The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 22 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 47 53 47
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 11 12 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.245% 2.135% 0.804%
As % of the General category 7.006% 7.273% 2.885%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 3
Average salary £27,500 £29,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.77% -21.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
157 165 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 32.04% 29.36% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 138 141 87
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,900 £19,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
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 Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Blackburn -3 1 £41,500 +112.82%
Chorley - 1 £42,500 -
Back Office
North West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 20 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 20 (66.67%) .NET
2 19 (63.33%) HTML
3 18 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (46.67%) VB.NET
4 14 (46.67%) Visual Studio
4 14 (46.67%) OOP
5 10 (33.33%) SQL
6 6 (20.00%) WCF
6 6 (20.00%) WPF
7 5 (16.67%) jQuery
7 5 (16.67%) LINQ
7 5 (16.67%) CMS
7 5 (16.67%) WinForms
7 5 (16.67%) Degree
7 5 (16.67%) JSON
7 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 5 (16.67%) C#
7 5 (16.67%) CSS
7 5 (16.67%) Web Services
7 5 (16.67%) XML
7 5 (16.67%) XSL
7 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
8 4 (13.33%) ERP
8 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (13.33%) CRM
8 4 (13.33%) Cognos
8 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (13.33%) Advertising
8 4 (13.33%) Cognos Planning

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 20 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 20 (66.67%) .NET
2 19 (63.33%) HTML
3 6 (20.00%) WCF
3 6 (20.00%) WPF
4 5 (16.67%) jQuery
4 5 (16.67%) LINQ
4 5 (16.67%) WinForms
4 5 (16.67%) JSON
4 5 (16.67%) CSS
4 5 (16.67%) Web Services
4 5 (16.67%) XML
4 5 (16.67%) XSL
5 1 (3.333%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Cognos Planning
1 4 (13.33%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (13.33%) Advertising
2 3 (10.00%) Retail
2 3 (10.00%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Developer
2 15 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 10 (33.33%) VB.NET Developer
3 10 (33.33%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Web Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 4 (13.33%) Business Manager
6 3 (10.00%) UML Business Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) OOP
2 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 4 (13.33%) ERP
3 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (13.33%) CRM
4 3 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) VB.NET
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Cognos