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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 126 142 139
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 81 47 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.631% 1.044% 0.747%
As % of the General category 4.742% 3.169% 2.345%
Number of salaries quoted 61 43 30
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £40,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £52,250 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1708 1483 1322
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 34.40% 32.93% 31.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1323 1270 1108
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
England

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Back Office Salary Trend

Back Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Back Office across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham -1 45 £52,500 +5.00%
Warwickshire +14 14 £27,500 -42.10%
Staffordshire -21 8 £40,000 -
Coventry -11 5 £27,000 -44.61%
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £27,000 -
Shropshire -9 3 - -
Worcestershire - 3 £33,750 -
Solihull -15 2 £42,500 -12.82%
Back Office
England

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 53 (39.26%) Windows
2 44 (32.59%) Finance
3 36 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 35 (25.93%) Windows Server 2008
5 33 (24.44%) DNS
6 31 (22.96%) DHCP
6 31 (22.96%) SQL
6 31 (22.96%) Firewall
7 26 (19.26%) Microsoft
8 23 (17.04%) Cisco
8 23 (17.04%) Retail
9 22 (16.30%) Project Management
9 22 (16.30%) Windows Server 2003
10 21 (15.56%) ERP
11 20 (14.81%) SAN
11 20 (14.81%) Banking
11 20 (14.81%) Degree
12 18 (13.33%) NetApp
12 18 (13.33%) MS Exchange
12 18 (13.33%) VPN
12 18 (13.33%) Computer Science
12 18 (13.33%) Test Scripting
12 18 (13.33%) IP Telephony
12 18 (13.33%) VMware
13 17 (12.59%) EPoS
14 16 (11.85%) SharePoint
14 16 (11.85%) System Testing
14 16 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
14 16 (11.85%) NAS
15 15 (11.11%) Hyper-V

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (9.630%) HTML
1 13 (9.630%) CGI
2 11 (8.148%) HTML5
3 10 (7.407%) CSS
4 7 (5.185%) .NET
5 6 (4.444%) jQuery
6 5 (3.704%) Ajax
7 4 (2.963%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.222%) NHibernate
8 3 (2.222%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (2.222%) Ninject
8 3 (2.222%) REST
8 3 (2.222%) CSS3
8 3 (2.222%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (2.222%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.222%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (1.481%) Middleware
9 2 (1.481%) JDBC
9 2 (1.481%) J2SE
10 1 (0.741%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 18 (13.33%) MS Exchange
2 16 (11.85%) SharePoint
3 13 (9.630%) Lync
3 13 (9.630%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.222%) IIS
4 3 (2.222%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (2.222%) Windows Azure
5 1 (0.741%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (9.630%) MS Office
1 13 (9.630%) Office 365
2 6 (4.444%) MS Excel
2 6 (4.444%) MS Project
3 2 (1.481%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.481%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 3 (2.222%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.222%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (2.222%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (2.222%) Oracle Retail
1 3 (2.222%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.741%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.44%) DNS
2 31 (22.96%) DHCP
2 31 (22.96%) Firewall
3 20 (14.81%) SAN
4 18 (13.33%) IP Telephony
4 18 (13.33%) VPN
5 16 (11.85%) NAS
6 5 (3.704%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.704%) VoIP
7 3 (2.222%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.481%) LAN
9 1 (0.741%) WAN
9 1 (0.741%) HTTP
9 1 (0.741%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.741%) ZigBee
9 1 (0.741%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.704%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.481%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.741%) MySQL
3 1 (0.741%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (2.222%) Dreamweaver
1 3 (2.222%) PhoneGap
2 1 (0.741%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.741%) JIRA
2 1 (0.741%) Selenium
General
1 44 (32.59%) Finance
2 23 (17.04%) Retail
3 20 (14.81%) Banking
4 13 (9.630%) Local Government
5 7 (5.185%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.444%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.704%) Front Office
8 3 (2.222%) Games
9 1 (0.741%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (18.52%) Analyst
2 19 (14.07%) Network Engineer
3 18 (13.33%) Architect
4 16 (11.85%) Developer
5 15 (11.11%) Consultant
6 14 (10.37%) Support Analyst
7 13 (9.630%) ERP Consultant
8 11 (8.148%) Applications Support
8 11 (8.148%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (7.407%) Technical Architect
9 10 (7.407%) Graduate
10 9 (6.667%) Junior
10 9 (6.667%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (6.667%) Principle Consultant
10 9 (6.667%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 8 (5.926%) Junior Analyst
12 7 (5.185%) Graduate Support Analyst
12 7 (5.185%) Junior Support Analyst
13 5 (3.704%) Mobile Developer
13 5 (3.704%) Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Computer Science
2 17 (12.59%) EPoS
3 9 (6.667%) Mobile App
4 8 (5.926%) iPhone
5 4 (2.963%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.222%) New Media
6 3 (2.222%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.481%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.481%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.741%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 53 (39.26%) Windows
2 35 (25.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (16.30%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (9.630%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (8.148%) Linux
6 8 (5.926%) Android
7 5 (3.704%) Windows Mobile
8 3 (2.222%) UNIX
9 1 (0.741%) VMS
9 1 (0.741%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.30%) Project Management
2 21 (15.56%) ERP
3 18 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 16 (11.85%) System Testing
5 14 (10.37%) Time Management
6 10 (7.407%) Software Testing
7 8 (5.926%) ITIL
7 8 (5.926%) Change Management
8 7 (5.185%) Service Management
8 7 (5.185%) Technical Architecture
9 6 (4.444%) Project Planning
9 6 (4.444%) CRM
9 6 (4.444%) Validation
10 5 (3.704%) PLM
10 5 (3.704%) Programme Management
10 5 (3.704%) PRINCE
10 5 (3.704%) Web Development
10 5 (3.704%) Release Management
10 5 (3.704%) Portfolio Management
11 4 (2.963%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.96%) SQL
2 10 (7.407%) JavaScript
3 8 (5.926%) Objective-C
3 8 (5.926%) C#
4 5 (3.704%) C
4 5 (3.704%) Ruby
5 3 (2.222%) Perl
5 3 (2.222%) Java
5 3 (2.222%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.481%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.481%) VBA
7 1 (0.741%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.741%) PHP
7 1 (0.741%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.741%) VB6
7 1 (0.741%) VBScript
7 1 (0.741%) VB
7 1 (0.741%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (14.81%) Degree
2 7 (5.185%) MCSE
2 7 (5.185%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.444%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.704%) PMP
4 5 (3.704%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.704%) MCDST
4 5 (3.704%) HNC
4 5 (3.704%) HND
5 4 (2.963%) CCNA
5 4 (2.963%) ISEB
5 4 (2.963%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.222%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.481%) MCP
7 2 (1.481%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.481%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.481%) QA
1 2 (1.481%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (11.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 15 (11.11%) vSphere
4 13 (9.630%) UAG
4 13 (9.630%) XenServer
4 13 (9.630%) XenDesktop
5 3 (2.222%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (0.741%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.04%) Cisco
3 18 (13.33%) NetApp
3 18 (13.33%) VMware
4 14 (10.37%) Citrix
5 6 (4.444%) SAP
6 5 (3.704%) Oracle
6 5 (3.704%) Primavera
7 3 (2.222%) Cadence
8 2 (1.481%) ProCurve
8 2 (1.481%) Riverbed
8 2 (1.481%) Sage
8 2 (1.481%) McAfee
8 2 (1.481%) Sophos
8 2 (1.481%) IBM
8 2 (1.481%) HP
8 2 (1.481%) Dell
8 2 (1.481%) EMC
9 1 (0.741%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.741%) NEC
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Posted: 27 April 2013
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