The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Operations Manager 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Operations Manager
Rank 518 540 572
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +32
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Manager 14 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.032% 0.009% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.010% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 7
Average daily rate £375 £750 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +114.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £465 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £780 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £244
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
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £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 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
IT Operations Manager
UK

IT Operations Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England IT Operations Manager Jobs Demand Trend

IT Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

England IT Operations Manager Daily Rate Trend

IT Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Operations Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England IT Operations Manager Daily Rate Histogram

IT Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England IT Operations Manager Hourly Rate Trend

IT Operations Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +25 4 £410 -45.33% 6
East of England - 3 £400 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £463 -
North West - 1 £375 -
South East - 1 - -
South West - - - -
IT Operations Manager
UK

IT Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited IT 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 IT Operations Manager in their job title.

1 8 (42.11%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) COM
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Change Control
2 2 (10.53%) Service Management
2 2 (10.53%) Change Management
3 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.263%) Demand Management
3 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.263%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (5.263%) Security Management
3 1 (5.263%) Back Office
3 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
3 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.263%) VMware
3 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.263%) Programme Management
3 1 (5.263%) Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Intrusion Detection

IT Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited IT 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 IT Operations Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) COM
2 1 (5.263%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.263%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.263%) VoIP
2 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Back Office
2 1 (5.263%) Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
1 1 (5.263%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
2 2 (10.53%) Change Control
2 2 (10.53%) Service Management
2 2 (10.53%) Change Management
3 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.263%) Demand Management
3 1 (5.263%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (5.263%) Security Management
3 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
3 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.263%) Programme Management
3 1 (5.263%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (5.263%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (5.263%) PRINCE
3 1 (5.263%) BCP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) PMP
2 1 (5.263%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.263%) QA
1 1 (5.263%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) VMware
2 1 (5.263%) Citrix