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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 62 57 38
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -19
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 5 3 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 0.786% 0.641% 3.950%
As % of the General category 1.866% 1.554% 9.845%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 18
Average salary £55,000 £32,500 £90,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+69.23% -63.88%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
268 193 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 42.14% 41.24% 40.12%
Number of salaries quoted 244 183 179
Average salary £38,000 £38,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.93% -3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £90,000 £60,000
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 Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

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

Somerset 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 Somerset 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
Bath -7 3 £75,000 +130.76%
Taunton - 2 £45,500 -
Back Office
South West

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 5 (35.71%) ISO 9001
3 5 (35.71%) C
3 5 (35.71%) PRINCE2
3 5 (35.71%) Investment Management
4 4 (28.57%) MCDST
4 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
4 4 (28.57%) HNC
4 4 (28.57%) HND
4 4 (28.57%) VoIP
4 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) MCSE
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 3 (21.43%) User Stories
6 2 (14.29%) Fat Client
6 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Advertising
6 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (14.29%) SLA
6 2 (14.29%) Thin Client
6 2 (14.29%) SharePoint

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) VoIP
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) SMTP
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) Firewall
2 1 (7.143%) NAS
2 1 (7.143%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 1 (7.143%) Law
3 1 (7.143%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Field Service Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Field Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Programme Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) IT Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Fat Client
1 2 (14.29%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.143%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Vista
3 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) PRINCE2
1 5 (35.71%) Investment Management
2 3 (21.43%) Project Management
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum
2 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
2 3 (21.43%) User Stories
3 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (28.57%) MCDST
2 4 (28.57%) HNC
2 4 (28.57%) HND
2 4 (28.57%) MCSE
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO 9001
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco