Merseyside Back Office Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in IT jobs within the Merseyside region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hungerford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	71
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.533 %	1.389 %
Salaries quoted	2	5
Average minimum salary	£70,000	£32,600
Average salary	£77,500	£39,100
% change on same period last year	+98.20 %
Average maximum salary	£85,000	£45,600
UK excluding London average salary	£40,616	£39,504
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
General Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	375	360
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.158 %
Salaries quoted	336	292
Average minimum salary	£33,491	£33,814
Average salary	£35,915	£36,305
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Average maximum salary	£38,339	£38,795
UK excluding London average salary	£41,305	£41,808
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Back Office North West

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Back Office across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Back Office
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Back Office across the Merseyside region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+7	2	£77,500	+3.33 %

Back Office North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (33.33 %) Java 1 2 (33.33 %) C++ 1 2 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 2 (33.33 %) Sybase 1 2 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 2 (33.33 %) UML 1 2 (33.33 %) RUP 1 2 (33.33 %) LAN 1 2 (33.33 %) WAN 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 2 (33.33 %) CiscoWorks 1 2 (33.33 %) Avaya 1 2 (33.33 %) BEA 1 2 (33.33 %) PRINCE2

1 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 2 (33.33 %) Finance 1 2 (33.33 %) Health 1 2 (33.33 %) Fixed Income 1 2 (33.33 %) Equities 1 2 (33.33 %) Banking 1 2 (33.33 %) Concord 1 2 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 1 2 (33.33 %) Derivative 1 2 (33.33 %) Pensions 1 2 (33.33 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (16.67 %) Degree 2 1 (16.67 %) Retail 2 1 (16.67 %) Business Continuity

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 %) J2EE 2 1 (16.67 %) WebServices 2 1 (16.67 %) XML 2 1 (16.67 %) HTML 2 1 (16.67 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) WebLogic 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) LAN 1 2 (33.33 %) WAN 1 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (16.67 %) Intranet 2 1 (16.67 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (16.67 %) MySQL
General 1 2 (33.33 %) Finance 1 2 (33.33 %) Health 1 2 (33.33 %) Banking 1 2 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 1 2 (33.33 %) Pensions 2 1 (16.67 %) Retail 2 1 (16.67 %) Home Office	Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Analyst 1 2 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) DBA 2 1 (16.67 %) Developer 2 1 (16.67 %) Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) IT Administrator 2 1 (16.67 %) Graphic Designer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Fixed Income 1 2 (33.33 %) Equities 1 2 (33.33 %) Derivative 2 1 (16.67 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (33.33 %) UML 1 2 (33.33 %) RUP 1 2 (33.33 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (16.67 %) Business Continuity	Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) C++ 1 2 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (16.67 %) PHP 2 1 (16.67 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 2 (33.33 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 2 (33.33 %) Sybase 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 2 (33.33 %) Avaya 1 2 (33.33 %) BEA 1 2 (33.33 %) Concord