The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Support 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 Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Support Analyst
Rank 372 409 427
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +18
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Support Analyst 5 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.004% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.004% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £246 £185 £225
% change year-on-year
+33.10% -17.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.25 -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
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 446 620 684
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 Support Analyst
England

Operations Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Operations Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Operations Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Operations Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Operations Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Operations Support 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 Support Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +24 5 £325 -7.14%
Operations Support Analyst
England

Operations Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Operations Support 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 Support Analyst in their job title.

1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
1 7 (53.85%) UNIX
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
1 7 (53.85%) Solaris
2 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 5 (38.46%) Sybase
3 5 (38.46%) Windows XP
3 5 (38.46%) Misys
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (38.46%) SWIFT
3 5 (38.46%) Thunderhead
3 5 (38.46%) Banking
4 4 (30.77%) GoldenSource
4 4 (30.77%) ITSM
4 4 (30.77%) Back Office
4 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
4 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
4 4 (30.77%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (30.77%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (30.77%) IBM Mainframe
4 4 (30.77%) zOS
4 4 (30.77%) EMC
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
4 4 (30.77%) Tivoli
4 4 (30.77%) IBM
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 1 (7.692%) Internet
6 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification

Operations Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Operations Support 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 Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Back Office
2 4 (30.77%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Finance
3 1 (7.692%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) SWIFT
2 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
2 4 (30.77%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) UNIX
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
1 7 (53.85%) Solaris
2 5 (38.46%) Windows XP
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (30.77%) zOS
4 1 (7.692%) Linux
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITSM
1 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
1 4 (30.77%) Service Management
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.692%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.692%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) EMC NetWorker
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli
2 1 (7.692%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (7.692%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Sybase
2 5 (38.46%) Misys
2 5 (38.46%) Thunderhead
3 4 (30.77%) GoldenSource
3 4 (30.77%) EMC
3 4 (30.77%) IBM
4 1 (7.692%) BMC
4 1 (7.692%) NetApp
4 1 (7.692%) Reuters
4 1 (7.692%) Remedy
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Sun
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
4 1 (7.692%) Business Objects
4 1 (7.692%) JBoss
4 1 (7.692%) VMware