The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Wiltshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 42 38 43
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Contract jobs citing Back Office 8 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.758% 2.415% 0.552%
As % of the General category 3.846% 5.576% 1.119%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £350 £475 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.31% +295.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
+10.34% -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
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
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
208 269 268
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 45.71% 43.32% 49.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 198 155
Average daily rate £407 £363 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.27% -10.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £275 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 20
Average hourly rate £15.00 £37.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +29.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £18.00 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £43.85 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Swindon 0 4 £381 -25.60%
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) ERP
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Marketing
2 5 (31.25%) Operations Management
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Billing
3 3 (18.75%) VBA
3 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) SAP SD
4 2 (12.50%) SAP MM
4 2 (12.50%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (12.50%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
5 1 (6.250%) Fund Management
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (6.250%) General Ledger
5 1 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (6.250%) Twitter
5 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (6.250%) Retail
5 1 (6.250%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle CRM
5 1 (6.250%) CIPD

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (6.250%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (6.250%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SAP SD
2 2 (12.50%) SAP MM
2 2 (12.50%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Billing
4 1 (6.250%) General Ledger
4 1 (6.250%) Retail
4 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Forecast Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Business Process Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Process Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) HR Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) SAP SD/MM Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle CRM Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) CRM Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) SAP SD Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) SAP MM Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) EPoS
1 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) ERP
2 5 (31.25%) Operations Management
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Management
5 1 (6.250%) Fund Management
5 1 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (6.250%) Asset Management
5 1 (6.250%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (6.250%) Content Management
5 1 (6.250%) Information Management
5 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.250%) CRM
5 1 (6.250%) Process Management
5 1 (6.250%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) VBA
3 1 (6.250%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) CIPD
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (6.250%) Twitter
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.250%) Epicor
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle
3 1 (6.250%) Business Objects