The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 28 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Back Office 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.533% 0.375% -
As % of the General category 7.692% 1.471% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-15.89% +7.14%
All of the General Category
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
52 68 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 19.92% 25.47% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 55
Average daily rate £350 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £200 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.86 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.73% +103.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Back Office
Yorkshire

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Doncaster +6 3 £410 +26.15%
Sheffield - 1 £340 -
Back Office
Yorkshire

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) XSL
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) Lagan
3 1 (20.00%) XPath
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) Fedora
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) HPUX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSL
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) XSLT
2 1 (20.00%) XHTML
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Integrator
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) SUSE
1 1 (20.00%) Fedora
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) AIX
1 1 (20.00%) HPUX
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
1 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Lagan
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat