The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Operations Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Operations Analyst 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 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
IT Operations Analyst
Rank 510 545 551
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Analyst 3 14 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.026% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.028% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 14
Average daily rate £238 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.39% -11.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £288 £200
% change year-on-year
-8.69% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
IT Operations Analyst
UK

IT Operations Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IT Operations Analyst across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England IT Operations Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England IT Operations Analyst Daily Rate Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England IT Operations Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Operations Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +31 2 £238 -
Yorkshire +1 1 £263 -
IT Operations Analyst
UK

IT Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) MCP
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) JBoss
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) MCSA
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) LDAP
4 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP

IT Operations Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) MCSA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCDST
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Sun
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy