The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 34 48 24
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 8 6 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 3.556% 1.519% 4.225%
As % of the General category 4.233% 1.791% 5.357%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 7
Average salary £100,000 £66,250 £77,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.94% -14.51%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
189 335 168
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 84.00% 84.81% 78.87%
Number of salaries quoted 156 290 125
Average salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.34% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £47,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Back Office
London

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

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

Canary Wharf Back Office Salary Histogram

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 30 (93.75%) Banking
1 30 (93.75%) Investment Banking
2 27 (84.38%) C#
2 27 (84.38%) OO
3 21 (65.63%) ETL
3 21 (65.63%) Java
3 21 (65.63%) Technical Architecture
3 21 (65.63%) Degree
3 21 (65.63%) Stress Testing
3 21 (65.63%) Basel III
4 9 (28.13%) Finance
5 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
6 6 (18.75%) XML
6 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 6 (18.75%) FTP
6 6 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 6 (18.75%) Validation
6 6 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
6 6 (18.75%) System Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Data Validation
7 3 (9.375%) MS Office
8 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
8 2 (6.250%) Windows
8 2 (6.250%) ITIL
8 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
8 2 (6.250%) IIS
8 2 (6.250%) Project Management

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 6 (18.75%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Office
2 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.125%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) FTP
2 2 (6.250%) SAN
2 2 (6.250%) VPN
2 2 (6.250%) DNS
2 2 (6.250%) LAN
2 2 (6.250%) WAN
2 2 (6.250%) DHCP
2 2 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 30 (93.75%) Banking
1 30 (93.75%) Investment Banking
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 2 (6.250%) Law
4 1 (3.125%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (84.38%) Architect
2 21 (65.63%) Lead Architect
3 15 (46.88%) Lead Technical Architect
3 15 (46.88%) Technical Architect
4 6 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (18.75%) SQL Server Architect
4 6 (18.75%) C# Architect
4 6 (18.75%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.250%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Technical Manager
6 1 (3.125%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Senior IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.125%) Wintel Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Technical Project Manager
6 1 (3.125%) Senior IT Programme Manager
6 1 (3.125%) Programme Manager
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Clustering
2 1 (3.125%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) Windows
1 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.125%) UNIX
2 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) OO
2 21 (65.63%) ETL
2 21 (65.63%) Technical Architecture
2 21 (65.63%) Stress Testing
3 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
3 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 6 (18.75%) Validation
3 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
3 6 (18.75%) System Testing
3 6 (18.75%) Data Validation
4 2 (6.250%) ITIL
4 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 2 (6.250%) Project Management
4 2 (6.250%) Release Management
5 1 (3.125%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.125%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 27 (84.38%) C#
2 21 (65.63%) Java
3 2 (6.250%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (65.63%) Degree
2 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.125%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (65.63%) Basel III
2 6 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (6.250%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.250%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) WSUS
2 1 (3.125%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.250%) HP
1 2 (6.250%) VMware
2 1 (3.125%) Remedy
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle