The first table below looks at the demand for the Back Office Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office Engineer
Rank 217 206 236
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Back Office Engineer 8 36 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.099% 0.358% 0.171%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.107% 0.389% 0.184%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £285 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.78% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £273 -
% change year-on-year
+4.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7501 9248 9778
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.81% 92.06% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3805 4146 4237
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 590 702 848
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Back Office Engineer
England

Back Office Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Back Office Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Back Office Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Back Office Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Back Office Engineer across the South East region.

South East Back Office Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Back Office Engineer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Back Office Engineer in their job title 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 with Back Office Engineer in their job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Back Office
2 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
2 9 (81.82%) 2G
2 9 (81.82%) 3G
3 8 (72.73%) Cramer
3 8 (72.73%) ATM
3 8 (72.73%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) RNC
4 2 (18.18%) LTE
5 1 (9.091%) Nokia NetAct
5 1 (9.091%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (9.091%) Korn
5 1 (9.091%) Greenplum
5 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.091%) Nokia
5 1 (9.091%) Perl
5 1 (9.091%) SQL
5 1 (9.091%) MySQL
5 1 (9.091%) Oracle

Back Office Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Back Office Engineer in their job title 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 with Back Office Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) 3G
1 9 (81.82%) 2G
2 8 (72.73%) ATM
2 8 (72.73%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) RNC
3 2 (18.18%) LTE
4 1 (9.091%) Nokia NetAct
4 1 (9.091%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
General
1 11 (100.00%) Back Office
2 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) Perl
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
1 1 (9.091%) Korn
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cramer
2 1 (9.091%) Greenplum
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Nokia