Hampshire Operations Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Operations Management skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Management over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Operations Management
Location Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Croydon East Midlands England Guildford Hampshire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire Portsmouth Salisbury South East South West Surbiton Surrey UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	125
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.162 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£417
% change on same period last year	-26.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£15.18
% change on same period last year	+130.51 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1231	1533
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.624 %	1.527 %
Daily rates quoted	380	474
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£357
Average daily rate	£380	£381
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	208	285
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.45	£30.33
Average hourly rate	£34.19	£32.26
% change on same period last year	+6.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.94	£34.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Operations Management South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Operations Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Operations Management across the Hampshire region.

Operations Management
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Operations Management across the Hampshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Portsmouth	-	1	-	-

Operations Management South East

Operations Management
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Operations Management also 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 that cited Operations Management.

1 3 (37.50 %) SAN 1 3 (37.50 %) Replication 1 3 (37.50 %) CLARiiON 2 2 (25.00 %) EMC 2 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) LAN

3 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) Java

Operations Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Operations Management also 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 that cited Operations Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) LAN 2 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Team Leader 2 2 (25.00 %) SAN Specialist 2 2 (25.00 %) Implementation Specialist 2 2 (25.00 %) Senior Implementation Specialist 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Service Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Team Leader 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Team Leader 3 1 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Storage Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Server Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Replication 1 3 (37.50 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) Java	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) EMC