The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 48 71 -
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 11 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.391% 1.194% -
As % of the General category 6.286% 4.444% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 0
Average salary £22,500 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-47.05% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
175 180 157
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 38.04% 26.87% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 148 170 112
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £61,500
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool +20 11 £22,500 -52.63%
Back Office
North West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 11 (64.71%) ITIL
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 8 (47.06%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (47.06%) Linux
3 8 (47.06%) UNIX
3 8 (47.06%) Data Management
4 6 (35.29%) .NET
5 5 (29.41%) C#
5 5 (29.41%) SAP
5 5 (29.41%) ERP
6 4 (23.53%) Finance
6 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
6 4 (23.53%) CRM
6 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
7 3 (17.65%) Matrix Management
7 3 (17.65%) WebSphere
7 3 (17.65%) Siebel
7 3 (17.65%) DSDM
7 3 (17.65%) PMI
7 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
7 3 (17.65%) Internet
7 3 (17.65%) Project Management
7 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
7 3 (17.65%) SQL
7 3 (17.65%) Java
7 3 (17.65%) Retail
7 3 (17.65%) Programme Management

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.882%) jQuery
3 1 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.882%) XHTML
3 1 (5.882%) HTML
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.882%) CSS
3 1 (5.882%) XML
3 1 (5.882%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.882%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Lawson
1 2 (11.76%) SAP BPC
2 1 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Support Technician
2 7 (41.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (41.18%) 2nd Line Support Technician
3 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Agile Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Technician
5 1 (5.882%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
1 3 (17.65%) PMI
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) UNIX
3 2 (11.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 8 (47.06%) Data Management
3 5 (29.41%) ERP
4 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
4 4 (23.53%) CRM
5 3 (17.65%) Matrix Management
5 3 (17.65%) DSDM
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) PRINCE2
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
5 3 (17.65%) CMMI
6 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
7 1 (5.882%) Resource Management
7 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) Ruby
4 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) Siebel
4 2 (11.76%) OutlookSoft
4 2 (11.76%) Northgate
4 2 (11.76%) NorthgateArinso
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle
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