The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 20 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 West Sussex 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 35 49 39
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Contract jobs citing Back Office 9 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.400% 1.442% 2.581%
As % of the General category 12.50% 4.712% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 7
Average daily rate £425 £430 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.16% +22.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £380 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £430 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £60.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.77 £21.25 £12.00
% change year-on-year
-25.78% +77.08%
All of the General Category
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
72 191 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 19.20% 30.61% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 123 54
Average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -0.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £317 £300 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 10
Average hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.71 £13.60 £28.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £33.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
East Grinstead - - - -
Gatwick - - - -
Back Office
South East

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
1 15 (65.22%) .NET
1 15 (65.22%) ASP.NET
1 15 (65.22%) CSS
1 15 (65.22%) XHTML
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (65.22%) MVC
1 15 (65.22%) Scrum
1 15 (65.22%) Subversion
1 15 (65.22%) jQuery
1 15 (65.22%) Umbraco
1 15 (65.22%) ASP.NET MVC
2 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (60.87%) TDD
2 14 (60.87%) NUnit
2 14 (60.87%) CMS
3 13 (56.52%) Google
3 13 (56.52%) Google Maps API
4 12 (52.17%) Bing Maps
5 10 (43.48%) QA
6 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (30.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 7 (30.43%) Sitecore
6 7 (30.43%) Windows
7 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
7 5 (21.74%) HP
7 5 (21.74%) Citrix
7 5 (21.74%) IBM

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 15 (65.22%) .NET
1 15 (65.22%) ASP.NET
1 15 (65.22%) CSS
1 15 (65.22%) XHTML
1 15 (65.22%) jQuery
1 15 (65.22%) ASP.NET MVC
2 13 (56.52%) Google Maps API
3 12 (52.17%) Bing Maps
4 1 (4.348%) HTML5
4 1 (4.348%) SOAP
4 1 (4.348%) Web Services
4 1 (4.348%) XML
4 1 (4.348%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 15 (65.22%) Umbraco
2 14 (60.87%) CMS
3 7 (30.43%) Sitecore CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) LAN
1 2 (8.696%) WAN
1 2 (8.696%) DHCP
1 2 (8.696%) VPN
1 2 (8.696%) DNS
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Subversion
2 14 (60.87%) NUnit
General
1 5 (21.74%) Online Betting
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.348%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) .NET Developer
3 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Analyst
4 6 (26.09%) Web Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Wintel Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (8.696%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.348%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (4.348%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Citrix Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Solutions Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) iSeries
1 2 (8.696%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.348%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) UNIX
3 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) MVC
1 15 (65.22%) Scrum
2 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (60.87%) TDD
3 2 (8.696%) Project Planning
3 2 (8.696%) Service Management
3 2 (8.696%) Project Management
3 2 (8.696%) ITIL
3 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
3 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (8.696%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.348%) Quality Management
4 1 (4.348%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
1 5 (21.74%) XenApp
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (8.696%) VMware ESX
4 2 (8.696%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Google
3 7 (30.43%) Sitecore
4 5 (21.74%) HP
4 5 (21.74%) Citrix
4 5 (21.74%) IBM
5 4 (17.39%) VMware
6 1 (4.348%) Verint
6 1 (4.348%) SAP
6 1 (4.348%) Avaya