The first table below looks at the demand for Operations Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Operations Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Management
Rank - 136 126
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - 0.033% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.052% 0.109%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £450 £357
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +26.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £15.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year
- -70.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1603 1916 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.89% 62.51% 62.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 728 728
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 65 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -39.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Operations Management
South East

Operations Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire Operations Management Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Operations Management across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Operations Management Daily Rate Trend

Operations Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Operations Management Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Operations Management 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Operations Management.

1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Supply Chain Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Xen
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Egenera
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Postfix
3 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) SCSA
3 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) LAMP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenBSD
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PHP

Operations Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Operations Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Operations Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Services Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Services Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
1 1 (25.00%) HPUX
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (25.00%) OpenBSD
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Supply Chain Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SCSA
1 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Postfix
1 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) OpenView
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Sun
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Intel
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Egenera