The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 364 395 438
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +43
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 13 20 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.060% 0.074% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.080% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 3
Average daily rate £375 £289 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.87% -14.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £225 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £368 £378
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
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 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Operations Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Operations Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +16 3 £350 -22.22%
Hammersmith - 3 £255 -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Change Management
2 8 (36.36%) VMware
3 6 (27.27%) Scrum
3 6 (27.27%) Symantec
3 6 (27.27%) Citrix
3 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) UNIX
3 6 (27.27%) Windows
4 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
4 5 (22.73%) XenApp
4 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (22.73%) NetBackup
4 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
5 4 (18.18%) Subversion
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
5 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (18.18%) SOAP
5 4 (18.18%) Oracle
5 4 (18.18%) Java
5 4 (18.18%) NHS
5 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.64%) Firewall
6 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (13.64%) Sun
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 4 (18.18%) SOAP
2 3 (13.64%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) JSON
3 1 (4.545%) LAMP
3 1 (4.545%) HTML
3 1 (4.545%) COM
3 1 (4.545%) JSP
3 1 (4.545%) soapUI
3 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.545%) Spring
3 1 (4.545%) Mason
3 1 (4.545%) Django
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
2 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.545%) Zope
3 1 (4.545%) Apache
3 1 (4.545%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (4.545%) Confluence
3 1 (4.545%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.091%) VPN
2 2 (9.091%) SAN
3 1 (4.545%) MPLS
3 1 (4.545%) OSPF
3 1 (4.545%) BGP
3 1 (4.545%) Wireless
3 1 (4.545%) Internet
3 1 (4.545%) LAN
3 1 (4.545%) WAN
3 1 (4.545%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) DB2
2 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Subversion
3 3 (13.64%) Hudson
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 2 (9.091%) Git (software)
4 2 (9.091%) Maven
4 2 (9.091%) Ant
5 1 (4.545%) ClearCase
5 1 (4.545%) JBehave
5 1 (4.545%) Capistrano
5 1 (4.545%) Selenium
General
1 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.545%) Banking
1 1 (4.545%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) NHS
2 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.545%) Open Source
2 1 (4.545%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.545%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) UNIX
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (13.64%) Windows 2000
3 3 (13.64%) Solaris
3 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.545%) SUSE
5 1 (4.545%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Change Management
2 6 (27.27%) Scrum
3 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
4 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
5 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 3 (13.64%) Software Deployment
6 2 (9.091%) Automated Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (9.091%) Kanban
6 2 (9.091%) ETL
7 1 (4.545%) Project Management
7 1 (4.545%) PRINCE
7 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.545%) Build Automation
7 1 (4.545%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.545%) TDD
7 1 (4.545%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Ruby
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (9.091%) Python
3 2 (9.091%) Perl
3 2 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.545%) Bash shell
4 1 (4.545%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) CCNA
1 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.545%) Degree
2 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) NetBackup
2 3 (13.64%) Puppet
3 1 (4.545%) Nagios
3 1 (4.545%) YUM
3 1 (4.545%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) VMware
2 6 (27.27%) Symantec
2 6 (27.27%) Citrix
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.64%) Cisco
4 3 (13.64%) Sun
5 2 (9.091%) JBoss
5 2 (9.091%) Business Objects
5 2 (9.091%) NetApp
6 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.545%) HP
6 1 (4.545%) Intel
6 1 (4.545%) RightScale
6 1 (4.545%) Zend
6 1 (4.545%) Atlassian
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