The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 20 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 47 54 49
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 6 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.299% 1.170% 1.025%
As % of the General category 2.941% 4.082% 2.525%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 5
Average salary £74,000 £44,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+68.18% -41.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
204 147 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 44.16% 28.65% 40.57%
Number of salaries quoted 162 116 181
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,088 £28,000 £23,823
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
Wiltshire

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (12.50%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) PeopleSoft HRMS
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support
1 3 (37.50%) Help Desk Support
2 2 (25.00%) HR Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle