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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 106 106 95
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 14 15 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.787% 0.768% 1.228%
As % of the General category 2.431% 2.035% 4.073%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 20
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
576 737 491
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 32.36% 37.76% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 432 650 424
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,900 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
North West

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire Back Office Salary Histogram

Back Office
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington +22 7 £50,000 +81.81%
Crewe - 5 £38,750 -
Back Office
North West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 14 (48.28%) Finance
1 14 (48.28%) .NET
2 12 (41.38%) C#
2 12 (41.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (41.38%) MVC
3 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) Windows
3 11 (37.93%) jQuery
3 11 (37.93%) SQL Server 2008
4 10 (34.48%) T-SQL
4 10 (34.48%) Avaya
5 9 (31.03%) HTML
5 9 (31.03%) Web Services
5 9 (31.03%) WCF
5 9 (31.03%) WPF
5 9 (31.03%) Business Analysis
6 8 (27.59%) JSON
6 8 (27.59%) OO
6 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
7 7 (24.14%) SLA
7 7 (24.14%) .NET Framework
7 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
7 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (24.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 6 (20.69%) Mobile App
8 6 (20.69%) Web Development
8 6 (20.69%) Subversion
8 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
8 6 (20.69%) MySQL

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 14 (48.28%) .NET
2 11 (37.93%) jQuery
3 9 (31.03%) HTML
3 9 (31.03%) WCF
3 9 (31.03%) WPF
3 9 (31.03%) Web Services
4 8 (27.59%) JSON
5 7 (24.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 7 (24.14%) .NET Framework
6 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET
7 3 (10.34%) CSS
7 3 (10.34%) XML
8 2 (6.897%) WinForms
8 2 (6.897%) LINQ
9 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (3.448%) HTML5
9 1 (3.448%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (3.448%) XSL
9 1 (3.448%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) CMS
2 3 (10.34%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (17.24%) SMS
3 2 (6.897%) HTTP
4 1 (3.448%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (37.93%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (20.69%) MySQL
4 5 (17.24%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (6.897%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Subversion
2 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.897%) MSTest
General
1 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) .NET Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Telecoms Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Telecoms Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.897%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.897%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Services Manager
6 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.448%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (3.448%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.448%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.448%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Mobile App
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
2 5 (17.24%) IVR
3 2 (6.897%) Mathematics
3 2 (6.897%) Social Media
4 1 (3.448%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.448%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (17.24%) Windows 8
4 1 (3.448%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (3.448%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.448%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) MVC
2 9 (31.03%) Business Analysis
3 8 (27.59%) OO
4 6 (20.69%) Web Development
5 5 (17.24%) WFM
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL
7 2 (6.897%) PRINCE2
7 2 (6.897%) Service Management
7 2 (6.897%) Unit Testing
7 2 (6.897%) Time Management
7 2 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (6.897%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.897%) Capacity Management
8 1 (3.448%) Business Development
8 1 (3.448%) TDD
8 1 (3.448%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.448%) Budget Control
8 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
8 1 (3.448%) CRM
8 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) C#
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 10 (34.48%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.897%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.448%) VB6
5 1 (3.448%) Ruby
5 1 (3.448%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.897%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.448%) CCNP
4 1 (3.448%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.448%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.448%) Forefront TMG
1 1 (3.448%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 1 (3.448%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Avaya
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
4 2 (6.897%) Cisco
4 2 (6.897%) IBM
4 2 (6.897%) Citrix
5 1 (3.448%) VMware
5 1 (3.448%) Veeam
5 1 (3.448%) HP
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