The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 19 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 terms in our General category for the Swindon 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 43 38 39
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Contract jobs citing Back Office 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.286% 0.296% 0.551%
As % of the General category 0.543% 0.592% 0.909%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £413 £385 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +10.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £21.25 £11.00
% change year-on-year
-25.78% +93.18%
All of the General Category
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
184 169 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 52.57% 50.00% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 132 135
Average daily rate £420 £386 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.94% -9.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £300 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 11
Average hourly rate £14.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £25.00 £18.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £25.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Back Office
Wiltshire

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Back Office Hourly Rate Trend

Back Office
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) VBA
3 3 (42.86%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Investment Management
4 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 2 (28.57%) Operations Management
5 1 (14.29%) Fund Management
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (14.29%) HTTP
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
5 1 (14.29%) Epicor
5 1 (14.29%) Middleware
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle
5 1 (14.29%) Business Objects
5 1 (14.29%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Twitter

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (14.29%) PeopleSoft HRMS
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) HR Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle CRM Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle CRM Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Forecast Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ERP
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Management
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Management
3 1 (14.29%) Fund Management
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Content Management
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Epicor
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Business Objects
1 1 (14.29%) PeopleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Twitter