The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 84 69 72
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +3
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 6 13 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.562% 1.459% 0.539%
As % of the General category 1.813% 4.797% 1.748%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 5
Average salary £42,500 £60,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.16% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
331 271 286
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 31.02% 30.42% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 275 241 263
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,650 £24,750 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Back Office
East of England

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Back Office Jobs Demand Trend

Back Office
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Back Office across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedfordshire Back Office Salary Histogram

Back Office
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Back Office.

1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Games
2 4 (44.44%) Online Games
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Avaya
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
3 2 (22.22%) ISDN
3 2 (22.22%) PSTN
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
4 1 (11.11%) MS Office
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Degree

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Back Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) ISDN
1 2 (22.22%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Games
3 2 (22.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Support Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Java Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Online Games
2 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Avaya
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle