The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the West 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 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 80 83 78
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Contract jobs citing Back Office 8 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.637% 0.511% 0.089%
As % of the General category 1.826% 1.221% 0.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
Average daily rate £375 £475 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% -
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 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-15.89% +44.23%
All of the General Category
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
438 655 463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 34.90% 41.85% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 428 234
Average daily rate £348 £380 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.55% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £265 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 16
Average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.80 £10.50 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.30 £51.20 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -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 West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

West 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Halifax +13 3 £322 -29.34%
Bradford -1 2 - -
Leeds -8 1 £375 +11.11%
Back Office
Yorkshire

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 4 (26.67%) CRM
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce.com
1 4 (26.67%) SaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (13.33%) ARCserve
3 2 (13.33%) NFS
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) EMC
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) NetApp
3 2 (13.33%) SAP MM
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
3 2 (13.33%) Workflow
3 2 (13.33%) SAP ECC
3 2 (13.33%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
3 2 (13.33%) Backup Exec
3 2 (13.33%) VMware

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West 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 Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) WorkSite
1 1 (6.667%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MM
1 2 (13.33%) SAP ECC
1 2 (13.33%) SAP PM
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) NAS
1 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
1 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
General
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
1 2 (13.33%) Billing
2 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Law
2 1 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) CRM Architect
4 1 (6.667%) UML Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) SAP MM Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Scala Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.667%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000
3 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) CRM
2 2 (13.33%) Service Management
2 2 (13.33%) Workflow
2 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Implementation
2 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 1 (6.667%) BPMN
3 1 (6.667%) Use Case
3 1 (6.667%) Document Management
3 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (6.667%) Project Management
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) UML
3 1 (6.667%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) Java
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) NFS
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
1 2 (13.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) ARCserve
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (13.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce.com
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) EMC
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
2 2 (13.33%) NetApp
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Pega
3 1 (6.667%) Interwoven
3 1 (6.667%) TIBCO
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