The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 60 44 69
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +25
Contract jobs citing Back Office 5 35 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.596% 3.139% 1.220%
As % of the General category 1.582% 7.955% 4.833%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
Average daily rate £125 £275 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-54.54% -31.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £11.00
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
316 440 269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 37.66% 39.46% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 128 108
Average daily rate £330 £311 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.10% -11.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £219 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 £516 £517
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 12
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.38 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.86% +3.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Back Office
Berkshire

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Back Office Daily Rate Trend

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 Reading region.

Reading Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Perl
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Nokia NetAct
4 5 (29.41%) Korn
4 5 (29.41%) Greenplum
4 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 5 (29.41%) Nokia
4 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (29.41%) Retail
4 5 (29.41%) Cisco
5 4 (23.53%) DHCP
5 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
5 4 (23.53%) DNS
6 3 (17.65%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
6 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
6 3 (17.65%) SNMP
6 3 (17.65%) Change Management
6 3 (17.65%) Juniper
6 3 (17.65%) WAN
6 3 (17.65%) SMTP
6 3 (17.65%) CRM
7 2 (11.76%) ERP
7 2 (11.76%) Broadband
7 2 (11.76%) LAN
7 2 (11.76%) VoIP

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (5.882%) J2EE
1 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) Resin
1 1 (5.882%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (5.882%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.882%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Office
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Nokia NetAct
2 4 (23.53%) DHCP
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (17.65%) SNMP
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
3 3 (17.65%) SMTP
4 2 (11.76%) Broadband
4 2 (11.76%) LAN
4 2 (11.76%) VoIP
4 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 2 (11.76%) 3G
4 2 (11.76%) MPLS
4 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.76%) VPN
5 1 (5.882%) FWSM
5 1 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (5.882%) LTE
5 1 (5.882%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (29.41%) Retail
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Billing
4 1 (5.882%) French Language
4 1 (5.882%) German Language
4 1 (5.882%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Back Office Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) OSS Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) IP Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Transmission Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) SAP Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (5.882%) Project Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Help Desk Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) CRM
4 2 (11.76%) ERP
4 2 (11.76%) Data Management
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Data Mapping
5 1 (5.882%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (5.882%) Service Management
5 1 (5.882%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Perl
3 5 (29.41%) Korn
4 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.882%) C
4 1 (5.882%) C#
4 1 (5.882%) Java
4 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.882%) MCP
1 1 (5.882%) HNC
1 1 (5.882%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP NNM
1 1 (5.882%) OpenView
1 1 (5.882%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Greenplum
2 5 (29.41%) Nokia
2 5 (29.41%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) Juniper
4 2 (11.76%) Redback
4 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.882%) F5
5 1 (5.882%) Riverbed
5 1 (5.882%) Huawei
5 1 (5.882%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.882%) VMware
5 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.882%) HP
5 1 (5.882%) Citrix
5 1 (5.882%) SAP
5 1 (5.882%) JBoss