East of England Operations Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Operations Manager role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Operations Manager
Location Banbury Basingstoke Berkshire Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chesham Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Home Counties Jersey Kent Leatherhead Leicester Leicestershire London Maidstone Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	159
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£417	£404
% change on same period last year	+3.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.96	£28.88
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3201	4545
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.549 %	4.590 %
Daily rates quoted	952	1386
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£318
Average daily rate	£336	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	714
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.25	£26.06
Average hourly rate	£22.61	£27.45
% change on same period last year	-17.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.97	£28.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Operations Manager England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Operations Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Manager across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Operations Manager across the East of England region.

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Operations Manager across the East of England region.

Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Operations Manager in their job title 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 with Operations Manager in their job title.

1 4 (50.00 %) SLA 2 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Health 2 3 (37.50 %) Banking 3 2 (25.00 %) Corporate Banking 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (12.50 %) XML 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux

4 1 (12.50 %) Apache 4 1 (12.50 %) Tomcat 4 1 (12.50 %) CRM 4 1 (12.50 %) SMTP 4 1 (12.50 %) FTP 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 4 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 4 1 (12.50 %) Finance 4 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 4 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 4 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 4 1 (12.50 %) Fault Management 4 1 (12.50 %) HTML

Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Operations Manager in their job title 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 with Operations Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) HTML 1 1 (12.50 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Apache 1 1 (12.50 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SMTP 1 1 (12.50 %) FTP 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 1 1 (12.50 %) SSH 1 1 (12.50 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 1 3 (37.50 %) Health 1 3 (37.50 %) Banking 2 2 (25.00 %) Corporate Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 3 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 3 1 (12.50 %) Billing 3 1 (12.50 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 2 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Document Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Fault Management 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (12.50 %) CRM 2 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (50.00 %) SLA	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle