The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Operations Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Operations Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Operations Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1998 2770 2506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.41% 93.74% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1031 1297 1100
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 280 320
Average hourly rate £22.66 £25.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.36% +31.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 £41.70 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Operations Engineer
England

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Senior Operations Engineer 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 Senior Operations Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning

Senior Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Senior Operations Engineer 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 Senior Operations Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware