The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Back Office in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Back Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Back Office
Rank 162 144 117
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -27
Permanent jobs citing Back Office 13 24 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.352% 0.743% 0.953%
As % of the General category 1.117% 2.492% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 16
Average salary £22,500 £35,000 £32,439
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.71% +7.89%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All of the General Category
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1164 963 1036
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 31.53% 29.81% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 927 775 772
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,275 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Back Office
Yorkshire

Back Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Back Office Salary Trend

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Halifax +9 6 £22,500 -65.38%
Leeds -30 5 £33,000 -5.71%
Bradford - 2 - -
Back Office
Yorkshire

Back Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 16 (57.14%) .NET
2 14 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
4 10 (35.71%) XML
4 10 (35.71%) SQL
4 10 (35.71%) Subversion
5 8 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 8 (28.57%) OLTP
5 8 (28.57%) PRINCE
5 8 (28.57%) C#
5 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (25.00%) HTML
6 7 (25.00%) VB
6 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 7 (25.00%) CSS
6 7 (25.00%) Web Services
6 7 (25.00%) Finance
6 7 (25.00%) VB6
7 6 (21.43%) Oracle
7 6 (21.43%) Java
7 6 (21.43%) PHP
8 5 (17.86%) MySQL
8 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
8 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio
8 5 (17.86%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 5 (17.86%) Project Management
8 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
8 5 (17.86%) MVC
8 5 (17.86%) Workflow
8 5 (17.86%) Ajax

Back Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 16 (57.14%) .NET
2 10 (35.71%) XML
3 7 (25.00%) HTML
3 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (25.00%) CSS
3 7 (25.00%) Web Services
4 5 (17.86%) Ajax
5 3 (10.71%) Spring
6 2 (7.143%) WCF
6 2 (7.143%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.143%) NHibernate
6 2 (7.143%) jQuery
6 2 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (7.143%) WinForms
6 2 (7.143%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) WordPress
2 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
2 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
3 2 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (7.143%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.143%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) OLTP
3 5 (17.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Subversion
2 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio
2 5 (17.86%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (10.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Marketing
3 2 (7.143%) Spanish Language
3 2 (7.143%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Project Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Software Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Development Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Software Development Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.143%) Software Architect
4 2 (7.143%) Systems Architect
4 2 (7.143%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Portfolio Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Security Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Agile Project Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Architect
4 2 (7.143%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Derivative
1 2 (7.143%) NHS
1 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.143%) E-Learning
1 2 (7.143%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) E-Commerce
1 8 (28.57%) PRINCE
2 5 (17.86%) Project Management
2 5 (17.86%) MVC
2 5 (17.86%) Workflow
2 5 (17.86%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum
3 4 (14.29%) RUP
3 4 (14.29%) DSDM
4 3 (10.71%) OO
4 3 (10.71%) OOD
4 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.143%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.143%) Matrix Management
5 2 (7.143%) Use Case
5 2 (7.143%) Business Analysis
5 2 (7.143%) Requirements Management
5 2 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 8 (28.57%) C#
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) VB
4 7 (25.00%) VB6
5 6 (21.43%) Java
5 6 (21.43%) PHP
6 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
7 3 (10.71%) VC++
7 3 (10.71%) C++
8 1 (3.571%) Python
8 1 (3.571%) C
8 1 (3.571%) Perl
8 1 (3.571%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) QA
1 2 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (7.143%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.143%) SAP
4 1 (3.571%) Lombardi