The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 49 51 45
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -6
Contract jobs citing Back Office 2 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.439% 0.969% 0.648%
As % of the General category 1.471% 3.822% 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £475 - £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £415 - £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 - £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.50 -
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
136 157 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 29.82% 25.36% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 80 56
Average daily rate £400 £438 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +34.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £534 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £20.63 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.78% +5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.12 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.50 £25.00
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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +4 1 £400 -
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) ATG
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Siebel
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) .NET

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Services Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Services Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) ATG
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (25.00%) Siebel