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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 87 95 84
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 4 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.458% 0.575% 0.274%
As % of the General category 1.606% 1.799% 0.787%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 0
Average salary £20,250 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-55.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
249 389 381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 28.52% 31.96% 34.79%
Number of salaries quoted 211 322 307
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,900 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Back Office Salary Trend

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 Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +12 3 £19,500 -61.00%
Gloucester - 1 £21,000 -
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) LAMP
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) PHP5
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) Windows NT
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PHP5
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft