.030%) Test Strategy
6 1 (3.030%) TDD
6 1 (3.030%) Test Management
6 1 (3.030%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.030%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.030%) Scrum
6 1 (3.030%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.030%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.091%) Bash shell
1 3 (9.091%) Shell Script
1 3 (9.091%) JavaScript
1 3 (9.091%) SQL
1 3 (9.091%) C#
2 2 (6.061%) T-SQL
2 2 (6.061%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.061%) PMP
2 2 (6.061%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.061%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.030%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.061%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) HP
3 4 (12.12%) Citrix
3 4 (12.12%) Lotus
4 2 (6.061%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (6.061%) SAP
4 2 (6.061%) JD Edwards