The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 102 81 52
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -29
Contract jobs citing Back Office 433 610 1114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.999% 2.264% 3.585%
As % of the General category 3.870% 4.264% 6.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 435 834
Average daily rate £500 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £327 £411
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £675 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 12
Average hourly rate £16.38 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.12% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.48 £16.70 £21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.28 £28.50 £50.00
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11189 14306 18401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 51.66% 53.11% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7786 9753 12494
Average daily rate £500 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 223 292
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -8.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.95 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.52 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Back Office
England

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London 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
City of London -21 161 £475 -13.63%
Canary Wharf +1 21 £538 +2.38%
Docklands, London -3 4 £463 -2.63%
Back Office
England

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 358 (43.50%) Banking
2 345 (41.92%) Finance
3 239 (29.04%) Investment Banking
4 192 (23.33%) SQL
5 173 (21.02%) Front Office
6 169 (20.53%) Derivative
7 137 (16.65%) Project Management
8 134 (16.28%) Business Analysis
9 123 (14.95%) Oracle
10 114 (13.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 104 (12.64%) Microsoft
12 102 (12.39%) Windows
13 101 (12.27%) C#
14 89 (10.81%) Java
15 86 (10.45%) .NET
16 85 (10.33%) SQL Server
17 77 (9.356%) Fixed Income
18 74 (8.991%) Agile Software Development
19 66 (8.019%) XML
20 60 (7.290%) Equities
21 58 (7.047%) Workflow
21 58 (7.047%) UNIX
22 56 (6.804%) Asset Management
23 52 (6.318%) Risk Management
24 49 (5.954%) Change Management
25 48 (5.832%) ASP.NET
25 48 (5.832%) User Acceptance Testing
26 47 (5.711%) Degree
26 47 (5.711%) Sybase
27 45 (5.468%) Scrum

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 86 (10.45%) .NET
2 66 (8.019%) XML
3 48 (5.832%) ASP.NET
4 38 (4.617%) Middleware
5 28 (3.402%) HTML
6 24 (2.916%) WCF
7 19 (2.309%) Web Services
8 18 (2.187%) J2EE
8 18 (2.187%) Spring
9 17 (2.066%) WPF
10 15 (1.823%) HTML5
11 14 (1.701%) Hibernate
12 13 (1.580%) jQuery
12 13 (1.580%) CSS
13 12 (1.458%) JDBC
13 12 (1.458%) .NET Framework
14 11 (1.337%) JMS
14 11 (1.337%) Ajax
15 10 (1.215%) WinForms
15 10 (1.215%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 36 (4.374%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.066%) IIS
3 12 (1.458%) MS Exchange
3 12 (1.458%) SharePoint 2010
4 10 (1.215%) Exchange Server 2003
5 9 (1.094%) Confluence
5 9 (1.094%) Apache
6 8 (0.972%) Oracle Coherence
7 7 (0.851%) Lotus Notes
8 6 (0.729%) WebSphere MQ
8 6 (0.729%) Documentum
9 5 (0.608%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.608%) CMS
9 5 (0.608%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.486%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.365%) Magento
11 3 (0.365%) SAP Portal
11 3 (0.365%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.365%) WebSphere Message Broker
11 3 (0.365%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (5.346%) MS Excel
2 33 (4.010%) MS Office
3 29 (3.524%) MS Project
4 27 (3.281%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.458%) MS PowerPoint
6 5 (0.608%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.122%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.122%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.122%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 24 (2.916%) Summit
2 17 (2.066%) Endur
3 11 (1.337%) Eagle PACE
4 10 (1.215%) Eagle STAR
5 9 (1.094%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.972%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 8 (0.972%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.972%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.851%) LatentZero
8 5 (0.608%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.486%) RMDS
9 4 (0.486%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (0.365%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
10 3 (0.365%) Kondor+
10 3 (0.365%) PeopleSoft Financials
10 3 (0.365%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.365%) Front Arena
10 3 (0.365%) SimCorp Dimension
11 2 (0.243%) ZaiNet
11 2 (0.243%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.524%) Internet
2 20 (2.430%) LAN
3 19 (2.309%) Intranet
4 18 (2.187%) WAN
5 15 (1.823%) HTTP
6 14 (1.701%) DNS
7 13 (1.580%) DHCP
7 13 (1.580%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.580%) SAN
8 6 (0.729%) FTP
9 5 (0.608%) VoIP
10 4 (0.486%) Firewall
11 2 (0.243%) Broadband
11 2 (0.243%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.243%) PBX
11 2 (0.243%) NAS
12 1 (0.122%) Network Security
12 1 (0.122%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.122%) VPN
12 1 (0.122%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (10.33%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.944%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.580%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (1.458%) Oracle 10g
5 10 (1.215%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.215%) Big Data
5 10 (1.215%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (0.851%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (0.851%) TOAD
7 6 (0.729%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.729%) MySQL
7 6 (0.729%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (0.608%) Data Mart
9 4 (0.486%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.486%) OLTP
9 4 (0.486%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.486%) Oracle 8/8i
9 4 (0.486%) MS Access
9 4 (0.486%) SQL Server 2012
10 3 (0.365%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (2.187%) Subversion
2 16 (1.944%) Visual Studio
3 12 (1.458%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (1.215%) JIRA
5 8 (0.972%) MSBuild
6 7 (0.851%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.729%) Maven
7 6 (0.729%) NUnit
7 6 (0.729%) Selenium
7 6 (0.729%) NMock
8 5 (0.608%) JUnit
8 5 (0.608%) CruiseControl
9 4 (0.486%) Ant
9 4 (0.486%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.486%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.486%) jMock
9 4 (0.486%) Git (software)
10 3 (0.365%) ERwin
11 2 (0.243%) Serena SBM
11 2 (0.243%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 358 (43.50%) Banking
2 345 (41.92%) Finance
3 239 (29.04%) Investment Banking
4 173 (21.02%) Front Office
5 25 (3.038%) Retail
5 25 (3.038%) Financial Institution
6 17 (2.066%) Legal
7 10 (1.215%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.094%) Corporate Banking
9 8 (0.972%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.729%) General Ledger
10 6 (0.729%) Advertising
10 6 (0.729%) Publishing
10 6 (0.729%) Marketing
11 4 (0.486%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.486%) Games
12 3 (0.365%) Private Banking
12 3 (0.365%) Billing
13 2 (0.243%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.122%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 376 (45.69%) Analyst
2 275 (33.41%) Business Analyst
3 132 (16.04%) Developer
4 126 (15.31%) Project Manager
5 72 (8.748%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 48 (5.832%) Support Analyst
7 38 (4.617%) Banking Business Analyst
7 38 (4.617%) Senior Analyst
8 33 (4.010%) Senior Business Analyst
9 30 (3.645%) C# Developer
10 27 (3.281%) Architect
11 25 (3.038%) Consultant
12 23 (2.795%) Senior Developer
12 23 (2.795%) Administrator
13 22 (2.673%) Java Developer
13 22 (2.673%) Senior Manager
14 21 (2.552%) Senior Project Manager
14 21 (2.552%) Technical Analyst
15 20 (2.430%) Technical Business Analyst
16 18 (2.187%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 169 (20.53%) Derivative
2 114 (13.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 77 (9.356%) Fixed Income
4 60 (7.290%) Equities
5 33 (4.010%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 30 (3.645%) Credit Risk
7 29 (3.524%) Reference Data
8 25 (3.038%) Credit Derivative
9 18 (2.187%) SWIFT
10 17 (2.066%) Hedge funds
11 16 (1.944%) Equity Derivative
12 14 (1.701%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.701%) Blackberry
13 11 (1.337%) Market Risk
14 10 (1.215%) E-Learning
15 9 (1.094%) Open Source
16 8 (0.972%) Client/Server
16 8 (0.972%) Mathematics
17 7 (0.851%) N-Tier
18 6 (0.729%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 102 (12.39%) Windows
2 58 (7.047%) UNIX
3 30 (3.645%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (3.281%) Linux
5 20 (2.430%) Windows XP
6 15 (1.823%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (1.580%) Solaris
8 11 (1.337%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.851%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.365%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (0.243%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.122%) OS/400
12 1 (0.122%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (16.65%) Project Management
2 134 (16.28%) Business Analysis
3 74 (8.991%) Agile Software Development
4 58 (7.047%) Workflow
5 56 (6.804%) Asset Management
6 52 (6.318%) Risk Management
7 49 (5.954%) Change Management
8 48 (5.832%) User Acceptance Testing
9 45 (5.468%) Scrum
10 44 (5.346%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (5.346%) PRINCE2
11 42 (5.103%) Migration
11 42 (5.103%) Investment Management
12 37 (4.496%) Data Modelling
12 37 (4.496%) Waterfall
13 35 (4.253%) ITIL
14 32 (3.888%) Test Scripting
15 31 (3.767%) Service Management
16 30 (3.645%) UML
17 28 (3.402%) OO
Programming Languages
1 192 (23.33%) SQL
2 101 (12.27%) C#
3 89 (10.81%) Java
4 38 (4.617%) JavaScript
5 27 (3.281%) C++
6 23 (2.795%) PL/SQL
7 15 (1.823%) Perl
8 13 (1.580%) Python
8 13 (1.580%) VB
9 11 (1.337%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.215%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.094%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.094%) C
11 9 (1.094%) VBA
12 6 (0.729%) Bash shell
13 5 (0.608%) F#
13 5 (0.608%) Korn
13 5 (0.608%) Ruby
14 4 (0.486%) XAML
15 2 (0.243%) Jython
Qualifications
1 47 (5.711%) Degree
2 17 (2.066%) MCSE
2 17 (2.066%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (1.701%) Security Cleared
4 11 (1.337%) PMP
4 11 (1.337%) PMI Certification
5 8 (0.972%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.851%) CCNA
6 7 (0.851%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (0.729%) ISEB
7 6 (0.729%) CCA
8 5 (0.608%) CBAP
9 4 (0.486%) MBA
9 4 (0.486%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (0.486%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (0.486%) CFA
10 3 (0.365%) BC Cleared
10 3 (0.365%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.365%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.243%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.645%) QA
2 18 (2.187%) SLA
3 14 (1.701%) Basel III
4 9 (1.094%) MiFID
5 4 (0.486%) FATCA
6 1 (0.122%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.122%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.122%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (4.617%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.608%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.365%) vSphere
4 2 (0.243%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.243%) XenApp
5 1 (0.122%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.122%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.122%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 13 (1.580%) SCCM
2 12 (1.458%) HP Quality Center
3 10 (1.215%) MOM
3 10 (1.215%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 8 (0.972%) Control-M
5 6 (0.729%) Tivoli
6 5 (0.608%) Norton AntiVirus
7 4 (0.486%) Splunk
8 3 (0.365%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.365%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.243%) Nagios
9 2 (0.243%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.243%) Puppet
9 2 (0.243%) SCOM
9 2 (0.243%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.243%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 1 (0.122%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.122%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.122%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 123 (14.95%) Oracle
2 104 (12.64%) Microsoft
3 47 (5.711%) Sybase
4 43 (5.225%) Calypso
5 29 (3.524%) Murex
6 27 (3.281%) Tradeweb
7 26 (3.159%) Citrix
8 24 (2.916%) SAP
9 21 (2.552%) Bloomberg
10 18 (2.187%) OpenLink
11 16 (1.944%) HP
11 16 (1.944%) Cisco
12 15 (1.823%) Symantec
13 14 (1.701%) TIBCO
13 14 (1.701%) PeopleSoft
14 13 (1.580%) Fidessa
15 12 (1.458%) Informatica
16 10 (1.215%) VMware
16 10 (1.215%) Lotus
16 10 (1.215%) Avaya
City, London
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Rate: £500 - £600 per day
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Hays Specialist Recruitment
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