The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 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
Operations Analyst
Rank 342 381 396
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 43 25 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.199% 0.093% 0.131%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.216% 0.101% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 30
Average daily rate £330 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £223 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £378 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £278 £225
% change year-on-year
-27.92% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £20.00 £59.75
% change year-on-year
+65.00% -66.52%
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%
Operations Analyst
England

Operations Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Operations Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Operations Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Operations Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Operations Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the London 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
City of London +17 9 £325 -7.14%
Operations Analyst
England

Operations Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 30 (41.67%) Windows
2 21 (29.17%) Banking
3 17 (23.61%) SQL Server
4 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
4 15 (20.83%) VMware
5 14 (19.44%) ITIL
6 13 (18.06%) Windows Server 2003
7 12 (16.67%) Business Analysis
8 11 (15.28%) UNIX
9 10 (13.89%) SQL
9 10 (13.89%) Tivoli
9 10 (13.89%) Citrix
9 10 (13.89%) MS PowerPoint
10 9 (12.50%) Blackberry
10 9 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 9 (12.50%) Migration
10 9 (12.50%) Solaris
10 9 (12.50%) MS Excel
10 9 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (11.11%) MS Exchange
11 8 (11.11%) Finance
12 7 (9.722%) Linux
12 7 (9.722%) Oracle
12 7 (9.722%) Windows Server 2008
13 6 (8.333%) DB2
13 6 (8.333%) MS Office
13 6 (8.333%) JCL
14 5 (6.944%) Firewall

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 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 Operations Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.778%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.389%) LAMP
2 1 (1.389%) ISPF
2 1 (1.389%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 8 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 8 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (6.944%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (5.556%) Office Communications Server
4 4 (5.556%) Lync
4 4 (5.556%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (4.167%) Apache
6 1 (1.389%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) MS PowerPoint
2 9 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 6 (8.333%) MS Office
4 2 (2.778%) MS Project
4 2 (2.778%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.944%) Firewall
2 2 (2.778%) HTTP
2 2 (2.778%) DNS
3 1 (1.389%) SAN
3 1 (1.389%) Internet
3 1 (1.389%) BGP
3 1 (1.389%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.389%) LAN
3 1 (1.389%) WLAN
3 1 (1.389%) WAN
3 1 (1.389%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.389%) VLAN
3 1 (1.389%) MRTG
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.333%) DB2
3 1 (1.389%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.389%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.389%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.389%) MySQL
General
1 21 (29.17%) Banking
2 8 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (6.944%) Back Office
3 5 (6.944%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.556%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.778%) Marketing
6 1 (1.389%) Front Office
6 1 (1.389%) Retail
6 1 (1.389%) Law
6 1 (1.389%) Legal
6 1 (1.389%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 5 (6.944%) Mainframe
2 5 (6.944%) SWIFT
3 4 (5.556%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (4.167%) Derivative
4 3 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.778%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.389%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.389%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 30 (41.67%) Windows
2 13 (18.06%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (15.28%) UNIX
4 9 (12.50%) Solaris
5 7 (9.722%) Linux
5 7 (9.722%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (6.944%) Windows XP
7 4 (5.556%) zOS
8 3 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.778%) Windows 2000
10 1 (1.389%) CentOS
10 1 (1.389%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.44%) ITIL
2 12 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 9 (12.50%) Migration
3 9 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (5.556%) Capacity Management
4 4 (5.556%) ITSM
4 4 (5.556%) Service Management
4 4 (5.556%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (4.167%) Project Management
5 3 (4.167%) Incident Management
5 3 (4.167%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (4.167%) Data Analysis
6 2 (2.778%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (2.778%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (2.778%) Change Management
7 1 (1.389%) Fit Analysis
7 1 (1.389%) CRM
7 1 (1.389%) E-Commerce
7 1 (1.389%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.89%) SQL
2 6 (8.333%) JCL
3 1 (1.389%) PHP
3 1 (1.389%) REXX
3 1 (1.389%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (4.167%) CISSP
2 2 (2.778%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.778%) CCNA
2 2 (2.778%) Degree
2 2 (2.778%) CISM
3 1 (1.389%) CCSA
3 1 (1.389%) CCSE
3 1 (1.389%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.389%) SLA
1 1 (1.389%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.389%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.944%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.167%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Tivoli
2 5 (6.944%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (5.556%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (5.556%) ServiceCenter
4 3 (4.167%) SCCM
4 3 (4.167%) WSUS
5 2 (2.778%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (2.778%) SCOM
6 1 (1.389%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (1.389%) Control-M
6 1 (1.389%) Nagios
6 1 (1.389%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (1.389%) Nessus
6 1 (1.389%) Cacti
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
1 15 (20.83%) VMware
2 10 (13.89%) Citrix
3 7 (9.722%) Oracle
4 5 (6.944%) Sybase
4 5 (6.944%) Misys
4 5 (6.944%) HP
4 5 (6.944%) SolarWinds
4 5 (6.944%) Thunderhead
5 4 (5.556%) GoldenSource
5 4 (5.556%) EMC
5 4 (5.556%) Lotus
5 4 (5.556%) IBM
6 3 (4.167%) Cisco
6 3 (4.167%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.778%) NetApp
7 2 (2.778%) Reuters
7 2 (2.778%) McAfee
7 2 (2.778%) Sun
7 2 (2.778%) SAP
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