Luton Back Office Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in contract IT jobs within the Luton 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Back Office
Location Andover Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire 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 Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stroud 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 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	35
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.263 %	2.041 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£700
Average daily rate	£288	£725
% change on same period last year	-60.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£750
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£426
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
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	£25.84	£22.77
% change on same period last year	+13.48 %
General Luton
Matching contract IT job ads	19	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	9	26
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£317
Average daily rate	£441	£351
% change on same period last year	+25.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£483	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£26.40
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£31.40
% change on same period last year	-12.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£27.05
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Back Office London

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 (100.00 %) C# 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) AJAX 1 1 (100.00 %) WCF

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) AJAX 1 1 (100.00 %) WCF	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C# Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C#