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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 160 88 46
Rank change year-on-year
-72 -42
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 182 367 735
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 1.516% 2.786% 4.655%
As % of the General category 2.539% 4.497% 6.965%
Number of salaries quoted 159 323 655
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £44,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £84,500 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
7169 8161 10553
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 59.70% 61.96% 66.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6172 7388 9346
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £63,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -8.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Back Office Salary Histogram

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 190 (48.59%) Finance
2 155 (39.64%) SQL
3 124 (31.71%) Banking
4 98 (25.06%) C#
5 91 (23.27%) .NET
6 76 (19.44%) Investment Banking
7 74 (18.93%) SQL Server
8 68 (17.39%) Oracle
8 68 (17.39%) CSS
9 66 (16.88%) JavaScript
9 66 (16.88%) Front Office
9 66 (16.88%) Scrum
10 65 (16.62%) Agile Software Development
11 64 (16.37%) Windows
12 62 (15.86%) Derivative
13 61 (15.60%) Degree
14 59 (15.09%) jQuery
14 59 (15.09%) ASP.NET
15 56 (14.32%) Project Management
16 55 (14.07%) Business Analysis
17 50 (12.79%) Ajax
17 50 (12.79%) Asset Management
18 49 (12.53%) MVC
19 48 (12.28%) WCF
20 47 (12.02%) Unit Testing
20 47 (12.02%) TDD
21 45 (11.51%) ASP.NET MVC
22 44 (11.25%) MS Excel
22 44 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
22 44 (11.25%) WPF

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 91 (23.27%) .NET
2 68 (17.39%) CSS
3 59 (15.09%) jQuery
3 59 (15.09%) ASP.NET
4 50 (12.79%) Ajax
5 48 (12.28%) WCF
6 45 (11.51%) ASP.NET MVC
7 44 (11.25%) WPF
8 39 (9.974%) Silverlight
9 38 (9.719%) DHTML
10 36 (9.207%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 36 (9.207%) Castle Windsor
10 36 (9.207%) Unity DI Container
11 34 (8.696%) HTML
12 14 (3.581%) XML
13 11 (2.813%) XHTML
13 11 (2.813%) HTML5
14 10 (2.558%) Zend Framework
15 9 (2.302%) Middleware
16 8 (2.046%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 24 (6.138%) CMS
2 22 (5.627%) Umbraco
3 17 (4.348%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.535%) ESB
4 6 (1.535%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.279%) IIS
5 5 (1.279%) MS Exchange
5 5 (1.279%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (1.023%) FileNet
6 4 (1.023%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.767%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.767%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.767%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (0.767%) Magento
7 3 (0.767%) WebSphere Process Server
7 3 (0.767%) Confluence
8 2 (0.512%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.512%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.256%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.256%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 44 (11.25%) MS Excel
2 22 (5.627%) MS Office
3 9 (2.302%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (1.279%) MS Project
4 5 (1.279%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.512%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.512%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.046%) SimCorp Dimension
2 7 (1.790%) Endur
2 7 (1.790%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.535%) GoldMine
3 6 (1.535%) HiPortfolio
4 5 (1.279%) FLEXCUBE
5 4 (1.023%) Bond Adapt
6 2 (0.512%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.512%) LatentZero
6 2 (0.512%) Summit
6 2 (0.512%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.512%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.512%) PORTIA
6 2 (0.512%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.512%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.256%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.256%) Maximo
7 1 (0.256%) SunGard GMI
7 1 (0.256%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.256%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.581%) Intranet
2 9 (2.302%) HTTP
3 7 (1.790%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.790%) Firewall
4 5 (1.279%) DNS
4 5 (1.279%) DHCP
5 4 (1.023%) WAN
5 4 (1.023%) LAN
5 4 (1.023%) SAN
6 3 (0.767%) VPN
6 3 (0.767%) Internet
7 2 (0.512%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.512%) VoIP
7 2 (0.512%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.256%) SMTP
8 1 (0.256%) PBX
8 1 (0.256%) SDH
8 1 (0.256%) ATM
8 1 (0.256%) SONET
8 1 (0.256%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (18.93%) SQL Server
2 37 (9.463%) MySQL
3 18 (4.604%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (4.092%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.302%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (1.790%) Oracle 8/8i
6 7 (1.790%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (1.790%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.790%) Oracle 11g
7 5 (1.279%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.023%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.023%) OLAP
9 3 (0.767%) Oracle 10g
9 3 (0.767%) DTS
9 3 (0.767%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.512%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.512%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.512%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.512%) Oracle OLAP
10 2 (0.512%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 36 (9.207%) MSBuild
1 36 (9.207%) TeamCity
2 11 (2.813%) Subversion
3 10 (2.558%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (1.790%) Git (software)
5 5 (1.279%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.279%) Ant
5 5 (1.279%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.023%) Hudson
6 4 (1.023%) Selenium
6 4 (1.023%) JIRA
7 3 (0.767%) JUnit
7 3 (0.767%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 2 (0.512%) ERwin
8 2 (0.512%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.256%) QuickTest Pro
9 1 (0.256%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.256%) WebLOAD
9 1 (0.256%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.256%) Maven
General
1 190 (48.59%) Finance
2 124 (31.71%) Banking
3 76 (19.44%) Investment Banking
4 66 (16.88%) Front Office
5 21 (5.371%) Financial Institution
6 20 (5.115%) Retail
7 8 (2.046%) Legal
8 7 (1.790%) General Ledger
9 6 (1.535%) Billing
10 5 (1.279%) Advertising
11 4 (1.023%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.023%) Law
11 4 (1.023%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.767%) Marketing
13 2 (0.512%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.256%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.256%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.256%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 124 (31.71%) Developer
2 103 (26.34%) Analyst
3 57 (14.58%) Business Analyst
4 55 (14.07%) .NET Developer
5 46 (11.76%) Project Manager
6 41 (10.49%) Applications Support
7 40 (10.23%) ASP.NET Developer
8 32 (8.184%) Support Analyst
9 22 (5.627%) Applications Support Analyst
10 20 (5.115%) C# Developer
11 18 (4.604%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.325%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.325%) PHP Developer
13 12 (3.069%) Web Developer
13 12 (3.069%) Architect
14 11 (2.813%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.813%) RAD Developer
14 11 (2.813%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (2.558%) Banking Business Analyst
16 9 (2.302%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 62 (15.86%) Derivative
2 43 (11.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (9.719%) Fixed Income
3 38 (9.719%) Equities
4 37 (9.463%) Inversion of Control
5 34 (8.696%) Computer Science
6 18 (4.604%) Hedge funds
7 15 (3.836%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.558%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.790%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.535%) Open Source
10 6 (1.535%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 5 (1.279%) Contract for Difference
12 4 (1.023%) Clustering
12 4 (1.023%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.767%) Mathematics
13 3 (0.767%) Web 2.0
13 3 (0.767%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.767%) SWIFT
13 3 (0.767%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 64 (16.37%) Windows
2 41 (10.49%) UNIX
3 29 (7.417%) Linux
4 18 (4.604%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (4.092%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (1.790%) Solaris
7 5 (1.279%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.023%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.767%) HPUX
10 2 (0.512%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.256%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.256%) CentOS
11 1 (0.256%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (16.88%) Scrum
2 65 (16.62%) Agile Software Development
3 56 (14.32%) Project Management
4 55 (14.07%) Business Analysis
5 50 (12.79%) Asset Management
6 49 (12.53%) MVC
7 47 (12.02%) Unit Testing
7 47 (12.02%) TDD
8 44 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
9 41 (10.49%) Investment Management
10 39 (9.974%) OOP
10 39 (9.974%) BDD
10 39 (9.974%) Web Application Development
11 38 (9.719%) OO
12 30 (7.673%) ITIL
13 28 (7.161%) Fund Management
14 27 (6.905%) E-Commerce
15 26 (6.650%) CRM
16 23 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
17 20 (5.115%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 155 (39.64%) SQL
2 98 (25.06%) C#
3 66 (16.88%) JavaScript
4 29 (7.417%) Java
5 22 (5.627%) VBA
6 16 (4.092%) PHP
7 13 (3.325%) Perl
8 12 (3.069%) Python
9 11 (2.813%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.558%) PHP5
11 9 (2.302%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.046%) VB
13 7 (1.790%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.279%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.279%) Ruby
15 4 (1.023%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.767%) C++
17 2 (0.512%) Bash shell
17 2 (0.512%) C
18 1 (0.256%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (15.60%) Degree
2 5 (1.279%) MCITP
3 4 (1.023%) CCNA
3 4 (1.023%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (1.023%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.023%) IBM Certification
3 4 (1.023%) MCSE
4 3 (0.767%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (0.767%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.512%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.512%) CIMA
5 2 (0.512%) ACCA
5 2 (0.512%) ISEB
6 1 (0.256%) MCSA
6 1 (0.256%) PMP
6 1 (0.256%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.256%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.256%) CCNP
6 1 (0.256%) CFA
6 1 (0.256%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.302%) QA
2 8 (2.046%) SLA
3 3 (0.767%) BS7799
3 3 (0.767%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.767%) FATCA
4 2 (0.512%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.256%) MiFID
5 1 (0.256%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (5.371%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.069%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.558%) vSphere
4 6 (1.535%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.767%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 3 (0.767%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.512%) XenApp
6 2 (0.512%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.256%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.256%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (1.023%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.767%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.512%) WSUS
4 1 (0.256%) Control-M
4 1 (0.256%) Nagios
4 1 (0.256%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (0.256%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.256%) SCCM
4 1 (0.256%) SCOM
4 1 (0.256%) Puppet
4 1 (0.256%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.256%) Splunk
4 1 (0.256%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 68 (17.39%) Oracle
2 41 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.092%) Sybase
4 12 (3.069%) VMware
4 12 (3.069%) Salesforce.com
5 10 (2.558%) Zend
5 10 (2.558%) Bloomberg
6 9 (2.302%) Sun
7 8 (2.046%) SimCorp
8 7 (1.790%) Business Objects
8 7 (1.790%) Calypso
8 7 (1.790%) Citrix
8 7 (1.790%) OpenLink
8 7 (1.790%) Reuters
9 6 (1.535%) Kofax
9 6 (1.535%) Charles River
9 6 (1.535%) Cisco
10 5 (1.279%) Remedy
11 4 (1.023%) Twitter
11 4 (1.023%) Tradeweb
City, London
A leading Investment Bank within the City is looking for a Calypso Support Analyst to join their Calypso Support team which cover FX, MM and Derivatives markets... -Strong...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits and Bonuses
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
A UNIX, SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Access Graduate IT Analyst is required for an exciting role that offers long term career prospects!... On the technical side you...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
A top tier Investment Bank requires a Senior Java Developer to join their growing Regulatory Operations team. This team are responsible for all the regulatory reports across 46...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £45000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
The successful candidate must have: - Hands-on exposure to FX Applications - In-depth understanding of FX products - In addition to business knowledge, must be technically competent in Unix/...
Real Staffing
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
If you are successful in your application for the FX Business Analyst role, you will be expected to carry out the following on a daily basis: Liaise with...
Harrington Starr
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Bloomberg
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + annual bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum Bonus and benfits package
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
Mint
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 1 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Posted: 28 May 2013
City, London
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum Bonus and benefits package
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £75000 - £120000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum + Extremely Generous Bonus/Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum + Extremely Generous Bonus/Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £65k to £80k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Bloomberg
Salary: competitive benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Bloomberg LP
Salary: competitive benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Salt
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Selecture Limited
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
Selecture Limited
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 6 June 2013
City of London
Selecture Limited
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Posted: 13 June 2013