South West Front Office Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Front Office' in contract IT jobs within the South West region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Front Office over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Front Office
Location Andover Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Borehamwood Bournemouth Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Northern Ireland Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Street UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	152
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	4	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.178 %	0.263 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£360
Average daily rate	£431	£376
% change on same period last year	+14.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£399
% change on same period last year	+5.81 %
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	£7.50	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-57.14 %
General South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2251	2278
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.968 %	2.416 %
Daily rates quoted	954	806
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£362
Average daily rate	£407	£382
% change on same period last year	+6.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	197	191
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.95	£28.88
Average hourly rate	£29.01	£30.81
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.06	£32.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Front Office England

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.

Front Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Front Office across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Front Office across the South West region.

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Front Office across the South West region.

Front Office
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Front Office within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Wiltshire	+7	2	-	-
Somerset	-	1	£300	-
Dorset	+5	1	£563	+103.31 %

Front Office England

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Front 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 Front Office.

1 8 (57.14 %) Finance 2 6 (42.86 %) Back Office 3 4 (28.57 %) VBA 3 4 (28.57 %) Risk Management 4 3 (21.43 %) Asset Management 4 3 (21.43 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (21.43 %) Project Management 5 2 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 5 2 (14.29 %) Pensions 5 2 (14.29 %) MS Excel 5 2 (14.29 %) VB 5 2 (14.29 %) ITIL 5 2 (14.29 %) MS Project 5 2 (14.29 %) Migration 6 1 (7.143 %) NUnit

6 1 (7.143 %) Retail 6 1 (7.143 %) VB6 6 1 (7.143 %) Logistics 6 1 (7.143 %) GAP Analysis 6 1 (7.143 %) Construction 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP 6 1 (7.143 %) C# 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL 6 1 (7.143 %) .NET 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 6 1 (7.143 %) Sybase 6 1 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (7.143 %) SLA 6 1 (7.143 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1 (7.143 %) JD Edwards

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Front 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 Front Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (7.143 %) .NET	Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Project 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) JDE EnterpriseOne	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) NUnit	General 1 8 (57.14 %) Finance 2 6 (42.86 %) Back Office 3 2 (14.29 %) Pensions 4 1 (7.143 %) Construction 4 1 (7.143 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Project Manager 2 4 (28.57 %) Developer 2 4 (28.57 %) Analyst 3 3 (21.43 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (14.29 %) VBA Developer 4 2 (14.29 %) Excel Developer 4 2 (14.29 %) Excel VBA Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Senior Manager 5 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Programmer 5 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 5 1 (7.143 %) Senior Project Manager 5 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (21.43 %) Asset Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) Risk Management 2 3 (21.43 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (21.43 %) Project Management 3 2 (14.29 %) Migration 3 2 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 1 (7.143 %) Web Development 4 1 (7.143 %) Logistics 4 1 (7.143 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 4 (28.57 %) VBA 2 2 (14.29 %) VB 3 1 (7.143 %) VB6 3 1 (7.143 %) C# 3 1 (7.143 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (7.143 %) Sybase 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP 1 1 (7.143 %) JD Edwards