The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 68 75 83
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 45 22 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.699% 1.514% 0.536%
As % of the General category 6.374% 4.143% 1.768%
Number of salaries quoted 36 21 7
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,000 £31,100
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £55,000 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
706 531 396
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 42.35% 36.55% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 537 458 328
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +26.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £27,300
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
West Midlands

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Birmingham Back Office Salary Histogram

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 29 (45.31%) Finance
2 23 (35.94%) Windows
3 19 (29.69%) Banking
4 17 (26.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 17 (26.56%) Cisco
4 17 (26.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (26.56%) Project Management
5 16 (25.00%) NetApp
5 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 16 (25.00%) Firewall
5 16 (25.00%) DNS
5 16 (25.00%) VPN
5 16 (25.00%) DHCP
5 16 (25.00%) IP Telephony
6 13 (20.31%) Local Government
6 13 (20.31%) Test Scripting
6 13 (20.31%) System Testing
6 13 (20.31%) Time Management
6 13 (20.31%) ERP
6 13 (20.31%) CGI
7 7 (10.94%) Retail
7 7 (10.94%) EPoS
8 6 (9.375%) Security Cleared
9 5 (7.813%) Telecoms
9 5 (7.813%) HTML5
9 5 (7.813%) Software Testing
9 5 (7.813%) MCDST
9 5 (7.813%) Validation
9 5 (7.813%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (7.813%) Service Management

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 13 (20.31%) CGI
2 5 (7.813%) HTML5
3 3 (4.688%) CSS
3 3 (4.688%) jQuery
3 3 (4.688%) CSS3
3 3 (4.688%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.563%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (1.563%) WinForms
4 1 (1.563%) HTML
4 1 (1.563%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (1.563%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) DHCP
1 16 (25.00%) Firewall
1 16 (25.00%) IP Telephony
1 16 (25.00%) VPN
1 16 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (7.813%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.813%) VoIP
3 2 (3.125%) SAN
4 1 (1.563%) WAN
4 1 (1.563%) HTTP
4 1 (1.563%) ZigBee
4 1 (1.563%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (1.563%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.125%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.563%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (4.688%) Dreamweaver
1 3 (4.688%) PhoneGap
General
1 29 (45.31%) Finance
2 19 (29.69%) Banking
3 13 (20.31%) Local Government
4 7 (10.94%) Retail
5 5 (7.813%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.250%) Front Office
7 1 (1.563%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 13 (20.31%) Consultant
2 13 (20.31%) ERP Consultant
3 9 (14.06%) Principle Consultant
4 5 (7.813%) Implementation Manager
4 5 (7.813%) Field Engineer
4 5 (7.813%) Procurement Consultant
4 5 (7.813%) Field Service Engineer
4 5 (7.813%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.250%) Developer
5 4 (6.250%) Analyst
5 4 (6.250%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (4.688%) Support Manager
6 3 (4.688%) Test Analyst
6 3 (4.688%) Architect
6 3 (4.688%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.125%) Windows Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.125%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.125%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.125%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) EPoS
2 3 (4.688%) Graphic Design
2 3 (4.688%) iPhone
2 3 (4.688%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.563%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.563%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.94%) Windows
2 17 (26.56%) Windows Server 2003
2 17 (26.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (7.813%) Linux
4 3 (4.688%) Android
5 1 (1.563%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Project Management
2 13 (20.31%) ERP
2 13 (20.31%) Test Scripting
2 13 (20.31%) System Testing
2 13 (20.31%) Time Management
3 5 (7.813%) Validation
3 5 (7.813%) Software Testing
3 5 (7.813%) ITIL
3 5 (7.813%) Service Management
3 5 (7.813%) Change Management
4 4 (6.250%) Risk Management
4 4 (6.250%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (4.688%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (4.688%) TOGAF
5 3 (4.688%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (3.125%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.125%) Integration Testing
6 2 (3.125%) Manual Testing
7 1 (1.563%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (1.563%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.813%) C
2 3 (4.688%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.688%) Objective-C
3 2 (3.125%) SQL
3 2 (3.125%) C#
4 1 (1.563%) C++
4 1 (1.563%) Java
4 1 (1.563%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.563%) VBScript
4 1 (1.563%) VB
4 1 (1.563%) VB6
4 1 (1.563%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (9.375%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.813%) HNC
2 5 (7.813%) HND
2 5 (7.813%) MCSE
2 5 (7.813%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (7.813%) MCDST
3 3 (4.688%) ISTQB
3 3 (4.688%) ISEB
4 2 (3.125%) Degree
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.563%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Cisco
2 16 (25.00%) NetApp
3 5 (7.813%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.563%) Citrix
4 1 (1.563%) NEC
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Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
Birmingham
Necessary Experience: Have an in-depth understanding of service verification and validation specifically in non-functional testing, preferably holding a software testing foundation qualification... Experience of working with...
Scope AT
Salary: Competitive salary + bonus and benifits
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Posted: 8 May 2013