The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 11 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.477% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.558% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds Operations Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) SSL
1 11 (100.00%) Web Services
1 11 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 11 (100.00%) Puppet
2 9 (81.82%) MongoDB
2 9 (81.82%) Node.js
2 9 (81.82%) Redis
2 9 (81.82%) Capacity Management
2 9 (81.82%) Ruby
2 9 (81.82%) Incident Management
2 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
2 9 (81.82%) Configuration Management
2 9 (81.82%) Apache
2 9 (81.82%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) Client/Server
2 9 (81.82%) C++
2 9 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) Perl
2 9 (81.82%) PHP
2 9 (81.82%) MySQL
2 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 9 (81.82%) Kanban
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) nginx

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (100.00%) Web Services
2 9 (81.82%) Node.js
3 1 (9.091%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Route 53
2 9 (81.82%) Apache
2 9 (81.82%) nginx
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
Business Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
1 11 (100.00%) SSL
2 3 (27.27%) Internet
2 3 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) MySQL
1 9 (81.82%) MongoDB
1 9 (81.82%) Redis
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 9 (81.82%) Configuration Management
2 9 (81.82%) Incident Management
2 9 (81.82%) Kanban
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) Capacity Management
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 9 (81.82%) C++
2 9 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) Perl
2 9 (81.82%) PHP
2 9 (81.82%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Percona
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