The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Operations Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IT Operations Analyst 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 London 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
IT Operations Analyst
Rank 383 399 425
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +26
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Analyst 2 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.026% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.028% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
Average daily rate £238 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £288 £200
% change year-on-year
-8.69% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
IT Operations Analyst
England

IT Operations Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London IT Operations Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

London IT Operations Analyst Daily Rate Trend

IT Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (20.00%) Control-M
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) JBoss
4 1 (20.00%) Apache
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA

IT Operations Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (20.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy