The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 32 - 36
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Back Office 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.093% - 0.478%
As % of the General category 3.390% - 1.471%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £183 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £21.25 £11.00
% change year-on-year
-25.78% +93.18%
All of the General Category
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
59 44 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 32.24% 25.43% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 40
Average daily rate £313 £365 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.38% +8.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £295 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £424 £453 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
Average hourly rate £16.50 £22.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +72.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £19.20 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £24.10 £15.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath - - - -
Taunton - - - -
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) NHS
3 1 (20.00%) DTS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) DTS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (20.00%) Chief Technical Officer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) Wall Street Systems