Back Office Contracts in the West Midlands
 
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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 85 83 80
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Contract jobs citing Back Office 14 27 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.835% 1.182% 1.028%
As % of the General category 2.662% 3.557% 2.983%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 9
Average daily rate £356 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £225 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £505 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £364 £400
% change year-on-year
+9.96% -9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £33.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +157.69%
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 526 759 637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 31.37% 33.22% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 318 278
Average daily rate £363 £365 £364
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.68% +0.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £240 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 47 30
Average hourly rate £37.80 £24.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.50% -22.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +10 8 £425 +8.97%
Solihull - 3 - -
Back Office
England

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Solaris
4 6 (23.08%) Linux
4 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 6 (23.08%) Oracle
4 6 (23.08%) LAN
4 6 (23.08%) WAN
4 6 (23.08%) EMC
5 5 (19.23%) Process Management
5 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
6 4 (15.38%) Internet
6 4 (15.38%) Broadband
6 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 4 (15.38%) Banking
6 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
7 3 (11.54%) Business Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) HTTP
7 3 (11.54%) Project Management
8 2 (7.692%) Objective-C
8 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
8 2 (7.692%) Dreamweaver
8 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
8 2 (7.692%) MS Office
8 2 (7.692%) CSS
8 2 (7.692%) Graphic Design

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 (7.692%) CSS
1 2 (7.692%) jQuery
1 2 (7.692%) HTML5
1 2 (7.692%) CSS3
1 2 (7.692%) AngularJS
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Office
2 1 (3.846%) MS Project
2 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.846%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) LAN
1 6 (23.08%) WAN
2 4 (15.38%) Internet
2 4 (15.38%) Broadband
3 3 (11.54%) HTTP
4 1 (3.846%) IP Telephony
4 1 (3.846%) SAN
4 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.846%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (7.692%) PhoneGap
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Services Delivery Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Service Manager
4 2 (7.692%) Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Designer
5 1 (3.846%) Service Desk Technician
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Instructional Designer
5 1 (3.846%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Services Delivery Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Graphic Design
1 2 (7.692%) iPhone
1 2 (7.692%) Reference Data
1 2 (7.692%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.846%) iPad
2 1 (3.846%) Mathematics
2 1 (3.846%) PDA
2 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Solaris
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 2 (7.692%) Android
3 2 (7.692%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.846%) Windows 8
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.846%) UNIX
4 1 (3.846%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Migration
2 5 (19.23%) Process Management
2 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
2 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (11.54%) Business Analysis
3 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 2 (7.692%) Data Analysis
4 2 (7.692%) Investment Management
5 1 (3.846%) User Stories
5 1 (3.846%) ITIL V3
5 1 (3.846%) Test Scripting
5 1 (3.846%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.846%) Wealth Management
5 1 (3.846%) Release Management
5 1 (3.846%) Project Planning
5 1 (3.846%) ITIL
5 1 (3.846%) RAD
5 1 (3.846%) CRM
5 1 (3.846%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (7.692%) Objective-C
2 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.846%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.846%) MCTS
3 1 (3.846%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) SCCM
1 1 (3.846%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
1 6 (23.08%) EMC
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.846%) SAP
3 1 (3.846%) Citrix
3 1 (3.846%) Symantec
3 1 (3.846%) Sophos
3 1 (3.846%) Primavera
3 1 (3.846%) VMware
3 1 (3.846%) AppSense
3 1 (3.846%) Websense
3 1 (3.846%) BT
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