The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Operations Manager 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 Manager
Rank 449 472 528
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +56
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 61 86 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.161% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.159% 0.174% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 20
Average daily rate £400 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £285 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £573 £618 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+3.62% -9.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £43.13 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.62% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
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 Manager
UK

Operations Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Operations Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Operations Manager Daily Rate Trend

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Operations Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Operations Manager Hourly Rate Trend

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 Operations Manager 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 +9 27 £500 +25.00%
South East +16 12 £350 -
North West +10 7 £375 -
West Midlands +11 5 £350 -22.22%
Yorkshire +2 4 £400 +86.04%
East Midlands +4 3 £338 +12.50%
East of England +8 2 £350 +10.23%
South West +24 1 £413 +91.86%
Operations Manager
UK

Operations Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 45 (34.62%) ITIL
2 33 (25.38%) Finance
3 29 (22.31%) Service Delivery
4 24 (18.46%) Service Management
5 23 (17.69%) SLA
6 19 (14.62%) Project Management
7 14 (10.77%) UNIX
8 13 (10.00%) Banking
9 12 (9.231%) PRINCE2
9 12 (9.231%) Security Cleared
10 11 (8.462%) Operations Management
10 11 (8.462%) Degree
10 11 (8.462%) SAP
10 11 (8.462%) Windows
10 11 (8.462%) Telecoms
11 10 (7.692%) Change Management
11 10 (7.692%) Incident Management
11 10 (7.692%) Problem Management
12 9 (6.923%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (6.154%) Retail
13 8 (6.154%) Supplier Management
14 7 (5.385%) Change Control
14 7 (5.385%) SC Cleared
14 7 (5.385%) Performance Management
15 6 (4.615%) Management Information System
15 6 (4.615%) Back Office
15 6 (4.615%) Linux
15 6 (4.615%) Perl
15 6 (4.615%) Business Intelligence
15 6 (4.615%) ITIL Certification

Operations Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 2 (1.538%) COM
1 2 (1.538%) Middleware
2 1 (0.769%) .NET
2 1 (0.769%) JSP
2 1 (0.769%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.538%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.538%) MS Exchange
1 2 (1.538%) SAS
1 2 (1.538%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.769%) IIS
2 1 (0.769%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.769%) MS Office
1 1 (0.769%) MS Excel
1 1 (0.769%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.538%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (1.538%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.846%) SAN
1 5 (3.846%) Internet
1 5 (3.846%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (3.077%) Firewall
2 4 (3.077%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.308%) SNMP
3 3 (2.308%) Intranet
4 2 (1.538%) DHCP
5 1 (0.769%) HTTP
5 1 (0.769%) Broadband
5 1 (0.769%) VoIP
5 1 (0.769%) 3G
5 1 (0.769%) 4G
5 1 (0.769%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.538%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.538%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (0.769%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.769%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (2.308%) Introscope
2 1 (0.769%) JIRA
2 1 (0.769%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.769%) ClearCase
General
1 33 (25.38%) Finance
2 13 (10.00%) Banking
3 11 (8.462%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.154%) Retail
5 6 (4.615%) Back Office
6 4 (3.077%) Front Office
7 2 (1.538%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.538%) Local Government
7 2 (1.538%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.538%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.538%) Marketing
8 1 (0.769%) Automotive
8 1 (0.769%) Legal
8 1 (0.769%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.615%) NHS
1 6 (4.615%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.308%) Clustering
2 3 (2.308%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.538%) CMDB
3 2 (1.538%) Wiki
3 2 (1.538%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.538%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (1.538%) Online Banking
4 1 (0.769%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.769%) PMI
4 1 (0.769%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.769%) Visualisation
4 1 (0.769%) SaaS
4 1 (0.769%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.769%) CESG
4 1 (0.769%) Economics
4 1 (0.769%) Derivative
4 1 (0.769%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) UNIX
2 11 (8.462%) Windows
3 6 (4.615%) Linux
4 4 (3.077%) Solaris
4 4 (3.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.769%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.769%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.769%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.769%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) ITIL
2 29 (22.31%) Service Delivery
3 24 (18.46%) Service Management
4 19 (14.62%) Project Management
5 12 (9.231%) PRINCE2
6 11 (8.462%) Operations Management
7 10 (7.692%) Problem Management
7 10 (7.692%) Incident Management
7 10 (7.692%) Change Management
8 9 (6.923%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (6.154%) Supplier Management
10 7 (5.385%) Performance Management
10 7 (5.385%) Change Control
11 6 (4.615%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (3.846%) BCP
12 5 (3.846%) E-Commerce
12 5 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (3.846%) Information Security
12 5 (3.846%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (3.846%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.615%) Perl
2 4 (3.077%) Java
3 1 (0.769%) C++
3 1 (0.769%) Python
3 1 (0.769%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (9.231%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.462%) Degree
3 7 (5.385%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.615%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.615%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.308%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.538%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.769%) ACCA
7 1 (0.769%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.769%) GIAC
7 1 (0.769%) GCIA
7 1 (0.769%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) SLA
2 4 (3.077%) QA
2 4 (3.077%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.769%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.769%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (2.308%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.538%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.769%) vCloud
3 1 (0.769%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.615%) Tivoli
2 4 (3.077%) Splunk
3 3 (2.308%) HP SiteScope
3 3 (2.308%) OpenView
3 3 (2.308%) HP NNM
3 3 (2.308%) OVPI
3 3 (2.308%) OVPM
3 3 (2.308%) CA Wily
4 2 (1.538%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.769%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.769%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.769%) Puppet
5 1 (0.769%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 11 (8.462%) SAP
2 5 (3.846%) Oracle
2 5 (3.846%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.077%) HP
3 4 (3.077%) Cisco
3 4 (3.077%) Juniper
3 4 (3.077%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.308%) CA
4 3 (2.308%) NetApp
4 3 (2.308%) VMware
4 3 (2.308%) Foundry
4 3 (2.308%) F5
4 3 (2.308%) Tealeaf
5 2 (1.538%) Capita
5 2 (1.538%) Endeca
5 2 (1.538%) Qualys
5 2 (1.538%) BT
5 2 (1.538%) ATG
5 2 (1.538%) Siebel
6 1 (0.769%) EMC
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