Northern Ireland Back Office Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in contract IT jobs within the Northern Ireland 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Back Office
Location Andover Argyll and Bute Belfast Berkshire Borehamwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tiverton UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witney York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.381 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£388
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
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	£23.98	£29.73
% change on same period last year	-19.35 %
General Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	84	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	26	18
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£404
Average daily rate	£307	£427
% change on same period last year	-28.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£6.75
Average hourly rate	£31.50	£6.82
% change on same period last year	+361.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£6.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.07	£26.79
% change on same period last year	+4.77 %
Back Office UK

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 Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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 Northern Ireland region.

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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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
County Antrim	-	1	-	-

Back Office UK

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) Front Office 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 1 1 (33.33 %) Billing 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Management

1 1 (33.33 %) Logistics 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Front Office 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Senior Data Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Logistics 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco