Back Office Contracts in the South East
 
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 South East 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 152 102 142
Rank change year-on-year
-50 +40
Contract jobs citing Back Office 73 160 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.937% 1.577% 1.080%
As % of the General category 2.658% 4.126% 2.875%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 53 43
Average daily rate £400 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £150 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £470 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
Average hourly rate £15.77 £19.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.00% +72.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £13.00 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.80 £33.80 £55.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £18.75 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-15.89% +44.23%
Search 18 Back Office jobs in the South East
All of the General Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 2746 3878 3895
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 35.23% 38.22% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1251 1713 1689
Average daily rate £375 £375 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 194 253
Average hourly rate £21.88 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.08% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Back Office
England

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Hampshire +11 21 £390 -
Berkshire -44 21 £285 +3.63%
West Sussex +30 18 £425 +9.67%
East Sussex +2 6 £355 -16.47%
Surrey +1 4 £413 +175.00%
Oxfordshire +2 2 £475 -
Back Office
England

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 36 (29.03%) Finance
2 34 (27.42%) SQL
3 26 (20.97%) Oracle
4 24 (19.35%) Windows
5 23 (18.55%) .NET
6 20 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 20 (16.13%) ASP.NET
6 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
6 20 (16.13%) MVC
7 19 (15.32%) jQuery
7 19 (15.32%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (14.52%) Telecoms
9 17 (13.71%) CMS
9 17 (13.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (13.71%) DNS
10 16 (12.90%) CSS
10 16 (12.90%) 3G
10 16 (12.90%) Scrum
11 15 (12.10%) TDD
11 15 (12.10%) Umbraco
11 15 (12.10%) Subversion
11 15 (12.10%) ITIL
11 15 (12.10%) XHTML
12 14 (11.29%) HP
12 14 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (11.29%) NUnit
13 13 (10.48%) Google Maps API
13 13 (10.48%) Google
13 13 (10.48%) Active Directory
14 12 (9.677%) Citrix

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 23 (18.55%) .NET
2 20 (16.13%) ASP.NET
3 19 (15.32%) jQuery
3 19 (15.32%) ASP.NET MVC
4 16 (12.90%) CSS
5 15 (12.10%) XHTML
6 13 (10.48%) Google Maps API
7 12 (9.677%) Bing Maps
8 7 (5.645%) HTML
9 5 (4.032%) XML
10 2 (1.613%) Web Services
10 2 (1.613%) HTML5
11 1 (0.806%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 1 (0.806%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 1 (0.806%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 1 (0.806%) RESTful
11 1 (0.806%) WPF
11 1 (0.806%) Ajax
11 1 (0.806%) J2EE
11 1 (0.806%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 17 (13.71%) CMS
2 15 (12.10%) Umbraco
3 8 (6.452%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (3.226%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (1.613%) MS Exchange
5 2 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.806%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.806%) Resin
6 1 (0.806%) SAS
6 1 (0.806%) Apache
6 1 (0.806%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.806%) IIS
6 1 (0.806%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (2.419%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.806%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.645%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.226%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.806%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.806%) Taleo
3 1 (0.806%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.71%) DNS
2 16 (12.90%) 3G
3 12 (9.677%) 2G
4 9 (7.258%) ATM
4 9 (7.258%) DHCP
5 8 (6.452%) WAN
5 8 (6.452%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (5.645%) LAN
7 6 (4.839%) Intranet
7 6 (4.839%) Internet
7 6 (4.839%) Firewall
8 5 (4.032%) Nokia NetAct
8 5 (4.032%) RNC
8 5 (4.032%) SAN
9 4 (3.226%) VPN
9 4 (3.226%) SNMP
9 4 (3.226%) SMTP
10 3 (2.419%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (2.419%) LTE
10 3 (2.419%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.032%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.032%) MySQL
2 2 (1.613%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.806%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.806%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.806%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.806%) MS Access
3 1 (0.806%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Subversion
2 14 (11.29%) NUnit
3 1 (0.806%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (29.03%) Finance
2 18 (14.52%) Telecoms
3 11 (8.871%) Retail
4 5 (4.032%) Online Betting
5 4 (3.226%) Billing
5 4 (3.226%) Local Government
5 4 (3.226%) Front Office
6 2 (1.613%) Banking
6 2 (1.613%) Law
7 1 (0.806%) Legal
7 1 (0.806%) French Language
7 1 (0.806%) German Language
Job Titles
1 29 (23.39%) Analyst
2 24 (19.35%) Developer
3 16 (12.90%) Project Manager
3 16 (12.90%) Back Office Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.065%) Support Engineer
6 7 (5.645%) ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (5.645%) Support Analyst
6 7 (5.645%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (5.645%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.839%) Web Developer
8 5 (4.032%) IP Engineer
8 5 (4.032%) OSS Engineer
9 4 (3.226%) Consultant
9 4 (3.226%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.226%) Service Analyst
9 4 (3.226%) Architect
9 4 (3.226%) Oracle Project Manager
9 4 (3.226%) Oracle Consultant
9 4 (3.226%) Technical Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.839%) Biometrics
1 6 (4.839%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.613%) PMI
2 2 (1.613%) Mainframe
2 2 (1.613%) iSeries
3 1 (0.806%) Clustering
3 1 (0.806%) IVR
3 1 (0.806%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.806%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.806%) EPoS
3 1 (0.806%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.35%) Windows
2 10 (8.065%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (4.839%) UNIX
4 3 (2.419%) Linux
4 3 (2.419%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.806%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.806%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.13%) MVC
2 16 (12.90%) Scrum
3 15 (12.10%) TDD
3 15 (12.10%) ITIL
4 14 (11.29%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (8.065%) Project Management
5 10 (8.065%) PRINCE2
6 8 (6.452%) CRM
6 8 (6.452%) Service Delivery
7 7 (5.645%) Service Management
8 6 (4.839%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (4.839%) E-Commerce
8 6 (4.839%) ERP
8 6 (4.839%) Change Management
8 6 (4.839%) Validation
8 6 (4.839%) Waterfall
8 6 (4.839%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (4.032%) Migration
9 5 (4.032%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (3.226%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (27.42%) SQL
2 20 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 9 (7.258%) Perl
3 9 (7.258%) C#
4 5 (4.032%) Korn
5 4 (3.226%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.419%) Bash shell
6 3 (2.419%) C++
6 3 (2.419%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.419%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.613%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.613%) VBA
8 1 (0.806%) Java
8 1 (0.806%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (13.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.645%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.032%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.226%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.226%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.419%) ISEB
6 2 (1.613%) PMP
6 2 (1.613%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.806%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.806%) MCSE
7 1 (0.806%) MCP
7 1 (0.806%) HNC
7 1 (0.806%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.065%) QA
2 7 (5.645%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.032%) XenApp
2 5 (4.032%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.226%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.419%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (1.613%) VMware ESX
5 2 (1.613%) vSphere
6 1 (0.806%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (0.806%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.806%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.806%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (3.226%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.613%) SCCM
2 2 (1.613%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.806%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (0.806%) HP NNM
3 1 (0.806%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.806%) OpenView
3 1 (0.806%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 26 (20.97%) Oracle
2 20 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.29%) HP
4 13 (10.48%) Google
5 12 (9.677%) Citrix
6 8 (6.452%) Sitecore
6 8 (6.452%) Cramer
7 6 (4.839%) SAP
7 6 (4.839%) Cisco
7 6 (4.839%) VMware
8 5 (4.032%) Greenplum
8 5 (4.032%) IBM
8 5 (4.032%) Nokia
9 4 (3.226%) Lotus
10 3 (2.419%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 3 (2.419%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.419%) Nortel
10 3 (2.419%) Juniper
10 3 (2.419%) Ericsson
11 2 (1.613%) JD Edwards
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Posted: 24 May 2013
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