The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 118 125 128
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 35 30 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.112% 0.868% 0.890%
As % of the General category 2.496% 2.204% 1.909%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 17
Average salary £57,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.75% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £36,500 £36,700
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £86,400 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1402 1361 1624
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 44.55% 39.39% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 813 916 1202
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow -14 11 £60,000 -
Edinburgh -1 8 £45,000 +5.88%
Aberdeen - 6 £56,250 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £22,500 -
Back Office
UK

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 19 (30.16%) SAP
2 18 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 17 (26.98%) Business Objects
3 17 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (26.98%) BusinessObjects
3 17 (26.98%) SAP BI
3 17 (26.98%) Finance
4 16 (25.40%) SAP BW
4 16 (25.40%) C#
4 16 (25.40%) SQL
5 14 (22.22%) SAP CO
5 14 (22.22%) Change Control
6 13 (20.63%) .NET
6 13 (20.63%) Windows
7 12 (19.05%) ABAP
8 11 (17.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
10 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (14.29%) SharePoint
10 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
10 9 (14.29%) Java
10 9 (14.29%) Front Office
10 9 (14.29%) Risk Management
10 9 (14.29%) Banking
11 8 (12.70%) Asset Management
11 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
11 8 (12.70%) Linux
11 8 (12.70%) HND
12 7 (11.11%) HNC
12 7 (11.11%) C

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (20.63%) .NET
2 5 (7.937%) XML
2 5 (7.937%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.349%) jQuery
3 4 (6.349%) Web Services
4 3 (4.762%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.762%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 3 (4.762%) LINQ to SQL
4 3 (4.762%) NHibernate
5 2 (3.175%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.175%) Sphinx
5 2 (3.175%) Middleware
5 2 (3.175%) FpML
6 1 (1.587%) HTML
6 1 (1.587%) XML Schema
6 1 (1.587%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.587%) FIXML
6 1 (1.587%) HTML5
6 1 (1.587%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.587%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.937%) IIS
3 3 (4.762%) Documentum
3 3 (4.762%) LiveLink
3 3 (4.762%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.175%) MQSeries
4 2 (3.175%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.587%) MSMQ
Applications
1 4 (6.349%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.175%) MS Office
3 1 (1.587%) MS Project
3 1 (1.587%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.587%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (22.22%) SAP CO
2 11 (17.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (3.175%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (3.175%) SAP HR
4 1 (1.587%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (1.587%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 7 (11.11%) VoIP
2 3 (4.762%) Intranet
2 3 (4.762%) Internet
2 3 (4.762%) Extranet
3 2 (3.175%) SAN
4 1 (1.587%) SMTP
4 1 (1.587%) HTTP
4 1 (1.587%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.98%) BusinessObjects
1 17 (26.98%) SAP BI
2 16 (25.40%) SAP BW
3 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.349%) MySQL
5 3 (4.762%) EDRMS
6 2 (3.175%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.175%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.175%) BigTable
6 2 (3.175%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.175%) MS Access
7 1 (1.587%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.587%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (6.349%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.587%) JUnit
2 1 (1.587%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.587%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.587%) Hudson
2 1 (1.587%) MagicDraw
2 1 (1.587%) Subversion
2 1 (1.587%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 17 (26.98%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Front Office
2 9 (14.29%) Banking
3 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
4 7 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.937%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.762%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.762%) Publishing
7 1 (1.587%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.587%) Retail
7 1 (1.587%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Consultant
2 19 (30.16%) SAP Consultant
3 17 (26.98%) SAP BI Consultant
3 17 (26.98%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 13 (20.63%) Business Objects Consultant
5 11 (17.46%) Developer
6 10 (15.87%) Analyst
7 7 (11.11%) Field Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) .NET Developer
8 6 (9.524%) Systems Analyst
8 6 (9.524%) Support Analyst
9 5 (7.937%) Project Manager
10 4 (6.349%) Systems Support Analyst
10 4 (6.349%) Business Analyst
10 4 (6.349%) Business Systems Analyst
10 4 (6.349%) Systems Support
11 3 (4.762%) Applications Support
11 3 (4.762%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.349%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (6.349%) Replication
2 2 (3.175%) Equities
2 2 (3.175%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.175%) Market Risk
2 2 (3.175%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.587%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.587%) Social Media
3 1 (1.587%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.587%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.587%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Linux
3 4 (6.349%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (6.349%) UNIX
4 3 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.587%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.587%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.587%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.587%) Android
5 1 (1.587%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 17 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (22.22%) Change Control
4 9 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 8 (12.70%) Asset Management
6 7 (11.11%) Project Management
7 6 (9.524%) Investment Management
7 6 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (9.524%) ITIL
8 5 (7.937%) OO
8 5 (7.937%) MVC
8 5 (7.937%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (7.937%) TDD
9 4 (6.349%) Time Management
10 3 (4.762%) PRINCE2
10 3 (4.762%) OOP
10 3 (4.762%) Migration
10 3 (4.762%) Waterfall
10 3 (4.762%) Knowledge Management
10 3 (4.762%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) C#
1 16 (25.40%) SQL
2 12 (19.05%) ABAP
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 7 (11.11%) C
5 6 (9.524%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.762%) PHP
6 3 (4.762%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.175%) Ruby
7 2 (3.175%) XPath
7 2 (3.175%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.175%) Python
7 2 (3.175%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.175%) Perl
7 2 (3.175%) C++
8 1 (1.587%) COBOL
8 1 (1.587%) VB
8 1 (1.587%) ALGOL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (12.70%) HND
3 7 (11.11%) HNC
3 7 (11.11%) MCSE
3 7 (11.11%) MCDST
4 3 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (4.762%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.762%) Degree
5 2 (3.175%) CCNA
5 2 (3.175%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.175%) CNE
5 2 (3.175%) Novell Certification
5 2 (3.175%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) QA
1 2 (3.175%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (4.762%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.762%) XenApp
1 3 (4.762%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.175%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (3.175%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) SAP
2 17 (26.98%) Business Objects
3 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.11%) Cisco
5 6 (9.524%) Oracle
6 5 (7.937%) Citrix
6 5 (7.937%) VMware
7 3 (4.762%) Symantec
8 2 (3.175%) TIBCO
8 2 (3.175%) Reuters
8 2 (3.175%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.587%) Unisys
9 1 (1.587%) AppSense
9 1 (1.587%) CommVault
9 1 (1.587%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.587%) Altiris
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