Scotland Back Office Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in contract IT jobs within the Scotland 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.

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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	93	114
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	9	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.814 %	1.086 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£295
Average daily rate	£358	£351
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£406
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 Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1106	1565
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.460 %	1.559 %
Daily rates quoted	296	388
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£316
Average daily rate	£319	£334
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.82	£27.40
Average hourly rate	£23.63	£28.91
% change on same period last year	-18.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.44	£30.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£27.05
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
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.

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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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Back Office across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 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
Edinburgh	+2	9	£358	-18.28 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 8 (42.11 %) VMware 1 8 (42.11 %) Windows 1 8 (42.11 %) Active Directory 1 8 (42.11 %) Citrix 2 7 (36.84 %) Novell 2 7 (36.84 %) Microsoft 2 7 (36.84 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (36.84 %) Banking 3 5 (26.32 %) MS Excel 4 4 (21.05 %) SAN 4 4 (21.05 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (15.79 %) Clustering 5 3 (15.79 %) McAfee Security 5 3 (15.79 %) Migration 5 3 (15.79 %) MCSE

5 3 (15.79 %) VERITAS 5 3 (15.79 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 3 (15.79 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (15.79 %) OpenView 5 3 (15.79 %) HP 6 2 (10.53 %) Finance 6 2 (10.53 %) Asset Management 6 2 (10.53 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (10.53 %) Pensions 6 2 (10.53 %) Fund Management 7 1 (5.263 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (5.263 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (5.263 %) Salerio 7 1 (5.263 %) CheckFree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 Platforms 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 5 (26.32 %) MS Excel 2 1 (5.263 %) MS Project 2 1 (5.263 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) Salerio	Communications & Networking 1 4 (21.05 %) SAN 2 1 (5.263 %) LAN 2 1 (5.263 %) WAN
General 1 7 (36.84 %) Banking 2 2 (10.53 %) Finance 2 2 (10.53 %) Investment Banking 2 2 (10.53 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 12 (63.16 %) Analyst 2 8 (42.11 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (15.79 %) Systems Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Project Manager 4 2 (10.53 %) Senior Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Senior Systems Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Banking Business Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Integration Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Solutions Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Integration Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Integration Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Report Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Solutions Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (15.79 %) Clustering 1 3 (15.79 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)	Operating Systems 1 8 (42.11 %) Windows 2 3 (15.79 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (15.79 %) Migration 2 2 (10.53 %) Asset Management 2 2 (10.53 %) Fund Management 3 1 (5.263 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (5.263 %) Project Management	Qualifications 1 3 (15.79 %) MCSE 1 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 8 (42.11 %) Active Directory 2 4 (21.05 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (5.263 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 7 (36.84 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (15.79 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 8 (42.11 %) VMware 1 8 (42.11 %) Citrix 2 7 (36.84 %) Novell 2 7 (36.84 %) Microsoft 3 3 (15.79 %) McAfee Security 3 3 (15.79 %) VERITAS 3 3 (15.79 %) HP 4 1 (5.263 %) CheckFree