South Yorkshire Back Office Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in contract IT jobs within the South Yorkshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Cheshunt Chichester City of London County Londonderry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stirling Street Surrey Swindon Taunton Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Waltham Abbey West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	51
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.564 %	2.186 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£163
Average daily rate	-	£169
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£175
UK excluding London average daily rate	£448	£365
% change on same period last year	+22.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.90	£30.25
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.28	£33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.50	£24.35
% change on same period last year	+41.70 %
General South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	78	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.229 %
Daily rates quoted	18	33
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£246
Average daily rate	£319	£265
% change on same period last year	+20.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£382
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	64
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.23	£26.44
Average hourly rate	£26.55	£27.39
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.87	£28.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.82	£26.53
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Back Office Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 7 January 2009. 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	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
Sheffield	+19	2	-	-

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, 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 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 7 (100.00 %) MCSE 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 7 (100.00 %) Middleware 2 5 (71.43 %) SAN 2 5 (71.43 %) Intel 3 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel 4 2 (28.57 %) Change Management 4 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, 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 7 (100.00 %) Middleware	Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (71.43 %) SAN	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (28.57 %) 3rd Line Support 2 2 (28.57 %) 2nd Line Support 2 2 (28.57 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Wintel Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Wintel Engineer	Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Change Management	Qualifications 1 7 (100.00 %) MCSE 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (71.43 %) Intel