Operations Engineer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer 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 Operations Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 484 515 556
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 26 43 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.063% 0.081% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.087% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 7
Average daily rate £255 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £224 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £365 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £306 £269
% change year-on-year
-18.36% +13.95%
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		 38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £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 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Operations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Operations Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Operations Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Operations Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +15 13 £375 +36.36%
Yorkshire - 11 £250 -
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited 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 Operations Engineer in their job title.

1 24 (52.17%) Linux
2 16 (34.78%) Puppet
3 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
3 15 (32.61%) Ruby
4 14 (30.43%) Configuration Management
4 14 (30.43%) Telecoms
5 13 (28.26%) DNS
5 13 (28.26%) DHCP
5 13 (28.26%) Java
5 13 (28.26%) Oracle
6 12 (26.09%) Perl
6 12 (26.09%) PHP
6 12 (26.09%) MySQL
6 12 (26.09%) Apache
6 12 (26.09%) Amazon AWS
6 12 (26.09%) Bash shell
7 11 (23.91%) nginx
7 11 (23.91%) Kanban
7 11 (23.91%) Redis
7 11 (23.91%) Python
7 11 (23.91%) Web Services
7 11 (23.91%) SSL
7 11 (23.91%) Load Balancing
8 10 (21.74%) VMware
8 10 (21.74%) Change Management
9 9 (19.57%) Incident Management
9 9 (19.57%) C++
9 9 (19.57%) Client/Server
9 9 (19.57%) Capacity Management
9 9 (19.57%) Route 53

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited 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 Operations Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (23.91%) Web Services
2 9 (19.57%) Node.js
3 5 (10.87%) JSON
4 4 (8.696%) SOAP
5 3 (6.522%) REST
6 2 (4.348%) Gearman
6 2 (4.348%) Resque
6 2 (4.348%) Zend Framework
6 2 (4.348%) XML
6 2 (4.348%) LAMP
6 2 (4.348%) HTML
6 2 (4.348%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (2.174%) WebSphere
7 1 (2.174%) COM
7 1 (2.174%) CSS
7 1 (2.174%) JSP
7 1 (2.174%) Spring
7 1 (2.174%) Django
7 1 (2.174%) Mason
7 1 (2.174%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 12 (26.09%) Apache
1 12 (26.09%) Amazon AWS
2 11 (23.91%) nginx
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
3 9 (19.57%) Route 53
4 7 (15.22%) MS Exchange
5 5 (10.87%) Tomcat
6 2 (4.348%) Apache Solr
7 1 (2.174%) Zope
7 1 (2.174%) Confluence
7 1 (2.174%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) MS Office
2 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
2 13 (28.26%) DHCP
2 13 (28.26%) DNS
3 11 (23.91%) SSL
4 6 (13.04%) Firewall
5 4 (8.696%) OSPF
5 4 (8.696%) BGP
5 4 (8.696%) Internet
5 4 (8.696%) 3G
5 4 (8.696%) SNMP
5 4 (8.696%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (6.522%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (6.522%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (6.522%) FWSM
6 3 (6.522%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (6.522%) MPLS
7 2 (4.348%) SAN
7 2 (4.348%) TACACS
7 2 (4.348%) VPN
7 2 (4.348%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) MySQL
2 11 (23.91%) Redis
3 9 (19.57%) MongoDB
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (2.174%) DB2
6 1 (2.174%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.696%) Subversion
2 4 (8.696%) Git (software)
3 3 (6.522%) JIRA
3 3 (6.522%) Capistrano
3 3 (6.522%) Hudson
4 2 (4.348%) Phing
4 2 (4.348%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.348%) PHPUnit
4 2 (4.348%) RSpec
4 2 (4.348%) Maven
4 2 (4.348%) Ant
5 1 (2.174%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.174%) JBehave
5 1 (2.174%) Selenium
General
1 14 (30.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.174%) Banking
2 1 (2.174%) Retail
2 1 (2.174%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Client/Server
2 4 (8.696%) NHS
3 3 (6.522%) Open Source
4 1 (2.174%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.174%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.174%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.174%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (52.17%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
3 7 (15.22%) UNIX
4 3 (6.522%) Solaris
4 3 (6.522%) Windows 2000
4 3 (6.522%) Windows XP
4 3 (6.522%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (6.522%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.348%) Gentoo
5 2 (4.348%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.348%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.174%) AIX
6 1 (2.174%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Configuration Management
2 11 (23.91%) Load Balancing
2 11 (23.91%) Kanban
3 10 (21.74%) Change Management
4 9 (19.57%) Incident Management
4 9 (19.57%) Capacity Management
4 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
5 8 (17.39%) Scrum
6 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
7 6 (13.04%) Performance Testing
8 5 (10.87%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (8.696%) ITIL
9 4 (8.696%) Workforce Management Optimization
9 4 (8.696%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (6.522%) Software Deployment
10 3 (6.522%) Analytics
10 3 (6.522%) Security Testing
11 2 (4.348%) Release Management
11 2 (4.348%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) Ruby
2 13 (28.26%) Java
3 12 (26.09%) Perl
3 12 (26.09%) PHP
3 12 (26.09%) Bash shell
4 11 (23.91%) Python
5 9 (19.57%) C++
6 6 (13.04%) SQL
7 4 (8.696%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.174%) Groovy
8 1 (2.174%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (10.87%) CCNA
2 3 (6.522%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.348%) CCNP
4 1 (2.174%) ISEB
4 1 (2.174%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.174%) Degree
4 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) XenApp
2 2 (4.348%) Varnish
3 1 (2.174%) ProxySG
3 1 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Puppet
2 6 (13.04%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.174%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.174%) YUM
3 1 (2.174%) OpenView
3 1 (2.174%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (2.174%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) VMware
3 8 (17.39%) Cisco
4 7 (15.22%) Citrix
4 7 (15.22%) Symantec
5 4 (8.696%) Verint
6 3 (6.522%) Percona
6 3 (6.522%) Juniper
6 3 (6.522%) Sun
6 3 (6.522%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.522%) Zend
7 2 (4.348%) HP
7 2 (4.348%) NetApp
7 2 (4.348%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.348%) Business Objects
7 2 (4.348%) JBoss
8 1 (2.174%) Intel
8 1 (2.174%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.174%) RightScale
8 1 (2.174%) F5
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