Back Office Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 103 86 93
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +7
Contract jobs citing Back Office 15 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.615% 0.902% 0.651%
As % of the General category 1.420% 1.667% 1.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 18
Average daily rate £375 £380 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £306 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £550 £438
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 - £13.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £18.75 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-15.89% +44.23%
Search 5 Back Office jobs in Scotland
All of the General Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 1056 1440 1533
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.30% 54.14% 55.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 735 806
Average daily rate £396 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.02% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £14.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.69 £9.70 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.15 £35.50 £41.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Stirling - 8 £350 -
Edinburgh +1 4 £463 +35.03%
Aberdeen -3 2 - -
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 17 (58.62%) Banking
2 11 (37.93%) Investment Banking
3 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (27.59%) MiFID
4 7 (24.14%) Use Case
4 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (24.14%) Reference Data
5 6 (20.69%) TOAD
5 6 (20.69%) XML
5 6 (20.69%) UML
5 6 (20.69%) Business Analysis
6 5 (17.24%) Asset Management
6 5 (17.24%) HP
7 4 (13.79%) Workflow
7 4 (13.79%) Process Management
7 4 (13.79%) Pega
8 3 (10.34%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (10.34%) Change Control
8 3 (10.34%) Retail
8 3 (10.34%) SAP CO
8 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (10.34%) Investment Management
8 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
8 3 (10.34%) Finance
8 3 (10.34%) XML Messaging
8 3 (10.34%) Smartcard
8 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 3 (10.34%) EPoS

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (20.69%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) XML Messaging
3 1 (3.448%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) Apache
1 1 (3.448%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) SAP CO
2 2 (6.897%) SAP MM
2 2 (6.897%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (6.897%) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.897%) ADSL
1 2 (6.897%) LAN
1 2 (6.897%) WLAN
1 2 (6.897%) VPN
1 2 (6.897%) MPLS
1 2 (6.897%) BGP
1 2 (6.897%) EIGRP
1 2 (6.897%) Firewall
1 2 (6.897%) Wireless
1 2 (6.897%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (6.897%) HSRP
2 1 (3.448%) NAS
2 1 (3.448%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) TOAD
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (6.897%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.448%) SAP BI
4 1 (3.448%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.448%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.448%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) TortoiseSVN
1 1 (3.448%) Subversion
General
1 17 (58.62%) Banking
2 11 (37.93%) Investment Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.897%) Billing
5 1 (3.448%) Marketing
5 1 (3.448%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Analyst
2 16 (55.17%) Business Analyst
3 9 (31.03%) Technical Business Analyst
3 9 (31.03%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (24.14%) Project Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) DBA
6 2 (6.897%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Project Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.448%) Portfolio Manager
7 1 (3.448%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.448%) SAP BI Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) SAP SCM Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Reference Data
2 3 (10.34%) Smartcard
2 3 (10.34%) EPoS
3 2 (6.897%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.897%) Derivative
4 1 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.448%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.897%) UNIX
2 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.448%) Solaris
3 1 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (24.14%) Use Case
2 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (20.69%) UML
3 6 (20.69%) Business Analysis
4 5 (17.24%) Asset Management
5 4 (13.79%) Workflow
5 4 (13.79%) Process Management
6 3 (10.34%) Change Control
6 3 (10.34%) Investment Management
7 2 (6.897%) ITIL
7 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2
7 2 (6.897%) Project Management
7 2 (6.897%) Change Management
7 2 (6.897%) E-Procurement
7 2 (6.897%) Logistics
7 2 (6.897%) ITIL V3
7 2 (6.897%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (6.897%) Network Management
8 1 (3.448%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) MiFID
2 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) vSphere
1 1 (3.448%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.448%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.448%) VMware ESX
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.897%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) HP
2 4 (13.79%) Pega
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) SAP
4 2 (6.897%) Oracle
4 2 (6.897%) Cisco
4 2 (6.897%) VMware
4 2 (6.897%) SonicWALL
5 1 (3.448%) Red Gate
5 1 (3.448%) Sun
5 1 (3.448%) Embarcadero
5 1 (3.448%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.448%) Business Objects
Enterprise/Solutions Architect
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The right candidate must have strong knowledge of retail banking products and services, channels, industry trends and current issues/challenges. Good knowledge of retail banking operations - applications, front...
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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