The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 17 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 80 85 53
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -32
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 3 3 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.359% 0.321% 2.773%
As % of the General category 1.224% 1.045% 7.296%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 17
Average salary £40,000 £29,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.59% -9.23%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
245 287 233
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 29.34% 30.70% 38.01%
Number of salaries quoted 199 269 208
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
Hampshire

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) XenServer
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) Statistics
3 2 (40.00%) WSUS
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Server
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) DMZ
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) ARCserve

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DMZ
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Statistics
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCA
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCAA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) XenServer
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (20.00%) XenApp
3 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) HP
Southampton, Hampshire
Expert in Object Oriented programming methodologies. *Able to hand-crafting web pages using XHTML and CSS. *Deep appreciation of the use of Javascript (and frameworks) *At least 3...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £65 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Bonus, Gym Membership
Posted: 16 May 2013