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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Back Office' in IT jobs across the UK together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkBack Office
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank13596
Rank change on same period last yearDown-39
Matching permanent IT job ads31334304
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.527 %1.923 %
As % of the category below2.951 %3.652 %
Salaries quoted23513164
Average minimum salary£49,607£53,177
Average salary£53,706£57,531
% change on same period last year-6.64 %
Average maximum salary£57,804£61,885
UK excluding London average salary£38,077£42,286
% change on same period last year-9.95 %
General UKGeneral
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads106173117847
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled51.75 %52.66 %
Salaries quoted8573191989
Average minimum salary£43,998£46,168
Average salary£48,336£50,509
% change on same period last year-4.30 %
Average maximum salary£52,674£54,849
UK excluding London average salary£40,683£41,991
% change on same period last year-3.11 %

Back Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Back Office across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Back Office Demand Trend

Back Office
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Back Office across the UK.

Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the UK over the past 3 months.

Back Office Salary Histogram

Back Office
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Back Office within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-363052£53,883-6.67 %
2LondonDown-242286£59,508-4.00 %
3City of LondonDown-31682£60,026-8.79 %
4South EastDown-51273£40,519-5.46 %
5South WestUp+34163£33,666-21.53 %
6Docklands, LondonUp+19144£64,036+5.14 %
7East of EnglandUp+14101£39,798+18.56 %
8Canary WharfUp+1288£66,158+7.75 %
9SurreyDown-1877£46,471+3.63 %
10West MidlandsDown-1674£31,504-7.57 %
11North WestDown-6262£41,811-10.59 %
12HampshireDown-1661£35,380+0.81 %
13DorsetUp+758£45,000-2.28 %
13HertfordshireUp+3658£41,939+6.95 %
14YorkshireDown-856£30,573+8.33 %
15BournemouthDown-155£46,667-0.06 %
16PooleUp+2250£40,000-15.78 %
16BerkshireDown-950£41,378-18.12 %
17WiltshireUp+843£36,670-3.75 %
18BuckinghamshireUp+1336£38,250-6.42 %
19ManchesterDown-935£47,053-7.43 %
20East MidlandsDown-2134£32,515-27.76 %
21BristolUp+133£35,032-29.93 %
22West YorkshireDown-130£28,625-0.68 %
22CambridgeshireDown-1430£38,000+33.72 %
23ScotlandUp+3429£36,228+5.39 %
24SwindonUp+327£37,625-5.46 %
25BasingstokeDown-2822£40,750+13.19 %
25Milton KeynesDown-822£39,095+56.38 %
25CambridgeUp+622£39,100+40.09 %

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Back Office also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Back Office.

12387 (38.79 %)Finance
21873 (30.44 %)Banking
31540 (25.02 %)SQL
41179 (19.16 %)Derivative
51130 (18.36 %)Investment Banking
61077 (17.50 %)Front Office
7912 (14.82 %).NET
8856 (13.91 %)Windows
9854 (13.88 %)Unix
10839 (13.63 %)SQL Server
11803 (13.05 %)Oracle
12798 (12.97 %)C#
13713 (11.59 %)Project Management
14712 (11.57 %)Java
15662 (10.76 %)Microsoft
16660 (10.72 %)Degree
17600 (9.750 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
18583 (9.474 %)XML
19538 (8.742 %)Asset Management
20506 (8.222 %)Fixed Income
21473 (7.686 %)Business Analysis
22458 (7.442 %)Equities
23422 (6.857 %)VB
24390 (6.337 %)Risk Management
25369 (5.996 %)Active Directory
26360 (5.850 %)Sybase
27353 (5.736 %)MS Excel
28339 (5.509 %)HTML
29331 (5.379 %)MS Exchange
30329 (5.346 %)ASP.NET

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Back Office also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Back Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1912 (14.82 %).NET
2583 (9.474 %)XML
3339 (5.509 %)HTML
4329 (5.346 %)ASP.NET
5252 (4.095 %)J2EE
6241 (3.916 %)WebServices
7158 (2.567 %)ASP
8139 (2.259 %)WinForms
9127 (2.064 %)CSS
10123 (1.999 %)Spring
11103 (1.674 %)JSP
1291 (1.479 %)Middleware
1377 (1.251 %)XSL
1475 (1.219 %).NET Framework
1569 (1.121 %)Hibernate
1656 (0.910 %)XHTML
1752 (0.845 %)XSLT
1849 (0.796 %)FpML
1948 (0.780 %)SOAP
2047 (0.764 %)AJAX
Application Platforms
1331 (5.379 %)MS Exchange
2218 (3.542 %)Exchange Server 2003
3167 (2.714 %)IIS
496 (1.560 %)Exchange Server 2000
584 (1.365 %)SharePoint
667 (1.089 %)WebLogic
764 (1.040 %)Apache
849 (0.796 %)Exchange Server 5.5
937 (0.601 %)Rendezvous
1034 (0.552 %)ColdFusion
1132 (0.520 %)MQSeries
1231 (0.504 %)Tomcat
1329 (0.471 %)Lotus Notes
1329 (0.471 %)SmartSockets
1426 (0.422 %)Exchange Server 2007
1515 (0.244 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1614 (0.227 %)Oracle Workflow
1614 (0.227 %)JBoss
1614 (0.227 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1713 (0.211 %)JRun
Applications
1353 (5.736 %)MS Excel
2192 (3.120 %)MS Office
385 (1.381 %)MS Visio
466 (1.072 %)MS Project
542 (0.682 %)MS PowerPoint
630 (0.487 %)Photoshop
710 (0.162 %)3ds Max
87 (0.114 %)MATLAB
96 (0.097 %)CA Clarity
104 (0.065 %)S-PLUS
113 (0.049 %)Adobe Illustrator
122 (0.032 %)Paint Shop Pro
122 (0.032 %)DeltaView
122 (0.032 %)RoboHelp
122 (0.032 %)Fireworks
122 (0.032 %)Acrobat
131 (0.016 %)QuarkXPress
131 (0.016 %)CorelDRAW
Business Applications
1113 (1.836 %)Summit
254 (0.877 %)SimCorp Dimension
254 (0.877 %)Thomson PORTIA
345 (0.731 %)HiPortfolio
439 (0.634 %)Endur
536 (0.585 %)Oracle EBS
632 (0.520 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
728 (0.455 %)Dynamics CRM
728 (0.455 %)Murex MxG2000
827 (0.439 %)InvestOne
926 (0.422 %)Fidessa
926 (0.422 %)Oracle 11i
1024 (0.390 %)Oracle Applications
1123 (0.374 %)Navision
1221 (0.341 %)FRONT ARENA
1316 (0.260 %)Tesseract
1316 (0.260 %)Minerva
1415 (0.244 %)Misys Opics
1513 (0.211 %)Dynamics NAV
1513 (0.211 %)Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking
1172 (2.795 %)Internet
2149 (2.421 %)SAN
3137 (2.226 %)TCP/IP
4118 (1.917 %)WAN
5117 (1.901 %)LAN
696 (1.560 %)Intranet
795 (1.544 %)Firewall
892 (1.495 %)DNS
957 (0.926 %)DHCP
1045 (0.731 %)VPN
1138 (0.617 %)WINS
1236 (0.585 %)PBX
1330 (0.487 %)VoIP
1428 (0.455 %)SMTP
1526 (0.422 %)SMS
1624 (0.390 %)HTTP
1721 (0.341 %)Extranet
1820 (0.325 %)SSL
1918 (0.292 %)FTP
2016 (0.260 %)IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1839 (13.63 %)SQL Server
2190 (3.087 %)SQL Server 2005
3152 (2.470 %)SQL Server 2000
4139 (2.259 %)RDBMS
5110 (1.787 %)Crystal Reports
673 (1.186 %)Datawarehouse
767 (1.089 %)Oracle 10g
864 (1.040 %)Reference Data
955 (0.894 %)Oracle 8/8i
1054 (0.877 %)MySQL
1153 (0.861 %)Oracle Reports
1252 (0.845 %)Oracle 9i
1344 (0.715 %)BusinessObjects
1438 (0.617 %)SQL Server 7
1534 (0.552 %)ETL
1632 (0.520 %)DTS
1731 (0.504 %)DB2
1825 (0.406 %)Data Mining
1921 (0.341 %)FileMaker
2018 (0.292 %)Data Mart
Development Applications
186 (1.397 %)TestDirector
270 (1.137 %)Visual Studio
341 (0.666 %)VSS/SourceSafe
438 (0.617 %)QuickTest Pro
530 (0.487 %)Flash
625 (0.406 %)WinRunner
721 (0.341 %)Subversion
721 (0.341 %)ClearCase
820 (0.325 %)NUnit
919 (0.309 %)Rational Rose
1016 (0.260 %)CruiseControl
1115 (0.244 %)InstallShield
1115 (0.244 %)Ant
1214 (0.227 %)Eclipse
1214 (0.227 %)ClearQuest
1313 (0.211 %)LoadRunner
1410 (0.162 %)JIRA
159 (0.146 %)Selenium
168 (0.130 %)ProC
177 (0.114 %)JUnit
General
12387 (38.79 %)Finance
21873 (30.44 %)Banking
31130 (18.36 %)Investment Banking
41077 (17.50 %)Front Office
5180 (2.925 %)Retail
6167 (2.714 %)Insurance
7154 (2.502 %)Financial Institution
8142 (2.307 %)Pensions
9133 (2.161 %)Health
10114 (1.852 %)Telecoms
11113 (1.836 %)Marketing
1298 (1.592 %)Education
1385 (1.381 %)Legal
1467 (1.089 %)Government
1565 (1.056 %)Law
1655 (0.894 %)Private Banking
1749 (0.796 %)Billing
1833 (0.536 %)General Ledger
1923 (0.374 %)Publishing
2022 (0.357 %)Electric
Job Titles
12139 (34.76 %)Analyst
21361 (22.12 %)Developer
31094 (17.78 %)Business Analyst
4570 (9.262 %)Project Manager
5541 (8.791 %)Support Analyst
6436 (7.085 %)Consultant
7307 (4.989 %)C# Developer
8304 (4.940 %)Applications Support
9240 (3.900 %).NET Developer
10235 (3.819 %)Senior Analyst
11230 (3.737 %)Java Developer
12217 (3.526 %)Administrator
13183 (2.974 %)Architect
14160 (2.600 %)Programmer
15159 (2.584 %)Systems Administrator
16157 (2.551 %)Applications Support Analyst
17153 (2.486 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
18141 (2.291 %)Senior Business Analyst
19131 (2.129 %)Senior Manager
20128 (2.080 %)Team Leader
Miscellaneous
11179 (19.16 %)Derivative
2600 (9.750 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3538 (8.742 %)Asset Management
4506 (8.222 %)Fixed Income
5458 (7.442 %)Equities
6274 (4.452 %)Credit Derivative
7214 (3.477 %)Equity Derivative
8191 (3.104 %)Fund Management
9155 (2.519 %)Interest Rate Derivative
10128 (2.080 %)Management Information System
11113 (1.836 %)Client/Server
1286 (1.397 %)Computer Science
1383 (1.349 %)Credit Risk
1471 (1.154 %)Blackberry
1562 (1.007 %)Mathematics
1661 (0.991 %)Clustering
1759 (0.959 %)EPoS
1853 (0.861 %)Multithreading
1945 (0.731 %)Market Risk
1945 (0.731 %)AS400
Operating Systems
1856 (13.91 %)Windows
2854 (13.88 %)Unix
3277 (4.501 %)Linux
4187 (3.039 %)Windows 2000
5169 (2.746 %)Solaris
6148 (2.405 %)Windows Server 2003
7144 (2.340 %)Windows XP
8102 (1.657 %)Windows NT
949 (0.796 %)VMS
1044 (0.715 %)OpenVMS
1134 (0.552 %)HPUX
1229 (0.471 %)AIX
1324 (0.390 %)SUSE
1420 (0.325 %)FreeBSD
1517 (0.276 %)Windows Mobile
1613 (0.211 %)Mac OS X
175 (0.081 %)zOS
183 (0.049 %)Windows CE
192 (0.032 %)Debian
192 (0.032 %)NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1713 (11.59 %)Project Management
2473 (7.686 %)Business Analysis
3390 (6.337 %)Risk Management
4299 (4.859 %)Investment Management
5269 (4.371 %)OO
6214 (3.477 %)UML
7181 (2.941 %)User Acceptance Testing
8170 (2.762 %)CRM
9165 (2.681 %)PRINCE2
10156 (2.535 %)Workflow
11151 (2.454 %)E-Commerce
12143 (2.324 %)Change Management
13142 (2.307 %)Service Delivery
14140 (2.275 %)Migration
15136 (2.210 %)Agile Software Development
16128 (2.080 %)ITIL
1791 (1.479 %)Wealth Management
1879 (1.284 %)RAD
1978 (1.267 %)Business Intelligence
2067 (1.089 %)Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
11540 (25.02 %)SQL
2798 (12.97 %)C#
3712 (11.57 %)Java
4422 (6.857 %)VB
5307 (4.989 %)C++
6286 (4.647 %)VB.NET
7259 (4.209 %)Perl
8226 (3.672 %)JavaScript
8226 (3.672 %)VBA
9179 (2.909 %)VB6
10123 (1.999 %)PL/SQL
11115 (1.869 %)C
1297 (1.576 %)Shell Script
1392 (1.495 %)Transact-SQL
1461 (0.991 %)PHP
1558 (0.942 %)VBScript
1649 (0.796 %)VC++
1743 (0.699 %)RPG
1833 (0.536 %)Delphi
1928 (0.455 %)Python
Qualifications
1660 (10.72 %)Degree
2271 (4.404 %)Microsoft Certification
3194 (3.152 %)MCSE
464 (1.040 %)Cisco Certification
556 (0.910 %)CCNA
651 (0.829 %)ISEB
749 (0.796 %)MCP
846 (0.747 %)MCSA
939 (0.634 %)CCNP
1021 (0.341 %)PMI Certification
1119 (0.309 %)CISA
1119 (0.309 %)PMP
1217 (0.276 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1314 (0.227 %)PhD
1413 (0.211 %)Sun Certification
1511 (0.179 %)MCDST
169 (0.146 %)ITIL Certification
169 (0.146 %)ISEB Practitioner
178 (0.130 %)CISM
178 (0.130 %)CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1146 (2.372 %)QA
2142 (2.307 %)SLA
321 (0.341 %)Basel II
417 (0.276 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
512 (0.195 %)MiFID
64 (0.065 %)ISO27001
64 (0.065 %)BS7799
73 (0.049 %)ISO/IEC 20000
81 (0.016 %)ISO9000
81 (0.016 %)ISO9001
81 (0.016 %)WAI
System Software
1369 (5.996 %)Active Directory
256 (0.910 %)ISA Server
344 (0.715 %)Terminal Services
425 (0.406 %)VMware ESX
523 (0.374 %)MSMQ
621 (0.341 %)NetBackup
719 (0.309 %)Backup Exec
818 (0.292 %)MetaFrame
915 (0.244 %)NFS
1014 (0.227 %)Oracle RAC
117 (0.114 %)Oracle RMAN
126 (0.097 %)Terminal Server
135 (0.081 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
144 (0.065 %)MailMarshal
151 (0.016 %)NDS
151 (0.016 %)VMware Workstation
Systems Management
150 (0.812 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
246 (0.747 %)MOM
344 (0.715 %)AutoSys
431 (0.504 %)Legato
530 (0.487 %)OpenView
619 (0.309 %)Tivoli
717 (0.276 %)HP Data Protector
816 (0.260 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
98 (0.130 %)WSUS
107 (0.114 %)SCOM
116 (0.097 %)SCCM
125 (0.081 %)Oracle Statspack
133 (0.049 %)Norton AntiVirus
141 (0.016 %)MAILsweeper
141 (0.016 %)OVSD
141 (0.016 %)EMC NetWorker
141 (0.016 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
141 (0.016 %)ARCserve
141 (0.016 %)ZENworks
Vendors
1803 (13.05 %)Oracle
2662 (10.76 %)Microsoft
3360 (5.850 %)Sybase
4227 (3.689 %)Citrix
5171 (2.779 %)Murex
6159 (2.584 %)Bloomberg
7146 (2.372 %)VMware
8143 (2.324 %)Calypso
9138 (2.242 %)Cisco
10128 (2.080 %)Reuters
11121 (1.966 %)SAP
12119 (1.934 %)Red Hat
13117 (1.901 %)HP
1492 (1.495 %)SimCorp
1587 (1.414 %)Sun
1681 (1.316 %)IBM
1774 (1.202 %)TIBCO
1869 (1.121 %)VERITAS
1965 (1.056 %)LatentZero
2064 (1.040 %)OpenLink
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